skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fine, businesses have that choice. Hopefully, GDPR gives people a choice w.r.t what happens with their data.

Many countries in the EU have a great standard of living by focussing on individual's rights vs companies. Well, I say focussing. From our perspective, it's just normal and a good balance. But if you live in a country where companies can screw you over in a million ways ("at will" employment, arbitration, NDAs, etc.), maybe such rights might seem a bit alien.
Great work. After scanning the source tree with my eyes, I have yet to find the implementation of the instruction set. Therefore, I wouldn't say this is small.
Perhaps an ignorant question, but does there already exist a practical demonstration of the Spectre/meltdown bugs, or are they still theoretical?
> This is a collection of topics that you wouldn't ordinarily find in undergraduate math classes.

Much of this course is covered in undergraduate math classes, except at much greater depth (especially algebra and probability theory), and over the span of several courses.
Fine, but a wrench, or something analogous, is the most serious threat model for most smartphones. On Apple devices, at least, the Find my iPhone feature mitigates most others.
No we haven't. We aren't even the same genetically as people living in historical times. There has been a huge amount of human evolution since the rise of agriculture. Living humans are much better adapted to modern society than our hunter gather ancestors.

What is probably more accurate is to say most human traits have very long genetic histories. Much the same way as human-like traits can be found in our great ape relatives, traits quite close to modern traits can be found in our ancestors.
> I think the problem is more that OOP and FP teach that the solution is in the language constructs, when in fact the solution is in the developer.

I would say the solution is in the appropriate construct. Do whatever means writing the least amount of code possible. Less code means less to maintain and less to execute.
Despite you saying "it's an uncontroversial idea" and a book some guy wrote with obvious political intent, I still feel that projecting thoughts and feelings onto someone is dangerous, because it means that my perception of the world is no longer necessarily founded in reality. The more assumptions like this one makes, the further one's own internal reality has the potential of drifting away from those who don't share it.

I've been making an effort to do less and less of this, myself, in the past few years, and I feel that it's helped my perception of reality considerably. For example, I predicted the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election early in the year, while very nearly everyone I knew—even those who supported and voted for Trump!—were sure he would lose. I refused to buy into memes that ascribe intentions or motivations to public figures based on hearsay, and I believe this helped me understand all the crazy shit that went on that year quite a bit better.
Tools generally don't depreciate very much. You can resell them years later and still get most of your money back. With inflation as bad as it is you might even sell them for more than you bought them. A garage full of tools is like gold in a vault, except this gold is useful.
If the point of the quote is to say that "sometimes the more expensive option is better value" it's accurate, but also is obvious, and doesn't really mean anything.

To be clear, I don't think it's strictly wrong, just that it adds nothing of value to a conversation. It just gives a very specific example of when a rule holds.

It's kind of like if the employment statistics come out, and they show improvement, but someone comments that they just got laid off that week. They aren't wrong, but they're also not adding anything to the conversation.
The hardest part of ADHD for me is the impulsivity, or lack of filter and inability to regulate emotions . So often I have blurted things out only to regret them seconds later. During my younger, undiagnosed years, reckless behaviour, drinking and smoking pot were the norm. Thankfully getting a diagnosis and medication has helped a great deal in sorting my life out! I am immensely grateful for my girlfriend who somehow manages to understand my sometimes difficult and frustrating behaviour.
Neither of those represent threats to "privacy" in a typical legal sense. Both suck, but you're saying that you'll think the EU cares about car safety when they ban juggling.
You've got my nomination for "most unnecessary comment of 2018", but yes.
What do you mean by "speak the same language, eat the same food, think the same way"? It is pretty evident that this is not the case, there are a lot of variations between different groups of people and in many time it is divided by racial lines. Cast systems on the other hand is exactly the opposite, it is a system that divide people on family lineage even though all else is similiar.
My favorite talk of all time is “Y Not - Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs
This is an under-appreciated element in grassroots campaigning. How does it look to potential sympathetic outsiders?
Related: Why was the $250k edited out of the title just now? That seems rather relevant (and it reflects the actual article title).
Would that be sufficient? I would think a EU citizen interacting with such a company from within the US would open the company for GDPR requests. Enforcing them might be hard, yes, but it could be enough of a nuisance.

