skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link you posted seems to show all of your recent comments, the most recent of which is not related to strings. Did you mean to link this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16546910
2015 rMBP, capacity: 80.4086%. Don't know how to get info about cycles in Linux
>Like what if I say "P = NP"? Is that a lie?

That can't be determined to be a lie unless someone solves the problem. It's only a conjecture or assertion until then.

>And then, do you want a trial for every comment? That will not work even for a fraction of comments.

Only really has to apply to political statements made by the most powerful office holders, and only when contested, and only when there is a imminent intent to deceive and impact policy.

It's not really an all-or-nothing situation. It's just a matter of how much can be achieved within a reasonable cost.
I believe what he or she means is that it assumes more, and is thus less 'stingy' in this way.
Even assuming a multiverse explanation doesn't exclude a deist view. It just kicks the can down the road to one more level.

I think as long as we have a "something", we will want to understand where that comes from and what else there might be that is not that something.

Some argue a self-existant eternal universe, and some a self-existant eternal Creator.

Personally, I believe the Creator view, but both stances are articles of faith that would be impossible to prove definitively.
> Physical mail is sent to your house in order to get a single account.

That's how NextDoor works and it seems to work reasonably well.

There are some big communities that seen relatively healthy to me. For example, Instagram is easily my favorite social network. I see photos that my friends take and that's about it. I pull it up and am done with it in a minute or two.
>it's very hard to make a diagram like this that isn't topologically equivalent to the Tonnetz.

And more generally, it's just hard to have a good idea that Euler hasn't had first.
That doesn't seem too far off the mark. On the craftiness of nation states scale that's maybe, what, a 2?
What mental models do you find to be most helpful?
I sincerely hope that this was Trump's reasoning for the ban. He was so sick and tired of having to muddle through Broadcom's undocumented garbage that he just got fed up and decided to spike their acquisition.
I think what they're saying is that because Unix doesn't specify any string encoding at all, you can get GIGO by using OsStr on Unix.
Do we drive on corporate owned highways

A good chunk of the national interstate system consists of toll roads, some of which have been privatized (ex: Indiana Toll Road). And the quality of the interstate highways varies greatly by the state. I wouldn't hold out the US public highway system out as an example of how great public infrastructure is maintained...
It seems like if moderators of subreddits were given the ability to A) limit posting rights to paid users and b) given the ability to ban at will, that most subreddits would see a much improved commenting culture.

It would also help reddit monetize.
I'm not a gamer yet that write up was riveting. Cool.
The contributions of Rene Girard
So it's going overboard to police what people say in a public forum, but it's not going overboard to police what parents teach their children in their own home? You're more afraid of censorship in the public space than state-mandated parenting practices in private?
Is there an alternative that provides comparable compression?
I've seen them recommended by quite a few OpenBSD developers as well. Sad to see this.
I'm assuming you're joking :P But if it really solved 2 of your problems, I'm curious what they were?
X131e (core i3) user here, disagreeing (16 GB RAM and an SSD -- and it is a nice although heavy 11" machine).
I did, sigh. I was on mobile, must have messed it up. Thank you.
Chrome 65 blocks you by default from taking screenshots in Incognito mode
Apple Online. AOL for short.
You can't go wrong the Lenovo X-series or T-series laptops. Pure workhorses. Light too. User upgradable RAM on most machines.
“For that reason, the statement a = 200; b = 200; a is b will be True, while the statement a = 300; b = 300; a is b will be False.”

This is kinda funny.
> So we've tried

4chan also exists and it works and is marvelously non-toxic once you realize that any insults hurled at you are impersonal because they can only attack what you have immediately posted previously. Your attack surface is tiny, assuming basic information hygiene.
There's always these super salty style comments - everyone is entitled to their perspective I guess-- but I think there's some people that would use and enjoy this tool very much. They'll probably contribute a great deal and they will be draw great satisfaction from the transaction, which was only enabled by the tool existing.
No, and we have the most extensive highway system in the world.

