skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the official press release:

Tokyo, May 21, 2018 --- MUFG and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (“Akamai”) are
pleased to announce the development of a new blockchain service, to realize the
world’s most scalable and fastest payment processing platform with a capacity to
process a million transactions per second and the ability to finalize transactions in less
than 2 seconds. By combining MUFG’s payments business expertise with advanced
blockchain technology implemented on Akamai’s global cloud delivery platform, they
aim to offer a new global payment network1 service from fiscal year 2019 compatible
with IoT and other new technologies.

https://www.mufg.jp/english/vcms_lf/news/pressrelease-201805...

The new service enables higher transaction speed and processing
capacity by adopting the following system structure:

(1) Achieving high-speed communication between nodes by positioning all nodes
responsible for consensus decision-making on the Akamai Intelligent Platform.

(2) Developing a unique design permitting high-speed and high-capacity creation
and verification of new blocks within nodes.
Recreating the Mindhunter intro with a Reel-to-Reel tape recorder
Yes, it is amusing that this objection to the vgo proposal are only now coming forward when it was proposed 2018-03-20, 2 months ago, and the design document a month before then.
Playing the devil’s advocate here: Depending on whether you think that 3rd party tracking cookies are a feature that should be opt-out or a bug that should be opt-in, it‘s just as plausible to classify this move as a fair defense against Apple, who unilaterally decided to both not allow any other browser on „their“ ecosystem (in case you don‘t know, iOS Chrome is basically just another skin on a decelerated version of Safari because that‘s all they allow) – and then generally blocking all third-party cookies in order to sabotage their competitors.

Apple‘s behaviour here is clearly the protectionism of an ecosystem monopolist that’s just as misguided, thinly disguised as privacy feature.

Some prior art was when Microsoft made the Do-Not-Track header opt-out instead of opt-in in order to get a consumer edge. The ad industry as a whole decided to ignore the flag just for IE, but there wasn‘t ever a legal case on that disregard of intended behavior IIRC.

I‘m not sure though who‘s more evil here and if this kind of circumvention was fair game or went too far.
Adobe to Acquire Magento for $1.68B
> I send the link to this. :-D

And what kind of reaction are you getting? As I just wrote elsewhere, I don't think this is useful for complete Prolog beginners to learn the language or even get a feel for it. Has anyone you sent this to come back with "that's neat, I read the first N chapters and have just written my first Prolog program on my own"?
Sure, but I wasn't making a unicorn pitch. My point is that IntelliJ's relatively deep code insight nudges things in that direction right now, to an extent that makes coding in traditional editors (emacs being my favourite of these) feel a little primitive. In emacs, to change a function signature, I operate on lines of text, often across multiple files. In IntelliJ, I work on the level of the function signature, and only incidentally interact with it as 'text'.

This is partial and patchy at best, but IMO a move in the right direction (towards affording higher levels of cognitive chunking when coding). Some languages have elements of this kind of thing working with traditional editors (eg Go Doctor for golang), and I'd ultimately prefer this less monolithic approach, but it's not really there yet.
This is likely the reason they are shutting down an existing Website platform of theirs, Business Catalyst. [1]

While it was a dated system (purchased in 2009) it came as quite a surprise that it was reaching the end of its life.

I think it will be very interesting where Adobe takes this

[1]: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2470031
Because, in practice, a lot of people commenting don't actually read the article.

Someone else made a habit of doing this a few months ago, with an almost word-for-word excuse as yours. They were asked to quit doing it. At best, based on empirical evidence, you'll just invite a flurry of downvotes.
I was referring to companies like Zerodium.
In Germany, history of the Chaos Computer Club.
So, "sexism" is meaningless as a catch-all accusation. It's a throught stopper.

Viewing others as sexual objects, for example, is fine when looking for a sexual encounter (whether you're a man or a woman or non-binary or whatever). Not every relation has to be "meaningful" or a long-term commitment. This is something young people revolted to earn in the 50s and 60s, and apparently our neo-puritan 80s and onwards breathen forgot.

On the other hand, viewing others as sexual objects, is not fine on e.g. a job interview -- but that's another case altogether.

People of different sexes having different preferences is also a statistical reality (statistical meaning it's not some property that holds for absolutely every member of a respective set). We can say they shouldn't, but we can't finger point and accuse a girl because she reads Cosmopolitan, or to a boy because he reads some bodybuilding website. Their tastes might be cliche, but they are what they are. And nobody can objectively measure what's a legitimate preference and what's not, except by having some non-verified prior that men and women should absolutely have the same tastes in aggregate, and if they're not, that's some social distortion right there.
> Does that merit financial compensation?

to me, this seems like the wrong question.

in a broad sense, it makes more sense to ask how harsh the penalty should be. generally, for actions like this, the penalty is expressed as a monetary forfeiture.

whatever the penalty is, the relinquished funds have to go somewhere, and those who can demonstrate being harmed seems like a sensible destination.
And magento isn't dated? It'd probably make more sense if they bought someone like shopify
In terms of arrogance and sanctimoniousness, yes.