I think this will change the world, just as the EUs push for lead-free soldering did.
Doesn't JavaScript core optimize it?
It already does. Go figure.
I'm still using Nokia N900, which is pretty close. I've used Openmoko Neo Freerunner pretty long, but unfortunately its performance was hard to stand anymore. For development, I also have Samsung Galaxy S3, which was the last one to have its baseband separated from the CPU. Replicant works there, so it might be a good choice in this regard as well. Looking forward for Librem 5, Neo900 or Pyra Phone now - whichever happens first. You need to make some sacrifices (hopefully less and less as the time passes), but the choice is there.
The Collector’s Fallacy
Are you willing to pay more for products and services? Because ultimately you will.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I didn’t even know to go looking for something like this, but it will be perfect for a site I have.
Because it has been hidden in a .h file: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16608174
I think it depends on the definition of "stream". You could maybe trade pre-rendering for file size; say prerender a million versions of a 360 degree image along with some kind of 3d shadow map - something that took a lot of the work from the unit.

We already have 3d video - I'd be surprised if the concept couldn't be expanded, leaving the unit to merge streams of background environment and 3d animated sprites.
Is it ADHD, or something else, that results in the widespread inability nowadays to keep two mutually-contradictory-yet-both-true viewpoints in your head at the same time? Or a set of pros and a set of cons? Almost everything in reality is of a mixed nature, so what makes people want to believe a false model of reality where everything is either good or bad, and must be sorted neatly into one or the other category immediately? Is it a need for certainty? For being right? You will find a shortage of both in life.
His primary concern seems more to be stack traces.

At the time, an explicit style, with patch, was proposed to python-ideas. [0] It was based around continuation-passing-style, and the conclusion reached then by the community was the same. TCO, explicit or not, isn't wanted in Python.

> And that's exactly the point -- the algorithms to which
TCO can be applied are precisely the ones that are not
typically expressed using recursion in Python. - Greg Ewing [1]

> <sarcasm>Perhaps we should implement "come from" and "go to" while we're at it. Oh, let's not leave out "alter" (for those of you old enough to have used COBOL) as well! </sarcasm> - Gerald Britton [2]

Feel free to try again, maybe things have changed.

To be clear, I wish Python did have a mechanism to express these sorts of problems, but I don't think the Python team themselves want them. This issue has come up more than a few times, and the dev team have never been satisfied that Python really needs it.

[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-May/0044...

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-May/0045...

[2] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-May/0045...
American Billionaire Pays to Be Killed to Have Brain Downloaded to Computer
Similar thoughts on Apple products here. Looking at the iFixit guide for the current iMacs kills all my wishes for owning one (I considered it, but not after seeing the teardown...). And it's so unnecessary! They could have easily made it much more upgrade- and repairable without compromising the visual design.
Did you position yourself for success or mediocrity?
>Today I learned about Social Sentinel[0], since both right-twitter and left-twitter are condemning it today.

Why? Just skimming the page, it seems to be monitoring public social media posts for threats. Am I missing something? It's not like they're forcing students to grant access to their social media accounts so they can be monitored.
If the attraction (and his daughter) was important to him, he should have written a will and maybe set up a trust, or created a corporation to to ensure this.

If you don't have a will, take some time and make one this week.
Humans always seem to want to combine multiple services into one for convenience, not caring about that this is the fuel for monopolies and power concentration.

We are the dumbest smart beings on the planet. :)
You don’t think BNP bank or AXA insurance play loose with sharing personal data? I had my Peugeot dealer share my purchase information with a third party “extended warranty” vendor without my permission. The vendor called me and sent letters. I never told Peugeot that they could sell my data. I have never given any business permission to call me — yet they do.

Blaming US tech is naïve. European companies have been engaged in non-digital forms of privacy invasion long before Google even existed.
Have you considered getting a single large volume and sharing it over NFS? If this is a bad idea, why?
Figuring out how to show and talk about what I’m working on with my friends and family. Other mediums such as ceramics and painting are much more accessible to a general audience. It would be nice to have a way of showcasing software in a similar way.
There is also the Java based "PC emulator":

https://github.com/ianopolous/JPC

However, development seems to have slowed down drastically.
https://www.aclu.org/librarians-nsl-challenge
They were never theoretical.
Yeah, sorry, I forgot that “raw milk” was a thing.
See section 4.3 in the Spectre paper - https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf

It includes an implementation of the exploit in a few lines of javascript.
More than purely looking at disk space, I think it's more useful to look at overall disk write usage which you can get for free by just loading up Trusted Advisor.
Another strategy (I can't find the post, but HN regular mbuckbee evangelizes this) is to create small free tools / indexes to get inbound traffic. They might be small byproducts you made while creating your business.

Examples: AWS in plain english, foragoodstrftime.com, everytimezone.com, the various 'awesome' lists, etc. I've personally thought about writing batch scripts for dumb little tasks. Books that lead into your business are also common.

Make it something your audience will value. Then the general idea then is you can share it to your mailing list (i.e. in amy hoy parlance an 'ebomb').
> For any individual in either group, the best way to avoid becoming a felon is to avoid committing felonies.

I think you're missing the forest for the trees here.