That extensive highway system has destroyed communities, alienated us from one another. It destroyed passenger rail (air travel took the high-end of the market, to be sure, but what business does the government have in using taxpayer money to destroy an entire industry?)

If you were a person of color in the 1950s, highways likely destroyed the places you lived in. And you couldn't follow the white people to the suburbs. Racist people used zoning laws to prevent you, and where would you get the money to do so anyway? The vast majority of the high-paying professions were not open to you.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/syracus...
If Google can "basically determine web standards", then I don't see how it's possible for anyone else to "still have a seat on the table". I mean, if they cared enough about it and were actually on the table in the first place...
> Do we drive on corporate owned highways? No, and we have the most extensive highway system in the world. For comparison, look how well privatized rail worked out. You're right. Privatized infrastructure sucks.

You mean the highway system that's been underfunded for the past several years even before you take into account the fact that much of it is in dilapidated condition and needs unbudgeted replacement? In contrast to the freight rail system that Europe wishes it had?
As a counterpoint - there are plenty of ThinkPads that run Linux quite well. My team at work is almost 100% ThinkPad X1s or T450s, with a variety of distros (Debian, Fedora, Arch) and we don't have too many problems.

It's a shame Lenovo's documentation is inaccurate though!
A summary view that may be of interest:

https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832...
like when Cloudflare blocked a bunch of websites they disagreed with while net neutrality existed? Because net neutrality totally meant we had a free and open internet with 0 censorship
Related: what older models are known to work well with Linux/are preferred by users here?

Do any options have open boot/something close?
I used some of the same core code to create sketchy UI controls using web-components: https://www.webcomponents.org/collection/wiredjs/wired-eleme...
>It's exhausting to put up with

The sub in question has had polls and surveys posted to it, popular ones which have remained on the front page of it, and they've received paltry engagement (~10,000 engagements).

You're making it out as though that one entity has corrupted the site, which is a plainly hysterical claim based on the evidence.

>Folks from there will re-post links (or share via chat) to "controversial" posts in other sub-reddits to coordinate brigading, for example.

Do you have any evidence for this? Because discord groups to disrupt Reddit aren't unique to T_D and the hyper-leftist ones far outnumber those on the right, as with their meta-subreddit parents.

It's disappointing to see Reddit drama appearing on this site as often as it is. I remember a time when HN wasn't really on the Redditor's radar. What good times they were.
I was on interview in a company where it's a mandatory to have a linux on a laptop. People around mostly held dell xps 13 in their hands
Looking at the docs for CString (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ffi/struct.CString.html):

"An instance of this type is a static guarantee that the underlying bytes contain no interior 0 bytes ("nul characters") and that the final byte is 0 ("nul terminator")."

The functions that create CStrings also return a Result where you'll get an Err if your string contains any nul bytes. There's are unsafe variants that don't do these checks, but it's hard to predict what might break if this invariant isn't upheld. There's not much reason to use CString rather than just Vec<u8>.
I would say that all of those things are toxic to society in general. Those behaviors just tend to be more muted out in the real world where acting shitty is more likely to have immediate consequences.

I can't think of any non-contrived situations where those behaviors aren't equally damaging to social bonds in any situation, whether it's an online community or a government or a family or an organization. They all reduce enlightenment, are always irrational, and always increase human misery, even if it's just a teensy bit in the most benign cases.
> state-mandated parenting practices.

I hope I can become a good parent and can teach my kids to be good people by the time I am ready. If you need a state to tell you that, you probably should not be having kids. Having is a privilege and unfortunately also a right.

Edit: In all seriousness, what I was saying is that we should be teaching kids to be good people rather than acting good on the internet.

