skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, at least to my eyes, this seems to derive from how mathematics has been cited by mathematicians.

Before a thing is called 'Levenshtein Distance' it will be used by someone saying 'calculating distance between these two strings the way Levenshtein did in [0]'. Eventually, when enough people do this, or someone gets particularly bold, the method will instead be given its name (occasionally, the original author will be so bold, but that seems rare). If I were looking to procrastinate more than I already am I would go find some examples of this, examples that unfortunately don't spring immediately to mind though I'm sure I remember their shadows.

As to why they are not named for what they represent - it's only after the thing has been invented, tested, and named that we realise that it is the correct or best way to do a thing. Often there are multiple ways of doing things (this is Levenshteins edit distance) and so they are named to distinguish them from each other. The survivor is not renamed just because the others are forgotten.

[0] not a real reference
I never managed to play any games in the Avadon series, because they don't have as good keyboard shortcuts as the Avernum series. One of the Avadon games even has a Linux port, which wasn't done by Jeff himself
Most of California’s gold rush prospectors went home empty-handed. Those who sold the shovels did not.
In general, the fact that UI is tied to content is stupid and probably indicates market failure. It's frustrating that I'm stuck with Spotify's one-size-fits-all UI when the large majority of the monthly payment goes to licensing the music.
Are there any screenshots/user documentation actually demonstrating what this looks like on iOS (or Android, for that matter)?

I'm not surprised there are some many obscure features in the spec, but I am surprised they are actually implemented/used these days.
Do alpha particle condensates exist in oxygen nuclei?
Not popular enough. Even Reddit was fairly spam free at 10 or 100x the traffic.
Music is like writing: the tools to create and distribute it have such low barriers to entry now that any sufficiently talented person can compete with the best in the industry.

Film isn't there yet. A solo director can't produce a Marvel movie on their own. But it's becoming easier every day.
I watch Stranger Things and The Office re-runs on business trips. Once The Office is gone I'll be gone as well.
Those exact phrases? In quotation marks?
It's actually creepy that other contacts can watch you live typing!
I expect that some former SolarCity shareholders will be watching this lawsuit closely.
Tax code relating to benefits and labor laws (which kind of assume the environment encouraged by the tax code.)

As an example, benefits have fairness tests between highest and lowest paid employees. Fail those tests and the benefits are taxed, possibly as normal income. Companies find tricks to get people out of the group of normal employees under the IRS rules to beat these tests.
I'm glad I watched my bucket list of movies from Netflix before they shrank the DVD selection. It seems worse now than that of the local public library.
Go 2 Generics: contracts are now boring (and that's good)
I thought the Wireless Emergency Alerts protocol was completely separate from SMS though, since it is based solely on geographic location of the cell tower and not your phone number.
I don't believe it's very vague. This sentence in particular was succinct and represents a 90% solution to the problem:

The identity "Me while I'm visiting nytimes.com" is distinct from the identity "Me while visiting cnn.com".

To me, this means all client-triggered requests while my address bar ends in "nytimes.com" will have a distinct set of cookies that is only drawn from while I'm on nytimes.com.

I prefer a rules-based solution to an ML-based solution. ML is more opaque and it's harder for developers to know when their solution will run afoul of the classifier.

Are there significant compatibility problems this would cause?
Parallel processing of polarization&intensity information in fiddler crab vision
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy (sic).

Larry Ellison is despised by many throughout the tech world for his arrogance and conniving behavior, his legal threats, etc.
This. You wouldn’t give a product demo without running through it yourself to make sure everything works. Do the same with a speech.
It probably made more sense in the days when carriers closely controlled the phone's UI and there weren't other apps that could be interrupted by such a popup.
It's an allusion to a (not very serious) essay Russell wrote called "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish."[1] Like the much more famous "Why I am not a Christian," this is Russell at peak anti-theism. (Russell's most important work came early, on the foundations of mathematics and the theory of descriptions, but like Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins, he because an increasingly vocal critic of religion over time. This is apparently an occupational hazard for public intellectuals.)

The actual bit is quite funny and widely quoted:

"Although we are taught the Copernican astronomy in our textbooks, it has not yet penetrated to our religion or our morals, and has not even succeeded in destroying belief in astrology. People still think that the Divine Plan has special reference to human beings, and that a special Providence not only looks after the good, but also punishes the wicked. I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious-for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity as a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes. This view strikes me as curious." - Bertrand Russell

Although it can't be said to really present a cogent argument. I doubt such nuns exist outside of an urban legend.

I can't really follow ErotemeObelus's arguments, but he does seem to be familiar with Russell's work.

[1]: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings...
>Eh... it's turning out that Netflix just introduced a new medium for cable.

