skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am European.
I think that you are right about the fact we expect to rely on government support more (there are civilian groups for emergency, but when they "mobilize" they report and take orders from government representatives, at least in my country).

What I find a bit odd is the fact that you seem to imply that "having access to firearms" is really the main priority.
Ok, there is a flood and we are forced to take refuge on the roof of our houses.

When (if) someone comes to rescue us do we go with them because they have rifles, or because they have a boat, food, first aid, and a plan about how and where to take us until the flood subsides?
So here's the thing -- vendors of DVDs used to constrain who could view (and when) the various cuts of their product based on where the viewers (or rather, purchasers) were located.

Someone [1] worked around this and subsequently the idea of region-locked DVD discs & players became a historical footnote.

Why is the same industry evidently repeating the same mistake?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen
> And branded clothes - that's literally making money on people's vanity.

For people without aesthetical education, may be. Fashion viewed as "stupid people getting skewed out of money for no reason" is as informed as non-programmers asking "why is hot tech from 10 years ago suddenly obsolete now".

Once you spend enough time dealing with bugs introduced by mutable state, you understand what's so good about languages where immutability is default, and why it's worth it to invest to learn and switch. Once you spend enough time on activities which sharpen your visual aesthetic sense, you see a clear difference between mainstream bland models from H&M and Topshop on hand and small designer shops on another and understand why it's worth to spend more on them.
If you're of this opinion, you should be glad when people don't use them. This can be your competitive advantage.
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Explaining Khan Academy's patent application for A/B testing in education
But who calls it the protocol? Let's pretend this fork happens. Someone goes to bitcoin.org and download the software called bitcoin and runs it, and they won't be using that protocol.
Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of configurability?
I'm looking for a project management tool that would allow us to have custom workflows, custom fields, workflow triggers + web hooks and some REST api.

We want to automate couple of processes we run at the company. JIRA is so complex and bloated and I wonder if there's anything competitive on the market.
When Netflix does it, during high viewing hours I've seen reports claiming that they account for 30% of all US internet traffic. It's still a very high bandwidth operation.

The equivalent of a CDN where each ISP has a box receiving the broadcast so that all of their local customers don't have to stream direct from ESPN will make it more tolerable, but the big hit will be on people trying to do it from cell networks.

When Netflix does it they are working with pre-optimized content. They get to prepare all of the video to stream in advance, optimize it for each screen size, transfer each variant it down to each ISP and then turn it on when it's ready. With a live feed you've got to do all that on the fly to each ISP appliance that you've got in place.

I'm sure it can be done, somehow, but I have serious concerns about the technological cost of scaling that for a huge audience. Just as a comparison here, the college football title game that just happened garnered about 29 million viewers on TV and about 800,000 streaming with WatchESPN. That was the most streaming traffic ESPN had ever had.
Your `.git` directory would become huge pretty quickly and you would have plenty of problems with people commenting on issues without having a repo up-to-date. How would you handle conflicts in that case?
>This is same mistake like moving from Python 2 to 3.

At least you're forward-thinking.
what's the difference with lobste.rs ?
"The real image formats took effort and are mature. This is just a more compact, less useful hacked out version of netpbm etc."

That seems less like "criticism" and more like "a summary of the blog post". (Sorry, I have to admit I'm developing a pet peeve around people echoing back things the original author already said but acting like it's a new criticism.)
Please have a look at Netflix' blog post about this issue [1]

Given the fact that they offer this little information, I think we have the right to complain. For example, this post gives no clue about what the true hurdles are in getting better licensing deals, and in what timeframe they will be resolved.

[1] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/evolving-proxy-det...
I would agree with this. I am writing C++03 at work due to lame compilers I am forced to use on Windows, and I really miss little things like std::atomic.

Lambdas would mean I could bin all those structs with bool operator()() for find_if that I have to litter my code with.
I would be very surprised if some non-trivial C code written for x86 compiles and runs unmodified on exotic platforms. Besides, I don't want to be hold back by people wishing to run code on historical or experimental systems.
That only applies if you change the country your account is linked to (since for some reason in 2016 most companies have yet not figured out people move...), but all you need is a valid payment method for the country you wish to use and you can use that account anywhere you want
When I first noticed the headline on the HN wall, I thought it was a show-and-tell for new smart watch software.

