skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously, does anybody do literal standup meetings anymore during coronavirus and work from home? Or any of the other agile busywork chores? It always struck me as ridiculous to create task cards like in kindergarden, especially in IT. The inability to manage projects using computers is totally unconvincing especially when your team is tasked with creating computer programs. I hope we can finally get rid of agile bs rather than skeuomorph physical task boards and cards into team workflow software.
Well, was that an early draft, or is it after the editors went in and made changes/corrections? How many chapter are in the manuscript?
That would be really bad for these authors to download or look at leaked code. That's exactly how you get yourself in legal troubles.

That's why they have policies to not look at any leak, and even with this ReactOS and Wine already had their share of controversies in the past.
I find liquorice tastes a bit like fennel. Ouzo and Sambuca both share similar notes. It’s delicious.

Scandinavian salty liquorice is like something else entirely. I like it, but I see how its polarising.
Are you suggesting someone other than Apple is making extortionate margins?

/s
This is totally a tangent now and not related to the original topic anymore, but I'm just curious: is it only a trope from movies and TV shows or are American parents really so afraid of their teenage kids having sex? Because, apart from maybe very religious families, I've never seen this to be that much of an issue where I grew up (Western Europe), people just know that teenagers are going to have sex.
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Not sure this is required?

If crows are social and they have their own theory of mind it’s not a huge leap to suspect they’d make friends or try and give friends what they think are valuable gifts and that wouldn’t need to be limited to just other crows.
> There are 4 functions which you need to implement on your system:

int liballoc_lock();
int liballoc_unlock();
void* liballoc_alloc(int);
int liballoc_free(void*,int);

So where is the ISO C implementation of those?
Odd. Your problem might be caused by badly formatted epubs? I'm using Calibre 5.0.0 on Ubuntu and I have no problem with a Chinese novel epub in vertical layout. The mouse cursor even turns sideways for selecting text and I can use the mouse scroll wheel without any modifier key to scroll left and right.
> Is "thinking about thinking" rare, or remarkable? Is it the defining trait that elevates humans above all other animals?

Sadly, I've seen people who do not have such capabilities. They seem normal until you think why they act like they do. Then you realise that you could replace their thinking processes with some simple if-then, sometimes wired very strangely and counter-intuitive.
Is a car considered a "device"? Would you ride with or let your kids, family or friends get in a taxi that has been "modified" by the driver?
Yes, you're correct that most fiscal conservatives often go down the naive and overly simplistic route of proclaiming "all spending bad".

But that's why people need to take a critical look at things. It's not about the short term, but the long term. Taking care of the populace is akin to investing.

Do fiscal conservatives think there is a finite amount of wealth? I'd wager that most don't. Otherwise they'd more inclined to socialism or communism, possibly clamoring to "eat the rich".

From there, one can start thinking about "how is wealth created?" and realize that social programs lead to more wealth creation in the long term. Sure, we spend money now to help that kid eat a warm meal or receive a better education, but 10 years from now he'll contribute back far more wealth than was spent. Perhaps they become a doctor, saving countless lives (each of which also contribute to "wealth" in their own way). Or perhaps they become an inventor, an engineer? Who knows, but studies have shown that social programs do, in fact, pay off.

So yes, in the immediate it isn't "fiscally conservative" according to some narrow and overly strict definition, but in the long term it is fiscally conservative. Social programs are an investment in humanity's future, and they end up paying numerous dividends in the long run. Wealth, health, community, happiness, progress. What's not to love?
This is not the first time Windows code leaks. I also have a vague recollection of one of these projects actually having to rip out and rewrite a subsystem because it turned out to be too close to original Windows sources found in one of those previous leaks.

In short, this leak likely won’t affect any project that is seriously trying to reimplement substantial parts of Windows, if they care at all for US law.
Non-blogspam url: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk (2018)

dang, is it possible to change the URL for this submission? The site linked loads 30+ ad slots and attempts to seemingly canvas fingerprint users.
> Dates are high in fiber, potassium, sugar, and might cause a bowel obstruction

They also contain sorbitol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbitol#Laxative
You've clearly not heard a conservative or a libertarian rail about no-knocks, mandatory minimum sentencing, drug laws, or civil asset forfeiture.

Large elements of the right often refuse to accept systemic racism, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its own critiques against policing that make the abstract statement 'I support police reform' valid for them.

Outside the left and the far right, although moderate liberals acknowledge the existence of systemic biases in policing, I've heard proposals ranging from 'remove qualified immunity', to 'more training', to 'expand social services', but typically with the caveat that 'my poufs Dept is fine', or 'I don't want social workers to replace any of the police, I just want them in addition to the police'. There's usually a big fat asterisk alongside the suggestion that requires a positive sum outcome where nothing really changes in their lives, but everything is abstractly better.
Really great work on this!

