skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must have missed some intersection between pop culture and some political bubble. What happened to our opinion of Louis CK?
Scaphold is shutting down
Don't call. Go into the local customer service office. There you will talk to a real human being who is not making a lot of money and probably struggling to pay her own cable bill. She will be sympathetic. She will put you on the new customer discount plan, or cancel whatever you want without a lot of pushback.
Just got the email. Can't help but wonder what the founders went through.
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Sure but the EU does levy rather large fines.
What’s old is new again; “it’s just metadata!”

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-demolish-its-jus...
Sexual harassment. Self admitted. Ugly stuff.
I had this issue on both Solaris/SPARC and AIX/POWER because both use the full 64-bit address space. It required jumping through hoops to make sure the custom allocator could both allocate 1MB aligned pages that were also < 48 bits so that it would play nice with SpiderMonkey.
Show HN: Lightweight Chrome extension to help manage having lots of tabs
The original games are still playable today and oh my, they are still awesome.

We are only starting to see some games like MGS5 surpassing the AI of Thief but most of them try to combine stealth with power fantasy and that's a bad mix.

Thief had it right with its underpowered character lost in a maze like level.
The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete
I would recommend less time studying theory and more time studying history.

Communism is great in theory but no matter how well read I am on Marx, Lenin, or Mao it won’t make communism work any better historically.
Pinfinder: iOS Restrictions Passcode Recovery
Oh, this is nothing. You don't realize just how much stuff 'drops off the docks' or is 'beyond economical repair' in logistics.

I remember when a ton of Sony stuff disappeared from the repair depot I worked at. Boy that was a fun day. 300 laptops, freshly repaired that week, gone from the warehouse. Never even made it to the shipping lanes on the other side of the warehouse. And no camera footage despite every angle being covered from the repair store cage to the shipping lanes.
Just because someone else would be happier with money currently in my pockets isn't a morally legitimate reason to take my money and give it to them, in my opinion, all else being equal.

I'm all for designing some kind of social contract, but I would like it to consider more than just relative wealth.

Also, in general I think it's a good idea to segment the population by net worth rather than income, not that I would advocate taking from those with high net worth either...
I think the best way to get kids interested in computers is to have them in the 1980s. Pre-internet, and the computers were simple enough to be completely understood by a single person. It also didn't hurt that they nearly all came with BASIC built in and available in under a second when the machine was turned on.

Also, it wasn't unheard of to have a 15 year old making a hit game.

So yes, if at all possible, have your kids in the 1980s.
The issue is with live streams of audio or virtual instruments with CPU heavy effects with very small amount of buffering (typically 64 samples @ 48kHz, which is 0.75ms). Also processing of instruments and effects for one track (+ relevant busses) has to be in series so more cores doesn't help a resource hungry signal chain. But of course they do greatly help overall effect/instrument count over many tracks.
He wasn’t live trading, he was a programmer, like any other dude here in HN, and he wrote something incorrectly. A bad trade went through. Is he to blame? Who knows, no one else caught his mistake and maybe he actually coded what he thought was asked for, or someone told him something wrong.
Coinbase made a billion dollars last year. I think the investors are pretty chill with whatever.
I think many of these issues can be addressed with mechanisms proposed by the author.

Mainly, the more complex tags which can themselves refer to other tags.

1. This is probably the trickiest one. You may be able to do some sort of translation between a hierarchical system and the tag system using tags themselves. You could have a series of tags that refer to each other, such that the hierarchical location is essentially encoded in the tags themselves.

2. Again, maybe just special tags?

3. Yeah, again, tags. Just tag the thing with the media it's on.

4. Aside from the basic UI side of things which should help, there is the idea of shared tagging systems. I don't recall if that came from the author or another commenter on HN. And you can basically ask the same question about hierarchical systems. It's not exactly a solved problem there either.

5. Again, the complex tags. Just make a tag for the project.

6. Obviously UI is a big question. I'm not sure how it relates so much to media-specific browsers though. They basically present a different view of a section of a filesystem. You have to do some work to let them do this, or else use a system like iTunes and buy all of your media through them.

7. Although I feel this is well addressed by the author, one thing I think you aren't considering is that each of these applications requires their own setup in order to provide that view. You often can't just take the directory from one of these programs and use a different program to view it and have it all work properly. If you only have one program for each media type and never want to use anything else that works, sort of. Many years ago I directed iTunes to redo the file layout for my music collection and rendered it effectively useless for direct browsing. I never really recovered from that due to the time involved to sort it out.

