skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More people traveling by public transit, or reducing the distance between work and home (commute distance) would too.
I'm wondering what the target audience for that clip was.
We're looking at it from modern eyes though. Compare BASIC to the other programming languages of the 70s and 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag...

* Pascal
* Prolog
* C/C++
* Ada
* MATLAB
* Eiffel
* Erlang
* Perl
* Tcl

If I were a beginner, I'd take BASIC over most of those. BASIC does have warts and having it ubiquitous did help its adoption, but the language itself was "easy to use" for its day. (Perl is pretty good, but BASIC had a two decade head start on it.)
Self driving car share / taxis means less cars & more efficient transport in the cities
Ah the slippery slope of imminent harm.

I'm not sure I understand why I need a cryptographic identity to boycott certain vendors? I can already do that today.
The sad state of affairs.. unfortunately, I find it hard to believe that any meaningful reform can both happen and give us a better system in the US. :-( I've donated to mayday a couple times...
Disney actually has hundreds of these videos – they are just all unlisted.

Take a look at this site to see their papers and videos: http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/publications
Same situation between Serbia and Croatia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland.
Whether she is or is not biased towards Google does not change the fact though that Microsoft already got its fair share of pitchforking long before Google and for issues Google (and Apple) got (and are still getting) easily away with (vendor lock-in, browsers, default settings and so on).
And my point is that hers is very one-sided and there's some serious selection bias going on. Living in Switzerland can actually suck. It's expensive - about 2+ times the rest of Europe and there is some serious xenophobia. Benefits in the US are not unusual and are pretty darn good by world standards. But hey, everyone loves a grass-is-greener post.
When DejaNews made USENET searchable. You could actually nuke messages from DejaNews, but then Google bought DejaNews and suddenly every nuked message were made available again forever. Google killed USENET.
Someone joined my game but I coulnd't do anything. There was a tile but I could not interact with anything. Quit after a minute.

The view rules button isn't working.

Now not getting a match?
Don't know about windows, but you can use NFS on OS X and Linux.

If you mount your working directory exactly like on your host machine, you can even use relative paths in your Dockerfile.

E.g mount /Users/tracker1 from your host on /Users/tracker1 on the VM.

Since your Dockerfile working dir matches on both systems, you can use them as if you were working directly on the machine, like:

ADD ./entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
COPY ./app/code /code

etc.
Outside of the outrage over "borrowing" the bandwidth on my WAN connection (which I agree is wrong to have on by default), how much of a help is this feature for distributing updates over the LAN?

For example, I installed and fully updated Win 10 on my Surface. Soon I'll be traveling to the bandwidth-deprived middle of nowhere to visit my family and will likely be updating their systems to 10 while I'm there. If I connect my Surface to their network, will the install and update process on their machine automatically look for my Surface and pull updates from there, rather than spend hours trying to download over a sub 3Mbps connection?

Having "PCs on my local network and PCs on the Internet" on by default is not cool, but allowing "PCs on my local network" could be a huge help for situations like this.
I think Andreesen and others just have an overwhelming need to put that phrase into every piece of text they create.
Host a .onion or .i2p site.

You'll need a 24/7 box somewhere, but it could even be behind a residential NAT with only outbound connections (at reduced performance than having a public port). You can easily & transparently move it from one physical place to another; your hash identifies it, not the physical routing location.
Oh! So I do. Thanks!
Good point. That along with high prices (2 to 3 times rest of Europe) and xenophobia can make Switzerland a fairly miserable place for an immigrant.
It's true what it says about the purpose of advertising, and how it needs to be expensive to work; and the cost of advertising online keeps getting lower and lower.
However I'm not sure stopping targeted ads will magically solve everything and make online ads as profitable as traditional ads; I'm sure most people block ads because they don't want to see them, not because they are targeted.
Maybe online ads should be like traditional ones: ads being more expensive the more traffic the website gets; so having a banner in a very popular website should be the equivalent of having a billboard in an important avenue.
So cost should be per view, and not per click. After all most of the most expensive ads in traditional media are there to establish a brand, not for you to buy something right now.
The way I got it, they were just weird.
I'm always eager to read these progress reports. It is amazing how interesting it is to read about the kind of bugs they face, and how they were diagnosed and fixed. Can anyone recommend other open source projects that do this sort of writeup?
they're they're their they're there

