skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never understood complaints like this. If you are proficient in the unix environment any sort of gymnastics can be handled via generation of some 'object' from plaintext and command generation on the fly.
find $PATH -name '.c' -exec grep -l socket {} \; | awk ' {printf "mv %s %s\n",$0,sprintf("%s.old",$0)}'
find $PATH -name '.c' -exec grep -l socket {} \; | awk ' BEGIN {n=0} {printf "{\"items\": \%s",sprintf("[\"%d\",\"%s\"]}\n",n++,$0)}'

If you aren't proficient or have an aesthetic or religious aversion to unix userland and traditional tools you'll play some other game I guess. Reinventing the wheel without understanding the model and power is a next-gen game. I don't have time for it.
What would be the killer application for this technique?

I don't see the advantages, because the thing is clunkier than a smartphone and handling it seems odd.

What I want is a smartphone the size of a credit-card, that can project a bigger screen on a flat surface (e.g. table or sheet of paper).
I don't know why I find microphotography so fascinating, but I do.
I was thinking of classic Mac OS, in all it's Platinum glory. Hyper-skeuomorphic interfaces were all iOS 6 and below.

At that time I think Calendar was still called iCal on OS X and rejoiced in a brushed-metal finish. I agree about the spacey time machine though - the animation used to judder like crazy on my anglepoise iMac.
Mitigating SSH Based Attacks – Top 15 Best SSH Security Practices
LOL. Thank you very much for this!

It takes satire to make us see how far we have come thinking the way we do.

Well done.
Yeah, Mattel was tough.
Right, let's blame consumers of housing instead of just allowing more housing to be built.
Batch Normalization from scratch
> Artists from what I recall make more money selling merchandise and doing concerts

True, because every ass and his dog pirates music, thus the income from selling music is severely diminished. The amount of time it takes to produce/compose/record etc. music is not exactly trivial, and if you have to tour constantly in order to be able to pay the bills, then finding time and energy to create some new music to perform whilst on tour becomes quite problematic. Your "most artists don't care" statement is a crock of shit! Perhaps large established artists may not care so much, but if you're talking about "most artists" then they do care that income from their craft is being denied to them.
Neural Net Digit Detector for FPGA
It’s worse than that: the phrasing is entirely deceptive and misleading. “Thank you for contacting Google”? But the remainder of the message is denying that you actually did contact Google. You tried, but you failed.
Such a useful idea as well, ads for the product you just bought and only need one of..
> and creates a huge increase in GDP

That evening, sure. In the long run, their productivity is likely diminished. You see a similar binge-and-reckoning cycle in macroéconomies, the difference being practically nobody is rewarded for higher GDP. Governments are rewarded for having larger tax bases.
> In this way, Venmo is getting users to remove the ambiguity in describing their transactions.

really? i'm pretty sure there are a predefined set of phrases that map directly to emojis. when they already recognize these phrases, replacing them with an emoji removes no ambiguity for venmo.
It doesn't contradict what I previously said. The ability of actors to act game-theoretically depends on the bounds of the rationality and the complexity of the scenario. A game of chicken is much simpler than a game of chess, which in turn is much simpler than capitalism.

The multipolar trap manifests itself in real life in lots of simple ways already. The original essay has some examples, but the tragedy of the commons is the quintessential example.

The multipolar trap as a totalizing behavior is not an impossible scenario, but just currently infeasible for most sufficiently complex scenarios given the bounded reality. Which means it becomes a cause for concern as the bounds on rationality increase (through computation, through organization, etc.). That's why we should be wary of decentralized systems in the long run.

What you said was "everyone" was always acting game-theoretically already and therefore that what we currently have is game-theoretically optimal, which is what I disagreed with.
Why is it that the lightest part of the Spring Gardens before cleaning happen to be the darkest parts after cleaning?
I used to have a Youtube channel where I posted videos of me playing the piano. I played mostly Mozart, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff compositions. I had around 40 videos in total. Sometime around 2014, I started getting DMCA takedown notices from various companies claiming copyright. I was getting one or two per week and I contested them and things were ruled into my favor. But then it started getting harder and harder to contest them and I even lost the ability to upload. It got so bad that one day several (3 or 4, don't remember anymore) notices were filed and Google didn't rule on them fast enough.

