skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a private network/route with traffic containing nothing but corporate data. Most multinationals facing this situation route out through HK, with a secondary failover usually in Taiwan or Singapore. Works a treat, but is costly and latency can be subpar.

It also doesn't solve the problem of mobile access to Google Apps for Chinese workers (Google Play Store & apps are not bundled by many (any?) Chinese OEM handset makers or carriers. You can root & sideload, or you can purchase phones outside the country and ship them to your employees, but even if you do this, there is still no guarantee they'll be able to access Google's apps while on cellular networks.
I get about 1.5-2x for c vs c++. Genuinely surprised that erlang took so many lines of code.
Maybe this will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
sadly with RDP you cannot have same experience.it is not about 1 or 2 site , for example for me , my vpn connection is always on because there is not internet without it.but with RDP loging into another machine , with all lag you see , is almost impossible at least for power user like me which most of the time have 50+ tab open in chrome in site's like youtube , android dev doc's, etc.
> ... but the rate at which new tools are introduced, and having to sort out which actually will win is a considerable overhead. After a while it ... just gets kind of old. Especially since you realize that all of it is a constructed complexity, largely arbitrary.

One of the most important parts of my job as a sysadmin is the immediate sniff test on trendy technology of the week and being able to spot the obvious pain points early. Bitter experience, it's useful!
Probably as with most problem solving, there are not many benefits apart from being better at solving the problem.

Sit down and have a conversation with another person and it will impact you a lot more.
This took way longer than I imagined. I won't repeat the argument here in detail but it essentially boils down to the argument that fields theories are just an effective description of long distance behavior ignoring what is really going on at short distances, that fields are just a convenient tool to make locality manifest and that field theories contain a lot of redundancies due to this.

The statement I was referring to comes 28 minutes into the lecture but you probably have to watch everything up to that point for the full context.

So after watching this again the answer to my question seems pretty clear - fields are not real things. I am still left a bit confused because you very often read and hear that fields are real things and actually more often then the opposite.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tnA7bh7dTqY
Lego still use a graphical language for their Mindstorm kits, iirc.
Weird, was just there a month ago for two weeks and used https://www.expressvpn.com/ with no issue. I mostly cruised reddit / the internet so maybe there wasn't enough volume.
LMMS http://lmms.io was on svn on Sourceforge. It was more or less moribund. Moved to git on github, immediate influx of contributors and a buggy 0.4.13 was advanced to a really very nice 1.0 in about six months :-)

Unless your project is weighty enough to have its own gravitational pull, github is a ridiculously easy place to contribute and make life easy for contributors.
Ask HN: What do you think about testing using Selenium?
Hi,

Do you think that state of functional testing by tools like Selenium is sufficient? How could we improve it?

Best,
Wiktor
But you need to understand that this perspective doesn't exist for the middle 90% of the country and really only applies to the large metros where things are either dense enough for cars not to be generally necessary, or public transit is acceptably good. Everywhere else, most teens need a [cheap] car just to get to & from their part time & summer jobs, or to shuttle around their younger siblings.
I think you see problem in white and black manner , there is no pure white and black. west is much much developed in human rights (by far) compare than countries like iran.
but that does not mean west does not have problem. It has its own huge problem , which should be solved but , it provide much better condition for its own people than iran.

this is the way I am looking to problem.

guess what ? If in iran I talk against supreme leader , the chance are they will kill me with false accusation , okay ?
I have not checked out Drakon-editor, but i find myself wondering if it comes down to being able or unable to do the graph manipulations by keyboard. Meaning that to manipulate linkages or move blocks one has to reach for the mouse.
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Tell that to the RIAA and MPAA, and every politician wanting more surveillance and censorship. The reality is that law, and money, and force currently, and always will, trump a geek at a keyboard.

Further, please consider that you don't have to kill a thing to control it. Even when something is technically possible, and arguably inevitable, it can still be neutered and effectively subdued. It's all fine and well to say things that suggest the human spirit will always triumph - that's optimism - but the human body can still be held in chains. A technical solution that is only accessible to a tiny set of people, under the right theoretical conditions, does not make freedom a solved problem.
If the power was going to be out for months, and no chance of access to water or a working sewage system, then yes you'd want to evacuate NYC, perhaps not all of those 8 million people, but anyone without alternative means of disposing of their human waste.

As for how to get water to people, you could use trucks to deliver water tanks. You could also have small scale electricity production through solar and wind and mobile electricity generators.

