skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rob Pike also thinks abstractions like map, reduce, and filter are pointless because you can just write a for loop.

Hence, we have Go.
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I remember ordering from a catalog and getting the fat envelope of 3.5 inch disks. Those games were amazing.

Many of them are on Steam now. And the creator Jeff Vogel is an interesting Twitter follow.
Using fast.ai to retrain some layers of resnet, after collecting and organizing the data, might take you ~2 minutes to train. I just trained one to differentiate between Coke, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, and Sprite. From beginning to end (excluding the time to learn on fast.ai and get it set up) it took 2 hours. Collecting the photos from Google's image search took most of my time.
$265M was an estimate for both development and marketing, the estimate for the development alone was a bit over half, at $140M. So SC should already be over GTA V in terms of funding for development, as long as they're not forced to refund what they raised [1].

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5n7b/star-citiz...
I miss the Internet in early-2000's China. Not as many sites were blocked and everyone was much more open-minded as the undereducated chauvinists did not yet acquire reliable Internet access. Nowadays everyone has a smartphone and it has enabled the chauvinists and other radicals to voice their opinions online, only this time they are actually emboldened by the nation which has risen in the last 30 years to become a serious competitor against the current superpower nation that is the US.

China has achieved amazing progress thanks to market reforms and entrepreneurship but certain aspects are continuously regressing under Xi's term which will last for the forseeable future. Private sector confidence is at an all-time low due to state media editorials calling for more state control and boosting state-owned corporations. There has been more and more censorship orders aimed at reducing "Western influence" regardless of whether they are politics-related. More and more Chinese citizens are travelling abroad yet their beliefs in the "Chinese system" only gets re-affirmed by mistakenly thinking that China's success is completely dependent on authoritarianism. I don't agree with fervently supporting the current regime which is oppressive, brutal, antidemocratic, and still corrupt; nor do I agree with painting an entire nation and its people as some sort of evil reincarnate for the sake of a new Cold War. I don't have the knowledge or capability to offer a solution and I am just overall disappointed at the current state of affairs.
Weird, no statement or anything that I can find, just a banner at the top of the page. As well, they're shutting off service in less than a month during a time in the year when at least many western countries have limited staff/availability due to holidays. While I understand that once they decide they will no longer be operating, they don't have a legitimate business reason to help (former) customers ease through the transition, it really seems like they went out of their way to be as customer-hostile as they could.

EDIT: Looks like an email went out (copied in a comment below) and that they are not shutting down as an organization, just this product. Even more curious as to why they'd offer such a short migration window to former customers. I would, especially in an organization, be truly hesitant to rely on any of their other technologies if this is the pattern being set.
It seems the case built on lie to bank not just about export.
> replicate that with Tkinter, an API

Who are all these masochists using Tkinter? There are a ton other APIs to consider, and even more if one wouldn't mind updating an old one to be current (think XUL). I think this is the second or third thread where that particular toolset has been named as if it were the only alternative to Electron

I hate Electron too but is everyone really so new to the game that they do not remember desktop programming?

There's Swing, GTK, QT, JavaFX (maybe), WinForms....
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IMO, you should join the class and let the lawyers argue over who is responsible. Maybe you get something, maybe you get nothing, but it is really, really important to have lawyers hold large companies financially responsible for externalities when possible.

Not really important for the comment, but I lived near UCF (05 grad), but obviously spent a lot of time in Avalon park.
I read 4 pages of comments on GOG and found not one that matches your description, at all. On page 2 I saw this:

> After seeing how the devs treat customers I'd highly recommend a pass on this and the expansions. There are legitimate issues with the game, but anyone pointing out issues with multiplayer, buggy UI tweaks, game crashing, characters and saved games being corrupted are being called transphobes and having their legit issues deleted. The devs have also gone begging for good reviews and are currently trying to create drama where they should just admit they screwed up. I wouldn't touch this game with a 50' pole. Stick to the originals avoid anything Beamdog has touched.
If you are thinking of brewing some, or just want to read more about North America's version of Spruce Beer, this fine article provides more detailed information: http://zythophile.co.uk/2016/04/20/a-short-history-of-spruce...
What do you do about an unjust law though?
Tangental, but is there really no analouge for 'shrug' in the french language? I find that hard to swallow.

Otherwise, this seems like an imperfect, but functional, system. Seems these would be a great niche to target with electric dockless cars. (Sorry scooters, I want to like you, we have seasons where I live.)
I agree. I've felt like that similarly, but I realize that I'm biased in certain ways. Things that appeal to me don't necessarily appeal to everyone.