OP, for some reason I'm getting verification errors when trying to load the site. My office has some rather aggressive firewall policies, but I might look at the SSL cert.
> the thing is that "how do you escape a flarb" would be closed on SO for being trivial

I don't think this is true. I know I look up stuff all the time that's one to 5 lines of code. I could go dig up examples. How about "how do you remove the margin from an LI element" Or how do you un-escape a URL. How do you iterate over a XXX in language YYY. All of those are on SO, all are popular, all are 1-3 lines.

Even a 10 line answer though. "How do you make an XHR request" is at most 10 lines and doesn't seem like it deserves attribution.

Do you attribute every pattern you've read in some book? Every code snippet from MDN or MSDN or a manual? How about blog posts on digital ocean or meteor.com (I mention those because I've been reading those recently)

I can't put my finger on why but attribution for a few lines of code on SO seems anti-productive, anti-cooperation, anti-sharing
Why boredom is anything but boring
She didn't "go for" a violent criminal. She married a man, without knowing he had issues.
For SIMD you can use _mm<width>_shuffle_epi8 to swap endianness in a single cycle.
The baseband doesn't have full control over phone systems.
Thanks for the feedback! It looks like the name was not optimally chosen based on the feedback in this thread, so I may need to address that. If the site or FB/twitter-feeds gains more regular users than myself I'll definitely look into it.
I wonder if dropping locality as a fundamental property and considering it as an emerging property instead, might make it possible to describe what happens inside an black hole?

Because with the conventional views on locality, black holes are singularities in space and since our laws of physics depend on location, they are not defined in black holes where location itself is not defined.
When locality is a property which might or might not emerge based on a physical context and some deeper physical laws, it should still be possible to describe the laws of physics inside a black hole because they don't depend on location anymore.
The OS can't lie because it is unable to generate the same keys the hardware uses. Without those keys, the enclave can't decrypt whatever sensitive data it sealed earlier.
osswatch is indeed a better name, OS is like the default name for operating system.

the font is too small under that background color for my taste, maybe I'm too used to hacknews's settings these days.
Wikipedians are hosting free events across the world for "Wikipedia Day" this weekend.

* San Francisco (Saturday): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco...

* New York City (Saturday): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia...

* Boston (Saturday): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Boston

* Bangalore (Sunday): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Bangalor...

* London (Sunday): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London/101

* Portland, Seattle, Vancouver (Saturday, meet Ward Cunnigham!): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/West_Coa...

New York will feature a talk about Wikidata, how to query it with SPARQL, and how we are integrating it with Wikipedia and pushing forward the Semantic Web. Other NYC talks include things like "Git-flow approach to collaborative editing", "Copyright and plot summaries", and "Automated prevention of spam, vandalism and abuse". We will be linking up with San Francisco and likely some other cities for a global teleconference at 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET (21:00 UTC).

If you're interested, sign up and stop by!
I'll try to cover both of your posts - government stimulates lending by lowering interest rates for example. This was caused by general initiative of that government to get cheap loans to people, and it was effective. I am not aware of any more direct pressure to the lenders, which doesn't mean there wasn't some.

Derivates being another topic - just to topic of people getting loans beyond their means, overall it's the same crysis topic, and I think we agree that there is no good justification from banks for this part.

Why banks were saved - apart from dirty business of bribery and lobbying which is sad daily part of political existence, there is part about something along: john doe has some money in the bank, this bank goes bust, and he loses it all. There is a chance of getting some % of it in future in settlements, but nothing guaranteed. In that situation, no politician would willingly go there if they can avoid it. It's too easy to start pointing on them, and everybody takes it badly if they lose money because of somebody else's mistake.

What happened in the banks - bonuses, based only on last year's performance. Source of a good deal of evil roaming banking (and trading too). It means many pushing for short-term gains, not caring about broader or longer effects. People are clever, they want to maximize their own gain within boundaries set, and these things are set like this. Nobody works in banking for the passion for the job, everybody is in for the money involved, and an occasional feel of some power/influence (however pathetic this is, some people are wired like that).
If they're informing you of it, I'd assume it's more likely to be passive WiFi tracking.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8752580
http://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/...
Why would you even respond to a bug report that was "it doesn't work."

