skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, I'm in university, but during one of my internships, a lot of the older developers always seemed to use awk/sed in really powerful ways. At the same time, I noticed a lot of the younger developers hardly used it.

I'm not sure if it's a generational thing, but I thought that was interesting.

Anyways, are there any good resources to learn awk/sed effectively?
I wonder how regulators would look at this practise. It would depend on whether taking away formatting and any image / video content counts as degrading. For some people this is desirable, but for others it may not be.

My interpretation is that they would be free to give the text-only version to EU residents unilaterally, but not to make formatting tied to tracking consent, as tracking is not functionally necessary for formatting.

As an extreme example, I don't think Youtube could have "yes, track me and let me watch the video" and "no, read text transcript of video" as options and claim equivalency.
Seems like maybe the lack of random nudges during the day was the biggest missing piece here? Maybe the founder could have hired someone for minimum wage to just manually send these notifications on a schedule and send the recommendations. Scale with more cheap labour as necessary until you finally have the fancy ml automated solution
Whoops, how'd I miss that :/
I've read it, but my concern with this approach is it actually slows bitcoin down substantally. Bitcoin already can't scale, and moving transactions off-chain to Lightning doesn't really address this concern. What's more, the slower the basis blockchain gets, the more prone Lightning networks are to malicious actors.
> I had thought an audience of developers would "get it," since we deal with fallout from ill-conceived integrations every day, although admittedly in a far less spectacular form than control system engineers.

You do a disservice to the audience by assuming it would be understanding of grossly negligent behavior.

Failures happen, that is to be expected. If you're building self-driving vehicles, you're supposed to be engineering for those failures. Disabling two life safety systems (Volvo's AEB and Uber's own AEB) and relying on a single inattentive human driver? I don't understand how that's understandable or justifiable in any scenario besides a carefully controlled test track.
It helps kids sleep.
Vast majority of cars on the road and majority of new cars sold in US has no emergency braking assist. Who should we sentence every time somebody dies because of lack of EBA?
No, it didn't.

It had functions, not procedure.
You can emulate (most of) procedure using function that return void.

See also https://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-11-server-side-proce...
Ask HN: What is your successful product, and how you launched it?
This is why Google's pushing HTTPS Everywhere so hard, just like net neutrality: It eliminates Google's competition in collecting and monetizing data about your viewing.

Google will claim that they make these moves because they care about your privacy, security, and freedom, but malicious tracking scripts they don't do anything about, because that would close off their own profit scheme.
No, it's not. It cannot be and this is extremely harmful and short sighted.

Safari does not have a monopoly on either Desktop or Mobile. Safari while behind does not implement its own broken standards and force them upon everyone. It doesn't allow for semantically broken HTML and simply "fixes it."

I'm not trying to be ageist here, but I often find this rhetoric from people who are too young to have actually worked with IE 4-6.
Do you notice that it randomly fades out and then fades back in every few hours? I don't understand why it does that.
Check your phone 86 times a day? Tech insiders say that's by design
Failed water lines can ruin your house. Failure of a compressed air vessel of sufficient size could turn your house into shrapnel flying fast enough to endanger your neighbors.
People use a VPN for much more than browsing porn. Jsut because Pornhub is behind it doesn't mean it's limited to that.

And I care less about a Pornhub knowing what I watch - if anything ;) - than the Government, ISP, or anyone in a position of power. With browser/cookie fingerprinting PH probably already can id people reasonably accurately, VPN or not, if they wanted to.
(g)awk was also fun to fuzz, recently:

https://blog.steve.fi/if_line_noise_is_a_program__all_fuzzer...

Though sadly still unfixed:

https://bugs.debian.org/816277
What do I need a car for? I've already got a horse.
Well true, in aggregate. But we may have used up to three different notes :)
Key detail; not as much as they would if you subscribed to cable.
Places I have worked in the past preferred to say "meat in the seat"
New Twitter Tool to Mark Real Candidates in US Midterm Poll
1. That's a process question. It's quite possible to rotate stakeholders, audit stakeholders, and challenge stakeholders.

2. If a network can hold back some currency, but actually scale to meet global transactional demand, it'll be better in this regard anyways.
Privacy policies were already mandatory in the previous eu privacy directive over which the GDPR directly extends.

[1]https://termsfeed.com/blog/gdpr-privacy-policy/#Have_a_Priva...

