skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very nice implementation of this called KillBill: it's a self-hosted invoicing system that can connect to many payment providers like Stripe/Paypal/...

It's really nice to be in control of the invoicing, without having to implement it ourselves, and of course not depend on only one provider. It also has support for taxes with plugins.
I am curious if any of this would happen in my own country — The Netherlands. I would think not, but then again, neither did I know about US universities.
ACLU files complaint – US border control intense interrogation of Apple employee
It is not very different from yours. Since all data can be easily redownloaded and processed again I really care only about code. Which is managed by Gitlab on a different machine and use internal Gitlab tool for backups.
Doesn’t a lot of the social networks do this? Linkedin used to ask for email password all the time at one point, don’t know if they still do. Mint and others want passwords to bank accounts. I know we are a bit more sensitive I e about privacy but the general population is still not. I can understand Facebook needs to be extra cautious now but I guess they don’t care.
Never build your business ecosystem around google. They are very unstable. Use Microsoft, Azure, Office 365 instead.
No I meant civil agreements, specifically because those are the civil cases the article mentions emojis in the context of court records.
Watched this documentary during a fight last month and it was really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDyBBkC7Lk8
Part of getting all the top talent is that you can deny it to potential competitors.
It's not

users.map{&:name}

but

users.map(&:name)

The &something syntax to pass on a block is very old syntax to allow passing on a block that is reified as a Proc, it mirrors the syntax used to receive a block (if you don't want to use, or can't use yield, for example because you need to pass on the block to another method).

e.g.

def apply_to_all(&callback)
@all.each(&callback)
end

or

def initialize(a, b, c, &block)
@a = a
super(b, c, &block)
end

The only thing that &:symbol adds is that it defines to_proc on Symbols to create a Proc object that sends the symbol to it's first parameter, you could define it yourself if Ruby didn't already, and in fact it was first defined by users of Ruby before it became part of Ruby core.

Definition:

class Symbol
def to_proc
return Proc.new {|receiver| receiver.send(self)}
end
end

This definition allows `["1", "2", 3].map(&:to_i)` to work in Ruby 1.8.6, which otherwise doesn't support it.
Combining online and offline tests to improve Facebook’s News Feed ranking
One thing I really miss from Inbox is the ability to archive the currently highlighted message with the archive shortcut without having to select it first. Does anyone know a way to get this in gmail?
The current pricing is available at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/182057119/gimli

Its basically:

29$ for a 2 year license.
35$ for a 2 year license + beta access
I'm not sure I'd call the last season "amazing". It had some promise at the start, but it was pretty clear before too long that Hamilton was going to run away with it again.

We'll see what this season holds (since at this time last season it still looked like it would be a good fight to the end), but I'm optimistic. If Bottas can retain his form from Australia (I think the wind really threw him off in Bahrain), and if Vettel can get his head on straight, we could see a legit four-way fight for the title.
The cognitive burden argument is completely subjective. If you’re used to point-free programming, the first short form probably requires less cognitive burden. To me, it makes way more sense to think about “map the users list over the function that returns name” rather than “map the users list over a brand new anaonymous function that takes a user and calls the name method on it.”
> the default position in the US is that the government should stay out of things (limited government)

Limited government means that the government stays within prescribed bounds, not that it stays out of things by default. How that applies to minimum wage depends on whether we’re talking about state or federal minimums, and the provisions (and one's interpretation of them) of the applicable constitution.
Why are you fixated on permanently sequestering the carbon? As soon as a tree dies, all you need to do is replace it by replanting the tree. It doesn't matter if the tree's carbon is immediately released in the atmosphere (by burning) or it happens after hundreds of years. The new tree will re-sequester the dead tree's carbon.

Also, if a tree dies, it frees up space for another tree. So in effect, as long as you keep those 1.2T trees growing (and replace any dead ones promptly), you will keep that carbon sequestered.

> Really, this is all so silly... It makes no sense, like most of the feel-good green plans.

At this point, it seems like you're just dismissing the idea. Feel free to do so, but you haven't provided any reason why it won't work.
We will not see his likes again.
You never specified that loans must come from entities with reserve requirements. Not all loans originate from such entities so your statement should not be taken as absolute fact.
The reason for the limitation is that it was existing syntax, with a different purpose (see the sibling post to yours).
Websites got a lot less fun at some point too. A lot of the designs seem dated now, but I really miss the days when websites had brightly colored text over load backgrounds. Obviously modern sites are more usable, but I want <blink> tags back.
I've been doing some research on videogaming in the 90s and I run across so many dead links to things that even archive.org doesn't have. The thing that is really frustrating is that there were a handful of psuedo-podcasts with interviews from game developers that are all gone because they were posted in real audio.
if I ever needed to show proof of my time there it would only be a Google search away

On that topic, has anyone discovered why Google deep-six'd Usenet archives it acquired with Deja News?

