skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody gets into a car drunk with the intention of harming someone else. With attempted murder there is clear intent to do harm. A better comparison would be to manslaughter - if you do something dangerous which leads to the accidental death of somebody you are punished. The question would be, if you do something dangerous and nobody happens to be hurt, should you still be punished? Should "attempted manslaughter" be a thing?
> It is not an OO language

That seems really outlandish and obviously flat-out wrong. I assume, then, that you have good reasons to have this contrarian position, and I am really curious to hear what they are :).

When I think of C++ I think of "C with classes." In other words... C with objects. And... a bunch of other stuff tacked on over the years. Which is not to discount that stuff---maybe that is what your argument rests on; if so, that's fine.
Why does Apple impose that age limit? I clicked on the warning, but it redirected me to a generic ad for the Mac App Store.
Agree. ReactJS was inspired by Elm as far as I know, Purescript has a framework purescript-signal that is inspired by Elm, ClojureScript has Zelkova that is inspired by Elm, and on it goes.

Makes it more and more tempting to just go straigth to the source and simply use Elm.
People Aren’t Suspicious of Things Labeled ‘Conspiracy Theories’
The web site for the collection/company, including a searchable database:

http://www.manualsplus.com/
Microsoft has no business to send out anything without consent.

I will not waste my time to MITM SSL traffic and break down binary blobs to find out, whether it contains something I just typed. It sends out unwanted traffic when I type into start menu --> onus is on Microsoft to be transparent, what it sends out. And to allow user to disable that behavior.
I find this response pathetic.

I can legally go to downtown Baghdad if I wished. I have every right to as well.

But people shouldn't give me advice on how to minimise danger because that's victim blaming those who have been that have been hurt or killed?
I don't see the poster above blaming the victim.
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There is this one quantum resistant algorithm called rot13...
It would certainly have been better if the guy in the apartment had called the police, but airbnb should have called them anyway.
I attended one of the UKs GDS road shows this week. I have been trying on and off for a while to get better OSS into local government (http://www.oss4gov.org) and am impressed still by the focus there is in government in doing the right thing.

The big wins they are having is enforcing OSS licenses for bespoke development, pooling purchasing into rolling 6-9 month call-off frameworks and generally waving the agile and cheaper flags.

I am not convinced that the idea of a sort of Peace Corps couple of years will be the solution - if we get government software based on an infrastructure of OSS then it's likely both private and public developers will be familiar with those Eco systems anyway.
Did you try to ask Springer (his publisher/agent)?
My impression of [4] is that it amounts to a protection racket scheme: "Your business is racist and sexist! I will continue to denounce it until you hire me." Of course, a lot of consultants will approach companies with a "your business sucks but I can fix it" routine but the difference here is the implicit threat to go on giving the company negative publicity if it didn't pay.
At first I thought it would be silly too, but think about it: these guys are buying a car, why not give the iwatch and iphone free with the car, its only about a grand. If it all goes according to plan, the number of people who insist on using another device when the iDevices are sitting right there is going to dwindle.
Under 'Preferences'[1] there is an 'Advanced Preferences'. In Advanced Preferences, there are two relevant settings: Smoothing Days and Forecast days. The differences aren't clearly delineated, so when I first started using Libra (several years ago), I ended up experimenting for several weeks.

The explanation for smoothing days is that it "[controls] how strongly each weight value affects the trend". It takes an positive integer value or 0. The recommended value is 7, but I ended up with 14. With higher values, both the forecast line and average line tend to be less dependent on recent weights and average out over a longer period.

The forecast days "[control] how many days to use for the forecast calculation. It doesn't specify what the acceptable range is, simply that the minimum value is 2 and the recommended value is 7. I ended up with a 14 here also. This value only impacts the forecast line, not the average line.

[1] On my phone, reached via Android's hamburger physical button.
[2] Reached via a button that looks like the ai-settings icon from the http://www.androidicons.com/ set.
>EDIT: Accommodating nitpickers.

Maybe there's something we're missing?

showsomeempathy looks to have been created to post in this thread.

EDIT:

>EDIT: Accommodating nitpickers and straw men.

I think I made a straw man!
>But how do you do that?

It boils down to keeping
your identity small (http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html), which may
or may not be truly
possible in practice for
humans who do not lead
a monastic life.
I like how you demand accountability, but are happy to insert your own version of the story to suit your own agenda.
So, you raise an interesting point. I have two follow-up questions.

Firstly, I'm not sure what "victimless" means exactly, and I think you may be taking it too literally. As people in the many comments below have pointed out, there are plenty of crimes which are "victimless", e.g. taking a machine gun and "spraying" a crowd of people with bullets, but failing to hit anyone. Is this a "victimless" crime? At what point do we decide to set the bar?