Also, we should be smart enough to know that all this article is doing is spewing shit on Reddit to generate them pageviews. That is all journalism is now a days.
Hah... Trump just gave a warm reception to Broadcom ceo at the oval office only four months ago, as a reward for moving their HQ from Singapore to the US! Great to see that commitment rewarded
There are a few examples in there. Here’s a few more [1]. Mostly it’s ill advised mouthing off, or blowing off steam as was the case of the guy delayed hours at an airport. These are not “true threats” or incitement, which are charged differently.

[1] - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/killallwhitemen-twitter-trolli...
> You can consistently eat healthy and get all your nutritions for under $5 a meal.

+1

Except I'd change that figure to around $2/meal.

This article written in 2012[0] has a $3/day target and I'm scaling that up a bit.

0. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/29/killing-your-1000-...
I'm not going to play this game of yes you are no I'm not, but even if you're right, then that's not actually the topic of the dicussion: both I and the initial commenter was talking about how they lured people in with UX stuff or solid improvements like you said, and now pulled of this move.
I see it as a something that arises out of first principles. Everything in our world has a cause, and something always comes from something else.
Now a deity, being outside of our universe and separate from it wouldn't be subject to that rule necessarily.

The multiverse is an inductive line of reasoning that infers things to explain away observances. But is it measurable?

I'm not saying we should "God away" the questions, but coming up with inferences that we can't actually measure (and don't answer the question of where the multiverse comes from) really doesn't do much scientifically or philosophically.
> There’s Vec<u8>, but it’s missing a lot of the convenience methods and other functionality available for strings

This is where you've lost me, because Vec<u8> is precisely what one should use in Rust for passing around opaque buffers as you describe. I can't even imagine what sort of convenience methods one could implement on strings that deliberately have no specified representation!
I’m barely willing to take an online coding test for one job when I know historically for me, if I get submitted for 10 jobs by a recruiter, I’m likely to get three offers, take myself out of the running for 6, and only have one company that’s not interested. Why would I ever spend three days on a coding challenge.

And I’m a good test taker and interviewer.
It is curious that Qualcomm continues to develop their own closed source driver instead of throwing their weight behind Rob Clark's Freedreno initiative.

Broadcom at least pay someone to develop a FOSS driver for the VideoCore IV and V, as found in the rPi.
U.S. freight rail is completely privatized and it is the finest system anywhere.

"our freight rail is the envy of the world, carrying over 40% of our intercity cargo. Trains carry much less of Europe’s freight, which is why trucks clog Europe’s highways. And America’s rail-shipping rates are the world’s lowest, reducing the cost of doing business in the U.S.; they’ve fallen 45% in real dollars since the industry was deregulated three decades ago."

http://business.time.com/2012/07/09/us-freight-railroads/
Well, my understanding is that "critical thinking" is already very commonly considered to be part of various course curricula. If it's not being taught, then we'd need to do something differently.

I've been hearing claims of the need to teach "critical thinking" since I was in high school. To me it always came across as one of those things that can't easily be taught, particularly in a traditional academic setting. Everyone agrees it should be taught, but if there were a clear way of doing it, we would.
It is similar to strings up to some size (I think it was 1024 but I may be way off base). Basically small strings are interned.
Or, his random chaotic approach may accidentally do the right thing sometimes out of shear probability. A broken clock is right at least twice a day, a random clock is right randomly.
Attacking Merkle Trees with a second preimage attack
This is fantastic!

Just made a quick rough "Mondrian" drawing app (using BlockLike.js[1])

https://s.codepen.io/BlockLike/debug/Bromox/PNAvYLPDGqDr

Click and Drag to rectangle.

