skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s FlashScript? I first “picked up” programming by getting a book that teaches ActionScript.

I can’t remember why I bought that book at 12 years old and why ActionScript, but learning about OOP before anything else was interesting.

As far as I remember, I didn’t continue with AS, but around 18 I started messing with PHP and never stopped building things since then.
> For example, Blizzard only has the source code to Starcraft because someone found a backup CD on eBay and returned it to them

This is a myth. Blizzard was already well on their way to releasing StarCraft: Remastered when that CD was found -- it's very unlikely that the found CD contained anything unique.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20757605637#...
Here are the books on my desk:

C++:

"The C++ Programming Language", Stroustrup

"Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++", Stroustrup

Quant:

"Quantitative Trading", Dr. Ernest Chan

"Algorithmic Trading", Dr. Ernest Chan

"Machine Trading: Deploying Computer Algorithms to Conquer the Markets", Dr. Ernest Chan

"Advances in Financial Machine Learning", Marcos Lopez de Prado

"Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (10th edition)", John C. Hull

Buddhism:

"Open Heart, Clear Mind", Thubten Chodron

"Buddhism For Beginners", Thubten Chodron

"Working with Anger", Thubten Chodron

Reading For Pleasure:

"Naked Statistics", Charles Wheelan

"Algorithms to Live By", Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

"Dark Pools"

"The Quants", Scott Patterson

"The Physics Of Wall Street", James Owen Weatherall

Plus some Chinese books, I wont bore with the details, unless anyone wants to know. Fun Fact, while I was in China for 8 weeks in late 2017 I bought 60 Chinese books and stuffed them in a suitcase. It cost me $4,000RMB (~$604 USD) to check all of my stuff and purchases home :-)

The Math books are:

"Discrete math", Susan Epp

"Discrete with Ducks"

various Calc books. If you want to learn math, find books that work for you. We all learn differently here.

My opinion: The Chan books are just amazing. Thought provoking and motivational. I am still reading the Prado book.

My opinion 2: If you ever want to slow down in life and learn what you are about, read about Buddhism. I'm not trying to start a flame war. It just works for me. It isn't being told what to believe because that is the way it is. I feel Buddhism lets me explore myself to find the right answers that work for me. Since studying my anger levels are in check. I am a better Husband. My wife comes first always.
On OSX these issues have been solved for quite a few years.

1. Press Apple-Space.

2. Type "draft3".

3. Select first item.

And for finding "all my pictures" just create a Smart Folder based on a series of rules e.g. "File Type = JPG".
I'm not quite the programmer ~fabynou is, but I have been contemplating following his example for awhile. This might be the right project for it.
It’s the same W3C API, where do you see that this is Apple-only API?
Are you sure the DoE or DoD are contributing to MIT’s endowment? That seems unlikely to me. Those agencies award research contracts with statements of work on a cost plus overhead basis. That’s not at all the same as contributing to an endowment.
Blue Apron is the same way (easy sign-up online, cancellation on the website tells you to call this phone number).

So for the last year, I've been typing in "Blue Apron" to google every couple of weeks, clicking on their paid ad, and skipping the next 5 weeks of deliveries. :)
Legal question: what situations will guarantee that Facebook erases info under GDPR?

Do I have to issue the request from an IP-address believed to be under GDPR? Be a resident or citizen of an EU member state?
There's a CR->LF conversion at:

https://github.com/chungy/shockmac/
My daughters have been consuming Miyazaki's movies with delight -- and I have as well (we still have a few to go). Although I knew it was all produced by Studio Ghibli I confess to not having explored any of Takahata's works. Does anyone have a wider experience and specific recommendations?
for simple use cases, folder beats everything else.

when you have a large numbers in deep path then tags should be the way to go, you will need a database to manage it for portability across OSes etc.

with tags we need isolate how-to-store-the-files from how-to-organize-them-for-easy-access, tags can be used to build a virtual folder hierarchy for example.
Liverpool may want to agree surprise cope with Manchester United
I've had it several times. It's not going to be the best burger you've ever had, but it is quite delicious and leagues above the standard veggie burger.
Agreed, at least make sure it will still compile with line endings changed before submitting pull requests.

This builds with CodeWarrior 10 (from 1996) which is probably OK with non-Mac line endings, but there are other old Mac codebases on GitHub using older toolchains that require CR.
(i.e. Pararena 2: http://bslabs.net/2016/11/13/building-pararena/)

A PPC Mac running OS X 10.4 is basically the only way to work with both git and classic Mac dev environments, I'll be trying this out myself.
Better to use Number.isNaN(): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I deleted all of my Facebook data about a year ago and I actually had to create a new Spotify account to disconnect it from Facebook. Glad to hear they are improving this process.
Restriction is an excellent idea I admire.

I recently saw bright and social kids from relatives get into YouTube addictions, and I feel like it’s numbing their brains.