Come to think of it, there are charges of "reckless endangerment", where someone it can be a crime to do something which endangers other people in a reckless manner. Drunk driving certainly falls under those, so I'd say that drunk driving laws are simply enhancements of "reckless endangerment" laws, providing more specific context.

Secondly, we as a society will often choose to make our laws based on certain factors, like what an average citizen knows For example, driving under the influence causes a variety of physical changes that are not obvious and not known by every single driver, e.g. slower response times. These are things that a reasonable driver might not even realise are impacting them, and might not feel when they are partially drunk. But we, as a society that has done scientific tests, know that these effects always happen. In this case, it makes sense to block actions that we know are harmful.
This is a big development IMO. Quantum computers were theoretical only but now this update seems to indicate the feasibility of such
(Avometer(tm). Ampere, Volt, Ohm meter.)
Of course, if you're a student, they have no problem pulling you out of the classes that you might be paying several hundred a day to attend, without comp...
Two observations:

1 Average users don't pay any attention to that icon, whether it's present or absent. It's even less visible than a banner ad.

2 Most people would probably agree that security matters more on some sites than others, but it seems like there's no standard way to factor that 'desired security level' into the UI. I mean the browser should give a very visible warning if you access your bank or email over an insecure connection, but browsing random news websites over an insecure connection probably creates fewer and less serious security issues for most of us so the warning could be emphasized less.
Is that really Airbnb's fault?

Airbnb is the service provider in this case, but there are other companies with a similar service, or the neighbour could let it out personally to other people.

Assuming the neighbour is subletting illegally as you state, surely that's where the problem lies.
And what did the police say when you reported this illegal activity?
This is a terrible incident, and poor initial handling, but it sounds like a reasonable policy change on the part of the company.

I'm actually suprised though that host safety/security hasn't been a bigger issue. Last weekend my wife & I stayed at an apartment ("whole place") in a large US city. The host, a girl in her early 20s, probably quite new to the city, and who we didn't meet, left us her apartment keys (all of them): there was no combination lock on the door, i.e. nothing preventing somebody from duplicating the keys and having permanent access to the apartment. On top of that, all of her stuff was in the apartment - clothes, paperwork, jewelry - and as far as we could see (we didn't snoop beyond looking for an iron) she didn't have a lockbox there.

Obviously she's naive, but she's not alone; I've heard several similar stories. I'm not sure what I'd have airbnb do to improve the situation; at minimum, though, requiring the use of combination door locks with guest-specific combinations would seem like a good policy, although obviously they'd lost a lot of hosts by doing so.
"TouchID"

Largely meaningless from a security standpoint (easily bypassable), and it enables someone to build a large database of fingerprint hashes. (Don't give me any of that "it doesn't upload the actual fingerprints" - uploading hashes is just as useful to security services)

"disk encryption"

You trust Apple way, way too much.

"The CIA and FBI have gone on record as saying as how frustrated they are with Apple's security."

Which is exactly what they would say, wouldn't they?

"Do you really think iPhones can be used as spying devices?"

Yes.

In fact I have little doubt.
Honestly, that's much better than I was expecting. Two years working to improve our shitty government systems in exchange for a quarter of a million? Sounds like a fair short-term deal, even if higher comp is available elsewhere...
Anecdote: host from hell.

We stayed in an airbnb in Amsterdam. Looked decent. However, we spent the first evening coordinating getting the shower fixed as it was overflowing. C'est la vie, win some lose some. Ok.

After that, when trying to sleep, the boiler made a very bad rattling noise, so again had to call someone about it. Again, win some lose some.

After that first evening, we sent a legitimate refund claim to the owner saying we can live with the (by then partially fixed) situation because we didn't want to waste time looking for somewhere else. We requested a one day refund as it had been spent fixing stuff. We then went to bed.

Midnight rolls around and my wife and I are fast asleep. My phone rings and it's the airbnb host demanding that we vacate the property, and "not to worry, I will help you get a room at the hotel over the road". Why? Because we had the temerity to request a refund.

(Context: he later tried to explain his attitude with "we should have contacted him directly because if a refund claim is put through, his property is downvoted in the airbnb listings". I have no idea if that is true).

He jumps in his car and an hour later, we are arguing on the doorstep about it, us in our PJ's wondering the hell is going on.

Airbnb handled the situation fairly well. However, if airbnb was my company, or the host was an employee of mine, he would have been fired. That host is still happily using airbnb.

Since that and a couple of other sketchy airbnb experiences I only use the service now when the hosts/property come extremely or personally recommended. I completely discount the online reviews.

I like the variety of experiences offered by airbnb. I don't like the inevitable encounters (and extreme experiences) possible with asshole airbnb hosts.

