skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[Would they have learned that lesson without making that mistake? Are you even sure they really wouldn't do the same again?]

It's hard to say. However, I think one really learns the value of money after having been in the work force for a while. I think that experience may have had a positive impact on their decision making had this happened later on in their life.

[To quote Time, "About 70 percent of people who suddenly receive a windfall of cash will lose it within a few years, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education."]

I believe it. But I also believe that the likelyhood of making good financial choices increases with some time spent in the work force. In this case, they had been living a nice lifestyle under their parents when they received the money.

[Just to make the anecdotes match the statistics, I inherented roughly 30k. It remained in my education fund until I finished undergrad. At 22, I opened an investment account. It's been invested in the TSX60 for the past 6 years now.]

You are also on hackernews, a website which consists of generally well-educated people. I'm not trying to sound snotty here, but there's a good chance that you have better judgement than most people.
I am a co-creator of this program, and we very much had the HN crowd in mind for it. Please consider adding a badge for all of the open source projects you contribute to. Here's the badging app [0] and the open source project [1] where you can review and comment on the criteria.

[0] https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/
[1] https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/
Yeah, probably I didn't notice subtleties at first (because I'm not a native speaker), but still satire is usually published at designated places. Imagine finding a ridiculous column under your own name on TechCrunch in Security section.
I agree and I use it every day. In the case of driving directions, Apple is not better than Google though. Just cheaper I bet.
Probably because stores are bound by the legislation.
And yet you've just described a decent amount of boilerplate.

The fact that future iterations of OpenGL and OpenGL ES have nuked the fixed function pipeline is sort of annoying. I'm not saying there should be more codepaths in the implementation, but if there were a default compiled fixed function vertex shader and fragment shader, it would be helpful.

What you've just described for rendering one primitive includes compiling two shaders, linking arguments, and specifying byte arrays before issuing commands, when this task used to be as simple as:

glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-0.866f, -0.5f, 1.0f);
glColor3f(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(0.866f, -0.5f, 1.0f);
glEnd();

Being able to draw a triangle in eight lines of code is much more encouraging to someone wanting to make a 3D game for mobile or the web than an estimated 50 lines, including two shaders they had to borrow from a textbook.

I would understand if immediate mode were gone, which might be better regardless. Still, things should be as simple as a glDrawArrays call without compiling shaders.

Not to mention, when working as a solo game developer, shaders feel like an orphan between artists and programmers.
Not disagreeing but Parks and Rec seems like a great counterexample.
I personally built open source personal budget app [1] for fun and experience. I built the app not for profit so there is not failed project.

Instead of assume failed, I suggest make it as your portfolio for future employment.

[1]: https://github.com/paukiatwee/budgetapp
Risk for the owner's business does go up, because the pricing has to be adjusted to offset the theft; which affects everybody. Since theft is legal under this definition that means risk for the owner has gone way up now. Eventually insurance would not cover theft because there's little recourse to prevent it.

Also, judges are not perfect and are known to make mistakes.
I read that they (the people who launched it) proposed to increase the VAT to 50%. 50% VAT! This is lunacy. The proponents of UBI in Switzerland are economic illiterates. I haven't heard of a single good way to fund this UBI which costs more than 3 times the current budget of the state.
This has been discussed to death, and the conclusion is generally that testing for unknown security bugs is not possible (or at least not practical).
> olives for the poor which clearly do not need preparation

Olives cannot be eaten raw.
I've seen this exact case of trying to replace the front end with React. Then the recent economic climate lead to pretty much the entire team getting axed since the pre-existing codebase was working, just messy and not cutting edge.
Does such tests as the one made in Kenya make sense at all? Having external money injected into local economy will have a different effect that taxing that economy and then redistributing part of it in form of UBI.
Well, there you go folks. All of Africa should simply surge into Italy and take what they want. Problem solved.
That time when the Conners started a sandwich business was sort of middle class. Even though it failed, entrepreneurship is mostly out of reach for working class. They might get one chance to try it, from an inheritance, insurance, personal injury settlement, or lottery windfall.

Middle class Americans don't get two foreign holidays a year. They get two foreign holidays per lifetime. One if they also decide to visit Hawaii. I consider myself lucky if I can spend an entire 40 hours of PTO at once on one 9-day vacation at a U.S. beach town or national park. It isn't just the money. The U.S. is huge, and much of it is undeveloped land. Getting anywhere more interesting than where you already are takes an inconveniently large investment in time and travel aggravation, and that time could have been spent relaxing instead.

