skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the interests of the rich and the nonrich are systematically at odds

This is not universally true. It is not true across individuals among the rich/nonrich nor is it true across specific agenda items. This caricature you've created for these two groups is called classism. You are no better than the people who think all poor people are stupid or lazy.

>yet only one of these groups have any great power to see to it that their interests are served.

Okay, let's talk about campaign finance reform. Or is making sure there's no rich people more important to you than making sure everyone has equal political power?
Especially since it comes as a surprise, and there’s already an existing train on its way to the next station with its own timetable.
There's a fascinating, if little-known term, the "Harbord List".

Better known via a successor concept, the Strategic Minerals Reserve, now DLA Strategic Materials. Which serves both military and commercial interests.

https://books.google.com/books?id=oy4rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=P...

https://books.google.com/books?id=OqNawWS7iHsC&pg=PA221&lpg=...

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dod/dnsc.htm
He did promise to officially label China a currency manipulator in his first 100 days, which he has not done: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102...
Until he adds that, we could rely on the official HN search

https://hn.algolia.com
The last time I looked at Forth it was to get a more powerful replacement for the bc calculator. But the minimalistic approach of forth enthusiasts means there is no powerful REPL.

Unfortunately Oforth doesn't seem very mature to me. To compile it, I had to install libc6-dev-i386 and g++-multilib so it could do its 32-bit compile. Now it fails on me with a segmentation fault. If I try the precompiled version, it just exits with a nonzero exit-code.

So, back to bc, I guess :-)

Edit: Ah I see, it needs --i for interactive mode.
Serverless Is Not FaaS (Function as a Service)
I set the text to

"I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

to be prepared for whats coming ...
Heh, who knows, maybe Python adds this feature for Python 4 :p
Other operating system maintainers had only days/weeks in Jan 2018.
I am not sure I would pay too much for card that had been run flat-out for months in a rusting hangar with standing water, though.
Sure thing!

The Darpa Grand Challenges which really kickstarted the modern self-driving car era were races.[0,1,2]

Also, there's a grassroots community around self-racing cars.[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
[1] http://archive.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-grand-urban-challenge-self...

[3] http://selfracingcars.com/
You have to change your point of view, from the North Korean point of view it is obviously better if they have the nukes because they don't trust the USA. If you think it would be okay for the USA to blow up a North Korean reactor to prevent them from producing more Plutonium then it would be equally legitimate for North Korea to blow up US nuclear facilities. It is not impossible to justify applying different rules to different countries but you have to be careful to not simply assume you are right or better or stronger.
There's no mandate to having a pool or a lawn in a suburban house, nor is there any ban on tree houses and chicken coops in suburban plots.
Welp, you'll figure it out. Maybe university isn't for you-- and that's okay, as you long as you have the drive and (more importantly) the ability to create your own structure you'll be okay without school.
Those 9 lines got copied because the function was going to get donated to openjdk anyway, so it would be stupid to rewrite a simple 9 line function that it used as that would be pointless duplication after it was merged.

So a Google employee was donating code to Oracle, and they sued them for it. It's absolutely shameful behaviour.
You can rent a botnet of desktops from residential IP.

For example, the Hola "unblocker" C&C people have this service.
https://luminati.io/
You may be completely right, but by expressing your points as an angry politico-national rant, you break the site guidelines and do much more damage to this majority-international community than the presumptive truth of your comment could possibly add. This damage is exactly what we don't want to see here.

I realize that others are damaging just as much from the opposite side, but that's a reason to do better than them, not just as bad or worse. If you can't help preserve this community from flamewar (which is after all a kind of war), please don't post until you can.
Excellent post. I recently dealt with "The Ratchet" for several months on my old iPhone, because I didn't want to upgrade to the new OS at the time for battery/performance reasons. Every single day I'd get a full screen popup telling me to enter my passcode to update, or I could click on a smaller box at the bottom to remind me later. It was my own phone and I couldn't even make it stop asking me to update.

The other place I noticed it recently was Reddit's mobile website, which asks me to download the app TWICE every time I reopen it on my phone. The first prompt is a bottom banner taking up about 40% of the screen on my phone with the small link to the mobile site situated uncomfortably close to the much larger button which takes you to the app store. The second is a popup from clicking on a link, which takes up about 60% of the screen and is centered. It's workable, but it's almost as annoying, persistent, and anti-user as Facebook messenger on mobile web browsers.

It's infuriating seeing some of your favorite products try to pull this on you. I wish I could tell the developers to stop being assholes to their faces.
And it still doesn't work properly with every carrier. I bought a new, unlocked iPad Mini 4 that came with the Apple SIM, and no carrier would activate it. I finally got it working on Ting after getting one of Ting's SIM cards and lots of back-and-forth between Ting and Apple Support.
>My original post was about a situation where the creator of an API didn't believe it to be copyrightable

Your original post was about IBM not being able to copyright the PC Bios. Which is simply not true in any way shape or form. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/how-compaqs-clone-comp...