Such a vague report tells you all you need to know about whether it's going to be worth your time trying to work with the person who submitted it. Close it immediately as non-actionable.
City is "special". While there are reasons to be concerned about surveillance elsewhere in the UK too, City has its own police force, and surveillance levels that makes even the rest of London seem like total anarchy.

In the rest of London there are certainly other buildings that are covered by extensive government surveillance, but most of the surveillance in London - and the rest of the UK - is privately owned, and rarely more than passively recording. The level of street level monitoring in the UK is often vastly exaggerated - police often can't be bothered even trying to check CCTV because getting hold of footage is a lot of effort and rarely is of much help.

GCHQ surveillance of networks is another matter.
Must all products be made for monetization?
I have been wondering why the U.S. seems to have moved so far from the trust-busting days of Teddy Roosevelt, and why it now seems so permissive towards monopolistic practices. This helps explain it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox
This feels ungrammatical to me. I think "I find it perfectly cromulent." feels more correct.

(I only comment because I'm amused to find I've heard "cromulent" used as a "real word" enough that my brain has intuited rules for its usage.)
> That money can perverse moral incentives

This isn't something newly discovered, I hope.
> Pepper spray. An excellent, temporarily incapacitating weapon - very difficult to resist and capable of buying you just enough time to escape. Works quickly and reliably at distances up to perhaps 10 feet; can also stop some animal attacks. Usually not heavily regulated, making it easy to obtain and carry even in places that frown upon other forms of armed self-defense.

This is not good advice everywhere. Here in the UK pepper spray is regulated by the same law as firearms.
old proposal != old license. Previously, all content was licensed under CC-BY-SA (the "BY" part means "attribution required" and "SA" is share-alike, essentially a copyleft that's incompatible even with the GPL). They then suggested "MIT but without the attribution" which didn't go down well with some people, so now they're suggesting "MIT but you don't need to paste the license into the code", meaning that the code is MIT licensed but it's enough if you put the URL of the stackoverflow answer in a comment.

The new license (basically MIT) is a lot more permissive than the old one (CC-BY-SA), which was compatible with virtually no open source license and just doesn't make a lot of sense for code.
> They're chasing some other goal...whatever it is.

Maybe putting most of their efforts into Atom and Electron?
That's a great point; thanks for the context.
Good luck separating the signal from the noise of people disappearing into the Tube / buildings / running out of battery.
Centralized State Design Patterns
> I seriously don't know how Linkedin found all these people

By going through everything in mailbox? I think it is quite scary - Linkedin asks people for their email password and they type it in, like something obviously required for that site to work.
I don't deny that there are useful features in C++11/14 (though I find "modern C++" an irksome marketing trick by people peddling a disgusting programming language; it was called "modern" since at least the early 2000s and it was disgusting then.) Of course I'd rather iterate over std::map with a range for loop than use the C++98 way, and as to lambdas - while I find them way too awkward and limited compared to closures without the sharp edges (and with garbage collection), and a ton of "modern C++ code" went batshit insane in its extent of unnecessary reliance on lambdas, lambdas remain much more practical than the alternatives when doing things like some sort of a parallel_for. But then it's hard to find a language whose version X+1 adds nothing useful to version X.

Is C++14 a better language than C++98? It's hard to tell (I think it is - I think C++ is worse than C, but having gotten to C++98, perhaps it helps more than hurts to add all that other shit), but it's not an interesting question anyway because the upgrade is easy enough and it's worth it for most people for their specific reasons, so C++98 will die out.

But then it's not like Google aren't upgrading to the latest C++ standard, they're just doing it slowly AFAIK.
Startups, Failures and 7 Painful Lessons Learned in 2015
To be fair, all words are made up. Their usage is what makes them relevant.
> to avoid using C where superior alternatives exist is something I agree with.

Who wouldn't?
I'll be honest, I had no idea powershell could be used to build GUIs! I found it impressive enough just on its CLI merits.
I really don't have time to make this, but I am going to make a wish and hope either someone else runs with it, or points me to it. I'd love to have a subscription service where I put in $X/month, lets me select from a few priorities and maybe check off things I already have, and start shipping sensible supplies to me on a schedule.

(I googled around and saw http://www.myapocabox.com/ , but to my mind that's more parlor trick or even just something you sorta do for fun if you're in that culture. I'm talking something more like where you put in $X/month, and unless you say you already have one, it starts you off with basic first aid, moves to other basics, maybe throws some long-term food supplies in after a few months, etc. Something meant just to make you robust against reasonable disasters moreso than something to help you recarve civilization out of the nearest copse of trees.)

