skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not referring to this specific exhibit but other pieces by a similar artist. Thousands of people can create this kind of paintings for cheap. That it still sells for more than what many people can make in a decade or a career means a stratospheric concentration of wealth in society or a bubble in the commercial art world.

Not really. The level of wealth required to reasonably make a purchase like this is what? 20 million? That's not 'stratospheric'. It's richer than I am, to be sure. But it's only between 2 orders of magnitude richer than your average software engineer's annual salary. I think that's a pretty reasonable level of wealth inequality, and not really indicative of much at all.

> If there is real scarcity because of climate change or other widespread disaster, how much can a piece of this ‘quality’ be sold for? A loaf of bread, or less?

Your point here proves the exact opposite of what you think it does. The fact that people can invest vast resources in things that aren't immediately useful for survival is an incredible testament to the stability and productivity of our economy. Because you're right, if people thought there was any significant chance of things going mad max, they certainly wouldn't be investing in art.

> That millions of children still starve but a piece of simplistic art is worth more than the value of food a whole village consumes in a decade is a sorry effect of the financial system we use or the way our society assigns ‘coolness’ score to people and activity.

Is it? Or do prices simply reflect our personal valuations of things? Which is to say, every decision each of us makes of what to do with our individual time and money sets a price. When you wrote this comment, you chose to invest your free moments in it, rather than earning money to donate to the poor. Is that a sad commentary on the state of the world? Or is it just the natural consequence of people being allowed to allocate their own resources?
I think all this unnecessary 'clutter' serves as error correction when spoken.

Even if you don't fully understand a word, you can piece together from the context what was said.
> Endianness is assumed to be little because the vast majority of hardware is little endian ... libnop for efficiency

Do you have any evidence of this? I would be flabbergasted if a modern compiler couldn't optimize out a no-op endiannes conversion.
You do not download videos under standard license, only download videos under CC-BY-SA (which do have download button on the web).
Antiques Roadshow calls it "provenance." Some works are worth more because of who has owned them.
You mean multiple witnesses, multiple cases, and the circumstantial evidence of actively preventing any real investigation into the claims?

Or maybe the whole lying under oath in a confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court?

If (as politicians love to say) he had nothing to hide, and especially given the position he is being appointed to, he should have been eager to have an actual investigation, and he should have had full background checks. The fact that he doesn’t (and hasn’t) alone is reason enough to hold off the vote. There’s no rush - the last justice was delayed by more than a year so the only reason to rush this through now is to try to stack the Supreme Court with corrupt sycophants before an election they’re not sure they’ll win.
How big is the average male reproductive organ?
What if the buyer just loved the piece of art prior and now hates it? I liked the before. The new “art” to me is crap. Art is subjective right? Not all art is purchased for its value. But the emotional connection one has for it. And such.
I asked Shkreli about why he didn't automate his process, once, during his live stream. He quipped back that he'd been doing this for long enough to know how to do it and that I wasn't the first to ask him. Never did get a clear answer; but I'm assuming it has to do with what rahimnathwani said.
Yes exactly. It would be like Facebook only paying a bug bounty if you can identify the hacker who breached their security.
Of course it makes sense for China. Assuming Bloomberg is right, China still is pretty much a manufacturing monopoly, the production isn't going to move any time soon.
Because it's based on HEVC. HEVC patents have a very complex (and expensive) licensing situation right now.
I only know that green isn't a creative color.
Lots of borrowings from Turkic languages as well. For example the common word for money "dengi" has the same roots as "denge" (balance) in Turkish and national currency of Kazakhstan "tenge".
Construct[0].

I used to sneer at such tools, considering them "not real gamedev". That was until, on one local edition of Global Game Jam, a designer in our team did in Construct in 15 minutes what took three of us coders a couple hours. This drove home the point that we were really overcomplicating things by coding a simple game from scratch (in XNA, back then).

--

[0] - https://www.scirra.com/construct2 is the one I played with, but they also seem to have a web version now, for better or worse, which is available at https://www.scirra.com/
Then the teacher lets me softly down with the remark that whenever the word "wegen" drops into a sentence, it always throws that subject into the Genitive case, regardless of consequences -- and that therefore this bird stayed in the blacksmith shop "wegen des Regens."

Interestingly, this grammatical rule has changed since Mark Twain's times - minimally in spoken language where the Dative case is commonly used. But also in more formal or more educated contexts, standard German allows the Dative case after "wegen" in certain cases.