And remember, the U.S. median only gets about $54k in gross household [edit] income. If two working parents have 2 kids, they are likely taking one week every year, to somewhere cheap and close, and maybe visiting a theme park cluster city such as Orlando, Florida, only once per decade. If you are upper-middle class, you also get to visit Europe once, and Hawaii once. Anybody who needs their passport more often than that is likely going to countries having less infrastructure with their religious group, to proselytize by example.
What about the consumption taxes we have on the books? Gas tax? Hugely regressive. Wouldn't liberals support additional carbon taxes? Value-added tax? Wouldn't those continue to "destroy the middle class"?

What about the tax of inflation that serves to redistribute wealth from savers to debtors? (middle class -> government)

Also interesting how you know better than others how they should arrange their financial lives. Would like to hear your thoughts on the "productive ways" the "oligarchs" could better deploy their capital.
Shaking up the two party system by likely replacing it with a one party system sounds really bad. It also hurts 3rd parties badly by requiring a shorter time frame and a lot more money to be any influence on the election. This sounds like a way to cement the power of the current ruling party.
For 30K more (a lot I get but...) you get 2-2.5x the range and a way cooler car for the lower end S.
Some context from the article:

> Judges overturned a theft conviction against Roman Ostriakov after he stole cheese and sausages worth €4.07 (£3; $4.50) from a supermarket.

> Mr Ostriakov, a homeless man of Ukrainian background, had taken the food "in the face of the immediate and essential need for nourishment", the court of cassation decided.

> Therefore it was not a crime, it said.

(...)

> In 2015, Mr Ostriakov was convicted of theft and sentenced to six months in jail and a €100 fine.

Italian judicial system "does not try anybody by a jury of peers: everyone is judged by professional judges or by a panel of judges" [1]. Thus, the compassion reserved to the jury of peers (in the form of Jury Nullification) in systems like the american one would be absent from the Italian one if not for actions like the one by this judge.

Not going to enter in the merit of the cause itself (as it's very subjective and personal experience can affect the judgement) but I agree that the judicial system can and must apply discretion in its judgements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Code_of_Criminal_Proce...
It's not a great bug, but I think it would require a very particular set of circumstances to arise:

> ... only certificates with valid signatures trigger ASN.1 re-encoding and hence the bug. Specifically, since OpenSSL's default TLS X509 chain verification code verifies the certificate chain from root to leaf, TLS handshakes could only be targeted with valid certificates issued by trusted Certification Authorities.

However it does seem like a great exploit method for malware, using legit signed certificates that allow overwriting memory just by parsing the cert.
This makes me want to buy a second laptop even more, just to run a Linux distro on.
NEW TOMTOM START SAT NAV SERIES LaunchES
>> Could have been lower...

Yes, that's what I said.

I find it interesting that in one sentence you admit something with no proof is not a given but the other part with no proof, that supports your negativity towards this store, IS a given.
Sure if someone wants to go to that effort they could, but be honest those people are stealing right now, this isn't going to drive a whole new group of individuals to go and steal food. Its like that law in one of the South American countries that breaking out of jail itself is not a crime because of our desire to be free, in the same way stealing food in the face of hunger and starvation is just an expression of our instinct to survive.
You're the guy in the epidemic movies that breaks quarantine and kills another million people by sneaking the pathogen out of the hot zone.

Man I hate that guy.

If you breathed spores you're already infected. Your car can't help. And the spores on the outside get spread, plus the ones in your filter kill your automechanic and that starts the second wave.
Very well written. I get the sense that the reason we're all here now is that historically the people who use these APIs as client programmers have been somewhat bad at explaining what they want.
I think a lot of good stuff has been written about conflicts that were not so clearly victorious, such as the Vietnam war, "Black Hawk Down", the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, the botched air-raid at dawn after the 1983 Beirut bombings, etc. (See "Supercarrier" by George C. Wilson)

On top of that background the story of how the U.S. rebuilt the force in the 1970s-1990s time period is all the more interesting. (See "Mud Soldiers" by Wilson.) Serious military accounts of Gulf War I also reveal a lot you did not see on CNN at the time.

And as you say, accounts of WWII from the perspective of the losing sides ("Japan's Imperial Conspiracy", "Adolph Hitler" by John Toland, etc.) are deeply interesting too. I am a yankee and no fan of the Confederacy, but the Civil War too takes on a lot more life when you understand the impact it had on the South.
Not sure what you are trying to say.
AdBlockPlus and Flattr team up to support the web via a monthly web pass
I'm not certain... My first job as a programmer my boss use to bust my balls and joke that I must not care about getting paid because I often let my checks pile up before asking for them... (and I wasn't exactly flush with cash from another source...)
My path to OpenAI
Agreed -- I think we should, as neediness increases, lower the penalties per a judge's discretion, but I don't think we should ever completely eliminate the criminal aspect of theft.