Relevant portion "But one problem remained with their IBM-compatible machine. How would they recreate the IBM BIOS without breaching the copyright? Why did they need a compatible BIOS (basic input output system)? . . . Some companies, such as Eagle, copied the BIOS either by reading the IBM manual to understand which interrupt codes did what or by simply copying the hard-coded ROM chip that holds the BIOS. This breached the copyright that IBM had over the BIOS and so did not take IBM long to prevent such companies from selling more of those machines. However, there is a way to bypass these types of copyrights with the use of a “clean room”."
A new meaning to "manual or automatic"!
That's something HN would filter out.
Don't these media clowns always point out the fact that picture taken during the night of asia shows North Korea as the darkest country? And now that they want to do something about it, it's a problem too?
OSMAndroid from https://f-droid.org works. It's nice being able to download entire states for offline access, very fast when looking around, awesome for offroading.

I run https://lineageos.org and have no problems whatsoever.
"Unavoidable"... I assume for a human. I'm not sure it was unavoidable for an automated car.
If you search for Facebook on Google Play then you'll see the word "free" under Facebook icon [1]. It is interesting ,that the app page [2] doesn't have this word, but it doesn't say that Facebook is going to upload your call list to the server either. So they advertise the app as "free".

[1] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=facebook&c=apps&hl=en

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.k...
SavaJe went bankrupt two years before Android was released.
Best solution = deactivate and delete your Facebook account.
> The corruption happens at lower levels, and is usually a byproduct of too much power granted to someone who doesn't deserve it.

On what basis do you make that judgement? Isn't it too difficult to truly learn about the activities of high government officials?

> China during the revolution was definitely not full of educated and well-informed people.

There has been quite a bit of time since the revolution. Do you think the Chinese people are well-informed enough for democracy (or at least more political liberalization) now? If not, why not?

> You're clearly not Chinese, and probably don't many people in China. But I am, and I know people who live in China (middle class, even poor people), and the sentiment is that the government is doing a good job.

I know many Chinese people very well. Are you yourself from China or do you similarly just know many people from there? I think the former is likely, but your phrasing is ambiguous.

> [Among] people who live in China (middle class, even poor people), [...] the sentiment is that the government is doing a good job.

That doesn't contradict anything that I wrote, in fact I said that's probably true. My point, stated more bluntly, is that it doesn't mean much if their opinion is controlled. The necessary environment for informed opinion includes open information and freedom from coercion, neither of which exist in mainland China.
Why you curse when your computer crash – systems lecture by J.Peterson
Or a film about Snow White, Pinocchio, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty etc.
It's very good. The voices reminds me of speech from real life people with accents. It's good enough for voice overs where previously real-life voices would be too expensive. I would say that it's better than Amazon's Polly when it's used to read long passages of text.
What are you talking about? Economic sanction is one of the foremost statecraft tools in the US arsenal.
Yes, I use this:

https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS

Very simple and has the Google Assistant voice.
The GDPR doesn’t allow default-checked opt-in checkboxes. They aren’t “clear affirmative actions”.

Article 4.11: ”'consent' of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her”
Allowing the app to access the contact list doesn't mean that the user allows to upload call history to the server. Maybe they only want to add one of the people from their contact list.
It's probably a nice guideline but IMHO an article doesn't have to be perfectly digestable. Maybe if you overoptimize it, it becomes somehow a robotic experience both for author and reader.
Reagan was also Governor of California.
Please keep internet political rant tropes far away from Hacker News, regardless of how right you are. Being right makes it worse.
We did build two for MER, but then went back to one for MSL and for the upcoming M2020. The community provided input for this, so it's not an arbitrary decision. The definitive guidance on scientific thinking behind these plans is MEPAG, see: https://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/reports.cfm.
Besides its most recent report from 2015, it links to an older National Academies report (the 2013 Decadal Survey).

Turning to page 160 of the (long!) Decadal Survey document (free!), we read:

"The committee carefully considered the alternative of several rover missions instead of sample return [for Mars]. It is the opinion of the committee that sample return would have significantly higher science return and a much higher science-to-dollar ratio. [...] Existing scientific knowledge of Mars makes it possible to select a site from which to collect an excellent suite of rock and soil samples to address the life and habitability questions..."

So, one way to reframe your objection is that we are in truth planning multi-mission coordinated observations, but in the context of sample-return. M2020 is going to select and store samples, and a subsequent mission is planned to return them. That's the kind of progression that seems to galvanize the science community.

