skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a great article, but, in general, you can publish a news story just to describe reality, without intending to motivate anyone to do anything, and there is nothing wrong with that.
To me, the way you've explained it makes DOTA less impressive as a game.
Uniform call syntax is a superset of that, since you can’t have virtual methods on primitive types.
Here's another good read:

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/
Chamath Palihapitiya burns down what he built
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You can't make statements like that without elaborating on what quantum computing can possibly provide.
There's more on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039595 .
Normally life and consciousness were considered to be spiritual things. By claiming they are states of matter, the author seems to be stating matter is all there is to existence. This is a huge assumption. It's very speculative to claim life and consciousness can be reduced to matter, with no evidence to back it up to date.
Reminds me of the Wastewater Treatment Plant incident[1], which I learned about from Randal Munroe's What If? blog[2].

[1] (pdf) 'An Immense Concentration
of Orb-Weaving Spiders
With Communal Webbing
in a Man-Made Structural Habitat" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V3jDXZNk5Tta_3Imj5xnir053bB...

[2] Spiders vs. the Sun https://what-if.xkcd.com/136/
Airbnb asks SEC to let it give hosts equity
For any pattern, constant, irrational, etc, in math, there exists a set of formulas that models it up until n. It still is a cool little Riemann sum in this paper
90s is achieved on many subway lines today. Ingress/egress is mostly a function of getting the people farthest from the doors out the train and packing people in, but there are subway lines that effectively manage this at 90s. Paris Metro Lines 1 and 14 already run at this headway.

That being said, it is possible for platforms to become so congested that they actually start impacting headways; the Lexington Av Line (4/5/6) in New York had this issue until recently because it was carrying more than the daily riderships of Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco's entire systems.
How is that not just a normal hash map?
Totally agree. Firefox used to be a breath of fresh air because it worked so well. Now they seem to be just a copy of Chrome. Heck, sometimes I can't even tell whether I have Chrome or Firefox open because they look so similar. I would much prefer if they went to back to building better browsers.
My argument was in response to the idea that government is a business, I said that rather than a business, government is more similar to a protection racket. Not that governments are exactly the same as protection rackets, which seems to be the words you're accusing me of writing.

You are afraid that if we think of governments in a skeptical or cynical way, we must then be advocating for anarchy. That's an emotional argument and it has no place in an intellectual conversation.
There is a setting on the Phone app just for Caller ID and Spam and you even have the ability to filter spam calls. I don't have Google Voice so I don't know if/how it works.
Man's body found after tree 'unusual for the area' grew from seed in his stomach
You can get commodity x86 server with 12TB RAM and 224 cores.
> It's far less complicated in terms of options

Could you explain how you figure that in more detail?

I mean, to my untrained eye, it sounds like it wouldn't be so, since in every time slice of the game (equiv. of a turn in Go?) you can have hundreds of points of control - hundreds of levers to choose to pull - and of course that's in every frame (or whatever interval the UI actually allows you input).
Nothing the RiRs do right now immediately affects routing on the internet. There is a patchwork of systems, some automatic, some manual, that eventually converge their authority onto the routers that actually do the routing.

This proposal turns that system (which mostly works well) into a a system that has somewhat centralized algorithmic control. If routers enforce valid signed records for routing, suddenly the RiRs have an instant, practical power they did not have before.
Well.. it's really, really hard, and incredibly rewarding once you start to get decent at it.

It takes a long time to get any good. There is a lot to learn - about knowing when and where to try to surf, about reading the waves, about the etiquette and proper behaviour, and about yourself. It is physically and mentally demanding.

I highly recommend it.
I'm all for these companies burning to the ground (after the building has been emptied). I'm also all about a currency-less society.

But until we reduce scarcity to a point where that is possible, presumably lenders need some way to evaluate the "trustworthiness" of who they're lending to, yea? How should it be done? My first thought is an agency like the irs is set up to handle it.
While that’s true in principle, what I was getting at is that often there are CPP macros to make the C <-> C++ bindings more native between the two envs.
Toybox by Landley(https://github.com/landley/toybox) is probably the best example of a modern c implementation I have ever seen. Surprised no one has mentioned it yet.
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NYT sues FCC, says it hid evidence of Russia meddling in net neutrality repeal
Static typing has very little to do with what the compiler can say about your code. You can have dynamic languages with very strong type systems and semantics as well as static languages with weak semantics. The only difference between static and dynamic languages is whether the compiler enforces completeness of the analysis or not.
Nothing can break a one time pad, used for the super secure stuff.
The fact that iCloud is not required to activate does not change the fact that iCloud is on by default and iCloud backup is also on by default.
Google is a good example what can happen with lots of money productively.