1/5
> that patriarcal culture

Funny. Do you know anything at all about Switzerland? (hint: it's a very patriarchal society)
YC fellowship application video (YMDay – No more empty days)
Because this concept stems from a time when people still performed physical work and had to eat at least 3 full meals spread over the day to stay healthy (enough).

Reading the comments here makes me realise how firmly embedded the "time not spent working is time wasted" attitude is.
Unsigned int's for storing IPv4's FTW. Or conversely, storing IP's as signed int's will make you sad.
I guess this will be downvoted, but still:

- If the p2p feature was opt-in, no-one would have enabled it; but the technology needs most users to have it enabled to operate optimally. And I don't see how it could be done without enabling it by default.

- Since (mostly) everyone has it enabled by default, no peer will have a disproportionate amount of upload traffic.

- It makes sense to download a Service Pack (read: any big update) once and have it sent to all PCs on the LAN automatically.

- It's not enabled on metered connections and won't compete for bandwidth with other apps. It can be switched to operate only within LAN. It can be disabled forever.
Probably because Apple hasn't really updated bash since the license switch to GPLv3.
I've been a member of the SDF for years. If you're interested in Internet 1.0 and "just want some space" so to speak, it's great.
They describe Richard Stallman as "pioneer of the open source movement".

Seriously. Facepalm.

RMS would not be happy to read this.
Compared to the convenience store next door to the office!
"I'm too lazy to eat this steak because I haven't enjoyed the first few bites" is more accurate.
I have many many recommendations. Here are a few of what I've experienced and practiced:

https://www.neuroleadership.com/education/bbc/brain-based-co...
Training -- Brain-Based Conversation Skills

http://www.quietleadership.com/index
Book -- Quiet Leadership

http://www.centerforappreciativeinquiry.net/
Training -- Appreciative Inquiry

http://www.amazon.com/Appreciative-Inquiry-Positive-Revoluti...
Book -- Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

http://aliainstitute.org/
Authentic Leadership in Action Institute (Buddhist foundation)

http://shambhala.org/
The path of meditation focused on creating "enlightened society." Starts with where most of the issue is: your own mind.
I was writing about vat. That's basically sales tax. It looks like it's 8% now.
I came from the other end wherein I believed social safety net and welfares breeds parasitic behavior. But now I've come to believe the benefits of those programs outweigh the negative aspect where a section may starts taking undue advantage of it.

In the absence of such safety nets, I think people will go for more safer bets which make them financially stable as opposed to riskier bets which may bring innovation but could also endanger their livelihood.
Litvinenko's murder: The inside story [20min BBC video]
Pre-Snowden
I did not object to the object
Why dogs are happy to see us when we get home
I second Toastmasters. They took me from a shy undergraduate who had panic attacks the night before speaking in front of a class and turned me into someone who genuinely loves public speaking and hasn't used notes to speak in over a decade!!

There are two caveats to Toastmasters:

- each chapter is different. I have now belonged to three and loved two. The third chapter was my personal hell of realtors and financial managers who were trolling for clients. My self promotion allergy was way too active...

- you get exactly what you put into TM. I know a guy who started in the same chapter at the same time as me. I spoke every chance that I could get and improved quickly. He was never willing to truly embarrass himself, rarely spoke and got next to nothing out of the organization.
Until Snowden claims were dismissed as false and crazy.
"And the stars obey you?"

"Certainly they do," the king said. "They obey instantly. I do not permit insubordination." (...)

"Then my sunset?"

"You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But, according to my science of government, I shall wait until conditions are favorable."

