skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For science? Legals? Business maybe? yes, there is a chance it could possibly work.

For everything else? Politics, literature, journalism, and of course everyday usage? It couldn't possibly work. Let's say you held the whole world population at gun point, forced everybody to learn English and and use it for then year. I'm sure that as soon as you relaxed your iron fist, the various locally used dialects would diverge in a few generations and you would be back to what we are now. The world is not as connected as we like to think.
That's exactly how it should be. Money "laundering" never was a real crime. It's just a privacy invading control mechanism and a way for law enforcement to ignore actual crime.
Kedit. The 'all' command is unbeatable for looking at large log files and quickly moving around a file. Many editors have a similar feature but none do it better or nearly as fast as Kedit.
Moreover, I am not sure how accurate these numbers are in practice. E.g. I live in Germany. Most Germans (in West-Germany) had English in high school. So, according to these statistics they are probably part of the 2 billion.

Since I am not a native speaker of German, I sometimes try to start a conversation in English. For the far majority speaking English is difficult or they don't speak English at all, including people with a higher education (e.g. GPs).

I can fully understand, since I had five years of German in high school, but since I had rarely practiced since, I had similar difficulties speaking German.
The impossible barber and other bizarre thought experiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Rafale
I miss MacDraw, and don't see it here. Visio or Gliffy.com is the closest I know of. Just an object level graphics tool, where items placed on the page are forever re-editable, groupable, and very easy to make flow charts, and application diagrams.
"I'll give it a shot :)"

I admire your initiative. :)

"logic cells: easy, by universality of NAND."

Got me dead to rights there. Seems to be able to do anything boolean.

"a massive (or not so much) array of flip flops"

http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/D-flip-flop...

Close but still need the resistors.

"May I suggest a"

That's not a NAND gate but it's pretty neat. Thanks for that link. Especially as when you posted it I was, in search of esoteric constructions, just discovering and looking at these diode-based works:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B

Note: D-17B is pretty wild in design, appearance, tech, and reliability all at once. Makes me want to try it on 0.35 micron in voter part of lockstep or TMR circuits. :)

"having Vcc and ground available is an implicit requirement of having a functional NAND gate, and IO could just be some wires mirroring a memory location."

Now you're stretching. NAND doing signal conditioning, power regulation, or 2-3 component differential equations is hard to believe. I'm thinking it fails here. I admit I cheated by including an analog requirement but it exists in ever real-world computer (esp SoC) so it seemed fair-ish.

Overall, a high-scoring counterpoint that taught me some useful stuff about NAND gates and old-school ROM. I'm researching both reductionism and old-school techniques in anti-subversion hardware. So, quite relevant. Thanks!
IIRC, the pricing model was something like this:

1) The customer paid a fixed monthly charge for having phone service at all. This covered the capital costs of the wiring to the customer's premises.
2) On top of that, the customer paid a per-call fee. This covered the cost of having a woman (usually) ask what number you wanted, locate the proper jack, and physically plug your circuit in to the circuit of the person you wanted to reach.

It's probably no coincidence that the local service operator was one of the first parts of the phone system to be automated away (nor is it surprising that phone companies continued the per-call charge long after its justification went away :-)).
Using dedicated ZIL significantly reduces fragmentation:

http://www.racktopsystems.com/dedicated-zfs-intent-log-aka-s...

Anyone using ZFS in a serious capacity would have both dedicated ARC and ZIL.
I simply turn off my phone, though Airplane mode works too. In my experience, if you do it regularly people get used to it and stop fretting.
Flash.

No, really. JavaScript hasn't quite caught up to what was possible ten years ago.

I'm tire of waiting for browsers to agree on video formats and protocols.

Sometimes a benevolent dictator really is better.
All APIs should support both options.
No court rulings are ever binding apart from the specific case discussed. However, judges often (especially in higher courts) state criteria they would use to judge similar cases and make general remarks in this area of law. Other judges then later directly refer to those lines of argumentation. If a Danish judge issued a ruling based solely on EU law with convincing arguments, then a German judge can use that later just as if another German court ruled on that matter.

I don't read verdicts often enough to say how common this is (and certainly often arguments are copied without mentioning the source). However, in literature you regularly see that authors refer to cases from different EU member states. And why should arguments made by Danish judges by worth less in Germany than arguments made by German judges? The whole point of the EU is harmonization of law. If one legal source is consistently interpreted in two different ways in two different countries something definitely went wrong.
Follow the money who is selling the raid5 is dead story. The main worry is correlated failures if you have the Sam types.of drives in arrays and they reach their end of life.
I am very suspicious of this report; most notably after President Obama's polite remarks to Nordic countries regarding their leadership abilities.

