skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of basic income is that it provides the basic human rights in a more libertarian manner (instead of the government providing services, the government gives you money). So, if someone doesn't have enough money to buy food, they won't starve to death and the facilitation of this human right is done via the market in basic income. I don't think a basic income set to provide basic human rights is going to create any sort of drug-user like dependency on the government.

Regarding population, when you have more people you get more money.

> You also have to take into account the Scandinavian cultural norms as well.

What are these Scandinavian cultural norms?
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It would not be a web compatible change so will never happen. Too much code relies on them being different.
I worked for a company that performed stereoscopic conversion for Hollywood films. Their primary tool was NUKE [1] running on Linux. It's also available for Mac and Windows, but because NUKE encompassed their entire workflow, the underlying OS wasn't especially important.

[1] http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/
All the really skilled devs leave for the US. There's some skill up here but frankly the cream of the crop is long gone.
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I'm from the UK and I've only ever seen "Bummer" as a mild disappointment. That one person was probably just looking for things to complain about.
If nobody had said anything, I would have never noticed the change.

People are complaining and/or celebrating this change over some notion that it changes what the action "says". For people who agree that it changes what you are saying, they seem to universally agree it's changing from "I bookmarked this" to "I endorse this".

Here's the thing: if they weren't meant as endorsements before, then why was the list of them public, and why were they called "favorites"? Since when does publicly marking something as a "favorite" translate to a neutral "I am expressing no opinion on this matter, merely marking it for later retrieval"?

Because I can guarantee you: whenever you star/favorite/like/whatever-the-hell-we're-calling-it-today a tweet/post/blog/picture/whatever-site-we're-on-today in a public way with notification back to the original poster, it always gets interpreted as interest/enjoyment/endorsement.

It's literally nothing more than changing the icon. Same button, different color. It does the same thing: make a public notice that you touched that button on that tweet. If you weren't using it for what it was meant for before, you can continue to use it against what it's meant for today.

You all are literally bike-shedding right now.
But is that stopping YOU from behaving like that if you know it's literally just a change of icon? And if the change of icon bothers people that much, just install Tweetdeck. It's still a star in there (much like other inconsistencies across Twitter's apps/platforms).
This is big. It can be a game changer for politic in Asia
Have you tried Webhook?

http://www.webhook.com/
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That's literally what retweeting is.
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Do we really care that much about LoC? I understand that more code means more opportunity for bugs, but I'd be far more concerned about performance, battery usage, code quality metrics, etc, not to mention maintainability and codebase stability, access to talent who understand the language/frameworks/idioms, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Swift is a big improvement in a lot of ways, but LoC is a weird measure to focus on, IMO... though, I can't say I blame them. LoC is easy to compute. Turns out measuring actually useful things can be rather hard...
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Conversely, Nike is also responsible for the infamous "Allah/Air shoes" that caused a shitstorm in the late 90s.
IRHydra2 is pretty good for it but has a learning curve.

There is really no need for the arguments object in a world with default and rest parameters, and it has always been an obstacle to performance, so I'm glad arrow functions don't use it.
Is it?

In most other social networks Sharing has the connotation that this will post the content to another social network, not propagate it within it. Sharing on Facebook is self-contained, but not always.

But I know, my point is that this is not a functional change, but a change in name and iconography that will affect behavior.

They wouldn't have changed it, if they didn't think it would change the behavior to be what they desire (more new users using it).
We've been using Phoenix for several applications for over a year. The channel functionality is so easy to use and implement. High recommend people checking this out: http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/channels
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I just updated, after which I checked the settings. I noticed that auto-downloading in MMS text messages was enabled (moxie stated for a prior version that it was not, at that time), whereupon I changed the settings to disable. I may well be misinterpreting what I was seeing, but better safe than sorry.

(I'm stuck on Android 5.1 (not 5.1.1) on a Verizon phone. I was thinking of the ongoing Stagefright problems.)
I was under the impression that child selectors are specific in nature, and they should be used later in the sheet, when declarations become increasingly specific.
Burning is a natural part of many ecologies in dry areas, but I doubt it happens naturally in rain forests and peat bogs - unless they've been drained as the article describes.
Fun read! Reminded me of when the company my father was working for merged with an American one (my family growing up in the UK), he brought back some t-shirts and a tennis hat/visor thing, all reading PMT!
"disastrous privatization of the economies of the Post-Soviet states that's lead to massive human suffering and political failure"

Communists around the world killed between 60 million and 100 million people (there is debate among scholars as to the exact number).[0] Stalin killed the "wealthy" peasants, enslaved Eastern Europe, and carted millions off to work camps in Siberia (where they would eventually die or become broken people). Pol Pot killed 2 million of his own people as a "social engineering" experiment (after studying Rousseau). Mao killed 45 million in 4 years. Can anyone say "massive human suffering and political failure"?

