skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No farking Shit

A massive amount of American corporations worth over USD$1-10 million have become in 2009-2019 political activist platforms

instead of serving simple business concept of selling a product or proving a service to every single INDIVIDUAL
no matter the individuals attitubes , this was one of the core fundamental principles of business pre 2010/pre woke era

You sold something to the customer, customer paid, customer was anonymous
I should have known better to click this link
Feds Are Blocking Marijuana Reform When Research Shows Cannabis Saves Lives
if you know exactly what time the person you're targeting went to vote - maybe.
It's worth noting that this was the case even before streaming services arrived. I distinctly remember reading an article about how Kelis and Norah Jones were the top-pirated artists of a given time period, but their album sales widely differed, since Norah Jones had multiple popular tracks while Kelis just had her one hit single.
This resource (while mainly targeted at improving insane Chinese work schedules) is about work-life balance:

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/master/README.md
But isn't a Promise for all intents and purposes the same as a Future here?
Australia has a preferential voting system, and our two main parties are actually one primary centre-left party and two smaller centre-right parties that have formed a coalition.

Doesn't stop us making dumb voting decisions every three years, though.
Ah, good idea, thanks!
My personal email address is publicly available. Fastmail filters about 99% of the spam and the rest is quickly silenced by reporting spam. I receive maybe one or two spams per week. Sadly there are a few false positives but usually it's transactional emails that I don't care about.
Look at the authors. China is really going to put the screws to the US and it’s going to be sooner rather than later.
The Labor party have constantly and consistently fought to address climate change, and have been thwarted by right-wing politicians every time. Voting absolutely matter, and anyone who tells you it doesn't has an agenda.
First of all, that wasn't the original sentence. What you've got is "fish fish fish eat eat", whereas the original was "fish fish fish eat eat eat".

It would be nice if English worked recursively like that, but it doesn't. Maybe I was wrong in focusing on the verbs; the problem is also stacking nouns the way the sentence does. By splitting the object, subject, and verb so dramatically, the sentence doesn't end up making sense.

Obviously if you take it as axiomatic that this algorithm does work, then you can keep claiming it's grammatical. But even the first round (fish fish fish eat eat) doesn't add up. The word "that" isn't a mere helper; there is no English sentence in which "fish fish fish" (all as nouns) can make sense.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware

Happy and healthy teams result in productive teams, who would have thought :)

Some of my best work was done during 40 hours weeks or less. Whenever I break that rule the end result suffers because I lose creativity and focus.

It's ok to do the occasional extra time when you're really engrossed in what you're doing, but overwork has long-term negative effects.
Awesome. How easy would it be to generate a corresponding interactive 3d environment?
People in countries with oppressive regimes that are not aligned with the US.
Unity creates new open source tool for architects
Microsoft has a less passionate employee base. They want to show up and get their check and go home to their families. Not as many single twenty somethings who take a lot of pride in being “Googlers” and care a lot about what that means.
Mark Zuckerberg deserves praise for his noble stand on free speech
why are police keeping all this artwork?

Evidence locker. If the trial is in course the proofs are locked. There is a period of time between the painting stolen and when was found probably also.

And, I'm speculating, but as an old Caravaggio is really fragile, it could be easily distroyed when stolen. Even if returned to their owners is probably not valid to show again and is not fixable. The owner could prefer to avoid spend money on the storage of a ruined art as long as he/she can.
That last paragraph absolutely nails it. Trying to re-implement the operating system as the browser is mutually exclusive with it being a good browser or standard for webpages.

> If anyone constructed a PDF, which was itself blank but, via embedded JavaScript, loaded parts of itself from a remote server, people would rightly balk and wonder what on earth the creator of this PDF was thinking — yet this is precisely the design of many “websites”. To put it simply, websites and webapps are not the same thing, nor should they be. Yet the conflation of a platform for hypertext and a platform for applications has confused thinking, and led developers with prodigious aptitude for JavaScript to mistakenly see mere websites of text as a like nail to their applications hammer.
Lemme guess, they haven't become popular yet because there wasn't a way to weaponise the results?
New PHP Flaw Could Let Attackers Hack Sites Running on Nginx Servers
Off by one errors and issues working with dates. Sounds like writing software to me.
Extremely informative comment, thanks for taking the time to write it out and contextualize the info against current events.
It's in their terms and conditions.

> When you're signed out, we associate that data with a cookie or other similar unique identifier.