If it’s already hard for adults to show self-control when it comes to device addiction, it would be foolish to expect that kind of maturity from kids.
Don't forget to look North. The housing bubble in Canada never popped in the first place.
People screw up, all the time.

But yes, sometimes people have kids, realizing that they have no clue how they'll afford them. Call it desperation, if you will. Or rebellion against an unjust society.

Or maybe they don't really think it through. Much of the time, I suspect.
No, there are two 47-bit halves. (But see my other comment about 57-bit address space.)
You should read Progress and Poverty, a book that used to be a bestseller and well known to most intellectuals throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but somehow has been forgotten. It was by Henry George - whose proposal was a single land tax, and of course the point is in theory that it’s easy to see who owns what. I have a copy and the accolades on the back read like a who’s who of world leaders, thinkers and poets.
> I just wish people would stop arguing by simplifying everything into some catchy moral gimmick.

Things work well enough that we can afford the luxury of chasing a feeling of moral superiority. Under worse conditions, most people don't have time for that.
Isn't this last week's problem? I thought Tesla was fine this week.
> #9 Hire only for good reasons. Being overworked is not a good reason to hire. Instead, hire to be ready to catch opportunities, not to survive the current battles.

Being overworked is an excellent reason to hire. It shows that you are about to lose your team due to burn-out or extended sick leave. Good managers know that the work load has to be such that there is some built in 'down time' in the schedule and no amount of pressure cooking or death marching is a substitute for bad planning. Overworked employees are a management failure and if you are reading this to get actionable advice that means you.

> #32 Delivery dates…

The lesson learned should be to release incrementally, rather than in one go.

> #8 Fire people whenever you can. There’s often someone to fire, but not many opportunities to do so. When you are given a lot of opportunities to fire people, it is often due to a crisis situation and you’ll likely fire or otherwise lose the wrong people. People appreciate when you fire the right people, so don’t worry about morale.

No, fire people when you have to, and for the right reasons, definitely not 'because you can'. If you fire without having a good reason it will affect morale and in the worst possible way.

> #2 Don’t be prudish. If you fear that people will lose faith in you because of the foggy goals and dire situation statement you are painting yourself in a heroic corner.

I can't even parse that in the current context.
Its called channeling.

Please pretend I didn't say anything.
Billing systems are hard. Building a system to serve as the billing system for N clients? Wow. Kudos to all involved.
There's also a fan remake that's been in progress since before the kickstarter.

https://github.com/JosiahJack/Citadel
What is a shareholder? Have you ever thought about it?

What do you need to make a modern enterprise? You need tools and you need labor. Some people provide labor, and others provide the tools. Some people who can provide tools, don't necessarily want to provide labor. They are shareholders without being workers.

If all the workers bring their own tools, then the enterprise can be 100% worker owned. If some workers need someone else to provide tools, they need some outside capital. That outside capital is basically outside people providing tools in exchange for some ownership in the enterprise.

As enterprises become more complex, you may need more and more complicated and expensive tools ... and the people who provide the labor and the people who provide the tools can become highly specialized.

There you go ... shareholder capitalism again.
FreeBSD jails it is then.
That's actually an interesting angle. I'm sure you weren't being entirely serious, but let's go there. I obviously can't be personally present a significant portion of the time, so my first thought it is to leave a substantial amount of personal property there, say, an RV. What stops them from having the vehicle towed such that it's my expense to retrieve it, or simply assuming ownership of the "abandoned" RV and pocketing the proceeds?

It's undeveloped land, so I suppose I could start planting vegetables on it. But as another commenter said, I'd bet they simply send henchman to destroy my work.
“We’re pleased to announce that Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3 now support the W3C Payment Request API for conducting Apple Pay transactions on the web.”
On a related note, I'm seeing lots of ads in meat-space here in Chicago about how much better Facebook is going to become at filtering fake news and fake accounts from you. It's a sign to me they're finally worried.
Sorry to hijack this thread but I wanted to ask if there's any news about supporting payments in Brazil. I've requested an invite 2 years ago and never heard a word.
I'm not blind, but I've always wanted to learn braille so I could read in the dark while getting ready for bed. However, I've also been lazy and haven't devoted the time to learning. I think this might be the perfect thing to let me passively learn while I do my normal reading. Kudos to the creator!
Yeah, just reading about that made my blood boil. Especially if it was a biology paper, I don't know what I would have done...
Zero! That is extremely wishful thinking. Even as a historical artefact Bitcoin will never go to $0. Hell, Bitconnect is still trading at $0.69 with $13,000 volume today. I really hope this is wash trading.
Can anyone explain me why Stripe is so hyped on HN ?