I am a big fan of WebRTC. Even if I had a server I would try to use SCTP over DTLS. I have gotten better transfer rates. Not having to worry about HOL blocking and the overhead of TCP.
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That’s a pretty strong and broad statement. Do you have any evidence or incidents to back that up?
My immediate thought is whether researchers or investigative journalists will find cold hard US government backdoors. This is potentially big.
Being Jack aware would be a bonus but there are already a multitude of Jack aware EQ plugins.
The feature-set of this prettyeq plugin seems aimed specifically at system-wide audio, in other words to adjust the audio on your system to match your daily use preferences, rather than production work.
I might never use this sort of EQ (high-pass, lo-pass, 5 peaks) for production work.
Maybe for tweaking a final mix...
pulseaudio is definitely in need of some nicely integrated audio filters. Jack has many to choose from, but more are always welcome.

Edit: I am not an audio pro and if this EQ is in fact aimed at production, I would love to learn more about its use cases
Hah, nice find —- this is mine, it was briefly a weird little puzzle based on Shakespeare (“I am not what I am” -> Iago), though I haven’t used the http endpoint for much in awhile and it doesn’t work anymore. Now that I work at the Internet Archive, I should make it an interface to some of our BBS archives!
I'm actually not familiar with the legality of downloading this torrent. Is this considered legal, or is it like stolen goods, where the mere possession is a crime, even lacking evidence of the actual theft?

Also, what would be the legality a group of people "maintaining" this code? (developing security patches, etc)
Potential improvements for Rust embedded abstractions
The problem is there is no good way to identify quality brands. Price used to be a quality differentiator but it's not anymore, so what do you use to identify brands that produce clothes that last?
I think it's much earlier. It should at least be dated from founding of NAACP in 1909. Rosa Parks was not a random person. she was elected Secretary of the Montgomery Alabama NAACP chapter in 1943.
My point is that police reform isn't exclusively a Lefty issue. It's the domain of every political interest group suspicious of the state's use of power.
It's not that difficult, just a piece of work. Google has teams dedicated to just that kind of work and internally has the automated dashboards that update real-time. The confusion here is that the page linked is not it. This is some static HTML or such that is updated when a human has triaged the issue, determined and aggregated scope and got an OK from another human (or more, depending on the situation).
Are these airgapped machines or machines with networking? Internet connection?
It's not specified in the article but Rocket Internet is no longer a startup incubator, it's a venture capital firm. They don't have any technical team to use for bootstrapping startups, so they just invest in them. Everybody in the technical department was let go at the end of July.
How I ran a virtual research retreat during a pandemic
So it will work for really old(-style) php then. I still see new software coming out (and being sold) written in that style: no frameworks, classes or exceptions. Not relevant for this implementation, but many (popular) commercial wp plugins are still written like that; installed one for a client a few days ago and it was a dense mix of code and html without classes, exceptions or namespaces. And that is a popular, new, commercial one.
His friend didn't "make" the money. The token was airdropped to every account that ever used the exchange or has provided liquidity. I had two accounts with a couple of transactions each - bam a nice surprise of a few thousand USD worth of value. It's very odd and unexpected. I never make money off of crypto but perhaps it just pays to be in something new. Right time and right place as they say.
Calibre is one or those apps that I've used for many, many years and other than being a bit ugly has served me perfectly. Hats off to the developers and contributors, thank you for your fine work.
Back when Slashdot was still somewhat popular (early '00s), the source code of Windows NT and Windows 2000 was leaked.
I suspect if paracetamol was newly brought to market today it would in fact be prescription.

On the other hand diclofenac is over-the-counter in Australia.
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As many other Danes, I have a total weakness for licorice. But I believe it’s common knowledge that you’re not supposed to eat a lot of it at once. Certain types do have warnings printed on them like “For adults, not for kids” but most do not.

The sneaky part that the article also describes is that you don’t really feel any symptoms until it’s too late. So once in a while when I buy a pack I spread it out over several days, preferably with space in between just to be sure.

Also, my mom ate a bunch of one of those ‘not for kids’ types of licorice when she was pregnant with me which is kind of concerning. I don’t know exactly how much though, hopefully not dangerous amounts. At least I don’t know that I have suffered any direct consequences of that habit.
Well, on the upside maybe we'll get better ultrasonic hardware. Easy listening to bats!
I love both Erlang and PHP, but the philosophy of what to do with errors in requesrs is like diametrically opposed. For PHP, usually it's log, but keep on going as best you can. For Erlang, it's log and stop, and the request handler will generally be restarted.

I guess where they're similar is that an error is generally going to only affect that one request, the next request will have a fresh handler.

(Of course, these are generalizations, you can always do things differently in either language).
That every bag of jelly beans includes liquorice is really a travesty.