Also the assessment that an A-10 Warthog can presumably out perform an F-35 for close air support (something a F-35 was designed to do as well) per an F-35 pilot's hedging about an upcoming A/B test.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/pres....
The highest result of education is tolerance - Helen Keller
Static Methods are Fine
So, isn't there a way to set aside a buffer space so that you don't run into ENOSPACE problems? Maybe like ext's 5% reserve.
On the same note, Foobar2000. I haven't found a suitable replacement in Linux land.
A public, tax-funded university exists by coercion. This is going to attract the people who are results-driven and be repulsive to an ideology-driven person. Therefore, it can reasonably be expected to suggest coercion as an allowable tool for solving any problem.
That's seems to be a common refrain from conservatives. I used to be far more conservative, but I never bought that argument.

What is it about people with MA and PhD programs that fosters a liberal environment? Your answer just reinforces the question OP asked.

There more education I've received (high school, BA, then MA, now MA+45) the more liberal I've become (mostly on social issues I'm more moderate on fiscal issues). And I was raised in a fiercely conservative family with conservative grandparents.

So, there is something to this!

Oh, and many of my teachers were also conservative (religious private schools for BA and some MA), but I still ended up more liberal.
Or capture-bonding.
> OK, we need to qualify what is meant by 'product'. I'm not talking about a palette swapped iteration on an existing product. I'm talking about something new that the market hasn't yet quite seen before. The sort of product Silicon Valley funds.

Something never seen before like Snapchat? Or something never seen before like Hyperloop? If its the latter then clearly you're correct in your assessment but most startups ambitions fall much closer to the former.

Your post here has got some valid points but you've moved away from the very specific "minimum $1m for a marketable product" to some very vague generalities.

> Even the palette-swaps generally cost anywhere from a quarter to half a million dollars to do properly

"Properly" is subjective. I could have a Snapchat clone developed easily for $100k - probably considerably less - lets just say iOS App and corresponding web app & server architecture. With the exception that it clearly wouldn't be able to handle the load Snapchat handles - but certainly enough to be marketable.

> which is really why it seems to you that a million bucks is an outlandishly huge number.

I never said a million dollars is a large number. I know how easy it is to blow through such an amount.

My argument was you don't need that amount to create a marketable product - whether you're a developer or not.

Perhaps In SV, you may be correct but most people do not live in SV.

The reason I feel so strongly about this is that your sentiment is a very dangerous one to propagate to new or would-be startup founders. Based on the number of downvotes I've received for disagreeing with your comment, it would seem that people believe you need $1m in the bank before you can go to market.

That's a very good way of making sure some entrepreneurs never bother trying.
Did they need it?
I have explicitly mentioned that is a Danish Supreme Court ruling on EU directives and hence, has bearing (not binding) in Germany. I'd love to prove wrong but here's a link that pretty much mentions the same

> It’s noteworthy, though Germany’s legislators probably don’t realize this yet, that the elimination of the Störerhaftung enables use of the open wireless defense in Germany, according to a ruling from the Danish Supreme Court (which does have bearing in Germany, as that court ruled on EU directives).

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/05/finally-g...
ext4 isn't a rewrite and magnitudes smaller in code size and complexity, so the comparison isn't really fair.
Could you provide some sources or suggested reading regarding this topic? I haven't encountered this opinion before and I'm quite curious how this came about.
Let's remember that tolerance is not an absolute good. Indeed that phrase is almost meaningless unless qualified.

. . . presumably those downvoting will tolerate just about anything and leave their discriminatory faculties to rot. That's pretty much how many folk behaved in Europe earlier in the 20th century and look where that got us.

In her essay 'Optimism' Helen Keller provides the context for her oft-quoted statement. The retailing of phrases outwith a context then presented as some kind of ultimate truth is strangely disingenuous.
I came into this thread and expected to read encouraging and/or consoling comments, and instead all I see are people bashing the idea and its execution.

Of those bashing this business, how many of you have actually built something of your own, and of that group, how many of you have become successful doing it?

If you look hard enough, you can find flaws with any business concept. It's the entrepreneur's job to stay alive long enough to recognizing and fix those flaws. You don't fix them on day 1. Sometimes it takes years, even decades.

How about instead of tearing these guys apart for trying to build a business, we congratulate them for going all-in and paving the way for future entrepreneurs to get this concept right?
This was discussed on HN a couple of months ago[1] when Go fixed a carry propagation bug that affected crypto/tls.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897511
Can anyone explain how this works?
This is an excellent oberservation but I would point out that all of your examples are of one group having a large information technology advantage over another. I think the situation could be different as very powerful IT becomes as widespread and inexpensive as seems to be the trend. Perhaps there is some point where the worst IT is good enough that it's hard to parlay a tech advantage into any form of oppression and at that point it's a tool for equality and decentralization.
The struct tags are grouped like type, constraints, etc. The groups of struct tags is more Gorm currently can't auto migrate keys with foreign keys. There is an issue I've commented but the issue is open for a long time.

