skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then Khomeini came along, the Shah was overthrown, and today, Iran supports the Syrian government, rebels in Yemen, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Plus, the US and Israeli governments have been a making a lot of noise about possible Iranian plans to build nuclear weapons. These days, I think, it would be very convenient for the USA, if Iran still was a secular democracy they could be on friendly terms with.

Certainly there are people who consider the coup against Mossadegh a worthwhile investment. But there were some, uh, unforeseen repercussions.
The US has been doing regime change long before the CIA was founded. There has been US involvement in Central and South America since Sam Houston.
> The idea that say a startup has time to audit every line of every dependency is absurd. Even a big business can’t do that.

This may sound strange, but once tech companies actually had to either write or buy all of their software, and if they didn't have a contract in place that made someone else responsible for its quality, they were. So, basically, the world was absurd.

The way FOSS works is if users agree that a common good is important enough to invest in, and then they all benefit more than they would if they invested alone; it's anti-competitive. Free (and Open Source) software should be thought of as "free as in beer" i.e., the next round is on you. If you can't audit every line, audit some of them, or pay someone else to do it. Coordinate to get code coverage. If you use a project that is inadequately covered, you're responsible for everything that goes wrong.

If you don't even know what libraries your project depends on, how could that ever be thought of as anyone's fault but your own?
Interactive Sandbox Allows Users to Make Topographical Maps in Real-Time
So why not use a central database and allow all stakeholders to replicate and keep their own logs of edits. It would be far more efficient. It would lack a certain buzzword though.
I completely agree if they can reasonably risk it. However for those that feel similarly about the expanse, overreach, and unjustness of the GDPR, are they similarly courageous in ignoring the law? If their motives are the exact same as here (i.e. about internet freedom from egregious oversight, not bottom line)? I'd say so in the interest of consistency, many would say not just because they like one imposition on the internet and not the other.
Given how phone networks work, that’s not entirely obvious. Perhaps they’re just retroactively taking a look at billing data?
As far as I can tell it doesn't even help the big players, Google has said it is economically impossible to be compliant with article 11 https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/12/2045240/youtube-ceo...

There's a big difference between a DMCA system where the content host has the responsibility to take down copyrighted content in a reasonable time frame, while having safe harbor protection in cases where content gets through, versus a "non-safe harbor" law where you literally cannot allow any copyrighted content _on upload_, or you can be held liable. It would be impossible to decide who owns what, even for Google, and so they would need to have some other system that is not user generated content (who knows what).

User-generated content is the life blood of the web, it's why everyone can communicate and we have this new world, we simply need it I think. I really disagree with others who try to frame this as if Google and Reddit are simply another company trying to defend their turf. This is a real blunder for the EU and completely misinformed IMO
An honest question: Did you read the relevant text of the directive or is your opinion based only on the second-hand interpretations?
And that the majority of people on earth are still lactose intolerant.
What was the side project that you gave up on?
"But it was Alice’s, entitled “A series of awkward events separated by snacks,” that floored me.

Hers was a hodgepodge of lists and memories written under duress (“Mom: Write or death!”). Favorite color: “Black. Like my soul.” Favorite holiday: “Halloween (because candy and murder).” She liked Alfred Hitchcock films. “Basically,” she wrote, “I’m an angsty teen in a child’s body.”

This kid’s 11?"

Forget the mother, make an entire article about that kid. Heck, let her write that article.
Yes, webview is something I am considering too.

Especially because I cannot find a way to display Latex/MathML in React Native, without a webview.
This seems like what folks have been complaining about of late - tech companies ignoring regulations.
Curious to see how this performs against fusion 360. Autocorrect has gotten real aggressive on pricing and licenses of late.

