skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As might happen if you decide to stop paying the fee on your land to the government? Well, sans the killing. You'll just have your family split up, be imprisoned, and forced to live in dehumanizing conditions for years, while your property is taken and sold off for 'revenue.' It's much more civil...

For what it's worth I'm playing devil's advocate here, as usual, but I don't think this particular issue is so easy to defend. Something I was surprised to learn is that in the US, the police didn't even exist until 1838. Prior to that there were volunteer community watch and other such programs. I think the proper balance is probably one we've gone long past that's somewhere in between community efforts and heavily centralized paramilitary law enforcement.
Isn't "generic MBA" vs "founder" a false dichotomy?

If you want a company that really pivoted, Nokia is a better example[1], yet many of those changes only happened long after its founders were dead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nokia
> The problem with GMOs is that you can skip to dangerous islands of viability that would be impossible with standard breeding.

I don't think that's true. GMO only provides an average of 5% more production in the developed world, and that's what I've read from the studies cited on the Monsanto website, so presumably the studies which put them on the best light possible. It's a clear increase of revenue and production but it's not a game changer revolution either.
If you have ffmpeg, youtube-dl will let you mix and match any audio and video stream you choose, giving you a lot of options that hooktube simply doesn't. For instance you can combine a very small low quality video stream with a high quality audio stream, if you know you're mostly just going to be listening to the video.
> bending or altering their path of travel probably says something about the photon or the environment being travelled through, more than it does about space and time

But the environment they travel through is space and time.
Yeah, having those Dutch street names pronounced in English is so confusing and funny! It would be perfect if you could use your phone in English, but use your local language for navigation. Still haven't found a way to achieve this on my Android phone though :(
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In your laptop

Download latest list of urls from https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi...

tail -n+149778267 urls.txt | parallel -I@ -j4 -k sh -c "echo @;curl -m10 --compressed -L -so - @ | awk -O -v IGNORECASE=1 -v RS='</title' 'RT{gsub(/.*<title[^>]*>/,\"\"); {print;exit;} }'; echo @;" >> titles.txt;
Blockchain will help minimize costs for financial institutions
> This has an unfortunate knock-on effect of making every decision take way too long and severely limits the autonomy of everyone in the chain of command, in often ridiculous ways.

Not necessarily:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics
You are also discounting serendipitous advances that can happen due to the techniques and technology developed to find the Higgs boson.

Here is one example: using the mathematical algorithms designed for the detectors for ATLAS and using it to recover the recordings stored on old wax cylinders. [1]

[1] "LHC physicists preserve Native American voices" [ https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/june-2015/lhc-physi... ]
Gotcha! How many developer hours went into building your bot on Hubot? Was there any development friction considering every script dev needs to know/learn coffeescript?
Can somebody explain with layman terms how this works?
Or you get mercenaries anyway, that are looking to profit from something else than the salary (ie, corruption).
Why not? They're following the fashion of minimalism, first in their hardware and software styling and now in their offices. They're making their workplace look like they aspire their software to be, even if its to the detriment to the users.
In this particular instance (I know the guys who ran that tennis betting syndicate), they had a tennis model that, if you told it who was about to score a point, would tell you roughly what the prices in the market should move to. If you can get that "about to score" info before the rest of the market, you slam in as many bets as possible based on the reasonable chance that the market will move in the correct direction and end up getting 1.4 for something that should be 1.35. Do that all day on every tennis match you can and that's a lot of profit. You don't need spectacular statistical ability, you need minimum latency and execution skill.
Should this not work with the two “parties” being the incumbent party vs any number of opposition parties?
> "At least that's my understanding of Taleb's argument against GMOs."

I'm interested in reading more about this perspective. Is this in one of his books? Or does he have articles about this somewhere?
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)
Biological systems are logical too. The genome is the program that is hardwired into them. They also run on mathematics involved in chemical reactions. Even the simplest organism like the single-celled amoeba has more complicated and highly optimized algorithms programmed into its genome for survival than the most complex system (like the LHC) ever built by humans. An amoeba behaves the way it behaves because the laws of physics imbued in the mathematics of its chemical reactions caused it to overwrite its own gene code in such a way so as to optimize the mathematical probability of its own survival. Mathematics is merely an abstraction of our mind to understand the reality of our world. The programs that we create solve problems in our world, but are constrained by the same kind of variables that constrain biological systems, but both biological and software systems could be interpreted in terms of mathematics.