It'd require considerable effort to pull off, but we would have options.
No, to the country that is:

1) A leader in freedom of speech, press freedom, property rights protections, general freedom of movement, and is low on the corruption index. One of the few countries with extraordinarily well protected freedom of speech rights enshrined at the core of the nation.

2) Has a rapidly adaptive culture, able to implement changes at a fast pace despite its immense scale. That includes things like legalizing and decriminalizing drugs, which is now underway across numerous states, and marriage equality.

3) Has one of the highest median household incomes on earth, and one of the highest disposable incomes. Both of which just got a 20% booster shot against the rest of the world courtesy of the dollar.

4) Has one of the highest standards of living on earth, for both the poor and the rich. See: OECD better life index.

5) Has some of the most generous welfare state policies of any nation. The US has free healthcare, and very large food and housing programs for the poor. Which is why America's poor are better off than all but half a dozen nation's poor.

6) Actually has stable economic growth and vast opportunity. Neither Europe nor the EU have grown in eight years. China is imploding rapidly with non-stop chaos socially and economically, Japan hasn't grown in 25 years.

7) Has a relatively low unemployment rate, and a vast supply of available jobs (presently at ~15 year highs, at nearly six million openings). This is counter to most of the world, with emerging markets in desperate shape, and the rest of the developed world rolling from recession to stagnation to recession again.

8) Is a leader in science, innovation, invention, general technology, aerospace, pharma/biotech, farming, manufacturing, software, Internet, space tech, gaming, and pretty much every other category.

9) Has 45 of the top 50 universities, and the best university system across the board of any nation. With a median student loan debt of $13,000 - which is half the price of a car these days.

10) Where the median household net wealth is higher than Germany, Italy, or Sweden. And where household debt to income ratios are lower than nearly all of developed Europe.

11) Where the murder rate for 99% of the population in cities is closer to 2/100k (and half that in rural areas), on par nicer urban parts of Europe. The US has a hundred nice cities with very low murder rates, pick where you want to live.

12) Where unarmed minorities are not regularly shot dead by the police.

13) Where minorities have a greater opportunity for success than in nearly any other nation. See: the vast wealth and prosperity of Asians in America, they're the best off of any race of people here. In fact, American Asians are among the best off of any people anywhere on this planet.

14) Where you have more opportunities than in any other nation, to make any kind of life for yourself that you want. Fortunately life in America is the exact opposite of a gamble, given the vast success of America's middle 50%. Few nations can claim the kind of success that America's middle class has managed, despite how large it is.
Every time these kind of submissions come around, I feel it necessary to give a shoutout to Jamis Buck's great series of blog posts and examples on the topic: http://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/

Part of my undergraduate dissertation involved generating random mazes - and these articles were a godsend.
Yes, it's more like regulation that poorly implemented. But less people knew it at the time according to what the news and bitcoin users in China said. As a result, news related to China still can impact the price greatly sometimes, which leads people ask has China really banned bitcoin or not? You could find many discussions in term of this at the time. Of course people by now understand the "ban" itself is limited.
Coronal mass ejections increase radiation on the whole electromagnetic spectrum so your solar panels would most likely just produce more electricity. This shouldn't damage your cells but it would probably contribute to overloading your local energy grid (and hence damage lots of appliances).
Make sure you check out the original with or Without You by U2
Capitalism is entirely about you get what you can pay for. It seems entirely appropriate to the USA.
Try https://www.aerofs.com
I've submitted a list of previous articles on this topic, all different, all with their slightly different slant, some with significant discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10102160
Seafile maybe? I never used dropbox but I think it can do all the same. Installation is trivial nowadays and setup is 10 minutes maybe.
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I use Android, I can't just deny permission and not use a feature. I would have to stop using Spotify alltogether.

It's not the same as giving permission to Google Maps to use my location because I know exactly why it wants that. With Spotify, "improving our services" is just not a good enough reason.
Is this the Tappy app ? --- http://tappy.co

So from what I see , what it does is help the user make games from themes.

I signed up for access, still waiting for confirmation

Looks like a pretty cool concept ... a lot of users like to play mobile games while waiting for their friends or travelling ... I mean, its not on the level of Starcraft or Diablo , but its a pretty neat concept ...
I'll be very short, at least Iran and China didn't invade Iraq and Afghanistan on false pretenses. They aren't currently droning civilians in 5 countries. If you pay taxes in America you are financially supporting their military efforts, that's how I look at it.
> The slightest disruption to a break-even lifestyle can result in disaster, and even if everything goes perfectly there may not be any spare cash to save for an eventual escape.

