skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might be so good they should launch it as a subscription platform...stealing other countries stuff as a service
I don't think it helps producing fewer bugs, but it makes writing some kinds of bug much harder.
That seems a little sketchy for the simpler ones, like this: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/gaussian/index.php

He shows the equivalent IM command lines, and it's 2 lines of text.

No issue with the more complex ones though...it's his work.
Media is definitely taking the chance to try and kick Facebook to death, and often for selfish reasons. That shouldn’t distract us from the very real fact that Facebook is a terrible value proposition for users of their service, untrustworthy, and even dangerous. Facebook deserves to be kicked to death, even if the media wants it for their own reasons.
I associate rural activities with increased wellbeing. Living in or visiting nature. I also associate guns with rural activities.
I wonder how those states correlate with gun control.

Suicidal thoughts are often strong but momentary. If there is a gun available, one can take action on the feelings before they pass makeing a momentary thought permanent. Heartbreaking.

So my hypothesis is that the same restrictions on society and or culture that decrease the chance of suicide also reduce wellbeing.
> please contact me (Fred Weinhaus) for licensing arrangements

To put it bluntly: pay the dude for the effort.
I found kubernetes up and running really helpful. Kubernetes the hard way was really useful, but a painful weekend.
The movement is he heart of the watch. I'm not sure you could call yourself a watch maker if you are not designing and building the movement. You work on your specialty and outsource everything else.
I'd say PL/SQL is a huge technical failure. Its continued use is also a huge failure, but that one is a management one.

There is "successful" and there is "widely used because corporate mandated it".

edit: OK, I was being cruel. People use it and it solves problems, but it's NOT a joy to use.
China has already bailed out several upper tier cities housing markets several times. This is not the measure of economic health people take it for, at least, not in the current regulatory environment of China.
It’s amazing they are free for non-commercial use. It’s even more awesome they let you pay for a commercial license.
Doesn't seem to support some of the more recent features, such as secrets and configs :(
> a new printer WITH new cartridges would be cheaper

Yes, but most printers come with "starter" cartridges, which have much less ink than the expensive replacement ones.
The average monthly wage for white collar workers is a measly $1000/month

“China’s middle class incomes fail to take off in 2017”

http://www.clb.org.hk/content/china’s-middle-class-incomes-f...
This isn't a partisan issue. I'm obviously taking about republics, not the Republican party.
Agreed, there is so much more interesting material that could have been written. Ada once was a hyped language! In the late 80s when the DOD mandated it. It would be interesting to hear the history of Ada's rise and fall.

My CSC sequence (started 1990) was taught in Ada. I was already writing a lot of Pascal so it was an easy switch. I remember feeling no great love for the compiler and tooling, however.
From the same article.

> By the end of the decade, there will be more than 30 million more adult men on the dating market than women. [...] “Parents and grandparents will often pool their money together to invest in that child by buying a property in that child’s name.”

To say nothing of the Chinese real estate bubble.
I don't see a distinction between a CEO putting the company before their own personal morals and any other employee. If they're doing so, they probably should quit. In the case of the CEO, it's arguably even more important that they either quit or change the direction (rules) of the company, as they're uniquely able to do so. As you point out, if they can't do that, they should change jobs.

I can see there is a bit of misunderstanding with respect to "the first doesn't matter", and I apologize for not being clearer. The "first" I'm referring to is my first, regarding whether a person's morals and values can/should align with a company's goals. That's a direct response to your "I'm not sure if that matters too much for when he speaks as the Apple's CEO." Same with the second, the idea that a CEO or other employee should surrender their morals to the company's bottom line. You seem to confirm that in your response here ("no they should not surrender their morals, but yes in the context where they speak as the employee and not the person they should keep to the company's line"). We do have some common ground as you acknowledge that there are circumstances where one should change jobs. I'm not sure how to reconcile that with these other statements, however.

Tim Cook isn't refusing the task of representing Apple. I argue he's saying the things because he believes them and they're part of Apple's values, rather than in spite of his beliefs and Apple's only doing so because it gives them a competitive advantage. Hard to prove a counterfactual, but I'd think it'd be likely that Apple would do so even if the competition were doing so as well. When you make comments like "Apple the company faces major competition from companies who will directly be hurt by this" and "What I meant is that while it's great, it's also unsurprising", I read that as saying Apple is doing this (and Tim Cook saying this) purely for competitive reasons rather than because they believe it's the right thing to do. To me, that's cynical.

It's not my intent to misread you or build a straw man, so please do correct me and expand on what you mean.

