skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the implementation, an interesting way to cheat is to use the following "never loses" sequence:

RRRRRRLRRRLRLRLLRRRRLLRRLRRLRLLLRRRLLLRLRRLLRLRL
RRRRRRLRRRLRLRLLRLLRRRRLLRRLLLLRRLRRLRLLLLLRLLLRRRLLLRLRRLLRLRL
RRRRRRLRRRLRLRLLRLLRRRRLLRRLLLLRRLRRLRLLLLLLRLLLRRRLLLRLRRLLRLRL
RRRRRRLRRRLRLRLLRLLRRRRLLRRLLLLRRLRRLRLLLLLLRLLLRRRLLLRLRRLLRLRL
RRRRRRLRRRLRLRLLRLLRRRRLLRRLLLLRRLRRLRLLLLLLRLLLRRRLLLRLRRLLRLRL
...

You could easily avoid the repetition by saying that on ties you just choose a prediction at random (and likewise for the first 4).

What's at stake here is the same thing that threatens to eventually cause another civil war in the US, but that is a question for another time. :) It is a broad class of theorems which state that if you have a function f: X -> X and you repeat it over and over it naturally finds an input x such that f(x) = x. This repetition has naturally found a set of moves which resets the Markov matrix back to what it was. If you randomized the prediction on ties then I am not sure what I would do exactly... I would have to steer the Markov matrix into a cycle but assuming that it stores the absolute counts for every single prediction, any oscillations I'm using would want to naturally decay to zero... I might be able to exploit it if you were to only look at, say, my last 1000 moves' history to make your predictions, and maybe I can still induce an oscillation that does better than random chance, but I am not sure that I can.
what lobbyists are lobbying to break up big tech companies? Not everything is propaganda.
Google Android phones and computers running MS Windows provide ample competition for Apple's devices
It's still pretty rare to have a private jet which can do transpacific flights -- particularly since it's usually to/from specific gateway cities, too. CX, SQ, JL, QR, EK F is more comfortable than a fractional-ownership G650 and costs about 10% as much.
Microsoft was going to be broken up, until the political landscape changed.

Even without the breakup, Microsoft was under heavy scrutiny and regulation as a result of the court case, which insiders say dramatically changed the company culture (for good or ill.)
If you have an actual disability you can alter it.
The US govt has some of the biggest waste I’ve ever seen. Tens to hundreds of millions on failed research thrusts that were extreme long-shots from the beginning. Govt employees that “rest and vest” to extremes, working 20 actual hrs a week at a FTE position and getting pension at 55. It puts to shame actual hardworking Americans who are outside the elitist bubble.

It’s hard to argue when the same side benefitting from big govt wants to print money to “solve” all their problems and shut down opposing virwpoints with such vitrol. One side is actively extatic by shutting down tens of thousands of prospective jobs while not getting that funding and revenue of their projects comes from those jobs.
People always seem to conflate winning and monopoly which is false.
> The point of anti-trust laws is to break up monopolies because they represent a massive and dangerous concentration of market and political power in the hands of the few. You don't need evidence of any specific crime to do it.

Not actually true. To break up an existing company, you need to be taken to court by the United States under the one of the anti-trust acts, and prove a violation of the law.

To be clear the FTC can prevent mergers with no evidence of wrongdoing, based solely on market share, but breaking up an existing company is a rarely used remedy in antitrust cases.
If Amazon achieve their goal, you won't have the option of going to your neighborhood supermarket.. because it will have either been run out of business or acquired by Amazon.
You silo the search engine segment of the business as one company, the advertising segment as a separate business, etc etc. Alphabet is more than just the Google search engine at this point.
SF cafeteria ban proposal dismissed (but only narrrowly)
I don't like it because I find the judging people based on their skin color extremely racist, yet I'm forced to support it due to the need to put food on the table.

