skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> run by private companies that sell their services to the government

If a company's sole paying client is the government (i.e. the public at large through government coercion) then that isn't a private company.

A private company is one where if all the potential voluntary clients give up on, it goes under.

Is a spy a (foreign) private company since it also sells its services to the government? Is a saboteur a private company? Is a privateer?

This service (keeping prisoners) only exists for one type of client, clients that have a monopoly on force, also known as governments. A private business may indeed sell solely to the government, but it can only be private if the service it offers exists for more than that one type of client. Failing that, such "company" is a Government Agency, whether the government admits and/or makes it official or not.

In days of yore the UK would also call privateers private. Do you see the pattern of governments trying to distance themselves from the evil they're doing by labeling unofficial government agencies "private companies"?

This is not about a person's preference for calling things a certain way. In a proper discussion we have to settle the meaning of words and phrases. And the phrase "private company" in no way encompass the work of government agencies whose product could not be sold to the general public directly.

Sorry DennisP, you're just wrong. "Call it what you want" is not an argument, much less a counter-argument to my arguments. You could have taken the normal route and just said "you're right", but instead you're choosing to keep pushing the "call it whatever" non-argument button. Be a good loser and admit you're wrong, or refute my arguments.

I can also tell you went through all my recent past comments and voted them all down, as I went from 0 to -10 immediately after our interaction. Very childish of you, but not surprising.

How do you hope to solve problems and disagreements if you're not willing to abide by the code of conduct that those who argue seeking to learn follow?

If you believe what Socialist Bernie Sanders thinks is "private" then you'll believe anything.
The most subversive thing about this device is its use of the WebAudio API.
I hope the individual who invented the idea of "lazy image loading" slowly dies.
And where did you hear that?
Historically the iterative approach has led to incomplete, buggy, and vulnerable features that become de facto browser standards because of wide adoption.
Think of the camera as a art piece in itself, not a tool, and it works better, IMHO.
>You need to be pretty high before supersonic booms stop being a problem.

what is the problem with sonic boom? i grew up on navy base in pretty militarized region and we had fighters frequently producing the booms (USSR, first half of 198x). It was fun, at least for us - for children :)
I think it's reasonable to comment on whether institutions "care" or not about negative externalities by looking at the policies they have in place to mitigate them.
Earley Parsing Explained
I like Loop's tutorial: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/earley-parsing/
Saving the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
> They're only able to address the EU market because they have a large, profitable base in the US.

Uber is only able to address any market because they have a ton of outside venture funding.

Don't get me wrong - I agree that the EU is overly protective and that this harms their startup economy, but Uber is not a good example of that point.
I think Markdown is generally unsuitable as a data format for machines.

YAML strikes a nice balance between machines and people, but
I wouldn't want to write a blog post in it.

Markdown is great for blog posts, but APIs are terse.
Cisco routers and switches do not have remote access enabled by default. They are not like consumer devices with an admin/admin login and a web interface.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security-vpn/secur...
Luckily no, organized crime is spread mostly on other regions, and as far as I know it doesn't seem involved in the ICT field. At least I hope :)
There is tmux-continuum that works with resurrect to automate saving/restoring.

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ah, that makes a lot more sense then.

It appeared to have weirdness from the homepage:

- secured: !include http://remote-host/secured.yml

/songs:

Which is invalid YAML.

It turns out this is probably an unfortunate word-wrap in the page, where a non-wrapping text field would better convey the format.
There is an endless supply of new users who need to learn, but only limited patience among senior people to repeat themselves. The "safeguards" put in place against repetition, n00bs, decay, etc, really serve the interests of the users who have stuck around, not the users who need to learn something. Newer users talking about getting a different experience than the original users, and not getting the usefulness that the site's reputation implies, is not simple whining.

Any solution has to have the support of the long-term, high-rep community, but the long-term, high-rep community creates the problem - by sticking around so long, they accumulate influence even as their incentives changed. You can see why meta might have a lot of people who don't think there's a problem at all.

The senior-friendly design of SO ignores the fact that the graveyards are full of indispensible people. One huge change would simply be to age out the users who have been around the longest, or have the highest rep. The newest can (and should) be taught by the slightly-more-experienced who aren't yet jaded by the repetition.
Technically, this is not a C preprocessor, more like a general-purpose macro processor, since you're using it as a third layer (second being C macros, first being C itself) instead of replacing C macros.

Although it gives me an idea, a converter that takes a valid C program (with macros) and replaces the C macros with some other macros (in this case yupp macros) that perform the same task. e.g.,

replacing

#include <stdio.h>

with something like:

($include "stdio.h")
The most crucial item that migrants and refugees carry is a smartphone
SpeckJS: Comment Driven Development
My favorite in the U.S. that I hope catches on is ClearView, which I first noticed in Madison, Wisconsin: https://promega.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/better-living-throu...
Did Charlie Hebdo Mock the Dead Refugee Boy?
How can a study say voters do not know who the best candidate is when best is subjective?