But Google, in contrast to Mozilla, has to work hard to innovate and their income is always a reflection of how good they are and they have a management with a long-term vision.

Due to the fixed contract Mozilla will not feel the consequences of their actions for a very long time.

You see this kind of laziness everywhere when money doesn't matter anymore. It is more or less human nature.

To answer your question: It is not about marketshare. Mozilla has always said it is about values and open source, and so on. They could do something great even with 1% marketshare.

Mozilla is basically doing nothing that makes power users say "Wow, I really want to use this browser and will recommend it to my friends and family". Instead for some reason those users are increasingly frustrated with Firefox on multiple levels.

I think there is a slight possibility that the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020 will be when you see some subtle changes to how Firefox works. Maybe they get their humility back.
Why does anybody need to provide consistency? Often you don't have complete consistency anyways. There are bugs, there are time delays, there is parallel processing. Why even have the requirement?
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As long as he likes blackjack and hookers I'm sure the electorate will be just fine with him (:
Wouldn't a better title be, "An accurate approximation of pi"? Not as clickbaity though....
The article says unfreezes should also be free now.
There seems to be two pieces to generating that particular image. The first appears to be just a sphere with lines drawn at random points on its surface. The second piece are the "motion" lines that tend to point away from the sphere's direction of motion.

The first piece seems simple enough. Pick and random point on a sphere, and draw a few lines at random orientations a very small distance from that spot with no correction for persepective.

The second piece, the motion lines, seem to be a bit more complex. But they appear to be done by choosing a random spot on a circle's circumference, choosing an angle at random which is heavily biased towards the tangent line at that point on the circumference. Choosing a magnitude (length) for that motion line. And drawing some dashed lines along that path. Then repeating some new lines along that same path but shifted a random amount perpendicular to the motion line.

[I doubt I explained that second part very well, so don't try to re-read it if you didn't get it.]
in my case, being the GPP, I was talking about myself being an amateur rather than making a judgement on anyone else.
Naturally. This would be more accurately described as the first mechanical calculator.
I sort of agree, but then I look at Slack's success and I'm left a little baffled.
Your link starts with: "A weapon, arm or armament is any device that can be used with intent to inflict damage or harm." Which is means a bat is a weapon even if it's never used in anger.
Maybe they would avoid removing features that some users rely on, like bookmark descriptions. And would focus more on what users need instead of what developers think is cool to implement.
It will say they're the same out to more than 100 digits: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=N%5B((1%2B10%5E-100)%5E...
Why not take this pain and think about other forms of architecture? Maybe a consistent source of all truth is a bullshit requirement?
Petition calls for M25 'give peas a chance' graffiti return
Don't forget Innovis and CheckSystems. Great information here.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/credit-freezes-are-free-...
Show HN: WIP raycasting library for limited-resource devices
No, but the problem is that compliments from women are a very common way for them to indicate interest- so you have a set of "compliments from women", of which a subset is "compliments from women that are actually them hinting they're into you", and you need to have a lot of experience and be sensitive to subtle cues to tell which is which.
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It's not clear that quantum computers are even all that magical. At least we know they are no more powerful than a Turing machine.
BTC pioneer BitPay's path to customer success at scale in the crypto industry
Too bad this wasn't in place about a year ago when I was freezing my credit because of Equifax and getting temporary thaws to apply for a mortgage.
I'm pretty sure FoundationDB still relies on the more traditional model of hardware: "many fast, identically-spec'd machines on a rack, with fast reliable networking".

In other words, I don't think you can run Foundation DB across geographically dispersed data centers, as you can with Spanner, CockroachDB, and others.

Running on cloud VMs is a very hostile environment for a database, as others have pointed out in this thread.

Though I'm happy to hear from someone who knows more about FoundationDB.
I believe this analogy works all too well: C is a chainsaw that has a smaller chainsaw coming out of the opposite side on a pseudo-deterministic basis (UB). You're "fine" as long as you know how to avoid it.
When I watched the NASA administrator meeting in which NASA plans were discussed, one of the reasons listed for going to the moon was that we have seen that our understanding of it is not complete. It was not the United States of America that discovered, for example, that there was water ice on the moon, though we later confirmed the discovery. Yet this is a critical insight into its composition which has major implications.