Edit to add: I think I can summarize this long-winded comment as: “Apple holds these values and that guides the design of their products, and that also gives them a competitive advantage”; as opposed to “Apple says they have these values because it gives them a competitive advantage and that drives their design.” I read you as saying the latter, rather than the former.
I do, although [spoiler alert] Raskolnivok’s ultimate spiritual transformation and acceptance of Christianity as his morality, without a rational argument behind it, gives away the author’s prejudice. I see Dostoevsky’s characters as analogous to set theories without the axiom of choice: self-consistent yet incomplete. I even felt empathy for the characters I didn’t like because they still felt human to me.

The most unrealistic thing about his writings is that normal conversations don’t have alternating monologues which each go on for pages. Clearly he’s effectively writing inline dueling essays.

Demons is a little more work to get into, as it takes longer to get going than C&P, but the payoff is well worth the setup.
>> Food is going to cost you at
>> least $200/month

I don’t think you’ve actually totaled up how much your food costs. It’s a lot more than $200 per person, even if you cook everything at home.
Or maybe people who feel suicidal are more likely to commit suicide if surrounded by happy people?

You are using one statistic to question a massive (2.5 million people), multiple year study by two well-respected firms. Perhaps it's complicated?
That is not necessary true when it comes to aerospace and defense projects

They chose to use C++ for the F35, which is buggy as hell, because they thought there were no Ada programmers available. But if you are planning a multi-decade project wouldn't you just... train some yourself?
I agree, and I’d add that I find learning to be like any other activity, in that practice makes me better at it. I’m also not infrequently surprised by connections to “useless” learned material that only crops up months or years later. As far as motivation, I think practice helps too; you get used to gathering yourself and pushing forward or you get used to giving up, and I prefer pushing on.

I also just enjoy learning, I love making new connections and synthesis of existing knowledge with new information.
The wrong end of San Jose to Mountain View takes me about 25 minutes when traffic is good. And at least an hour when it isn’t. I play tech podcasts or audio files made from Coursera lectures or YouTube videos.
Not terribly much. Feel free to ask if you wish to know anything.
No you completely misunderstood the argument like the other comment and capitalized republican when I clearly had it lowercase and am obviously talking about republics, not the Republican party.
Of course it is hard (or maybe not top priority for some) but that's no excuse in my book.

Besides, from a technical perspective archiving PDF invoices and using SQL cascade delete doesn't sound overwhelming in complexity.
This is a rather asinine line of argumentation.

(a) The New York Time's newsroom and editorial staff are rather well-separated from their business department which makes decision about ad tech on their website. If you don't believe me, see this paragraph from a recent article at The Atlantic, which operates by the same principle:

As you read this article on The Atlantic, roughly three dozen ad trackers are watching you, adding your interest in this story to profiles they maintain on your online behavior. (If you want to know more about who’s watching you, download Ghostery, a browser extension that tracks and can block these “third-party” trackers.)[0]

That's a reporter arguing against the financial interests of his employer. And they are not going to fire him.

(b) There's one big difference between Facebook and generic advertising technology: the New York Times doesn't require you to sign up. Every time you change devices or delete cookies, the ad targeting starts from a blank slate. And while some websites try to get you to sign up, it's trivially easy to switch to a new account every once in a while.

(c) Ad tracking knows which websites I visit. Facebook knows which nude parties I attended in 2005

(d) The New York Times has actually turned to subscription revenue as its main source of income. While the split used to be 50/50, it is not much closer to 75/25 (subscriptions/ads). The "if you're not paying, you're the product..." cliché is getting tired anyway. But its premise simply doesn't apply to the New York Times.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/data-...
It’s a good book. The story is more nuanced than people often realize. Most definitely Harrison was treated poorly, however, while he created chronometers that met the latter of the challenge, he didn’t really help with this spirit of the problem. A true solution needed a mass produced chronometer.

It’s also often misrepresented that he was the person who solved the “how do you measure your longitude“ problem. It was well understood that you needed to be able to accurately measure the difference between local time and time at a known meridian. The questions where about how to accurately and practically measure that.
The title should end with "publishers", not "pubs".
I use a tool that I bought called Resilio Sync that has good usability, but not the flexibility that something like rsync would have. Thanks for the advice.
> as we're all playing by the same rules.

No we're not. If China wants to make an anti-dumping case over our soybeans to the WTO, they're welcome to. So far, they haven't. Mostly because they're going to have to make a case that "crop insurance" provided by the USDA is somehow an undue "subsidy."
That to me seems like the biggest problem with parliamentary systems (which have many other advantages, especially for new parties, local constituencies, etc.). Unless there's a sovereign, or some other system, it's often left up to the sitting government to decide when elections will be called.
It's interesting that at the same time well being is going down, obesity, diabetes and depression are increasing according to this study. I wonder how much negative well being is being driven by the obesity epidemic. We already know that obesity has a measurable impact on healthcare spending, does it not stand to reason that it could cause other society wide problems?
'What does free speech have to do with unregulated, unconsented mass surveillance and violation of end user privacy?'

the original legislation that enabled the modern web 2.0 platforms to exist was Section 230. Now that logic looks set to be struck down.
https://www.law.com/therecorder/2018/03/21/senate-overwhelmi...
I suggested a new more invasive platform will launch for deeper and more covert mass surveillance in light of GDPR in europe and now the end of the FB and Google gravy train when Section 230 changes makes the platform companies liable for what you say when you exercise your free speech in the USA...
“I'm still stressing about finding a way around this"

Uh, find a non US file sharing site?