The problem is politics is a lot like religion where logic leaves the room in favor of polarizing opinions. You mention that Obama does not have all the power so it is not his fault that some things were not done, yet there are people still blaming Bush for everything under the sun 7-8 years later.

The difference I have from who you replied to is that I think yes people are smarter and tired of career politicians. They know DC is screwed up and that no side is any better than the other (anyone who thinks Bush/Cheney had all sorts of back door dealings for their friends can in no way support Hillary). They all just want to consolidate power and help our their friends. That is where someone like Trump comes in. He's out there, but he's not them.
Hi Varun,

Can you also elaborate, how you read HFiles and serve it out from Terrapin servers? Are you using similar functionality as HBase? (With block cache like design if yes how do you keep both in sync).

Your blog is missing this interesting detail.
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These companies were founded when the world weren't so connected. The size of US market unified with one currency and language didn't matter back then. Because if you have founded a company in California, it was hard for you to reach people in New York because there was no internet so when somebody founded a company in Germany, he had basically same position as the guy in US. And after many years the guy in Germany had a lot of money so he could easily expand to France and so on. So business were growing with same pace and it didn't matter where you were.

But there is more factors in it, Europe used be more rich (it had a lot of colonies), US wasn't so developed as it is now. GDP of US was lower than GDP of UK in 1900. And of course laws changed, we have more bureaucracy than we used to have.
Just not until you've scrolled down to their obituary.
It can help in this and similar discussion to start with Wikipedia's Programming Paradigms (see right side). Just go through them, look at the examples, and go to papers or web site of more promising ones (esp actively developed). So, top in logic programming last I checked was Mercury language. They probably have good articles, examples, whatever on their site.

Here's some other examples from those pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_query_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_programming

You'll probably have the most fun with those. Might take you months to dig through all of that if you're following up on the various types with further research. You'll also be one of the only ones that know what the hell you're talking about when topic comes up next in form of "what can or can't it do?" ;)
Yes, assuming it is being remembered for something other humans appreciate and are grateful for (as is the case here).
We used StartSSL for free when we started LogNormal. We were definitely commercial.
Its not even presented as a product for sale. Its just a project for the sake of discussion. Look at the discussion it inspired in this thread. Its art in and of itself.
I kind of wish it worked the opposite way: only allowing you to take pictures near other photo locations. That way you have to make a 'photo-journey' to get new locations in, and you'll leave a trail of experiences in your wake.

Then maybe someone could find a way to stitch those photos together.
If a potential buyer makes that excuse, sell them a expensive long term support contract and offer to put your Intellectual Property (code)in some form of escrow such that the buyers will have access to your code should you fail to support your product in 2 years.

Or become a IBM /HP/MS technology partner and sell through them.

Goodluck !
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Calques: Element-by-element translations of compound loan words
"A small but interesting group of words is that made up of calques, formed by translating the elements of a compound loan-word to produce a word made up of native elements but with its meaning derived from the foreign word, as in 'masterpiece,' borrowed in the seventeenth century from Dutch 'meesterstuk' or German 'meisterstuck,' a piece of work by which a workman qualifies as a craftsman."
- G.L. Brook, Words in Everyday Life 7 (1981)
Things you should do before making a website live
Amazon EC2 as a Build Server
Actually, there are sites that already can and do detect adblock so however hard the adblockers are working to stop this, it's not working. Getting hung up on the fact that you can't do it in the initial request is introducing a strawman.

> If I can identify that you are running an adblocker then I could do something even more malicious than serving an ad.

Well, then you'd be an asshole. Running an adblocker on my computer is not malicious, so some site responding with a possibly illegal action wouldn't be a good solution for anyone.
Boston is a second-tier startup city along with Pittsburgh, Chicago, Seattle, etc. It's too expensive, it's hard to recruit good talent (too cold, too far from everywhere, etc), and there's not a ton of VC. You can do it, but you'll have an easier time of it in NYC or Texas.

Texas has a warm climate, cheap housing and low taxes, which draws a lot of startups there. Raising money can be a problem, but you also don't need nearly as much - a good engineer in SV costs $250k; the same engineer in Austin costs $110k, and it's entirely possible to live on $10k a year while bootstrapping a startup. There are also a half dozen internationally-recognized engineering schools within 2 hours of I-35.

New York just has a ton of people and a ton of money. Also, the global media machine is based there as well, which is why you see a lot of media and advertising startups coming out of NYC. NYC is also attractive to people who weren't born there.
May have been a connectivity issue. Seemed to work ok on my chrome.
Thanks for the link, I laughing my ass off the comments...
"What's nice about this is that it removes the "programmer" from the equation and instead augments language with a bouquet of interpretations."