Space key = black

r key = red

b key = blue

g key = green

y key = yellow

[1] https://www.blocklike.org/#getstarted

EDIT: If folks want to play with the pen: https://codepen.io/BlockLike/pen/Bromox?editors=0010
If MOOCs are an even better measure of conscientiousness than live courses then the market should eventually price that in.
In an effort to be brief I grouped all the thoughts on 5G in the USA together, but the State-sponsored 5G has nothing to do with this really. Many tech enthusiasts are actually advocating for a state-sponsored solution, however, and such moves have worked in the past for other nations (Australia was the first nation with 3G thanks to a state-sponsored move that has now been privatized [now run by Telestra]). As long as we're on the topic of 5G at all I figured I'd voice my support as a coder and generally well-informed individual.
I guess I'm just not sure what the curriculum would look like. Is there something you could point to as an example of a course doing this well?
This kind of argument is starting to piss me off.
"You can express your freedom of speech, but not in this public park, because it's privately owned"
"You can state your opinions, but not on this website, because dispite being a major communications hub on the internet, and despite advertising ourselves as a place of free expression, we actively derank, ban or erase any opinion we dislike"
"You can decline the EULA, you just have to stop using our vital service"
"You can maintain your privacy, but not if you want to travel"
"You can buy a phone that doesn't collect metadata about you, you just have to break a $50 billion dollar lobby and manufacture your own IC. You still have the freedom of choice"

You know what, you really don't. Your rights aren't supposed to be just a legal burden to circumvent with various tricks, they're supposed to hold in all domains of public life. I want to be able to fly in a plane without having some asshole dig through my personal life. You think someone is dangerous? Check for bombs. Check for weapons. Why are they checking for beliefs? What kind of bullshit is this?
I never understood why people act like interviewing is an innate talent and not a learned skill like everything else.
Are you really surprised that starting a business requires upfront capital and an environment where financial risk can be absorbed?

Does this sentiment have to be echoed every time someone who comes from money talks about their business. There is a class system in the US, you're only wasting your breath trying to be snarky about it. Business is a mix of talent and chance and people with money can buy more chances where others might not even get one. It doesn't diminish this person's accomplishment.
Even if they were "legally toxic" (which thankfully someone else took the trouble to disprove), you're making religious statements in a world where people use things for practical reasons. Pretty much every game engine in existence has DXT support, and I'd loooove to hear about how many got in trouble for these toxic patents.
So delighted for your success my friend. Keep inspiring people through your labors! =)
You are misunderstanding me. When I said no thread ever writes to it, I truly mean no one. There’s not a possibility of “someone writing to it.”

And I think you also have a very narrow view of multi-threading. Shared memory, mutable-everything isn’t the only way of doing multi-threading (or more precisely concurrency). This very article is trying to introduce to you a new way of doing concurrency that doesn’t involve mutable variables shared between threads.
Show HN: Restore local CrashPlan Home backups after it is shut down this October
Presidential Order Regarding the Proposed Takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom
This part is really critical, and this interview on indiehackers made it easy to find (unlike some of the other interviews): I like how they show how they acquired all their users: Word of mouth!

i do feel like we're in some kind of golden age for podcasts, there's so much great content out there. maybe i should dump my netflix subscription and just listen to podcasts?
My problem, for good or ill, with codes of conduct, is that they are written in the language of HR--which is to say, the defensive language of ass-covering--and thus I cannot trust them.

Sounds like this author feels similarly.
My Toughbook CF-T8 is pretty close to what you are describing akkat.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/panasonic-t8

* Sturdy bulky: It's got sturdy and bulky in spades. Not quite as bulky as the police/military grades mind you, but bulky enough. Rather light (3lbs?) and stupid durable. Nice wrist strap.

* Hardware switches: No, but I find the keys comfortable enough.

* Lots of keyboard buttons: Such as? I miss actual page up and down, but have gotten accustomed to Fn+Up/Dn. I don't miss anything else.

* Trackpoint: Yep.

* "But" battery: I assume you meant to say big battery. No, but I bought several extras since they were $12 on eBay. I can hibernate, swap, and go all day.

I have just about maxed mine out with a 200GB SSD, 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, and Win10. Not a screamer but fast enough for my needs. I am running KiCad, Netbeans, OpenOffice, and Chrome most of the time.

I also added a PCMCIA (yes, not CardBus) USB adapter, extra power supplies, and extra units for spare parts. All are super cheap. Total cost is somewhere south of USD $400, and probably closer to $250. (I didn't keep track.)