The thing no one really talks about is that cable companies never really made (relatively) that much money. The content producers are the ones that have always made the real money. Most of your bill goes to them. Ultimately, Netflix is just another middle man between you and the content. You still have to pay for wires but now there's another hand taking their share. In the long term they can't be cheaper.

The reason it was cheaper was that for a long time they were seen as free additional revenue for content producers. Like someone making a living off of discarded garbage. Eventually the people throwing that stuff away wise up and want their normal cut. We are pretty much there at this point.
YouTube shuts accounts linked to Hong Kong disinformation
This is really common with indie devs. Rimworld is another example. Gets heaps of complaints about the art style - surely it should be easy to improve the art? Yes - but at considerable cost in money and time and also to the ability to mod the game, which was also one of its core strengths.
To come here and see more of the entitled gamer viewpoint - your business reality doesn't matter, do XYZ anyway! - is disappointing.
Making games is hard, making a living from games as a self-run studio is uber-hard. Dude deserves kudos, not criticism. Don't like the art: don't play the games - no-one's forcing you. But this is his life, this is how he pays his bills - his business reality trumps your 'gee wouldn't it be nicer in puce'
Yes, and if you do that as a real estate agent you may loose your license and you become fair game in a court of law.
I found the book Cartographic Relief Presentation (https://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=disp...) to be an in depth resource on this subject.
I've been using Plex for probably 5 years now and it's the best (only?) software I know of for its purpose, but I haven't seen it "getting better and better" as you say. From my perspective it's had more or less the same useful functionality since I started using it, and my biggest annoyances with it -- the overall flakiness of the apps, syncing, and Chromecast integration, as compared with Netflix -- haven't gotten any better.

But I'm still really glad it exists and don't really feel I have much right to complain about a free (for me) product.

(Edit: okay, to give credit where it's due, I just remembered they did actually fix my biggest annoyance with the iOS app -- previously when you deleted a downloaded video it didn't actually delete it from disk -- there was no way to recover the storage, other than deleting the app itself. So I'd have to reinstall the app every time I took a flight more or less. But they fixed that, you can actually delete things now.)
No, Giancarlos is my first name and I have never used Giancarlo. Thats a good question nonetheless!
> Also, without some sort of indicator, Vim’s modal design is awkward here—it’s very easy to forget which mode you’re in.

Luckily for us, there is option for the indicator :)

set editing-mode vi
set show-mode-in-prompt on
set vi-ins-mode-string +
set vi-cmd-mode-string :
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> When you have so much money, how is getting more money a motivation?

Power over even more other people, for better or for worse.
Queue Bryan Cantrill's (DTrace, Joyent) USENIX talk on Oracle and Larry Ellison:

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2034
Drone Beats Ambulance in Race to Deliver First Aid to Patients
It also doesn’t cost $100 million to make an album.
Was that paid in cash or stock? If Ellison ended up with more voting shares it might have been about more than the money.
We built it from scratch.
Raise the Titanic? It's Rapidly Dissolving
Why is ogg opus not appropriate? Are there bluetooth accessories that support it?
That can't really be "for starters", because it requires one to already know of readline in order to pull up the manpage.
> It's myopic to blame the enforcement of existing laws on Trump.

That's silly. It's clear, given the contrast between Obama and Trump on this issue, that the President has substantial leeway on how ICE acts in this regard.

> Laws make it clear that stepping foot on US soil without authorization requires federal detention pending a court date.

This is plainly false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_U...
> One expedition concluded that there would be nothing left of the ship by 2030.
Even if you're pirating everything, with the right tools, it can easily appear to be just that. There's software like Sick Beard, sonarr, CouchPotato that will automate downloads for you. Plex, Kodi, or even a Roku or Apple TV pointed at a hard drive or NAS gets you the interface. It's not that difficult to set it up so new episodes of TV shows automatically appear on your TV, ready to watch. (And if you're not on the east coast you can even get shows before they air locally!) This of course is just scratching the surface of what's possible.
They didn't even give Wave 2 years??
How does impact if the US has the moral high ground? If anything, the reason South Korea isn’t entirely a communist dictatorship is because of the US soldiers who died there defending it (amount a number of other western countries).
Perhaps they mean that operator overloading can break that equivalence.

Which is true, but I would argue an implementation that makes those operators behave differently is likely ill advised.
5G: Hype vs. Reality
The fact that you think they’ll keep your password safe is a terrible reason to support a monopoly that is bad for society in so many other ways. But hey, it’s more convenient I guess.
Blockbuster could stock anything it wanted without the studio’s blessing by just buying DVDs at retail (even though they had special deals with the studio to get reduced prices).

