skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but to my ear, that phrase comes across as crass and
> off-putting in a professional context

That's an interesting observation. I'll think about different phrasing for a non-UK audience in the future. I doubt I would have used it in a professional context, but I guess I don't really think of HN as a professional context, or I doubt I'd have made a reference to Soviet invasion either...

However, I frequently hear "it's all gone tits up" in all sorts of semi-professional contexts in the UK, both in and out of tech.
This is a significant plot point in the book Cryptonomicon.
Shakespearean Sonnet to Functional Programming
Quite.

Ultimately lots of disagreements have this cyclic structure. Like people accusing those who call for tolerance of being intolerant of intolerance. Or those who oppose science by accusing scientists of not doing science right. Or those telling people to think for themselves, and find out the truth (from the sources they deem to be correct). Or people who claim that those campaigning against racism are the real racists for making everything about race. There's probably some deep point, but I can't be bothered to think about it. It's easier to just be enraged at how stupid people are. Those stupid f*ers who can't even have a civil discussion!
>I'd certainly consider a central bank that deliberately pumps and dumps the economy around it to be morally wrong.

OK, so it sounds like this isn't really a debate anymore. This has the same coordination problem that the climate scientists "making it up" would have. If you understand how the system works, there already are checks and balances on that.

We have democratic oversight of the financial industry, as it is regulated in the way an elected government has chosen to regulate it. You're throwing out a lot of buzzwords but nothing that actually points to a solution.

For example, "an international clampdown on corporate tax avoidance." Well, that's fine, but you seem to be suggesting implicitly that there is a very clear moral case that corporations should always pay domestic taxes on income earned abroad... which most countries actually don't do. So that's why some companies invert. But is there anything morally wrong about this? I don't actually know and you probably don't either.

Also, you seem to be suggesting that stable, long-term businesses are capital constrained, which just makes it incredibly clear to me you don't actually look at data and see what those companies are doing from a capital allocation perspective. Those are the types of businesses that literally have too much cash to know what to do with, other than, you know, shore up their balance sheets after this really bad balance sheet recession we just had.
its not the connector, I have a suspicion Zero is 2 layer pcb
Privacy policies – what, how, and why
Well, the article is from Reuters and they are in the entertainment business, not the facts business.
TL;DR - just watch [4]

The internet has a serious problem with fame.

Before the internet, fame was usually something that required an investment in media access. Everybody knows about the big Hollywood movie because they paid for a lot of advertising/etc. A low-budget film could potentially be more popular if people knew about it, but the meager (or nonexistent) advertising budget usually guaranteed it would never[1] become famous.

This is what the internet changed. It's fundamental power is that anybody can publish because the network doesn't differentiate between "publishing" hosts and "consumer" hosts. All peers are supposed[2] to be equal in capability. The internet is media access. What used to require significant investment of time and/or money now happens to people regularly when they post something casually on the internet: they can become famous.

Unfortunately, our social norms are still adapting to this change. As this article shows, trivial posts are incorrectly interpreted and the author ends up wading through flames and insults. This is because what started as a casual post is now addressing an audience.

For a very good explanation of this type of change-in-relationship, I suggest watching "This is Phil Fish"[4]. As this is HN, many of you probably know the drama involving Phil Fish and his game "Fez", but tht doesn't matter because this video is about everybody who is not Phil Fish: the audience that supplies the projection, tokenism, and hatred that fuels the media when they want cheap hits/impressions.

--

[1] I am ignoring the phenomena of some movies gaining a cult following a long time after their initial release for simplicity and questionable relevance (time).

[2] NAT has destroyed a lot of this equality, creating a situation where you have to get the permission of a 3rd party (port forwarding at the router, some centralized server, etc). If we allow this digital imprimatur[3] to continue to exist, then the internet has truly reverted back to "TV".

[3] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w
If you really insist on having an enum for your directions, what you could do is something like this: (assuming 2s complement and TRUE being ~0)

: DIREQ DIRECTION @ = ;
: DELTA DIREQ SWAP DIREQ NEGATE + ;
: MOVE-SNAKE-HEAD
LEFT RIGHT DELTA SNAKE-X-HEAD +!
UP DOWN DELTA SNAKE-Y-HEAD +! ;

It's an open question whether this approach is any better but I think it looks a bit more Forthlike, insofar as I have any grasp of what that is.

I think having offsets would make more sense - e.g., suppose your playfield is 80 units wide, then you'd have left and right as -1 and +1, and up and down as -80 and +80 (which I assume is what you mean).
Oh, my point was that countries liberal at one point in time may close down later. The original poster was trying to say that conservative -> liberal is the trend of history. I was trying to argue that the back-edge is also possible, and witnessed often in history. Even for long-term trends, the general direction seems not all that clear.
Scientists get first glimpse of black hole eating star,ejecting high-speed flare
Make sure its 100% wool for starters. Don't get ripped off by the plastic stuff.