Implicitly, I'm invoking the idea that a programmer is looking at a particular runtime.

I feel like I have to put that in, or the whole distinction between declarative and imperative completely collapses anyhow. "X.sort()" conceptually simply invokes sorting behavior, possibly with a certain set of guarantees, but in practice, it's very unusual for that to be running so abstractly that the programmer can not penetrate down to relevant runtime details. And when that does happen, generally forces are created that start pushing all the switchable runtimes towards bug-for-bug compatibility, e.g. the web browser's Javascript runtime.

It's not a "bad" thing that it collapses in that case, it just does, that is, consider this the mathematical "collapses" rather than the architectural. You have to have a certain amount of specificity in my opinion or there is no reasonable way to discuss "declarative" vs. "imperative".
I agree with gizmo. All of the languages boil down to some model that you build everything else around. It restricts what you can do. A good model enables way more than it restricts. Seeing what's been done, I vote for a Lambda Calculus-like model along likes of Scheme because it's already emulated everything else pretty well. Very powerful. Just gotta simplify it so it doesn't have LISP's weird stuff. Been looking into REBOL/Red recently as they might do that.

Btw, a universal machine for all paradigms was already done with RISE CPU's tagged/typed operations + Ten15 VM. I'd like to see an optimized version of Ten15 get takeup. Javascript, on other hand, is garbage that's a LCD at best. Even Oberon in the browser (Juice project) outdid it in about every attribute.

http://mca-ltd.com/martin/Ten15/introduction.html
The U.S. Army Once Dreamed of a Jetpack Future
Then you read like 2 words of it and the screen jumps as another image trickles in.
Teamviewer to add to your list and here are a couple more:

https://techberlin.com/articles/16-biggest-exits-so-far/
How does this differentiate itself from existing comment test frameworks?

e.g. https://github.com/dtao/autodoc
It's not going to happen in the US[1]:

> In April 2014, FHWA indicated it expects to rescind Interim Approval to use Clearview.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_%28typeface%29
Try Netscape...
Unbelievable 256-byte intro inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis
I don't understand your first para. New users don't want to ask questions. They want an answer to their questions, and only if there is no answer they want to ask a question.

SO is not just a question-asking site, it's also a repository of already asked questions.

Many (but admitedly not all) questions closed as dupes make no effort to distinguish themselves from previously answered questions.

(I'm someone who thinks there are problems with some of the SO sites. I'm not a fan.)
It sounds like you're trying to sell to late adopters at the early stage. Check out Crossing the Chasm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
“Revenue Insecurity” and the Freemium Death Spiral
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For good or ill, online games are the laboratories for the future of controlling people outside of games as well.
The source is gorgeous too http://www.pouet.net/prod_nfo.php?which=66372
I wonder how much the DIN font is optimized for longer german words. While I don't like it as much as the others, Frutiger would be much wider than it, which in practical terms might be bad.
Yes, but Dan Guido's point was that the parent comment didn't have anything to tell us either. He used a fact to rebut the insinuation. You accused him of "casually dismissing" it. You were wrong.
Containers vs. Config Management
Uber Case Highlights Outdated Worker Protection Laws
> But I couldn't work in go without: https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports

I think this statement makes both points simultaneously.
This is kind of amusing reading a bunch of engineers try to apply engineering thinking to art.
http://blog.startupcompass.co/the-2015-global-startup-ecosys...
My favorite is Figure 17, the alpha glitched image with "PNG" written four times.
AnyCloud organizes your private internet
This can be a pretty serious problem. I used to work at a company that had 2 bathroom stalls for men and approximately 100 male employees all who went to lunch around the same time and drank copious amounts of coffee. Let's just say there were a lot of issues with "bandwidth" when it came to using a toilet. People were going to other floors, using the subway bathroom, all sorts of wild things.
Why don't they take the fuel from their nuclear missiles?
I didn't twig you were American. I live in Switzerland. Producing detectable quantities of anything in butter here that's not made of cow is probably a shooting offence.

(The last time I was in the US I looked at the ingredients on a packet of sweets and thought, I think all these additives are banned back home...)

Is the word 'organic' actually a controlled term in the US? I know the various certifications are; is the term itself?
I could never figure out if it was me doing something, the C bindings we were using or if Prolog just has a mind of its own

DTrace, my friend. If DTrace didn't point you in the right direction with a one-liner, I would have been surprised.
I think 'pure-declarative' people are seriously misguided. They like to reduce the dynamic idea of 'computation' to a static idea of 'declaration'.