It's true that the Post-Soviet states have had mixed results, based upon which have privatized industry and enacted pro-freedom policies, and also based upon which people retained trace Enlightenment notions of the government's relationship to its citizenry. Estonia, for example, has flourished: "The foundation was laid in 1992 when Mart Laar, Estonia’s prime minister at the time, defibrillated the flat-lining economy. In less than two years his young government (average age: 35) gave Estonia a flat income-tax, free trade, sound money and privatisation. New businesses could be registered smoothly and without delays, an important spur for geeks lying in wait."[1] In Russia, a heavy-industrial and resource-based country (partly thanks to Stalin's 5-year-plans and massive capital theft from the Eastern Bloc countries), former Communist officials assumed ownership of state assets during the transition, and it predictably has not done as well.

Again, we can argue that liberalization has not occurred to a great extent in countries such as Russia, where a strongman still rules. (It's probably the case that places with massive natural resources have had greater struggles, as there was probably better opportunity for collusion by the political oligopoly. Less resource-rich countries have on-average fared better.) We can have an intelligent discussion comparing each of those countries based on the different policies they have enacted. However, to drop historical context of life (and death) during the Soviet era is completely ludicrous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/07/ec...
Yes, it's likely to change my behavior because the change is so visible it makes me think about it, and the best interaction is one I don't have to think about.

Twitter has asked developers to update their apps to reflect the change, if you don't your app will be blocked, so, there's that.
I'm surprised they didn't just rename it the Buick Lacrosse, after Canada's official sport.
I believe you missed my point as well. Government creates laws that are voted on (either through representation or directly with full democratic voting) which are then enforced through "approved" force (the executive branch, the police, etc). When government and police don't exist (or aren't doing their jobs) it forms a vacuum for vigilantes to exist in.

This isn't just theory. In countries where (for lack of a better work) the justice framework has broken down (such as Mexico) vigilantes fight against cartels due to police and the government taking no action (either due to fear, corruption, etc). A vigilante is only a vigilante until there is no local sanctioned governing and policing structure, at which point the vigilante becomes the police for all intents and purposes.

Does this cause chaos? I'm sure. At the same time, I'm sure locals would prefer someone protecting them versus no one.
I certainly don't go out of my way to find despairing articles, yet I come across them all the time.
Bombardier is currently being bailed out by the Quebec government to the tune of $1bn, so that's another (almost) D company that's not doing so great:

http://business.financialpost.com/investing/trading-desk/bom...
Care to expand on this?
I believe that Apache incorporates most of the optimizations today. However, unlike Flash, it is not event driven.
It just happens that I am from the generation that used to pay for software.

Also I kind of lost my FOSS enthusiasm, after learning the hard way if software is the product one sells, there is hardly any money to pay the bills, if the product isn't amendable to consulting and support.

We are far from the supermarket taking pull requests.
JS might be 100x as popular as Haskell, but it doesn't follow that a single JS book will be 100x as popular as a single Haskell book, because there are also 100x as many JS books.
Spoke to him on freenode. He is not interested in passing maintainer to anyone. Wants to hold on to the project and just merge other people PR's in case one day he is interested in this again.
You'll get complaints no matter what. 16 years ago I created a website for a large insurance company. When a customer signed up for policyholder functions it generated a random password for the person to use initially in the format of consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant then four numbers.

We got a nasty email from someone who got the password DUUD7573. They were insulted as a pre-operative transsexual that we were calling them a "dude" and that we must've known they were a transsexual.
The author is George Monbiot.

The article is cross posted on theguardian.com and monbiot.com.

The Guardian version says:

> ... Starbucks, PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz are examples. Don’t buy their products until you see results.

His personal webpage version says:

> ... Starbucks, PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz and Unilever are examples. Don’t buy their products until they change.

Wow.
The spec doc sort of mentions it: http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-jobs-and... and when you initially start up your environment you do http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-ecmascri... which ends with a NextJob call. So you have to go do a Job. There are various sorts of Jobs, but all of them end their processing steps with a NextJob call.