Ask the Vietnamese, Tibetans, Koreans, Uighurs and Burmese about Chinese "isolationism".

Britain: I now control you. [My boats can reach you.]

China: You are now me. [You were on my border, now you're inside my border.]

The trappings of colonialism are remarkably similar.
I would suggest prepare for the interview.
It could be internal interview on presale of your company. Or they could fire you and you will have to find a new job.
> printing things to the console is the poor man debugger.

You may want to try working with network before making this statement, when
you cannot step through a function because of timeouts. Or maybe even looking
at tracing debuggers, like strace, ltrace, or Erlang's gdb, which all do
little more than "printing things to the console".

Logging (and logging-like tools) is a very important way of debugging services,
you know.
Shrug, I have. (Used to work in an agency where it got chosen over other similar options for its integrations with various things). Plenty of devs dislike working with "boring" industries like e-commerce and plenty more like to hate on anything remotely related to PHP, but that doesn't mean there aren't people actively making a living with those tools exclusively.
Actually, I think we are both right.

http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Web...
Absolutely! I'm not said it isn't impressive, and it will have great research value. I'm just wondering what might be achievable with different assumptions. Instead of 1 6.5 meter telescope, how about 20 1 meter telescopes?
I can't decide if this is snark or not. The decisions you make to optimize your processes are irrelevant to me as a consumer. Yes, you have to make calls on compromises but if you don't make the right ones, that's on you.
That’s not fair to say. These apps may very well have done one or two things wrong in their code that required Apple to step in. I have a million such mistakes in my code but no one uses them enough to warrant a checkfix.

Also these apps are huge and push the platform forward more than other apps so the likelihood of this relying on undocumented behavior is much much higher and Apple is some sense shares responsibility for those bugs. So the face that they make these checkfixes makes sense.
I apologize. Great work though

(For anyone interested, there was also compile time Tetris https://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-super-te... and although my mind never fully recovered from the descent into template metaprogramming, I have been able to find some measure of peace in the world of JS :)
Agreed, except for the DPO bit. The law is clearly geared towards larger entities. No regulator that is of a sound mind will insist on a sole proprietor no employee company going to multiple employee status and to hire a DPO that will take home more than the owner of the company.

I agree that the law is quite explicit that such conflicts of interest are to be avoided. But there is a lot of precedent for this situation with respect to compliance officers. A very small company that is audited for compliance with some standard will be looked at with a different level of strictness when it comes to separation of duties. This is simply a fact of life, when a company is small some conflicts of interest and some overlap between roles is unavoidable.

Given that this situation is a common one and given that regulators are not going to put a substantial chunk of Europe's SME's out of business (because that is not in their interest) I expect this to be dealt with in a reasonable way.

Something similar happened with VAT regulation: The EU decided to go after service companies selling into the EU and 'shopping' for the best VAT deal causing loss of income for the various governments (VAT is not harmonized in the EU). Initially this was a huge burden for small companies because they had to - on paper - file VAT in every EU country where they had customers and they could be audited by all of those entities. That was unworkable for small companies. So they came up with VAT-MOSS and it works very well (I've used it for a year or two).
Do you mean West facing? If you had a large East facing exposure then it would give you that pulse of blue light in the morning. I've got a big East facing exposure and don't have any issue with blue light screens. Watch TV every night before bed. No problems.
Thanks for your opinion. Do note that nowhere in my comment did I endorse manipulation by shading the truth. Nor did I suggest all manipulation is OK. My parent was making a statement without qualifiers, and I was highlighting the dangers of such statements.

>The fact of manipulation is, itself, morally neutral.

I don't disagree. The person I was responding to, however, seems to.
A program would need the appropriate level of access (which isn't actually that high a bar), but at the end of the day the fact of the matter remains: other processes can potentially access private keys that would otherwise remain password protected.
I have almost 15 years on the OP and aren't even half as talented. It looks like they've received almost $60k from Google across five bug bounties, very impressive.
yes. i like the tallis scholars as well. i’ve even seen them in concert a few times.
CNET Founder Backs $50M ICO for Video Streaming
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What's yours?
yep. for the briefest moment i thought this was oracle's OPA being open-sourced.
The statement could have been made more neutral by stating that it was a preference:

> I prefer programming in Lisp, but the packages available for Python makes me a lot more productive. That alone is enough for me to choose Python. I still miss Lisp though.

Language wars are started because people talk about their preferences as an absolute truth (and other people disagree with the presented absolute truth), and you don’t avoid them by starting with “I don’t want to start a language war” while continuing talking in the same way.