And there is nothing airbnb can do about it, short of striking dodgey hosts off their listings, which they didn't do in this case so I wonder how many other situations like that there have been where nothing was done.
> Thanks for using non-free music.

You're putting a lot of faith in GEMA's judgement on the matter, aren't you?
That's based on the assumption that the crunch will happen though, and even if those companies flop, I think it's quite important to analyse exactly where they went wrong rather than put them down as just another startup that couldn't scale properly. If you're a bootstrapping startup hoping to enter the same market, this is crucial as you can at least try and avoid those mistakes - who's to say that you won't crash and burn too?

(This is more like advice to myself actually as I'm currently in a dilemma between that "wait" that you've just described and the intense worry of not getting first-mover advantage through that waiting)
I really feel for the boy's mother who must have gone through hell after her son called her. I was once in a similar situation myself where a dear friend of mine got in big trouble while traveling in Vietnam:

Since the country is a Malaria area my friend took prophylactic medication (Malarone). As an (infrequent) side effect these drugs can cause hallucinations and severe anxiety attacks, which unfortunately is what happened to her. When the symptoms hit her she was alone (as the only Western person) in a small train station in Ho-Chi-Minh city and became suddenly so scared that she hid in a corner, hallucinating and unable to call out for help. Lucky for her I called her up after she failed to send me a message as we had agreed on a few days earlier and found out about the dangerous situation. And while she was not able to speak clearly she was at least able to communicate where she was to me. So, I immediately thought about how I could get help to her and tried calling the local emergency numbers using Skype, my mobile phone and my landline. As it turns out, those numbers are usually not reachable from outside the country.

So what I did instead (and what I would do again in a similar situation) was to call the emergency number of the local embassy / consulate in the country. These always have staff answering the phone 24/7, but unfortunately even they are not always willing to help you. It usually helps to first get the name of the person who answered the phone and then explain to him/her that the person in distress is a citizen of his/her country and that he/she is in acute danger. Also, explain to them (in case they forgot) that it is their duty to protect the life of the citizens of their country abroad and to do anything in their power to get help to them as fast as possible. They will know better than you which number to call or how to organize help (in case the emergency response system is not very functional as was the case in Vietnam). Do not waste time trying to call the local emergency numbers.
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Airbnb could partner with a lock company to allow owners to buy the cheaply. Then the access could be handled in the Airbnb app, and revoked after the person leaves.
Sure. I've recently
finished writing 18,000 programming
language statements in Visual Basic
.NET
on 80,000 lines
of typing, including comments and
blank lines, and so far I have never
even once used inheritance, either
single or multiple. I don't even know
how they would handle naming conflicts
with multiple inheritance. Maybe
Microsoft's many classes in .NET
are making heavy use of inheritance,
but I don't.

So, inheritance is okay, but I don't
use it directly. It just isn't a tool
I use; it stays in the bottom of my
toolbox.

I use classes much like structs in
C or structures in PL/I. Yes, classes
are a little more general, and I do
make use of some of that generality.

But, PL/I structures are quite a bit
more general than structs in C
and, really, nearly as useful as
classes. And, for "addressing" as
in the OP, the array addressing
in PL/I structures is much more
efficient than addressing in
classes.

The OP is correct: I don't think
of classes and inheritance as
representing a is-a relationship.
Sorry, I just don't do that. Don't
need it. Or, I'm big on collection
classes (hopefully based on AVL or
red-black trees) and did write my
own key-value store for session
state storage for my Web site,
and that usage can be regarded
as using is-a, but, again, I don't
get is-a from class inheritance --
just don't need that.

And the OP is correct: A lot that is
in my code has its meaning clear
only in the comments. The code is
like the displayed equations in a
calculus or physics book,
and the text between
the displayed equations is like
the comments. Both the text
in those books and the comments
in the code
are crucial.

Yes, the meaning of the code is
crucial, but for meaning I want
to use a natural language, e.g.,
English, in the comments.
In what way would that be different from the use of simple closures. Given that they predated them by a couple of decades am interested in what new or different idea (or even practice) that OOP brings to the table. My question is sincere and genuine.
"We want to hire you, but we see here that you improved the digital systems affecting the lives of millions, so I'm afraid we won't be moving your application forward at this time"

Right...
The other side of this coin in the tech world is the term indoctrinates successive waves of potential entrepreneurs into the belief that the only businesses worth starting are the investor-backed companies that can generate a 10x return. It leads to “startup theater” and an unending stream of pitch deck promises that can never be realized.

What a colossal waste of time, considering many of the people getting involved in “startups” could start real businesses that generate real revenue and real profits ... without turning to VCs.
What makes you think she reported it? Betrayal is not as universally popular as it used to be, and some people even believe that two wrongs don't make a right. Crazy, right? I know.
Advice on pitching
> Maybe there's something we're missing?