> diversity hiring may mean that you will be excluded because you are mistaken for white

I consider this racism and it pains me to to have to play the game of the people committing it.
> Is this related to the a.out file that gcc outputs if you don't specify a filename with -o?

Yes, it is historically related. The file format is the descendant of binary format of the first C compiler, that already produced a.out files by default. Today in linux you typically get an ELF, but is still called like that.
> Life is way too short for boring food

I think it's not that life is way too short, but that you enjoy new food. For me, sometimes the food decision tree feels like too much time lost to food while other more interesting tasks could be done, and then I choose a tuna/chicken salad and get over with it.
Don’t forget Catapult Entertainment’s X-BAND - a lock-on modem cartridge for Genesis and (later) SNES that added remote multiplayer to games by patching them on-the-fly.
Show HN: Extensible STL style containers, iterators and algorithms in C
> I grew up when games were entire games.

And they were usually mostly made by one individual. Now, the expectation for larger AAA games is much, much more. People expect more out of graphics, voice acting, and music. Games have budgets greater than many movies. And this is expected.

Micro-transactions aren't unique to games. They come from normal business, so hoping they go away is hoping for businesses to pass on making money. That's not going to happen.
I don't exactly like her but this is a very valid point. Not like she will get the necessary support in a bought out congress (both sides)
beat me to it ;)
NASA is a an acronym and not a word
If you want to get a Visa at some point in your live: things get much easier to if you have a university degree. All these "don't need a degree" posts always seem a bit US-centric.
I had to name the speed settings on an old 802.11 radio link. Started with 1-10MBit with names like standard speed, full speed, high speed. Added mega speed, hyper speed, ultra speed, mondo speed, maxi-speed, ludicrous speed to get to 200MBit.
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> 2. IoT devices that detects leakages in main pipes

I used to work for a company that does this: http://gwfathom.com/

They replace traditional water meters with smart meters and then provide software tooling around monitoring and managing them.
Neither one wanted to cook; they didn't like going out all the time.
*First class is in decline, rather. Don't think it will ever disappear, mostly for the first reason the article says - the upgrade chance as a carrot to keep business traveler loyalty
Unfortunately I agree. Since Silicon Valley leans left so heavily this is the sort of thing you sit on until much later in the process. I personally feel that Google, Facebook, et al are too big and powerful now, this is going to immediately set those companies against her so she's kneecapping her campaign before it even gets started.
Maybe we can just assume people are allowed to have different opinions, rather than implying anyone that disagrees with you is one of the "sheeple" huh?

I don't think we need to break up any of these companies. Particularly when an industry like Cable/ISP's exist, which are allowed to have an actual regional monopoly and artificially inflate prices in order to force you to use their other services.

None of these three do anything of the sort. And Amazon, really?
If you have to fly more than a few long hauls a year, business class is necessary to preserve your sanity.
if you're going to break them up, it's going to be a lot tougher to keep track of their "anti consumer" behaviour
Independent retail isn't dead but it sure is limping. I've been trying to get a book from a local book store that specializes in computer shit for a week and a half now; they had to special order (even though it's not particularly obscure) and said it would be three to four days, but it still hasn't come in and I think they're getting annoyed with me checking in daily.

If I'd bought it on Amazon, I could have had it within hours. But I wasn't really in a hurry and thought I'd support a local business. I'd probably do the same again, but I can see why many people don't want to put up with this.
As others have pointed out it's an elf file called a.out.

I would like to ask who's idea it was to name GCCs default output after a completely different file format ?!
Sure, but Microsoft after the lawsuit was not the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" powerhouse from the 90s it used to be. They couldn't be, they couldn't risk another antitrust suit that might have real consequences. I think one could argue that Microsoft not being in full on domination mode created the opening that enabled all these other companies to thrive since they no longer had to deal with the extended existential threat of Microsoft.
How about going after Comcast and Verizon first, the actual tech monopolies? I already don’t use Facebook, I buy things online from places other than Amazon, and have email accounts that aren’t hosted by Google. However, all of that goes over Comcast’s network because that’s my only viable choice for Internet service. Also, while FAANG occasionally do things I don’t approve of, they don’t actively lobby congress for things that will make my use of the internet objectively worse (NN, SOPA, etc...).