[2] https://termsfeed.com/blog/privacy-policy-mandatory-law/#In_...
> yes. if you want that, you can only buy from a company that does it. if enough people agree, they'll all do it or fail. i don't abide by the 'its such a good idea, everyone must be forced to do it' mentality

We don't live in a world with a healthy enough market or enough competition for that to work.
Just yesterday I was talking to my friend regarding this. The key idea is, humans are really good at driving the price down to bare material cost via agressive production line automation. For e.g. without all the automation including subpart a single phone with all the technology would easily cost upwards of billion. So comparing ANY technology regarding their future prospects, we can easily deduct that which ever can be made fully automatically in production line will thrive in the end. ( Compare solar cell with all other renewable technology. Sooner or later energy produced by solar cell will bypass all other combined by tenfold or more.)
And if you don't want to implement the option monad yourself, there's the bs-abstract library, which contains a bunch of category theory definitions and implementations. I have gotten a lot of mileage out of it even in the small amount of ReasonML I have written. That plus ppx_let offers a pretty good monadic programming experience.
He's been overestimating deliverables for way longer than 2 years
I find that super exciting, is there an open repo we can check out?
Gimlet Media has a fun podcast following a year-long mock space mission. It explores the topic of relationships in a confined space, too: https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-habitat
It's possible. The lawsuit is settled and Waymo actually owns like 1% of Uber. In the past, Google also invested on Uber.
I don’t get why it had to go to the cloud and back.
You might even sell ICO financing for a lottery system to help randomize the in-currency return.
> you can, or will soon be able to, create an app with html+css+js and run it on Windows without downloading a full engine.

Actually this functionality has existed on windows for about 15 years or more.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536496(v=vs.85).a...

HTAs, or HTML applications, almost forgotten, have been available as far back as xp and possibly windows 98. They still work in windows 10, though they only support html4 and very limited JavaScript, and obviously aren't cross platform like electron.

Microsoft saw the potential in html for building apps way back in the late 90s. You used to be able to use html as a wallpaper back in windows 98, something I dearly miss.

It's also worth pointing out that uwp / windows store apps can be built in html/js, which are very small to distribute and use a global rendering engine
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html provides a detailed technical overview of how VPNFilter functions and their findings conclude it appears to be a derivative of similar efforts by the same group.

NCCIC released the following analysis last year with more on the topic:
https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/AR-...

Sophos published an article a month ago that warned about this exact scenario: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/04/18/russias-grizzly-...
The secrecy is subpar--this was in The Washington Post a couple of days ago.
I was joking with my coworker some weeks ago about how awk is condemned to be forever used as a cut replacement.
Stored functions, not procedures. The difference is explained here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/xproc.html Basically, procedures do not return values, and can have nested transactions. (Today, functions are used to accomplish much of what seems more appropriate for a procedure.)
And yet most Perl code was never hard to read and understand, except for stuff like OOP, but OOP is hard in any language. In fact push for OOP is probably one of the notable things that contributed to Perl's decline.
> most of

Curious, what are those procedures which can't be emulated as functions. Maybe you have a chance to describe some example?
Unclear why this is being downvoted. Modern cars have all sorts of computer driving systems, e.g. ABS. If you learned to drive without it, you still think to pump even though the computer does a better job if you just slam on the brakes.

The point is that so far most (all?) of these computer systems don't have a failure mode where it kills pedestrians, because their scope is very limited.
Gasoline and diesel won't leave you permanently blind on a spoonful. Methanol is significantly more poisonous. It also burns with a colorless flame, which has been a problem in auto racing, where it is sometimes used.
No. I definitely don't mean that. The vast majority of producers (myself included, and most likely you as well) create value for society. I know that I don't disingenuously accumulate wealth or exploit anyone. But I am a producer. This is the case for most people. There's only a small minority of very wealthy people who exploit the labor of others. And as I mentioned in my prior comment, the appropriate solution is to fix the law to prevent the exploitation, not to take from all of the producers to pay for those exploited. And that is also assuming that exploitation is the only reason someone would find themselves poor. And it is definitely not the only reason.
Yes! The subreddit for my large city is also pretty useful, by-and-large. It's things like that which are good about reddit, but could perhaps be improved upon - subreddits for cities, personalfinance, legaladvice, realestate, immigration - these serious topics could be even better by getting rid of the riff-raff.
Do you have to link your phone number to Alexa?
I prefer to think of this as a feature, not a bug, because it incentivizes vested parties to keep PoW-mining power parity with each other. Successful execution of a 51% attack shows that there's not sufficient volume and diversity of vested parties, and the dominant party is adversarial and can't be trusted to refrain from manipulating the chain.
No need to thank GDPR, text-only NPR.org has been a thing for a while. It's been in my bookmarks for at least six months (and likely existed before that).

Or I suppose you could thank GDPR for pointing you to it in the first place. :-)
The mechanics of manipulating price are just too easy not to do it. The wash trading is clearly so bad on many exchanges that I bet there are agreements with the miners to recuperate losses to trading fees. It is in all parties interest to prop the price up this way so why wouldn't they do it. So many sketchy things get ignored because they prop the price up.

The USDT situation will get interesting eventually. Somebody made a spreadsheet of non-fiat volume of cryptocurrencies.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pIrTYpJZrGbeI9QTIWGw...

