skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree with this too; at least to an extent -- especially given Oracle's recent actions wrt. to Android/Java.

Now that you mention Intellectual Property, I wonder.... Does the fact that .NET is used in big enterprises and big enterprises tend to have strict employee side-work exclusion clauses or "we own everything you do" clauses also play a part in slowing down the .NET OSS ecosystem?
I agree there was a lot of similarity between how open Java & C# were as they evolved. However, Sun's engagement with the open source development community was much, much, much better than Microsoft's. Sun had its problems, but they actually had worked with that community in the past. At the time Microsoft was openly combative.
> just sit in a regular meditation position.

Why not lie down?
Maybe I've been in a bubble but my impression was that economists generally think the Germans are at fault in the Greece thing, for the way that the Euro was set up and run, and that Greece was just the weakest link in a chain that was inevitably going to be put under pressure.

So if I was going to blame any large group of people I'd maybe point at politicians, or voters, who have locked Europe into a collective action problem where they beggar their neighbours rather than work together effectively for their collective benefit.

Even the austerity stuff, which only seemed briefly popular because politicians wanted to believe it and could sell it to voters, only made the problem worse, it didn't create it.
A 'cute feature' does become a company once enough people are using it. In a parallel universe you could have said the same about a shutdown notice of Twitter or Snapchat.
Why You Shouldn't Force Yourself to Be a Morning Person
[1106.5736] Algorithms for Solving Rubik's Cubes
Colour of bits [0] was an eye-opening read.

0: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Are We Heading to the Next Dimension of Space Explorations?
Personally I need to store RAWs. I don't have any use for a DAM (Digital Asset Management) system that doesn't let me store RAWs (or at least import to DNG with most, if not 1:1, of the information intact).

I'm mulling over implementing it myself, as a self-host solution. Probably aim for ingesting RAWs to DNGs, and have the possibility of losslessly doing some edit/transforms (store the operations outside the DNG files) -- along with export/view/cache as jpeg and jpeg 2000 for web browsing etc.
Most of the examples in the article are about state-owned, state-operated enterprises, such as sovereign wealth funds, utilities, oil and mineral extraction, etc.

In fact, I could not find any example of "putting a state-run monopoly in private hands" anywhere in the article. Did you even read it?

> According to him, not blindly gifting away the collectively-held public commons into the hands of private capital to sell it back to us is now called "Socialism".

That's quite a strawman there. He never argued anything remotely like that.
It's being standardized in the NETVC video codec working group at the IETF. Cisco has also contributed a new royalty-free codec called Thor.
cool. Do you have anything to solve a 66 cube. I can solve a 33.
Links actually has a graphical mode too: http://paste.click/DdkwUx

There's even a driver to draw straight to a framebuffer. It can be useful if you're on a box without X or break X and need a browser (which is how I found out about it).

I don't actually use it unless I have to, but interesting to know.
Fast is a completely reliable transaction in seconds (as banks currently provide in many countries with CC or with transfers, or paypal does for example). Bitcoin doesn't provide that because you need to wait for real confirmation, and it doesn't provide a predictable time-frame for that. So it is slower than many other payment methods.

No cost is not accurate, because to get fast, you need to pay. Low cost is debatable but possibly accurate compared to current payment methods (though CC charges are mostly borne by the vendor, an important distinction).

I do think these criticisms strike to the heart of why Bitcoin will not be successful - it doesn't compare well to other payment methods, and because of the nature of its distributed consensus and proof of work, it never will. It has some interesting ideas but also embeds some ideas about transactions which make it impossible to satisfy the requirements of most vendors/customers.

We will probably see a digital global currency supplanting government-backed currencies, but it needs to have very low volatility, a transparent guidance structure, a credible backer (probably corporate in today's world), verifiable identities to prove both sides of a transaction took part and prevent fraud etc., fast and low cost transfers (BTC has the low cost bit at least at present), and most importantly of all regulated central institutions like banks or exchanges which normal people can trust to carry out business, because most people do not have the time, resources or inclination to secure their servers/computers against determined intrusion and fraud.