Aside: Besides the above reports, which (I hope) provide reassurance that all options are being considered, there's also the context of the site-selection process for M2020 - see https://marsnext.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm. You might enjoy looking at the viewgraphs for the very last talk of the most recent (2017) workshop, which summarize some of the site considerations.
A single person with a fixed 9 month biological timeframe is the analogy you chose to compare 6 months of a billion dollar company's software development time by potentially hundreds of developers (for better or worse) but importantly for an extremely critical class of bugs and therefore that's "just how it is"?

Come on, software is hard but when you fix a vulnerability and expose a far far worse one, and had months to plan, execute, and test it, then you are most certainly justified in being criticized.

It's not like we're saying the code is shoddy and needs work, which is entirely excusable in a short timeframe. It's that they've left users far worse off in the end then from where they started.
What I want to know: who were the ones who took that data and did the ad buys, picked/wrote the rage-bait content, etc? I don't think I have seen that detail anywhere. Did I miss it somewhere?

(follow the money, etc)

Psychographic profiles/privacy issues aside, to me it's the tension-stoking-Willie-Horton-propaganda tactics that deserve public scorn, if, alas, not prosecution. Unless it was (also) Russia.
I had just thought of this exact analogy too. Another one that came to mind is a forced/coerced confession. Usually it's combined with something more extreme like sleep deprivation/psychological abuse but the way it often works is just asking someone over and over for hours whether they committed the crime / how they did it. Eventually people confess just to make it stop. I see this as the same thing on a smaller scale: eventually you just accept the terms/update/whatever to make the annoying notifications go away. But you were still coerced into that decision out of annoyance and frustration
Meh...the whole "Silicon Valley genius" trope is another myth that needs to die. Being able to code a depth first search doesn't make anyone a 'genius' and there are limits to what AI can do even with bushel baskets full of data.

For many years Facebook thought I was Jewish and was spamming me with ads to become a rabbi and move to Israel, but I am the least Jewish person you'd ever meet. And that could easily be determined by publicly searchable data about myself.
OK. Will put in an order soon. Sri
An analogy for understanding reverse proxy caching
> However, the Oracle Google case is not about derivative works.

The Copyright Act, however, is; if APIs are protected by copyright, than making a derivative work of an API is an exclusive right of the copyright owner.

Which is a key reason why there is widespread concern about the CAFCs ruling on API copyright. (OTOH, Google losing on fair use at the CAFC makes it more likely that the API copyright issue gets to the Supreme Court in this case rather than a later one, so it might be a good thing for resolving that concern.)
Depends on whether you see the glass half-full or half-empty. Is it a DRL actor-critic where the reward & critic happen to be half of a GAN, or is it a GAN where the generator happens to receive a RL-style loss instead of the normal discriminator loss? Actor-critic and GANs have always been hard to tell apart: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01945.pdf
You are assuming that this is a bug, and not a feature from the Government's perspective.
They’re already statistically unnecessary for toddlers on up: http://freakonomics.com/2005/07/09/more-evidence-on-car-seat...
I think this has little to do with China. People have arrogantly overestimated their own situation, thinking it is a God-given right to have absolute dominance and no peer competitors.

Having competition is normal. Healthy, even. Having to work hard for the fruits of one's labor is normal. Sitting back printing dollars and pointing guns at various places when things don't go one's way is not normal.
Karpathy got into the top 20 most upvoted domain submissions? I don't even remember that many.
We are talking about interest rate on Tesla debt. It was 5.5% last august, and now, with downgrades and M3 delays, it is 7%. If Tesla would like to tap capital markets for more cash to borrow, interest rate might get uncomfortably high, because market considers Tesla debt getting more and more risky. At some level, interest rate gets prohibitively high, meaninig that markets do not trust you to pay back in time. Since tesla carries a lot of debt (6B?) which it needs to refinance, such move could be deadly.
If you're in the Netherlands, KPN offers a 100GB EU+US plan, and T-Mobile offers a Unlimited NL + 10GB EU+US plan (although you should boycott T-Mobile [1]).

It's not quite the entire world, but it might be useful if you travel to the US often.

[1] https://www.bof.nl/press/t-mobile-allowed-to-keep-violating-...
I've used Travel SIMs in the past simply because although they're more expensive, at least they work and I know I'll probably have coverage.

Trying to figure out how to get a prepaid plan with a good amount of data that'll work everywhere in Europe isn't easy. Then there's issues about recharging the plan, and many of them don't accept foreign CCs, so you need to be in the country you purchased it in to buy a voucher from the carrier's store.

