skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes it mysterious to me at which point a mere collection of "facts" about a fictional character turns into a copyrightable depiction.

The decision by Hand in National is widely considered to be extremely clear and readable, if you're really curious.

It's important to understand that while mere collections of facts are not copyrightable, nothing about fiction is factual -- you can't defend Captain Marvel on the basis of "we're merely reporting the facts about his powers, which happen to mirror facts about someone elses'" because those powers aren't facts at all but represent conscious creative decisions on the part of Fawcett Comics. When all of your creative decisions are tuned to mirroring the creative decisions of another copyrighted work, you're in pretty well-defined copyright violation territory.
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Wouldn't they be used as self driving pods in future? 50k is low end for that.
Profanity-check: a Python profanity library that isn't just a blacklist of words
"There’s something uniquely American about believing that with a little bit of hard work, anybody can make money fast."

Sure sounds like nothing has changed from P. T. Barnum's time who supposedly said "There's a sucker born every minute"
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It doesn't make it false either.

The blockchain is a protocol, not a company.

The TCP/IP protocol was decades old before it became useful to build companies on top of exactly because it required A LOT of networked connectivity, people to make various investments and critical mass from users.

Give it time.
No matter the reason, it's still just as remarkable, I'm not sure what you're implying.
Good old DT. Dave was a prof of mine in the late 1980's.. CompSci at Carleton in Ottawa, Canada. SmallTalk...my first reaction (95.202 for those that remember...) was WTF?? We had just done Pascal...SmallTalk just blew our minds. It was like you had to smoke dope first... you know, to get it. Many late nights in the lab... it was running in Mac emulation on ancient Lisa computers (I shit you not). Anyhow, none of really understood why we had to learn SmallTalk. There were certainly no summer jobs for SmallTalk guys (dBase? C? sure... ) But DT and the rest of the profs on the 5th floor extolled the value of Objects. Smalltalk is just the tool they said...to learn about OOP. DT always had the best lectures...he was a total blast to listen to. I may have even learned a few things. The only guys I knew that made a buck off of SmallTalk went to work for Dave at OTI. And then that got bought by IBM. Dave absolutely did well...I'm sure he's still smiling.
One way to look at it is, presumably you will have far fewer revocations than active sessions, so why optimize for that case?

Instead of an "active sessions" table you could just maintain a list of revoked sessions and check each incoming request against that list. You can make revocations expire shortly after the JWT was set to expire.
The worst part of SaaS is that what seems to happen with these incidents is:

* denial
* acknowledgement of a limited scope
* promises of transparency and openness
* "we're working on it as hard as possible"
* "all clear" announcement
* carefully worded historical summary downplaying the event as much as possible

I am not saying that GitHub will do that but that is the common approach and it's very frustrating and does a huge disservice to all of us.

As an engineering team, you get held to the standards of whatever SaaS the executives you're talking to happen to know about or lightly use, and their perception is that those services NEVER go down or have issues. The poor and curated historical records don't help you make the case or describe what real SaaS uptime looks like.

Amazon is especially guilty of this. They only really admit issues when they've had a full-on, undeniable outage, and even then they curate the summary and impact very carefully.
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Electron apps are usually pretty terrible.

They have issues with:

1. Memory usage and cpu usage (you're running a browser to run your application)

2. Platform look and feel (doesn't exist in javascript)

3. Platform and windowing behaviors.

I agree with the other commented to you.. if it changed to electronic, I would drop it as well.
Perhaps revoking is the better term here. At least that's the use case I had in mind. If you want the ability to revoke a token, you have to have some list of black listed tokens somewhere.
The number of projects that truly "need a bearer token format" is roughly the same as the number of projects that truly "need a blockchain".
> Anyone have any idea of how long the aluminum can last? Is it at least 1000 years?

