skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Hackathon” - oh weee I’d love to work 100+ hours to “win” the prize. This isn’t worker exploitation or overworking at all. /s
Facebook flipflops on cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency to Hit a Trillion Dollar Market Cap
This is a pre-2013 discussion.
The US has a violence fetish, the same way that the UK has a class fetish. The football quarterback is the highest status kid in the school because he is the leader of an organization demonstrated to deliver and endure violence.
The problem is that the third party is often picked, to some degree, by one of the parties, and there is a perverse incentive between the third party and the party that is picking them.
My CRTs up into the late 90s had some amount of curve/distortion, it definitely got better in the late 90s, but by then I was on Windows 95+. When doing mostly games in DOS, I had a pretty curvy 14 inch CRT.
OK, for the slow of understanding:

What I think you said is that, in an untyped language, a function will just return "something" (as far as the compiler is concerned). But in a typed language, the compiler knows that a monad was returned. So the point of the monad is to make the compiler do magic, not to make the runtime do magic.

Is that accurate?
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Seems like a better way to solve the problem than doing nothing, or continuing on business as usual.
While it would be nice to have utterly fireproof houses, it still makes sense to disband the government agency of mentally ill firebugs who run around lighting everything aflame they can find while chasing shadows.
Yeah it is a great move. I think the other companies will follow suit once they have an incident that causes the same level of bad PR that Uber has experienced. Once it starts to cut into their profits they will jump on board, sadly it always comes down to money.
It is possible that Uber decided to waive forced arbitration for sexual misconduct otherwise risk their whole arbitration policy being called into legality. This action might also indicate that sexual misconduct was systemic enough to risk challenging Uber's forced arbitration policies.
errexit gives action at distance antipattern.
> There were never days of "easily monitoring everyone's phones". If they wanted to monitor somebody's phone they had to go to great effort to do so.

Oh, I thought it was far easier to tap a phone than to break modern cryptography. Why was it not?

> It's easier today than it has ever been for surveillance services to monitor large amounts of people. Not just because they have the access and computational ability to automatically search the content of messages, but also because more of our communications are long-distance or otherwise digitised than ever before.

I would argue that this is changing though, hence the entire point of this Post. In the 90s no one encrypted anything, even https was laughable. More and more things are being encrypted.

That's what this post is effectively about, no? The government is trying to stay ahead of the ball on cryptography and hoping to keep their ability to monitor everyone.

Do you somehow disagree? I'm confused.
>Shit, just look at the time Osama bin Laden could have been bombed with a tomahawk missile during Clinton’s presidency. He didn’t do it because of the potential to kill a Saudi prince he was meeting at that time.

Here's an article on that very thing. It didn't mention anything about a Saudi Prince though.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-bill-clinto...

But your points are valid. Like anything, it could be used for non-objectional purposes. How morally objectionable do you think the whole of the use of this technology would be, given the country using it, etc? Do you think it would help the US and allies become more or less authoritarian? How long until you think it would be given / sold to local police departments like other military equipment?
>The self-sacrificing love, agape, is what the GP is talking about.

Perhaps, but the GP began with "the word love has lost its meaning throughout the ages". I don't think it has. Perhaps "love" can be parsed into several "flavors" (storge, philia, eros, agape, romantic, loyalty, etc.), but at the core it means still about the same (the "flavors" give hint or detail to motivations/context/obligations for the caring/concern/nurturing/keen-interest).

In the phrase (from above) "truly free persons actively avoid love as in love is a passion", I think here passion means something like "intense emotion". "Passion" has taken on new meanings - barely controllable emotion, intense sexual love, arousing great enthusiasm, etc. Only by way of religious context would a word that meant "suffering" get linked to "charity" love (agape). If anything, its other new meanings seem to be about the kinds of suffering from unsatisfied/unsatiated/frustrated desires.
Beautiful demos/explanations. Would've been really handy back in school.
Broad-based adoption of ZEVs will increase overall emissions of sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, and particulates, compared with the same number of new internal combustion engines.

interesting.

on the plus side, i'm guessing that hundreds of thousands of people who live near freeways and busy highways will benefit from reduced local pollution.

OTOH, i have no idea how many people live near the power plants which will be emitting more sulfur dioxide and other pollutants.
Or, to not have helmets at all, or much thinner helmets. Much like bare-knuckle or thin-padded gloves contribute to less "hard" hits being thrown in UFC than in boxing, or how Rugby players don't get the kind of brain injuries because they aren't smacking their heads into eachother as hard as football players are.
That is one possible interpretation of the english translation that you happen to be using.
This book is very good. If you like Javascript and want to further your understanding of functional programming, then I would highly recommend it.
"Little guys" are the products, rather than the consumers, on those platforms. This is already true to a large extent and will be true in larger and larger proportions. DRW, Jump Trading, Hudson River Trading, State Street and Virtu are all active on cryptomarkets.