When I watched the NASA administrator meeting in which NASA plans for building a base on the moon were discussed, one of the reasons listed was also rooted in discovery. There are many challenges that such a base would face and it is better to solve them when the Earth is close and rescue is more reasonable than to go to Mars with those problems not yet understood and solved, since the time till return from Mars will be measured in months and years rather than days.

What makes you so stridently disagree that we have more things to learn while on the moon, when the experts disagree with you? Also, since they do, doesn't this also make his equivalence a very good one, rather than false? Certainly the argument that there is more yet to be discovered about the trench does not refute his claim, only serving to enhance the degree to which claiming there is nothing is not valid.
Yassss! The hubby and I love going up there to hang out with them whenever we can. Don't forget to talk to the librarians! They have some amazing stories too but I suspect most people don't realize they can go in there.
I get your point, but in particular GPS satellites are not in LEO.
With vast natural resources, how could this be? On paper, South America should be a thriving economy, yet it's the exact opposite today.

United Fruits anyone? Delmont? Petrol? A stage to launch billions of tax payer money to build failing institutions on a failed notion-to rid society of some evil by declaring it illegal and creating an underground monopolies that ultimately controls their host like a parasite while slowly sucking out life.

It's tragic and it's unfair to the people and culture of this region. But who is going to be held responsible? How do you un-spill water?
> What is the intended effect of articles like this?

How about just promoting an understanding of changes which will happen between now and the next couple decades.

Or should we just give up and accept our fate? :-)
Loans don't necessarily make things more affordable. If 'nobody' could pay 1+ million for a home in a major city then home prices would drop until people could afford them.

If anything credit agency's actively harm the middle class by allowing people to extract as much money from them as possible via higher prices.

Sure, business loans are very useful but they don't require credit agency's.
GPS is quite redundant. Losing one satellite should not cause crashes. Actually a car that responds to GPS outages by crashing will not be very useful e.g. in tunnels or among tall buildings.
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While what you're saying is strictly speaking true, Scott Alexander had a thesis on this:

He noticed that the scientists of the day often ended up in trouble with the inquisition. And while, strictly speaking, it was for reasons not related to their scientific ideas, there is an insight: the sort of people who were curious about science were also curious and questioning about religion.

In conclusion:

- free thinkers are going to think freely
- whether or not the church back then was anti-science is similar to the question of whether stop-and-search is racist today.
If I remember How to Make Friends and Influence People, it was more about showing people that you care about them. Not so much pleasing as showing interest and empathy.
(Or 3D-touch on mobile Safari)
You left out the entire entertainment industry. I imagine that many people will end up doing creative endeavors, including art, engineering, philosophy, and science. Also, people (being more flexible than robots) could be the main actors behind space exploration.
"Only if you use an incredibly loose definition of 'weapon'."

You're looking at things through the lens of a ground-dweller, where by default, all high-energy events diffuse their energy through the environment in a matter of moments. Even nuclear explosions or asteroid impacts will diffuse in relatively short periods of time. Thus, it is an exception to encounter a configuration of matter that can deliver the sort of concentrated energy and/or mass meant to hurt somebody, and we can assume that they are deliberately created by an intelligence, place such exceptional objects into exceptional cognitive categories and create special laws for them, and so on.

In space, there is no such energy diffusion. Anything put into orbit is going much faster than all but the fastest bullets and are much larger to boot, and thus put any firearms you've ever seen to shame. If it's in orbit, and it's still useful which implies it has the ability to maneuver, it's a weapon. It may also be other things, but it is certainly a weapon; everything could be used at the very least to threaten something else. (Think chess here; even threats have real impact.)

Even if you can't agree with that, it doesn't matter, because everybody involved with space does and will continue to act accordingly.

(The signed agreements not to militarize space are quite pointless, really, and I doubt there's a single signatory to any such agreement that is actually abiding by it even if we stipulate for the sake of argument that a "mere satellite" isn't a weapon despite the manifest untruth of such a stipulation.)
I'm not interested in arguments currently. Because it's how they win.

So rather than blaming OP or admins for deleted content. Fact is that it's archived for the world to see and even though it's creator is gone for whatever reason.

Admins didn't need 2 years to start an investigation over 1 highly visible post. Censored or not their response is negligible and the entire situation is in dire need of attention by all parties involved. Community and management alike.
How computer science terms are defined and how they relate to the brain
Historically lenders would lend over collateral, with your net assets being an indicator of your ability to pay them back.
As my mouse cursor hovered over the green Install button, thoughts raced through my head such as

'who is historysearch.com and why should we trust it?'
No, there are definitely diffeeences in timescales.

