skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree in the sense that this will end up putting an overemphasis on contemporary work, and not enough on classic works. Think about how often cirriculum never gets to the end of, when such seminal and formative works such as Plato and Aristotle are fit into the last weeks you will inevietably gloss over them. We already make Gods out of our contemporary world view at the expense of downplaying the brilliance of past thinkers. I dont think we need to fan this flame. We will end up with an aesthetic that is so devoid of the basics that it barely comprehends itself, and if ever hits a dry spell will never be able to recreate its former greatness
>forgetting which show is on which

On my Android TV device (Mi Box $60 at WalMart) if I search a show it aggregates results from all my apps so it doesn't even matter which app it's on I just click from the results and it opens what I want.

Disclaimer: Not affiliated with anything I just mentioned just a happy customer.
It's probably not that direct. Having an 'influencer' post about your product is simply another possible ad view. I don't know what a targeted ad cost on IG, but giving someone a free night in a hotel room to have them post about it to their followers may be more effective and cost less.
Patents expire after 26 years. Like sane copyright laws should.
I've done this when I've had heavily interlinked structures. I had a 3D physics engine with elaborate data structures for all the polyhedra objects. Vertices link to edges, edges link to faces, faces link to edges and vertices, and the collision detection system follows those links to compute the closest points on two nearby objects efficiently.

All those data items were structures in arrays, part of the "Polyhedron" object. All interconnections between them were array indices. The Polyhedron object owned everything for that polyhedron. Delete that and all the parts went away.
It's the NY Times, so this inherent bias makes sense. Flagged, as this shouldn't even be here.
Elephant in the room being that peppa pig is not a copyright free content...

There is no risk at all to put your kid in front of a peppa pig list of episodes on Netflix or another legal video plateform.

But YouTube can’t efficiently curate or filter content like peppa pig because it’s not legal and the only appropriate action following law would be removal.

And that’s their main problem they actually needs illegal kids cartoon to be posted because it’s what people that put kid in front of YouTube are seeking. And Alphabet have paying customers that ask to place their ads in front of kids...
I think there needs to be some new word for this ill. Advertising is only necessary because of the breakdown of social trust that comes with fungible living in this individualized, modern world of ours. I think this nebulous ill of "advertising" extends far beyond ad tech, ad agencies, and media and right into the structure of society and the human condition itself.
The first hop going into your house will be your router. It's where your trust should begin.

If you can trust it, then you may be able to take reasonable steps to secure the devices in your house.

However, most routers aren't trustworthy, and run very outdated software, with known holes.

If you can trust your router, then things like running your lights on a separate subnet or separate private network will help you secure them.
I have to disagree, not because you're wrong, but because I am jaded. I think it will be solved by better algorithms and machine learning after it gets worse for a very long time. If there is a temporary replacement of algorithms with human curation the scale of the economic incentive to replace those workers is vast. An institution like Google or Amazon cannot look at a huge, low-skill workforce and not actively wonder how to replace them. I lived this personally as I was briefly an adwords editor. I was one of a huge cadre of BA's employed to enforce complex and messy rules about text ads. Simultaneously, embedded engineers watched us so they could better craft algorithmic replacements. Eventually they did.

That experience was a non-zero factor in my transition into a technical career. Big companies will automate anything they can and being on the automation side rather than the automated seems like the better idea.
I disagree whole heartedly. This will end up putting an overemphasis on contemporary work, and not enough on classic works. Think about how often cirriculum never gets to the end of, when such seminal and formative composers such as Bach are fit into the last weeks you will inevietably gloss over them. We already make Gods out of our contemporary world view at the expense of downplaying the brilliance of past thinkers. I dont think we need to fan this flame. We will end up with an aesthetic that is so devoid of the basics that it barely comprehends itself, and if ever hits a dry spell will never be able to recreate its former greatness. The net effect will be to gradually turn our backs on the collective insights of the greats of the past
If you live near enough to a tech hub, you have to assume you're going to be code screened and whiteboarded. Companies around here (Seattle) use it as a cost cutting measure so they don't have to spend time and money manually interviewing every single candidate. It's significantly cheaper to enforce a competition-style coding challenge and pick off the top 5-10% performers (example figure) of the challenge for the actual interview.
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If you are a trusted senior employee then of course you can abuse your trust.. but why would you?

Seems unlikely you'd get fired for asking what to do... And if you don't want to ask just find something and expand responsibilities..
At the tail end of the text based game era I tried to work with a couple different groups building large maps and better story lines.

