skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't agree with the argument, perhaps one should look at it the same way as needing to "upgrade" one's license when moving from LP->Cassette->CD, or VHS->DVD->BluRay.

In all of these cases, the license to the older media isn't taken as a valid license for the higher-class ones. If you've only paid for a crappy VHS tape, shouldn't there be some additional cost for getting the higher quality and convenience (now without rewinding!) if you want the BluRay?

So in this case, the owner of a Fallout 3 game is seeking to have the higher-quality experience from the Fallout 4 engine, but without needing to incur that expense.
Disappointed that their exit strategy did not include open-sourcing their RSS Reader and letting someone else carry the torch.

"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
No it doesn't.

But someone flying commercially, even in a Cessna is going to have quite a bit more training than Joe Pilot who flys 10 hours a year. A commercial and IFR certificate at the very least, and will also have to pass more stringent and more frequent medical exams.
You do use it on embedded systems, hence my note about using it when accessing things like memory-mapped devices in low-level code (depending on what you're doing). However `volatile` is not at all correct for multi-threaded code and that's a very common misconception. It's really not correct for basically anything except for embedded systems.
Timing is vital in these contexts. I've worked at a job in a team of 3 under terrible conditions (terrible from a "western" perspective of course, nobody was whipping or pointing guns at us, but you get the point). Complaining with management -the worst bunch of incompetent idiots I ever encountered in my life- was 100% ineffective so that after just a few months one of my colleagues left, then a bit later I left. The company suddenly panicked realizing how the project was likely going to tank in a spectacular way and promptly turned their tactics literally burying the only left member with money, benefits and much better working conditions so that he kept the job for years. Same company, same project, same team, but asking to 2 different people could have yielded very opposite opinions.
If you're cool with paid[0] or self-hosted[1], I've heard Newsblur is nice.

[0] https://newsblur.com/

[1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
I use Newsblur which fits the bill. It has subcategories and stuff.

Other people use The old reader which looks and feels like the old Google Reader.
I loved this tweetstorm, but I must say, it's never taken me weeks to take a BART trip, but it's definitely taken me weeks to clear a BTC transaction.

Like hey, BART isn't that bad.
I'm confused: How are any of those anecdotes related to sociopathic behavior?

None of them seem relevant to how the granddaughter sees other people. Perhaps the grandmother it's mis-labeling what are otherwise anger/coping-issues?
Lyft is building a self-driving platform with auto supplier Magna
Another angle is not the money. It would be that the Intel backdoor business is so profitable to the secret services, that they don't want to loose it at all costs. So they attack the one with the most effort to develop backdoors for. AMD could really harm the Intel server business. So Isreal and the US will try to push all buttons. Croudstrike could be next.
That's my theory.
What would you do with 60 seconds warning? Crawl under a table? I am not facetious. It's probably not enough time to run out of a building.
I'd say it worked fantastically. For the sake of timing lets compare Shkreli and Holmes. She committed a much larger fraud and lost people huge amounts of money. She is spending exactly zero days in prison. She is getting a $500,000 fine - which Theranos is probably paying for - and a slap in the wrist[1].

Meanwhile Shkreli - who's "victims" lost zero money - is going to spend 7 years in jail and has lost at least $10 million because the government decided to take it over.

I would love to see people complaining about gender gaps addressing the huge gender gap in our justice system, because cases like this are a slap in the face.

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[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-theranos-sec/theranos-and...
I asked around for exactly this a few times over the years. I've never met someone who hadn't regretted using Wave. Maybe it got better recently...
I think the problem is this trait mentioned by the parent post has carried through to what Nye's been doing now, and I'll personally add that current content produced by Nye doesn't seem productive in any way, whatsoever. In fact, I think Nye has gotten to a point where he actively shuns anybody with an argument against his beliefs, regardless of whichever side is correct. He'll even push his own agenda for certain topics unnecessarily, which is pretty ridiculous.
I never really understood how Digg managed to fuck up completely and never return to the battlefield. Any body here who knows what happened?
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. It gives people enough warning to get to a safe place, in this case the plaza.
What is the downside to doing this? Seems like a no-brainer.
Thanks for doing this Carter! Very valuable.
I doubt they're "selling" your data to payment processors, though. If you follow the links, it is refreshingly candid.
Loosely speaking, it was - he was using the supposed gains of earlier investors to attract new investment, then using those new funds to pay off the earlier investors. It was spread across multiple investments rather than just one vehicle, but that seems kind of irrelevant.