There are also some missing features qb doesn't have and gorm has. For instance, you can define relationships in gorm while in qb, you can only define foreign keys using `qb:"constraints:ref(col, table)"`.

Moreover, I am not entirely sure but I don't think enforcing types is possible in gorm. In qb, consider this struct;

type User struct {
id string `qb:"type:uuid; constraints:primary_key"`
}

qb understands this as a uuid type although it has string definitions. These are the main reasons why I created qb.

The relationship feature is not clear in my mind. I'd like to have feedback on relationships.
Head-per-track discs, although SSDs are a reasonable approximation.
Basically what happened is the Republicans rounded up the evangelical leaders and said "those dem's are weak on communism, vote for us or Russia will kill God" and it worked.

One of the 'interesting' side effects is that when Republicans decided to become anti abortion to get Catholic votes it forced a bunch of previously pro choice or neutral evangelical groups to become virulently anti abortion out of percieved duty.
SMS+Messages or SMS+Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Kik, WeChat, Viber, LINE, BBM, Telegram, Signal, Sicher, and I'm sure I'm missing some. Used to just install a multi-protocol chat client and be done with it, but now everything's a fancy service with special clients to sync state across devices and whatever else they do.
There's a few of us here combing through the old stuff to see all that old wisdom and tricks. So many clever things. I saw the mercury computers researching old systems of my arch-nemesis, the NSA. The document joked that buffer overflows were a serious problem on those. No shit lol!

The rope memory I read about studying Apollo and Margaret Hamilton's work. Core I saw a bit of watching videos of Burroughs computers, my favorite, being assembled in factories. It was actually kind of mesmerizing watching that old stuff because you can see all the brilliance and intricacies of the device. Today, it's all hidden behind plastic for anyone except labs (eg ChipWorks) that can pull it out. People say, "Why would I pay (obscene amount here) dollars for this little piece of plastic?" One thing I do is show them pictures of old computers without covers saying "It's basically that... with 10x more components... squeezed into that tiny space. What, did you think squeezing a room full of wiring and components into a tiny space cost a few bucks?"
How to deal with “unsupportive” family as an entrepreneur [Branson]
Archive link that doesn't require sign-in: http://archive.is/XxkBv

It's interesting that the article only talks about the threat to free speech on campuses by "safe spaces" and completely ignores the ongoing censorship of students/faculty members that are critical of Israel: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/16/greatest-threat-to-free-... (third section talks about campuses)
Not only that but ssh protocol in R19 will be implemented as a gen_statem, providing a real life usage example for it.

I also liked that Ericsson engaged with the community and considered input and updated code accordingly as they worked on it.

You can see the whole process and discussion in:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/960
This is exactly the feeling I've had with Rust. I love programming in it, it is so much more rewarding than any other programming language.

I nearly felt this way about Swift, and Kotlin looks like it would be great too. But Rust reminds me so much of how much I love C and how little you needed to get going, all the OS tools at your disposal, etc. I haven't had the same pleasure in learning Go or any other language.

But I totally agree, even if it's in your spare time, find the language you love and start contributing to the open source community for it.
The younger, more attractive me.
Startup Origin Story: When Time Moved Backwards
"Forget Torch, Tensorflow, and Theano. I decided to implement Backprop NEAT in Javascript, because it is considered the best language for Deep Learning according to the Data Science Dojo."

That's a bold statement with no elaboration. I would expect a link to DSDs statement at the least. Based on what metrics? How does Javascript go about accessing GPUs for training?
Not really. Closed source drivers don't come with source code and aren't compiled by dkms.
> Why would after such a long time the CDU suddenly drop the pro-Störerhaftung position?

Most of them own tablets and smartphones by now and they don't feel like maxing out their data plan which they have to pay for themselves.

On a serious note, I'd agree that this just creates legal uncertainty. Netzpolitik.org (in German langauge) goes a bit into details [0]

[0] https://netzpolitik.org/2016/abschaffung-der-wlan-stoererhaf...
I would disagree. If one is highly educated in a specific period of history, or literature, or some other field with poor job prospects despite being highly educated, there's still high competition. Also, given that so many people with phD's want to become professors, the competition for those positions is extremely fierce with the "publish or perish" mindset that academia has been in.

I don't think its just a lack of competition that causes people to become more liberal. Academia is highly competitive.
Network Topology monitoring
btrfs is not stable!, xfs is stable
Short answer would be availability of tagged data,

Part-of-speech and syntax-annotated corpora have been available for a long time for many other languages than English. E.g. for German:

http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/korpora...
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/ascl/ressourcen/corpora/tueb...