"When will that be?"

"Hum! Hum!" replied the king; and before saying anything else he consulted a bulky almanac. "Hum! Hum! That will be about-- about-- that will be this evening about twenty minutes to eight. And you will see how well I am obeyed."
PCSX2, the PS2 emulator has recently started doing this. mGBA has also been creating some excellent writeups.[1]

https://endrift.com/mgba/2015/06/27/cycle-counting-prefetch/
For me it wasn't so much him as all of the songs IIRC. Once I started just skimming the songs/poetry he became much less annoying (I'm horrible at deciphering meter and it just trips me up). The first words out of my mouth upon seeing the first film was "they left out Bombadil".

Had been looking forward to hearing one of those songs.
Writing C code at 85 ?? how rare is that.
When I last played WoW there was a rather visible checkbox in the updater that said something like "Disable peer-to-peer transfers", and fairly importantly the updater never actually seeded the torrent; you only uploaded while you were actively downloading the patch, which stopped it from using a bunch of bandwidth at unexpected times.
to some extent, not all updates work like this, and the updates live in your cache only for a limited time (mostly dependent on the storage capacity).

Pretty much as long as the update can be uninstalled (usually 30 days or so) the update package will be in your cache.

If the update package is compatible with the SKU of other machines in your network (language, version, bitness etc.) then they might pull it from your machine instead of the internet.
> Companies which explicitly hold other people's money are usually held to higher standards in holding it (Solicitors, Banks, Estate Agents, etc). For example deposits are usually held in a client account, separate from other corporate funds, and not usable except for the intended purpose.

Banks use client deposits to fund their lending, though.

I don't see any fundamental problem with mixing client and corporate funds, provided there is good accounting, solid auditing and sufficient oversight in place to ensure client funds don't go missing. Obviously none of those existed in Mt. Gox.
Liquidity is the number of drivers available and passengers requesting a ride. More drivers mean shorter wait times, more passengers means more work for drivers. If an Uber is 5 minutes way and a Lyft is 10 minutes away, I go with Uber. If Uber gets me 3 rides/hour and Lyft gets me 2, I drive with Uber.
Can you expound on why not? He certainly preached of open source software (and a superset of it) long before anyone else was thinking along those lines. With regard to Free Software, he is still before his time.
The local network only version (which is the default for Enterprise versions of Windows 10) does seem like pretty unambiguously a good thing. Even if it doesn't completely eliminate duplicated update downloads it should significantly reduce them.
I worked on it in 2015, and it seems like 30 seconds is the minimum compilation time for something trivial. That, combined with the error messages, made me give up after just a few days.

I would have much preferred type inference with robust error messages, or frankly, even Java style verbosity to what I got out of RPython. It's a shame, because it's obviously a very impressive system.
Nice contribution
With time I came to think that age don't really matter, you can find ranty 20yos that think rushing is a quality and you can find ranty 80yos thinking not changing anything is the only way.

If someone has a blend of sensitivity to history with a nice dose of inspiration and creativity, whatever his age, hire him.
Project Euler hacked?
Some pages on the Project Euler site are trying to deliver a file "adobe_flashplayer_7.exe" which is is infected with the virus "MSIL/Injector.KRB!tr".

For instance look carefully at https://projecteuler.net/news or https://projecteuler.net/thread=341
I would bet that these are not flagged as media/marketing material and are thus not listed.

Kind of odd, but I could see an argument being made against confusion of their clientele.
I think there are variations in American culture that are not covered here. For example, when somebody asks "what do you do" in Boulder, Colorado, they might be asking which outdoor sport do you do when you're not working. When somebody asks the same question in a city like Boston or NYC, they're asking about your job.

I'm not judging here, that's not to say Boulderites are slackers or East Coasters only care about work, just saying that I think the comparisons made in this article don't apply to the whole country.
yay the downvotes. Its a book reference. I wonder if people that left his company didnt read Animal Farm as well.
My grandfather is a 89-year-old lawyer and you can find him every morning on his office, including weekends. He uses a typewriter and is actually very fast on those.

