skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Akira was talking about a specific context - view rendering. Which makes sense, who the hell ever renders a view in anything other than UTF-8?

Checking input, however, is a whole 'nother ballgame.
Protectionism is a sorta tragedy of the commons type of deal, if everybody did it the advantage it offered would disappear.
This was on HN front page with 13 points but tagged as [Flagged]. I clicked "vouch" because while I'm not a huge fan of The Intercept (some of what they write is great, at other times it feels like they'll write anything that makes the US look bad) this article feels like something that's fine to have on HN, even if it's not something I'll upvote myself.

Would anyone who flagged it explain the reason?
Since the ANC was unbanned, murder rates in South Africa have soared.
http://issafrica.org/uploads/CQ7Thomson.pdf
> The difference is as it is between craftsmen (who are artists) and assembly-line workers.

It's a bit harsh to call Lisp programmers assembly-line workers. I think the language has value and pioneered some language concepts that we find across a lot of languages today, but Lisp is very dated by 21st century standards.
If the soldiers didn't know any better, then that's a sign that our cultural attitudes towards war are somewhat lacking. Those people were not forced to sign up to the military, and if their moral compasses were distorted enough to believe wars not based on self defence can somehow be justified then why is that message getting across?

We shouldn't blame the soldiers for doing a difficult job, especially after the damage is done, but we can and should discourage people from signing up in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_bombing
> Type-tagging was obviously inspired by DNA

Source?

> It is also not a coincidence that Erlang is pure-functional - so is the world of proteins and enzimes.

That world is mostly driven by mutations, which are the exact opposite of functional purity.

I really have no idea where you get all these broken metaphors.
According to http://www.spamlaws.com/state/nd.shtml it expires when a federal law is passed and comes into law that supersedes it.
This happens with alcohol, too.

I couldn't drink tequila for years after getting so drunk, and so sick from it.
Mongol-Papal Encounter: Letter Exchange Between Pope Innocent IV and Güyük Khan
This article is total crap. Just speculation. They should at least get their facts straight:
DoubleClick was not acquired in July 2009 it was April 2007.
I love so called "articles" that rely on aggregated news.
Can you name and shame them, like I did?
The WTO and WTCs have similar names, but are not otherwise related to each other.
It's the workers who have been shafted by declining standards of living, stagnant wages, rising prices, false promises about the benefits of free trade agreements, and increased immigrant labor -- coupled with an increasingly bureaucratic EU organization that pushes more political change than economic/trade change. The citizens of Britain signed up for the EU when they saw it as a trade agreement that would benefit them down the line, instead they are giving up more sovereignty to EU's bureaucracy in exchange for benefits that disproportionately flow up to the elite.

And it's not economic suicide. In the short term it will most likely hurt but in the long term, Britain will survive and the EU will need to bend to accommodate Britain's consumers, even if the UK is not a member state. It is one of, if not the, biggest importers of EU goods and it's the EU, not Britain, who cannot survive without accommodating the other.

Also I don't see why the US would benefit in any way from a collapsed EU or UK. Trade and travel becomes harder when they are not a single unit.
How well the idea of commercial languages fits development needs? I mean, were there any success stories for commercial languages?
Why would anyone think this is a good thing? Consumers have less choice, less competition, significantly less convenience, and they get to pay higher prices.

The former cab drivers I've talked to pretty much say the same thing - they work less and take home more money. The people I've spoken with have no desire to ever go back.

Some of the citizens of Austin think this is a good thing. Their lack of reasoning and logic astounds me.
If it weren't for a Facebook ad I probably wouldn't have had a skin condition checked out that turned out to be incurable without medication. This is the opposite of exploitation.

After this experience I began to trust this form of targeting but still think 'retargetting' is annoying (I publicly stumped one of the execs at Adroll when I asked 'why do we need retargetting?')
Does the US have a reputation for protectionism? From a domestic point of view it seems like everything outside of steel and farming has been opened up
Opening sentence of the article: "Looking at a globe close-up is a wonderful thing."

And then, not even a single close-up photo of a globe.
You sound like an Ayn Rand soliloquy.
Why only military infrastructure? Image a war between, say the USA and Russia, and imagine that the USA manages to shut down or cripple all Windows machines in Russia, this will probably put the enemy on the kneels, even more than weeks of airstrikes. And it may also be better PR as it do not directly "kill" anyone. I have always thought that Microsoft holding 95% of PCs in the world is extremely dangerous, and can't get why American, with their admirable foundness of personal freedom and security, do not decide to put a stop to this anomaly. (Imagine, if 95% of world's oil was provided by one company?)
How much does the hard copy run you? I am thinking of porting my hobby OS to the architecture so it's probably worth having around in hard copy form.
I lived in a country run by communist party for 14 years, but I do not see any link with ending South African apartheid at all. The apartheid ended and no communist paradise/hell/regime instead.
Pre-commit code reviews quickly hammer all those different kinds of people into the same kind of nail. It's one of the best aspects of code review as a practice, yet it doesn't get as much attention as code quality and correctness.