"Prosecutors were focused on Shkreli’s leadership of two hedge funds, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare, and a pharmaceutical company, Retrophin. Shkreli raised millions for MSMB Capital, but not as much as he told investors. When he made a bad bet that doomed the hedge fund, he launched a scheme to cover it up, prosecutors said. He raised more money for another hedge fund, MSMB Heathcare, which he largely used to fund the start up of Retrophin.

When disgruntled investors attempted to claim their profits, Shkreli used money from other investors and Retrophin cash and stock to pay them off, according to prosecutors."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/08/04/m...
Why wouldn't this work for Canada? Could it?
Interesting! That's not something I would have thought of. How long does it take a bullet train to stop?
The real reason for switching the phones off on an airplane
Seems fine for entrepreneurs running scams. Honest founders would rather work with honest VCs.
I think why everything but x+y=z would be x+y=z. But why x+y=z would still be open unless it is self referential.
Programming on the HP 11C calculator
Further reading on this:

https://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature122751/

The most surprising part for me is although most of the network was closed due to infrastructure being damaged on the day of the earthquake, everything was repaired and fully operational the next day.
I think they could go a long way to fixing this by building a textual representation of blueprints. I can see art assets being unmergeable, but as far as I can tell there's no good reason why nodes, the netlist of connections, and their parameters couldn't be stored in text.

At least this would allow diff, merge, and code review with standard tools.
"Self-interested value creation has generated the vast majority of great achievements in the world."

The hell it has. Polio vaccine? Symphonies? Cathedrals? The Sistine Chapel? Representative democracy? The works of the great philosophers? The moon landings? The Mars rovers?

I'd say, make a list of the top 100 "great achievements in the world" and strong odds are, they're either done by some poor but intensely driven person, or a government that represents a lot more than one self-interested value creating person.
Hawking's condition worsened steadily throughout his life. While he was wheelchair-bound by the end of the 1960s, he was still capable of speaking until the 1980s. In the 1970s, he was already an accomplished scientist and would probably have been capable of eating a normal lunch.

The timing would even work for the incident to involve the real Richard Feynman. Though, I can't find anything to suggest the story is true.
Be a man: “what a scammer”

Be a woman: “this woman used her gender to scam”
> Crawl under a table?

That's better than nothing.

> It's probably not enough time to run out of a building.

It could be, if the building is less than 3-4 stories tall.
Yes - China. According to some it's culture, to others legal theft, but regardless of judgement, China has weak/weakly enforced IP laws.

Be aware that having such weak IP laws it's not really as great as one would think. Having to deal even with counterfeited bottled water is not exactly desirable.
Even Tonya Harding is the subject of a flattering movie now
Why?

Unless I'm misunderstanding, you seem to be saying that being a programmer implies having a desire to understand every program's internals. But I don't care how Photoshop stores the 30-layer document I'm editing, and I feel like I shouldn't have to. I can't see why Git should be treated differently.
And that damned issue with shared memory of entangled particles. That will not end up well.
Indeed, defiantly solvable! I'm guessing they're playing it safe and reducing risk where they can for the first generations of electric ferries. And it's probably much cheaper for the company to sell food from a vending machine than having a full kitchen onboard, so they might be using lack of power as an excuse.

However, there really isn't that much tradition for gas powered cooking in Norway (other than "BBQ"), almost everything is electric and power is really cheap.

Many of our other newer generation ferries are LNG powered, which probably comes with tons of strict rules for open flames on board. Might just be they've inherited some safety regulations for the electric ones as well.
I think sixty seconds would be more than ample to evacuate most of the buildings I find myself in. In fact, the only building I don't think I could get out of within sixty seconds would be a Walmart or a big box home improvement store.

If you can't escape the building, the usual advice is to find a doorway.
Your link only provides a way to falsify a theory, not provide evidence for simulation.... which is impossible by definition.

Not to mention the idea of a simulated universe is, you know, philosophically boring and implies mostly false things in most peoples' minds.... like an anthropomorphic scientist god. In reality, it would change virtually nothing about how we view our universe.
Exact Floating-Point Data Type Library with 39 Significant Digits
Typically it is a whole lot of work to open source a private service, because the code is intermingled with code for stuff that you either want to keep private, or would be impossible to get working outside of your environment.
Why no jail time? We should start sending CEOs to jail.
There’s a new aurora in subpolar skies. Its name is Steve
Well, if nothing else it's a minute more to decide what to do...
This is the type of advertisement I'm OK with. Haigh didn't hide the fact he worked for Legalist, and he provided pretty much a step-by-step guide from the blog post on how to pursue a claim against Equifax.