But no, because Comcast has -bribed- donated to way more congresspeople than Google, because they’re better at playing that game.
I'm virtually rich

var seq = '0000001000011000101000111001001011001101001111010101110110111111'; var index = 0; setInterval(function(){ captureKeyFunc({code : seq[index%seq.length] === '1' ? 'ArrowLeft':'ArrowRight', preventDefault: function () {}}); index++; }, 10);
listen to his joe rogan interview. He is very close to meeting the threshold of being in the DNC debates.
With all due respect, I don’t think you speak for the average American.

edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted, since I basically stated the truth: the parent poster doesn't speak for the average American.
What about AMP, where failure to publish your content using their proprietary toolkit meant that you wouldn’t be featured at the top of the search results?
Ii that really a thing though?

Have we seen tech company lobbyists really push a lot of weight around? Companies that seemed to genuinely support net neutrality didn't seem to have much of any impact / participate all that much.
Depends entirely on your curiosity, motivation and energy.

The answer could be "less than four years" or "a lifetime."

Everything is "self taught" when you get right down to it. The only difference is whether one has/needs guidance about what to study, and advice from others with more experience.
The program collects statistics based on your previous 5 key-presses. That's one way to do it, but there's a much better, extremely elegant algorithm for quickly making predictions by averaging over a doubly exponential number of models of this form. The algorithm is called Context Tree Weighting, or CTW for shorts. Look it up.
Yes, they are planning to refurbish and re-fly the splashed down crew Dragons as cargo dragons. But each crew Dragon will be new. I think Musk said it's almost as expensive to refurbish as build a new one (which is crazy to me but he'd know).
It's initiatives like this that make me really discouraged about distributed government among equal (read "no") responsibility city supervisors and a largely symbolic mayor.

These supervisors are basically posing for the camera and headlines, and never put forward solutions that do anything but tinker around the edges or placate their own district for a few months. Of course I'm specifically thinking about housing. But also in this case, how ridiculous is it to propose that thousands of workers have to go use local restaurants by banning alternatives? What kind of public policy professionals are these?

What can be done about this kind of Bay Area government idiocy?
Going back to largely cash transactions not only reduced my paper trail, but it's much easier to keep to a weekly budget. And, hey, cash price at gas stations!
>>> relative wealth distribution getting too extremely unequal has negative ramifications for any society, regardless of the absolute wealth

Like what exactly?

I do not understand why people are upset over extreme wealth. I think Jeff Bezos deserves to be a billionaire and I would not want to live in a society that does not allow people like him succeed and accumulate this sort of money. The quetion is what happens with his wealth in the second and third generation. Historically in fedualism this was passed down to the next generation and the family would keep it until end of the feudalism era. In a capitalistic society it deisappears within 2-3 egenerations, especially with people like Bill Gates. Not sure what is the problem here.
Don’t you need to pay to unlock characters in Rainbow 6? Not sure that counts as cosmetic. Definitely seems like paywalling game content.
It does happen obviously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%E2%80%93time_tradeoff

But yes, running another browser + javascript interpreter on a machine that already has a browser + javascript interpreter running isn't what that article is talking about.
> I think breaking up the ISPs and media conglomerates would be much more impactful.

While i agree with you wholeheartedly i don't know anyone who has ever got elected by attacking the media and big business.
I used to work for a company with a very large user base. On 2 separate occasions we found code with GPL2 notices. One was in a header file and the other was in a monitoring script (we were technically distributing this script because of our corporate structure and who was running the servers).

Management took the issue very seriously -- in both cases the code was pulled and the features rebuilt. Annual trainings were introduced to make sure people were aware of licenses and that they can't just pull in code without looking. The company actually contributes quite a bit to open source.