He is incredibly lucid and and claims it's because of his work, which I agree.

Always working - or, in other words, exercising your brain - is a must to keep your memories and sanity.
In fact, better take a look at https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/48ef50be619c0c298a7af51c67...

That's the file that the PE try to open http://www.rcmodelcentre.co.uk/cache/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe
Yeah, only it's mostly true for the rest of EU as well which means that similar privileges are enjoyed by some 400M people, not so tiny nation now, eh?
Of particular interest to me was how pedigree collapse transforms our family trees from exponentially growing binary trees into directed acyclic graphs.

We are accustomed to thinking that, because we have four unique grandparents, we must have eight unique great-grandparents. But this is not always so. For example, if our grandparents are two brothers who married two sisters, then we have four great-grandparents, not eight.
The idea makes a decent amount of sense (technologies with no fixed physical component), it just that the list of what counts is completely FUBAR.

For example: math, the OODA loop, indexing, laws, logistics (ex siege warfare, "never start a land war in asia"), contracts, empire / political hierarchy, etc.
Make it a GitHub Page for free.
As a wise man once said, "The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if keep it a secret."
This is an interesting read. Thanks for sharing it.
Japanese Police Arrest Mt. Gox Mark Karpeles
Oh boy whats the deal? P2P functionality was introduced in various means into Windows since Windows XP with BITS.
This means that machines gets update faster especially in scenarios where bandwidth is limited or the connection is spotty.
You can opt-out, it doesn't touches your personal data, doesn't work on metered connections, the updates can be pushed out for as long as they are in cache (<30 days).

Updating 3-4 machines on the LAN is much quicker with Windows 10, SOHO machines that aren't routed into the internet or are heavily firewalled can be updated easily, and heck the vulnerability window for machines which weren't connected to the internet is much smaller now since they can grab critical updates without even being exposed to the internet which previously required backporting or having enterprise update software (WSUS and the likes).

The conspiracy theories around it are also quite silly considering that MSFT has complete control over the OS just as any other major OS vendor unless you tinker with it yourself.
Because of quotes like:

> we want people to know we stand for freedom, so we do not accept being mislabeled as open source supporters.[1]

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...
Despite the fact that signed overflow/underflow is undefined behavior I'm pretty sure that many more bugs have resulted from unsigned underflow than signed overflow or underflow. When working with integers you're usually working with numbers relatively close to zero so it's very easy to unintentionally cross that 0 barrier. With signed integers it is much more difficult to reach those overflow/underflow limits.
> Try writing C functions add, subtract, multiply, and divide, that do anything on overflow except UB.

For those curious...

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/INT32...
"What I'm really curious about is how to best consume these. I suppose a mailing list would be the norm, but I'd like to see them automatically land in Instapaper or Pocket. I'll have to see if there's a way already."

It was a little laborious, but I went through each essay and used dotEPUB (http://dotepub.com/) to convert it to epub, then transferred to my ereader manually.

I considered looking for a more automated solution, before realising that it would take more time looking for a solution than just manually doing it.

Similarly for pocket I imagine with the frequency these are coming out it would be easiest to simply manually add each essay to pocket.
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because your questions have nothing to do with the API itself.

It's like saying MS SQL is political because you have to ask whether or not you want to use it for a political purpose.

The purpose may be political, the tech is not.
I recall emailing you about this in 1996 when I worked on LDAP at Netscape and being rather surprised to receive a reply! Good times...
So this is a blog that will write 1 article every 5 weeks and batch release them in 2017? I am all for thoughtful content, but binging isn't a concept that can be applied to blogs. This makes no sense.

Edit: i get what turned me off by this. It was the positioning as a radical new media concept and the convoluted and confusing explanation.

What do you call the development and research of a text based narrative which is catalogued for direct and total consumption online?