Personally I think the concepts of mining, a distributed block chain, and unique tokens which are hoarded and passed around like gold coins are fundamentally flawed and will prevent Bitcoin taking off long-term and are the cause of many of its issues like volatility. It is full of interesting ideas though and has triggered a renaissance in online payment, so I see why people find it interesting.
They seem to 'know' their audience- the NYT isn't an academic economics journal, so playing a bit loose with terminology is OK- the simple fact is amongst the people at large socialism=government controlled as opposed to worker owned.... or some other academic definition I'm ignorant of.
I used that system, Interlisp, the Warren Teitelman version of LISP, on SRI's DECsystem 2060. I had a similar experience. I typed "EDIT" when in the wrong mode, and got "=EXIT" from DWIM. Interlisp terminated without saving.

It really was keyed to Warren's errors. It would try to correct "9" and "0" into "(" and ")", a mistake he apparently made frequently but I never did.
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Some discussion here https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=79722
Pretty blown away by the fact that he graduated high school in two weeks just after learning English.

Don't know if that's a reflection of the American or Japanese public education system in 1992, or just Masayoshi's raw intellect.
Dosage for controlling ADD compared to that used in a performance enhancing manner is quite drastically different.
They also have minimum wage in the US.
iPhone 7: ten new features for business users
> "It would be fair to have two Tours de France - one for the asthmatics and one for non-asthmatics," he said. "The funny result would be that the asthmatics would be much faster."

From http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/cycling/2007-07-20-369...
I am the project lead of LXQt.
Nasa, yesterday said "It appears that Earth-like (habitable) planets are quite common". "15-25% of sun like stars have Earth-like planets"
Peak Capital III: Vaste Koers of Trendbreuk?
What are the impacts on immigration policy under Georgism?

What are the impacts of Georgism on immigration policy?
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) this can pretty much be claimed to be impossible. Even just generating one specific kilobyte of data using uniform randomness yields a probability of 1/2^8192 (Python tells me that 2^8192 > 10^2000, which is far bigger than the estimated number of atoms in the universe, which is somewhere around 10^80).
ah,

Thank you sir.
Frankly, they're a rounding error with our current workload. If you're in the business of running a CDN or streaming video you may want to look at other options - Netflix with their caching servers in ISP's data centres are a pretty good example of this.
Currently you could run coreclr apps on Linux / Mac, you just can't pull the dependencies without mono, since CoreCLR for Mac / Linux still misses NuGet mechanisms
This seems like an excellent list on first glance. Is there a similar "practical advice" type of list.

Sadly, I tried to imagine I'd need to be as anonymous as possible and couldn't even figure out how to get an untraceable email address (legally).
My basic thought was to use some public WLAN (hoping for no MiTM), ideally not close to where I actually live and then use Tor to create a Hushmail account (as I recall the EFF recommends it).
Alas it seems that's already flawed since a quick websearch suggests Hushmail cooperates with government agencies.

Admittedly I haven't spend a lot of time researching available options but I think it's pretty hard to even get step 1 right. I can only imagine how hard it must be for someone who isn't tech saavy at all.
It slowly fell behind. I made the mistake of using it for a product pre-MVC. When MVC came along they jumped the shark and we ended up ripping it out and replacing bits with Autofac and some light weight abstractions we put together ourselves.
> That means the digits in its decimal expansion (to pick a base) are not known to be normally distributed.

You mean uniformly distributed. Being a normal number states more than that: any finite sequence of digits are uniformly distributed.

While you are right that Pi isn't proven to be normal, constructing a normal number isn't exactly hard. I think the following number is proven to be normal (binary representation, I added spaces for clarity):

0.0 1 00 01 10 11 001 010 011 100 101 110 111 ...

It's clear to see that this number contains all possible finite binary sequences.
Props to ESL for doing this. Some of this has come about because of how casually some csgo players have discussed how they load up on adderall just before matches.