In fact Hudson River Trading is in bed with Blockstream:
http://chaincode.com/#team

Very sad to witness.
It's an interesting idea. I guess is an institution is going to take on crypto exposure they'll need all the trimmings including real-time market data in order to properly manage their exposure. But beyond the basic risk management... there's not much actual trading going on, is there? What drives the need for low latency? The crypto space has fewer assets than the actual real-currency FOREX market and it's not driven by real economic data, right? The only real "strategy" is momentum trading, right? It's just not clear what low-latency is buying you here.
This sounds more like a problem with accountability for police departments than a fundamental flaw in LEOSA. Bloomberg is fundamentally opposed to any sort of pro-2A stance, however, so they would much rather blame the supposedly-lenient gun laws.
Anecdata as well, but in the years I was doing consulting in the shared hosting biz, CentOS was the clear frontrunner based on everyone I did for work. CentOS and WHM/cPanel.

And half of them had screwed up their entire setup by installing the Remi repos. Sigh.
I agree with you partly, and I think often people who are critical of all military actions are not considering the importance of a strong military in deterring large scale conflict.

But I think it's also true that carrying out military operations (even precise ones) in unstable parts of the world helps violent extremists gain support among the broader population and does nothing to help alleviate the instability that gives rise to these extremists in the first place.

When I consider how few deaths there actually are from extremist groups operating in Western countries it makes me wonder if the scale of our response is really appropriate to the severity of the issue, and whether our actions aren't helping to perpetuate the very issues they're intended to address.
this is my favorite wolfe as well. i was taking undergrad classes in architecture and my dad gave me the book. it made me realize that all my classes were avoiding the negative or downright stupid aspects of modernism.

my favorite part was how mies van der rohe liked buildings that looked “authentic” with undecorated steel beams visible, but because it was against the fire safety code in the usa he just glued some i-beams to the side of his chicago skyscrapers. the guy literally decorated buildings to represent a lack of decoration. this is the guy famous for the slogan “less is more.”
That's nice, but I'd like to be able to save and/or export my timings, along with the names I gave for them.
…I'm not seeing a strong argument for either in your response.
> I'm staunchly opposed to war, but understand it's unfortunate necessity under certain extreme circumstances.

> If these types of projects make war machines more precise overall, they may actually decrease overall collateral damage and reduce the total time war is waged which could cause less lives to be lost during war.

"I'm staunchly opposed to beating my children, but understand it's unfortunate necessity under certain extreme circumstances.

If these types of projects make child beatings more precise overall, they may actually decrease overall harm to children...."
Commitment is yet to be seen .... this is an attempt at change though, for sure.
One nice thing about using a pipeline is that it will be multi-threaded by default. That is each process will have it's own thread(s) and distribute any work across multiple cores.

Also with something like Gnu Parallel you can easily scale across multiple machines. Maybe there are more efficient approaches but a pipeline and gnu parallel is pretty easy to scale up without thinking much about it.
Except Uber executives have interfered in rape incidents with their drivers in the past, this should not be forced into arbitration. [1] In most cases I feel the company will be found not at fault, but feel it's the customers right to sue and lose.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-indi...
Not a very useful addition but hypercube is to cube as parallelotope is to parallelepiped.
Nothing's gonna stop that snap-back that causes the brain to slosh around like jelly.

I've yet to be shown evidence that rugby players are suffering the same kinds of injuries NFL players are. Seems to be the same case with bare-knuckle or UFC fighting vs boxing.
> But DOSBox is for DOS games, and to my knowledge, most weren't played on displays that looked like this.

DOS games most certainly were played on CRT monitors, it wasn't until, IIRC, 2000 that LCDs really became mainstream for desktop use.

> since almost all of the images shown are for games I actually played on a DOS computer using a SVGA display when young.

Being an SVGA display isn't relevant -- there were plenty of CRTs running that resolution and beyond. Perhaps you're thinking of something else when you say "displays that looked like this"? Otherwise I'm not really sure how to interpret your comment, because if you were playing DOS games at the time of their release, you were almost assuredly playing on a CRT -- unless you're talking about a 90s era laptop; those were LCD.
XQuartz and Emacs is open source, not MacOS.

But these bugs are in macOS. An unprivileged program should not be able to crash the display server.

reinstall Mac OS fresh, erasing the drive. 99% you hacked your OS badly.

No, I recently did a fresh install (along with the usual NVRAM, PRAM reset, etc.)
If every company does it then it's not just about cell phone or whatever, is it? In particular, you would have no employment.
> What are you basing your claim off of, I've seen some pretty impressive use of C++ and one team that is starting to burn simple strategies into FPGA's.