There is room in a justice system to convict a person of a crime without punishing that person in any meaningful way.
Is the act of avoiding the authorities while being a wanted fugitive not illegal in Germany?
4000 Francs is a de-facto minimum wage in Switzerland. Even the most basic jobs will earn you that much, usually. It's rare that you earn significantly less than that.
Was Spolsky Wrong? DHH says Rewrites can be good
> However, the more complex an app, the less Angular 1 serves.

That's not really true.

The problem is that all three frameworks are supposed* to require the same discipline when it comes to managing state, but only React forces that discipline onto the developer.

I'm not saying React is better, but learning from React is important to be able to write maintainable applications in any framework. You don't want to have 30 services, each services managing there own little state in AngularJS for instance. Unfortunately that's usually what happens when an app grows with time.

Angular2 does seem to get rid of the dirty checking, allowing better performances. It also has a good router. But does it really bring something new in terms of view layer and state management, considering the cost ?

I like Angular1, it's one js file you drop in an HTML page, no need for nodejs, NPM, a third party language and what not. And it's mature. It's absolutely unfortunate that Angular2 basically forces developers to use Typescript. That's a huge mistake IMHO.

edited
Winter is coming for these Argentine ant invaders
Jean Valjean?
If I were a parent, my children would have access to the same quality of public education in a small rural town as they would in a rich area of Toronto.

Is this true in reality or just in principle? An area with more students can naturally better afford to offer programs that are of limited interest, because they will still have lots of students that are interested. An area with less students probably can't spend money on things that are only of interest to 1 or 2 students.

It's not true in either sense in the US, localized funding for schools is presented as the more fair solution.
It's not the arrival of the HazMat team that makes the car unsafe to exit... It is the contamination present on the outside of the car. You are bringing the 'danger zone' with you (and exposing countless other people who would not have otherwise been exposed as you drive around)
More accurately, you don't have to pay a bunch of sales people. Sales is the dominant expense of SaaS companies (many SaaS companies in fact have more salespeople than engineers, especially when you consider that most "support" people are in fact sales).

Baasil looks interest. I've also never heard of it, but I have heard of your competitors—thanks to the marketing/sales which their higher fees pay for.

If you're actually planning to grow a business, you need to cover acquisition costs in your pricing. For many businesses, CAC is by far the biggest expense.
That's the difference between signing and ratifying. There's a story that USA's Congress never ratified the end of the war with Europe. A lot of countries voted No to the European referendum. Most of them voted Yes. Ultimately, the citizen should decide when they give up power, and they must repeat it regularly.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11602536
I can't open http://www.nearby.lk/ to know what is about. It is "starting up" forever.
IANAL, but I thought that the onus was on the prosecution to prove you were guilty as charged, i.e. didn't stab them in self-defence (by proving you stabbed for some other reason, presumably). Similarly, the prosecution would have to prove you weren't truly desperate if up before the magistrates for stealing food.

It might be different in Italy, though.
Well £2 is about £1,322 today. I am willing to bet there aren't many laborers in Britain making that.

It's probably more constructive to compare the price of a property in York today to the median wage today (since medieval laborers were middle class). It's still probably more than 2.5x, but to imply that we're worse off because you can't buy a home for £3,534 is pretty ridiculous.
lots of people keep a pack of bottled water in the car. if not for paranoid reasons, then for general convenience.
All the more reason not to rely on security properties of code written in C - I don't have time to read and understand the source of every piece of software I use, and popularity is completely useless as a proxy for code quality. Being written in a memory-safe language isn't a silver bullet for all problems, but it actually _is_ a silver bullet for memory corruption problems.

Memory corruption problems are a bit like infant mortality in the history of the medical profession - people that live past infancy still died, but infant deaths overwhelmingly impact the historical life expectancy statistics. Let's get our industry past the dark ages so we can start to live longer and begin to tackle more interesting causes of death.

EDIT: fixed very silly typo (which I'm really surprised i wasn't instantly called on - it basically made me say I wasn't willing to understand my own code. thanks for the generous reading!)
I understand your opinion. I don't feel that taking from the person running the store is really the right option, but I believe it is better than allowing the person going hungry to starve. It's very upsetting to me that in a time of such great global wealth, we still can't find a way to feed the poor.

I'm reminded of the quote by Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."
I don't know if the Italian correction system is corrupt in the same way the American system is corrupt, though.
Ten-Year-Old Wins $10,000 for Instagram Security Bug
2016 and we still don't have a good way to share and install bookmarklets.
Tim Cook: iPhones that will drive people to upgrade are on their way
At least at some schools, a spike at 2 years or so can also come from "mastering out". In my PhD program we get an MS after completing the required classes just by filing a form (and I think this is common). Someone who figures out quickly that they don't like research all that much is well advised to at least make it to that point.
The conversion from C to Go was done in 2014, so it is surprising that it is not complete yet.