It is worth putting the time into refactoring things properly and looking over every line of the diff to make sure it belongs on my team. If you do this, your code can often pass review with only a few comments, even for a change that's hundreds of lines long. If you didn't send good code out for code review ... god help you. You're going to be buried in dozens of comments ("the beatings will continue until the code improves").

There's certainly an adjustment process when people join our team and our company. But ensuring consistency across our entire codebase is absolutely worth it. And I know that I have become a better developer by consistently being held to high standards, and doing the same of others.
The "abuses" by the Apartheid government was actually negligible compared to the violence South Africa has experienced since the unbanning of the ANC.
http://issafrica.org/uploads/CQ7Thomson.pdf
Keyloggers, a pernicious threat to data privacy
I'm no expert. Mandela cofounded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe#Bombings has a list of atrocities committed by them. During most of them Mandela was in prison I believe. I don't know about his influence over the organization during that time or if he condemned these attacks, I'd guess he didn't but am happy to be proven wrong.

"five civilians were killed and 40 were injured when MK cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo detonated an explosive in a rubbish bin at a shopping centre shortly before Christmas."

"a bomb was detonated in a bar, killing three civilians and injuring 69"

" terror campaign continued with attacks on a series of soft targets, including a bank in Roodepoort in 1988, in which four civilians were killed and 18 injured. Also in 1988, a bomb outside a magistrate's court killed three. At the Ellis Park rugby stadium in Johannesburg, a car bomb killed two and injured 37 civilians. A multitude[14] of bombs at restaurants and fast food outlets, including Wimpy Bars,[15] and supermarkets occurred during the late 1980s, killing and wounding many people."
Sure, Lisp has many derivatives, some of which are statically typed.

The most popular Lisp today, Clojure, is dynamically typed, though.
Well, no, if the law says "anyone can run open wifi, and any suspicious use there should be investigated, and not just taken as read that the person who owns the wifi is the user of it" then the moment permission is sought to raid the place it should be denied immediately until there's some evidence the person running the wifi also committed the crime. If that's written into the law; if at the point a warrant is sought, or if at the start of a court case the defence can just say "this case should be tossed out; you aren't allowed to go after people running free wifi" then there would be no point in going after the people providing free wifi. After all, no-one goes after the ISPs.
With a name like that, you should pivot to thongs. Clearer message.
Irken looks interesting, thanks for the link.
Looking at my spam folder: Air France, freelancer.com, Addison Lee, Pluralsight, etc. I gave up playing whack a mole with unsubsubribe links that never get honored. I now filter emails automatically by domain name and/or keyword (for the companies that got my email before I switched to this alias system).
I implore everyone here to read Naggum: http://xach.com/naggum/articles/

Also read Stanislav Datskovskiy: http://xach.com/naggum/articles/

Also consider that the x86 hardware platform is terminally busted. For god's sake why isn't gc in hardware already?
Four Strategies for Building a Sales Lead List
Not gonna lie, I couldn't make heads nor tails of this blog post until I reached the very end, and realized they were using "Googler" to mean "doing Google searches". I kept thinking "Why would being a good developer and being a Googler be mutually exclusive?!"
Encypt, baby, encypt.
Please go into more detail. Start with the evidence.
the EU being overly bureaucratic is due to age, the UK system has the same issues.

our sovereignty is not important as long as we have the choice to leave in future, but the benefits awarded the middle/working/lower classes is unquestionable and we may not be awarded such luxury under a malevolent or overly 'for the rich' party. Rights are only rights until they aren't.

Workers rights in the UK are the best they've ever been, and better than those in the US, which is where our model seems to steer towards without EU guidance.

Quality of living (I'm guessing housing?) is bad in spite of the EU rules, not because of it.

We are awarded many luxuries and exceptions by the EU because of our status as one of the "core" members, if we renegotiate we don't have that. In addition trade agreements are not going to be in our favour unless with have something to barter with.

most of our industries are service/management layer, we're the middle people to a lot of things and without being a pivotal hub we may lose this and the foundation of British economy will be rocked, we need to produce something that the world cannot live without before making such threats.