If you look at the other replies you see what typically happens: someone mentioned that Lisp does also have libraries, someone mentioned that there are other reasons to choose Python, someone mentioned that the article has a different focus (teaching, not writing). Instead of a comment thread where people talk about their experiences we have a thread where people point back at the OP and loudly complain “no, but see, you are wrong, because of x”. We even have a case where the OP is getting annoyed because someone assumed he didn’t know about Norvig. Seriously, this is exactly what happens when you write in such a style.

This comment alone will make someone annoyed because there are plenty of people who have used both Lisp and Python and (guess what?) prefers Python:

> Still, switching from Lisp to Python is bound to be painful...
Are you sure that's accurate?
According to this [1] it's about 10 000 USD per capita.

[1] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/uruguay/annual-househo...
If his point is that "_every_ new product or feature, no matter how minor or how incremental, is treated as the second coming" then he's picked a bad example in Google Duplex in that it does seem noteable - the HN coverage was the second highest voted and most commented story this month (1875 points, 750 comments). It's not that booking hairdresser is a big deal - it's not. It's that it seems kind of half way between Siri and passing the Turing test which is a big deal.
The "unlimited" plan came back so you're not limited to one a week.
The same trick was used in the soundtrack of the new Doom game: http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/30/doom-game-pentagrams-sound...
> We (the USA) literally engineered a coup in neighboring Ukraine in 2014

This is literally Russian propaganda.
The most recent episode of the Techdirt podcast discusses how the project started and gives some ideas about how they’ve approched it and how it works.
Погост was an administrative division in Novgorod Rus.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Погост
Wow, surprised I get to see this on the front page of Hacker News. Gnostic sects are quite interesting. I've seen a good handful jaded ex-religious people who turned to Gnostic beliefs because of their dissatisfaction with modern religion, since they believe that Gnosticism is more "philosophical".

The Gnostics were hated during their times by the Neoplatonists for their over-emphasis on theurgy (religious rituals focused on awakening), and they were rejected by mainstream Christians after the first Ecumenical Council for being heretics (Gnostics believe that matter is intrinsically evil; orthodox Nicene Christians, in contrast, believe that matter is a "lesser good").

It seems that, from this article, Mandaeism also has some dualistic tendencies (believing that the world is a prison for the soul; and that the world was created by a god of Darkness). It's also quite radical to me that they consider Jesus, Abraham, and Moses to be false prophets, and that the Holy Spirit is an evil creature.

If you are interested in Gnosticism, you may be even more interested in simply reading the Neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus and Proclus; or you might be interested in the early Christian theurgical writings of Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor. I think that these traditions are more internally consistent than Gnosticism.
Russ and the core team ignored the dependency management issue for years, and only responded to the community-led `dep` initiative after a year and a half. The `vgo` proposal was something like a hundred pages of dense technical details, and Sam has a full-time job. I think the sense of urgency you're implying is both artificial and unfair. It's been years already; we can wait another month or two for the details to shake out.
Ukrainian nukes were not theirs to begin with. NATO was as interested in keeping the nuclear club to a minimum as well as Russia.
I learned logic programming before learning Prolog.

We got our introduction to it via the Tarkis' World book (90's edition).

https://ggweb.gradegrinder.net/tarskisworld
Before you get a response about personal responsibility and all that, everyone should have the psychological side of marketing and advertising firmly in mind. People are not in complete control of their responses to advertisements.
The British Empire invaded 9 out of 10 modern countries. No other empire has done this.

Now, if what's inside your empire is equivalent to what's outside your empire, what's the motivation to expand?

Many empires start from the belief that they're superior to others, even if only philosophically, as a justification to expand.
If you look at Zerodium's FAQ, they explicitly say that they don't buy one-off vulnerabilities like this. Have you found a firm that does?
As I understand it, generator turbines are synchronized in a region and therefore one can exchange info by modulating the frequency (on the opposite side, on a small scale, there is probably a product on the consumer side: network-over-a-power-plug).

https://preview.entsoe.eu/news/2018/03/06/press-release-cont...

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/power-network.htm
I am replying to your arguments, I think you don't realize how evil a law like GDPR is. Many small projects will get killed while privacy abusers will just find a way to avoid the law. You still have to point to one example where this law will make someone's life better.
Are you equally worried that you might die tomorrow because a meteorite crashes into your house?

No, but then again there is no law that says that a meteorite must crash into my house if I use third party JavaScript on my site, and the only thing up for debate might be the size of that meteorite. I am afraid of things when it is put in writing that I should be afraid of them.
I usually do both. I like having unit tests that test individual function that describe functionality. But I also like to have tests that ensure everything works as intended ones you throw everything together.
NYC housing court, created to protect tenants, has become a tool for landlords
XXXX == what types of things?