When Stripe launched, the alternatives for a new or small business that wanted to charge cards online were basically traditional merchant account and payment gateway integration (terrible developer experience, excruciating long process, often borderline abusive conditions for merchants) or PayPal (terrible developer experience, faster experience for as long as it lasted, countless nightmare stories of frozen funds etc.).

Stripe came along and let you add that functionality within a few hours, and it did so while also providing excellent and highly developer-friendly documentation and support, which obviously plays very well to the typical HN reader. It wasn't about slightly higher fees vs. slightly lower fees, it was about whether it was possible and worth doing at all.

Stripe today is not as good as Stripe in the early days for many reasons, but it's still better than almost anyone else I've used on all of those scores. Presumably I'm not the only one on HN who has had that experience. It's reassuring that there are several more businesses now starting up in this area, but I haven't yet seen anyone significantly better that didn't also seem to have at least one significant drawback for any business I'm involved with that uses Stripe today.
That pretty clearly wouldn't work. A necessary (but not sufficient) condition for breaking a trade typically involves language like "clearly erroneous". Selling an option that is trading in the $100s for $1 (the case here) is probably in this class; trading at the market and then having it move against you is completely different.
Git 2.17 is now available
This is a great clarification, not sure why the downvotes.
An Overview of Stablecoins
I guess I was referring to the content of the article, which is all about how the author markets theirself. Is your experience different?
> "As the budget grew, we began a long series of conversations with potential publishing partners."

Really? You need a publisher? Sigh. What year is it again?
Though I don't imagine this particular typeface will suddenly be popping up everywhere, I think there's a lot of value here to introduce accessibility to more spaces and encourage similar projects to come about.
Follow him on Twitter, it's pretty obvious by looking at the things he likes on there. Just today he liked some non sense that Roger Ver posted. Coinbase also wanted bigger blocks.

In an interview with bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-12-07/coinbase-ce...), he didn't say that he thinks Eth is better but it's obvious that they are more bullish towards Eth. They have also built Toshi, a Dapp store for Eth.

Coinbase has become a giant on the back of the work of Bitcoin Core developers and will continue to do so however, they have given NOTHING back to Bitcoin Core. Not a single BIP, they don't sponsor any core developers and they are not helping at all with Lightening Network.

It's very easy for them to sit back and complain about the state of Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is an open source project and they have the money to invest some money into Bitcoin core to improve it. But they rather prefer to pump shit coins and engage in insider trading. In my opinion Armstrong doesn't care about Bitcoin, they are short sighted and don't believe in the long term vision of Bitcoin.
5 of the most common exercising excuses and the way to conquer them
I don't know anything about this developer?
The merchant/processor are better placed to take the burden though - it may increase the fees, but to me, an ongoing marginal increase is preferable to the risk of being cleaned out in the case of fraud.

It's also pro-consumer in that it lets you use your debit cards without much fear of fraud -- if I were liable for fraudulent charges, I would be _much_ more reluctant to use it anywhere (especially as the bank may not be as incentivised to provide as good a fraud protection), drastically reducing its utility.
MS-DOS isn’t alone in that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representations_in_dif... claims ”Atari TOS, Microsoft Windows, DOS (MS-DOS, PC DOS, etc.), DEC TOPS-10, RT-11, CP/M, MP/M, OS/2, Symbian OS, Palm OS, Amstrad CPC, and most other early non-Unix and non-IBM operating systems” used it.

The real surprise is the BBC Micro, which used LF+CR.
I’m not sure I understand the question - what other payment service are you thinking of? With this change developers can use the same code to initiate a payment no matter which browser they are in, instead of having to write custom code for triggering Apple Pay, that’s the win here. This doesn’t change how Apple Pay for the web works. You can use Stripe or any other merchant processor to process your Apple Pay payments, iirc.
Yes. I've spent time in countries with poor plumbing systems and picked up the habit. I've found that it does not stink up the trash since it dries quickly. Additionally, if you put the poo side down it all stacks up in the bin until you take it out. Since I started doing this at home I have not had to unclog a toilet.
I remember when I was an under-grad back in 1978 and a friend of mine who was sort of a tree-hugging, Birkenstock wearing hippie sort of guy (but always had nice weed) told me about this idea of global warming and I thought at the time he was, well, high, but so was I, to be honest. But it was a long time ago. I wish I could find him and say, dude... you were waaaaaay ahead of your time.
It has happened to me twice with significant consequences since 2011. I'm just a regular Joe.
We need single click online cancellation legislation at the federal level. If you can sign up online, you should be able to just as easily cancel online.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/tech-blogger-makes-good/
awe...
It was definitely tongue in cheek, the point was that it is land, they can't move it and defending their claim to the land visibly requires them to break cover.

Henchmen have higher ups.

In many places if you squat on a place long enough it becomes yours.
Publishing a guide to filling in potholes seems like it would create controversy with the public, who would ask why it appears the city expects citizens to fill in potholes themselves.