No real world biological or physical system is 'simple'. Every program starts simple, but even that is up to interpretation. A one liner program in any language is extremely complicated once you factor in the OS, the compiler and the interpreter that will actually run this program. Once the program intakes more complicated functionalities, and also multiple programmers, it becomes anything but simple. Simplicity is good to organize our thoughts and design systems, but it a whole different matter to expect that the designed system will also stay simple. Hence just like any other system in nature, software also has to evolve, and there shouldn't be anything wrong with that. A mathematical proof is not a panacea for the problems in software development. The purpose of software changes, its constraints change, and proofs will have to be rewritten everytime. You don't expect the underlying laws of mathematics to change, that is why once proved, a theorem stays proved. But in software it is expected that the system's underlying purpose will change with time. So proving the current state is what we can do, which is not of much consequence as time goes by.
The newly released Edge 520 Plus builds a bit on that, as it comes with maps for your region pre-loaded (region as in e.g. Europe, or US). This allows it to do point-to-point routing on the fly, as well as rerouting if you miss a turn. I bought it a few weeks ago and am super happy with it.
Why do you skip so many lines of the file?
This algorithm is effectively like 2 people dividing N cookies using the cut/choose method. Each side will both cut and choose N/2 times. If N isn’t tiny then worst case it’s odd (e.g 17 for PA).
Go look at the betfair.com exchange (if you are able). They handle several thousand bets/sec at high load. Plenty of high frequency traders there employing the same tricks as the city boys.
Minecraft is similar to that, when you die you lose everything, but you can regain your items back in the span of 5 minutes.
You respawn in the last place you slept, and the adrenaline rush is to try to get back there on the death place as fast as possible without getting killed again.
It gets even "funnier" when the respawn point is reset to the world initial spawn. 90% of times, that effectively means your loot is gone forever
A well-behaved crawler will be self-limiting in this regard in that they seek to avoid requesting URLs from the same domain too often, and then the better you are at spreading requests over as many domains at possible, the less you'll be affected by such traps.

You can do a lot of other things too, but the above already takes most of the sting out of such traps unless you use a huge number of domains.
What is or isn’t a valid division is external to this algorithm.
I heard many times about tcl or tcl/tk. Never paid attention until today. I really liked the language but looks like kind of dead to me. Last tclkit version is 8 years old. I tried to compile a tcl/tk application to an executable file and most of the websites explaining the process pointed to broken links (other docs, executables, etc).

Is tcl/tk still alive?
No mention of NetSurf? It’s a much simpler codebase that should be easy to port.
Nor does Messenger.
I don't think that you're exaggerating, but writing a browser is also a lot of very hard work. And writing a browser is only writing a single application; implementing a LLVM backend, however, is supporting thousands of potential applications. Wouldn't it make much sense to raise funds towards this goal?

Also, browser is one of the main attack surfaces in modern web, and writing your own browser instead of sticking with a huge project that benifits from researchers all around the globe just doesn't sound right. Especially since OS/2 has a lot of legacy use in corporations that can be targetted for an attack.
The dream of driverless cars is dying
It usually is not, most MBAs have any creativity or original thought beaten out of them at business school.
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What happens if you replace the glibc malloc used in implementations of higher level languages like python/ruby/js? Aren’t these languages big on allocating small objects very often?
Always use HTTPS?
> If I just want speed and don’t care about safety at all, I’d be using assembly, right?

Not really. C is a reasonable choice of language for high-performance code. There may be instances where your hand-written assembly can outperform compiled C, but it's far from guaranteed, and of course even if you did have such a guarantee, it might not be worth the productivity impact.

Even performance-critical codebases like the Unreal Engine don't use much assembly, as far as I know.

> Speed is definitely an important part of the story but it’s by no means the only part.

Agree.

> Something like FORTRAN maybe? No pointers, as I understand it, hence no aliasing problems.

Indeed, but my understanding is that the performance wins there aren't exactly night-and-day. C is pretty close to as fast as it gets.

> Right, what I’m getting at is, the compiler is also free not to add a check, and most compilers do not in fact add a check, because they care more about speed.

I was unclear - I meant the compiler is permitted to add a check and then use a special optimised path in the case that the pointers do not alias.

It’s quite legal to pass aliasing pointers. When compiling a function which has two pointer-to-int parameters, the compiler is not permitted to assume that they do not alias, unless you use the 'restrict' keyword (which is rarely seen as it's so risky).

> aliased pointers of different types can lead to undefined behavior

Correct (with the special exceptions of void* and char*). Because you shouldn't be doing that.
Unfortunately, authoritarianism and the desire for thought control is never tied to one political ideology. It will always seem like an option to those in control.

Obviously the latter statement is true, everything will seem like an option, but the sentiment you're getting at here doesn't seem to be true.

The US Congress could have repealed the first amendment at any point since it was introduced. They never have. And the US, for all its problems, has significantly freer speech than most of the world. America is also a notoriously conservative sort of place.