There are many, but, for example: https://yandex.com/support/disk/
"We did this study that's similar to another, less detailed study because we wanted to focus on our country and differences between states within our country and, because, that's what scientists do."
Or share files zipped with a password.
Anyone know what TLS 1.3 offers (or fixes) that TLS 1.2 does not?
I'm a little surprised that porn is against Google Drive's ToS, but I'm very surprised that they actively have algorithms seeking it out to delete it. Usually service providers don't go looking for trouble and will only review content once there's a complaint.
There is an 80 character title field limit on the HN input field so the title had to be shortened.
If the backlash lasts long enough to really change the landscape of non explicit permission data gathering then an opportunity for hacker news one million jobs may arise.

How much is my data worth? I’ll sign a buncb of revenue sharing agreements with YouTube, Google, Mozilla, Facebook etc if the price is right. I know that HN has a lot of really heavy pro privacy advocates but I hope you can recognize a lot of people don’t share those concerns and would happyily welcome a little passive income stream in their lives.
There is some very powerful stuff in here. I wonder if the author has implemented these in any DCC plugins?
This completely wrong.

PL/SQL used Ada as a model for the syntax. The semantics is completely different. Just like JavaScript is not C, PL/SQL is not Ada in any meaningful way.
What's not worth your time? You're being paid for this all the same aren't you? 1 hr/week would be 52 hours for the whole year, are you able to create something that much better in less time? And will that maintain all the flexibility?

There's a reason Excel is so powerful, but it can't magically solve for people lacking a process and most software solutions solve it by using complex permissions, versioning and collaboration features. You can just easily lock down the shared spreadsheet to readonly and have 1 or 2 people who are designated editors and get the same effect, or just have the changes done on a new tab and compare that way.

Even the most amazing software can and will get screwed up by users who don't have a process.
Thanks, I'll take a look at that. I'm assuming it can recurse into subdirectories and you can use wildcards/regex?
Una ricetta con l’agnello al cartoccio per Pasqua
> Notebooks suck for some things, and they are absolutely fantastic for others.

Speaking of which, I recognize your name :). Thanks for SAGE! It was my first introduction to the power of a code notebook.
> While the split used to be 50/50, it is not much closer to 75/25 (subscriptions/ads).

Thank Trump for that. This didn't happen naturally for them and was only made possible by the election of Trump. Its unlikely that this is going to sustainable for them beyond trump presidency.
‘All Men Are Guilty,’ Says Mega-Mogul Barry Diller
Configuring Chrome for Privacy and Convenience
I think adtech companies are at greater risk than publishers. Publishers will move to a subscription model and most of them will be okay. A whole lot of adtech companies’ entire business model is sleazy at best and outright criminal at worst.
I don't claim my attitude has value.

It's fine if it hits the mainstream, but if it's because of Trump, and not because of what Facebook is, then it will end up being just another half-assed initiative by only half the population - the half that happens to disagree with one flash-in-the-pan, here-today-gone-tomorrow, and ineffective-to-boot, President.

I'm among those who think the world would probably be better off without both Facebook and Trump, but the consensus out there in the world doesn't agree with that. They elected Trump and continue to make Facebook rich. Somewhat counter-intuitively, there is really not a lot of fodder there for feeling superior about oneself.
It's my fault (not the IA), I thought I'd got all newsgroups but must have missed some. I just checked the main newsgroup list and it's incomplete, for some reason.

My plan though, is to dust off the old code, get a complete list of groups, get them, and then make it searchable.

Sorry about that, I didn't check. This was all done in 2013. Basically, I wanted to build a search engine but indexing the newsgroup posts (for header and text body search) would take too long. I abandoned it, then in 2016 I sent it to the IA.