Netflix can only stream what they are allowed to. If you want the convenience of the Blockbuster model there are always rentals from Amazon, Apple, Google Play etc. Yes I realize that some movies aren’t available for rent.
I'm going to have to agree with the other people who have commented so far. Music has never really been a middle class job. But I'm going to disagree with the entire premise that streaming and piracy have killed the middle class musician. I'm going to argue that streaming and piracy created the middle class musician.

Are there people living middle class lives in the music industry? Sure. Probably more today than ever before, and streaming (and possibly piracy) has a lot to do with that. Musicians don't make money from album sales, they make money from live shows. The middle class musician tours constantly because that's their full time job. It's not a 9-5, and you're not home with your family at night. I'm absolutely positive that this is the reason more people don't live middle class musician lifestyles.

Vanished? Nah. Never existed, at least not in any significant way. It's only now due to the Internet that small time niche musicians can make any money and get any sales without major labels. And major labels aren't in the business of making middle class musicians, as Jaron Lanier pointed out.

I'm also going to detour to your source... Jaron Lanier is famous for writing the story "Piracy is your friend", and a few years later writing "Pay me for my content". I would take Jaron Lanier's music industry opinions with a grain of salt.
>You would salt and preserve the meat/fish and consume it in the future.

That is very environment specific.

Depending on when/where you are salt was expensive or extremely laborious to produce. Salting, smoking etc is itself laborious, can require special purpose equipment and can take weeks. Its entirely possible that the effort to obtain the supplies and equipment to preserve your surplus food exceeds the effort to simply obtain more food in the future.

There is a reason why salting/pickling/fermentation was common in places that had winters severe enough to impact the availability of food Vs anywhere closer to the equator. People did it when they faced a large chunk of the year when starvation was a serious concern.
Sure Wave gets a lot of hate but our team enjoyed it a lot.

After it was shutdown we migrated to Hipchat, then Slack, and finally Keybase.

It was positioned as an 'email killer' - and as validated by Slack I think that was pretty clever and spot on marketing.
If your job doesn't consist of stiffing taxpayers then what are you even doing with your life?
Because Kubernetes is complicated as fuck, and it doesn’t really have a built in simple way to view the state of the cluster.

Oh, and every vendor has implemented it differently. That’s probably the worst thing.
This Washington Post article gives a good overview[1]. It's true that they don't execute people for it anymore, but that's just because they have eased up on their treatment of heretics in general, not because they have started condoning the practice.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2004/06/19/aton...
I think that for all of their drinks but the coldbrew. They have solid cold brew and I've tried nearly every artisan coffee shop in DTLA and the valley
Would you also be okay if software developers couldn’t distribute their own software?
I dunno, I liked Wave. I thought of it as NLS as implemented by a modern software dev who had only heard a verbal description.
"whatever else they want" well unless they want to collect art :) you could blow 1B on a few paintings
It seems the electoral college was exploited by slave owners, but what I challenge is that is was created for that purpose. It articles see the electoral college was a vestige of slavery, but that does not seem like a reasonable conclusion. The sources you give all have a serious bias and a vested interest in seeing the electoral college disbanded.
Perhaps there might be a better systemic way of avoiding e.g. water damage without resorting to single-use plastics. Maybe reusable water-proof shipping containers, or requiring postal workers to remove their tear ducts.
For anyone who isn’t already aware, fzf[0] does this exactly (and more!)

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
you're right. netflix never had a comprehensive selection of movies or tv to stream. it seems to have even less now, which must be disappointing for subscribers (I canceled my subscription years ago so I'm just going off what I hear).

they used to (and still do AFAIK) have a pretty good selection of DVDs to have mailed though. I think people hoped that eventually the streaming offerings would come to be as broad as the mail-order selection, which doesn't seem unreasonable from the perspective of 2009 but obviously isn't happening today. there's also the fact that music streaming services have mostly succeeded at offering a very wide selection of music to their customers (even free accounts!).

frankly I don't know enough about the music, tv, and movie industries to tell you why it turned out this way, but to the layman it does seem like a perplexing "shut up and take my money" situation. if a service launched with a really good catalog that could at least match the convenience and quality of torrents, I would be willing to pay quite a hefty monthly fee. I have very little interest in paying for five different streaming services that will still inevitably exclude a couple of my favorite shows and movies.
I wonder what would be a good way to deploy that concentrated capital. Essentially, it’s the combined labor of a large pool of people, hoping that their capital will be deployed in places where it will earn great returns. What happens when these pockets of wealth don’t have anywhere to go?