In general, the Genitive case is used less and less, it seems that German will in the long run only entertain three grammatical cases instead of the current four.
If you don't like it you can either return it and maybe get your money back, or sue, or whatever, or try selling it for much more. I am not even sure an assurance would cover this case, because it is obviously still there, and worth more, presumably.
Also fork(3) (the libc wrapper using GLIBC), is often just calling clone(2) internally: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18904292/is-it-true-that...
People suggesting I used iTunes on a laptop or GarangeBand are proving my point. Why should I go through such a hassle for something so basic?
you’re downvoted, but we should never forget the importance of this incentive
Apparently I can memorize much better images than words, so I found helps me a lot replacing words or parts of words with icons. That’s my study “font”.
Extremely lucky? I assume you have backups, right?

Nevertheless, very clever solution, my compliments!
$1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction
>little heartless douchebag

Steal money from poor people? No problem, just a small fine. Steal money from rich people? Off to jail you go. I'm not saying that what Martin Shkreli did was right, i.e. he did not go to jail for raising the prices on medicine (for which he had good reasons). He went to jail for lying to investors in a sort of Ponzi scheme using new investments to pay off old debts.
#666 is closer to dark grey than it is to light grey.
I don't have any of those. These are all 1u, 2u and 4u servers.

Agreed that article was painful.
Ok, I will have a look if I can see anything interesting near the serial flash device.
FWIW, here's an alternative setup to consider if you don't want everything to do in Emacs (I use it daily for its wonderful Org-Mode):

* OfflineIMAP -- to download and synchronize local Maildir with remote IMAP.

* Mutt -- E-mail client (understatement).

* Notmuch -- for fast local indexing and querying.

* Postfix -- the wonderful mail transfer agent.

Here[1] are some config files (from my colleague, Paul Frields) that you can adapt from.

Been using the above set up for about five years. They heavily help with the high-traffic open source projects that use mailing lists for patches. (Even for general mail setup, this is still useful).

These tools are a part of my day-to-day happiness at work.

[1] https://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/configs/
Changing the name from the Sleep Train was a bargain at any cost.
> Starts with R? Checks... retrophin.

No. Starts with T. Turing Pharmaceuticals.
This is very similar in France (as a rule, I am not taking into account some complicated areas).

My children see the police as strongly positive figures.

When I bike and do do some slightly illegal stuff (not crossing on a red light, rather avoiding some cars by slowly biking on a desert pavement) they would usually either stare to make their point (and I hop back on the road) or just ignore it.
This is some kind of an unspoken agreement which has its limits.

I had a case where they stopped me because they saw that I drove through a red light after waiting on the green one. What happened is that there was an old man slowly crossing on his red light (a desert small city on a Sunday afternoon, there was just us), I patiently waited and did not realize that the light changed right when I drove off (onto a roundabout, still deserted). They jokingly congratulated me for not driving over the pedestrian but would have gone full throttle should that have been a true danger and deliberate rules breaking (or a dangerous error).
You will not be banned.

I, and many others, have done this before [1]. There are other examples of this out in the wild. I only happen to know one of them.

I've even seen some people using the contribution-log (not sure what it's actually called) to display visual artworks.

1: https://github.com/angusshire/greenhat
Formalizing 100 theorems in Coq
I have a PhD in radiation biophysics. I’m not worried at all. Current research suggests that electromagnetic radiation from WiFi and other sources are nothing to be particularly concerned about, the measured effects on a cellular level are barely significant, if at all. Also, we don’t see a rise in brain or testicular cancers since cellphones emerged.

I’d be more concerned about environmental hazards such as fine dust in larger cities.
The first thing I did was to change the text color from #666 to #000. It is soooo much easier to read now. I don't understand why gray - and a pretty light shade even (666 is pretty far from 000) - has become the standard text color on (way too many) websites. None of my displays, from middlish quality laptop to Adobe color space 32 inch monitor, show that as even close to being the most readable text color. In addition, the page sets a font weight of 300, combined with the font used it ends up with a pretty thin font that looks grayish to begin with.

By the way, what is this   character that's all over the text for me?
Due to all that legacy the instruction decoder has a lot less opportunity for optimizations.

There may be a physical limit to the size of transistors but the limit of computing performance is not ‘what Intel is doing’. There’s more to performance than instructions per second or clock frequencies. In fact these don’t lead to the same performance at all as ARM is RISC and x64 is CISC.
The amount of capital needed is different
I didn't really buy the excuse either, and the demand that it be written with certain technologies seems quite ridiculous. But are you saying that they could force Google to reveal some of their internal API details for Microsoft to make a YouTube app, even if the mobile website had the service's full functionality?
OK. Think of it this way. Suppose you have a basic controller for a biped which can achieve a stable stand after a landing on one foot provided that the velocities are within certain limits. With a controller like that you can walk or jog a little. That's classic Asimo-level locomotion.

The limits within such a controller can recover define a target basket. If you can land within the target basket, you don't fall down. Unstable moves should end with a landing inside that target basket, leading to a stable state.