“It will eventually rain today” is very different in its truthiness when compared to “it will eventually rain this year”. It’s the same when comparing statements with a close by deadline (the expected death of a cat) and one that is much farther off (the dissolution of the USA).

Beyond that, Boltzmann brains tell us that some things aren’t possible given an infinite amount of time.
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Get ready for a flood of new exoplanets: TESS has already spotted two
As far as I know, most cats won’t eat rice.
Does anyone else have a good list of similar tutorials? I'm highly interested in this type of implementation from scratch approach.
Mozilla lost because they sat on their butts for 10 years under Eich and lost their technical advantage. Firefox got sandbox and multi-process features in 2016 that IE8 had in 2009, they were happy to crash and lose every Pwn2Own before that. Being semi-nonprofit they can't secure any talent so they fake being like Google by blowing money on social activism and rebranding when they're not siphoning it to buy each other's start-ups.
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Ryan Gallagher seems to own this story like John Carreyrou did Theranos. Pretty much every scoop about Dragonfly has been reported by him.
That's a curl error to do with ssl versions, try using something other than curl to download it.

Actually, after a bit more research it looks like Solaris is a lower tier platform, which means there are no prebuilt binaries that are available, but it should work if you build it yourself.
I would definitely love to have tabs for multiple repositories. Source tree on windows has this which is great for managing lots of different projects, but infuriatingly on osx sourcetree has one window for each project.
A complete description of the approach can be found here:

https://medium.com/@armin.heller/using-parser-combinators-in...

https://medium.com/@armin.heller/parser-combinator-gotchas-2...
It's worth noting that Cloud Datastore's follow-on, Cloud Firestore, does provide strong consistency, and includes a "Datastore mode" that supports the Datastore API.

Firestore is currently in beta, but once it's GA we will be migrating all Datastore users to Firestore: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/upgrade-to-firestore

Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Datastore/Firestore.
Sourcegraph CEO here. We sell a code search and browsing product for developers to companies (https://about.sourcegraph.com/).
I once bought the pro license, just because it could allow the program to update itself automatically without me having to manually download it from the website each update.
It depends a lot on where you are.
I'm based in Northern California where the sea is cold, the waves are mostly created by beach breaks (meaning somewhat random tide influenced sand formations creating waves) and it is very hard to paddle out through the white water surf to where the rideable waves are.
Beginners need a big long stable board, but getting that size of device through breaking waves can be very tough.
I'd recommend going somewhere warm with exactly the same wave breaking in the same place every time (a point break) to learn and get a feel for it.
I'm an aspirational surfer but wouldn't dream of calling myself one, I spend 99% of the time flailing around and doing cartwheels underwater, but it is an amazing feeling when you do become one with a wave, even when you are just laying down and trying to pop up...
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> "Not as clickbaity though...."

Not as accurate, either, given that the title of the paper is "Get Billions and Billions of Correct Digits of pi from a Wrong Formula," and it was published before "click-bait" was a thing.
Experian keeps asking me to pay for this feature. Where did you find it?
Someone correct me here, but as I understand it, the torrent file itself is not the content. It is metadata about the content, and thus it can be shared without copyright violation. Using the torrent file, on the other hand, might very well be illegal.
Right, the fact that functions and operators must be part of a typeclass to be overloaded makes a huge difference. Sure, you can define your Num instance however you want—but that doesn't change the fact that by providing a Num instance you're asserting that the type is "number-like". The typeclass also enforces certain restrictions, such as the fact that the arguments and return value of (+) must all be the same type, which helps curtail the more egregious abuses like the repurposing of the C++ bit-shift operator for stream I/O. And since the set of possible operators is so much larger (almost any sequence of Unicode symbols) there isn't a great deal of pressure to abuse the existing notation. In C++ you can only override the limited set of built-in operators, even if the concept you're trying to express isn't closely related to any of them.

It helps that Haskell operators are namespaced just like functions, so you can choose which operators to bring into scope from other modules.
50GB cap. 300 Mbps. That's a 51200 MiB cap if we generously presume the GB is GiB and a speed of 37.5 MiB/sec. 22.7 minutes until your cap runs out.

All these higher speeds on heavily throttled and capped networks just means that you hit your throttle or pay-per-MB cap that much faster.
The entire concept of "freezing" and "unfreezing" needs to go away. It should be inaccessible by default, except by a time-limited token generated by the person applying for credit.