Have you tried living in a county with a social safety system?
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Ruby isn't that much slower than other slow languages. But compared to the fast ones it is really really slow.
Globalization is a beautiful thing.
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Demand going up is not sputtering, it is contrary to your theory. It seems likely that fracking is more viable at $40 than you think.
Why go through Internet access providers in first place? Just get a radio transmitter and start broadcasting on short waves with encrypted digital modes... at least for short, critical transmissions.
Perhaps it is not just the title but the fact that the article is informative, not sensationalist, and interesting.
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Who care if a few taxes are regressive. The sum of all taxes is more important than each individual one.
The problem is that they (US corporations and local elites in the developing countries) haven't built a global labor market. Rather they built very large pipelines into the US labor market.

This means that workers in a country such as China work 14 - 16 hours a day, eat in the company dining hall, and sleep in the company dorm. But they get paid a tiny amount, while US corporations and local elites who control the pipeline capture most of the profit.

Because of this, workers in developing countries act like a full worker (or 1.5 - 2x a full worker) but they don't act like a consumer. So you get 3-4 billion workers competing for jobs in an economy of 320 million people.
I don't know how he got adderall, but modafinal and the other drugs he mentioned are either schedule IV to Rx Only, so if you ask a pharmacist nicely they can give it to you. (That's how I got modafinil when I was in college)
You're talking about two different issues:

1) Whether or not people outside the accounting profession should use the acronym 'GAAP'.

2) Whether people use the term as jargon to help aggrandize their position.

I have no comment on point 2. On point 1, though, my position is the polar opposite of yours. Business people in general (and especially CEOs!) should understand the principles of accounting, the ways in which transactions are recorded etc. If they don't understand these things, how are they meant to understand their company's financial statements? If they can't understand their company's financial statements, how are they meant to manage the company?

BTW - I am also a qualified accountant, although this is not related to my current job. I feel so strongly about these issues, though, is that I periodically run an 'Intro to Accounting and Finance' course for interested colleagues, and have delivered similar training courses at other large tech companies in the past.
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I don't agree with all the points here (e.g. I find the argument for using full system VMs over OS containers a hard one to swallow), but I think often people don't think critically enough when they're being led down the Docker road. (The Docker road's direction being plotted mostly towards putting Docker Inc in a strong controlling position now that they're going at it full VC throttle)
> Implying bitcoin has nothing to do with free speech.

I'm saying that the result is not going to be so different, as in people will still use shadowsocks to circumvent the firewall and won't get "disappeared" or whatsoever.

Edit: letters
A lot of basic infrastructure (such as water) will have diesel generators that would hopefully keep things going. Presumably food production (such as freezers, fridges, baking) could have generators brought in. At that point the key factor in survival is making sure the refineries are kept on-line and are protected against solar storms.
Self gets used by the enthusiasts in production, for a suitable definition of production. I believe the Self website is served by a webserver written in Self for example. I've also served my blog in the past from a Self webserver.

I found the comment in the post about how a few lines of code would be better than the object interactions in the GUI interesting. I thought this would be the case when I started using Self too but even with the GUI you still write code. The method bodies for example are all textual code that feels like programming in any other language.

Where the GUI excels is exploring systems, prototyping designs - and then refactoring the design towards a production implementation. It also makes the applications 'live' for users. They can drill down into the application objects and see how things work. The line between OS, application, and development is very blurry in Self.
When does intelligence become a curse?
Honest question: How do you handle health care issues?
And how do you plan for times when you're more likely of not being able to do physical work anymore (in your 70 or 80s)?
Ask if they're willing to hike it back to your current salary on the next round of funding.
I thought this kind of magic code was explicitly what go creators didn't want.

If i compare to Objective-C "object respondsToSelector:selector()" or "object isKindOfClass" equivalent, this go "casting to an anonymous struct" code seems extremely convoluted.

Plus, i may be wrong, but it seems like it's really not robust. You're trying to cast to an anonymous struct declared locally, that isn't linked to any other interface anywhere, and only implements part of the methods defined in the File struct.
It's looks to me just as robust as using strings. What you would like to express, is what's in the comment : aka, test against something related to the File struct/interface.
“You got great grades in uni computer science, why are are you a tester?”
I had this question in an interview on Friday. Developers/testers - what are your thoughts on this?

(bg, several years of experience (10+) as a dev and a test automation engineer).
It didn't taint the reading experience for me, as I wasn't expecting a peer reviewed research paper.