Basically the fate of many shitcoins are tied together. My thought is that when USDT finally gets revealed as totally fraudulent the whole crypto house of cards crashes.
You'd need to use this in a PoS style trusted set award. The internet couldn't scale to an arbitrarily sized fully connected, chatty network anyways.
The fact that people still support tether after getting fired by their auditor and then releasing the statement you quoted astounds me.

It is the most clear cut indicator that there is some super sketchy shit going on ever.

People seem to be willing to believe whatever they want despise clear signs they are wrong. Especially when there is the possibility of getting lambo-rich with Bitcoin....
All I know about Warren Buffet's investing is that he takes a lot of time to come up with a sane, realistic valuation of a company. It seems to have worked for him.
Pretty sure you are arguing that NFLX is way overvalued. If so, I agree. The point about gross margin is what many have missed here.
I understand that now, but when I was 14 in 1996 it seemed like I was reading about some forbidden secret magic. Now it just feels like a different career path. I'm sure a good part of that change is me getting older, and knowing more. Though I think that the rising level of professionalism in computer security has robbed it of it's mystique. I think this is a good thing overall, but nostalgia and what not.
Possible? Yes. On a Pi? .. Maybe? Probably not with current power I'd guess. Allot goes into the voice training and equivalent operations. There are a few OSS alternatives to build something similar; I don't think anything has a similar power yet though.
Somebody wanted it to be.
Why are you talking with their legal team, and what would they say that would lead you to believe they were exploring this service? Honestly wondering, I'm not doubting you.
Hmm the AI model which is widely considered a undebugable black box glitches on a percentage of users. What else could happen next?
There is a massive difference between walking a few steps to turn on a light switch (which is only useful when you are in close proximity) vs having a accurate real-time mapping functionality when on the go.

Similarly, there is a massive difference in the privacy implications of listening to every conversation everyone in your home (including guests) is having vs. having your current location known. Wiretapping laws exist for a reason.
>You misunderstood. The Uber software had sole control of the brakes (plus the human of course). The Volvo factory system was disabled so that it didn’t have negative interaction with the Uber system.

That's not how I read it, or how any of the journalists who are reporting the story are reading it. Uber disabled the self driving software's ability to do an emergency stop when it detected it was going to crash. The Volvo system is separate and also was disabled when the car was in self driving mode.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/uber-self...

>Sensors on an Uber SUV being tested in Tempe detected the woman, who was crossing a street at night outside a crosswalk, eventually concluding “an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision,” the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Thursday.

>But the system couldn’t activate the brakes, the NTSB said.

That's the only reading that makes sense to me, otherwise why did the car fail to attempt to stop when it detected the pedestrian and knew it was going to hit them?
Yep, this ! I stopped using StumbleUpon right after they decided to ditch the toolbar. The whole use case for StumbleUpon was to not visit a specific site but rather discover new ones. I used to absolutely love reading comments about the suggested pages as much as I liked the suggestions themselves. I also liked the tagging and searching through tags ..it was a bookmarking, social, reviewing, recommendation toolbar ...and then they went ahead and killed it trying to replicate arsebook or whatever.
Except it’s patently clear that is a flawed concept. Here’s a prime example where a human, not paying attention because the car has been successfully driving for a while, is given 1-2 seconds to emergency stop the car. That is not enough time to process what’s going on and take over. Even 10 seconds is likely not enough.
I am not sure if I would have been able to avoid such a situation myself. That's the only thing that keeps me from excoriating Uber...
A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone
"Far preferable" enough that you'd settle for under minimum wage and a variable paycheque? If so, you are exactly the reason companies like Deliveroo exist. They appeal to the whole "but you'll be so free cruising around on your bike delivering food at your own pace!" mentality.
Same. It's a real shame they are shutting it down. To be fair, I haven't used it in a long time.

I'm now wondering how do I rescue my data from StumbleUpon, I don't see any way to download it. I looked through the settings and my profile page. I even tried this new mix.com website and it didn't transfer any of my data from StumbleUpon. Anyone know whether I can export my data somehow?
You can get voice control without Alexa.
So can you wear a cross necklace or a yamaka? Or use a Jesus fish bumper sticker?
Lol, I used it this week after 5 years. Articles were pretty old and outdated, but the UI hasn't lost its touch, just no real/meaningful community
That pocket computer can be programed to listen, or not.

The whole point of these cylinders is to be listening at all times.
The Egg (2009)
Yes, that's true, although slightly pedantic. I'm sure there are procedural cases that PG functions can't emulate, although I don't think I've ever encountered one in practice.

Having said that, the addition of transaction support is a great step forward.
Since Alexa wasn't originally available in my country, I setup a whole separate account for "Alexa LastName" in the US with alexa@mydomain.com as the email address.