I had to close the channel because my account was locked for one full day and I couldn't do a thing. I had too many emails inside of Gmail and didn't want to lose them so I gave up. I'm still pissed about it and how Youtube and Google run things.

I always found it interesting that under YT rules content creators have the "3 strikes and you're banned" rule hanging over their heads but those who falsely claim copyright can do so with impunity. I still remember one company that ended up falsely claiming copyright over 10+ of my videos and they did so against one or two videos per week. Nothing was ever done about them.
Twelve Ways to Tell If a Team's Creative Process Is Broken
The FTC should monitor their quality of support, and throttle Google's bandwidth accordingly.
arrayToSort[sum] = 1;

This is just blatant programmer error. The code is attempting to assign a value to a slot in an array of a fixed size, which does not exist.

Use:

Integer[] arrayToSort = new Integer[2000000000];

No error.
I wonder why transflective displays are not more common for laptops. My hiking GPS has one and it's really great. The brighter the sun shines, the better you can read it.
Based on your response I'm guessing you are not being sarcastic in saying that GDP is the main measure of success.

GDP is just a measure for a particular system. I could think of several more direct measures than GDP without trying very hard, for instance quality of life, cost of living, and overall happiness.
Google's Store Sales Measurement
The Coca-Cola Company only owns 18% of Coca-Cola European Partners, and I'd expect it'd have smaller consequences of the amount of syrup CCEP buys (given some of the movement will be to Diet and Zero).
A longer exclusivity term makes it possible to recoup more investment costs, for those who invest in artists. This theoretically enables larger investments that can support the artist further up front.
Lazy rich child A's dad built a house, which he and his children can benefit from for marginal costs (maintenance, taxes).

Lazy rich child B's dad wrote some music, which he and his children can benefit from for marginal costs (publishing, taxes).

I know - in one case it is a physical object, and in the other - immaterial. But both houses and music can offer enjoyment and can be benefited from financially, and thus have inherent value.

I am not sure if the notion of private property should depend on the continued existence of the original creator. When do we start requisitioning houses for the hommage of the original owner?
i always took the expression to be a valueless statement on the tendency of digital information to be widely disseminated. more "you can't stop the signal" than a moral claim.
I don’t think Disney would keep their rodent. Calculate the sum, and by about eighty years, $10 × 1.5 ⁶⁹ is some $14 trillion, so they’d have handily paid off the US national debt by then. Another fifteen years, to get back to the beginning of the sordid affair, would be mildly ruinous.
are loyal instead of jumping to new shiny stuff at every opportunity. - have skin in the game

Why do companies expect “loyalty” beyond the employer gives the employee a paycheck and the employee works X number of hours per week, doesn’t try to compete with the employer while at the company, and doesn’t steal IP?

Does the employee have an ownership stake in the company? If not, the only “skin in the game” they have is will they get paid next week.
Russia and Syria Vow to 'wipe out terrorist' in Idlib
Isn't there a linear time median selection algorithm, which allows you to always select a pivot in the middle of the sorted part and create two equal halves? This produces a worst-case O(n log n) quick sort, which is no longer quick due to the big constant hidden in O notation.
Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850
Agreed. Regexps and format strings are cool. Regarding small, dedicated languages, I also like SQL and (to a lesser extent) CSS selectors.
>I was upset because the design of NPM assumes things that just aren't true in general:

>People perfectly understand and apply semantic versioning (see also: compatible versioning).

Doesn't any dependency management tool assume that some form of versioning is followed strictly? Go modules have another assumption besides that one, the Semantic Import Versioning principle.