Other identifiers include your ip address, operating system, browser and browser settings.
Please remove the direct link from the front page as it has negative effects on the browser due to screwing up the browser history. This link should be embedded in the post with a proper warning.
As soon as TGIFs started leaking, Pichai had to start treating them like public press conferences, resulting in them now being completely devoid of content.
Haha, you'd like our winters then. If you look out during lectures you might catch the brief sunlight.
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No standups where I work. If I need to know what my coworkers are up to, I just ask them. If they need to know what I'm up to, they ask me. Works great. We rarely need to ask. If there is an issue that affects multiple people, we can talk about it on the issue tracker, where we see commits too.
Size itself is an emergent phenomenon, if you can reduce it to entanglement the question goes away
I use my "normal" email address to post to a very small number of mailing lists. Even though they're all publicly accessible lists, I get in total about 5 spam emails a day - this is with zero spam filtering (not even SpamAssassin) on my own Postfix instance.

For the past ~6 years, every time I sign up to a new web service (or even in person paper signup), I generate a new 64 hex email prefix. This allows me to know who either a) sold my address or b) got their database hacked. So far, the only website I know of who either got hacked or sold my address was:

coinmama.com
This is interesting. How do you find open RFPs in your area of interest?
Ask HN: Do you play Minecraft? If yes, why?
One benefit of XHTML not mentioned is that, as an XML spec, it can be embedded into other markups. OpenDocument / OASIS ODF for example, uses it extensively - the written documents are basically just HTML, which for many applications is much more accessible than the OpenXML equivalent.

A lot of people used to emit XHTML with invalid string builders rather than XML serialisers though. Much XHTML was ruinously broken.
For a long time the industry relied on an external cultural of independent producers and distributors - all genres, not necessarily "indie" music - to keep the system running.

The indies generated, promoted, and distributed the next generation of music. The majors would then either sign the bigger artists or buy out the bigger indie labels. Both would get rolled into the big machine and the cycle would start again.

Spotify has killed that. Never mind earning money - indie artists can't get significant exposure. Not from unit sales, not from touring, not from streaming, not from anything.

Sooner or later someone is going to realise that an indie-Spotify has to be a thing, because there's always going to be a significant market for people who want to discover non-mainstream music and music is going to stagnate and choke on its own products if the main distribution system is a monopoly.
Victor Frankl is awesome. Everyone should read his book. It's the #1 book I recommend for everyone to read whom I don't know anything anout.

What I found surprising when I read it (years ago) was how having a family would constitute so much meaning. I remember reading the book thinking "alright, I'm simply a teenager, but I can now make the heuristic that family = meaning to basically everyone."

I suppose that I wasn't so big on family in my teenage years.
For all the things youth don't know one thing they do know is that youtube will fill in the gaps.
Exploring human vs. machine learning (one blog post at a time)
>The question is, do you want to live in a society where prices are set based on one's genes. I sure don't.

Those genes do clearly make us behave in different ways, so why not?

I'm not a feminist, but it would be fairer for women to pay less for the same insurance since they are less likely to get in trouble with their cars. Why should they pay more?
Theoretically, you could consider it better.

KeePass saves passwords in a single encrypted file by default. This means that an attacker has no idea about the structure of your entries and usernames.

Plus, it's easier to setup on multiple machines, as you don't need to export/import your PGP keys from your initial machine.

Features and ease of use are subjective to each user.
Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission in 1982
> That said, authors should follow responsible disclosure, give the game company some time to respond before releasing.

Stack-smashing attacks have been around since at least 1988[1]. This cheat has less to do with the game itself and more to do with the computing architecture (i.e. stack-based). ROP is an active area of research and "code hardening" is a way to mitigate such an attack[2], but (from what I understand) usually comes with performance penalties.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/732201/

[2] https://cs.brown.edu/~vpk/papers/ccr.sp18.pdf
Dreams, Drugs and ConvNets – artefacts of deep learning and human cognition
Yes.

You can add filters to gmail.

I add filter once a month or if the spams are getting out of hand.

It's not that bad. The political emails are the worst though, they spam you regardless of your unsubscribe option. The second worst for me is unsolicitated job from job agencies.
Thinking on this for a while, it makes more sense to spend optimization effort on a few widely useful engines which will improve many people's code in many situations, than on hundreds of narrow improvements which might improve some code in some situations and will add a lot more integration risk and maintenance overhead.

Turning +/iota into a constant time formula feels like a great idea APL is in a position to benefit from, and that mathematicians could see endless places where that kind of thing might be possible - but if that's true, APL users could find them when they need them. They can't find vectorised pick of grade up, ever.

This is so interesting, thank you.
Made with Haxe + OpenFL, the source code is available here: https://github.com/watabou/TownGeneratorOS
It should be 'shut up' but it comes across as pandering. A strong man approach could be utilized, but a liberal fully open organization doesn't run that way.
HTML was based on SGML, but HTML 5 is explicitly not SGML anymore and specification calls the format "inspired by SGML". So to be fully conformant you need a custom processor instead of being able to use standard tools.
I suspect that it's some interpretation of how to protect and maintain culture. This reverence of tradition is definitely much stronger in some places than others.
I think you should consider that "right or left" isn't the only axis to consider.