Probably depends on how deeply you engrave them.
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Thanks very much. I used to have a ThinkPad and loved it. Will investigate!
You don't need to write assembly or C; it is possible to perform an exploit by utilizing any high-resolution clock, like the one JavaScript on most browsers provided until recently.
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How do they make up for loss of tax revenue?
Ask HN: How to respond to an employee that has psychological problems
Our startup is doing quite well, and we have a small team of engineers. We have one UI/UX Designer in the team on whom we heavily depend on. He is a good designer. Over the last two months he has been very irregular to office, and barely getting anything done at all. I pulled him aside for a performance evaluation conversation today, and he broke down and told me that he has serious psychological problems, and has been seeking professional help. I want to support him as much as I can, but we are bootstrapped startup, and I cannot afford to hire another designer to fill in for him, while he is on recovery. What would you do in situation like this?. I really want to keep him onboard, but he is very expensive for us to bite the bullet easily.
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I frequently muse about how I was coerced into a 20 year "career" in software. I liked computers, but this is not what I liked. I've refound that balance and it's going well, but at no way do I feel like there was ever another road. I tried tons of things. To quote a popular cartoon, "It's like slavery with extra steps!"
Thanks for this explanation. This is one of the things that popped out at me when I looked at the book page. The statement about not providing answers seemed quite dogmatic, and my initial reaction was, why? Turns out it's not so dogmatic, and there's a thoughtful and nuanced explanation. Perhaps you could include some of this on the book page, or provide a link to the explanation elsewhere.
> "they are very profitable producing at current rates"

You don't know that. They had one big, profitable, immaculate quarter in Q3 by pulling all demand forward and using every accounting trick in the book to show profit. There is no guarantee there will be another quarter like that. In fact, if Tesla's earnings history shows anything, it's that losses will be even bigger than before.
"[S]eemingly mundane". As in something you (a human) wouldn't need to put any thought or effort into. It doesn't actually occur to Muggles that there are things that they do that are actually hard problems for computers, even if they understand that there are all sorts of things computers can do in a flash that would exhaust their personal resources for weeks on end.
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Is anyone successfully using Thunderbird with Google calendar? I gave up on it a couple years ago and just use the website, but I'd love to use it again if possible. I honestly can't remember what issues I had, but I do remember near the end I was using it as a view only feature, but for actually stating hangouts or creating new meetings I still had to use the website anyway.
A couple years ago I made very minimal game engine that allowed simple objects to be intersected with SDFs for physics, a bit similar to this. It also had some other cool ideas in it like 3d portals and gravity-bent rays of light.
This is the old version with pictures in the readme
https://github.com/PWhiddy/Raymarch-Engine
And here is a version with no pictures in the readme but an actual build system (if you want to try it out)
https://github.com/PWhiddy/time
Considering it from both angles would probably be a good idea..
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Your example describes a lack of knowledge, not a lack of intelligence.
Interesting story related to this. I was in a Chevy dealership in Clearwater FL buying a Vokt on Monday. The internet sales manager was telling me how he recently sold 5 bolts to a customer in Norway. Given the reduced demand in the US and increased over there it kind of makes sense, but was interesting to see.
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I had a similar thing happen in high school physics. We were were suppose to figure out where and when a projectile was going to land. The only problem was that it was never going to land—-the initial velocity was too high.

In retrospect I think it was a great lesson for my future career as a data engineer. Doesn’t matter what the source is, any datum can be just plain wrong.
> it is not a signal of anything.

It is a signal that politics and policies[1] can make a difference, right?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jul/02/norway-electri...
When they’re cooked properly (i.e. not burned), frozen bacon and sausage are amazing.

The extra joy of going from zero to bacon in 30-seconds is particularly awesome.
As someone who has experienced it, I believe that the neoliberal concept of "workfare" and the related idea that just any job is good for the disabled is something we need to be really careful about. This isn't just a "late capitalism" thing, it's a historical problem where, for example, the mentally ill have been expected to work as gardeners at the institution which houses them, whether or not this is a fulfilling job for them. It goes back to the idea of the workhouse and beyond.