It bothered me profoundly that the memory usage in the games was proportional to the details of the map instead of the number of players. One guy had built an entire world in the Thad Williams' Memory Sorrow and Thorn universe. It had a great text processing engine but it was built on a fatal use-after-free flaw that was beyond me to fix at the time, and the head of the project understood it less than I did.

Eventually he folded and worked on my second favorite one, which I built a text-deduplication library to decrease their memory footprint by half (there was pushback on expanding the map due to resource constraints). I'm not sure they ever used it. By the time I removed an obvious footgun they'd already said no.

Later I later took a computer graphics class, and when one of the assigments was based on fractal landscapes. I still believe that the right way to run a big world with a small team is to use a generated world as the base, and then have your team carve a civilization into it. The computer makes the river valley, the designers put a town in it. The computer generates a cave, the designers fill it with monsters. The backdrop is cheap as can be from a human and compute resources standpoint, and it's easy to have a big space even before you have enough stories to fit into it. The fourth bit of code I wrote in what became my primary language for years was a fractal map generator, trying to get coastlines and ridgelines that looked organic, but by then I had a real job and had begun to worry about the Skinner Effect in multiplayer games.
GitLab already has an automated migrator you can use.
Is this story true? The part about mid-life crisis VP sounds too good to be true.
Generating procedural textures in 3D graphics, such as marble. Generating random texture things like topology heighmaps for maps in games.

Those are the only two times I have bumped into this kind of noise but I'm sure there are a few more uses.
It says SA in the first sentence, and mentions it several other times, even addressing "SA friends".
> The ship was filled with [..] telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives and management consultants. [1]

Hmm, close enough.

[1] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Sh...
This is such a downer on holidays, when you want to rest at luxury place, but some young people ruin it for you with their obnoxious behavior. I hope there will be hotels that ban such Instagram addicts from premises.
Many sites in the US have now blocked the EU because of GDPR. For example: https://www.latimes.com

Edit: corrected URL
Generally speaking I agree, but there is still some legit cases where pre sales is needed.
I.e. when you are a hybrid service/product company and good part of your value proposition is product customisation/integration.
I say this as someone who is not a parent, but it amazes me the things parents let their kids do. I cringe when I see my siblings give their kids their $600 phones to play with when they're still in the age where "throw something on the floor and make an adult pick it up" is the most fun game you can play.

But that's just a piece of property... just putting on YouTube and letting kids explore the Internet has potential to be far worse. I know the fucked up things I saw on the Internet as a kid, and I know it hasn't gotten any better since then. YouTube is not a safe space and it blows my mind that otherwise responsible adults treat it as such.

Again I'm not a parent so maybe I can't understand it through that lens, but from an outsider's view it's awful. There's just so many hours of misery on YouTube that even adults don't need to see.
Generating textures and geometry in games and art tools are the most common applications.

Some examples:

http://libnoise.sourceforge.net/examples/complexplanet/index...
- tons of unique content on Youtube

- every Blogger blog

- every website hosted on Google's cloud (quite a few) or using Google DNS

- lots of unique Android apps that arent available on iOS because the barrier to entry is higher

- emailing anyone with an @gmail address

- working at any company using GApps

etc.etc.
If the article can be taken at face value, then yeah, they're exactly company shares, and they will cause exactly the same issue that the Denver Post suffered.

The "good news", such as it is, is that that part of the article is bullshit. They won't grant you the holders a say in the paper's editorial processes. That control will instead reside with the person actually funding the paper, which will be...

...the billionaire Joseph Lubin. Meaning they've already got the same issue that the Denver Post suffered.
Tell HN: I miss the old internet
This is more of a rant I guess. HN provides a text box, that's close enough for me.

I was born in 1988, I'm officially 30. While technically I never got to see the birth of the internet, I remember it differently sometimes. More nostalgically. The summer that never ended. When I was in my adolescent years, I chatted with dozens of people a day. Some I never got to meet in person. Some I did. People from all over the world. Our gateway drugs to the internet were things like IRC, MSN, AOL. Never was a big ICQ person, but I guess that counts. Adium was always on. I don't quite remember how I met these fleeting, ephemeral, personal contacts. Mostly through web rings, PHPbb forums, personal reference. We talked so much, about everything. "how's your day". "what do you think about Bush", "hey I saw your del.icio.us link". Of course that faded, to make place for Twitter and Facebook. And at first, that was great. But it feels different now. So different, that I've removed myself from all social media. "social media". It's all influencers (a word my dictionary doesn't even recognize), bots, hate speech, bickering, identity politics, and what have you. What happened?