Places with alternative political ideologies very rapidly encounter authoritarianism and thought control. See: China.
This is shady as hell.
IBM fucks up the Census project, and are now given the next one to mess up?

I guess somebody in the government got a good paid Vacation to fuck over their tax money.
Interesting though that they seem to be using the demonstration only for initial states and not for action choices. It's like using an example of solving a maze just to get a bunch of places to start exploring from, but not to actually try and copy someone's "turn right at every corner" strategy. The use of domain knowledge is actually pretty limited in that sense..
Klarna Inc. is a subsidiary. The parent company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
> get that in your head

Manners.

Otherwise, interesting points, thanks. I wonder if we'll see the rise of another minimal low-level language anything like C. To put that another way: I wonder if Zig will take off .(I know of no other such projects. I don't know much about Rust but I believe it's a more 'feature-rich' language.)

Zig seems like a neat idea for a language - there's plenty to improve on in C without introducing a full 'managed' framework, like its insane implicit type conversions.

I still don't know what you mean by "years of investment in optimization research". We have high-performance cross-platform code now. Yes, that took decades.
Designing the Information Architecture (IA) of Mobile Apps
250000000 / (3600 * 40) / 20 = 86

86 pages per machine is not very performant at all, just very simple parallelism will do.
>I live in Australia and the heat of the sun on the phone + google maps using CPU will literally shut off the phone as it reaches 50C+

Get a better maps app, there's an abundance of them. Google Maps for mobile is just a resource hog with a shitty UI.
This system doesn’t work at all if people believe pensions are being cut.
Will GDPR cookie complaints become a way of inflicting harm on competitors?
why do they call it Principal?
Habitat loss is probably the leading cause of decline and extinction right now. I'd wager habitat loss due to agriculture is killing more than glyphosate runoff by a significant margin. Whether the degree to which habitat loss is averted with space-efficient GMOs is sufficient to offset glyphosate runoff, I cannot say. I suspect the most ethical option is to stop consuming food grown in particularly threatened environments, particularly imported tropical fruits, whether or not they're organic.

Regardless, it seems clear to me the matter of organic vs non-organic is not as clear cut as the organic industry and their prolific passionate proponents would have us believe.
Put differently, why would anyone in their right mind use OS/2 to browse the web, given that it misses more than two decades in development of security techniques. As far as I understand Mensys and now Arca Noae never had the source code to the OS/2 kernel or foundational libraries. Given that this code was written in the late eighties-half nineties in a largely pre-internet world:

- It's likely that many of the libraries are full of buffer overflows, double frees, dangling pointers, etc.

- OS/2 is not a multi-user system, there is no boundary between a user and a root-like account.

- OS/2 does not have modern mitigation techniques like (K)ASLR, probably no PIE/PIC, stack canaries, etc.

- OS/2 (AFAIR) does not offer sandboxing facilities, such as seccomp, capsicum, or pledge.

- OS/2 has no protection against recent CPU vulnerabilities.

So, if you are using OS/2 to browse the web, you are purely relying on security through obscurity.
> 'Well son, there is a little man inside the box...'

You could even sell it to the Amish :)
eComStation and ArcaOS are commercial software, shouldn't their developers be the ones paying for the effort to keep their clients' software cheaper to maintain on their legacy platforms than rewriting it to something better-supported?
What sucks is that bias and racism is also baked into many “objective” criteria.

Take test scores - just having the right parents will push your sores up on average.

Having better performance regular ties into wealth and upbringing. No surprise then that the dominant economic group will hold an advantage is such tests.

The damned intertwined nature of all these issues is what makes it hard to set up an actual objective measure. Which then brings us back to subjective decision making.
Is this so shocking? The US government messes with everyone everywhere in the world.

That said, I don't condone fascist governments ( yes, our governments, west and east, are going in fascist mode ). We need a new wave of activism by the people.
1 bit per byte would require an awful lot of memory access to find a free block. You would need something like a hierarchy of bitmaps to cut down on scanning.
If you find this interesting, I'd highly recommend watching the Cosmos series on Netflix. Once you get past the first few minutes of cringeworthy effects, it gets deep very quickly and presents the evolution of our species, planet and universe in very accessible terms.
The affected developers should “cease and desist” by stopping further development and releasing the code as open-source.

WhatsApp/Facebook will then have to send C&Ds to hundreds of potentially anonymous contributors if they want any chance of taking the open-sourced app down.
It works fine. jemalloc is the system malloc on FreeBSD.
Naive Bayes for NLP talk
I think there's two separate concepts, and it can be worthwhile to separate them out, namely ironman (or permadeath), versus roguelikes which encourage more frequent, "short"(-er) games.

E.g. you might play a game like XCOM or Europa Universalis on ironman, and that is what will give the situations you encounter the seriousness / gravitas that they deserve, and it can be thrilling.