See "Go, From C to Go by Russ Cox" (with video) at https://github.com/gophercon/2014-talks
Dubai’s DEWA solar project at lowest record bid
"How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!" -- Anatole France
Go 1.7 freeze announced
>Why would you go into any of these shows expecting anything resembling reality. They are all clearly entertainment in the form of light drama and inconsequential, whitewashed sexual tension. To expect anything else is to set yourself up for failure.

Because even light drama and entertainment can reflect society and middle class -- and the article gives many examples of that in the past.

Besides, the "deeper shows" you mention are equally disconnected from what's under discussion. Neither "House of Cards" nor "Breaking Bad" reflect American middle class life -- Heisenberg might be someone who can't afford health care, but the base of the plot and its concerns afterwards is entirely different.
I agree. I was just making the point that pardoning theft under exceptional circumstances would not necessarily lead to chaos, and could work with the existing legal system.
The author blames the modern sitcom's remoteness from working and lower-middle class concerns with their creators' immunity from the recent recession. In place of everyday situations, we have shows set in "soundstages and writers’ rooms," the haunts of the out-of-touch in New York and LA. So you wind up with a show with this sort of genesis:

Our creator was once a prominent writer and performer on a comedy sketch show, which aired live every Saturday night from an NBC studio in New York. It ran for 90 minutes. After their time on the show came to an end, our creator decided to pitch a sitcom based on their experiences there. The lead character is the head writer on a comedy show, similarly produced in New York. They must balance their work in the writers' room and their personal life, though this turns out to be difficult. A pilot is made, and our creator plays the lead.

Modern viewers may recognize this as 30 Rock, but it is in fact The Dick Van Dyke Show. It is based not on SNL but on a direct ancestor, Your Show of Shows. Carl Reiner's performance in the pilot may have dissuaded executives from casting him in the commissioned series (hence Dick Van Dyke), while Tina Fey remained the lead in her own version. But otherwise the parallel rings a sight near perfect.

The author stumbles over himself insisting, however, that while The Dick Van Dyke Show did not give vent to working and lower-middle class concerns, it did at least feature characters who "had careers" and were definitely of a class. As if the same were not true of shows like 30 Rock (which is at times obsessed with class difference), or of Parks and Recreation and The Office. These do not depict realistic workspaces, but why place that demand on a sitcom? And why not place the same demand on, yes, The Honeymooners, Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, I Love Lucy, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, The Andy Griffith Show, and on and on. In all cases the demands of the form—and in almost all cases the demands of overly long tenures—stretched the premises and the rare attempts at realism very thin.

I think you can make an argument that the most popular comedies available right now—whether on TV or at the movie theaters—are unflinchingly escapist. (Though, as the article notes in its discussion of an episode each of Horace and Pete and Girls, this has not gone unnoticed or unremarked by all of the shows' writers. Still, these two are not the most popular things around by any stretch.) Similarly, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were seen to traipse across exclusive resorts, high-class stages, ballroom floors, and Venice, in elaborate dresses and a "top hat, white tie, and tails"—all during the Great Depression. Sometimes hard circumstances produce a public clamoring for comment; sometimes the public just wants a reprieve.
C.A.R. Hoare is both still alive and the author of much more than just Quicksort.
This Clever Design Firm Is Donating Pixels
Your username indicates you're a troll, but:

> Society's dynamics in terms of balances of power have actually gotten much worse from what they used to be in medieval times

Please provide some evidence that a laborer in medieval Britain would have had more political power than someone in the middle class today (since medieval laborers were middle class).
Food banks and soup kitchens are predominantly provided by charities and religions. Not by tax payers. I would encourage you to look up what welfare is available for people like this in your local area to ascertain how much {if any] is tax payer funded.
If anything, being a tax evader makes him more likely to be Satoshi, in my mind.
Most olive varieties are extremely bitter and need to be cured before they're considered edible. However, the bitterness is attributed to oleuropein, which people take in high doses without harm as olive leaf extract, so it seems likely that raw olives are not dangerous. And if you're willing to eat raw olives that's good evidence that you really are starving.
Why? That's how the vast majority of modern languages work. You can't opt out of bounds checking in Java or Python.
What's the status of this bug for LibreSSL?
(LibreSSL is used in OS X 10.11+)
> 2003

So... like... we're looking at oh... a decade, plus three years this has been just lying around on the internet, right?