What does low latency buy you in crypto trading? What sort of strategies are people running that requires low latency?
> You aren't going to get the activity of football to go away even if it is risky and bad idea for ones health.

It will never go away completely but it is already shrinking:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-footbal...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-kids-tackle-footba...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/sports/football/tackle-fo...

The younger you get the larger the loss in popularity. Contrast that against "soccer" (football) which has gained in popularity over the same period:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-paul-neil/soccer-is-her...

And basketball has also been surging in popularity:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/12/nba-surpassed-...
It's not because of env. It's just that shebangs are limited to passing one optional argument to the executable specified. The way they're parsed is the executable path, and if there's a space, then the rest of the line (including any additional spaces) is interpreted as 1 argument to the executable.

EDIT: -e causes bash to exit on the first command that returns with an error (returns with a non-zero return code). It's documented in `man bash` where it documents the `set` builtin command.
> Given that the US military has killed nearly 4,000 people with drone strikes in Pakistan over the past decade, a country in which no formal military conflict exists

Pakistan is a country with which no formal military conflict with the US exists, but it is not one in which no formal military conflict involving the US exists.

The 2001 AUMF is a (ludicrously open ended) conditional exercise of Congress' Constitutional power to declare war, and the parties targeted in Pakistan are parts of groups to which the executive branch has determined that the conditions in that act apply.
My company was using Darcs at the time when git (mid-2008) was gaining popularity. Github wasn't around yet. At the time, git felt like a big step backwards technologically. It had a terrible UI, and the whole thing felt like something put together with tape and paperclips. Meanwhile, Darcs was (and still is) pure magic.

At the time, the choice of git wasn't that obvious. There were several popular, quite attractive contenders, including Mercurial, Monotone, Bazaar and GNU arch (and its forks), and it wasn't obvious who would win. But then Github arrived and changed everything, and it felt like everyone was suddenly caught up in a historic momentum whether they liked it or not.

We've had lots of those historic moments, some of them more slow-moving than others. Mac and NeXT being outmaneouvered by Windows; Lisp, Dylan and Smalltalk being relegated to the dustbin through the rise of more popular, worse languages; and so on. Not all of these developments are terrible (I love that Nginx prevailed over Apache and that Rails took over from Java app servers), but it's ridiculous how often the paperclip solutions win over the more thoughtful ones.
I (think I) 100% understand the snark, but that’s usually where I’m looking. Not in the aforementioned situation though. So good call?

On a side note— with Toronto salaries we can’t afford a dog anyway outside of getting to come home midday to walk it. Walker fees run close to $500 a month. I’m in love with the rescue Korean Jindos though. They’re like goofier huskies. I just can’t help but look.
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That's a fair and true catch, but I can cover myself by pointing out that the article was only talking about matrices in R^(m x n). ;)
Taste, you say? The Princeton Companion is your friend:
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10592.html
:) i'm fine with your nitpicking!
I read Spinoza in high school - a decade+ back- the accuracy of timing is so porous.
@ University i opted for Social Anthropology instead of Philosophy. I still have some remorse about that choice today...
There are several sports than can be dangerous and involve risk of death, like basically all forms of racing, climbing, endurance, etc. As long as practitioners are educated and consenting, I don't see a problem.

The problem is if the those responsible for the athletes are not upfront on the risks, or if the athlete is not able to make a proper judgement to consent, like a child.
Perl 5 runs well after... twenty five years?
I've read a lot about Douglas Adams and it's my opinion that these pieces of his books are aimed exactly at what the article is about.
>no one is paying millions in broadcasting rights to that people can watch me ride a motorcycle

I feel like you must be aware of the professional racing scene and have just momentarily forgotten? It's a massive industry and it's driven the majority of advancements in street-bike technology.
So killing ISIS members is morally equivalent to beating children?
I think the good thing about the crypto currency trading world is that everyone have more or less the same access as everyone else on the current exchanges (at least on GDAX).
It would be great with more exchanges to fill the gap between the exchanges that wants to be 'traditional' (GDAX) and the ones who cannot be trusted (Maybe Bitfinex?)
Regardless of your opinion on military projects, I hope we can agree that voting with your feet is a good thing.
Old people cannot learn new shit. That's why they hate new frameworks and languages.
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I'm a web developer. In my 20's I used to love picking things up just for the of it. These days I'm more of a fan of JIT learning. Push the edges of my map as I go. I'm still constantly learning, but it's more iterative. Building on conquered territory and shifting the borders as needed (always outward, but the focus on which parts of the border to push changes.) Previously I was more like a crazed monkey and never holding any ground. I still feel the importance of occasionally sneaking outside my borders and going deep into enemy territory, but those are constrained efforts. Invade, gather booty, sift for intelligence value and then decide if it's worth a more serious invasion.