Do you want your news primarily provided by large corporations? Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_controversi... .

Do you want your news primarily provided by companies controlled by rich, white old men?

What conflict of interest might there be if your news sources come from a tradition which favors the American white professional class over other people in the US?

Note that historically both the powerful left and right in the US were anti-segregation. Eg, much of the US labor movement was against racial equality. So just looking at left/right doesn't give a good understanding of the biases you might come across.
ActionScript 3.0

with the Adobe AIR runtime you will be able to publish to iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, see "Adobe AIR" [0]

ActionScript is something similar to TypeScript

you will have access to the whole Flash stack and more, see "Building Adobe AIR Applications" [1]

with ActionScript Native Extension (ANE) you will be able to add your native code with an easy to use AS3 interface, see "Extending Adobe AIR" [2] and "Using native extensions for Adobe AIR" [3]

Note, the latest Adobe AIR SDK are now maintained by Harman [4]

[0] https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html

[1] https://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/index.html

[2] https://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/extending-air.html

[3] https://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS597e5dadb9cc1e0253f...

[4] https://airsdk.harman.com/
Fun, but if I want to win I should put in terrible clues. In tabletop variants of this game, the clue-giver receives points alongside the guesser. Wouldn't it be nice to see "One point for you and dear_1234 for a correct guess! Also, a point from wary_asdf guessing your clue!"
I just played this for quite some time. Weirdly addictive!
Technically, although this isn't actually the distinction OP made so you're absolutely right, Scotch isn't the same category as Scottish whisky/whiskey. It doesn't simply mean it's made in Scotland.
I don’t understand this take. Can’t indie artists get their music ok Spotify? How is the situation worse for them?
My main personal email (permanent address, essentially), I've got on my website with a minimal brainpower test (essentially "[myname] @ [this domain]") --- but I might get rid of that. My email is in its bare form on a number of READMEs of things that I maintain. I've never had an issue with spam because of it. I use Google Apps for hosting my domain's email.
You must be new here. Infrastructure costs in the US are a staggering multiple of costs in the rest of the OECD, let alone places with price levels as low as China.
If you grab specific favourite functionality, this quickly becomes a no-true-scotsman situation. We know what OOP looks like in general. First-class metaclasses support is not available in Java, but if you really need it for some specific cases, you do them at compile time using annotations processor. The extreme-late-binding as Alan Key would like it does indeed make Java an inferior OOP. Service registration does this on a macro scale though. (although I've seen more abuse of micro-scale extreme late binding than use of it in good design)
Wow savage downvoting on that. I wonder why? Was the comment edited?
>He was a keen gamer so we played Magic: the Gathering a few times.

In my experience there are a lot of ultra competitive people who play magic, who exist mostly to create decks to see how much suffering they can cause.

It's an interesting subculture.
Ask HN: Can you share your process on how you write articles/tutorials?
I began blogging 2 months ago but I have a hard time writing programming tutorials. It takes me a couple of days just to finish writing a single article.

My hardest part is research and the actual writing. Do you research first and then write an article? Or do you research while you are writing the article? What do you look for when researching?

I would really appreciate if you would share your blogging workflow. Especially on how you research and write an article.
Work has been done to reduce the number of useful gadgets in programs: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2019-rop-paper.pdf
Depends on the language, doesn't it? Many Scheme implementations have "unexec".
My operator made roaming outside the EU very expensive (EUR 35 for 1 week, with a limited amount of calls and messages, and 150 MB of data traffic, yes, megabytes). But being able to use phone normally anywhere in the EU, even if only with 3G, is great. Just have to remember to disable 4G.
Thanks! I'll check that out.

Couldn't agree more on the things you said.

When I started only working for 40 hours or less per week, the quality of my work improved. I guess it's because I learned how to use my time better since I know that I will only work for 40 hours or less. And most importantly, I'm happier and healthier now and I get to spend more time with family and friends :)
no, no. you totally misunderstood. You're arguing we don't know the specific circumstance so we shouldn't make moral judgments. My reply was to ask you to suggest some situations where hiring a hitman to kill a business rival would be morally ambiguous.

That would be the job the of defense, not the job of the prosecution. They would be using your argument. Whats the morally ambiguous case here?
I think that’s exactly the point. There are millions of untestable lines of driver code which may or may not be run depending on your users hardware configurations. There could be bugs or vulnerabilities sitting in those lines and there is no way to test all the cases. I didn’t watch the whole thing but I think the talk proposes a standard ISA which eliminates the need for drivers, so your code literally runs on bare metal.
Thank you! I'll check it out later.
I’m completely out of the loop with respect to gaming and cheating nowadays, and I’m not the target audience of the readme, so pardon my ignorance: how is this used? Via exploits in the game? Injected locally by a more privileged process?
Thanks! I love the name "Hurry Slowly".
I love everything about this:

The accent, the humor, the content, the man, his life and his books.