Net positive. Good for him, good for claimants.
You can add aliases to your ~/.gitconfig. These are mine

[alias]
co = checkout
br = branch
ci = commit
st = status
ll = log --pretty=format:'%C(magenta)%h%Creset -%C(bold yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold cyan)<%an>%Creset'
lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(magenta)%h%Creset -%C(bold yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold cyan)<%an>%Creset'
> I agree with 99% of what you said, but in the case of weed, while I don't think it should be hidden per se, it has a known "secondhand" effect on those in close proximity.

Really? That's not what I was colloquially aware of nor what [1] says.

[1]: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/extreme_...
If you alienate your userbase there is no turning back for a social media site.

The power user change made everyone flock to reddit.
Some powerful Russian oligarchs permanently live with in UK: Abramovich and Usmanov come to mind first. Former oligarchs like Khodorkovski and Chichvarkin should not be expelled, of course.
What is this "free speech" on the net people that speak of? Has it ever existed?

With few exceptions the right to post in a forum has always been at the pleasure of the mods/sysop. In fact, the quality of discussion is usually proportional to how effectively the mods cull the off topic content and wield the ban hammer against the trolls. It has been this way since the days of the dial in BBS.

If the people who believe in X are unwelcome in a particular forum, then no one is stopping them from building their own. Maybe they don't benefit from the network effects of a Reddit, but a Reddit derives zero or even negative benefits from hosting them, so fair deal.
This Digg has almost nothing to do with the original. All this Digg did was buy the name and build a competent news portal around it.
The benefit is that it's a tradeable asset / collectible - that is, you can buy and sell it. Use it to mortgage a house, get credit, etc. It's like (real) money that's the difference. So far $20 million traded. On the blockchain you have transactions recorded (not in a private database but public and shared who owns what or who own how much etc.). Cheers. Prost.
It saves more time. Warned humans will also skip the costly "what's going on"-realization phase of the human brain.
There is some evidence that dark matter is self-interacting: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/04/new-evidence-that-da...
I think this is a wonderfully poetic viewpoint. It somewhat reminds me of the general tone of the Tao Te Ching.

This cheered me up a bit, thanks!
I find interesting the assumption every comments make that people are "dumb enough to work for free for Amazon if it's openly accessible". To give the possibility to everyone for proposing changes to their documentation doesn't mean EVERYONE will propose changes. It simply means people who have interest in doing so will be able to do it more easily. We can see this like a reduction of the cost of communication for everyone who have interests at a better Amazon's documentation.
To me, it looks like common sense : you won't give money to someone for fixing a comma, because it's not hard and therefore it's not labor. The power of internet is that the work can be split among so many people that the "work" isn't "work" anymore. If it take everyone participating only 5 minutes a day to improve the documentation, then I cannot see how you would remunerate people with money. People can however still point to their github accounts to prove they contributed, and they "earn" reputation instead of money (ala StackOverflow).
We're working on V2 of Winds, a beautiful open source RSS Reader and Podcast app based on React/Redux and Stream. Release of V2 will be this April: https://github.com/getstream/winds
Since the OP never mentioned a need to use 'git pull', I assume the 10% of the time it didn't work was when other people had gone and corrupted the repository by pushing their own commits. Clearly that's not something we want to have to deal with.
Sure, but it's less a case of love and more that the language stays out of my way.

I care about the application and the end user's experience. Language is just a means to that end. C# makes it fairly easy to encode what I'm thinking in a safer way than, e.g., C or C++.
Winds 2.0 is open source and will be release this April: https://github.com/getstream/winds
Credit Karma has acquired instant message bot Penny
As tscs37 explained, there's a difference between the CAs that came with your OS/browser by default, and ones you have installed. Pins are usually ignored if the chain ends at the latter, because that's exactly the sort of scenario that would be used for corporate TLS MITM.
Yes, that is a good comparison. With Uber though, it is dramatically worse, since all obtainable data about their finances shows that Uber has created, by far, the biggest losses among VC-funded companies in the start-up / post-tech-bubble era. The degree of Uber's published losses is _staggering_ to a level not seen before. And yet, there has so far been no accounting or financial data to support any path to profitability, let alone a path that could keep prices at levels that drivers and riders are happy with. So it's not just something like "will Uber make it or not?" It's more like, "with losses of X _billion_, when do we stop pretending the 'business' is anything other than a donation from VCs to consumers?"

Naked Capitalism's multi-part series goes into this with extreme detail on the finance and business model side.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/category/uber
Using metcal and 60/40 is an odd recommendation. Metcals are great for reproducibility since they don't have arbitrary tip temp choices, but for exploratory work I like using a quality iron like Pace..