I guess the only issue is that what happens if you have unresolved promises when your Job queues go empty is implementation-defined, because an implementation is allowed to terminate when there are no Jobs. But if it doesn't terminate, resolving the Promise will enqueue a PromiseReactionJob. And I guess not actually call NextJob; that part is up to the implementation.
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> Instead an attempt is being made to have the Chinese certification be recognized by the FAA.

That has about as much chance of happening as a Chinese plane has of getting FAA certification.

Politics are wound up as tightly in this as a tapeworm.
I'm also from the UK and I've definitely heard it used as a derogatory term towards gay men or to try and put someone down by implying that they're gay.
So we are left with only Stazi?
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Hindsight is 20/20. Don't be so quick to judge other people, we all mess up from time to time.

Fortunately in my line of work "messing up" means pushing a bad commit, not dying at the bottom of a well.
HockeyBias.com runs on a static website generator for curated content I made called RegurgeALink. The page loads quickly which users love.
Is about 200/3700 words really 'focusing on' LoC? I didn't really feel like the OP stressed that point too hard. I'd also argue that less code is (generally) more maintainable.
Fokker is pretty much dead too.
Excellent read! What if the startup has a lot of these warning signs, but the team I work with is top-notch, absolutely killer folks?

Would you suggest slugging it out till we figure out our own startup idea? Should I stay if I believe in the team, but not the management?
I've moved to Swift as well. It's much better, for much the same reasons as stated in the article.

Particularly stronger typing is useful. Code that uses the Any object (or Object if you're in c#) tends to look horrible and have runtime errors, or it (what class it really is) has to occur to you as you're coding, which sadly doesn't happen 100% of the time for me.

I also find it's easier to not do [obj msg] everywhere. It just seems unnatural to have to go to the beginning of a token and put a [ in front. Much easier with a more ordinary syntax that's just obj.msg. ObjC had some of this, but mixing the two made it even weirder.

I did come across a compiler bug though, and that tends to take a long time to be sure of (don't want to write a bug report and find out it was your own code all along). I guess it's just a question of time before that sort of thing is stable.

Another pet peeve of mine is separating classes into .h and .m. I have to do this in c++ code as well, and I don't like it. Much better just to let the language take care of it for me. The interface is pretty clear anyway, so why separate it and have another file to keep consistent? I guess it's mainly a legacy issue.

One thing that needs to be done is XCode needs to be able to refactor Swift. Hopefully it's around the corner.
Or perhaps a functional international regime, pretty much the opposite role that the WTO and TPP fulfill.
Putting Leopold II to shame is hard. He ranks right up there with Hitler, Stalin and Mao in his willingness to cause misery. He's an extreme example of why these countries are not better off under colonialism (they were robbed of all their riches under colonialism), as well as a big part of why so many former colonies are now such a mess: our ancestors fucked them up and put power in the hands of the wrong people when we left.

Considering its history, Indonesia is actually not doing all that badly. I mean, yes, the leadership is corrupt and only really cares about Java, and the economic inequality is insane, but at least it's not at the Robert Mugabe/Idi Amin level. Not anymore, at least.
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tl;dr This is a series of interactive demonstrations showing off some of Firefox Developer Edition's developer console features, with emphasis on CSS animation.
Care to balance out the statistics of the alcohol deaths with the number of people in the United States who use alcohol? I did a quick search and came up with this via the NIH:

In 2013, 86.8 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime; 70.7 percent reported that they drank in the past year; 56.4 percent reported that they drank in the past month... In 2013, 24.6 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month

...and, via the 2010 US Census, there are 193,000,000 people between the ages of 18 and 64.

So, if we consider the math, many, many more people consume alcohol than heroin, and as such, 88,000 is a much smaller "fatal problem" than you frame it. So, not as widespread as alcoholism, but much more fatal for those affected. I stand by my assertion that there's no need to "over-state" the heroin problem in the US.
A "bummer" is a slang term for a gay man. I haven't heard that for about 30 years. I wouldn't have linked the two meanings until the controversy was mentioned.
I assume the author is referencing the subvocal recognition work from the Army and NASA.
I see a lot about reactjs. Am I able to built a multi state SPA with it? If so would this course be enough to get me started?
Brief summary:

The flash web server's distinguishing feature is that it uses multiple lightweight processes to do the blocking I/O required to read a file from the disk.

I think that their paper is flawed in some ways. They state that other web servers will block when doing disk I/O. But this is not true; you can easily read a file in and send it out over the network without any blocking at all, by using techniques like sendfile() (and related syscalls, sendpath(), splice() etc), or by mmapping files.