It's important and useful to be robust against real issues like power loss for a week (it's happened) or other such basics, but it's hard to keep a list yourself and expensive enough if you try to prep for it all at once that it inhibits doing it.
List of verification and synthesis tools focused on C and C++
Only republican voters can stop Trump now
Laughed so hard. Joke is one of my friend (a girl I won't name!) answered to a UPS guy wearing only a towel (she quickly got out of shower). When she took that package, her towel fell. 9 months or so later, she got a baby boy. Imagine that! :P
Are there any large publicly available archives of usenet one can download?

I need it for an information retrieval research project. I am aware of gmane.org, but do not think they allow bulk download.
Not clear. Who am "I" and what is my networking and what i am integrating it with? Am i a Docker user? Am I setting up a network of a bunch of containers? Or building some software package that extends docker?
...and "watch" means a wearable device for keeping track of time.
AFAIK Popcorn Time uses torrents, it'll not be a problem for OP but in other countries (such as Germany, I think) it can and will cause you legal problems and fines for pirating content.

At least with proxies/VPNs + Netflix you'd not trigger those kind of penalties.
Patients are denied access to their own records in the name of HIPAA. During a recent medical crisis this happened to me. No amount of threatening or cajoling would get them to release my images to my designated 2nd opinion.
Added Value of my social network
How can I increase the added value of my LinkedIn network? I wish I could get more innovative and positive contributions from my network.
You could put the code portions of your answer in a gist/pastebin/whatever containing a license and link to that from your answer text. Your answer text would then be CC-BY-SA, but you could license your code under GPLv3 or whatever license you fancy.
A static analyzer for a memory-safe subset of C++? That sounds cool. Has anyone downloaded it and tried to break it?
> If you think visa,MasterCard and PayPal do shit all you are probably super ignorant of the payments space.

I'd love to hear what incredible value Visa adds to my purchases over Bitcoin (remember, rewards and fraud protection are offered by the issuer, not the card network)

> If it ever got popular the costs would go back to where they are with traditional services only with the addition of an extra currency exchange in the middle.

No, if it ever got popular Citi and Goldman would have arbitrage bots running on every exchange and they don't pay retail for fiat FX or transfers. Joe Blow exchanging $10 would finally get a better rate than BigCo exchanging $1 million, just as simple economics would have you expect (the smaller the order, the smaller the slippage).

> As for the discounts same thing it only works while it's rarely used and it continues to work because it is.

The merchant is just passing on his payment processing savings so there's no reason this wouldn't work indefinitely (there's already evidence consumers like it judging by the number of gas stations in the US with cash discounts)
Your post made me happy :) So thanks!
Are the cities always supposed to be on different continents? Because Perm, Russia and it's "twin" Homyel, Belarus are both in Europe.
Once you start talking about weeks, drinking water is easy. A relatively clean source, a big pot and a fire are all you need.

It's also easier to move around an empty several gallon pot (or just break into a house and grab one) than it is to move around hundreds of gallons of water (a short supply for several people).

(re fire, if you build a stash, you really want there to be trees around, and pretty good annual precipitation)
Not much of a bounce
Serious?

SWIM is interested
When I read the Google coding standard I realized I never want to work there. Microsoft on the other hand seems to get cpp. Maybe because herb Sutter has managed to change the culture from the inside. Anyone remember how awful vc6 was back in the day? MS has come a long way.

Edit: It seems the standards have changed. It doesn't seem so bad now. They cant use exceptions but they can use some of boost cpp11 and templates. So maybe working at google ain't that bad.
It is possible that Netflix will just let it be. I am not sure as how the terms and agreement going, but the copy-right holder might only provide access to their content within certain region, so if you are out of that region, you cannot access it, even you are member of Netflix.

It is just my speculation, but as consider the same practice is actually enforced before, e.g. DVD region codes.
ITs up to you.

I'm happy with many copies of my core files that I desperately need (photos and or stuff that gets me money)

I have my ZFS box, which is backed up to a remote disk miles away. My time machine has a few local copies too.

Just be ware, snapshots are not the same as a full backup.

They are brilliant, but not a backup.