Now that Alexa is available in my country, I've considered switching it over to a real account explicitly to be able to use some of these calling and messaging features. Maybe I'll wait till the bugs are worked out.
100% this. Seems like there should at the very least be a product feature that automatically disables any outbound messaging by default (similarly to how you can block purchases without a PIN). This doesn't solve the problem of always listening, but at least prevents this particular situation from inadvertently happening. Additionally you should be able to set an automatic deletion of voice recording after a specified amount of time. I'm sure some of this has to be in the pipeline with GDPR.
> the person was not allowed to cross there.

Have you seen the intersection in question?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYrspoFVwAAtJCs.jpg

I think the pedestrian is very low on the list of who to blame, with the intersection designers and Uber engineers high above her.
Well, you can (it's called `shouldUpdate` in ReasonML) but it doesn't work. You have to make it a reducerComponent, manually keep track of the previous props as if they were mutable state, and then do the comparison explicitly. This is from a conversation I had just a few days ago on the offical Discord chat.
AWS Athena is pretty good at tackling this problem, or PrestoDB running on EMR.

As long as your S3 data is reasonably partitioned, and you don't have millions of small files, it does a reasonable job -even on count(distinct)

It even support approx_distinct for hyperloglog estimation too
Must be a translation/proof-reading error. A camera 1m above people's heads would be perfect for capturing faces.
small can be defined in terms of hash power
https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program

There's no incentive to move when FEMA can provide tax-subsidized "insurance".
You are comparing a view library (react) with a full framework (ember).
Ofc you are supposed to pull things together with react, that's exactly what's intended.

Compared to react, ember is: slow (1), more difficult to learn (2), has a much smaller community (3) and, most important aspect to me, has a huge footprint (4).
(I'm not against ember, it might have some nice aspects and features. It was really nice during the time when they released 1.0. But today I just think their are better options available)

1: https://auth0.com/blog/face-off-virtual-dom-vs-incremental-d...
2: https://guides.emberjs.com/release/
3: https://github.com/facebook/react vs https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js
4: https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d
3D Face Reconstruction with Position Map Regression Networks
Because the computational requirements of good speech rec exceed what you would build into a $100 device, and because doing it in the cloud makes training and improving it easier. The “wake word” is local, which is why it is constrained to a few choices.

I suspect we are only a few years away from being able to do a slightly inferior version using local processing, or a private cloud (already possible today when there is a market). I would probably opt for that, but use Alexa in rooms already already untrusted.
How did we do it before? I can't even imagine. /s
Now I understand why Uber started their advertising campaign. They know this will come out and show the world how irresponsible they are, and they wanted to get in front of that.
> I added 30 seconds of music to the end of my "please text or email me" message the voicemails have all stopped.

Everybody has different musical tastes and particularly about what one shares via a VM message, and I'm curious about what you selected. If you don't mind sharing, what segment did you cherry-pick?
> It's a little more than just that. Every light in my house is controlled with Alexa which is a very nice and hard to explain until you have tried it. Also my home theater system is all controllable via Alexa as well. This kind of thinking makes no sense to me.

There's no reason why your house needs to be "tapped" for either of those use cases. All those things could be accomplished without leaving your home network.
Alexa has voice messaging built in to the device/Alexa app. You receive a notification in the app and can ask your device to play it.
Blocks out other distracting sounds. Helps kids, animals and some people relax. Helps some people sleep.
Turning off all the light switches that have been left on in a big house though is a meaningful convenience. I think the privacy point is strong enough without having to trash people's use cases.
Heck it helps me sleep -- I'm a light sleeper. I started using the Noisli app every night this past year and my sleep quality improved in noticeable ways.

I also live in a city, so white noise (actually brown noise) masks out tiny noises that interrupt sleep.
Is that really a fair comparison?
Uber Self-Driving Car in Fatal Crash Wasn't Programmed to Brake
You're correct, "CREATE PROCEDURE" didn't exist until PG 11. But "CREATE FUNCTION" has existed for ages, and it covers most of the common cases for server-side logic.
The yearly price for now is $69.99 in the US. Site is back up.
This has bothered me for a long time. It looks like i'm seeing something other than what other people are seeing. So many of these documents just look awful. In this particular case it does not look good either:

http://i.imgur.com/e11d0aK.png

http://i.imgur.com/0Ysr7QQ.png

Look at the kerning on "Awk", it's not good. And look at the zoomed in version, the characters all have pixelisation and jaggies.

These were just viewed using Firefox's default pdf viewer. Is there a way to view them and see better a quality version of the document?
You're able to send voice messages to other people that have an Alexa. Basically like voicemail.
> I have been reflecting on ways to fix it lately.

Don't worry. They are pulling a Stumbleupon/Digg right now. Taking something that isn't broken and trying to fix it. The redesign is corporate suicide.
I never lived in the US...
Seems like a lot of trouble to go through in order to disrupt a soccer game.