You used to be able to find specific posts from specific posters with by: and other operators. Sometime in the aughts it degraded quickly to the point where I can't find threads from which I have explicit excerpts and full author names.

Does someone high up in Google have an embarrassing usenet history? Did it just fall in disrepair?
> Why are you fixated on permanently sequestering the carbon? As soon as a tree dies, all you need to do is replace it by replanting the tree.

This is true on average in otherwise equivalent conditions, sure.
> The negative? You don’t get to use the amazing Symbolics keyboards.

Can't that be solved by ordering PCBs, your favorite switches, and custom key caps? BTW, has nobody 3D scanned those keycaps on their newer keyboards? The older model seems pretty standard sculpted spherical top ones.

> AFAIK, the unofficial x86 port of OpenGenera is an emulator for Alpha which emulates the Lisp machine, and all together it’s still much faster.

Is there a place this unofficial port can be seen?
No personal criticism meant! The article is badly written to suggest the standing problem is general when it's really a problem only for plaintiffs who haven't actually lost money on the scam. (One is the many flaws with the article...)
Reminders still exist on Google Calendar, in both the browser and Android apps. They even appear as notifications on my phone at the scheduled time.
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The answer is clear: It takes an effort to publish something on the internet. Companies and other organisations disappear and their web presence disappears with them.
It takes an extra effort to create a copy. The dark web - the parts of the web that aren't easily accessible because they consist of databases, paid access areas or perhaps simply facebook posts not published as "public" - remains hidden and inaccessible to preservation efforts.

There's also the problem of consuming old internet content. Do you still have a gopher client? Will old web pages look the same in your browser as they did in 1995? Flash will no longer work (hooray?).

On the other hand books, photographs and magazines stick around until you throw them away and we have public institutions that are dedicated to their preservation.
LinkedIn asks for email passwords? I knew they encouraged uploading your contacts, but didn't realize they wanted your email too. Guess I shouldn't be surprised. If their's any major social media platform less ethical than Facebook it's probably LinkedIn.
I would love to play MtG against a decent—and particularly, scalable—AI.

Not only am I not all that good at the game, I have been burned too many times by bad online play experiences—between people trolling, people at vastly higher levels of play than me, and people who are just rude and mean—to really want to play against real people I don't know most of the time.

But I do like playing. So an AI that could provide a reasonable challenge would be ideal.
Gmail is releasing a feature in a couple weeks to let you schedule outbound emails. This seems like the perfect reminder system.
This matches my experiences teaching at non-elite schools. Entitlement is high and professors are hired either for research (among TT faculty) or as adjuncts; the former realize that their research is important and one student making a stink can jeopardize their TT work. The latter realize that one student making a stink can jeopardize their contracts. See also https://jakeseliger.com/2017/04/24/ninety-five-percent-of-pe.... So the incentive is to give the students what they want.

In addition, in most schools no one knows what a given set of admins will do or whether admins will back faculty. So what are professors incentivized to do? What are admins incentivized to do? Particularly in an age where accusations of impropriety are common and can also sink or stymie careers. The number of tools students have is large; the number faculty have, small.

All this is also compatible with The Case Against Education: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/03/12/the-case-against-educatio...
I blame the Poles for the muteness of their non-slav neighbors.
>If you have listeners you have a responsibility for what you are saying whether you like it or not.

It's this line of thinking that leads to people with minor platforms telling me to do things I already agree with, but in the most self-defeating and insultingly paternalistic ways possible that I wind up questioning my own positions because they advocated for them so goddamn poorly.

>Saying nothing even remotely political is better than completely screwing up

I think we don't understand just how badly the well-intentioned idiots are screwing it all up. See also: every Twitter fight between team We Know Best, and team Go Fuck Yourself.
7th Circuit: Dismissal of TCPA unsolicited fax lawsuit inappropriate [pdf]
Yes, and my point is that being unable to come up with examples based on personal experience is not very convincing evidence that no examples exist.
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It's an Eternal September problem, not a search engine problem. Whenever I use search like a proper normie to buy something, check song lyrics, or weather, the results are excellent.
There was no business model for Google with an open, decentralized Usenet. They tried to replace it with Google Groups and later Google Plus.
more interest in the Persian influence to Jews and their religion, as it is the Persia that allow them to go back home after Babylon occupation. Bible mostly dated back to this time at least the final editing. Wonder any good lead to this era culture.
Agreed. I'm in favour of laws dictating that research funded with public funds must be published without paywalls. France has such legislation IIRC, other countries should follow.
Train pricing is utterly insane, I have tried the last few years to find an affordable alternative to flying/driving by searching for long-distance or overnight Amtrak options (for Southwest area), but have consistently failed to find tickets less than $500, regardless of time of year.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep
Is it possible the private sector (free market) is not as infallible as I was lead to believe?
That's only the trailer. Do you know if it's available in full elsewhere?
The underlying fault unfortunately isn't 100% a Boeing problem. There are airworthyness regulations that specify how a passenger plane is to behave near stall that have had a precedent set where non-compliance can be remedied through flight envelope driven interlocks. (See stick-pushers and other piloting aids). Engineeringwise, the airframe was still not compliant; the airframe would still manifest aberrant behavior, but the action on the controls combined with a type certified pilot was considered enough to mitigate the problematic aerodynamics.