I never quite understood why so much Americans are out there just "to make a lot of money".

Lot of money, but realistically probably not enough to cover their uncovered healthcare costs once their health get worse.

But even in the best case, you earned a lot of money, you die rich, and that was it?

Recognizing capitalism as a fact is one thing (that I do myself), worshipping it like Ayn Rand belongs to the dullest ideologies ever invented. Capitalism does not care that you are worshipping it damnit!

Then I have read Max Weber and understood it all:

"The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit Of Capitalism"

Oh yes, that makes a lot of sense. It's not just capitalism, there is deeper meaning behind it and it comes from religion.

By contrast, I was raised as a Catholic - I'm not an Catholic today, but that's was my education was - so I learned from an early age that talking about money all the time is not what good people do.
It's not about the object - "a playlist" - it's about the means of distribution, the networks that are created, and the relationships between artists, middle-men, and buyers.

Spotify is an example of the consolidating and centralising tendency of Internet technology.

Physical media with low cost of entry make it possible to create your own channel to buyers. In the 80s you could set up a short-run cassette label from a back bedroom, send a tape to an indie DJ like John Peel and get some priceless attention with your music highlighted on national radio. In the 90s you could make your own white label 12" pressings and distribute them personally to record shops.

That's no longer possible today. Spotify (YouTube, etc) are all oligopolies that own the most important channels between new artists and customers/fans. They don't curate, they ingest.

Established artists can bypass them, but newcomers have no choice. They have to go through one of the channels - at which point they're immediately competing head-on with hundreds of thousands of other artists. There is no other way to reach an audience now. And the rewards mean it's rarely worth the effort.
Often occlusions don’t matter in practice for dense object tracking e.g. counting people entering a bus or measuring gym equipment utilization you actually don’t care if the person IDs switch.

Centroid tracking works well in practice at 2 FPS for the bus use case and several others.

More complex approaches have their place but an important limiting factor (e.g. in the bus project I worked on) is that often the hardware required to run a more complex approach at a higher frame rate is too expensive to be feasible.

There are definitely limitations to centroid tracking and use cases where it doesn’t work like if you need to track specific faces moving through a crowd but it’s a useful tool that has its place in practice.

Your blog post is awesome, I’m just pointing out that a simpler method often works well in practice and is much less intimidating for beginners :)
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Can't speak for the parent comment, or the reason you were downvoted, but relying upon a high number of good ratings isn't necessarily reliable.

From my own experience, here's a few reasons:

A high number of ratings is more likely an indicator that the place has been on the market for a long time rather than being an especially great place to stay.

The nationality/culture of the guest can have a huge influence of how they rate a place. In Europe, for instance, a guest from Southern Italy/Spain may not be particularly bothered by noise from neighbours, barking dogs, etc. Conversely, those coming from Northern Europe are likely to be the exact opposite.

Some hosts are incredibly pro-active in garnering ratings (to the point of constant harassment). Others less so.

Some hosts will not accept groups of people, parties, short stays or stays from people with no reputation. As a consequence, they are going to get far less reviews than a less careful host.

Hope that helps?
Sorry, what do you mean? Is it a title of a book or something?
I have this on my websites for years now:
name@[THIS_Domain.com], where [THIS_Domain.com] is <whatever the domain I'm using it on>.

So far, ZERO spam.
320 kbps mp3 is not horrible at all. You wouldn't use it to archive your music, but it's barely distinguishable from FLAC.
It’s not. It’s about 30 full time days. 6 weeks unpaid leave gets you there.
"Sales are 95% about relationships and 5% about Product."

Seen this so many times - not just in sales but also in acquisition. Guy from startup joins MNC in decision making role, then proceeds to acquire startup.
It is different business model. If this does not keep the industry going something else will find their way.

Sponsorship for individual artist only work for continuous production. It is hard even for Beethoven to survive in his era of that business when only concert get you money. (Handel get most by doing his concert in England. Beethoven complaint he will starve to death when London symphony society immediately commission no 10 with prepayment. Still meant he was not ok).

The industry moves on.
Erik Meijr and his team did wonders bringing Haskell concepts to VB and C#.

"Confessions Of A Used Programming Language Salesman, Getting The Masses Hooked On Haskell"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237445028_Confessio...
Wouldn't one assume the folks use artificial light? People have been doing this well before electricity, especially during the winter. Doubly so up north. There simply isn't enough day here during the winter to do otherwise. Heck, my sunset time today is estimated at 16:22. I'll not have eaten dinner yet.
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