You're absolutely correct that most companies wouldn't take the risk. I've seen this taken so far as to need Legal approval for including any new libraries. Unfortunately a lot of developers don't understand what they are doing regarding licenses. They don't understand that they are taking a risk on behalf of the company when they include code with a copyleft license.

Every place I've ever worked for has used code in production with licenses requiring attribution, but it's very rare that I've seen it actually done.
I miss the time when in Gboard you could use the slide typing to type multiple words at once. This was so useful and made people like me who are unable to type quickly on a virtual keyboard (touch) to type very fast.
That makes even less sense. Even if it's one person flying for 6 hours, 2400 gallons of burned kerosene is several orders of magnitude less GHG emissions than 10,000 Americans in a year.

Edit: To put numbers on it, each American emits 16,500 kg of CO2 per year, 2400 gallons of jet fuel emits 21,360 kg of CO2. So it's more like one American's emissions in a year.
I still have some ancient statically linked a.out Linux binaries lying around from my old projects where the compile environment was sufficiently complicated I don't think I could easily recompile the code. I appreciate that I can still run the binaries. But I think the last time I actually needed to was ~8 years ago.
Small shops are still a thing, but rising rents are as much to blame as Amazon for them closing their doors.
See downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19338196

(answer: historically related, but the gcc output isn't in this format today)
Seems like society is taking the position that if you can't prove it does harm then it must be fine. I'm starting to understand where conservatism comes from.
Don't you only need to remember the last 5 or 6?
I don't think that IoT implies publicly accessible (correct me if I'm wrong). "IoT" smart water meters exist, and they usually use cellphone networks to send data (water usage) to the utility company.
There's no right that tech giants need to be allowed to exist in their current form, either.

If a person doesn't break any pre-existing laws, then they must not suffer any legal consequences, sure. And nobody is suggesting that Page and Brin should spend a minute in court or pay a cent in fines.

But a corporation isn't a person, it's a business instrument, and if the United States were to judge that the existence of that instrument is detrimental to the greater security / stability / welfare of the nation as a whole, they would have every right to write a new law to ban usage of that instrument, i.e. ban the existence of Google in its current form, as they once wrote a new law to ban the existence of the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation.
BBC also ran an article not too long ago about this... I wouldn't mind it once in a while!

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190103-the-norwegian-art-...
1. Small brick and mortar shopping is still a thing.

2. Amazon has literally thousands of online competitors, many of whom also have physical stores that get tons of traffic: Walmart, Target, BBB, Costco, Home Depot, Lowes, Pharmacies, etc., etc., etc.
a study of Standard Oil is really instructive. It is not a matter of there being no competition, it's a matter of having such market power that you can dictate rates for your competitors. Standard Oil got paid every time a railroad shipped a competitors oil!
You would probably split google's search engine off from the rest of their services/products, so that they can't use their search engine dominance to unfairly harm competition.

Similarly, you could divide Amazon into a platform company that does fulfillment for others and a separate company that sells their own products, as well as splitting off things like AWS into their own companies.
Preventing those companies from buying out others and using their incredible size and resources to quashing competition I can support. Splitting into pieces can make sense as well. It looks like Warren's definition of "Fair Use" is more in the context of selling widgets and does not appear to be tied to free speech issues. I guess that Elizabeth Warren isn't supporting a definition of "fair use" of these platforms that matches the United States Supreme court definition of free speech.
'Zerocarb' here. I don't insist on eating the exact same thing, but what I eat is quite limited - meat, animal fat, salt and water.

I started this because of health issues, but I grew to like the simplicity of it as well. I can eat one large meal and not feel hungry or exhausted the whole day, and I can easily find adequate food without being fussy in most environments. For example, McDonalds burger patties are 100% beef.
I had a big issue with glaring contradictions in your position until I re-read your series of posts. I've come to recognize you're conflating multiple related 'responsibility' concepts, swapping into the different modes when it's convenient. It's very similar to how you treated the term 'fair' earlier on. This is a common argument pattern for people who like winning pitched arguments against inexperienced individuals.