Get a 100% wool suit that you think feels quality. Make sure it fits you, the take it to a tailor to get it fitted.
Gear VR Offers a Preview of Virtual Reality in the Home
Ideally we would have drastically more billionaires, so long as they're produced out of economic expansion.

The rise of the plentiful billionaire has coincided with lower global inequality, radically lower infant mortality, less war, far greater standards of living globally, increasingly plentiful food and scarcity of famines, increased life expectancy, higher real median incomes, etc.

Humanity has never had it better, not even remotely close in fact.
Or it is not.
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/peak-car-us-driving-a...
(Hardware has 'soft partitions' that manifest as pipeline stalls.)

My point was merely that H/W people had to confront this issue before us.
Until "sf-editor" comes around and hijacks their project... http://www.itworld.com/article/2927973/linux/is-sourceforge-...

SF is on life-support, it survives only thanks to shady tactics like this and "repackaging" popular installers with adware. If you have a project on SF and don't like github, move to Bitbucket or some other provider but please please move off SF for good.
Watch this Czech pirate's YouTube video or he'll get a huge fine
Spare us he was just pointing out marincounty's mistake really.
> Gp was talking about the pop-up menu you get when you tap and hold a link.

So am I—that's exactly what I used and tested, on my current phone.
From dictatorship to democracy: The road less travelled
Interesting. Personally I have a hard time seeing how anything that requires separate templates as being better than React. I never want to go back to that. There's hardly a need to query elements. The only time one does is when using non-react libraries or doing some animation logic. And so there's no state in the HTML, and no need to render HTML elements that aren't visible. Virtual DOM seems ok except I find looking at JSX to be much easier on the eyes than JavaScript.
Why scientists can't agree on the best diet.
This is cool, did you follow a guide to set it up, or just wing it?
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As you should at $25/gallon [1]: 5x the price of Mott's for example.

1: http://store.martinellis.com/products/jaj128.shtml
We still use salt to configure our docker hosts... I'm not sure how docker can ever be a replacement to things that operate at a lower abstraction level, because you still need to install docker.

Does anyone have any ideas here? Has anyone ventured down this path?
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 and would like to buy a digital scale, and somehow tweak it so that it can sync my weight with my myfitnesspal account anytime I weigh myself, how do you suggest I get started with this? I don't have much of an electronics background.
It sounds very disruptive.
Providing executable packages is a terrible practice anyway and should be discouraged. It reinforces the view that it's OK to execute random untrusted programs just to get a document, the most popular assumption abused by malware developers.
balsamiq.

Or my favourite, pen and paper.
Applications aside from jewelry?
Which ones were the bankrupt, bad banks? Did anybody actually know at the time? No, they didn't, and they still don't have a great way of knowing that. Although if you have any ideas they are all ears.

On siphoning - from experience, there's much more of a continuum than you think. You don't have a major actor supporting banks, you have a major actor supporting the economy by attempting to set a rate that does, in fact, have to be set (it's mechanically how these things work), by somebody. All they're doing is trying to follow the natural rate of interest, which is influenced by demand and demographics more than anything (see: Global Savings Glut; Secular Stagnation Hypothesis). So if that benefits the banks, it's only a side effect of the economy not collapsing. The banks are how we, as a society, allocate resources to each other. Why do you want that wiped out, and replaced by some post-crash phantom example? An economic crash in a nuclear age might not yield the companies you're hoping for.

No, I don't need correction on who is wealthy. I'm talking about the UHNWI with net worth over $50 million, who still would be making more money if rates were higher, hence why they advocate for this.

You do wholesale buy shitty securities from rubbish banks because the alternative is worse. Please point me to an economic collapse in the modern age where people were left off better for it, or where business conditions actually improved?

Furthermore, you're not distinguishing demand-driven recessions from supply-side ones. We hadn't had a recession of this nature since the Great Depression.

If you read what Bernanke openly puts on the internet about his decision making, his legacy way more depends on:

1. Understanding and anticipating the drivers of the natural rate of interest, including demand and the effects on demand of financial system shocks

2. Keeping the Fed Funds Rate as close to their estimate of the Natural Rate as possible.

That's what his legacy depends on. If that calls for lower rates now, fine.
I'm waiting for someone to write about the incredible privacy that we are going to have to relinquish when municipalities have their own fleets of self-driving cars and they are the only way to get around. But nobody wants to talk about it yet.
who argued that defaulting was immoral? My point was entirely that default is necessary, healthy, and should have been allowed to happen.
This point is idiotic. If the people who don't think that media sharing is a crime actually organized it would cease to be a crime.