I religiously watch and post Kurzgesagt videos, but they've never been upvoted. Every year, I've posted a story on how someone took over a .int domain. These are brilliant "hacker" topics but what makes it to the front page are my submissions on "www vs apex domain" and criticisms of the GPL.

You've got to realize: HN isn't a superset of what every hacker loves, it's a subset. Most of the time, what we like doesn't get voted up.
I worked at an animal feed store in the early 90's while in school.

We would receive shipments of big bags of hemp seed, like 25 pound clear bags of pot seeds (which I always laughed about) for birds, so apparently hemp seed was legal at that point at least.
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Isn't data alignment/structure padding the sort of thing we ought to be putting into optimizing compilers? People used to allocate registers by hand.

Also, isn't it a pretty strong signal that there's so much talk of cache oblivious algorithms and cache usage? As in an olfactory signal. If we are warping our algorithms and coding so much around it, isn't this a sign that the memory abstraction with the current caching scheme is an overly leaky abstraction?

This, and the abuse of memory as a means of communicating between threads running on different CPU cores are two areas that seem very much like a signal that a paradigm shift of some kind is due on the level of the abstract model of the hardware.
The thing about Star Citizen is that there's this super vocal minority of people that bought into some version of Derek Smart's bullshit. They decided that some aspect of Star Citizen is not exactly how games have worked in the past, or otherwise does not meet their expectations, and they are now rooting for failure -- any kind of failure. The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of backers (myself included) are happy with the way things have gone and are going. Or there are the few detractors who paid their $35 or whatever in 2014 being told in no uncertain terms that "this is a flexible project with flexible design goals and a flexible release schedule" and so are complaining about not having read about Star Citizen before buying into it. And so, as someone that has put multiple thousands of dollars into the game from the first week it was on Kickstarter, I am enormously pleased with how Star Citizen has been developed, and how it looks and plays now, and actually sincerely hope they push for a later release than 2019. I can wait for Chris Roberts' magnum opus.
I don't think it would be particularly dense, it's just denser than the other air on Mars. Mars's gravity is less than Earth's, so the air will probably be less dense than the air over the arctic.

EDIT: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars , typical atmospheric pressure on the surface is about 0.6 kPa, compared to about 100 kPa on Earth. That's a bigger difference than would be explained by gravitational differences alone, so probably the fact that there is just much less atmosphere is more important. Either way, it's substantially less dense than any air you're likely to encounter on Earth.
This is pretty bad -- clicking thumbs up on an alternative has no feedback/doesn't do anything, submitting a new alternative also doesn't do anything, and the lists aren't curated at all (is Reddit really an FB substitute? Google Allo is dead, why is it on the list?).
That's a bit odd. What version of Android are you on, does it have any of those junk manufacturer skins, and how old is the phone? If my phone is already unlocked I can spout off the hotword, invocation, and content in a single stream, the assistant pops up in an overlay and prints the note for me to check visually, and then it finishes and hides with no further intervention. Pixel 2 XL, fully patched, it's worked like that since I got the phone.

If you're having trouble with getting the assistant to wake up, and you don't see an improvement after running through the wizard you get when you say "retrain voice model" or "recognize my voice", you should also be able to get the assistant up by long-pressing the middle button in the navbar at the bottom. You additionally shouldn't need to wait for a response after saying "take a note", just dump it all in a single breath.

> when it occurred to me I should remember to put my shoes on

...Are you mocking me? I thought I'd made it pretty clear that I used that tools to help compensate for a memory problem that does, in fact, qualify as a disability. Try "okay Google, remind me at eight pm to reply to $friend about $thing". Or "okay Google, remind me every day at two in the afternoon to make a dentist appointment...".
> The Hyper.sh platform, while trailblazing, is not where Hyper’s future efforts lie. Moving forward, Hyper is focusing all our attention and efforts towards the upstream Kata Containers project and in developing our Enterprise Kata stack for deployment in the major public clouds.

(From the shutdown email users received)

I was not aware of these products. Interesting.
It's really unfortunate the amount of FUD and cruft being spread about Star citizen, because it's an amazing experience that straddles the line between Simulator and MMORPG incredibly well for the state the game is at currently in the dev lifecycle.

I haven't even played Elite:Dangerous in ages since the Alpha 3.1 update came out and Elite is one of my favorite space series of all time
Flutter for desktop is still pretty new, but it sounds promising.

https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-re...
And not only that, it’s always been my understanding that there was a major motivation of preservation. To record the spoken tales before they were lost.
From the article: Rober deleted about a minute and a half from his original YouTube video yesterday, and reuploaded it—something YouTube allows you to do without sacrificing the number of hits a user has accumulated.
> I wonder if they missed the shift this year where cryptocoins stopped being the coolest kid in the town anymore.