Several web servers used one or more of these techniques back in 1999. The paper doesn't even mention sendfile(), which has the added performance advantage that the file contents don't even have to be copied into the web server's process memory. It's hard to see how their approach is better.

I'm not going to claim their benchmarks are wrong, but it's very easy to optimize your own server while testing against a sub optimally configured competitor.

Edit: They tested on FreeBSD 2.2.6 - which lacked sendfile() - this may explain their results.
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At that rate you might as well request more data and use snowball.
Smaller code bases tend to make it easier to find things. Also I find in my old ObjC code there's a lot of lines to do one thing, often related to getting some object and casting it, then running some function on it. The kind of thing that should really be one action.
I dont even know where to start with this wall of text.

There's a lot of fat people self-persecuting to find a reason to be upset. More to the point, medical science still says that being fat lowers your life span, and you seem to be implying there is even an iota of truth to the Health At Every Size nonsense being spewed for fat justification and medical science denial. If I stood a room with 10 fat people selected at random 9 would have no willpower, and one MIGHT have a condition warranting their weight. In fact, being fat IS your fault even with a condition, because you are not being considerate of your personal needs, or overindulging in dopamine releasing delicious carbs because you're a fiend.

High carbs don't make you fat, just like low carbs don't make you fat. Avoiding carbs altogether eliminates many bad foods that make you fat, and as a by product causes you to lose weight. Weight loss is strictly calories in vs calories out, and always will be. Want to lose weight? Have some self control and eat less - its that simple. How do you explain the average weight of an Asian person being much lower than ours, and they consume a considerable amount of carbs?

You have a lot of sources to cite regarding carbs. A LOT. When I was bodybuilding I ate 400g of carbs a day - more than your average fat person, and felt like I had more energy to do things than when I was on a 100g of carbs a day cut.

I'm pretty sure you actually have no idea what you're talking about. Quit trying to rationalize being fat and do something about it.
House prices are sticky (no one wants to sell for a loss). Eventually they will fall though, as long-term unemployment rises (the effect is delayed until people burn through savings/severance packages and/or run out of EI).
> Under Glass-Steagall, the insurance business wouldn't have been exposed to those derivatives.

Glass-Steagall was a law that regulated banks, i.e. financial institutions that accepted deposits. AIG would never have been covered by Glass-Steagall.

This is one reason I find the topic annoying: people ascribe all sorts of effects to Glass-Steagall that it did not actually do.
I think we have an innate fear of losing things forever and that's why we sometimes let information/advice overload inundate us - we're afraid that if we don't read that blog post, that we're going to miss out on a life hack and never see it again.

I don't really have a set way I cut out the noise - but I definitely try to in as many ways as I can. It helps me to look at it as a fear of loss/fear of missing things and when I make note of that fear - I can ignore the noise more easily.
They didn't care. Basically, the threat was they'd post something negative regardless. If we posted anything, we'd get a negative review.
Isn't that idea just because we don't find or recognize remnants of burial practices from cultures that did allow predators to consume the bodies?
DASA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Aerospace_AG
People think they will compete with Boeing and Airbus internationally but they are not, at least not initially. They mainly aim at China's domestic market which has long term high growth as more people becoming wealthier and use air flight as a mode of transportation. Some estimate that the demand for new planes goes into thousands in the near future. It's better to develop and buy from a domestic manufacturer than sending the money oversea. In some sense they are competing with Boeing and Airbus for the China's and the other emerging markets.
Hovering is handled via the HTML/DOM event loop, since it needs to be coordinated with mouseover events.

Animations, though, do need to be worked into this somehow. And they need to be able to run on a completely independent event loop to some extent so you can do animations on the compositor thread, not the DOM thread.
Same anti-constitutional way the TSA does every day?

BTW the FBI has never, ever, found themselves in the wrong after shooting someone, apparently they are perfect, infallible human beings.

Not for decades. Because trust them, only they investigate themselves.
Good point, there's a lot more to the article than that.

Unfortunately, it's the only objective measure offered.

Where are the defect rates? Coverage in unit tests? Time to delivery? User satisfaction measures?
Reminds me of the reaction to Apple's naming of the iPad. Like, "My Tampon?" Ha-Ha-Ha. Big huge deal. Surely they'll rename it. What a horrible name.

But now it doesn't occur to anyone to make that association.
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Talk about massive generalizations.