I miss those days sometimes. Maybe it's just rose colored glasses of my puberty years. But you know, nothing fundamentally changed about my lifestyle. The internet changed. I'm still self employed, child-free ... what do you call it these days: geek, nerd? you know the slightly overweight guy with a telescope that won't shut up about how great Babylon 5 was. Where do these people hang out these days? If they just want to have a nice chat, unrelated to work, about the stuff that interests them? Seems like a Silly Valley opportunity. But what do I know. I miss the old internet.

Maybe this should just be named "how to make friends in your 30s" instead. It's different world out there, but I miss talking to people I've never met. Learn about their lives, be part of it somehow. And they, part of mine in return. I guess there's no turning back from the bots.
In case anyone was getting their hopes up: food on ICE trains is about as bad as airline food. You've been warned.
> and parts of the British isles call it soccer I believe as well.

The UK has a lot of slang. Soccer is a slang term sometimes used in informal settings.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/8rnuyh/older_users_i...
> reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions

> good advice

That place is literally college confidential for CS students. It really doesn't help anyone when the people who are giving job advice haven't even left school yet.
They do SOME curation. I just need a flag that lets me filter out the 99.9% that isn't curated.

It's either that or I won't use Youtube (or rather, my kids won't). So it's definitely in their interest to curate.

They could whitelist a large number of content providers, and just rely on their judgement for this curated platform.
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Hulu is owned by Fox, Comcast, Warner and Disney.
I think the implication is that 90% of the unsolicited requests are obviously garbage and are immediately ignored. The remaining 10% may still be mostly worthless, but it at least takes some investigation to identify them as such.
Oh hey, I recognize this memory pattern; it's also used in capability-aware software sometimes to implement capabilities, as a "capability list" or "c-list": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-list_(computer_security)
Really? Because offhand this looks like one of the most brain-dead potential applications of a blockchain.

What problem do you think this is solving?
The method of filling spare bits with random values to guard against stale object access seems like it would probably work well in practice, but is there a way to make it 100% air-tight and guarantee that stale object access will always be prevented? Otherwise it seems like that could end up as the basis of a security vulnerability in a program that uses this pattern.
To elaborate a bit, the intention is to first stabilize the platform-dependent low-level intrinsics just as specified by each vendor, under the "arch" namespace in the standard library (e.g. `use std::arch::x86_64::whatever`, which is quite self-explanatorily nonportable). This will hit stable Rust as of the next release, on June 21. Future work will focus on building a more portable, more Rust-like, higher-level API on top of these intrinsics under the "simd" namespace in the standard library; you can see the current state of this work at https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/stdsimd/x86_64/stdsimd/s... .
Easy, because it's actually BigCo paying for someone to ask for that removal.
It's 331 dpi vs 660dpi (roughly).

At Laptop distance you'd have to have very good eyesight, I can't see the pixels on my 14"@2560x1440 unless I lean right in and that's ~210dpi.

So not really, it's just another "Our number is bigger" metric...
Create Natural Language Semantic Search for Arbitrary Objects with Deep Learning
On the internet nobody knows you're a beetle.
I agree with you :) It's not too easy to scope every project properly when there's lot of human billable hours involved.

But I imagine this isn't one of those situations!
The algorithm isn’t broken, the definition of a good encryption scheme is that it can’t be decrypted unless you have the key, in this case the algorithm is to substitute each letter with a lookup into a document. The non-public key is the name of the document not the document itself.

Ostensibly the author decrypted the the second document by doing a brute force search of the key space (that is the set of documents available at the time). This is functionally the same as aes - just a much smaller key space.
I wish you had picked an example less fraught with flamewar potential, as this one has the sugar industry and water fluoridation firmly attached.
The data is here: https://stats.nba.com/players/speed-distance/?sort=AVG_SPEED...

It's a fun read - you have there James, KD, Harden, AD - basically all the elite players excluding Curry. On top of that, you have factually very fast players s.a Wall, Russ and Lillard. I'll have to take James' view that this is one stupid meaningless stat.
Classic read.
I thought most people had read this already?
This is just a marketing piece for a management consultant.
I have a strange fetish for the study of old, and in particular, failed or flopped consoles - especially things like development and hardware structure.

The Sega Saturn, in particular, has been a fantastic and interesting area of study and development for me - I've toyed with developing a simple 2D homebrew platformer and learning the unique way the hardware is laid out has been a lot of fun.

Articles like this are becoming harder to find for me, and the more detail I see (like in this particular instance), the more content I am.
Psycology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinberg, from the early 1970s, lots of anecdotes.

Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy, long opening setion on MIT in the 1950s - 1980s, another section on the beginning of the computer games industry
mostly in California in the 1970s, other sections too.
> You’re assuming these votes are binding

My expectation is this will transfer wealth from blockchain zealots to journalists. It is telling, however, that the best defense I can rouse for this project is “the novel elements will probably fail”.
But this is not how historians think about history. This risks presentism. History should be understood in its own context, not by the events that came afterwards. Presenting history backwards makes it feel like prior events happened in the context of future events when historical actors had no understanding of those future events.

Instead history is best understood in the context available to the people at the time.
The pain point is multi faceted:

- the interview questions are invariably things that have already been solved and abstracted away.

- as an experienced programmer it's not your job to solve problems like that. The work you do is more complex and requires sleeping on it, doing research, trying stuff out, talking to people. THAT'S the stuff you're good at, and what you are hired for.

- as a result of doing that increasingly complex work you get out of touch with the simple problems, even worse you develop an instinctive internal block against doing it, you develop a 'spider-sense' for what NOT to waste your time on.

- this gets into my way when doing coding interviews.

- it also makes it harder for me to spend time practicing. I have a family, other stuff to do outside of work, do I need to spend many evenings to practice on things I will only need during coding interviews and will never need afterwards?

The process for hiring experienced engineers is completely broken.
Yes they still do. You can arrive in Paris North in a fancy Thalys or Eurostar, but will then have to somehow get to Paris Lyon or South using weird subway like trains which are often packed, dirty, smelly and confusingly inefficient unless you're used to them.

This is why I don't travel by train to the South of Europe. It's a waste of time, and an uncomfortable one at that.
Did Mexico’s Revelry in World Cup Win Over Germany Cause an Earthquake?
>Right, now you spend for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, Showtime, Stars, CBS, and soon Disney. Plus Crunchyroll if you like anime, plus a sports package for sports.

And why are you subscribed to every single streaming platform? Do you actually need to watch every single show you might possibly like?
$100-$150/hr is very reasonable, $200-250/hr if the client is well funded and personally likes you.
I don't know whether to up or down vote this. I respect it as art and it makes me ill.
Back in the early days of cracked flippies virtually nobody had a hard drive to be infected.
Do you have any evidence that editorial independence even exists in the face of a complete capital controlled environment?

Sinclair made a blunder and showed the world that there was no independence, at least in their company. It was even set on a local level. It sets a very plausible model for other large media/news companies.
There is also a jargon file from inside IBM around 1990[1], a very different culture. Many of the entries deal with company traditions and office politics instead of technical matters.

1. http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
>Makes me wonder if I’m getting all Tipper Gore in my old age

Remember that brands were so insidious in their marketing to children during saturday morning cartoons in the 70s that the FCC mandated a more clear separation between what was a cartoon and what was a commercial. Cartoons are fine, advertising is fine, but blurring that line went too far and parents had a hard time saying no once their kids were sold something they thought was a cartoon.

Different situation today, but same outcome. Parents have a hard time saying no to their kids, and then to justify their decision and make it seem okay, they shame you for not making the same choices they did, until eventually every kid is watching characters from My Little Pony kill each other and think it's a cartoon, and then the feds have to step in and regulate it.

My wife and I have been putting off having kids because the peer pressure and judgement we see from parents is just so damn ridiculous.
Or I develop part of the kernel for something I need for my day job, send it up stream to make my life easier the next time I to use it and someone accepts it for the same reason.

You then need someone to pay what is essentially an administrator to keep track of the changes.

The reason why a company would do that is because of the name recognition advantage they get from this. "Oh you need someone to tune your Linux performance for your super computer cluster, we have the guy who it's named after on staff."
Another popular SQLite + Raft project is rqlite ( https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite ), but the goals seem slightly different (rqlite only uses distribution for fault-tolerance, not for sharding).
Has nothing to do with 'the USA', and price discrimination/negotiation is not 'arbitrary' - or at least any more arbitrary than negotiating a price at a flea market.
My cousin and I used to do this manually all the time via IM when we were younger. We watched whole shows together that way. Also we used the IM for live commentary.

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omg, he did not just do that!
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whaaaaat?!
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pause, brb
back, where are you?
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okay, ready.
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omg, i can't believe that just happened. next ep?
yea. hold on..
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Good times.
That time is coming back. We are all on IRC. Come chat!
Specifically with history, contemporary topics being skipped over is not only common but an incredible disservice to humanity. Many schools spend months on Columbus but only 1-2 weeks on the entire post Cold War era. Which one is more important for future voters to understand?
I think you vastly underestimate "influencers". Just replace that term with advertisers, because that's exactly what it is. Everyone is looking for the new advertising paradigm? You're looking at it. People are ACTIVELY following these people, and enjoying it.
How big, you ask? This big: https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html