I also hadn't found any 'unlimited' data options on a prepaid SIM - they only appear to be on the more expensive contract plans. At least, based on my searches in France, Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.
You don't get to define "for their own reasons" to mean something else just so that you have a something to argue about. Doing something for one's "own reasons" means that the decision is theirs to make, in contrast to being legally compelled to act in a certain way. It doesn't mean acting in a way that nobody else would, nor acting in a way that nobody else would agree with.
> However, I don't have to wrap my head around anything, because my point is that I don't think GIMP's developer's priority are in line with its users.

Let's see.

Did users ask for 16-/32-bit per channel editing? Yes. Done in 2.10.

Did users ask for a tool that would combine rotation, scaling etc.? By gods, they did! Done in 2.10.

Did users ask for canvas rotation/flipping? My, didn't they just! Done in 2.10.

Did users complain about unusable iWarp filter? Oh yes! Fixed in 2.10, with a new tool that works directly on the canvas.

I can go on like that forever. At least half of https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog was implemented from bug reports, and that list isn't even entirely up-to-date, partly because I'm a lazy ass, and partly because I keep stumbling on people like you and can't fight the urge to reply.

> Since you've gone around the thread saying everything people post is a lie, can you actually state facts since you love facts so much? Can you link to a conversation the devs had about usability, where they were saying that it's important to them, their users, and a priority for the project?

I can point you to a whole website we created to handle UI problems and a whole mailing list for the same purpose.

I can point you to specs there that were implemented.

If I manage to find old mailing lists archives, I can even point you to a post by a former lead dev who literally said that GIMP's usability sucks and then implemented single-window mode (much requested by users whose interests we ignore as you seem to believe).

Good enough?
Thiel went with Trump for standard VC reasons: because it was a low-cost, low-odds, high-reward play on an unpopular undervalued asset. Also because Trump fits his "maverick" style of operating independently outside of the big establishment machines.

If Trump lost Thiel would move along to doing the best he could with the winners, who wouldn't have a reason to shun him for irrelevant past actions.

Trump had ~50% odds of winning but general betting odds were <30%
Why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause
Why do we trust and believe NASA?
Awesome, we all had this idea but here, as an app, it's just great thoughts put in action ^^
Study shows 99% of organic social posts create almost no engagement
Nice it has some math functions predefined and is not finicky about types.

Edit: And with .show it even shows the stack after each evaluation. This could replace bc for me if it was packaged in Debian.
On earth you can skip a great many things as you get air and water effectively for free. This means you need a lot less redundancy not just in personnel, but also how quickly you need to respond in an emergency. Further, people are going to be vastly more productive with fewer people devoted to food production.

The downsides are things like pest control becoming more important. On mars you can avoid pesticides by either not bringing them or killing them off by dropping the air pressure in a field to effectively zero and or dropping the temperature to -100C.
Thanks for posting this. Anyone know if you can play a modern update to this on Mac?
Why do you need an "introduction" to a company that sells its services on the open market?
"The difference is that other countries don't combine their businesses with their government."

This is just flat out and absolutely wrong, in fact, effeect, and strategy.

Just one title, author happens to be Chinese, though source is the US, 1952. Economic Warfare.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/economic-warfare/oclc/1024506...

The author wrote numerous works for U.S. policy organisations from the 1950s-90s.

See also, GOEs, such as Sallie Mae and Fanny Mae.
It wouldn't be victim blaming to criticize a company that is breached because they didn't take compsec seriously. They weren't a small company at the time and they knew this was a hazard.

Google had a responsibility to their shareholders and customers to do the right thing regardless of how stupid they thought the law was, and their attitude here was pretty arrogant. (To avoid beating up on Google, I should point out believing they could take on anything helped them do some work that changed the world for the better.)

Since the attitudes of parties involved in a case are often considered in judging the case, I think it's entirely fair to bring them up.
Don't you mean dc instead of bc?
Expert says Brexit campaign used data mined from Facebook
Came here to look for this. IIRC Midomi launched as an app for feature phones? (Razr-era)
Do you keep SIM cards after each trip? Seems like a hassle having 15 phone numbers to track, unless you're fully committed to being on Google Voice or something similar. Why not just pick up a new SIM each time you travel? Or just pay for an international plan if you travel frequently?
Create your App online as easy as making a ppt
If MS had allocated 1000 devs to fix this issue quickly, the result would have been an utter disaster.
If such a thing were to take hold, you wouldn't need nearly as much parking at places of business or residence. But then, with so many cars, they'd still need a place to park while not in use. You might be able to rent out parking at your home for ride share vehicles.
It goes back farther than the world wars.

Fake News used to be called Yellow Journalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
So why does this only affect Windows 7?
Smartest State in US
Sam Altman is a sophist and a fop.
You can use https://www.justwatch.com for that.

It's really useful for finding shows on services you use.