Hopefully they can clean this up not neccessarily just for the sake of competetive integrity but also to protect the health of the young competitors.
> The post has no question marks

Correct.

> nor does it seek knowledge.

Open to interpretation- when someone claims they don't know what something is, I interpret that as an invitation to explanation, exposition.
Kingshard-A High-Performance Proxy for MySQL Powered by Golang
Overview

kingshard is a high-performance proxy for MySQL powered by Go. Just like other mysql proxies, you can use it to split the read/write sqls. Now it supports basic SQL statements (select, insert, update, replace, delete). The most important feature is the sharding function. Kingshard aims to simplify the sharding solution of MySQL.

Feature

splits reads and writes

sharding table across multiple nodes

client's ip ACL control.

supports prepared statement: COM_STMT_PREPARE, COM_STMT_EXECUTE, etc.

MySQL HA

Install

1. Install Go

2. git clone https://github.com/flike/kingshard.git src/github.com/flike/kingshard

3. cd src/github.com/flike/kingshard

4. source ./dev.sh

5. make

6. set the config file (etc/multi.yaml)

7. run kingshard (./bin/kingshard -config=etc/multi.yaml)

https://github.com/flike/kingshard
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd criticised ahead of climate speech
At least for me it is all zeros (0x00). Except when I downloaded the entire file for the first time, there I first got zeros (0x00), then zeros (0x30) separated by two windows newlines (twice 0x0D 0x0A) and reached infinity after 544,930 bytes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cjsthompson
Wow. Nice.

Almost completely related to the discussion at hand: Interesting how much presentation and familiarity affects the cognitive load our mind has to deal with when seeing things.

It took me quite some time to realize that the screenshot you posted was of my own eww image-paste on imgur loaded inside a graphical links-session.

Have an up-vote good sir :)
I guess not needing an id just makes it easier. It's always a pain having to provide two forms of proof of address
Because we don't want people abusing drugs.
Back in 2001 I was working on an new app that was designed to generate efficient routes for garbage collection trucks for a region of Portugal.
The government of that region wanted to minimize fuel consumption and travel times.
This is basically the classical Traveling Salesman Problem.
We soon realized that using brute force to try all possible combinations would be impossible and someone handed me a research paper on using Ant Colony Systems to solve the Travelling Salesman problem.
I was skeptical, but after implementing it and comparing the results with the brute force generated data ( that took a LOT more time to produce ) I was blown away.
The results weren't perfect but good enough to be a vast improvement on the routes used before.

Emergent behavior can be amazing.
Maybe the happiness is in the hope. Is there anything you would find there that would actually fulfill you? Maybe it's like when people become rich and they realize that didn't fill them up.
Hah, don't worry - I didn't think it was harsh. I've had no training/edu in HDL whatsoever, so this was a deep dive - I expected to be told I'm doing wrong!

The end result is on FPGA, yes. Still a long way before that works. And I'll make sure any massive screwups are documented in next parts, those are the best parts (and, probably most valuable) to write about :)
That's somewhat of a bummer, as it also forces all legitimate users to leave their endpoints acessible for everyone who knows the URL.

Have you thought about at least adding support for authentication where the credentials are generated by IFTTT? (Similar to the "secret" that you use for the trigger) This would allow makers to protect their endpoints while still disallowing spoofed requests.
Can you quantify the difference?
> ..rejected a $40 million acquisition by Twitter...

Yikes. I always regarded Frontback as a feature, and assumed that they'd end up being acquihired. I'm astonished that they thought there was a real company to be built around it.
I was referring more to the USA Freedom Act, which in fairness does very little to reform mass surveillance (and in many cases makes it a lot worse) but the fact that this 'reform' was tabled at all is something that hasn't occurred at all in the UK and EU.

The public has largely been ignored and the government of the UK actually quietly rewrote laws relating to surveillance in order to grant immunity from prosecution to GCHQ.