I viewed it as an interesting opinion piece.
> if you ask a pharmacist nicely they can give it to you.

In the US?
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Does any one know about more courses like this?
Knowing about corruption, and being able to get away with it are 2 separate things I think. If you don't abuse people human rights) and give them a good life; you can get away with a lot of corruption I presume.
A lot of the ideas expressed here are already available in a couple of the better Clojure development setups (known in Clojure as refactoring tools) -- since it is a lisp, that makes it a good language for implementing this stuff. However, in reality most Clojure devs are not taking advantage of all that this style of editing provides, partly because it requires more than the tool: it requires a different perspective on the code you write to think in this "refactor" way.
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clowwindy showed up on twitter saying he's ok but has to drop maintenance. I guess he's physically alright.
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Where's the second half of the essay? He just drops off in mid thought without making any suggestions or deeper analysis. Just lazy.
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I've used DRAKON for generating Javascript - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/04/use-drakon-to-generate-code...

It's really quite efficient to draw out an algorithm and let the computer turn it into code. Doesn't work for every problem - but it is very good at what it does.
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> PROLOG, partly for historical reasons, is quite slow.

This is not an easy statement to make, nor particularly accurate. There are many, many prolog systems available. Perhaps the free prolog compilers out there are not stellar in performance, but commercial production prolog systems are not likely going to be slower than what is proposed here, and yet will still probably be more feature-rich.
Scratch from MIT.

Ok, you're not going to write an OS in it - but for building games it's amazing. I use it to teach kids coding - some of the work they produce is astounding.
It's definitely on the 110 within sight of downtown.
Can you provide more details how do you serialize django forms?
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the second amendment and of cause and effect.
24/7/365

7 *days* per *week*
24 *hours* per *day*
365 *days* per... *year*

Why you'd read that as 365 weeks per year I'm not sure, because there's no pre-established convention that would lead you to interpret it that way (both 24 and 7 would have to be "per week"), and most people know there are 365 days in a year.

Just trying to help. ;-)
I recently learned about copy on write the hard way: We had a buggy dll from a hardware vendor that was editing our input, so the obvious solution was to keep a copy of the data we sent it. To our surprise, even the copy we made changed unless we did it in an assignment like A = 1.0*X;

On a related note the tech support at MATLAB is very responsive. Every time I have had an issue they get back to me quickly, and I feel like the follow up and really fix bugs.
You can also try SqueakJS https://bertfreudenberg.github.io/SqueakJS/

It implemented Smalltalk primitives in JavaScript so it can run a real, bit identical, Squeak image.
[Gwern](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern) has done some interesting self-medication experiments [here](http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil), for Modafinil and [here](http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil), for nicotine. I haven't seen similar reproductions or analyses by other scientists, so peer review (or functional analog) is definitely needed here.
Thanks for curating that wonderful list.

I'd contradict you by saying that the poor have it much better in Germany than in the USA (same great health insurance as everyone else, no masses of homeless people like in US cities) and I'd also say the educational system here is better for the average person (free universities with high standards - not in the Top50 of the world maybe, but still great). But in general I think you have many valid points on your list.
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Yes, and I still wonder at the sanity of making it the default given the large number of known problems.

I've lost data, irrecoverably, with Btrfs on at least two occasions--the filesystem was completely toasted. More recently I've encountered the unbalancing issue--the filesystem would become read-only approximately every 36 hours with sustained intensive use. That's simply unacceptable--the default filesystem needs to be utterly reliable, and becoming unusable at unpredictable intervals is not suitable for production.
According to a recent file. Using a VPN isn't illegal. But hosting an unregistered VPN service in China is illegal. And the right of using an unregistered VPN service is not guaranteed.
This frame slightly worried me:

http://i.imgur.com/3QuJjRY.jpg

Because ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_(computing)#/media/Fi...

The clip is from three years ago, though. So there's hope!
Which AFAIK is LabVIEW, btw.
It's a great tool for front end testing. However, it's limited with some newer stuff - shadow DOM objects are meant to be supported since January but in reality it's...difficult. However, the way it interfaces with browsers IMHO is preferable to say, CodedUI, which takes control of the mouse and keyboard to execute tests.

Saying that, in Java/C#, Selenium is still easily my preferred tool, and the demand from companies/recruiters (I'm switching contracts at present) seems to indicate it's still very much the tool.
Yes. There is some minor paperwork involved for them, which is why you should ask nicely, and YMMV.