For a white, wealthy person, the healthiest life choices are to select a diet based only on the effects of the ingested materials in question, independent of their legal status.

For a black person, the healthiest life choice is instead to make very different dietary choices in order to avoid becoming a felon.

It is simply not the case that individuals in the two groups have the same dynamic re: life choices.
That's not the point. Trying to squeeze the code in less lines as much possible is not the way to go if you loose clarity.
Python coders keep repeting the mantra "less line of code" but in the mean time they keep typing: self. self. self.
..and drive up the cost of goods and services.

Does anyone actually understand that this law will make things cost more?
And actually bragging about it. Surprised to read that this came from a university press release and not a whistleblower, in-depth undercover investigation, embarrassing court case or the like. Apparently we've finally reached the dystopia where surveillance is completely normalized.
I'm kind of worried about usage of strcmp here:

https://github.com/jakogut/tinyvm/search?q=strcmp

It's also very easy to crash the thing, either with a malformed input file or afl-fuzz. Are you sure C was the right choice here?
> If the point of the quote is to say that "sometimes the more expensive option is better value" it's accurate, but also is obvious, and doesn't really mean anything.

That is not the point, and the comment you’re replying to gave some very real, serious examples as to why not. Cost of living alone eats an incredible amount of your budget unless you’re very well to do, so there, immediately, you’re out of “sometimes” territory. We’re already in “the majority of most people’s budget” land. Then you have payday loans, any kind of loan in general, late fees, etc: all of these are costs to low liquidity. Unexpected expenses cannot be absorbed if you have no cash nor assets to sell. Being poor is expensive; this is not a random anecdote, it’s a fundamental character flaw in our society that has been consistently identified and documented. Google “the cost of being poor” for more reading material than one could process in a lifetime.

If you’re talking about the specific example in the quote, alone: it’s an illustration, to make a complex and ugly point understandable and palatable and easy to digest. It’s not a random data point: it illustrates the mechanism by which being poor is expensive. That’s not straight forward to intuit, hence this example has merit.
I'd be interested, if you can use me.
https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote-developer-jobs
Compare that to my 6809 emulator [1]. I have a mc6809_run() function that is pretty much the same, but mc6809_step() is in the same file and not hidden in a header file. There also seems to be a lack of memory operations (like reading or writing) other than PUSH/POP.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mc6809 [2]

[2] Yes, it lacks a README. I know.
It depends on your customers. If your potential customers are likely to be interested in reading things around the problem you are solving then maybe. But as others have mentioned, it needs to be "content first". If the content isn't good and just a thin excuse to talk about your product, it won't work.

I've been doing basic content marketing for my service (https://medium.com/revenuecat-blog) and it is my #1 source of new signups.

I have a lot of expertise in the subject. It is a wide domain with lots of adjacent problems I can write about. And, it is something that people search for and read about. All these together has made it worthwhile.

That said, it is very time consuming. I try to average one post a week but a good post that is worth publishing takes me probably 5-10 hours of work between research, drafting, proofing, and promoting. This is time taken away from product development, so you need to consider the ROI.
I mean, if those records are being kept, it shouldn't be that hard to make them easily user-accessible, right? Support people that got the letters could just give users the link to the page with the data.
Maybe. But it's worth it.
I actually suffer from an extra problem. I no longer trust any program you can download off the internet, except for trusted repositories (ie most of canonical's ubuntu repos, debian etc). That has been a massive drag for me, because I can't just download super convinient programs on my work computer. It pretty much stalled my interest in (amateur/hobby) programming alongside with stopping the use of pirated software, except in VMs, which are slow and inconvenient enough to not bother running them very often.
I agree, but people on HN don't seem to care about those as much as US startups. Plus who is worried about car dealerships going under just because they can't pass on your data to some scummy vendor? (Also, some countries have laws close the the GDPR already, where this wouldn't fly.)

Having said that, shunning one car dealership is way easier than trying to stop Facebook or Google slurping your data, even with ad blockers et al.
Tip: buy some proxies and traceroute the IP addresses you get to find the rdns names of the providers who don't mind stuff like that.
That’s maybe a little too black and white but I hear what you are saying Paul. If I just see it as means to an end I may be missing the point. Point taken.
> Note that neither of your points are necessarily responsive to or mutually exclusive with gp's.

I think you're ignoring the more serious point, though. GP literally advised disadvantaged people to more judiciously follow the stupid laws that were designed in the first place to disadvantage them.

> But your appeal to the youth who might be reading this was just over the top.