Also fusion forces you to save to autocad’s cloud and they inspect your designs for hints you’re using it for non hobby stuff.
If you objectively look at history the US has direct involvement in almost every war and terrorist organisation since WW2.
I totally agree with the sentiment. You can't take content from the world and host it without giving something back. A newspaper reporting on a funeral? pay the descendants a fee. Reporting on celebs? pay another fee. Reporting on science? pay the scientists a fee. We forget though that the media is also another form of aggregator. They write about the news, but don't create them. Whether one sort of aggregator is more profitable than the other depends on the cost of the writing and the breadth of the audience.
Damnn!!! This is seriously a good way to have kids and offload the cost (mostly time/effort and not money in my case) of upbringing them.

Thanks HN for this idea!
I would like to continue doing 60 hours a week at tech company and offload all my kids this way.

Then once i am a rich executive, I'll claw my kids back by luring them with wealth.

Sperm donation here i come!
I've aboluste pitch and high twitch muscle fiber according to 23andme. I hope these are attractive to sperm buyers.
>known to buy latest tech and hacking tools, to use un-encrypted messages?

Google “nokia2mon”, the saudis are definitely not masters of tradecraft.

He was very active on a US based hacking forum for years, and everyone knew he worked for KSA.
One thing I don't understand is how you prove your from the EU. I route most of my internet traffic through various VPNs. I'm in the U.S., but am increasingly more often hit with EU specific guidence. Prove I'm from the EU (or US) - you can't.
there are some many non tech related articles in hn.
tell that to iran. not literally. you see where i’m going.
Undefined behaviour, in reality, means: the compiler will assume that it doesn’t happen, so whatever code path leading up to it can also (by definition) not happen and be eliminated. E.g. signed integer overflow “cannot happen” so you never need to emit code checking for it or dealing with it.

That’s the real world implication of undefined behaviour.
In all likelyhood all he paid himself was the price of his game ($2.99) times the number of units sold (about 100). So about $0.375 / hour. Given the horrendous competitivity and sheer statistics his efforts at making a profit were a powerball gamble. No way he didn't bet $42,000 on it.
I cannot believe this works (made a bookmarklet https://i.imgur.com/ITBtZUF.png). Thank you for sharing
in top 20 right now, there are 5 non tech articles such as a spider making milk, suidi arabia article etc etc :)))
I guess you’re right that I think that there are some people in some situations who you can’t talk out of violence. But being so generic and vague doesn’t help you understand the situation better. If you want to understand a situation you need to look at specific situations. Like I think by cycle of destruction you’re talking about something like how after the Iraq invasion a lot of Iraqi ex-soldiers had nothing to do and became a force for ISIS. That specific situation is a lot more of an interesting discussion to be had, and I think you can learn more from it than you can learn from a discussion about vague ideas.
Is Overflow UB so the compiler can choose to ignore the fact that 2x(i x i) could overflow differently from 2 x i x i?

I’m not sure it does overflow differently but I would expect overflow to behave consistently as written, and not be dependent on optimization, is that not the case?
Given how spooks work....the opposite.
Explain the difference in hosting content on a server vs downloading and hosting it local to be rendered by a browser ?

The number of people in the audience its being shared with ? If I show someone what I have locally I have doubled that audience.

Remember the double a penny math ?

If everyone shared a photo with 1 person effectively doubling the sharing, in 40 days you are going to have the entire world covered.

The entire premise of IP and copyright is broken when it is so cheap the common method of presenting material is to copy it and render it locally.
I worked for a smaller company for a few years, as one of only two sysadmins. We used to regularly mess about with the messages on the printers, see how long it took people to notice.

I started out with the almost obligatory "Out of Cheese Error"
Russian roulette: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sperm+donor+child+support&t=ffab&i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18573308
Are you facing this issue with chats on Riot itself or as a bridge to IRC ?