Additional:

Without the EU being a unified block we do not have the clout to stand up to US bullying.

edited to remove condescension and provide only my points
Thanks to the CIA, Mandela became President only after the fall of the Berlin wall. So he saw what a disaster communism was.
The Irishman who faked his own kidnapping
New Crowdfunding Rules Let the Small Fry Swim with Sharks
It may be for UK main street (what little there is left of it), but it may be a benefit for the City. Especially as Brussels is mulling more stringent banking regulations.
If its wood, to eliminate sag as its rotated it would have to be quite thick and interestingly engineered.
Heresy: put your sidebars to the right
ty - looking into it
Doh! Of course, I meant Achilles vs. Tortoise where I wrote Achilles vs. Hare - but I think Homer said Achilles could outrun any hare, right?
Torn Between Two YouTubes
Sorry, bad typo. I meant "bread".
You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (2010)
I'm not sure if the wall street cronies wants to solve that, as it would basically be the execution squad for the petro-dollar.
But the evidence is secret! :)
With iptables you can read packets, is it an icmp packet, what is it length and so on... If I was a hacker and I notice that icmp packets are blocked, I would feel less fear.
Wisdom gives you other things that aren't just replacing computational powers. It gives you an ability to understand the world in a very different way, to put you more in control of it, to make you more grounded, less erratic.

But each to their own of course.
There isn't anything intrinsically wrong with communism as an ideal.

There clearly is. Everywhere it has been tried, it led to at least poverty and usually genocide. Communism has been far, far worse than nazism or fascism and holding national socialism as some sort of valuable ideal untainted by the reality is unacceptable almost everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
Yet it is something I know firsthand. I also know how hard it is to convince people to try this approach. There is a lot of lies people believe in: that compiler construction is hard, that macros are hard to debug, that DSLs are only suitable for large and "smart" projects, and so on.
That's one of the ideas. Developers who wish to monetize off their work will be able to do so and immediately have their modules available from the biggest Redis distribution channels.
I've been told this a number of times. I've never read any Ayn Rand - probably should. I was, however, born and raised in communism, as were my parents, so I talk from experience.
That's completely different from winning or losing a war.

The events you describe don't affect the US's dominance at all.

The region's current turmoil is all internal. The US can just wait it out and then when it's all over, the winner will be weak and the US can just come in again any time and reset the whole thing.

So this doesn't affect the US's ability to "write" history.
We'd better start being nicer to Canada then. Will we see our next President holding hands with Justin Trudeau?
If programmers can't be diligent enough to learn simple unique pointers, they won't bother being diligent about any of their code.

So you may design a better pointer for them (if possible) and still have a huge spaghetti ugly bug-ridden insecure unmaintainable codebase... But at least the pointers are easy!

Even of you make them program in a rubber room helmet language, they are going to cause just as many problems.

Tools like unique_ptr are meant to let the good programmers work more expressively and make fewer mistakes. They aren't meant to let random folks write perfect code without thinking and learning first.
Why did you work 70 hours? I've worked at two major us investment banks and both inculcated a full-time culture. Did you join the cult?
Other than the rate of absorption, what differences are you talking about? Yes, glucose, fructose and sucrose are different, but all can be bad if you eat too much. And, people don't normally thing of bread as being something that breaks down into glucose.
And they didn't really lost in Vietnam, what happened in the end was that they had to pick between two alternatives: carpet bomb the place to hell and "win" or go home. That "win" would have been political suicide for the administration at the time as the majority of the US wanted to go home. In the end it was a victory of the will of the people so I'm glad they went home and I'm not even American so it's not like I care if they "lost" or not.
True, I didn't mention it, because it has its own issues. The move-on-copy semantics of auto_ptr makes it incompatible with std containers, and makes for some rather unexpected behavior.
This is about the NSA, not the CIA, but still a nice link.

"As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today."

http://www.cfr.org/world/remarks-national-security-adviser-j...
We used to have a saying "friends don't make friends run closed software".

I guess those days have gone.
Do people use it for messaging? I know it has it, but it's always seemed secondary to the voice/video.
Alas, "worse is better" (or so they say), and the industry decided to reinvent everything every 5 years :(.
That thread is hilarious. Leaving the ports open on the internet for managing these APs, fix was released a year ago and apparently it is UBNTs fault a large WISP has been infected? Wow.
Now you are looking at distro policy, especially the likes of Debian Stable.

If the package manager allows for multiple version of openssl to exist without naming shenanigans, there is nothing stopping a third party package to go on top of Debian Stable and provide the most recent ABI version.