From an investors standpoint, yes.

From a technological and application standpoint, there is some cool new stuff happening.
In the context of this question, my response was about a hypothetical recapitalization of banks if the student loan bubble became untenable.
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Ah right, it was search logs, not chat logs. I think chat logs would be even harder to fully anonymize.
This is somewhat common. They've probably emailed all their customers with more details. One of them can post a screenshot of their email and link it here.
The medical device industry (at least in the US) is very special. It does not have retailers per se, but there are a lot of middlemen who take varying, often enormous cuts. Medical device manufacturers make enormous amounts of money though. I am not sure how much of this is specific to the internal US market vs. carries over to US exports.

For a good treatment of this and many other aspects of US healthcare costs, see An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal.
In less than decade both USA and EU will take lessons from these developing experiments (India, China, Russia, Australia) and will introduce the same locally. At first societies will be educated to stigmatise any resistance and ease the law change. Hiding data from govt will be like tax evasion or act of terrorism.
#1 alternative is Twitter, the only mainstream social network more toxic than Facebook.
She actually started on Etsy, but it basically paid nothing. Perhaps, the markets are just extremely fickle, but he following is primarily on Instagram and Facebook. She's trying to break into Youtube just to increase exposure, which I think is going reasonably well.
Even Wikipedia is a minefield apparently (from TFA: "But that did not stop Alexa from reciting the Wikipedia entry for masturbation to a customer").

It seems like every chatbot let out in the open will turn into an asshole. Microsoft's Tay failed spectacularly, twice. They also trained IBM's Watson on Urban Dictionary in order to better understand informal language, it didn't end well and they quickly rolled back their changes.

It seems that AIs have a hard time recognizing and avoiding offensive language. That's not surprising considering that it is a hard to master social skill for humans also. Did you notice how brutal kid speech can be? Human kids are still way more socially skilled than even the most advanced AIs, and we expect AIs to behave like adults...
Related discussion on HN about star citizen and their gross mismanagement/incompetence with their funds and time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553371
Here's a copy of the email I received:

We are writing to let you know that we decided to pursue a new direction in 2019, and will be closing down the Hyper.sh cloud platform on January 15, 2019.

Over three years ago, we set out to create an open secure container-native platform. We believed that containers represented a sea change in how software would be developed, deployed, and maintained.

Along the way, we created one of the first container-native cloud offerings, the Hyper.sh platform, which utilized our open source technology, called runV, which last year was merged with Intel’s Clear Containers project to become Kata Containers. We’re proud of the platform we built, and the influence we have had on the overall container industry. We are even more grateful to you, our customers, who have deployed hundreds of thousands of containers and built out new business on our platform.

The Hyper.sh platform, while trailblazing, is not where Hyper’s future efforts lie. Moving forward, Hyper is focusing all our attention and efforts towards the upstream Kata Containers project and in developing our Enterprise Kata stack for deployment in the major public clouds.

As of today, it is no longer possible to create a new account on Hyper.sh, and on January 15, 2019, the Hyper.sh cloud service will be shut down. Per section 11 of our terms of service, we wanted to provide you time to migrate off the platform and for the next month, our priority is to help your transition to other cloud services. If you need assistance, please feel free to reach out to us via Slack or your account dashboard. On January 15, 2019 any remaining user data and accounts will be deleted from the platform.

Please start now migrating your containers and data volumes off the platform. Directions on how to migrate your container volumes can be followed here. Please note, you will not be charged for either the container or the FIP in performing the migration.

Thank you for your business and support of our platform. It has been a privilege to serve you.

Sincerely,

The Hyper Crew
I wonder what the implications will be for Western companies outsourcing there, anyone care to chime in?
Some people have taken to calling this 'the pedo problem' or 'pedophiles ruin everything' since it's such a recurring theme around encryption and anonymisation.
I think one piece of context that's possibly missing from these GOV.UK stories is how long the people involved have been working to get into the good position they are in now. I remember going to a talk (probably at XPDay in London) about 5 years ago and being impressed by the huge amount of organisational work they had done already. They were saying that they were expecting really good results in the years ahead, but that it was a massive challenge to solve all of the people problems up front. If any of the GDS team are reading, I'd love to see some more blog posts about how the non-technical hurdles were overcome.
> I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old.

Why not? If the hardware still works fine, unless we're doing something intrinsically more complex, i don't see a reason why it shouldn't work :S
He should probably continue to post the video of the

"people helping him put packages on their porches"

as well as their friends who pretended to "steal" the package.

