jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes it was true: https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/20/buying-eu-citizenship-wh...

In particular Malta and Cyprus, evidently had low barriers. But according to the article, 19 EU countries provide some kind of residency scheme.

Another site provides some interesting details:
https://imperiallegal.com/european-passport/
I don't see the weirdness. I see two statements:

- A person may choose which pronouns apply to themselves (on grounds of principle)

- A person must not dictate which pronouns apply to a whole gender (on grounds of practice)

I'd be interested to [hear] when [RMS] would not use someone's preferred pronoun and instead call them a 'perse'?

Presumably, when the pronoun preference of the person isn't known to the speaker?
I think it's fine as it is. I'd prefer it to be unwieldy, as to discourage overly meta discussions.

Like others mentioned, you specifically are not at a loss because someone wrote a script to solve it.
i appreciate your argument, but semantics are important. malware is software that is malicious. a toolbar that i did not intend to install, but is not malicious, is not malware.
To be fair, Windows Mobile existed and gained market dominance long before the iPhone was around. Tablet PCs were introduced with Windows XP, long before the iPad was around.

Microsoft's failure was in hesitating to change with the market, not a failure to have products on the market.
Because many, many people, myself included, would be horribly offended if you could build gas chambers and ovens, round up all the poor, and kill them. There is also, along with the "video games don't cause violence" literature some literature on morality in video games. In fact, there are entire games that are built around forcing the player to make difficult emotional decisions. So it is perfectly understandable that people might not want to play a game where the best / only / easiest way to win is to commit genocide. My point is that the game I think you are describing probably wouldn't sell very well. GTA does well because horrific violence is what the franchise is known for, it is what people expect when they buy the game (GTA also doesn't feature a way to literally commit genocide either, AFAIK).
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If you like this, then go read the No bullshit guide to math & physics after this: http://minireference.com.

Love the trend of indie publishing that has been exploding in the past 2 to 3 years. The biggest issue is that the marketing & design is often mediocre. Content wise, completely awesome though. I lost interest in books from larger publishers years ago.
Someone else mentioned the fact that

default_result if condition else alternate_result

is pythons form of ternary expression and semantically equivalent other then pythons truthiness boolean testing of objects(empty collections, 0, empty strings, False, None, 0 timedelta evaluate to False, also objects where obj.__nonzero__() returns False (in python3 __nonzero__ is renamed to __bool__)).

I'd like to bring up that while it's a matter of opinion the older ugly ?: syntax is much less readable even when you memorize it. I never use ?: syntax ternary expressions in languages that have them because I always have to look it up. That's why a number of languages prefer python-like versions or forms which emphasize to an even larger degree the fact that its just an if-else as an expression to an even larger degree(so I'd question that it's standard, I'm not 100% it's older either as I think the LISP version is closer to the python version).

CoffeeScript

s = if condition then "yup" else "nope"

Smalltalk

abs := x > 0 ifTrue: [ x ] ifFalse: [ x negated ]

Ruby has both versions

Scala
a = if (n == 12) "twelve" else "not twelve"

Rust

let y = if x == 5 { 10 } else { 15 }; // y: i32

Haskell

fac x = if x==0 then
1
else x * fac (x - 1)

(some examples taken from http://rosettacode.org)
You should try Baba Roots, also not carbonated and has a similar taste.
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HN wouldn’t be allowed to remove that content — but that’s different than flagging it as inappropriate (as HN does now).

My vision is having HNs flagging system where the content is hidden but available by default would be acceptable — but FB or Reddit style of actually removing the comment would not be.

My long term goal in forcing content to be available is to provide more control to users — such as user side content filtering on places like HN.

I’m not against filtering what users see, by the users themselves: I’m against platform using their privileged position to do that filtering, in a way that enforces their political vision.
> I like to keep business and charity separated. Mixing the two, in my opinion, simply adds a layer of indirection for the bastards to hide behind.

That's an awful lot of words to say "screw you, I got mine".

Exploiters have it easy when the exploited see basic workers rights as "charity".
Wasn't there a team training simulation / propaganda game for the US Army based on an Half-Life mod or the like ?
Samsung added a separate hardware button for Bixby, Apple did not. That is not identical. The only buttons on the iPhone are power, volume, and the silent switch. There is no separate Siri button. I’m not sure what you’re disagreeing with here?
I think you said yes to the parent comment but are not actually saying yes. Saying that "people with dog allergies cannot drive with Uber" is discrimination; allergies are also legally considered disabilities under the ADA[0]. Plus why would it be nessary if only a small portion of people have animals, and an even smaller portion need them for disabilities?