It's much easier to just allow citizens to call a number and report a pothole. Seattle does that and potholes get filled fairly quickly, they even have a phone app that allows you to report all kinds of problems.

Here's Seattle's pothole map showing where and when they have been fixed.

http://web6.seattle.gov/sdot/potholemap/
If you want to avoid logging in accidentally, you can just make a garbage (that is, no-garbage?) account that you use only for family or something and then log into that instead.

Rename your old account to John Smith or something, change the password to sign everything out, delete it and then only re-sign into your new account (which you intend to barely/not use).

Nowadays I only use Facebook to reach family that don’t use Instagram and I keep my Instagram network private-only and small (<80). There is automatic cross-posting so it doesn’t cost me any effort in this regard.
The New York Times uses this cancellation process as well. I don’t feel bad about violating their paywall now after being forced to actually talk to a person to do something that should be enabled with a single click.
8th century BCE not 18th.
Energy Department Whistleblower Sheds Light on Rick Perry’s Cult of Personality
The whole point of the OpenAI exercise is to improve transfer learning- a winning project should be able to work off of a single model.

For an example of a system that does learn new rules using a single model check out this post from Vicarious[0].

[0] https://www.vicarious.com/2017/08/07/general-game-playing-wi...
I'm sure you know this, but for anyone else... Bittman wrote the excellent "How to Cook Everything". It's a great go-to gift for college graduations.
Words to live by, my friend.
The original specification and the Chrome implementation aren't restricted to a single payments app, such as Apple Pay:

> The browser then presents the payments UI to the user, who selects a payment method and authorizes the transaction. A payment method can be as straightforward as a credit card that is already stored by the browser, or as esoteric as third-party application written specifically to deliver payments to the site.

So if you have the PayPal app installed, you should be able to choose it as the payment method and so on.

My question is if the Apple implementation on Safari restricts the payment methods only to Apple Pay, bocking any other payment services or apps.
Illumos/SmartOS is FOSS
Stay true to yourself. E-Mail in profile if you want to chat about Buddhism.
They could have handled it much better. It was very pathetic for a multi billion dollar company.

Also Coinbase has stated that they want bigger blocks. They have not contributed at all to the development of 2nd layer scaling like LN. They also took too long to finally adopt Segwit.

For Coinbase, it's much easier to increase the blocks. This means they don't have to invest in their own Bitcoin infrastructure to make it more efficient.
I think as human consciousness, morality, and our understanding of history have evolved, the question we now ask is “Stability for whom?” Certainly not for Latin America during the Cold War, for example.

Those who oppose collaborating with the military do so because “America military hegemony” has been used for all kinds of horrors, including recent events like the Iraq War. There’s nothing naive about not wanting to be party to at least half a million civilian casualties and the destabilization of the Middle East.

You can make some Real Politik argument about the ends justifying the means, if that’s what you truly believe, but you’ll have to do so more explicitly and account for things like Vietnam and the Iraq War. The reductive abstraction of “stability” you pose know longer holds the same kind of sway it once did among most people.
It’s a pyramid sceme you can get in on with financing.
Good opportunity here to make a game collecting space junk. Get kids thinking about such problems now. Maybe a KSP plug-in.
Time Warner didn't respect the choice to not disclose a reason. They went in circles a few times, instead of dropping the question and advancing the script.
Deploying to Google Cloud Platform's Kubernetes Engine from GitLab
>an extremely powerful stabilizing force

For the American empire. Less so for the rest of the world.
Any proof anything is actually deleted?

Also, what’s the process for proving that you are the legitimate owner of the record?
After it passes review and all stages of testing it's everyone's bug.
WaPo's title is misleading because $100b is not the amount of tariffs but the amount of goods being tariffed: "tariffs on an additional $100 billion of Chinese products."

[added] Not that I condone tariffs in any way or form, just as I dislike subsidies.
Debunking “But Bitcoin is like the early Internet!”
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oh okay, so I guessed 127 for your IQ and you already got 130 on a test you took with a friend. don't take an IQ test for me if you don't want to but I'm done proving my case.
A comment in the Medium article asked the same thing. The author's response:

> I agree that piping all logs to stdout would be the best solution in case of Dockerized microservices. It’s just that in our case we were porting an existing system, which a) already heavily relied on logging to files b) consisted of many microservices itself, which we couldn’t yet split into separate Docker containers but also couldn’t pipe all their logs to the same stdout.
My guess is they engage with other Facebook users in a more direct and deliberate manner.

I'd wager that's a far less addictive way to use Facebook overall.
The Payment Request spec is agnostic to payment methods. It doesn’t require implementors to support any particular method(s).

WebKit implements Payment Request, and Safari supports Apple Pay as a payment method. Other browsers that implement Payment Request might support other methods.

Edit: spelling
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