And mutability isn't totally handwaved away, again with the complex tag system you could tag mutated works with a reference back to the original. This doesn't cover the case where you don't wish to retain the original, but then you could just do a simple find/replace with the old and new hashes in the simplest case.
Those are good. My favorites:

16. The previous people who did a similar analysis did not have a direct pipeline to the wisdom of the ages. There is therefore no reason to believe their analysis over yours. There is especially no reason to present their analysis as yours.

21. (Larrabee's Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.

29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.

30. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Engineering Design) If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist's concept.
Why the pre-industrial climate. Why not the Jurassic climate? Why not the Precambrian climate? Why is our current climate somehow the best?
It was fee revenue
The result is a new set of data that contains no personal information, but retains the format and statistics of the original. The only way that each field in the new data set can be returned to its old state is by applying the key used to generate the hash

these keys are held by the accounts teams. The development teams working on the pseudonymous data never see them

Right ... but I would feel better if I supply this hash/key back to them. I understand I can request erasure, but I would like the option to request "hashed" (or a user friendlier term) when I want to keep my data on their server, but I control it.
Please point out where the logical problem is.
That’s why I’d like some anarchist pothole fillers.

The act of filling a whole with tarred stone is trivial, managing a municipal government so that the guy is filling a hole instead of doing something less productive (like driving a truck around looking for leaf bags in February, for example) is filling holes is not.
> ... and bridges (which one could argue are unnecessary)

I'm pretty sure you're referring to the Bridge to Nowhere [1] here (~$400M), but one could argue for a number of public works projects that are unnecessary, stupid, or the cause of recurring large expenditures.

Chicago, built on a swamp, still constantly has flooding issues. The Deep Tunnel project [2] is currently at > $4B, and still can't handle a relatively common spring storm without dumping sewage into either Lake Michigan or the Illinois-Michigan Sanitation Canal. Not to mention the other regional estuaries that get polluted by overflows such as the Des Plaines River or the Salt Creek (which just happens to run by the Chicago area's premier zoo: Brookfield).

Also, Washington DC, also built on a swamp (literal, not the figurative "drain the swamp"). Not sure what measures the city takes to prevent/handle flooding. Also potential hurricane target.

New Orleans, built below sea level...right next to the sea, and also a prime target for hurricanes, the worst in recent memory being Katrina. Response to that? Rebuild. Should have been relocate. First search from Google I found says costs from the recovery on that were ~$108B [3] (I don't know the accuracy of this - first time I've ever visited the site). I don't know how much the Army Corps of Engineers has spent rebuilding the dikes & levies that failed after Katrina, but I'd put money down that it is far beyond the $400M spent on the "Bridge to Nowhere".

Point is, the Federal government is there to help all citizens, those in small & large communities/cities alike. Infrastructure projects cost money, period. They're actually cheaper in rural areas due to cheaper local labor, sometimes material, and usually (but not always) less corruption and cronyism (road repairs around Chicago are generally of very poor quality, do not last long and are poorly planned - e.g. in Cook County, a road will often be repaired one week, and then promptly torn up the next to replace a sewer/water/gas main).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
[2] http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/367.html
[3] https://www.thebalance.com/hurricane-katrina-facts-damage-an...
Prosthetic Memory System Successful in Humans, Study Finds
Another similar NaN-boxing approach, available as an option in mruby:

https://github.com/mruby/mruby/blob/d6cb4f9cf2027eb20f67238a...
'Evil seems to be within God'
Yeah, why would I worship that little bastard then?!?
> They need to come back with something that has something unique.

That would be MacOS itself. That's all they need to bring a huge number of Pros who bailed on the entire Apple ecosystem back into the fold.
Most of that $$ was loaded towards the end of the year, so they were in the middle of the raise as it ramped up insanely. They closed the raise before the revenue was hitting that mark, announced it in August, then it turned out to be likely irrelevant when they made another $600m to finish 2017 and no signs of stopping (although slowing) in 2018.
The difference is that, while evading the rapist and the killer in front of you is sometimes difficult, evading a post in any platform is easy: ignore it. The platform is overloaded with them? Ignore the platform.

The parallel with real life abuse has to end.
I think he means countries like the Netherlands, where they have some weird system of non-credit/debit cards.
That would by Joyent [0] the makers of SmartOS (Basically, Open Source Solaris). Their Triton cloud product uses SmartOS under the hood.

[0] - https://www.joyent.com/smartos
I don't think it's a misrepresentation at all, especially if you consider the anti-Fa movement. anti-Fa is ironically using very fascist tactics in their protest of fascism.
I made a font based off Kobigraphs with font struct a few years ago [1] - but it’s not really a perfect mapping. I found the dotlessbraille.org site quite interesting.