I understand OP's pain, but it seems to stem from bad design decisions made by NPM authors, and doesn't have a lot to do with Minimal Version Selection.
I could be wrong but from what I read a while ago it's that there's not much traditional resources to export (Farming, Mining,..) and instead there's a focus on R&D and exporting technology. There's probably also a very high amount of R&D in the military sector that's subsidies as they have a very high export rate there (Elbit, Rafael,...).
It's not just US companies, although US companies are picking up more household names.

For the best part of the past decade, UK firms have largely underperformed compared to their US counterparts. The pound is depressed due to the way Brexit has gone to date and is likely to fall further still, making British companies undervalued on average.

A lot of British companies (like Whitbread, who own Costa) gain substantial revenues from abroad but are exposed to currency risks through the pound and anaemic economic growth at home.
I agree with the gist of this, but I'm actually leaning towards a shorter copyright lifespan. Maybe 20? The reason being that I feel this better balances the need to benefit from your work (20 years is quite a while to be exclusively entitled to something) with the need for society to build on your work without threat of litigation. I feel 50 years benefits the former a bit too much at the expense of the latter. Just look at what a huge divide there was (in some ways) between life in 1950 and life in 2000. Less so between 1980 and 2000, or 1990 to 2010.
If you don't fit in the seat you'll most likely have to pay for an additional ticket anyway. Of course there are cases where the "big guy" just slightly overflows over the neighbors and in that case they're SOL.

But tickets should be sold per sit per weight. And that should include the passenger and all the luggage. So a 50Kg person travelling with 5Kg of luggage shouldn't pay the same as a 150Kg person travelling with 40Kg of luggage. One should pay for 1 seat/55Kg, the other for 1-2 seats/190Kg.

Airlines only care about the number of sits and total weight so the pricing should be done accordingly. And before anyone screams discrimination, I physically can't fit in most airplane seats (or can, but in a contortionist style not fit for more than a few minutes of usage). I have to pay for upgrades or extra leg room at every flight. I'm sure nobody thinks discrimination in my case.

It's the same with leaning back the sit where it takes space from a seat you paid and it turns a usable seat into an unusable one. Which is why many times I prefer to fly low cost and pay for extra leg room then to go for "premium" airlines and have to be squashed in my seat because I risk being greeted by airport security after landing if I make a fuss.

If you're tall and skinny you really draw the short straw of air travel. You still get to pay full price but without actually fitting in most places in the plane. Nobody feels any moral obligation to care and no chances of losing height in the gym.
>> I don't see the advantages, because the thing is clunkier than a smartphone and handling it seems odd.

Getting to be less clunky is the first step. When it rolls up to the size of a pen then it'll be awesome. And I'd like to add that while I don't recall where I got the pen idea from, I did not come up with it first so this is not a "novel" concept. I'd also add that these people are doing engineering, not science.
Yes I had exactly the same experience! it seems like the people reviewing what qualifies have absolutely no technical understanding.

Even when trying to be honest, the questions are posed so vaguely that they are really relying on you taking the moral high ground when choosing what _you_ think qualifies as R&D, even then it becomes an internal battle of definitions.
Data Breach Report: August 2018
First of all, the two examples you present do not do the same thing. The Powershell version preserves paths and excludes more patterns than your find | xargs example. The right way to do this is to just use robocopy.

This example has targeted a very specific deficiency in the way Copy-Item works. I could similarly point out that the following Powershell command would be much more difficult in standard unix tooling:

Get-WMIObject -Computer $remote -Class Win32_Product | Where-Object { $_.name -like "7-Zip*" } | select Version

Which gets the version(s) of 7-Zip installed on a remote machine.
They not only covered his rallies without commentary, they would regularly post up hours of video waiting for the rally to start.

Make no mistake, the media recognized very quickly that Trump drew viewers. There’s a damn good reason why CNN is posting record profits.
Capitalists do not necessarily like the competitive market aspect of capitalism ;)
The big hope for people who suffer from ME/CFS is an off-label use of an existing drug such as Rituximab.