Related: pensions are out of fashion in the US. Where is the wealth of young Americans going nowadays?
Well, maybe future serious bugs in valve/steam software should just go to open/public disclosure until they've actually paid out for the two bugs they denied previously.
Here's what it looks like: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=ios%20sms%20flash&t...
I don’t think there are any downsides to Typescript. Except maybe compilation, but you’d be bundling your JS app regardless.
I fell for the hype myself, got terribly excited about it, and wrote up a bunch of ideas in a Wave discussion about how to use it for collaborating in multi player SimCity. But it just got so slow and unresponsive the bigger a wave grew, and it was like drinking from a tsunami, so that nobody could keep up with what everybody else was typing.
Self-dealing is always questionable, and it seems like we're getting a whole lot of this corruption lately.
New microbe degrades oil to gas
تحميل متجر جوجل بلاي Google Play برابط مباشر مجانا تنزيل متجر Play للموبايل
I took the code sample of the article from a snippet intended to be as dirty as possible, and removed most madness out of it. But yeah you're right :D
I just wanted to avoid adding one more item in that bullet list.
WeWork's investors are free to sue. That would probably derail the IPO to make it net negative for them.
Netflix is turning into just another premium channel as they lose content. You can even buy it as part of your cable subscription with some providers.
If you're running into EOL on your chromebook, strongly consider installing Ubuntu or GalliumOS on it to get a little more mileage.
https://galliumos.org/
Gallium is Xubuntu + some extra chromebook specific fixes.

I started using Gallium after ChromeOS updates had slowed down my Chromebook enough to be pretty much unusable. It gave me an extra year or so of happiness with my chromebook before I moved on. But remembering how much I liked Linux on my laptop, and didn't want to get another chromebook I would have to drop ChromeOS from within a few years, I ended up back at a Dell laptop with Ubuntu on it.
I suggest using Drones. They've been used successfully in other low resource countries for fighting forest crime. A single drone can cover much more area than an officer on the ground. Native tribes are starting to use them in different places to protect their territory.
Cracking a decades-old test, researchers bolster case for quantum mechanics
News Corp is making a news service called Knewz
I'm surprised FR, DE and ES can restrict the use of the card in the rest of the EU.
i'm wondering the same. currently a Netflix subscriber.
but back in the day i had a NAS box hitting a preconfigured rss feed with the shows i watched. was pretty convenient and the NAS could stream to every device on my wifi
When I click on Cancel Membership, I see this message:

> If you restart within 10 months, your profiles, favorites, viewing preferences and account details will be waiting for you.
Nope, and it was invite only. By the time my friends were getting access, they were shutting it down. We would've loved it for remote gaming, in particular.
I love the collaborative features of Google Docs and Google Sheets.

The thing that's missing from "Google Docs" is a decent collaborative outliner called "Google Trees", that does to "NLS" and "Frontier" what "Google Sheets" did to "VisiCalc" and "Excel".

And I don't mean "Google Wave", I mean a truly collaborative extensible visually programmable spreadsheet-like outliner with expressions, constraints, absolute and relative xpath-like addressing, and scripting like Google Sheets, but with a tree instead of a grid. That eats drinks scripts and shits JSON and XML or any other structured data.

Of course you should be able to link and embed outlines in spreadsheets, and spreadsheets in outlines, but "Google Maps" should also be invited to the party (along with its plus-one, "Google Mind Maps").

More on Douglass Engelbart's NLS and Dave Winer's Frontier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20425970
Giving Up Darwin
Samuel Brannan, the shovel guy, died poor and in relative obscurity.
Tripod allowed me to make some good sites back then.
>Where is the wealth of young Americans going nowadays?

401k / ira though more commonly paying down student debt.
How to lead when you have no authority
There is a lot of stuff you can’t find reliable seeds for on bit torrent sites if it isn’t popular.
If only there was a tool that you could enter search terms for and get results from :)

Black Friday 2018, names and emails leaked: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/21/amazon-hi...

Amazon Kindle 2016, 80K names, emails, IP addresses, etc. Worth noting that Amazon has denied that this was a legit breach: https://www.mic.com/articles/148207/a-hacker-claims-to-have-...

Zappos (Amazon subsidiary) names, emails, billing info on 24M users leaked: https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazons-zappos-in-massive-data...

Whole Foods (Amazon subsidiary), credit card data breach: https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/whole-foods-market-p...
It's actually fairly hard to get money onto those without paying a fee (if you don't have a bank account). Most of the obvious ways to get money onto them involve "Visa ReadyLink", and that comes with a service fee from $2 to $5. If I recall correctly, some even have monthly fees if they get below a certain level.

Amazon gift cards can be purchased without a fee most of the time, and with less friction in the store then actually dealing with the service desk in the store that does ReadyLink.
Buying Amazon gift cards gives me the best points<->cash conversion through my credit card rewards program