63/37 is way easier to deal with when soldering since it's harder to create a cold joint with it.
I'm not saying Amazon will switch to passenger transport, but you can imagine that their strategy would be to dominate the market by subsidizing ticket prices, then once they have the proper penetration, to raise ticket prices and be the first airline to increase margins in some time.
That's ample time to exit homes and small buildings, which are are the structures likely to be most dangerous in a quake.
The downside to this is that it's hard. This kind of service requires a sprawling infrastructure with many dozens of servers and tens of thousands of dollars in costs per month. And the amount of programming work to take that code-base and make it just work, plug-and-play, on someone else's machine for individual use, or in a larger set-up for shared use, is pretty serious. Not to mention that the many individual services powering such a service are often reused and tangled up in other (critical) services run by a company, and it's not always possible to separate out the intellectual property.

This is only a sampling of the issues - open-sourcing huge projects is actually much trickier than you might think!
I naturally have pretty low empathy, and mild narcissistic, manipulative, and impulsive tendencies. But I recognised in my teens that those traits were going to do me more harm than good if I let them get away from me, so I sought to change myself and open up more. Now even though there might be a cold core to my personality, it’s surrounded by a deep layer of warmth that I’ve cultivated over time because I just want to, maybe because I have a loving and supportive family.

Am I a psychopath? Nah, but probably somewhere on the “spectrum” if you like. It could be undiagnosed ASD or adult ADD or any number of other things. But I don’t think that’s even necessarily the right question. All that matters is the reality of living with the mind you’ve got; being labelled with a “condition” just gives you some finer instruments like therapy and medication to help accomplish that.
4 Ways to Avoid Cultural Bias in Marketing
The merchant doesn't get your credit card number, though; it gets a one-time code.
This is almost a "no true scotsman": in practice, a lot of C projects and programmers (even ones that, by most other metrics, would be regarded as professional programmers) do not have the resources to test as extensively as SQLite.
94% of state cases end via plea bargain.

That is scary
Interestingly, under GDPR EU citizens need to opt in to each of these, explicitly, and be able to toggle them off on an ad hoc basis.

This sounds terrible. How is your regular EU citizen supposed to know which of these companies would be required to get your payment to reach its destination?
It'll be a day, though, it's Wednesday and the CI only runs on Thursdays.
I feel like I’m looking at the output of the legal equivalent of “git show” when I tried to read the senate document - first, the commit comment (which does nothing, but does describe intent and list the author), followed by diff style patch script.

Anybody else get that feeling?
> And who decide what's a conspiracy?

Wikipedia admins with most patience and energy to participate in edit wars. Wikipedia admins also decide who else becomes a new Wikipedia admin and who gets banned, so once a group of people with same opinions gets a majority among the Wikipedia admins, their opinion becomes fixed as the official "truth".

Automatically adding Wikipedia information to YouTube videos will only increase the importance of the edit wars.
Fortnite currently uses EasyAntiCheat and BattlEye [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/82xyhb/launch_e...
Ask HN: Roadmap returning to college with small network, no job, little income?
Hello everyone, thanks for giving this a read.

To make a long story short, I graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in 2007. Worked on campus doing tech support, then later turned into web development. I've picked up several contract web development jobs since graduating.

That came to a screeching halt in early 2015.

After being turned down repeatedly for jobs due to a lack of relevant knowledge and my previous experience being snubbed, I'm choosing to go back for an education. My colleagues and Facebook friends haven't given me good job leads. I have been poor for a few years, and I'm not motivated to make new friends anymore.

I'm hoping to be as successful as possible, but having been out of school for so long and in a more difficult position (I need a stable full-time job, I have a weak support network) I have no idea where to begin.

Since I already have programming experience, majoring in CS may be a bit too redundant and on-the-nose, so perhaps a EE major with CS minor is a possibility. I have a related interest in low-level programming and would love to eventually get into a job at a large semiconductor firm, or working on hardware for a company with a vision I really like.

But I need advice on things like managing your time, studying, what jobs to work at, networking, etc. At this point I'll even take inspirational or tales of caution, every bit helps.

My job background is mainly in web dev, doing LAMP stack and JavaScript (Node, React, jQuery) development, C# .NET, HTML and CSS.
Because they aren't stupid mostly.
Earthquakes tend to come from relieving built up stresses, so the “due” term is appropriate. They’re not purely random.
Thanks! This is great. Definitely looking forward to a post.
This Berlin Startup Is on the Hunt for the Next Harry Potter
America in general. A surgeon in the Netherlands can wait DECADES for a kid with gunshot wounds. Its just textbook stuff but if you want to see it in action the US is a good place to learn.