One crucial issue is that the person who is being asked to do the work needs to feel that they can say no.

Finding ways to extract labour from people who would otherwise be a "pure burden" on society is obviously fraught with risks of exploitation.
That's the conclusion I've come to. I wished someone would have saved me a few brain cells and told me that when I first heard about the damn things.
I clicked on the title ready to judge it as click-bait like yourself, but I think the text makes a good point that the majority of reservation holders seem to be willing to wait for their $35,000 Model 3s. Too bad they didn't get their $7,500 tax credit though.
Random thought, could the attack surface be reduced by limiting old APIs to programs running in compatibility mode?

This would basically be a modification of the "least permissions" principle—only expose old APIs to programs old enough to need them.
Hi Kyle,

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So you think by creating a negative association with AI, adoption will be delayed?
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> Has anyone else had a horror interview like this?

Here's my horror story from last year where the interviewer was getting frustrated at my mistakes in dictating C++ over the phone and abruptly cut off the interview with "It's clear you are not right for this position. Goodbye."

This was for a hedge fund infrastructure dev position... I wonder if there's something in the water?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17727794
Gamedev introduction to 'Modern' C++
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No has mentioned it yet, but for coding and terminal windows, I've tried almost all of the others listed here, but I prefer and keep going back to DejaVu Sans Mono.

( https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/ )
Gates' resolution to learn and think more about the intersection between privacy and innovation is absolutely spot on. I've been thinking about better ways that we can approach chronic illnesses through health tracking, but absolutely terrified of the implication of that data falling into the wrong hands - and not even for nefarious purposes.

For example, I would not trust my health insurance company with information that may indicate I am predisposed to an illness or disease lest they brand me as a high risk, pre-existing condition patient, and deny or price me out of coverage forever. I'd rather do my own experimentation outside of the 'official' medical community than to risk my own data being used as a weapon against me.

Somewhat unrelated, I feel that the next underexplored area of medical science is that of the gut & intestines. Having a toilet that could do continual personalized analyses of your urine and stool is going to revolutionize medicine. However, as much as I believe that this is an opportunity to change the world for the better, I would never purchase such a device under the current privacy and security climate. I hope we can start to resolve these issues in 2019 and beyond so we can unlock these sorts of innovations to help people on a daily basis with chronic conditions.
My feeling is that there is a coordinated media attack against major US tech companies.
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yes, daily
I mean many c64 era RPGs are bigger and more impressive in scale than especially NES Zelda. However none were as clever when it came to the way it did gate-ing (metrovania style).
All of those corners you've so frugally cut can be drowned out by the difference between a 3% raise in rent and a 10-15% in rent, or a uncovered medical expense, or a child you're not prepared to have, so I really doubt too many Netflix-esque subscriptions is really the reason why so many seemly middle class income people are living paycheck to paycheck.
Can we go back further and have Django/Rails as the new hotness with Pjax/Turbolinks for the extra cool kids?
> A RISC based implementation of the Apple II 6502 Processor: In mid ’85 I performed an analysis that showed a simple RISC style implementation of a 16‐bit binary compatible superset of the 8‐bit microprocessor used in the Apple II 6502, along with some judicious use of on‐chip caching, could substantially improve performance – to the point of potentially outperforming the 68000 used in the Mac, and given the simplicity of the 6502 the implementation was “doable” by a small team.

This is fascinating, and I wonder if any of the design work has survived.
It is a JavaScript app :) e.g. https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/file/tip/mail/base/conte...
It isn't really that fair, the critical time sink starts shifting to offload/onload time and there is a lot of waste having to load each bus individually.

This is why developed subway systems with high usage end up with large trains, that's the best way to speed up the system, reducing the delay caused by trains waiting for other trains that are stopped in the station.
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Imagine this in a bracelet form factor that puts multiple sensors in a loop around your forearm which it uses to locate and sense the position of the opposite hand.

VR/AR use cases suffer from poor input controls; this might be a better approach.