skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Canadian I wouldn't be too worried about reporting a security vuln here. If I was in America on the other-hand... I'd 100% think twice.
> Edit: why the downvotes?

Because under seemingly every C project discussed here someone asks this question or claims that it is "stupid to do something like this in C" and always gets the same answers. Some users might have felt like you were trolling.
Exactly. To me that section was a total demonstration of narrow minded personal opinion.
So is that the latest release or is it still 1.4?
That's quite possible, but this group had previously announced they'd be doing this so it's a reasonable possibility.

Also, note Nintendo (Mario Kart and Smash) never went down during those games launch and is still up. The player count isn't as high, but they could play.

Interesting Nintendo wasn't targeted.
Anyone fancy providing an answer for the question left as an exercise for the reader?
Dissecting Lollipop's Smart Lock
Why do you think that current CO2 concentration levels are important for intelligent life?

Slight adjustment in how body works can easily adapt organism to new CO2 levels.
That's what's so cool about art. We each take from art what appeals to us, if we take anything. It's subjective, and the reason one might like Stokowski, another Marilyn Manson, and yet another both.
What a terrible thing to do. "Hey guys, you annoyed me. Let me give you a ransom!"

This won't discourage further attacks, it will only make things worse.
From 2004, FWIW. (I can't really comment on how the state of the community etc have changed since then)
Real businesses do no not hide. Whois privacy for any real business is a dumb decision, your customers need to know who you are, where you reside and how they can reach you even when (or especially when!) your website is down.

I don't really understand the way ICANN currently rhymes their 'whois data should be accurate' policy with the 'we allow the use of anonymization services' exception on that policy.
It happens to me as well. As ky3 puts it, most people take things seriously too. Problem is, perhaps what they do take seriously is not what you do. Try to get along with people that share tastes with you (not limiting yourself to them, of course). Common interests are key to social relationships; they seem to be the glue that holds people together.
The hacktivist group, Lizard Squad, has an official song:

https://archive.today/OcOdU

https://soundcloud.com/hacker/lizardsquad

And the song is actually hilarious ("North Korea is the best Korea") and kind of cool. We live in such a bizarre world.
Hmm, not sure why I was down voted but anyways, ah yeah the article didn't mention it was a DDoS, it's not even a 'hack' at this point in my opinion.
"In fact, I'd say the image is perhaps the biggest problem with Smalltalk."

There need not be a single image. You can save and load as many images as you like. In fact, you can have thousands or hundreds of thousands of images if you prefer. You may think I'm being uncharitable to the author by construing his words as I did, but it's entirely appropriate given the tendency of those ignorant of Smalltalk (like him) to speak and act as if there is some monolithic, fragile image that everyone on a project shares and each must strive to avoid breaking.

The Smalltalk image may seem unfamiliar or even scary at first, but it's really little different from a standard Ruby or Python process, except that it is serializable and contains all of the code (both compiled and in source form), data, and execution state as objects that you can manipulate.

Further, every Smalltalk (that I know of) supports saving and loading source code to text files and often some form of package management and source control as well. Many Smalltalk also integrate with file-based tools quite well. For example, you can use git with Pharo, and many Pharo developers use Github exclusively for their development.

People citing the image as a reason for not using Smalltalk clearly don't know Smalltalk. They're also likely hypocrites, because at some point or another they've no doubt asked themselves why, after so many years, are programmers still programming by the mere editing of dumb text files? Well, in part because of your hostility to any system that isn't the mere editing of dumb text files.
Evolution takes care of that obstacle: whatever individuals keep replicate themselves - win, and keep pushing expansion forward.
Yes, that's the theory, but in practice I find that I spend much more time futzing with the formatting in LaTeX than in Word, especially in two-column mode with figures. The article and various comments here suggest I'm not alone in this...

I'd love to have a system that actually delivers on the latex philosophy of separating content from formatting.
Segovia is trying to make it easier for governments and NGO's to administer cash transfer programs. It's spun out of GiveDirectly (which is on Givewell's top rated charities list).

I met the team, pretty strong, might have worked for them but they didn't want engineers working remotely (they're based in NYC).

http://thesegovia.com/
GODHAJUR KUTSAL İNANCI VE YAŞAM
More proof of our One True Lord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unZI3MVIZ4o
> caused by the presence of a file that's exactly 8,192 bytes (8KB) or a multiple thereof

So not simply 8kb as the (current) title states.
2.0 is now the latest, as of the release of this phone.
I question the validity of their methodology.

At no point in the paper is exactly what is meant by a "formatting error" or a "typesetting error" defined. From what I gather, the participants in the study were required to reproduce the formatting and layout of the sample text. In theory, a LaTeX file should strictly be a semantic representation of the content of the document; while TeX may have been a raw typesetting language, this is most definitely not the intended use case of LaTeX and is overall a very poor test of its relative advantages and capabilities.