What should happen is allow drivers to get a doctor's note that marks their car as unstable for allergies (that way they can't make it up to discriminate). Also allow customers to mark themselves as needing to avoid animals or needing animal-friendly cars. You don't even have to show this information to either party: Uber can automatically choose the right car.

The law doesn't say every single driver has to pick up people that need service animals. It just says reasonable accommodations must be made.

[0] https://www.aafa.org/asthma-allergies-and-the-american-with-...
I was also rather disappointed that when curling this "shell", nothing happens. Or rather, you just get the minified javascript just like it would give to your browser and using a shell to access this would-be-shell does absolutely nothing. And no tab complete, up arrow, and I see elsewhere in the thread that even ./ didn't use to work. It seems the author has very limited experience with shells and made an -- I would say 'elaborate' but it wasn't -- rick rolling page.
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>That is fairly standard precaution with the higher end of audio equipment

No it's not, that's called bad design. Unless high-end now stands for "poorly designed gear sold for 10 times what they're worth".
I'm not sure I buy that, but either way you're not visualizing it quite right: both groups go on to have regular lives... it's just that one group drank an additional 0.5 liters [1]. Like you said, death by alcohol is a cumulative risk, so that means each and every drink must raise your risk a teensy tiny amount.

How about this way: you agree that if you drink enough alcohol it will kill you, right? So you could surely find someone who almost drank themselves to death. Perhaps they got liver disease and came very very close to dying, but survived. So there must be a line somewhere. Given a huge enough pool of people, it should be possible to find someone who came so close to death that a single extra drink could have killed them.

([1] It's a thought experiment. The two groups lead otherwise identical lives besides the additional alcohol.)
Citation requested.

Are you referring to PixelSense?
If you think GitHub is just about sharing code you are missing out.
"because he decided to leave the "sect" and marry a woman from Finland whom he loved instead of the 2nd degree cousin the family has designated for him"

Wow, now you owe us a story describing which community in Switzerland does things like this.
I'm curious to know if it's running on the same platform -- or just has the same UI?
Programming is easy. Solving problems is hard. Working with people is hard. Learning the culture is hard. Remember to apply common sense is hard. Becoming a master in a easy craft is super hard. The last one requires you to figure out the zen that even masters cannot tell.
In my experience, there’s rarely a reason why an entire team needs to know what everyone is doing. Tasks are decomposed. You may need an update from a single person, but you never need an update from eight people.

Encourage people to communicate directly. Share noteworthy progress and problems in the weekly meeting. Just make sure the meeting doesn’t devolve into a dramatic reading of the status reports.
>We’ve had whole teams not located within our area and have worked with them just fine.

A lot of people look at in-office through the lens of entire companies or at least pretty much everyone they interact with being co-located. I, on the other hand, am on a broader team spread over about 9 time zones and, on a given day, I can be talking with people in 5 different offices plus remote/traveling. If I went into a local office pre-pandemic, there was a good chance I wouldn't run into anyone I knew.
Ok, but there were also a lot of people without sea access (e.g. caribou herders). How did they live without vitamin D supplements?
This feels like history rhyming...

"[T]he practice of 'buying on margin' allowed a person to acquire stock by expending in cash as little as ten percent of the price of a stock. The balance was covered by a loan from a broker, who was advanced the money by his bank, which, in turn, accepted the stock as collateral for the loan. Credit was easy, and the Federal Reserve System did little to restrict the availability of money for stock investment." -- article on the stock market crash of 1929

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-...
What will be different to other solutions?
Ugh, office air conditioning - ours is like that too.

And the gents restroom <barf>

Please let me work from home from now on, I'll even take a small cut in salary!
I'm fully aware that the standup could be done on slack or email with similar effectiveness most of the time.

However, I still think it's worth it in remote teams. The daily standup is that morning coffee pot discussion with my teammates, before we get on to what we're working on. We make smalltalk and banter a bit. There aren't as many chances to do that in a remote setting, I think it's worth it for that alone.

However, often times I'm having a problem that my teammates give valuable ideas or feedback about and visa versa. Or we discuss some hairy edge case and come to a decision about what the behavior should be. So some percent of standups are really valuable.
This is the thing that makes the most sense to me. Through COVID a lot of businesses lost money but many more made money. A lot of it. The Fed has been propping up the market buying debt. The hedge funds have been shorting things at exponential rates. Home sales are at insane levels as well making money through mortgage backed securities once again. The rich are getting richer and therefor have more money to buy the stock at cheaper prices thus continuing to inflate the market.