Your statements regarding legal responsibility, which is what you were critiquing (remember we're talking about contracts!), are all VERY wrong. But a lay person strolling through the thread wouldn't know it, so maybe your argument seems plausible. Half the time, though, you're not making a 'legal responsibility' argument but rather a 'moral responsibility' argument. The is/ought dichotomy exists, and is a common place where people get tripped up when discussing law.

The rest of the discussion isn't really worth having given that core miscommunication. That said...

>You arguing against straw man libertarian, not me.

You literally doubled down on the same position for three paragraphs in the very same post. lol
Those are good examples of the author's ability for empathy but I believe this article is delving more into the function of art as a method to promote empathy to the audience (from author to the reader via art).

Although the two may be somewhat in sync as it requires empathy to promote it.
Banks don’t really exist to help people save money anymore. For the most part, they exist to extract fees from people who keep money there and from borrowers.
I agree that QA typically don't get the prestige of development. But at my job we happen to have some QA people that are worth their weight in gold. And that is generally understood and respected by the dev teams here.
The PC1512 was very IBM compatible except for stuff that reprogrammed the 6845 into odd modes (IIRC) it had an odd 16 colour CGA mode that was available.

The only other issues I can remember I think is the PSU was in the monitor so video connectors were odd and the keyboard/mouse were Amstrad custom designs so you couldn't swap with a regular PC or clone.

I worked at Borland in the UK at the time and I don't remember any real issues.

The other major vendor in the UK was Apricot which started out rebadging Victor machines and had a similar level of compatibility to the DEC rainbow (I think it used an 80186 as the CPU)
How is it any different than letting them use the mail? You can't combine the First Amendment with censorship.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a premium economy product on United and I fly 75K miles on them per year. There’s economy, economy plus, and either old-style business or, increasingly, Polaris even on domestic flights.

Added: Ah, haven’t seen it because it’s just starting to roll out on United.
And we can have that discussion then.

When Amazon is actually a monopoly.

Until then, they're not. And being good at business is not a problem.
Ah this point piqued my interest. Before I thought this was a waste of time for YC to be throw $150,000 at this company, but with the military aspect it makes it a lot more of a feasible business model. The military doesn't need something with many hours of flight time for all scenarios. They might just need to get medical supplies delivered to the field really quick and this could more then accomplish that potentially.
Don't forget Spectrum (the result of the Charter and TWC merger) as well.
"It was a bit overly ambitious (maybe), but I actually think that it's not an inherently bad idea."

That's a great idea to me. There are too few choices on the cheap side to consider, like the Pinebook. Even the GPD Pocket 2, which I find gorgeous, is still too pricey IMO. A smaller Pinebook without trackpad would probably be our dream pocket device.

"but doesn't Google Drive support .doc files?"

Probably yes, though I'm used to always look for offline solutions: Once I get the data on my device, backups aside, it stays there for processing until I have to send it elsewhere.
The concept of applications as services and cloud computing is ancient and totally unwanted to me, probably because dumbed down terminals connected to a do-it-all central server is something those of us who are over 50 see for what it really was: a huge limitation of the past, rather than a technological advancement. Forcing users to get online to load or edit something is just a way to control access both to the data and the code to treat that data.

Personal ideas aside, my GF family she often visits lives in a poorly covered area and being forced to depend on connectivity for editing a document or any other thing easily doable the traditional way, would be problematic to her.
Luckily the world isn't made exclusively of hyperconnected cities with tall buildings.
He could also explain why we don't need headphone jack ports.
Algorithm decodes rat squeaks and could revolutionize animal research [video]
Right, so considerably less fuel than a 737 carries. I used that as a worst case and it’s still orders of magnitude short.