Only real complaints: Not really enough horsepower for standard rez YTube videos (I rarely watch them and when I do I put them on low rez) and the screen is dim in the sun. It's 1024x768 which I know would make many of you scream, but I connect it to an external monitor at home and dual displays, and I'm happy. Am accustomed to working at that rez. Oh, and the speakers are not terribly loud.

It's not for everyone. I have low requirements if you couldn't tell :-)
> is there any reason not to consider the deist view

No reason not to consider it, but the evidence against it is overwhelming. Specifically, the evidence is overwhelming that whatever the ultimate cause is, it is computationally simple, that is, its Kolmogorov complexity is small. That is fundamentally at odds with most people's conception of God.
That... does seem to be the goal.
$250k isn't a huge amount of money for a professional poker player. I few successful and/or lucky years and you can build up quite an operating fund.
The situation has historically been the exact opposite for WiFi drivers, where Broadcom is the obstinate closed-source vendor and Qualcomm-Atheros is the most open-source friendly vendor in that market.
> Coal is a big problem in the north because of central mandated heating. In the south, coal isn’t a problem because there is no indoor heating at all...you just freeze if you aren’t far enough south.

When I lived in San Francisco, my apartment had a steam heater built into it which I basically couldn't control and which leaked water onto the little metal platform under it that was built into the apartment.

When I lived in Shanghai ("the south" by some standards, not by others), apartments all had air conditioners, but if I wanted heat I generally had to install a space heater. Winter in Shanghai is bitterly cold, even if not generally below freezing during the day.

What form does northern central mandated heating take?
I’d argue that Mehldau today is not less popular. I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that he did explore the theory of music at that same level, but I don’t have any evidence :).
The people who downvoted you are idiots.
I suspect the issue is that, if whole classes of chips that are important for military purposes (wireless communications, for example) are made exclusively by China, they could put in backdoors and other traps that would compromise U.S. military hardware. I haven't seen anyone discuss this angle openly, though, so either I'm off base somehow or it's not something the U.S. wants to loudly discuss (because they're likely doing it too.)
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality have some really limited applications. There are maybe 5 or 6 silver bullet consumer ideas I can think of, but they’re such prohibitively expensive concepts that I can’t think of a way to bring these ideas to a wide audience to distribute costs, such that mass appeal gains realistic traction toward high adoption and growth potential.

In fact, these ideas might only make sense under circumstances where there is literally nothing to do for really, really long periods of time, waiting around in tight quarters until you’re able to unbuckle and move freely. In other words during space travel.

I hope that’s where this is going. Any other setting or context for application of such technologies doesn’t make any normal amount of sense. And this fits, since space travel isn’t exactly normal yet.

My intuition tells me Carmack and Zuckerburg have discussed this WRT rocket ships and outer space. And that combination of subject matter, legitimate credibility, intellect and wealth is the only thing that makes sense, to justify such a bet.
Taking pictures of hummingbirds with a midrange, off-the-shelf consumer camera
$560M Powerball Winner Can Keep Her Name Private, Judge Rules
What's the evidence that the first cause had low Kolmogorov complexity?
Renters and pro-growth, urban-minded owners would seem to constitute a majority in many of the highest cost parts of California. And yet my town recently passed a milestone of sorts: the principle and interest to buy the median home consume 100% of median household income, before taxes, food, or any other expenses. This study appears to explain how the current situation has come about.
Good freight rail and good passenger rail seem to be more or less mutually exclusive. Japan has one of the lowest rates of freight rail usage in the world, and yet the Shinkansen and the extensive urban metros and suburban railways with their absurdly high schedule reliability are basically an element of national identity...
"FAILING Broadcom keeps churning out illegal garbage. Loser Dems call it "undocumented silicon" - complete BS. Sad!"

(I'm wary of redditifying HN but I just had to let this out.)