Law is written by a privileged few but is enacted by the everyday people who choose whether to obey and enforce it based on their conscience and incentives.
I hear more people complain about Westboro Babtist Church than I hear Westboro Babtist Church complain about anything.

That doesn't mean Westboro Babtist Church is not a problem. It just means the majority is sane.
"Irony" aside it's still an educational article for those of us that haven't seen this spelled out so clearly before.
Unless it can deal with snapshots, it's not particularly useful... but if it could, it would absolutely be yet-another-killer-feature for the gem that is 7zip.
From the link:

> COMER and Galati are demanding that the government require the BoC to lend money interest-free to the Canadian Government in accordance with Canadian law

In the US, the Fed buys bonds and the Treasury pays interest on them. However the Fed returns profits to the Treasury, so these bonds are effectively interest-free. Is it different in Canada? What does the BoC do with its profits?
Well... not while eating a healthy diet.

Total dissolved solids must be under 500mg/L in US drinking water supplies, and the highly regarded NYC water system delivers water with less than 50mg/L of total dissolved solids. Most of that is sodium chloride, calcium chloride and magnesium sulfate, classic tasty salts... all of which are readily available in foods.

See http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstate13.pdf for the 2013 water quality report; see table 1.

If you got distilled water instead, you'd notice the taste, but there wouldn't be a health problem.
Or, more specifically, the cost of gasoline has gone down.
Is embedded systems stuff dead as well, or just the hardcore IC/analog stuff
23andpoo

i will be taking meetings to discuss funding now. thank you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10633576
Do you feel the same way about software devs who work for food delivery/laundry service startups and the like? Writing clickbait is no better or worse than "changing the world" one delivery at a time. Everyone's just chasing easy money.
You're not disagreeing with me. You're just saying that Twitter's propensity to allow people to advertise themselves to you happened to work.
Fractal – The new interface for everything
A blender still isn't that much better than juicing as you've already done a lot of the breakdown work that your digestive system does allowing for more absorption, which in and of itself isn't too bad.

For the most part, once you have enough protein in your diet, calories are calories. If you're predisposed to diabetes you're better off getting those calories from low glycemic sources. That doesn't make it easy to avoid too much of the good^Wbad stuff. However, you should also avoid getting more than 100g of sugar a day, though I try to stay under 100g of net carbs/day.
How to Convert 2D Video to 3D Video
"You wouldn't teach someone a recipe you learned from a book."
Better economy, cheaper gasoline, but most importantly... numbers that weren't adjusted for population growth.
How many of those are Uber drivers I wonder... ;)
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I concede that it's very unlikely to taste the difference between a GMO/non-GMO tomato.

But are you okay with Montsanto's practices?

There's good science that basically explains that their business model is not doing the best for the planet or the people living in it. It is, indeed reducing bio-diversity as far as I know. Also, their practices are super shady, having lived in latam all my life, I saw the way they got into several countries there and it's disgusting.
It's definitely true that finely ground flour digests faster (more surface area, less breakdown needed, etc.). Effect probably exists for apples too.
Magic: The Gathering: Diamonds in the Rough
Copyright is a great idea. The majority can think whatever they want and be wrong.

Laws aren't enforced by everyday people. They're enforced by, wait for it, law enforcement agencies.

We, the United States, live in a republic. If the majority of people think something it doesn't actually matter. The great thing about a republic is everyday Joe doesn't write the law. Nor should he. Because Joe isn't very smart.
I'd 86 the decision to purchase your software :-)
People love these 3D printed gun stories... but they don't realize that a drill press and a metal file are really all you need, and they make a better gun too...
Being Anti-GMO doesn't make someone on the wrong side of science.

The dangers of GMO from a economic perspective are worthy of worry on their own. If you haven't seen Food Inc, then I would recommend that as a starting point to learn how dangerous the monopolisation of the food industry can be to society. The farmers in Peru want to protect their existing biodiversity, something North America has lost thanks to Monsanto, where you cannot legally grow a heirloom corn crop without paying patent fees to monsanto because of the inevitable wind-born cross pollination, thereby violating monsanto patent rights.
There's no such thing as "take out all the oxygen". You can take a bunch, but after a point it get's hard and expensive to keep reducing oxygen concentrations to super low (not zero) levels.
The grandparent wasn't asserting media conglomerates are actually failing in any way that matters. Still, the question about the validity of these scare-o-mercials remains. Somewhere deep in these corporations there are obviously people who think "yeah, let's portray ourselves as the evil empire, sounds good to me!".