Listen, I usually find any sort of "protect the children" narrative nauseating. But in the specific case of racism, I do think it's reckless to spout this stuff on this forum. You and I have perhaps read The New Jim Crow or exposed ourselves to the statistics of the drug war, but a lot of people (sure, young and old) come here from other fora where they're more likely to have followed the breadcrumbs of technological development and might need a little more help before being able to pick apart these basic, bedrock examples of institutional discrimination.
Done right, a blog is a very cheap and powerful marketing tool.

As @superasn has mentioned, 1 huge win (again if done right) is you can keep getting recurring signups / new users if 1 or more of your blog posts ranks on top for keywords relating to your web app / product offering.

I've successfully grown a blog to over 100K monthly visitors in less than 6 months, all using organic SEO techniques. Too bad I didn't (still don't) have a product to market on that blog. It ranks on 1st page for several tech related keywords, incl. a couple related to apple and steve jobs.

What's your web app / domain? Without knowing much about it, I can't give you domain / topic specific advise. My email is in bio if you wanna chat more.
So you wear out four pairs in two years?
We don't currently support native audio, but we definitely have plans to. Right now we deep link to the Spotify/SC track. The rest is pretty accurate.
if
a) "Most of the money in circulation is created, not by
the printing presses of the Bank of England, but by the
commercial banks themselves: banks create money whenever
they lend to someone in the economy"...

and...

b) money is destroyed by repaying loans

then...

c) Where does the extra money to pay interests come from?
>I'd like to spray a fuel-tolerant liner into it. If I can find the product and someone -- or the tools -- to do it.

For a liner to work, you'd need to drop the tank anyway, as you need to thoroughly clean and strip the inside, then roll the tank around to evenly distribute the liquid liner. At that point, for cars, anyway, you're better off just replacing it. FWIW.

For smaller projects, like motorcycles, I have used Red Kote for years, with excellent success. It's the only single-part lining I've tried that holds up.

http://damonq.com/red-kote.html

[edit] This is me cleaning out a rusty motorcycle tank with some chain, solvent, and an old Jeep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNEwIxWUJjU

The lining I installed afterwards is still holding up, 5 years later.
Is having a blog alongside my website clever marketing or just a waste of my time?

The only real way to know is to try it and see if it works.

I will note that you can pay for writing. You typically give someone a topic to write about and maybe a link to include or some key words. There are people who do this as freelancers and there are services that do this.

It doesn't completely get you off the hook, but it can reduce the workload involved. If it makes more money than it costs you, it can be well worth it.

Edit: You also might be interested in reading this:

http://www.doreenmicheletraylor.com/2018/02/actionable-conte...
Automated software vulnerability detection with machine learning
Thanks. You raise a good point. My solution is not sexy and I’m not sure people would want to read around it. I’ll add that to my list of pros and cons.
Probably because it isn't the core conversation. What matters is that Microsoft is pushing bug bounties, not how big they are.

But it's really splitting hairs. I don't really get it either - just a guess.
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...
Well, let me just put in my two cents that a blog with native audio support seems to be a niche not currently filled, from what I gather.

Best.
Microsoft does have a lot of Linux VMs
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/
I don't know what the law says about this in the US, but when I was taught to drive (in the UK), I was told not to assume that someone signalling would actually do what was they were indicating, and that I would be responsible for whatever happened if I took action in reliance of that signal.

Not sure if that's the law in the UK, or just my instructor teaching me to drive defensively.
While it sounds like the human driver was likely at fault in this situation I wonder if she made eye contact with the self-driving car's "safety driver" before the collision. If she assumed he was operating the vehicle and could clearly see her she would have expected him to slow down. This is the cultural birthplace of the Pittsburgh Left, after all.
5-6 years of living expenses.
MGRS is a pain to program. So many edge cases.
on gray market it's worth 10X that
Why do dieters succeed or fail? The answers have little to do with food
If I had the choice I would take 250k$ non-sketchy money from MS over any amount of xxx sketchy money from any other company. Yes, youcould get a lotmore money insome cases but MS will be the easiest way to get it.
Do you enjoy writing? Are you decent at it? If you answer no to either of those questions, you might be in for a struggle.
There's a lot of space to be explored at the intersection of ml and hypercomplex numbers. There's a Clifford svm that unlike a regular sam which learns a hyperplane, learns any manifold.
For the actual emulation, I would say C is okay. For the assembler? I can think of half a dozen other languages better suited for that.
Our WiFi network name has been our what3words for over a year now since my housemate set it. I'm not sure what their business model is, since this is the first I've heard of them since that.
Thanks. You’ve inspired me to stick with it.
Thanks for the recommendation. Was it the one by Mike Duncan?
No, I mean my understanding of the law is unclear because the law itself is. It'll take a few court cases to hammer out most of the clearifications. Once it's better understood or made to be like the pci that literally spell out steps to take for minimum compliance it'll be a headache at best.