I’m curious why there was no auth required for his calls.
It’s really just a matter of time, right? Makes me wonder what will happen when a private company starts inhabiting another planet, such as spacex and Mars. Will it be labeled a colony of the United States? How soon until it will need defense of its own?

And how long until that colony doesn’t feel so attached to the United States anymore? What does an interplanetary revolutionary war look like? Two space forces having it out, what a sight that will be.
Finland is building up their military and installing landmines in their remote border regions in an effort to deter Russia.
I imagine minimal problems even if it was a false flag. These surveillance systems are too attractive for governments to willingly give up, no matter how flawed the justification for their creation is.
There definitely is a tension between functionality and privacy. The problem is that companies that could offer certain functionality without invading people's privacy have made a habit of grabbing what they can. The number of apps on mobile phones for instance that require access to your location and your contacts is staggering. Slowly people are wising up to the impact this has, I think for many people retargeted ads was their first 'aha' moment.

Convenience and privacy will always be at odds. If the largest excesses are taken care of then this will already have been worth it.
A section on dynamic programming w.r.t. to modern AI techniques would complement it nicely considering the resurgence of the field :D
Not parody, MARKETING!
I don't see Russia as a threat to the entire Sweden. I do, however, consider Russia a threat to some key locations like Gotland. But as far as threats go, I consider Russia to be Sweden's greatest threat, even if that threat is rather small.
That link just shows a proposed third party IRQ config system for DOS, but wasn't actually shipped in Windows (in addition to the NT networking config).
Intel discloses new variant on Spectre, Meltdown security flaws
So Adobe wants to take on Shopify. Interesting. I wonder if that can work? What is Shopify's long term competitive advantage here?

BTW how much was it acquired for?
I use zabbix a lot with PG database and there are 2 tables that grow indefinitely. The zabbix housekeeper lags a bit when the tables become +200GB. I tried the autopartitioning and the housekeeper becomes irrelevant. I can now easily keep 1 year of data for my +200k monitored items. I like my critical alerts to keep 3 months at 60 seconds interval. Pg partitioning is really awesome
Well, it's real software, open source, used by millions, and it's making its developers some money.

That's good enough in my book.

And way better than some BS startup that gets billions for "uber for cats" and "self-erasing dick-pics for teens".
I like working with modern PHP, but Magento really is a beast of a codebase. I've worked places where it was chosen as the best available (open source) option, but nobody liked working with it...
Bad programmers don't like C++ because it often makes them feel stupid. Good programmers like C++ because it sometimes makes them feel stupid.
Check out r/combatfootage.

They do have strict rules on what gets posted, but gore is not forbidden. (Some videos may be ISIS sourced, but beheadings are not included, as that is not a combat situation)

What do you think happens to a body when gernade-sized explosions from each round of an Apache gunship volley land all around it?

The public needs to see what war looks like, but not from the perspective of a BBC documentary.
TL/DR: A counter argument to Pinker argument in favour of progress. Very self loathing and politically correct. Yet another example that everyone agrees more or less about what problems exist and vary drastically in the extent to which they should be considered emergencies that must be solved at any cost.
A 20 year expat (speak, before the Ethiopia hype( told me this joke:

How to shoot an Ethiopian? Aim 1 meter above his hear. You have to hit his ego!

Yes, they are a special kind of people and they take proud in it. If they ever throw me out of my current home, Ethiopia may be, besides Colombia, my second destination. It is happening there!
> Your assertion that trade always implies that both parties are better off is just wrong

I have never made such an assertion, I've only said that in this specific instance free trade would have made both parties come out better off (which is indisputable -- both students would then be in their preferred school!), and that the judge's rationalization for forbidding students to swap their lottery results can be extrapolated as an anti-free trade argument.

We can discuss whether free trade always leads to better outcomes if you want, but that is not the point I am making in this thread. But in this instance it clearly does.

On the other hand you never explain WHY you think what I'm saying is wrong. You mentioned local optima, but the exchange pushes the end result towards the global optimum! What does exchange have to be "aware of all the interested parties involved"? If it is consensual and mutually beneficial to the parties involved, why do other parties even matter?

You said my premise doesn't hold, but you never explained why do you think so. I can't accept that just because you say so.

Explain to me what is wrong in this reasoning:

1) We got each other's preferred school;
2) We swap schools;
3) Now two students are happier than they were before; the rest remains the same as they were.
4) Repeat this process for more pairs of students and each time two people will emerge happier than they were before the exchange.

How does that not lead to a better global outcome?
Sounds to me like you're almost there. The lack of certification is a real problem and you're not the only person remarking on that. I suspect that 'the usual suspects' will offer certification soon but it will most likely be priced out of the ballpark for small companies, let alone individuals operating a blog.

There may be an alternative though, working on that :)