On the other hand, a game like Everspace actually pulls of the "fun of dying" quite nicely. Games are relatively short, especially early on, and unlike most roguelikes your character's skills and weapon choices do survive deaths to some degree. So much of the time, you're dying with a smile on your face, because you know you've just achieved an important milestone, and you can't wait to try again with whatever you just unlocked. I thought it was an interesting hybrid take on the roguelike genre.
This. I've frequently been surprised by how useless the audio navigation is without being able to check the screen for clarity.

There just needs to be a "no visuals" setting where you get given much more audio information.

The worst experience I've had was riding in Slavic countries with just headphones in and realising after a few miles that GMaps couldn't pronounce the road names and so was just leaving a silence.

I'd get "Turn left on to ''". I thought the roads were numbered and I was constantly turning onto highway 2.
most recruited rowers do one of the cash cow masters courses.
FWIW, youtube-dl can download from a ton of sites...

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
OT but why does postbank.de have over a million pages? Is there much|anything worth crawling there?
But that has never been the only goal of most of these institutions.

What you are talking about makes sense for something like the IIT in India - and take a look at the huge number of students who run from that environment to a liberal arts education in the US.

To shed more light on your position - by extension we can ask why someone has to study electives and waste so much time on it.

Merit is measured on the subjects that are part of their degree.

The US college education is faced with a definitional crisis - they are tooled for a different era, when a college education wasn’t something every citizen was expected to get.
I feel like everyone here is misinterpreting what the author meant. The site doesn't publish your messages without consent. In fact, from their FAQ:

> When uploading a thread as an individual, we email a permission request to each non-anonymized person who contributed at least one message to conversation. A thread will only go live if there is unanimous consent. This means that if even one person hits 'Decline' or doesn't respond to the permission request, the thread will remain private.
> For example a bot API. I never understood why they didn't implement one.

I think bot API exists but is only available to selected merchants. I get an automated ping on whatsapp from BookMyShow after booking a ticket with the ticket details.
I ride motorcycles in cross-Europe trips for fun but prefer the GPS. My GPS will look for small twisty mountain roads with lots of elevation changes and lots of corners. Roads that are only on highly detailed local maps, and I don't want to carry 30 maps on a month long road trip. Road signage is simply not a thing on these roads as they are only used by locals. I can disable highways, B-roads, toll, ferries and on my roadbikes I will disable gravel sections. It will tell me how many kilometers till the next gas-stations along the trip and warn me about speed traps. Not that I speed on purpose, but sometimes you are a couple of kms above the limit.

Especially on sections where I have to change direction every 300 to 500 meters I don't want to deal with reading a map. Voice navigation in my headset and an occasional quick glance at the screen is much safer than fiddling with a paper map.
I suspect the correlation runs the other way. Farmers willing to go through the efforts of producing higher quality produce are more likely to also go through the steps to get that produce certified organic. Not because it improves the quality per se, but because it lets them charge more.
> the whole military is built around authoritarianism and slavish obedience

This is a huge misconception people have about the military. In fact the core philosophy of command in western militaries is one of enabling people to make their own independent decisions. The military wants nothing less than non-thinking obedient slaves because they know that’s how wars are lost.
jews are overrepresented by around that factor. why is not one suggesting for this jewish "problem"?
The duty of England and the American crisis (1861)
Looking through source code. Find that, there is no typescript support for it. I am planning to fork it, and provide type support.
Have you considered the possibility that some people are able to afford a vacation only because they are thrifty? Your comments are very close to "let them eat cake" levels of detachment (and yes, I know that quote is apocryphal).
It's still used in applications that just work and boringly continue to do so. Like the SQLite test suite or MacPorts or Expect. Eurocontrol also uses it for air traffic control.

https://wiki.tcl.tk/37389
Reminds me of XBMC - Xbox Media Centre - (since renamed to Kodi) which runs on much more than Xbox (if it even runs on Xbox any more at all...)
SAT training leads to modest gains of around 20-30 points on average. Also I don't see how racial background is a unique quality.
I've never thought of the equivalence principle like this. I knew gravitational fields have their own mass-energy and can cause a runaway effect (black holes), but I never realized this could mean more inertia too. Neat!

I'm curious about what this means as the event horizon is crossed.
Dark matter has yet to be defined as anything other than an observed effect on the behavior of matter. Something (and indeed a thing, if anything, ergo matter) we think is probably there.

Being a theoretical hypothesis, formed to explain observations, it remains a side-effect of accounting and inference, and has not been located directly.

Show me why you believe it is a thing. Show me where you have found it. Tell me why it isn't actually matter.
Good Idea. Please feel free to fork it. And, let me know, if you need any support from my side