The separation of the semantic definition of the content from the rendering of the document is, in my opinion, the most important feature of LaTeX. Like CSS, this allows the actual formatting to be abstracted away, allowing plain (marked-up) content to be written without worrying about typesetting.

Word has some similar capabilities with styles, and can be used in a similar manner, though few Word users actually use the software properly. This may sound like a relatively insignificant point, but in practice, almost every Word document I have seen has some form of inconsistent formatting. If Word disallowed local formatting changes (including things such as relative spacing of nested bullet points), forcing all formatting changes to be done in document-global styles, it would be a far better typesetting system. Also, the users would be very unhappy.

Yes, LaTeX can undeniably be a pain in the arse, especially when it comes to trying to get figures in the right place; however the combination of a simple, semantic plain-text representation with a flexible and professional typesetting and rendering engine are undeniable and completely unaddressed by this study.
"If regular files systems and git(hub) are your thing be prepared for some drastic adjustments."

Not so with Pharo. And "slow" relative to what? Surely not compared with Ruby or Python, two of HN's darling languages.
Another possibility... there are plenty of civilisations within broadcasting distance from us that are all listening but not broadcasting for fear of predatory civilisations.
Profitability is not an explanation for many activities that take place here on Earth (today is one). There are many reasons that would allow non-profitable expansion to occur. If the cost is low compared to the wealth of the society and the society is not a hive mind, then some individuals within that society would undertake it purely for non-profit reasons. For example, if I could send a problem to Sirius for $1000 that would beam back pictures of system in 18 years time I would do it right now even though I am not going to make any money from the exercise.

If we want to stay on the profit driven model only then it could still be profitable to send out colonising entities once the solar systems resources are fully utilised. Remote colonies could stream back computational information (say Pixar's Toy Story 42) thus increasing our wealth.
Scale. A death/rape threat only targets a single person. This type of attack causes much less harm to any individual, but that harm is multiplied by many individuals. Our intuition about relative harm (and bassicly everything else) breaks down across such large scales.
The participants were instructed to reproduce the source text within thirty minutes.

Given such a visual task, it's no wonder a WYSIWYG editor like Word would make it much easier to get things looking exactly as they were instructed to. In other words, many of the LaTeX users probably spent a lot of time trying to "reverse-engineer" the formatting, something that very very rarely occurs in practice.
Although I mainly use LaTeX and prefer its semantic markup, the revision control is one thing I do prefer about Word, at least for my workflow. There are cases where I could imagine the git tooling/workflow being superior, but for me personally it hasn't worked well. Whereas Word's "track changes" mode works well for me as a way of suggesting, commenting on, and integrating revisions (replacing a lot of email traffic).
It's strange they didn't show side-by-side comparisons of the resulting PDFs. Do Word and (La)TeX produce equally pleasant results? Last I checked, Word-papers looked pretty amateur.

Also, it came across as two people with an axe to grind. For example, are the LaTeX people using editors with automatic spell checking or correction? Which system was used to come up with the examples? Which system did the person creating the examples normally use?
It seems that the test was heavily biased in favor of WYSIWYG.

Of course that approach makes it very simple to reproduce something, as has been tested here. Even simpler would be to scan the document and run OCR. The massive problem with both approaches (WYSIWYG and scanning) is that you can't generalize any of it. You're doomed repeating it forever.

(I'll also note the other significant issue with this study: when the ratings provided by participants came out opposite of their test results, they attributed it to irrational bias.)
Being in technology, you have a front-row seat to the concept of elective decline, or the idea that civilization's decline is often a collective but intentional choice, rather than the result of external stress. It seems sad, to a historian, that a great empire would "collapse" (an affair that usually happen imperceptibly over hundreds of years) but the reality is that it's the unintended product of millions of individuals making self-interested and possibly self-beneficial decisions... that end up not keeping up or advancing the civilization. At some point, they just decide that it's not worth it to be civilized anymore, and investment ceases.

Since the 1970s, we've seen elective decline in the U.S., in science, and in technology. Abstractly people want scientific progress, but no one wants to pay for it, and people within the masses would rather be guided by their resentment of academics than fight back when academic or research jobs get cut. When state legislatures cut funding for public universities, the hoi polloi don't care because their resentment for professors is stronger than their sense of a need to keep up the society.