This is the charitable interpretation of the, albeit somewhat delusional, grandparent (showsomeempathy greenie). Since I support charitable interpretations, I'll respond to it. I generally don't see the point in responding to nitpickers and uncharitable readers, hence the previous edit.

While true that I could have removed something nasty from my original comment, the truth is more mundane. Aside from the additional second paragraph, the only thing I substantially changed was the sentence you quoted.

> I think I made a straw man!

No, you are the nitpicker :) Implicit in the 100k big scale sentence is that (a) it's 100k or more (b) relative scale matters. I would consider having 100k people / night for an accommodation service to be big scale. More generally, it simply has no relevance (just like this whole subthread ;) for the point being made, hence the nitpicker designation.

EDIT: Lesson: never, under any circumstances, engage with trolls.
You are confusing talent and personality. You can be untalented with a difficult personality and vice versa.
On a cellphone it doesn't matter whether you type 112 or 911 or press the "emergency services" button. They all do the same, there is a special emergency signal that it sends to the network. That signal makes it a priority call (it even works when the network is overloaded and also works through roaming / other networks that you would normally not be allowed to use), the entered number doesn't matter because the network will automatically connect such emergency calls to the appropriate local emergency services.
> (assuming you don't end up harming your intended victim)
> I would actually argue that an attempted murder should be considered almost as great, if not as great, a crime as one that succeeded.

You are implicitly saying that it does harm. Indeed, it does harm the psych, which might lead to physical harm in the long run.
The two challenges past this point are (a) making the components ignorant to the larger structure of the single state enabling things like component-local state and state representation independence and (b) getting creative with how to construct reducers composably so that various domain concerns are separated from one another in the construction of the core state.
Let’s kill the term “lifestyle business” for founder-focused startups
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I have read this with interest but the obsessive compulsive developer inside me keeps bothering me with questions like "isn't it worrying/depressing that today's best OS & applications are stuck with interfaces modeled with messy, leaky or no abstraction at all after devices used more than 100 years ago with no opportunity for radical improvement in sight ?". Sometimes I have the feeling that in software we are building skyscrapers on foundations of mud (usually after I read C code).
But why not use assembly with a lot of comments then?

Higher level languages aspire to take at least some of the "meaning" stuff that would otherwise be in comments and represent it using in-language constructs.
C++ can be OO, but isn't always OO. If OO is defined as having polymorphic runtime function invocation, then C++ allows you to opt-in to this behavior with 'virtual' and heap allocation, vs. Java which requires you to opt-out with 'final' and all objects are always heap allocated.

My biggest thing in support of OO is that it encourages DRY more affectively than other paradigms, IMO. But I am finding Rust's balancing of functional w/ OO allows for you to pick the best method to DRY (don't repeat yourself).

Anyone who doesn't practice DRY programming doesn't understand the cost of maintaining production code and technical debt.
How do you make sure that all your components have access to the same channel? In a typical setup you'd use something like webpack to import modules from separate files. Calling var channel = csp.chan() in each of these will create unique channels, doesn't it? The way I see it you'd need to pass this channel down to each component.
using "LASTORYBCDEFGHIJKMNPQUVWXZ" as alphabet yields
"xkaajeskmkddnkhavkqkgtbcctnfbcklferettksnkorkfchomhbsm."
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In terms of Earth's rotation, you start out hopelessly off because of time zones, so worrying about a few seconds either way is not a problem.
It's not airbnb's fault but if found to be true why wouldn't airbnb simply de-list them?

It's like being a CEO and finding out that one of your employees or contractors is engaging in illegal activity. They get fired. Simple.
I wish I could say the same - this is probably a positive assuming I am not an idiot.
The people who submit the links here aren't necessarily the people who created the thing that is linked to.
I wonder if archive.org might be interested in adding these to their collection - they already host quite a few scanned manuals.
Is Malala Another Mandela?
Thanks.

Type inference for types of rank > 2 is undecidable, how does this go together with the claim that Frege has type inference?
I'm not a Haskell expert, but I think the

{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}

extension enables HRTs in Haskell too.
A department or agency of the federal government acts within the laws and regulations set by congress and is overseen by the president. Thus, even if you wanted them to do or change something, they could not. Congress on the other hand is set up to listen to and respond to constituents (constitutionally), and thus lobbying congress is entirely legal as that it what you are supposed to do.
> "There's an ongoing effort at Debian to make all builds reproducible so that you can verify that they were built from the sources they provide for inspection. This should be completed soon."

Ah, good to know. Do you have any links to articles or discussions about this? Would like to learn more.
Was quite to hear snowden talk about those. Might mean NSA already has them.