Next, you want to go from a standing start to a fast run in one stride. You lower the torso (probably by bending the knees, but it could be a piston-type motion), fall forward, and at some angle, launch. While in the air, you make the appropriate maneuvers to land on one foot within the target basket of the basic controller. Doing that is a two-point boundary value problem. That's planning one move ahead. One wildly unstable step and a controlled landing within the target basket of the basic controller. That's Boston Dynamics's flip.

Now if you could do two unstable footfalls in succession, you'd have a much more powerful system. You could do two unstable steps and then land in the target basket and let the basic controller take over for a safe stop. But you now have the option of taking one unstable step and then planning two more if possible for fast changes in speed and direction. There's always the possibility of sticking with the original plan that lands you in the target basket for a safe stop. But, while in flight for the first unstable step, you can try planning a new two-step plan. If that problem can be solved, you can continue with agile motion. If not, you fall back to the original plan and end up stopped but safe.

Two point boundary problems can be solved using known techniques. See "shooting method" and "relaxation method", both of which are optimization schemes. Solving two two-point boundary problems in sequence is harder and requires looking through a big solution space, but everybody is doing gradient descent in bumpy spaces now and it's less mysterious than it used to be.

Good PhD thesis problem for someone. Startup potential, not so much.
Google blocked WP users from Maps. Lied that WP's browser couldn't handle maps. It worked perfectly if user agent was changed.

https://mashable.com/2013/01/05/google-maps-windows-phone/
Sadly what happened to a Banksy in Detroit maybe gave him the idea. An artist group 'extricated' the work from the ruins of the Packard auto plant. The new owner of the building who was planning to use the Banksy as a centerpiece for a retail center was not pleased. They promised to not sell it, then they did.

http://beltmag.com/the-fight-over-graffiti-banksy-in-detroit...
Seems like a good idea of you know what you are building is not going to change significantly. Might be overkill for prototyping things in early stage start ups.
I would think a self driving car would have access to Waze in almost real time.
Open Source does mean it is free of patents.
I run an online game that has has instanced multiplayer.

We have a single process on each server that starts up and loads every single game resource. After this is waits for requests from the instance manager to create new instances. As new instances are required, this "spawner" process fork()s to create one.

Each process uses less memory because all the loaded resources the game needs to run are shared between all the copies.

You also get slightly faster performance because commonly used data still in the CPU cache when switching between processes.

If we used a thread per instance, then we wouldn't have crash isolation between the different game instances, which is handy.

It's also possible to explicitly mmap a shared memory segment to load resources in that without using fork()s copy on write, but it's just more tricky, and the fork() method is totally robust no matter what code other programmers might write.
Thanks!
Better mobile support is on my roadmap!
Wow, the most I have ever made was about $100 in a night--the 6 weeks I worked in the restaurant I mentioned earlier.

--What are your average food+drink tabs?
When you have a stomach ache from eating too much of it.
Nothing has been hijacked. Artists create art, for fun or profit. Rich people sell it to each other.
Show HN: Router middleware for xweb
Many people bought Supermicro motherboards. If this is real, we should be hearing more about it soon.

There's so much attack surface at the motherboard "management" hardware level that some kind of attack wouldn't be all that hard.
> E.g. if Apple contacted the FBI about this, then who at Apple did so (or at least what was their role), on what date, and what FBI office?

I'm pretty sure there is an open line between Apple and the FBI for these exact risks. Else I don't see how these cases do not get investigated multiple times in parallel.
Wow, that is strange.
Lazy loading is something that I working on.
Currently, the entire gallery will be rendered on page load and that is a nogo for a bigger gallery.

Thanks for your feedback.
Previous discussions:

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833010 (60 comments)

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5995422 (13 comments)
I must agree, for I, too, have highly refined patterns.
As a speaker of Kannada, a Dravidian language, grammatically, I find Indo European languages strange in general, with all kinds of rules, and all kinds of exceptions to those rules. Eg: verb conjugation and noun genders. I have dabbled with German and Spanish - I really like these two for some reason - and a bit of Russian. Of this family, Sanskrit seems simpler; not sure if that's because it was explicitly systematized (refactored) millennia back, and hence objectively so, or its just subjective since every Indian is made to learn it at a young age. I find Semitic languages, of which I know some Arabic, quite attractive. I love how concisely are ideas encoded in these languages because Dravidian languages are somewhat concise similarly, though not to that extent.
This piece was excellently executed but shredding may not have been the best way to make that point (even if it is a good laugh). A few quick thoughts on how this idea could be modified if the goal is to poke at the art market:

- Destroy the original completely. This would be difficult as even ashes from burning could be resold and exhibited. I’m also not sure destruction captures the right point.