In essence you are looking for technical solutions to policy/politics...
Zemana Antilogger is pretty sufficient for these threats, and also blacklisted by the NSA, so I suppose it works then? I wrote some custom apps that use 'key-interleaving' so that as I type, the key is backspaced, replaced by another letter, and then substituted several times. It's trivial to write such an app, and takes about two-days. The hardware keyloggers are much more insidious though and that keyboard advertised on the site looks awesome :)
This is why I cannot eat salmon. I threw up for 6 hours straight after eating it 30+ years ago and I have not had a single taste of it since. The mere smell of it makes me unhappy.
I'm sorry for being so naive but when they say "GNU Operating System" do they mean HURD or is this a GNU/Linux distro?
I used Feedly for a while and found it to be flaky, in pretty much the same ways as Digg reader.
Clojure is a kind of Javified Lisp; if you're looking for a canonical example, the GP provided an example of Common Lisp code, which gives you optional type declarations that are compile-time checked and are used by compilers to generate more optimized code.
> And you could maybe detect mountain ranges by running your fingers on them, but not really by seeing them?

On a 30cm globe, the Everest would peak ~200µm above the globe's average surface (though it would possibly/probably be too small to even represent), the tibetan plateau would be ~100µm above the average surface. It seems detectable[0] but would require a pretty ridiculously smooth globe, I don't think a plastic-and-paper globe would work.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130916110853.h...

> The smallest pattern that could be distinguished from the non-patterned surface had grooves with a wavelength of 760 nanometres and an amplitude of only 13 nanometres.
Meaningless labels of propaganda. Please tell me you don't really believe those terms at face value when they're used by anyone in a position of power or authority.
I'd argue that the body of research supporting the `sugar == detriment` hypothesis is mounting. This is merely another in a series of dominoes that is (potentially) falling in that direction. I'd recommend the blog (eatingacademy.com) of Dr. Peter Attia, founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative, for more.
What If You Could Make Music in few seconds only? [video]
Clinton lies to you to appease my mom. President Clinton will funnel even more money into education and social security and Medicare. It's any views she expresses about having "evolved" on issues of criminal justice or drugs that are in danger when she shifts from talking to democratic primary voters to talking to the general electorate.
Yes, even there, as the violence is being fueled by other countries in the region with large ties to oil. It is not the only thing that needs to change in that region (a proper Palestinian state that could control its own borders would also be a great step in the right direction), but it's something that the average person has some control over, so instead of sitting on our hands and watching the situation get worse we can take practical steps to help out, with the added bonus of helping ourselves in the process.
There have been scandals involving veterans care; however, in the U.S. the hospitals and care for veterans is provided by the Veterans Administration, a cabinet level civilian run agency, and not the Department of Defense, so not military hospitals.
>only one person has been sentenced in the 7 years of this law.

That's not true. At the end of 2015, about 31 people were found guilty.

https://nextinpact.com/news/96525-hadopi-plusieurs-abonnes-c...
> I think lisp adds mental overhead for figuring out the precedence of operations - while other languages have a default that people understand.

Wait what? Lisp removes the mental overhead by not needing the concept of "operation precedence" - prefix notation is unambiguous. The discomfort people have when looking at prefix math is because everyone here spent at least a decade being taught math in infix notation.
So vagueness is the answer for heaps, but not for pumpkins that differ by one molecule? How convenient for you! Of course, this would mean (going all the way back to your post that started this thread) that the pumpkin argument is not relevant to the sorities paradox. You can't have it both ways.

I think you are aware, to some degree, that you have created this problem, and your second sentence is an attempt to get around it - but what you are doing in that sentence is to deny the fundamental premise of the sorities paradox! That is certainly one way to address it, and a very bold one, if I may say so. I am delighted to see that your understanding of the issues has evolved so radically in the course of this discussion.
Well the article tried to stress that what they wrote about didn't apply to all cancers.

Also, seem to me the basic complication of dealing with cancers is that anything that will kill a cancer cell is likely to also kill healthy cells. So inversely, whatever you do to keep the patient alive is likely to also exasperate the cancer problem.
TIL. Thanks.

So if it wasn't the headquarters for the WTO, what activity was taking place at the WTC?
And i suppose the people of "The Democratic Republic of North Korea" know a thing or two about democracy and republics.

There are plenty of communists who categorically reject state communism. They're called anarchists.
This one is good!!
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I grew up in socialist Syria and that was pretty much it, my wife in Peru had a similar experience and so did my Russian friends. I think most Westerners are totally clueless when it comes to what communism really means and are quick to label you an Ayn Rand fanboy. I guess they will eventually find out if they keep voting for more socialism though.