This practice, fortunately or unfortunately depending on who you ask, effectively normalized deviance, and short-circuited the protection offered by that airworthyness regulation. It went from being clearly spelled out to "or equivalent level of safety" which opens the door to all sorts of workarounds.

The alpha vanes need to be a high-priority maintenance item. They may also need to be redesigned/augmented such that they can be hardened against typical failure states, or subjected to in-flight remediation/diagnostics and graceful failover.

That isn't easy from my understanding. Doing something like hardening vs. freezing would require some form of heating element, which would potentially effect the calibration of the sensor while active, and increase maintenance complexity. Adding some sort of self contained calibration unit to the sensor could work too, however, the more complexity built into that, the more costly it becomes.

There is a point of diminishing returns, and I do think the plane can be rendered safe with MCAS and pilot retraining.

Unfortunately, that will still come bundled with an aircraft losing its airworthyness rating on Stab Trim cutout.
More info here.

"The Mesa Programming Environment"

http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/XDEPaper.pdf

"The Cedar Programming Environment: A Midterm Report and Examination "

http://worrydream.com/refs/Teitelman%20-%20The%20Cedar%20Pro...
It explains why they never had a good Usenet client but why is the content not really searchable anymore?
It's this problem all the way down. You cannot verify that the charity is doing things properly. The charity cannot verify that the subcontractor is doing things properly. The subcontractor cannot verify that his employees in the foreign country are doing their job properly and then finally even they cannot verify that the locals who they are helping are actually those who need it the most.
How much do we wanna bet this is just a recruiting gimmick?
How I interviewed at 6 companies in 9 days and got 4 offers
State privacy laws no backdoor for COPPA claims in Google suit [pdf]
Hi everyone,

I recently submitted this manuscript to bioRxiv (preprint server for biological research) as I was curious to find out what people -also outside of academia- thought of it. In short, we show data that suggests the brain is capable of extracting low-level features of an unattended (i.e. task-irrelevant) stimulus, but can no longer integrate these features.

We believe this work to be relevant in a.o. the topic of conscious awareness, in which attention and integration of information play key factors (see for example: information integration theory, global neuronal workspace theory).

Anyway, I'm open to any questions, comments or random remarks you have on this manuscript.

Thanks in advance for your interest!

All the best,
Stijn Nuiten
It's been a few years since university, but there are only a few numerus fixus studies in The Netherlands AFAIK.
For those, bribing yourself in would make sense, but I also doubt it happens and you would be found out soon I suppose.

But it could..
Rich parents setting up their kids using tactics at various degrees along the ethical-unethical-illegal spectrum is not a US centric phenomenon but a basic human condition.
How did they make it work? Even given the passwords, how would they check robustly without tripping the email "unusual connection from IP x.x.x.x". Even if they have a few IP to make the checks, the mail server may notice that one IP is connecting to thousands of accounts.
What do you think decentralized finance even is?
Rust fans should contribute to Rust kernels and stop suggesting porting existing ones like Linux, rewriting existing working code without introducing new bugs and changing behavior is hard and expensive as in developer hours, it is faster to do it from scratch in your favorite language with your favorite patterns and drop legacy stuff(even this means you will have less possible users then Linux).
Why are there even "sides"? it's very obvious that this new tooling can be very useful for the modern Web. it's also apparent that a certain intersection of skill set and project requirements can do better with more classic tooling. why is there a continuous need to pull someone to one side or another? whatever happened to using the most appropriate tool for the job?
Wrong interpretation.

Let me tell you an Indian story from mahabharatha (an Indian epic). There is Arjuna and Karna (Karna, known for his dana guna - virtue of giving away & charity). On an occasion, Arjuna has so much money and wanted to give it away to poor to gain some punya(good fortune). He expresses his intention to Krishna, and Krishna says, go a head. So, he does that, he partitions his wealth, and starts giving it away to poor one-by-one personally. In the end, he comes to know he hasn't accumulated anything (no punya/good fortune). he goes to Krishna again and asks, why haven't I accumulated anything? I did a good thing, I should accumulate good karma for my coming lives, right?