Maybe figure out an actual destination and then devise a plan to get there. Deep diving into math and physics just for the sake of learning etc seems to be cargo-culting. Lawyers also sound smart until you realize they write like they do intentionally to keep people from figuring them out.

> I follow a bunch of folks on the internet and idolize them for their multifaceted personalities - be it math, programming/problem solving, physics, music etc. And these people had a natural flair for math/physics which was nurtured by their environment which made them participate in IOI/ACPC etc.

Sounds like they are good story-tellers along with whatever else they do. Have you tried putting anything out for others to consume? If you want to be like these people, then it would be good to start with writing / shipping things. If you have been doing that already, then post some links. ;)
If you didn't need a license to exercise a constitutional right this shady shit wouldn't exist.
I think that future is already here. I'm seeing a lot of development of desktop Matrix clients, which to some extent has to be driven by desktop Riot being an Electron app.
Why do you think it could be substantively different between Uber and Lyft? It seems incredibly unlikely to me. I see basically no cultural difference between these platforms.
Leaving and making a "splash," on a company as well known as reported on as Google has quite a bit of risk involved, I would think.
Also fantastic for asynchronous linting, if you're into that.
> Why wouldn't you install Bash then, if you want to run shell scripts on those platforms?

Busybox is a thing. Many embedded devices don't have the luxury of installing Bash–you're stuck with what you've got.
For anyone remotely interested in the sense and nonsense of modern art amd and architecture I strongly recommend Wolfe's "The Painted Word" and "From our House to Bauhaus". Both extremely funny and sharp.
Not really, it's perfectly reasonable to fear overreactions from the public. They could even have the best number in the industry, but if the others don't publish and it sounds big, people will freak out.
If rewarded accordingly I agree. But the fact he could get a HUGE payout if certain milestones are met and has the nerve to not only ask for volunteers but now for programmers to fix his issues for free is ridiculous.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/elon-musk-could-earn-55-bill...
Judge also had a better frame of reference, mind.
The vast majority of CRT monitors have a curved glass screen. Flat monitors were still pretty common, but they came at a premium.
There are recordings of the lectures on YouTube. I'm not sure if they're complete or not, but there's a good bit there. I just wish Feynman had presented his Lectures on Computation similarly. The book is great, though usually hard to find.
[OT] Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16945325
Sry, I forgot to respond in time.
But, I asked them if they'd sell me a set of their Al-core PCB's (about 120$ iirc for 5 boards of VTC) with 1900K VTC, but the told me they wouldn't. As I could not see 1900K listed in the shop, I assume they are not in-stock and we'd have to reach MOQ for custom phosphor mixture run. As they do advertise spectrum-matched plant lighting, I think that is still regular business for them. If you feel like a Kickstarter or so would be worth it, please try to contact me, I'd like to help.
^ this!

Bash is the best stitching together language you'll get. Sure it sucks at scripting.. So stitch a script in there for God's sake!
That's the same hand. Unless I'm misunderstanding, pcwalton said that solving the hard theoretical problem doesn't even rate on his list.
The updated link is https://upserve.com/platform/restaurant-pos/

(The old link does not redirect, and we got an email asking us to update it.)
I had quite a bit of those popular "privacy extensions" in the test bench: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, Stealth mode and none of them were blocking things as I'd have expected.

Thank you for proposing uMatrix it just pass the cookie test none of the above succeed, I might have found my new internet condom.
Because it's not actually evil. Source: my personal experience. :)
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The original article is mainly about US and Canada, where it's much less typical, and -- in my opinion, at least -- a huge turn off.

I imagine different cultures are different, and things that are unattractive in America are attractive elsewhere, and vice versa.
When you've taken $20B in funding that's a false dichotomy.
Containers and microservices and serverless, oh my
Not only does the company that developed the models retain all ownership, they attach a kind of viral ownership to anything developed using them:

"if you develop an Improvement based on or utilizing the Content, and you ...agree that you will not assert any claim, including any claim of infringement, against Biocore for our use of any Improvement"
I love that book! Was actually compulsory reading during my art history studies.
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I have paid for season tickets to college football for the past 18 years. Recently I've been reading more and more about this problem and I feel guilty for contributing to injury of players, willful participants or not. I'm considering not renewing and not watching, and I think we'll see the end of football (as we know it anyway) in our time.

However I do find the strategy and team aspect of the game compelling. I wonder if it's possible to take the violence out and retain the tactical/athletic aspects that make it interesting to watch.