They even allowed Privacy International to continue with their law suit for a whole year knowing that it wouldn't go anywhere because of the changes they had made to the law without notifying anybody.
React Starter Kit
Would you mind sharing the program?
I understand ... I just don't want the idea of being fiscally prudent and economically responsible with municipal resources at a structural level to be stigmatized as a form of socialism. It's just an act of diligence and paying attention.
A lot of people still do say the same about Snapchat. It just goes to show that it is really really hard to predict which ideas will catch on and which won't.
In addition, Xiph also has two lossy codecs, Vorbis and Opus, which are actually designed for lossy encoding. Opus is also currently the best available codec for music compression, among both free and nonfree competitors: http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm
It's embarrassing ;).
In WADA-controlled sports you can get TUEs[1] to solve that problem.

[1] Therapeutic Use Exemptions[2]

[2] https://www.wada-ama.org/en/what-we-do/science-medical/thera...
I don't see a very significant distinction between "a state-run monopoly in private hands" and "a state-run monopoly in state-run hands." Each person is still an individual, after all, with "private" incentives. Whether their title is technically a government job is irrelevant, as long as their money is coming from government either directly (from the government budget) or indirectly (thanks to a government-enforced monopoly).
Finally, I almost started writing something like this myself a couple of times.
Actually, socialism is a broad enough term to encompass state ownership as well as worker ownership or control. That's true in academia as well as in non-academic discourse. State ownership of major industries, without worker control, often accomplished through nationalization of pre-existing industries, has been a characteristic policy of socialist political parties and governments throughout the 20th century. For example, almost every major industry in the UK was nationalized in the 1940s, and such action was labeled as socialism by both its proponents and opponents. Under this most prevalent usage of the term, state ownership of an electrical utility or a sovereign wealth fund certainly qualifies.
I fail to see how a policy of "you can't compete if you're taking meth" promotes drug abuse.
The C that you call "really is better" is not the C which existed before C++. It is "K&R C", which looked like this:

foo (a, b, c)
char *a;
int b, c;
{
/* do something cool here */
}

And there were no "function declarations" (who needs argument type and cardinality checking anyway), no "slash slash" single line comments, no need to declare a return type as int was implied, say goodbye to const and volatile qualifiers, any char array is mutable (including those defined in double quotes), plus be sure to use function pointers thusly:

(*some_pointer) (insert, args, here);

Instead of:

some_pointer (looks, like, a, function);

Oh yeah, and say adios to struct initialization using the C89 syntax. And it's a no-no to try and initialize a local array along the lines of:

char *strings = {
"this", "is", "convenient", "isn't", "it?"
};

So if you wish to assert (pun intended) "that plain-old C really is better", then be sure to acknowledge where a non-trivial amount of what is known as "plain-old C" stems from.
Pixbuf – A social media tool for photographers
This is some great stuff, thanks for all the feedback - seriously. My VHDL experience is probably about 2/3 online tutorials, and they were all behavioural. The main aim of the articles are for me to learn.

The point about documentation is valid. However, as I've has no training at all in this, I'd be writing a document that basically has no value. After this project has come to it's conclusion, I'll probably go try again using processes/methods learned.

Thanks again for the feedback :)
M class planets.
How to become an unstoppable freelancers: my stack
Well, V3 is still open from memory and very capable.
Rekonq actually uses WebKit under the hood, and it's pretty fast (faster that firefox and chrome) and lightweight, without any issue of compatibility problem on any webpage. The only big issue is that was very unstable for a lot of time.. at least on KUbuntu.
You talk like Apple is doing something new and owns the market.
> occasionally I do miss conveniently sending texts from my computer

Pushbullet or MightyText
Were you under the impression that the author intends to stigmatize anything, or believes that socialism is a bad thing? He is clearly in favor of public ownership.
Buy and sell renewable energy – directly
What continues to amaze me is that there does not seem to be any convincing scientific evidence that predictive patterns can be found in past price movements, and yet many reputable investment firms are throwing a lot of money at this problem.

I understand that not all quantitative approaches depend on finding patterns in past prices, but some do.