Krishna smiled and took him to karna in disguise to show him something. He went to Karna in disguise and said he was poor and asked for help. Karna gave away everything he got with him without any second thoughts. And he forgot about it instantly and moved on. Krishna turned to arjuna and said, you wanted to accumulate good karma/fortune, and hence you did gave away something of yours(keeping something for yourself) and kept claiming it everywhere you go and you even came to me asking why you haven't got anything in return. Karna, on the other hand, simply gave away everything he has and never even thought about it or boasted about it elsewhere. He just helped a poor and moved on. And thats how dana works. There are so many people in India who were never heard of and in disguise giving away and doing charity without even claiming it anywhere. Thats called 'guptha dana'. Charity in disguise. The first rule of charity according to Indian scriptures is, do it because you can. You wont't get anything in return because you are doing it. That's not how it works.

The above applies in the other way too, someone did something bad in their previous life so they were born wealthy and miss all the simple happy and emotional things poor and joint families can enjoy, instead they merely work hard to multiply their wealth like a machine. The wisdom in Indian literature is very deep and one have to understand it properly and muse over it to benefit from it. If any one is interested, I strongly recommend Devdutt Pattanaik 's show on Netflix. Very entertaining.
meta programming and the flexibility Ruby has around how it can be achieved are the things that set Ruby in a league of its own.
It's "revolutionary" to try and defy your bosses who tell you what code to write. Get back to your keyboard, serf.
I have had the opportunity to work with an Epyc server with a full load of NVMe/U.2 direct connected to all those tasty PCIe lanes. Any given drive worked wonderfully, and writing simultaneously across many drives with DD showed very good performance. Unfortunately any attempt to use Linux native software RAID showed performance barely in excess of a single drive, even with a simple stripe. I don't blame the NVMe, but something in Linux RAID just doesn't scale in performance. I spent days tweaking it, ultimately it was a great disappointment.
I would still love to see the Stockfish team go up against the AlphaZero team, with the Stockfish team being allowed to modify their code however they need to in order to get the performance they need for the event. I think they should agree on some hardware equivalences upfront since they dont have the same requirements, and I think that the Stockfish team should have an API to play the AlphaZero algo in preparation, just the same way that AlphaZero already has unfettered access to StockFish.

I'd relish to read about whoever wins that: a fair competition.
Realistically, probably just logging into the email account once to prove ownership. Not dissimilar to how LDAP authentication works.

Is it a worst practice in our industry right now? Yep. Is it nefariously evil, probably not.
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This is sort of a wealth redistribution. From oil funds, hedge funds and private investors to the middle and upper-middle class. Hope it won't end up with a bailout.
> [...] sides would change with possession.

Kind of like half-court basketball.
Having just over 50% of mining power does not effectively mean you own the blockchain.
Well, what is easy and intuitive and quick for you might not be for other folks, so there's that.

The immediate staleness of traditional Office docs is a downside, but the upside is that you have a copy you control. It falls down a little on collaboration, though.
Americans produce a disproportionate amount of CO2 due to their lifestyle. So you don't need to plant twenty times that amount of trees to sequester manmade CO2; only 2.4x.

Also, as long as you replace any trees that die with seedlings, you don't need to worry about what happens to the dead wood.

This method comes out to a cost of $6.70/ton sequestered. Other methods can cost many multiples of this amount. Do you have any estimates for iron seeding of the equatorial Pacific?
if you're finding stuff that's not on archive.org just append web.atchive.org/save/ in front of the url to get the crawler to capture it.

I used to have a chrome and Firefox JavaScript bookmarklet to do it in one click but that doesn't work anymore.
well that's easy; start at the worst crimes and make your way down until you run out of resources. The line will draw itself for you.
The M4 tank is an underrated tank. It does have one major flaw: its main gun is undersized--but the tank crews themselves were saying "we don't want a bigger gun" when the tank was being designed, and no one realized the mistake until late 1944. It also excels in other areas, most notably reliability and survivability (it's incredibly easy to exit the tank in a jiffy if it's on fire, especially compared to German tanks). German tanks notably had a deficiency in reliability--they may look powerful on paper, but if a tank is spending half its time awaiting repairs, it's not contributing to your actual war effort.
It is kinda funny when you tell their headhunters you will never work for them because they don't meet your ethical standards. I highly recommend the experience.
Some habits are hard to get over I guess. Remember when Mark Zuckerberg (allegedly) used FB data to hack into the email accounts of journalists reporting on him? [0]

Why trust him now?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-i...
I'm curious where you see the market moving. I've done a lot of data layer implementations and it's definitely simpler from a site development POV, but it always ends up being a management debacle handing off data layer to the tag management implementation which is a niche specialty. Do you have any white paper or whatever on why segment is a better approach?