- Reverse the shredder idea to instead have a photocopier in the frame. Have the copier spit out “originals” on demand and reveal that there is no actual original piece.

- Have money literally effect the art (or have the money become the art). Like fill the air gap in the frame with dollar bills upon purchase or something super in your face like that.

- Reveal new information about the piece or about the artist that makes owning the piece horribly distasteful.

- Physically print a giant photo of the new owner’s face over the art when the auction completes.

- Have the artwork be a complete pain to exhibit or care for. Maybe it comes with a button that has to be pressed every 108 minutes or else the price gets shredded (sadly this would almost certainly result in some guy getting paid almost nothing to sit about and press the button for years)

Banksy is always a bit too smirky for me, however I can’t complain too much as this armchair is really quite comfortable.
Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to major issues – The Verge
> I'm curious how you can figure out from context whether you can figure out something from context.

Erm, memory? You remember whether something has been introduced or not.

Take a hypothetical phone conversation, an example that nobody has managed to explain to me satisfactorily: A: "Where are you?" B: "I'm in [the/a/(nothing)] shower."

People tell me that "the" is the correct thing to use. But A is none the wiser; B could be at home, in a gym, at work... A is none the wiser about _which_ shower B is in and the shower has not been introduced previously in the conversation. It's tautological "the", B is in that shower that he's currently using, so he could just as well say "I'm in shower".

Or, similarly: A: "Where's my food?" B: "I've put it in fridge." If A is at work, he'd go looking into fridge at office. If at home, he'd go look into fridge in kitchen. If there are two fridges nearby, he'd ask "Which one?"

Even though I deliberately omitted "the/a" in the previous paragraph, I don't think you got confused about _which_ office or _which_ kitchen fridge A would go looking in. And personally I cannot imagine that A, upon hearing "it's in fridge" while being in the office, would go home and look into the fridge at home. Or that he'd even have to ask "which fridge?" if there only were one at office.

So there's an attempted answer.

EDIT: one of my rules of thumb is: if I can put "some" in front of a noun without changing the meaning, then it's most probably appropriate to use "a".
His works in the Gaza strip are definitely worth more than the entire buildings.
You would be surprised how much some technical people are lacking in Google, SO skills. When I am lazy I sometimes just shout them what they should put in google to get an answer. Thankfuly it is minority in my gigs.
For the most part the optimization works well. The more subtle issue is that the union trick used by the endian utilities is not compatible with constexpr expressions. There are some interesting use cases for constexpr serialization that fail if the conversions are interposed in the Reader/Writer types. The alternative is to use reinterpret_cast, which is also incompatible with constexpr expressions.

Moreover, endian conversion templates are unusually frustrating in the current C++ standard. I wish there were a better way, but one does not currently exist.
> bunch of workarounds for limitations in Java

While i agree with you, I just want to point out that the GOF book was written before the release of Java (and its rise to popularity) and that the book uses C++ and shows bunch of workarounds for limitations in C++, not in Java.
You're attacking a straw man.

Language is dynamic and cannot be controlled.

Writing needs to be adapted to fit that.

In English, the writing has become detached from the writing to the point where it is not possible to write a word upon hearing it the first time or to pronounce it upon reading it.

This is unnecessary and could be fixed.
Honda also has a bunch of mild hybrids though. First one I pulled up on Wikipedia from 2012 apparently does 144 volt.
The Tea Party was funded by the Koch brothers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/13/tea-party-bill...
Big money ruins art. I'm not a proponent of the "starving artist" mindset, but the simple fact is that the most honest, deep-felt art comes from struggle and passion, not from wealth and comfort.
The author can only give up his own rights. Identifying and acquiring any patent rights owned by other people is up to you.
I am also shocked. Especially hearing the same BS talking points I see right now in US politics attacking credibility of news. No, reporters don't make up sources and an anonymous source reported by a big institution !== 'might as well be made up' as someone already commented in this thread.

I would love to see some research on accounts and comments on HN similar to Twitter analysis post 16. Seems to me any time China is broached the HN thread gets more comments than average. Many posts read to me as strongly defensive or taking straw man/obfuscation type tactics.

But then again that could be personal bias I don't know the actual human composition of HN comments - which is why I would love to see some research on HN comments/accounts.
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Appraisers are saying the instant the artwork was shredded it became more of an artwork and is now worth a lot more.
Agreed, I personally don't need the newest of the newest in my phone. Even though I used to upgrade every year in the early days of the smartphone I recently bought a mi a2 lite with stock android.

€200.

Yes, it is not the best, but honestly I don't need a ferrari to get to work.
It was so much simpler when the church could just sell indulgences...
No offence but the EU does have more important things to do than suing American tech companies. Unless it actively hurts the people or economy of the EU, and who gives a fig about windows phone?
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You can skip forward and back with Netflix too.