Because as a slack replacement, riot is pretty cool (and there some redesign happening ). Most of the criticism is around its IRC bridging, which I agree is a little unstable.
But let's face it - nobody else (slack et al) even tries.
The world is enormous and a huge simulation and really fun to explore. After you do that, you realize missions are repetitive (ride a horse here, we promise there won't be trouble, oops there's trouble, shoot everyone Orthur), the main story is frustratingly dumb (how many times will these morons I'm supposed to empathize with ride into a town, act smarter than everyone, and then get taken advantage of?). I absolutely loved this game for the first three weeks, but after the sheen wore off, it was pretty disappointingly hollow. It was really hard for me to push the story forward in this game, whereas with RDR1 and GTA V and GTA IV, I felt like I beat the game way sooner than I wanted.

And while the character animations are gorgeous and amazing, it makes for a tedious gameplay experience when you have to walk around in circles in front of a can of beans before your character targets the item you want him to pick up.
Yes, over-fitting is definitely something that happens. Here's a paper that demonstrates the problem by testing CIFAR classifiers on a new version of the input data: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00451

The flip side is that by having a common problem to tackle it's much easier to compare and contrast different results to figure out what really works. Many approaches that improve results on CIFAR don't scale to ImageNet, and many of the ImageNet papers don't scale to the even larger datasets that people are using now.
It's worth noting that in the US there is already the DMCA that content creators can use to take down their work.

Most content owners even big companies like Disney choose to allow (or maybe just ignore) the memes and likenesses because it's free advertising. So in a way they are getting value.
in top 10 “ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/style/modern-love-how-i-m... :))
The actually did that but it disappeared after a few hours https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9yrbgb/so_this_happe...
I think it’s healthy to have an ecosystem of large, well vetted, third party libraries maintained by long-standing organizations like Google (guava), Apache (commons, hadoop), or Pivotal/Dell (Spring).
I haven't played a big-budget game in years, but I decided to give RDR2 a try, specifically because reviewers described it as slow and boring.

I think it's great, for the exact reason that other people think it's slow and boring. It's specifically designed to quash your tendency to speedrun or minmax: It requires you to simply come along for the ride.

On the one hand, this is a bit annoying sometimes. On the other hand, it revives the sense of wonder that I haven't felt since I learned to treat games as something to win rather than something to get lost in.
The nature/nurture party game is an incredibly fun and interesting idea. Tangentially makes me think that sperm donors are a ripe focus group for research on nature/nurture. Anything like this done already?
> There is more in heaven and earth than can be dreamt of in any human philosophy. This is why science is not philosophy.

What a bizarre couple of sentences to open with.
What are you even trying to say?
yeah, bsdtar is my goto for dealing with archives for work projects, specifically dealing with unpacking iso's.
According to Wikipedia, Reddit itself has 230 employees. Advance Publications is private, though; I can't find numbers.
I wish one day hn only allow tech articles, i wish
New website: “A history of artificial intelligence”
I’d say after a period of tolerance (410) you switch to 404. If you care about historicals, move the record to a dedicated DW solution and use that to report.
I second this. Most people did not even dare to read it.
Yes it’s faceless, just like Sony etc. Also, he clearly doesn’t hate India (although his geography is bad). He will lose, so he is just having some fun. BTW, I don’t really like the guy but I respect him. I also don’t hate T Seris itself, just how prevalent in many communities
But there is only one benefit, free website. Those are a godsend to the poor.
I felt the same way. While RDR2's scale and attention to detail is unprecedented, the style of play and mechanics were just too much of the same, I wasn't about to cancel my social life to play more GTA but with horses, I've had enough of that.

I've sunk hundreds of hours into Breath of the Wild.
Interesting - we in theory, get to trust the code cos we can read it.

But in reality we trust the authors. So in theory we could build a dependnacy chain of signed commits, with a in theory monetary payment going to those whom we trust

So apart from Linus getting a Xmas bonus, it would directly encourage ... what?
That's been deprecated for years, removed from current PHP and was just a wrapper around an existing C library to begin with. If you want to blame the current language for its former vulnerabilities, fine, but comparing apples to apples would mean looking at all of the terrible ways in which javascript has been integrated into the browser and OS over the years, particularly with Internet Explorer.