One of the biggest motivation for them is mathematics. All mathematics is written declaration on paper, and mathematics accomplishes so much, so we should follow that model.

They fail to realize that math on paper is only half the story. The other half is the 'computation' going on in the mind of the mathematician. And even mathematicians haven't reduced it into declaration.

Bottomline: Hybrid approach is superior to 'pure-computational' or 'pure-declarative'.
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Personally, I believe the political system is structured in such a way as to make changes impossible. This is a feature, not a bug. The inertia of the system protects us against mob rule. It also means that as much as change is inevitable, it is also completely outside the control of one person, party, or special interest group.

Instead, I choose to optimize for my own happiness. Politics, especially because you're just shouting against the rain, makes me incredibly unhappy, so I avoid it.

Others are free to spend their time as they wish, but I am simultaneously cynical about the system and as removed and detached from it as I can be in order to focus on my own happiness.
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Facebook Joins as Full Member of the Unicode Consortium
I think this is an awesome attistic statement, especially going the extra mild to build the camera. People might actually use this if it was an iPhone app. "400 people took photos of sushi in this location, proceed?". That would be really kind of a funny way to limit shitty photographs.
Let me put it this way. Voting in the U.S. is like choosing between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Sometimes you also get the option of RC Cola, or Tab.

You hear someone say, "But I don't like colas." And your response is, "You still need to drink one, so pick."

If you don't vote, it could just be because you feel that every option is equally bad. People decline to vote for a variety of reasons, but not having any appealing options is certainly a very common one.

I personally don't even know the difference between Coke and Pepsi. I like grapefruit juice. If a saw orange juice--or even apple juice--on the ballot, I might vote for it. But year after year, it's always cola versus cola. My concern is if I vote for one or the other, someone might think that's what I actually wanted. I think there are a lot of other people out there that do vote for a cola when they actually want beer, or tea, or water, or purple drank, or merlot, or lemonade, or vodka. So when they see a Mr. Pibb or a Dr. Pepper in the wings, they jump on that like a Fremen after a week in the desert with a torn stillsuit.

Trump's popularity derives from the enforced homogeneity of the elections. Neither major party wants to allow a fringe candidate, because they think those extremists that would otherwise peel away should be voting for them. So they have both painted themselves into the same corner.

Maybe you should follow up that "Do you vote?" question with "Do you actually want the things you vote for?" My opinion is that if you cannot vote for something you want, the vote is not democratic. It becomes a cargo cult ritual in imitation of democracy.

The crisis is not lack of voting. It is that people can no longer effectively express their will through voting. And that came about due to politics as usual. Gerrymandering. Restrictive ballot access laws. Winner takes all elections. Pre-primary deal-brokering. Media spin.

So thanks for your opinion on the importance of voting, but I simply don't see it that way. There are more options for you to choose from than those that are laid out for you. Sometimes you just have to kick over the cups and stab the giant in the eye.
While I am actually ignorant on the mechanics and architecture of blockchain, for the most part... I'm wary of anything a conglomerate of banks are doing...

Just look at the LIBOR debacle as one datapoint.

I have zero trust in big banks colluding on things that have the potential to affect finances for centuries to come.

Change my view?

Edit: anyone who down voted me hasn't been paying attention to the financial history of banks. Just because YC is tied to finance as an investment POV - you'd be deluded to think that banks aren't corrupt to the core. Do I really need to provide you with evidence, how about look at the last fifteen years for simplicity. Then look into BCCI which I doubt many HNers are even aware of...

HSBC? Wachovia? Jesus, do any of you know how fucking corrupt banks are??
Oh, I was being rhetorical. I think capitalism is terrible and incoherent.
And some laws against offshoring and "business visas".
That g in type design circles is often referred to as the "Copenhagen" or "Danish" g because of its prevalence there... it seems like the Danes just don't like writing the last part of the g!

For instance, this sign from 1897 [1] contains many examples of it, even on the street sign on the top right corner.

For more examples, I suggest a browse through http://www.copenhagentype.dk/

[1] http://www.lundwp.lamp.magnifik.dk/wp-content/uploads/2013/1...
>Why would lights be stressful?

There's a great deal of evidence that flashing unnatural light sources have negative effects on animals.

Do you have any evidence that this isn't stressful to animals?
Well, German Americans are not the same as Irish Americans are not the same as Italians who've just gotten their citizenship are not the same as... but they all get lumped under the category "white people", so it is what it is. Any way you slice up "Asian American" they still far exceed their minority peers (and even whites), so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
yep, but you are never going to get a generic processor architecture to have anywhere near the performance of custom silicon ASICs designed for specifically for routing packets. No matter what software you put on top of it.

Its never going to work in a core network routing 100s of gigs of traffic. So it's not going to work for ISPs