Under the current system, drugs go through phase I trials to make sure that they are safe enough for doctors to prescribe. Then they go through phase II trials to get a feel for dosage and effect size for the intended indication. Then they fail at phase III because they compare poorly with an existing drug for that indication.

What determines whether ME/CFS patients get to try a drug, to see if it does anything for them? Phase I and II results. Fair enough.

But also Phase III. So the efficacy of the drug for a different indication plays a positive roll. If Rituximab were ineffective for leukemia, it would be forbidden to explore it for ME/CFS in a way that might later justify a big trial to check for efficacy. Given the side-effects of Rituximab, that is fair enough, but the law is equally restrictive on all that failed in Phase III. So drugs with mild side-effects that did nothing for the intended indication cannot be explored for ME/CFS.

That is sad. Those who believe that ME/CFS is due to a viral infection would love to try a failed anti-viral. Those who believe that ME/CFS is an auto-immune disease would love to try a failed treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Meanwhile, researchers tend to stay away from diseases with such unclear etiology.

But the efficacy requirement has worse implications. As wikipedia puts it

> Phase III studies are randomized controlled multicenter trials on large patient groups (300–3,000 or more depending upon the disease/medical condition studied) and are aimed at being the definitive assessment of how effective the drug is, in comparison with current 'gold standard' treatment.

So a drug that passes Phase I and Phase II can be eligible or ineligible for off label exploration because of the efficacy of a different drug for a different indication.
Sure: "40 hours a week" for moderns is also an underestimate.* But the figure everyone goes around repeating about hunter-gatherers is a more dramatic underestimate. The accurate !Kung estimate is 48-56 hours spent on these things: so we seem to be about the same, but with massively improved quality, cost, and nutrition for us.

The debunking applies to the claim that they had more leisure than us. Lee says: "work week... of 2.4 days per adult... [the bushmen] appeared to enjoy more leisure time than the members of many agricultural and industrial societies."

* Industrialised-world cooking time per week seems to be about 6 hours.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/420719/time-spent-cookin...
Difficult to find average shopping time, but call it 5-7 hours a week.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/521924/time-spent-househ...
Not sure why it would be a worthwhile endeavor to roll up your own text to speech system when basically all major cloud providers give that service for a price, unless this cost would make a significant fraction of your total costs. Unless that's the case, why not use this service until the day comes when Google might raise prices and then we could decide what to do about it? It's still an API call, afterall.

While I agree that Google maps price increase was a bit much, I'm sure Google realizes they can't offer services to businesses and viably keep doing this kind of 180 too ofren, especially if they offer it as part of their Google cloud. So it's not very likely they will pull the rug under this service again.
Come to NYC!
Ma [0] was also referenced by Alan Kay when talking about smalltalk messages [1]:

> The big idea is "messaging" - that is what the kernal of Smalltalk/Squeak
is all about (and it's something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase). The Japanese have a small word - ma - for "that which is in between" - perhaps the nearest English equivalent is "interstitial".

[0]: http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/ma/

[1]: http://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging
having sat during conversations at a large credit card company it turns out 4 to 5 transactions are all that is needed to identify a person.

meta data like where you made purchases when you made purchases and how much you spent and maybe a few other details are all you need 4 or 5 times to de-anonymize

full disclosure... I have 3 credit cards from this company....at this point I cannot imagine writing checks and carrying cash for daily use... I am not sure this battle can be won at this point.
Copyright isn't here to protect the creator, but the copyrights holder. The great extension of copyright (way beyond the artist life) is there so a few copies holders keep their IPs for a handful of mega-successful acts: Mickey, The Beatles, Elvis,...

Screwing us all because they are still able to milk the cow is unfair. Money-making cannot be the only factor taken into account. Public domain is something we, as a society, deserve.