None of these vehicles however are available to the retail investor and so while we see everything around us growing it feels like we are stuck watching the world rise around us when its really just the major players realizing those 30% returns.
And don't forget, if you close the page and come back a little later, the price will have gone up. And magically if you remove your cache and cookies and refresh, the price has dropped! Man I love airlines.
I love reading articles like this:
"So, for example, a cache miss on Jesper's 3GHz processor takes about 32ns to resolve. It thus only takes two misses to wipe out the entire time budget for processing a packet."

Then I go back to adding another layer of abstraction to my bloated Java code and die a little inside.
Gets stuck at "Connecting..." when I try it on any of my servers with the default firewall config (allow all out, allow related/established in, allow new to 22).
Next, we all stop referring to the different ends of connectors as male and female. Way to suggestive for adults to use
I do get to decide, as a member of popular culture, I get a say. (So do you!)
And I say a resounding “no!” To duck it out.
Same.

Have a Dell XPS for work. Sleep used to work fine, and the machine would barely touch its battery if I put it to sleep over a weekend.

It doesn't work any more: the machine never sleeps properly and drains its battery very quickly, barely making it from Friday night to Monday morning (and not making it at all if I don't plug the power in before I plug anything else in).

Note that this isn't a fault with the battery that I can see: battery life is still fine when the machine is being used. I can only assume that at some point over the past couple of years an OS or firmware/driver update broke sleep... which is annoying.

(It's one of many reasons I prefer OSX to Windows: sleep always works.)
You have to remember that most of our communication isn’t written, social media non withstanding. Combine that with Coq still being super niche, so a big fraction of people in a given conversation about it won’t know “Coq” and will hear “cock.” What you end up with is you giving a presentation at work about your new cock proof, or teaching your students how to use cock. Because in the environment a massive number of users are in (verbal, unfamiliar, and English speaking), that’s how it comes across. Is it really childish to acknowledge that I don’t want to have to preempt that my cock presentation is actually about the theorem prover Coq again and again and again?
I've often found that "skipping the details" and learning only as much as I -need- truly is the most useful thing you can do to learn something new.
The failbacks never actually occurred for me. I'd generally have to reboot the router.
Honestly, you get used to the name and just kind of abstract over it -- because it's your only option if your work is in the area. It can still be awkward to explain to people what you're working on though, so I welcome the change.
Matt Hancock said the UK is on track to vaccinate all adults by 31 July.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56672504
And that's how you end up with a company full of assholes.
I think there are a couple of conflations in the 'lab leak' meme.

- China intentionally manufactured the virus and released it (Proven false, virus wasn't engineered)

- China accidentally released the virus while collecting it (Possible, but unlikely given the virus has early evidence away from both collection point and Wuhan Lab)

- China has too many wet markets that allowed the virus to mutate enough for human jump (Current consensus working theory, but also unproven as intermediary animal has not been identified)

But all of these list China as the responsible party, so if you want to call it out as not Xenophobia or Anti-China sentiment then you'd have to show evidence the reporting showed "Joint Sino-American research lab causes..." kind of headlines. Otherwise, you point strengthens that this has at least an under current of anti-china sentiment, as the reporting has not mentioned US involvement at all.

WHO of course have a lot to answer for with regards to ignoring Taiwan because if BS geopolitics when they had the most reliable/believable/compelling evidence of the nature of SARS-Cov2
I just learned that AOL was still alive.
Well, you can definitely pay to win, but most people have more time than money so we just grind for gear.
But when someone does film something interesting and weird are we going to give it more credence or less because of this?
That would burn bandwidth and loading time, since the only way to check the hash is to download the content. Part of the point of ad blockers is to stop the request for the ad as early as possible.

Regardless, it's easy enough to salt the ads for each request, thwarting hash checks.
Or maybe 'meta-product'. They're still getting money for it. Getting money for a description.
> they recently deported a few Russian travel guides in
> Pattaya

Which - even if they gave it a nod - is a completely different situation.

> The law is really flexible in Thailand

Which assuming you aren't destitute, can sometimes work in your favour...

If you're in Bangkok, drop me a line and let's grab a coffee.
All of it has true value.
No, but they are designed to take a lateral load from a vehicle impacting them. In the US currently that load is about 4.5 tons at any one point. In a bridge like this where the parapet walls are an integral part of the structure, that would likely not be the limiting case and the walls would be even stronger than that.

Some more evidence that they had considered these things would have been nice, but civil structures are quite a bit stronger than people here seem to be giving them credit for. For example, the vertical design load from people walking on a bridge like this is something like 100 lb/ft^2. Meaning the bridge is designed to hold one jacuzzi every 10 or 15 feet, depending on how wide it is.
Oh, no, no, it's Russ^H^H^H^H North Korea!
B.B.S. is awesome. If it had a huggable form, I'd never let go.
That's pretty much describing Ethereum (once it finishes switching to PoS in the next year or so). Popularity wise it's already doing way more than others in txn or $ volume.