[1] https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/365490/braille_ko...
Can dang or someone please unflag my comment? I haven't violated any guidelines and it's important that an opinion be heard that goes against the dominant narrative.
InVision has actually raised even more than Coinbase from VC
If I'm reading that right they're defining score in terms of time so it's actually the same?
> would I consider paying something like Amazon Prime fees, every month, to have 'free' delivery on orders over $100 from my grocery store...

Wonder if you realize Amazon just rolled out exactly that for Whole Foods. Free 2-hour delivery for Prime members -- via Prime Now, not Amazon Fresh. Just launched in SF like a couple weeks ago. And it's a $35 minimum.

Major advantage over Instacart is vastly superior direct integration with their inventory system. Way less substitutions. Also Prime ($99) is obviously a higher-value bundle than Instacart Express ($149).

Instacart's opportunity is to serve all the other retailers that are crapping their collective pants over this. Whether it's a short or long term opportunity... remains to be seen.
Natural language processing is a big area where classical AI is heavily used and machine learning is lagging behind. ML is terrible at teaching computers to read and/or produce human writing. Compare what the company Automated Insights is doing for news articles versus neural networks writing books and movie scripts (with humorous results).

Anything with a known and well-defined set of rules can also be programmed more efficiently with decision trees/Markov chain than through machine learning. There's no need to use tons of data to train a model to do something over time when all it needs is the rule book.

Machine learning is basically advanced pattern matching, neural nets often require you to brute force the problem with tons of data. There are plenty of places where you're not matching patterns and you don't have tons of data but the computer still needs to make a decision after analyzing the data that is available.
Primates gonna prime. In many ways, Bitcoin was a technological solution to a social problem. But the primate dominance dynamic is, like most things that predate humanity, pretty baked in. It's hard enough to fight that when you're explicitly working against it, as with the origin of the various western democracies. Doing it as a technological bank shot is even trickier.
Epicurus doesn't assume anything here. If the 'higher goal' involved human suffering, then why would you condone that and worship the originator of suffering?
If your god would be a real person, you would not just accept 'oh, but I have a plan!'
You could solve the problem with containers, but then you've re-implemented the same problem. You could have an authentication microservice that other services use that way authentication is handled in one place. If there is a security issue with the code in authentication, updating the one container fixes the whole system.

But doing this has the same problem. You've just re-implemented DLL hell as container hell.
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' your personal moral compass is objectively and universally true.'

Not it doesn't. It assumes there's at least one moral compass.
Car companies are offering ridiculous deals, and giving out loans to people that don't have good credit. If I had to guess, they didn't learn their lesson and will be in deep trouble again.
Nah, they probably used your code to scoop you.
Most lawyers seem to be advising the opposite, though, and say that backups are ok - do you have some knowledge here, or are you arguing the spirit of the law?
Cargo cult and security theather both sound plausible. Although falsifying a signature might carry a stiffer penalty than just using a stolen card?
Very nice. The web shops that’ve implemented Apple Pay already are much nicer to use than your average shop between elimination of the need to fill (or even auto fill!) addresses and the security of single use tokens.

Once web payments is implemented widely I’ll likely start avoiding shops that don’t implement them.
I went from a two door Hyundai Getz to a Tesla because I wanted an electric car. Not to signal anything. I also couldn't wait for the Model 3 to come to Australia due to a growing family and a 4 door requirement.
Megan can help, she helped my former startup and works extensively with early stage companies. More info + contact form here: https://interimcmo.co/
A guide would create potential legal liability, wouldn't it?
You can buy an HP zbook x2 with i7-8650U and 32Gb today, if you want? And there's even a mobile Xeon laptop from HP that supports 64 Gb...
Moral questions are not outside the scope of empirical science. Religious moral questions are outside the scope of any meaningful questions. (see the various god-related commandments in the 10 commandments, none of those make sense to non-believers)
why? it was created so we could have reliable communications in the event of a total nuclear war, that is, an enabler
Mail was particularly prone to this because, in the days when mail was usually locally delivered to the UNIX system you'd also use for running interactive programs, adding the ability for a program to read mail was just a fairly simple matter of parsing the user's mbox file.

Most terminal mode IRC clients will at least tell you when you have new (locally-delivered) mail, for example.
"That's not accurate. Skilled workers built those."

The skilled workers did the difficult parts. Getting the materials to the construction site and other (often dangerous) tasks were done either by children or peasants that had either been forced or attracted by false promises. In addition the churches and kings often didn't pay the promised money. Just read some history books. The top guys always wanted to keep as much to themselves as they could. No difference to now. They could be even greedier back then because the little guy had no rights.
Correct.

> tarstarr 7 hours ago [-] (PM from Stripe) If you're an existing user, there's no extra fees, even if you are past the $1M threshold.
Or perhaps he just has a touch of dementia and a lot of right place / right time ;)
They did it for marketing not fairness. It added 350 mikes and some of their orders bypassed it.