And I can guarantee you, from personal experience, that PHP is not the only language in which string concatenation with variables is the most common means of writing SQL queries.
Slightly different Point of view: HW needs infrastructure.

It needs Packages, materials, PCB houses etc ideally all near by, with good transportation networks, etc. That was what ShenZhen was good at. It took very low cost labors and supported government and a lot time to build up.

Take a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA
on how to build IPhone from parts bought in ShenZhen public market to see the supported systems needed for HW. You can imagine how much easier and faster to prototype/build HW (drone, robots, etc) in ShenZhen as compare to anywhere else in the world (for now).

As the labor cost goes up in ShenZhen / China, the significant advantages are gone. That's why China is trying to move up via Tech/IP, etc.

Same development processes happened in Japan, Korea, Taiwan for the past 40-50 years. All of them start with unskilled Textile -> toy assembly -> Electonic PCB assembly -> PCB Design -> Simple Asic / Systems-> Complex ASIC / Complex Systems.

As they move up the food chain, they all "clone / steal / borrow / learn" ip from more developed nations.

It is also repeating the process 150 years ago where UK invented the Train/Rail system and US just scaled/improved to much bigger system.

History just keep repeating.
Feels like modern day complicated depressing slavery
The article reminds me posters of USSR time that I saw a lot:

"Soviet developers, make your application simpler and readable!"

"Soviet developers, be responsible, do not pass the code to strangers!"

"Soviet developers, read the code of your dependencies!"

"Soviet developers, do all this with a joy and free of charge!"

Replace "Soviet" by "FOSS" above or vice versa for your taste.

While basic ideas (e.g. Communist Party Manifesto as the Commandments it is derived from) are perfect the merciless reality is not. Human nature, sigh.
I can’t speak for Elixir, but I love Erlang for exactly those reasons.
You could look into using "compose key." It's quite intuitive and opens up a whole new world of expression.
> I certainly wouldn't want a social media company to make money from it being shared

Reddit/etc make money because of their platform not content. All of the content on reddit is available via api for free. So its definitely not the content.
It should be noted that in npm, examining the source of the package tells you absolutely nothing about whether you should trust the package - the actual blob that you download need not be generated from the same source.
Never having a cold boot isn't quite the same as being able to set a minimum concurrency level, though both would be very valuable.

At re:invent this year, someone on the Lambda team indicated that they were working on something in this space, but couldn't say exactly what, or give any real timeline.
Huh, if this existed and I had known about this 3 years ago, it would have been a trivial purchase at the startup I was at. We ended up moving everyone to headset mics and doing all our meetings with remote people on computers, despite a lot of people in one place, since otherwise remote folks just couldn't hear what was going on reliably. Which worked, but had it's own limitations.

Probably a harder sell for larger companies with more rooms, and less remote employees, but I have never had a complaints about audio with these things.
I feel the Internet has quashed my enjoyment of single player games ... it’s like I gotta have a multiplayer competitive at all times , if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears , Meh who cares not fun haha
at least in this case, they aren't wrong. on hacker news, there is a strong bias towards how silicon valley likes to operate and against china.
> Autocorrect has gotten real aggressive

This sentence is meta on many levels!

(He probably meant "Autodesk" but autocorrect kicked in rather aggressively, as he anticipated).
The only effect it would have would be polarizing European users against those companies.
Does the directive affect HN?
When I found my biological mother the similarities were striking. She was a second generation programmer, similar interests, likes and dislikes, we had haunted similar places decades apart, loads of physical quirks. It's mind boggling to me how much of what I thought was my unique self was probably more controlled by genetic variables I had no idea were in play
Yes, those enormous social and economic contributions should be adequately compensated.
Drunk driver caught sleeping and driving with tesla autopilot
> Reddit is morally bankrupt

> When I call them morally bankrupt, it is because of meddling with democracy

To say that, you have to affirm that the people in your democracy are unable to decode various forms of information. It happened in East Germany because East Germany didn’t have the freedom of information, so people were gullible (or so said historians). Your remedy is to... what, shut down Reddit, so only information controlled by the state is published.