I am completely undecided on this one. It baffles me. It's not like every company applying materials science also experiments with witchcraft somewhere in the basement, so what's going on here?
Example of using IncrediBuild to increase speed of static code analysis
by plain old, i think infradig was implying that C was plain and old compared to C++, and not about an older standard of C.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Speaks Candidly with TIME
Music brain by echonest
At some point the copy of the work you use to either compare or generate a comparison hash might be considered copying.

The maths tend to work against you as well.
Something related - you can upload special files such as /dev/urandom to websites that expects a normal file. Now interestingly a lot of sites only checks the filesize after the upload has completed. This means that a lot of sites a vulnerable to a DoS by filling there harddrive with temporary data from e.g. /dev/urandom.
There's a secret key. Isn't the idea that you're wiring this up to your own services?
Yes, but in such cases you can also just borrow the entire book, photocopy it, and keep the copy. It's still legal to loan books or have photocopiers, but using them together without license is illegal. The point is to make it so that the distributors can reasonably argue they are not actually distributing copyrighted material and have made some effort to ensure the recipients have a license to the work, and that there are no reasonable physical prohibitions the law or copyright holders can make to stop this (i.e., banning the sharing of books isn't reasonable -- for the moment.) It's the responsibility of the decrypting party to only decrypt lawfully, just as it's currently with disc copying/ripping.

Now, an actual lawyer might obliterate this through some logic I don't know, and/or appeal to "bit color" as others are pointing out.

P.S. I do have to admit my idea reminds me of warrant canaries, a "clever hack" around the law that I ultimately believe can't really be lawful.

P.P.S. CleanFlicks et al may be relevant case law, as from what I understand they made varying efforts to "ensure" their customers held a license, but were basically still distributing copies of works they didn't own.
I have a hard time seeing the majority of iOS users installing one, this is the same as with most things, if it's not the default, 95% of users won't make use of it.

Is even the majority of users of desktop web browsers actually using adblockers yet?

Adblock Plus on Firefox shows a bit short of 20 million users, while Adblock on Chrome says 'over 200 million downloads', whatever that means in number of users. These numbers don't suggest a majority. (I don't think assuming over 500 million desktop users is crazy.)

Given that iOS is about 20% of total mobile users, this feature will probably make little to no difference, it might be a couple of % of those 20% of users, at the very best.
Uber Canada hit with $400M lawsuit
I don't like the concept of word 'doping'. It is just the word which represents a chemical substance to stimulate body for a better performance. There is however such a hate in using this word. In the past even caffeine in the coffee was considered to be a doping. It is not nowadays Everybody should be allowed to use any chemical substance for himself as he wish. He should be responsible for his own action. If he destroys his health, he should pay for it not the society. There are also people who lives on revealing the 'doping sinners'. It is such a waste of money. People cmmon create something reasonable. Don't waste your time looking for a 'doping' to accuse others for taking it! I take a 'doping' so what?
Yes, plain-old C like plain-old vanilla ice cream, as compared to C++ like swirly rainbow vanilla chocolate strawberry template macro class inherits from a waffle cone with generic unique pointer functor sprinkles ice cream.
You should have mentioned that the file is gluten-free
Jolla uses a Qt port of Gecko (ESR, it seems) as the engine of Sailfish Browser, the default browser on Jolla devices. See https://github.com/tmeshkova/qtmozembed

As I understand it, even during the Nokia days, the point was to use Gecko with a Qt-native UI, so it wasn't about getting the entirety of XUL-based Firefox polished on Qt.
The probability of that occurring is on the order of 1 in 2^1000000000. You would exceed the computational capacity of the universe long before that point.
One should in my opinion not forget about two things here:

- The US American arms industry

- Welfare and other benefits for veterans

I think when it comes to citizens and industries somehow related to military the US has a history of applying (some) socialist principles, which is interesting, because it actually was used to "fight socialism".
GitHub introduces “Code of Conduct” that “promotes equality”, programmers react