It's the culinary equivalent of bleach and ammonia Tide pods.
Maybe the type of personality willing to gamble it all on running a drug market isn't they type to dot their i's and cross their t's.
Billboard.js 2.1.0 release: Another step for performance improvement and more
What? I’m Danish and I’ve eaten 45 of those (lakridspiber), and felt nothing but shame.

Were they the yellow or pink ones?

I generally don’t eat a lot of candy, but maybe once a year in a while I’ll eat quite a lot of whatever crave springs up. Sometimes that is lakrids. Maybe I should be more careful?
Strongly agreed; Ubuntu 14 and 16 were amazing to run, and 18+ are a huge mess with full menus compressed into burgers icons.

Connecting to WIFI takes me 8 clicks! As someone who regularly goes to cafes, this is very frustrating:

1. Generic top-right menu

2. Open wifi submenu.

3. Turn On

modal closes automatically!

4. Generic top-right menu

5. Wifi submenu

6. Select Network

popup opens

7. Click the desired network

8. Connect
PHP is implemented in C, right?

What makes a PHP version implemented in a JVM 9x faster than PHP implemented in C?
Saudi guys create illegal real station based on epicgames cod station
To add one more, there's also Oh sh*t, Git: https://ohshitgit.com

I think it's been posted around here before, but who knows, maybe you're one of todays lucky 10000?
I doubt the bird is that desperate considering it's being constantly fed.
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Yes, the rational default for a lay person is to accept expert consensus. But the question at hand is what weight they should give that consensus. And that weighting should change, depending on the nature of the system being understood. We're talking about credences, not point estimates of beliefs.
Bit of a shame the license is so restrictive you can't even use it in non-profit organisations without permission. Wondering what you can realistically do with them other than using one for a ringtone on your phone
There are some great examples of this type of in-depth analysis in Mike Ash's blog:

https://mikeash.com/pyblog/
> So should we ban all driving? Because that is the analogous reaction to prohibiting any gatherings.

That's a straw man: no one is proposing banning all gatherings forever. Drunk people are banned from driving when they're drunk, not when they're sober. People like these students will have to suffer some analogous restrictions during this pandemic, especially in hot spots like Boulder, but those restrictions will stop when the virus is under control.
What sight-reading apps are you using? I am looking into improving my music sheet reading as well.
A simple rule of thumb from someone who is not a lawyer. Is the thing you wish to download the property of someone else, and have they granted you the right to view/use it. I think the answer is pretty clear here.
I have always wondered. What prevents them from sending ad links in the feed? If the clients could render them, that there's a workable model, right?
I believe the risk is from carbon monoxide (CO) due to incomplete combustion.

Not sure what the best summary of this topic is but here's a paper that provides an example:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ccr3.2173
Dystopia isn't guaranteed; don't go gentle into that good night.

Highly recommend reading "On Tyranny", it's a great small, pertinent book for $10 at most book stores.

Edit: to be clear China's social credit system is extremely dystopian to me and is already taking shape, but I trust most/all democratic societies (including US) to fend it off.
> The justification is kids “might use them to get high” but as far as I’m concerned it’s a handout to Doctors.

That's also such a weird concept in 2020. Kids can just buy literally any drug they want on the dark net and have it shipped to their homes, they don't need to drink a gallon of cough syrup or use inhalers to get high.

It's interesting that you can get refills on a single prescription. I'm in Germany, and all doctors I've ever been to go the Let's Encrypt route, aka you'll get a prescription for 1-3 months worth (whatever the size sold at the pharmacy is), but you need to call them up and get a new prescription afterwards.
Some people can’t make a stable living in regular jobs, so they resort to some form of crime. And it takes very little to add “Anybody can make money on the internet. Zuck did it and he’s a dropout.” and “Drugs make money” together.

The rest of the story tells itself.
As long as you can access the games, you can get around the server closures. There are active online communities for PSP Monster Hunter and DS Pokemon games even though the online services shut down years ago.
I find that learning about the ways of working with Git follows relatively naturally after you spend about 10 minutes learning about how Git is modelled. (I created a visual tutorial about that a number of years ago: https://agripongit.vincenttunru.com/)
Most fields have only a few laws.

When I've had the opportunity to talk with true experts in different fields, I was surprised to find that they tend to focus in very few factors, unlike books or other practitioners.

Wasn't Karate Kid training something like that? The master was only interested in a few exercises that were done doing repetitive tasks apparently unrelated to fight.
I'm just done with a view that "what matters" is what makes more money for senior executives and shareholders.
The first answer probably depends on where you live. In the US, I would not bet on it. In Germany, I could at least argue that you legally cannot steal source code.

For the second part: that's probably legally impossible world wide due to trade secret protection agreements.
The problem is that Amazon could still do it, they're just on that scale, while most common companies would shy away as they don't have the Amazon budget for abusing AGPL right.