Having a ‘speedbump’ was the trendy thing a bit ago in exchanges with several different ones opening with several different versions.
It's a very narrow viewpoint you are having. Dragging out the few instances where churches allowed and protected some science.
Completely disregarding the hundreds of years of oppression of intellectual progress.
For messenger, at least if you're registered just in messenger with a phone number, you can "delete" it by re-installing the app and attempting to re-register with the same number. When it prompts you to use your existing account, say it's not you and then choose a new name.

This seems to reset your contacts and history. No idea what it looks like on the back end, assuming facebook is still rolling history associated with the number.

There used to also be a pathway to promote your messenger account to a full facebook account and then delete it that way, but it's been a while so not sure if that's still possible.

Not sure if you can pull of similar against email based accounts though.
I didn't delete my facebook. I unfriended everyone I knew. Took screenshots of the first pictures I saw when you googled my name as my pictures, then added random friends in other states I didn't know (not before re-filling all my data with fake data). Screw you facebook!
1971, really - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc158

In 1973, the 'internet' was yay big:

https://twitter.com/workergnome/status/807704855276122114/ph...

Apple sold more Apple I's than that in its first few months of existence.
It is an older, but I believe more correct definition of the word. It is a small, insignificant quibble, but I think it is important. What else do we call a "classical" internet troll? A Russian?
I used Prime Now and Prime Pantry to do my return-from-a-long-trip grocery shopping and it was fantastic. The product quality was really good and it was the first time I thought one of these convenience services was not a rip off.
NixOS 18.03 “Impala” Released
Ay, sry.
This is where unix philosophy fails. Patch should be editing files itself, not via an external program.
This is relevant because?
Yes, I know, that was my point.

> ...So (b) is slightly less trivial

I'd argue not. In both cases, a fully capable and prepared person has to jump through a couple of relatively trivial hoops. And when those hoops aren't possible to jump through it's a weird case. We can split that hair, but it's silly.
Go in the morning then take a shower... my normal routine.
From the email, it should like they have been achieved by Amazon but are refusing to say it.
This is cool, but seems like a big security flaw on Apple’s part. Most people likely use the same passcode for their device and the restrictions passcode. I imagine this security risk can be mitigated by encrypting the backup, but I still think it’s a flaw in need of fixing.
The Bitcoin community in general is very toxic and unsavory. That's probably why they aren't funding them.
Thanks for the recommendation on Neveu, I’m going to check it out. If I recall correctly Chung mentioned it in his book as well.
A scalable solution to one of these problems will likely experience exponential growth (product market fit). The current market cap (and volatility) reflect this.
*Mentorship* is Overrated
That may have been the case 5 years ago, but it certainly isn't now. I work in a mostly mac office and not a single one of my mac fanboy coworkers has a single nice thing to say about the 2017 macbook pros.
> Wasn’t this API basically invented to provide a standard complaint way of doing something like Apple Pay? Here you go.

No, the API invented so that the browser could act as an intermediary between many payment-requesting services and payment services, such as PayPal, PayTM, Apple Pay, etc.

They chose to limit support exclusively to Apple Pay, so that users won't have a choice.
Afternoon diversion: Design your own microprocessor
I was hoping to see declarative user profiles [1] merged into this release, which is the next big future I'm really looking forward to. Too bad it didn't make it in. Looks like it should be another great release though, good to see Nix defaulting to 2.0.

1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9250
Really? I never did PS2 development, but I liked it for Mac stuff in the '90s and Palm stuff a little bit after that.

My recollection is that it was much nicer to use than Think C, and absolutely blew the doors off Visual C++ 1.5 and 4.0, which were the other IDEs I had to deal with at/around the time I first picked up CodeWarrior.

The Apple Code Fragment Manager (PPC dynamic loader) made me want to break things sometimes, but for its day CodeWarrior was a breath of fresh air, as I recall.
SB827 (CA Zoning bill) rallies end with YIMBYs shouting down protesters of color
Thanks! That was pretty much just me, but it was inspired by reading a whole bunch of other peoples' books and papers on persistent object systems. That was a big topic of research at the time. I don't really know why the persistent object idea fell out of sight so completely.
How Reliable Is the StackOverflow Developer Survey?
:delegated and :cached are ignored on non-MacOS hosts.
It’s war, not a court. Society hasn’t legislated that those who attack this country should be presumed innocent and convicted only after due process. This is true in any country.
China’s $900B New Silk Road
I randomly started checking other CompSci courses on that site and they all had a similarly high average grade, in some cases even higher (A instead of a B+).

Which are the hard courses at Berkeley in CompSci using the site you linked?