> an e-book. Got it now guys.
If you're trying to learn how to typeset formulae with LaTeX, detexify is great - it lets you draw a symbol, and tries to identify it: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
FYI, there's the world's only solar-focused startup incubator and accelerator is based in Oakland[1], which has around 20 solar software startups at any given time in it. They recently had a big hackathon and gave away $10k in cash[2]. They are hosting the Department of Energy Sunshot Jamathon next week[3], which will give away $1.5 million in awards each year. They are also hosting their annual huge party in a month[4]. Clean energy innovation is alive and thriving in the bay area. 4 of the top 5 solar companies are based here[5]. It's just that the rest of the tech community hasn't paid attention. It makes me very sad that Sam Altman is so obsessed with nuclear while the solar revolution is happening right in his back yard.

Source: I have a startup that went through the SfunCube accelerator and won one of the DOE Sunshot awards.

[1]: http://www.sfuncube.com/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QctPDZujLSg

[3]: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunshot-catalyst-jamathon-sfunc...

[4]: https://newdawn.splashthat.com/

[5]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Here-Are-the-To...
If you setup the internet connection as metered (available since windows 8) it will not send updates to machines over the internet.

Not sure if MSFT does this for Comcast but my Windows 10 machine detected the internet connection of 4G dongles (even when it was over normal Ethernet) and prompted me to confirm if it's a metered connection or not.

On a metered connection Windows 10 (as 8.1 before it) is extremely bandwidth conservative it doesn't pull non-critical updates, and other online features such as updating cards, cortana, store function etc. went into austerity mode as well.
A message from the FFmpeg project
Restful considered harmful
Investors Sue American Express After Loss of Costco
it wont, but the vast majority of errors with math formulas are along the lines of adding velocities with positions, raising something to the wrong power, using a multiply instead of an add, putting a parenthesis in the wrong spot, performing equations in the wrong order, etc.

all of those can get caught with type checking, but it isn't perfect
Ask HN: What should I learn to be competitive in the next five years?
About me:
I've been working for the last 7 years for a Fortune 400 off-shore after completing my degree in computer science.
It's been a smooth time, I guess I have been good in my position; my time has been spent developing C#, .net websites, little bit of Javascript, TSQL and PL/SQL (although it's getting rusty).
On my time I got into the "I'm going to get rich developing for iPhone" wagon but it did never materialize on a successful project, I did also built an EFI around the Arduino with custom shields, maybe one of the projects I've like the most even tough "it's not my field".

What I like to do:
Creating the shields, playing with Eagle CAD, learning the basic electronics, and get into a challenging project would describe what I would like to keep doing.

Why do I ask:
I were interviewed for another position within the company but the "new" tendencies of IT are not something I am proficient at, I have liked more frameworks, creating APIs and back end development.
Should I jump into learning all the "new framework"-javascript, htmlX, <insert any new framework>, should I keep working on improve what I already do/like?

Language? Framework? Area of knowledge (math, physics, law??).

Thanks!
You need cryptographic identities for automated boycotts. Boycotts aren't very effective today because they're hard to organize, and some vendors have relative monopolies. I think Ethereum enables both effective boycott coordination and monopoly elimination.

Also, these sanctions apply to both sellers and buyers. I think economic isolation will be an effective deterrent to undesirable behavior. It's basically prison, just without force.

Imminent harm may be a slippery slope, but it's really all up to the individuals who support the enforcers. If someone detains someone who shouldn't have been detained, stop funding their activities and sanction them. Fund a different enforcement organization instead.
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The best way to work with it is to write tests which can run in interpreted mode.
Pittsburgh's actually been doing very well over the last 10 years— the recession barely happened there. And, of course, the stakes are much lower when you can buy a nice house in the city or a nice school district for $150,000.

Detroit and Stockton, less so.
http://voidnull.sdf.org/
I'm in - even if there is no profit, at least there is fun in of creating something new.

I'm a web dev. btw