Because the original goal was to uncover dishonest people, and so now you've actually found even more dishonest people, who were taped on video
Glitter in the eye is not harmeless, I know someone blind in one eye as a result. There is genuine liability here, even if not super obvious.
Python has a "we're all adults here" mindset, which means it will allow you to reach into internals of libraries, ignore type hints, etc because maybe you actually know what you're doing and know the drawbacks but just need a quick solution (lots of python code is small throwaway scripts).

For actual projects you can use a static type checker like mypy.
> The problem with "rating women" in this way is that ranking people according to a very small set of "desirable" attributes neglects or diminishes other very important aspects of what makes a person worth knowing and loving.

That's not just a problem with "rating women", or even with rating men (which happens a lot more than most people would be comfortable admitting!) for that matter. It's a basic failure mode in human psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect

And yes, marketing and advertising exploit this too. Associating a product with conventionally-attractive people is one way of manipulating us to make us feel better about it.
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I'm sure lots of people wish the authorities would disband Goldman, too, for similar reasons.
Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzuRN1F39IY

You can at least trim content out of an existing video.
Atleast in developed countries individual rights are well enforced, so NSA atleast requires permission from secret court & Australian anti-encryption law at least was passed in their parliament (or equivalent).

In India govt just used a loophole to give several government aagencies to access any computer without limitations or hurdles.

I certainly believe this is intended for data analysis for elections & for abuse of people critical oof the government; especially journalists.
We use LLVM, so we have the same optimizer as clang.
I commend him for doing this. People are up in arms about everything: this story plus numerous stories how glitter is bad for the environment. But he created a genuine video, complicated device, put time, effort, and best intentions without a hint of impropriety. People need to relax and stop looking for things to criticize in this case.

We have an ongoing biggest European journalism scandal in decades at Der Spiegel, and you barely hear about this in the media. Where are our priorities?

https://www.politico.eu/article/der-spiegels-first-class-fak...

https://spectator.us/der-spiegel-small-town/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-der-spiegel-says-repor...
this is so intellectually lazy. you don't have to look very hard at Cisco (and many other "US" companies) to find Five Eyes assistance embedded in their products (either purposefully or by willful ignorance)
Woudldn’t that break ASLR?
It was “different” back then. CNN was blocked in 2002 but New York Times wasn’t. One of the reasons I started reading the New York Times actually.

The internet was much more open in 2008 than 2002 (neither nytimes or cnn or anything else major was blocked), but after the olympics China reversed course. Most major news sites are now blocked, but unlike 2002, CNN isn’t. Go figure.

I think the high point of Chinese liberalization in recent history must have been the late 80s, but that is pre-internet.
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One of the points missed with school and sports is that exercise interacts with learning (growth hormones from working out help strengthen memories etc) and I do agree with it being separate from schools.
Not just that. Politicians not having any accountability to felons is part of the reason the US treats many felons unconstitutionally.
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As I said above everyone can make this decision for themselves, and should. It's just important to me to not paint any of the decisions here as "only criminals would do that"! Past that, I figure adults can and should decide these things for themselves.

That said, I also think we should work toward changing the nature of the tradeoff, e.g. by changing how voice assistants work to minimize the privacy issues. I suspect there's a lot of work we could do on that front while not compromising the functionality of the voice assistants.
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It's easier to make GUIs that suit the developers own tastes with web tech than with real toolkits. Whether or not that is a desirable quality in applications is a matter of debate.

Personally, I liked it back in the Win95 days when everything used the native toolkit and I could change its appearance significantly through a simple control panel [0]. Back then, if I wanted a "dark mode" I just adjusted colors to make things darker, but with modern GUI bullshit it's a newsworthy item when someone adds "dark mode" as a feature.

[0] http://toastytech.com/guis/win95schemes.png
> Can someone explain how a Chinese company is subject to a US embargo?

AFAIK, the actual charges are fraud relating to representations to third parties relevant to requirements from the embargo on those third parties, but, that aside, there is nothing that stops a sovereign country from making it's laws applicable to foreign acts of foreign actors (in fact, this is mandated under international law for local law implementing certain provisions of international law), though there may sometimes be practical constraints in enforcement of such provisions.
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only for videos with less than 100k views. his video had millions of views.
As a solo developer using Electron means that I don't have to reimplement all the UI components I already have, and I can publish a decent cross-platform app, where instead of spending time reimplementing everything across platforms I can spend time optimizing it.

I know of no other framework that gives me this power.

We use websites with different UIs every day, can you imagine if we were also complaining that Facebook doesn't feel "native"?
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India: Agencies Can Snoop on Any Computer, Says Centre's Order, Triggering Alarm
Well, now we know where to land the first fleet of robotic air and fuel factories.