Despite being a bad idea from the get go, let’s analyse what people usually criticize as fake news. Statistics about criminality. Statistics that don’t comfort the idea that women are oppressed. Remember that you can write a 10-page document citing sources and having it backed by 5 scientists across the world and be fired by Google for fake newsing.

So in the end you’re just advocating to shut down information that doesn’t comfort your ideas. And you’re using the argument of « morally corrupt » for it.
I do not think your politicians are "standing up" for you or any other content creators. They are standing up for the big copyright industries who have basically captured European politicians (to a much greater extent than they captured America's).

The general approach that Europe seems to take is to protect old industries from any challenge, even at the expense of new industries. I see that as a big reason for the sad state of the European tech industry. Europe is falling further and further behind America and China in terms of tech industry leadership and relevance, and with each new effort to "stand up" to tech companies Europe makes it harder for small tech startups. Where is the European answer to Reddit, or to Google, or Facebook or Tencent or Weibo? At this point it looks like European politicians have given up and are just trying to get as much money out of foreign tech companies as they can.
At the age of 45, hoping to find some detail about my father I sent a cheek swab to FTDNA. Not only did I find him via a relative doing genealogy but he turned out to be a completely different person than I had thought! My aunts had been telling me it was wishful thinking on my mother's part because she was obsessed with who she wanted it be.

Can you imagine? Forty five years of not knowing who your real father is because someone refused to face reality! Unfortunately reading these threads on Reddit made me realize my story is all too common. All I can say is highly recommended if you're trying to discover your true roots.
Get the Word Out: Where to Submit Your Next Side Project
Online shopping across the EU to be easier from 3 December
I was wondering what he was going for with "I’m up to 10 now; I have had some contact with the new ones’ mothers but haven’t made plans to meet yet"
> In the end, the sci-fi trappings of our love story are irrelevant: ...

Just before I got to this paragraph I was thinking how this article could have been a science fiction short story similar to ones I'd read back in the 80s or 90s.

I'm still waiting for my flying car, but we may be living in the future after all.
Coarsegold CA... the setting of Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist, the gamr that was arguably "peak" Al Lowe. The jokes didn't let up for a minute!
This is correct. Most CG and 3d software (Max, Maya, Blender, CAD) uses a right handed coordinate system, which matches the convention in physics, however they vary in their choice of Y up or Z up. Video games almost always use a left-handed coordinate system with Y up. This is because DirectX and OpenGL chose to represent pixels on-screen with (X,Y) coordinates with the Z coordinate increasing as rays extend from the eye outward.
Putting a root kit on a head of state's phone would be a great way to have your penetration discovered, so it's probably not the route they took, and TEMPEST wouldn't work on phone screens as it was a 1980's technique targeting the RF emissions of CRT displays common then (and which were fundamentally different in nature from modern solid state displays).
I'm sure you may be correct in regards to some areas of the world, but where I am, software engineers are paid very well. That means low supply and high demand. That means you probably have more leverage than you think.

If your employer is dumb and don't realize that's why they pay you so much, you can probably exchange some of that high pay for more respect by going elsewhere, taking at most a slight cut to your pay.

If it's about personal insecurity (it used to be for me), think of it this way: all that money they give you? It's because they want you to be a professional, which involves informing management of when you take corrective action based on your expert knowledge.

I'm not telling you to be dumb about it. Sometimes it does notmakes business sense to run on maintained software. But if it does, and your manager may not know that, they trust you to have the integrity to inform them. Any good manager, that is.
It's a rather small company, but it's in the top 20 Websites worldwide, top 10 in the US.