I hope in the future the Elastic, TimeScale, Confluent and any other "fuck Amazon" license could be merged into one and kind of standardized on as many freedoms as possible, while keeping AWS out of it.
You are mistaking "source code available" for open source, which means a specific set of things, and does ensure you can compile and run the code.
Precisely the age range which is _not dying from COVID_. Like at all, almost. They should be prohibiting gatherings of those 50 and up, of any size, and offering free grocery deliveries and assistance to those 60 and up so that they don't have to get out of the house. Instead, we get idiotic crap like this.
Another interesting question to ask may be: Would downloading/seeding this torrent be considered a worse offence than if it were, say, a movie?
I just don't understand the entire article - who is this guy? What is he doing? Why is he doing it? What are the dozens of different acronyms in this article and what do they mean? Who owns the 9.6M dollars and where was it at the risk of going?

Maybe this is a good article for someone deep into crypto, but for myself, as a casual morning read - I have no idea what happened.
Tell HN: I was lectured for not wearing a mask to a restaurant
After much contemplation, we decided to take our first family vacation since the start of the pandemic to an area we thought would be relatively deserted. The only problem was we booked the only clean hotel we could find in the tourist town close by.

Night 1: We ate at the empty hotel restaurant right before they stopped seating and it felt great to do something normal again.

Night 2: We made a newbie vacation mistake of letting our toddler nap too long and she woke up extremely hangry (hungry and angry). I tried calling room service multiple times with no answer. So I rushed over to the hotel restaurant to order room service in person as I thought they were closing again and realized as I walked in I left my mask in the room - oops!

I immediately apologized but was absolutely chewed out for not wearing a mask. For a second I thought I might be the next viral video on youtube as now everyone is staring at me and grumbling. The hostess gave me a loaner mask and then became increasingly angry as I struggled to open their "no contact" menu. Thankfully, WeChat was not banned and I was able to scan the QR code that the Android camera app refuses to read, but unfortunately I'm on vacation in a remote area with EDGE connection so the website would not load. I remembered a few things on the menu from the previous night and ordered from memory. Damn I felt small.

I'm not an anti-masker by any means. I've never gone out in public without a mask. But as I was walking out of the restaurant I realized the absurdity of the whole situation. The restaurant was absolutely packed with large groups of people at each table (turned out they were closing an hour later that night). No one is ordering food with their masks on since they serve water first. I mean I walked by tables of 10-15 people all without masks ordering food while I just got lectured for violating the state law. The whole experience almost ruined the trip for me.
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Two of the biggest dark web criminals are serving a combined 16 1/2 years in federal prison. One is a former Secret Service agent and the other is a former DEA agent.
What's the demographic that's using XP in China? I find this super interesting...
Leave it to programmers to completely dismiss another field, in which they have no knowledge or experience, in two sentences.
Hilarious. Marxist are constantly trying to rewrite history of the Vikings to fit the modern political spectrum of migration & multiculturalism, but now suddenly rewriting history is problem because of "white supremacy", which is of course once again trying to fit history into our modern discourse.
I don't agree, Josh. Certainly not v1 (which, AFAIK, is the only version in use). I doubt v2 could gain broad support either.
For me it used to jump to the next chapter instead of the next page when reading Japanese novels but they fixed that bug in 5.0.
Even a linear bounded automaton will accept context-sensitive languages, which an FSM cannot.
"Behind every great fortune there is Crime" --Balzac (b. 1799)
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It's like OpenSSL. Everyone acted like they did a terrible job in the end, but either you had alternatives and you could have linked to gnutls or you decided that you didn't have alternatives and OpenSSL was irreplaceable. Either way, the product was just way too good.
I still keep my 12 year old legal copy of Windows XP available to be run as a VM via VirtualBox for occasions when I need to try out some Windows/DOS stuff - works pretty well :)
But realistically, how will they know if some random Wine contributor is "inspired" by leaked code?

It seems like it would just go undetected.
Daily stands ups are the quickest way to waste your time.Even if can limit the stand up to 5 to 10 minutes, a study from the University of California Irvine revealed that it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the task at hand. That means you lose half an hour of work from each of your team members each day, 20 hours a month.

I trust my team to keep me updated if a ticket takes longer than expected. If it does, I can arrange a meeting with the required developers to discuss a way forward.
> The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license[1].

So for commercial purposes you need to licence them, as described here[2]:

> We provide various options from single downloads you choose ($5) to the entire library on hard drive ($1,995), to annual licensing for multi-user media production companies

[1] http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

[2] https://blog.prosoundeffects.com/how-to-license-bbc-sound-ef...
Seconding that. Fantastic book!
It's incredible to me how Microsoft was able to blow that chance with Skype. Just a while ago Skype used to be the generic trademark. "I'm skyping with my girlfriend"
That is quite weird, i guess they'd never go after people for doing this "the right way". But it's not nice being in breach of license without ill intent.