So, I only just found out it's lacking a bunch of groups, 5 years on...
I don't see it. There is always a case for privacy. But if people consider the presidency corrupt it would probably be a good idea to grant the judicial branch more power. Because secrecy doesn't protect you against a sufficiently corrupt government, it protects the government from you.
or any type of encryption
Windows Phone. A lot of great things about the platform has kept me using it, but modern (aka bloated) websites aren't too great these days.
This is an excellent interview, touching on much more than the subject in the headline. I kept the originsl title however.
I'm going to assume that most of these comments have absolutely no experience with the Federal System. I've had multiple clients encounter absurd (Federal) money laundering charges (18 US 1956). Proving application of complex laws belies the fact that the audience you must prove them before is (usually) made up of the average citizen (bench trials notwithstanding). Prosecutorial misconduct (from questionable charges to overcharging to Giglio violations to misstatements in court) is so rampant as to be an epidemic. Recently I had a client charged with money laundering, because after completing a project moved money from his (solely owned) software firm account to his personal account, paid taxes on it, and then moved (a similar amount) back a few months later to cover cashflow beginning the next project. This combination transaction absent no other fact pattern was apparently sufficient. And don't forget that in the civil system you routinely throw out facially insufficient cases [12(b)6], however, this is essentially non-existent in the Federal System. For one, judges never throw out indictments. I can count the number of I've seen one thrown out. Second, you only invite the prosecution to craft a new one. Lastly, once you move to trial you're hardly up against a rigid legal framework; certainly not in the minds of jurors. Federal Court is a theatre, and the play is 100% emotional. This is by design. During voire dire, the prosecution will not intentionally leave anyone will subject matter expertise or much legal experience in that box. Leaving you to win an emotional game if you can, or leaving you with a Rule 29 or an appeal. If they want you, they'll probably get you (99.8% Federal conviction rate). The object lesson is that you should avoid even the remotest question of impropriety or misconduct even avoiding completely innocent conduct that you could be used against you in the hands of malicious prosecution. It happens every day.
If it's not illegal then yes. If it pisses off enough people laws will be made.
Google's Usenet archive is too important to be owned by one company. My understanding is some Google engineers worked a few years ago to make sure Archive had a copy, but I can't verify that and I don't think it's online. Some of the earliest archives come from Eugene Spafford's collection which is readily online elsewhere, but Google did a lot of work cleaning it and of course has the DejaNews archives which are invaluable.

I'm amazed Google Groups still exists as a product, it seems abandoned internally and I expect to hear it's shut down any month now.
I am rather skeptical of the effectiveness of online advertising, despite all the tracking and profiling. I see companies like Google and Facebook post bumper profits, yet I see users becoming smarter at avoiding ads. Something doesn't quite add up, and because the validity of clicks is shrouded in mystery, it's not difficult for the platform owners to play dirty. I have had very little success with online ads for my app (https://usebx.com/app), yet what worked really well for acquiring users was releasing a JS library for free (https://osrec.github.io/currencyFormatter.js/)
Ada was my first true language that I learned in college. (Pascal being the first language that I learned in high-school, but it is more like a teaching language). Ada and pascal are somewhat related (very similar).

I have special fondness of it as well, but my second year my college switched to Java, as they saw it gave more job opportunities to students after graduation.

ADA was only used from defense contractors, DOD and perhaps Nasa, and that's why it ultimately failed. It "strictness" is a good thing to have when writing the code for a Tomahawk misle, but not so much when trying to do rapid development.

Also, traditional Ada is more of a procedural/imperative language, and not OOP, and the world had moved into OOP by the late 90s.
I don't want the government having its greedy mitts on every financial transaction under the sun.
> America is a commonly-used short form for the United States of America

Perhaps someone from Americas - America can comment how common this is in their country?
Technical debt and tacking into the wind (2013)
Good idea from the perspective of not exposing the code base. However, technologies such as remote Cuda/OpenCL which rely on remote execution of compute kernels in general require high-bandwidth and low-latency connectivity - this is especially true for deep learning / AI workloads, not necessarily for other applications which may have a higher computer to data transfer / synchronization ratios. The latency on a typical internet connection will likely stall the GPUs on a remote system, yielding little compute benefit.
Really does seem like an interesting use of smart contracts?

And it's not just social data -- there's probably real personal and societal benefit to collaboration around medical data too.
Spectre/Meltdown aren't the "tinfoil" (which might actually be legitimate) fears in Intel -- those are probably Intel Management Engine/AMT/etc. and general supply chain risk (maybe Intel processors in general are safe, but if you're a target, maybe the machines you order are "special" -- although making special CPUs in the latest process, especially if you're not Intel itself, is a lot harder than making "special" versions of other chips in older process in the system.)
i think the landscape has changed quite a bit in the last 10 years, but its not clear we're in a golden age of simple, robust and composable software either.

maybe you can paint a more detailed picture?
I would also add to this that if there does exist an eternal existence after one's death [1], then it is infinitely rational to spend this comparatively short life finding out what the nature of that eternity is and how best to prepare for it.

[1] Which incidentally, I don't think is possible to conclusively prove nor disprove. Like most things in life, you look at the evidence and make your decision.
I would think it's the other way around. People are less well off, so they find comfort in cheaper and unhealthier foods.
A compelling pilot study of hospital-associated infection transmission in a developing world hospital.
Nature: Closer Than It Seems
The mentions your first point, fairly early on.