Dutch:

https://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/Lassy/
http://lands.let.ru.nl/cgn/
https://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/trees/

French:

http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/en/Gens/Abeille/French-Treebank-fr.ph...

I think that one of the problems is that NLP research of English typically has a higher chance of getting accepted at conferences.
Everyone has different views on what Liberal vs. Conservative means, but if you were to use these definitions:

Liberal:
Promote group-oriented solutions to address economic disparities and historical social injustices.

Conservatives:
Promote individualist-oriented solutions to create wealth and entrepreneurship.

... you'd start to see that the author's argument is a little circular.

'Education', in the author's sense of the word, refers to group-oriented institutional education (e.g. traditional universities).

So really what the author is asking is 'why do people educated in group-oriented educational institutions promote group-oriented political solutions?'

I think it would be interesting to know where 'self-taught learned people' sit on the political spectrum?
To start off, "liberal" is hard to define, really. I identify as "classically liberal," but that can greatly differ from modern liberal, progressive, etc.

Friedrich Hayek tried to answer this in the 40s, when "intellectuals" were into communism and eugenics (this video is not from the 40s obviously.)

http://cafehayek.com/2014/10/hayek-on-intellectuals-and-soci...

To be frank, I think it's because those who are highly educated often believe they know what's better for a person than the person does; economically & politically speaking.

In terms of acceptance of minorities, especially (gay, trans or just ethnic) I think that liberal mindset comes from an academic need to include minority opinions into discussion.

I do think there is a bit of a shift happening and that's many professors, etc standing up against "safe spaces" on campus. The irony of course is that many young people vouching for these areas often identify as liberal, but yet suppressing the ideas of others is anything but. So...you really have to be careful in how you define "liberal," as it appears the title is shifting a bit due to millennial deposition.
Under socialist ideology all universities are public and tax-funded.
Whoa, thanks! The only ones I've found have been new old stock. Although these are rather expensive and in inch sizes only (I can't get inch-sized dowels without making them myself).

I need to consider obtaining a few of these.
I don't think you're being unreasonable. In my experimentation I concluded that Kotlin was largely chasing a subset mindshare of Scala, so I see it being at a long term disadvantage.

That said, one killer app can make a language, so who knows. But if you want a typed expressive hybrid-paradigm JVM language, it seems Scala is the obvious choice.
I don't get how modern phones not having a busy signal forces you to let people contact you. If I really want to disconnect, I just turn stuff off. The only remaining difference is voicemail, but that's easily ignored. As for the concern, that's not the tool's fault, either, just how we use it. People get worried if you don't call back in a day because they've become accustomed to you doing so. I've got friends who I will miss a call from and not call back for a few days, and it's just fine. Not the phone's fault at all. The tool is still controllable by you - so long as there's a power switch, its in your control.
I know for me I stopped answering the phone altogether about a year or two before the do not call list went into effect. About literally 1/10th of the calls I receive to this day are legit calls I want to take.
The "how" is quite lacking.
I loved GOOG411 before it was sunsetted (and revealed to be mostly a data-gathering venture). For when it worked, it was just magic--
It does for me now, too. I assume the creator fixed it.
I still don't understand how "algebraic" input won ... it requires so many more keystrokes. Perhaps it makes sense for students in lower grade levels, but once you get proficient, RPN is a no-brainer.
Mechanical apple keyboard.

The new flat ones don't help with RSI at all.
Have you considered another mechanism apart from field tags for relating fields to the db (for example a function for marshalling?). It's starting to look like you're creating a dsl stuffed into struct field tags as strings, which gets ugly if it is complex. This is one part of go I'm really not keen on for this reason.
Managing large complex applications is always a major pain. There is no shortcut, no ideal solution. For all of its imperfections, class-based OOP is the best tool we have today to aid in this onerous task.

The popularity of class-based OOP is undeniable. People understand that there is no perfect solution. What would you use in its stead?
>>English the language of the internet? It is perhaps the language of YOUR internet. The Chinese internet is as big -- and there's the Indian internet, the Spanish speaking internet, and tons more besides.

These other internets that you have mentioned are not much significant outside their own little spheres. But English internet is the original one and the most important internet out there. English has become the de-facto standard language of modern communication.

I am all for making English as "the" standard language for the world. History is full with countless cultures/languages getting destroyed at the hands of "time". I am very happy that unofficially English has already become "the" standard language for the world.

Disclaimer: I am an Asian with English as a second (actually earlier as a third language). But due to English and due to English internet alone I could educate myself to a large extent and could come out of the clutches of the barbaric and irrational religious preachings/scriptures.