Doesn't that raise questions about the target audience, or at least about the perception of what the target audience looks like? When I choose to make a commercial that portrays my company in the most sinister way possible, on purpose, I have to weigh the image loss from that against the effectiveness of the scare.

> Yet Windows remains king of the desktop, because there is no grassroots movement with any momentum to pressure OEM pc vendors that sell hardware in store to adopt anything else

I'm not sure that's true anymore. It certainly was, in the past. I'm personally not a Windows user, but it seems to me that the foothold Windows has in different user groups is absolutely monumental, so churning out hardware with anything else pre-installed would encounter stiff resistance from the consumer side. That same loyalty does not exist for entertainment companies.
Whole, chewed fruit is much slower/evenly absorbed than sauced/pureed fruit... Once pureed, it's closer to juice.
+1
Yep a closed blockchain could provide almost instant clearinghouse functionality while ensuring that the funds are both available and were delivered. Strip that on top of existing banking infrastructure like swiftnet and you get a very lucrative system for banks which reduces quite a bit of risk on pretty much every domain involved in most transactions.
Meh. In the age of the internet, the BBFC is a relic from a bygone age. Trolling them is like throwing stones at the window of the old biddy with "no ball games" signs near her house.

In fact, I would leave them well alone, just in case some bright spark in Parliament decides it's a good model for the internet.
The affects of a "high" feeling, or rush is somewhat exaggerated, what it does to your blood glucose levels, and what that does to your body is well documented.
It's amazing how eager some people are to call something, anything, WWIII. But it's not doing it for me anymore, I'm beyond the shock value. Therefore I hereby suggest that we consider WWIII as the war that never materialized, and close the book altogether. Let's aim for World Peace I instead.
A friend of mine hired developers in Romania a few years ago and still uses the same team. This is just one data point, but they were really nice to work with (I helped my friend for a while).

Similar experiences working with teams in Vietnam and India, BTW. Teaming with developers in lower cost of living tax jurisdictions can make sense, depending on how tightly coupled dev tasks are. Even with time zone inconveniences, it can also be a lot of fun working with people remotely who are in different countries.
I think one of the reasons is that using a drill press and a metal file require some skill whereas it takes much less skill to download a design and hit 'print'. Even so the quality of low cost 3D printer printed objects is such that you'll definitely need that file (and maybe even that drill press) so from that point of view not much has been gained.

Substituting plastic for metal in a gun is a great way to lose a couple of fingers or an eyeball too.
From your experience, is there one certain mid-price brand that stands out amongst the non flavor pack varieties?
As I've studied the history of the early first generation computers, this problem became increasingly clear. Computers were held back by the need for a main memory that was reasonably fast, reliable and affordable at the size needed. Magnetic core was a godsend. Some of the first computers I used had core memories and I have sometimes said to younger coworkers that I got into computers when individual bits were big enough to see.

Others have mentioned that with Williams tubes, you could actually see the memory. That wasn't always the case, as not all Williams tubes had phosphor faces. A tube with a phosphor face was sometimes wired in parallel with the Williams tube to provide a visible copy of the data. The Wikipedia article on Williams tubes explains this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
I think the Feds actions made sense in the early crisis days after Lehman's collapse and AIG. Liquidity needed to be injected into the system.

The QE stuff carried on far too long with no consequence to the banks.

If banking is such an awful business, let the investment houses and insurance companies spin off.
My father grew up on an orange grove in Lebanon and ate lots of citrus fruit and drank a good amount of juice as a child . Living in the New Jersey for the majority of his adult life he always said that the frozen concentrate orange juice tastes the best; and it looked like orange juice . He always disliked the bottled juice , saying it didn't taste right to him, and it was too damn expensive. As I grew up I noticed that Tropcana and Minute Maid cartons gave me horrible indigestion, so I gave up on orange juice . I told my dad about this and he reminded me of two things one this is what you get when a large company makes food , people in suits with MBAs tell chemical engineers to make me a more profitable product . Two don't drink orange juice, stick to coffee , it has caffeine. Ymmv
It used to be called a "hobby", but now it's a "side project"?
H2O is acidic, producing a significant concentration of H+ ions (arguably, the strongest reducing agent) at a concentration of 7 pH, or equivalently, 10^16 ions per liter of water!
World Peace I might be attainable but it will require a total overhaul of the various large bodies (NATO, UN and so on) and a re-arranging of the world stage in a way that would upset a large number of very profitable apple-carts.

I consider it highly unlikely. What I would consider even more unlikely, given the nature of mankind, that it would last longer than a couple of weeks.

In case anybody wonders about the image: Operation Upshot-Knothole
I'm pretty sure most swatters are kids with limited tech knowledge.
I wonder how many of those calls were even made with voip rather than a burner phone and even that is questionable since many of them were caught shortly after.