One might hope for Silicon Valley to be better, and look to it for leadership, and it may have kept its integrity for longer, but the current "M&A has replaced R&D" era is just fucking disgusting. It's easy to focus the hatred on a few unlikeable celebrity founders (and I've done my share of that) but the truth is that the problem is really deep and probably unalterable. We have a front-row seat, if we work in science and technology in the U.S., for elective decline-- why it happens, the individual actors who push it forward (not wanting decline, but valuing self-interest more), and the often one-way erosion of trust that tends to make it irreversible-- but we have no power to change it. And, just as one might read about a civilization that collapsed 3,000 years ago and think, "They would have been fine if they just <X>", we can easily come up with solutions that will work but never see implementation, because (as seems to be a constant of human organizations) the wrong people are in charge.
One important point of software that is forever sidelined is that the emotional experience is equally as important as the usability side.

Was this properly weighted?

The abstract does mention this with a single line:

> however, more often report enjoying using their respective software.

Whereas the results involving usability/functional output accounted for about 90% of the text summary.
Text editors are clunky? If a text editor is 'clunky', it is almost assuredly not clunky in the same sense as an IDE.
Agreed. They've posted a picture on their twitter of a note saying "Lizard Squad made me do this" beside an insanely cut wrist.
Are these activists or terrorists?
A good start!

However, how come the time stuff isn't sorted out yet? Why do I still have to use MomentJS?
By 'people', I presume you mean all of us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmorkrebs
Portable world for Gamers
I'm not surprised, Kim is known for his extravagance and will promote Mega every opportunity he can.
I find in Word I don't try too hard on formatting, especially in 2 column situations, because it is just going to look ugly no matter what I do. Using latex, in contrast, I really focus on aesthetics, which means some more time spent for decent results.
Comments like this make me wonder how much astroturfing is going on here, or whether what we witness in these sorts of comments is just honest-to-god stupidity puffed up by a contrarian disregard for common sense and possibly pathological authority-worship.

Leaving aside the point that any case involving extradition is by definition a international manhunt, and that the US is known to have started a grand jury investigation so there are at least three countries involved in the judicial mess, it is impossible to take anyone seriously who believes the UK government (or any government) would burn the amount of money it has and upend diplomatic relations with Ecuador over the extradition of a cooperative witness who has yet to be charged with anything.

As a reader, one can only imagine these posters calling their Member of Parliament to ask why the police have not yet launched an international manhunt into the disappearance of their bicycle from the local chips shop. Have embassies been informed worldwide? Perhaps ISIS is involved!
IME it's usually the other way around about who's doing the mundane tasks. Occasional contributors are most motivated by getting in their one pet feature; it's the project leader who takes on the dull task of cultivating an environment where other people can bolt on that feature successfully.
Ah, apparently the BBC forgot about the
scene in the first movie Jurassic Park!
visually they seem like paradise. full practical reality: no. the ideal we should seek would have the best of both worlds.
Story of an engineering student
I wonder what %age of crashes are due to that bug?
Show HN: Play20Back, the Music released exactly 20 years ago
Your last line reminds me a lot of when PG said that most founders are really nice people who are rarely "mean".

Why in the fuck would a founder even consider being mean to one of the most powerful people in the industry? It just seemed to lack the self awareness that founders probably treat him differently than the average person they interact with.
A couple misspellings.
I did explain it in my post, but maybe it was too short. Earth has been kept in the habitable temperature zone over the last 3.5 billion years through falling CO2 levels. Around 3.5 billion years ago the sun provided ~25% less energy than now and the CO2 levels were much higher. This is the green house effect. As the sun got brighter over time the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has fallen. For more on this see the slow carbon cycle [1].

The problem is that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is getting very low (~0.2%). At this level plants are starved for CO2 - if it gets down to 0.01% then plants can't grow at all and the ecosystem needed to support the evolution of intelligent life would collapse.

1. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CarbonCycle/page2....
They describe themselves as cyber terrorists.
HCI is almost entirely Word; it really varies by field in computer science.
I don't understand how the author's estimate is justified. He wants to take the probability that the margin is within 2 million and then divide by two million? Maybe he is appealing to some limiting argument? But we are presumably dealing with a discrete random variable.
A lot of proofreading needed...
At a certain point, if you can make a self-replicating machine, with harvested solar energy for travel, you would expect that machine's descendants to slowly get everywhere intended.
Is Pharo the state of the art?
I can't find much of anything particularly interesting about this link. Is there a fix for this bug? Discussion about what causes it? I did a search and couldn't find anything really useful about this. Maybe a break down of the troubleshooting involved behind locating this bug, now that'd be interesting.
They attribute the increased emotional satisfaction of LaTeX users to cognitive dissonance. Page 12:

"A striking result of our study is that LaTeX users are highly satisfied with their system despite reduced usability and productivity. From a psychological perspective, this finding may be related to motivational factors, i.e., the driving forces that compel or reinforce individuals to act in a certain way to achieve a desired goal. A vital motivational factor is the tendency to reduce cognitive dissonance. According to the theory of cognitive dissonance, each individual has a motivational drive to seek consonance between their beliefs and their actual actions. If a belief set does not concur with the individual’s actual behavior, then it is usually easier to change the belief rather than the behavior [6]. The results from many psychological studies in which people have been asked to choose between one of two items (e.g., products, objects, gifts, etc.) and then asked to rate the desirability, value, attractiveness, or usefulness of their choice, report that participants often reduce unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance by rationalizing the chosen alternative as more desirable than the unchosen alternative [6, 7]. This bias is usually unconscious and becomes stronger as the effort to reject the chosen alternative increases, which is similar in nature to the case of learning and using LaTeX."
Yes. The closest I have ever experienced are the islands of the South Pacific. You get the same lush vegetation, but with pleasant temperatures and few of the nasty critters. Some of the Cook Islands are a very nice :)
It's increasingly a religious ritual in the United States as well but one that is restricted to the subset of people who are customers of roasters and coffee shops that are part of the Third Wave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Wave_Coffee
The point of LaTeX is to not worry about format, just the content. "Reproducing a document" is rarely done by normal LaTeX users. Most people just use a template that is appropriate for the task, and let the algorithm taking care of the format.

Basically, the study set up a straw man to attack, and it doesn't not have any ecological validity.
that exact possibility was listed in the article.
Not surprising. The German word for virgin is ... youngwoman (Jungfrau).
Hi guys. I posted before with much success before but I made several improvements since then, the main one is that I have a way more reliable (and automatable) process for picking songs and videos accurately, and now it uses a stricter filter (significant number of likes vs dislikes, significant number of youtube video views) and so on.

The videos try to be as accurate as possible, meaning right now is showing videos popular today 20 years ago (24 December 1994). And because is automated hopefully it will continue working with much supervision.

If you guys are interested in a similar version for different time lengths (`play 30 back` or `play 10 back`) just say so, or if you have any questions about it feel free to ask.
I am actually not sure that the author of Matthew wrote in Greek. While we may not know the original language in which the gospel of Matthew is written, it is written for a Jewish audience and seems to be one of the most colorful, with e.g. many dead saints coming back to life, begging the question of why no one else bothered to write about this stuff. In any event, if this did indeed happen then it's another example of something that doesn't fit our worldview today that nevertheless can take place, like black swans and freak waves.

On a related note, the Hebrew word for "wife" and "woman" are the same. And the same is true of Greek. So quotes of Jesus such as http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-28.htm are probably mistranslated, since it doesn't make sense that two unmarried people can commit adultery, so it's likely that the original word was "wife". And yet because of these translations so many young people's sexual desires were repressed so that they might not look lustfully at any woman, married or not. Whenever I ask other Christians about this kind of stuff, they never seem to have a good answer but continue to insist that it should be "woman", and that young men should still not look with lust at any woman.
We might be very close to finding life on Mars. If we did and it was different than us that would answer a lot of questions.
We use EWAH (another compressed bitset from Daniel Lemire) heavily at work to store inverted indices in a compressed form. Apart from lowering the memory foot print (vs storing sorted integers), AND/OR operations are much faster when you want to do stuff like intersecting 2 bitsets to find the overlapping members etc.

You should checkout some of the other impressive compression related stuff that Daniel has open sourced: https://github.com/lemire
What could possibly be an explanation for this? Formatting thresholds?
Probably doesn't even take much to knock down the servers on xmas day given the insane burst of xmas traffic from first power on of new devices.
One restriction is that random insertion into the bitmap is a O(N) operation. You typically expect to construct the bitmap in a sequential fashion and once constructed, treat it as immutable.
What's still missing in the LaTeX ecosystem (to my knowledge) is a visually pleasing writing environment. The end result might look great but code editors are simply not made for prose. Even editors specifically designed for LaTex do not invite to write - they invite to code.

Until then I stick to my iA Writer --> Markdown --> pandoc--> Word workflow
It's hilarious when you think about it. It's effectively mating via dry hump.
"Ravioli code" sounds like bad-programmer for "good code", but maybe I've misunderstood
One solution I've found is this: the iOS app Voice Dream allows you to take highlights and notes while listening to an epub file being spoken by your choice of voice. Then you can export the annotations as a text file in this format:

CHAPTER NAME

(percentage of the way through the text)%

HIGHLIGHTED TEXT OR NOTE

I find it suits my use case.
How does this happen? My guess is there is a loop that processes file contents in 8KB blocks, something like this:

bytesRemaining = fileSize;
while(...) {
...
bytesRemaining -= 8192;
if(bytesRemaining < 0)
break;
...
}
bytesRemaining += 8192;
...
// process remaining bytes

See the bug? :-)
word is easier to get started, however, as the document grows, you will miss latex badly. image and table positioning are equally annoying if not worse than latex.