What happens right now is unacceptable.
This is a serious issue in Mac OS X but I don’t see how it ties in with the ‘use Google Chrome if you want to be secure’ spiel. Don’t open untrusted archives if you want to be secure would be better, if impractical, advice.
Try Sydney. Similar in lots of ways to California, good tech scene, and much better gender balance.
Requiring a furnace is weird.
Indeed, they don't sell your data. They give it for free through deals such as PRISM.
Some companies already do provide subsidized legal services for employees.
That's just not true. There are lots of countries in Europe *yes, and Euro zone) where you don't have to collect VAT if you sell under a certain amount of revenue per year.

I'm not saying that everyone involved in the activities you're describing are doing it 100% by the book. Far from it probably. But that isn't an excuse to just blatantly spread misinformation.
Picking winners and losers sure looks corrupt to me.
My wife in general + having other people be impressed with me.
AI/ML has not matured enough to take over any jobs. However "computing" in general has replaced a lot of jobs such as flight scheduling, CRM voice calls, analysts who used to pore over crime data have been replaced with excel statistic functions etc.
Ok, but I think they're focusing too much on the systems aspect, instead of on the actual display technique.
>Go's GC is not generational today, AFAIK.

It isn't, and will probably never be. The Go runtime developers have actually implemented and tested a generational GC, but found that it's not useful, and even harmful at times, to the goal of having fast, low-latency, concurrent garbage collector. Mostly because most short-lived objects are allocated on stack, and the escape analysis is getting better with each release.

See https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote.
Bernie Sanders called out Jeff Bezos for poor treatment of Amazon workers
if we're talking about the music industry, sure, more investment enables the machine to make bigger stars and more money. but if we're talking about music as a cultural good, how much money is really needed to make a top notch studio album? no more than a million dollars in most cases. maybe you need to multiply that by a small integer to make a really good music video for a couple of the singles.

is the purpose of copyright law to enable billion dollar stars, or million dollar albums?
That's the thing. You're not a capitalist, the owners are. They have the capital and set the working conditions for you, the worker.

What makes that entire setup capitalist is that it's privately funded and owned, as opposed to being subject to democratic control.
Well luckily I recently published a new comparison benchmark[0]. :)

The TL;DR is that loc is faster by a few hundred milliseconds depending on repository size, but as cgag mentions doesn't have comment in string detection so can be quite off in its metrics, for example on the Rust repo Tokei says it has 643,754 lines of code where as loc says it's 635,849.

[0]: https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei/blob/master/COMPARISON....
I don't like words like "entitled". But at least as an outsider the "compensation environment" in Silicon Valley doesn't seem ideal at all. Realistically pay isn't just about appreciation, but being driven up by things like living costs. Which means that your de facto compensation is largely determined by your position in the housing market. Which is post tax no less.
Strongly recommend the bizarre Twin Peaks ads they made with the cast in the 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3acm7j9k_1w
My thoughts exactly. They replaced the keyboard. They should've replaced the display.
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Every time I hear our national anthem, I hear "...buncha bombs in the air..." and chuckle a bit to myself.

> “I don’t know that we’d get away with that scene today,” Abrahams said. “We probably wouldn’t.”

Without a doubt! These days, this gag would appear to be political and would be polarizing.
> I could see a future where the perks of employment include access to corporate retained lawyers. Or maybe corporations will hire lawyer secretaries to allow their employees to cut through government bureaucracy

Corporations that routinely do international projects have always been working like that: employee x needs to work on assignment in county y for z years? There's a department for that.
I thought Scunthorpe was more polluted than Salford?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43964341

Having lived in both (Uni in Salford), grew up near Scunthorpe. I'd reckon Scunthorpe is worse.
My coffee drink of choice is a plain hot latte (good black coffee is also fine). McDonalds coffee is fine, but not as consistent as a Starbucks. With McDonalds you're a bit at the whim of the machine and if the person operating it has done all the right steps. McDonalds is also a $1 or more less expensive.
I don't remember it in The Baroque Cycle but didn't The Martian have a part where the high calorie care package being sent to Mars liquified during take off and caused the rocket to explode?
Littering?!