It's NFT market for asset ownership (mainly artwork right now) is huge, there was literally a Christie's auction for an NFT token (and the art it represents) this week.

There aren't official stocks/commodities yet (I think) but a bunch of sythetic derivatives already. A couple of banks have even done test runs of bond issuance.

ETH itself is does have "store of value" qualities in background, but a trick was developed of using it as collateral to back on-chain stablecoins like DAI. That allows on-chain token markets/contracts to rely on USD-valuations for liquidity and baseline reference, independent of general "crypto" speculative fluctuations.

There's also Earnst & Young's "Nightfall" project that trying to bring b2b accounting on-chain using Eth's zero knowledge tools to retain privacy.
Mortgages are a sales tactic

You can make a mathematical transformation to compare Renting with Owning.

O - R + R vs R + X

Own - Rent our your place + Rent somewhere else vs Renting and investing your principal some other way. So reducing you get:

O - R vs X

So owning and renting out a house vs all other investment opportunities, such as Bitcoin. Literally if you rented your house in the last two months and invested the principal into altcoins, you could then own 5 houses!
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN and using the site for political and/or ideological and/nationalistic battle? It's not what this place is for, and it destroys what it is for. You've been doing a lot of it, unfortunately.

Just to be clear, I'm not disagreeing with your interpretation of Iranian history. I'm talking about a repeated pattern of breaking the site guidelines, which is not cool. We ban accounts that do that—we have to, because otherwise everyone starts flaming everyone and soon this place burns to a crisp.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. The intended spirit is thoughtful, curious conversation.
Yeah there's no doubt they're in for a really big disruption - and I think dealers are just about the least sympathetic "businesspeople" in America so I won't mourn their loss.
Many creative coding libraries directly support (or have extensions for) exporting your animation to a video. For example you may want to look at Processing, Nannou (Rust), openFrameworks (C++), and Cinder (C++). Many of these also support audio and playing back other videos in your animation.
> Second, HTML over WebSockets is nice, but what is better is reactive data binding over the socket.

This is the approach we are building in https://braid.org. We are extending HTTP from a state transfer protocol into a state synchronization protocol, so that when you do a GET request, you can also be promised to receive all updated versions of that resource. This extends very nicely with software that binds the resource directly into a DOM element.
Gruber thinks competing with the iPhone is "a dick move"? That seems an odd opinion, yet boldly stated as if it was normal.

And in particular by using large capacitive touchscreens with soft keyboards? That's just the way the world was going, you'd be as right to argue that they shouldn't use Wi-Fi or USB or Windowed UI or mice because Apple did them first.

(edit: just to be clear, I'm aware that Apple did none of these things first, but popularised and/or polished them to greater or lesser extents)
This is really old stuff. I hope the article is being sarcastic.
>> Actually, I just want to point out if you've had any training on how to run a training session, you ought to know that asking "do you understand?" is pointless in every culture.

I've never phrased it as confrontationally as you're assuming, it's always been a genuine offer of help.

Never has been pointless when dealing with European, American or Australian resident engineers (regardless of racial or cultural background), it's simply opening the floor to new questions. So now's who's guilty of sweeping assumptions?

Regardless, the original point still stands - this is not niceness, it's cultural conditioning to be non-confrontational to the point of dishonesty, and it's highly counterproductive.
It won't work when you'll have children :)
Don't be silly. A dog is not comparable to a person.
The hell? I explicitly stated that I make no judgement, since there isn't sufficient evidence. It's a consistent explanation, but that doesn't make it probable.
The only thing that has worked for me is the Pomodoro technique http://www.pomodorotechnique.com and the Hemming Way Hack

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I expect I'll be fleshing out my Clojure for work. I've some interest in picking up Rust in my spare time. I also plan to venture into dependently typed languages (Coq/Agda/Idris) at some point, but that may or may not be 2015.
Lots of people concentrate on the Fire Phone, which flopped. Check out other recent Amazon efforts - Fire tablet, Fire stick, Amazon Echo. The first two are solid competitors in their respective spaces (ereader/tablet, streaming media), while the Echo is a pretty amazing effort for a hardware category that didn't exist one year ago.
"Also remember less developed countries."

Don't worry. American corporations are thinking far ahead.

"Branding Nigeria: MasterCard-backed I.D. is also a debit card and a passport" [1]

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/25/business/branding-nigeria-...
Strange to hear of people on this site, talking about dialing in. There are many better solutions available. Sococo.com for one.
A Chromebook is a pretty impressive piece of hardware for $99.