skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Religionists would have to adapt

I doubt this, many "moderate" religions cope with multiple intelligent beings just fine, i.e. the catholic church has expressed itself on the matter, Islam has always posited other intelligent beings (jinns for example) and some muslim scholars consider extraterrestrial life to be compatible with islam. Same for hudaism.

As for buddhism andi hinduism, I don't see why they would be incompatible with alien life.

Sadly, people with a literal-minded view of religion might have problems with that, but then, they already have problems with evolution and round earth.
But after the financial crisis and with Gordon Brown at the helm Labour was deeply unpopular, I can see why aligning with them wasn't that attractive either.

If they had pulled out of the coalition after two years then they would just have been out of power for longer, I'm not sure their popularity would have bounced back.
True, but:
A. A good job today might not be A good job in another 3 years. Companies aren't quick to dump their existing code just so they can see "we now use <modern language> and <modern framework">.

B. very often <good job> expects you to already be experienced with <modern language> and <modern frameworks>.
By learning at home at your own spare time, you reduce the risk and ramp up time for them, making yourself a more desirable candidate.

Try working on make files for a while. You'll miss grunt :D
I was responding to the language in the headline and subtitle and so on. "Without Anyone Noticing", "No one knew", "Secret", etc.
Here's a script that detects the Anguish characters (except for the Byte Order Mark \ufeff, which isn't that rare):

exp="\u2060|\u200b|\u2061|\u2062|\u2063|\u200c|\u200d"
git log -p --pickaxe-regex -S"$exp"
Designer vs developer
Thanks for sharing your experience. I found the info about YAG laser, and also that's the recommendation that my mom got, but it's great to read about an optimistic outcome.
It seems to me that for now YAG is the best option.
I've known quite a few "24/7" programmers, but the smartest I've ever met worked a 4 day week so he could spend more time with his family. He was naturally exceptional though, stood out even in a company filled with people with Cambridge 1st-class degrees.

Again this is making me think I should write my piece on programming while suffering chronic fatigue.
Can 'Coding Bootcamps' Fix the Shortage of Engineers?
> There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come".

Who is marketing Redis, Postgresql, UBlock, VLC? I understand the opposite doesn't apply to everything but neither does the blanket negation.
Most of Spain was in Moroccan hands for even longer than Ceuta in Spanish hands, should Morocco now ask for al andalous back?
Diff views probably should replace invisible characters with visible place-holder glyphs. Is that something that can be done on a font level, or does it require extra code? As in, can I assign a glyph to an RTL mark and have it automatically show up?
Maybe they'd rather learn Chinese? I don't care what they study nor do I want to "colonize" their desert. Anything that improves their standard of living and political self determination is probably an improvement at this point.
I repeatedly admitted it was not the best word.
We have apps. And them name is To Round.
Thank you for advice!
We probably agree on a lot. Our radical different positions are only really evident in the subtleties of semantics.

I think thats dangerous for China. People get tortured, killed and have no voice. Things may improve for the masses but if it isn't for the minority then its not really improvement.

Your last sentence:

"So I guess we'll just have to see where the Chinese people take themselves"

is the kind of subtle difference in semantics that divides us. You think China is ruled and directed by its people. Censorship, propaganda, history and injustice suggest otherwise.

The dangerous part is looking at the winners in Chinese society and saying - look! its improving! - whilst the losers are getting a tougher time as ever. You say you grew up extremely poor, so I feel like that might resonate with you.

I rephrase your last sentence as: so I guess we'll just have to see where the Chinese peoples totalitarian government take them.
A small matter of semantics, yet a matter of life and death.
I can't even realistically say how old my two computers are, because their parts are all different ages; I can tell you how old their cases are...

edit: It's not even accurate to describe them as separate computers, because parts have travelled between them more than once.
Thanks for writing this.

It lists many reasons why I don't open source my side projects.

Open sourcing is meanigless without considerable additional work in form of quality assurance, documentation, project management, marketing.

As a developer you should weight whether it is worth the cost for the return of exactly what? Getting your stuff out there? Developer street credits? Maybe a consulting gig down the road?

Or is your time better spent doing other things?
by the same reasoning, there was never a Western Sahara as a country, so there is nothing to return to anyone.
Yes I look forward to the day that idiotic law is overturned. It sort of almost did die (https://silktide.com/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/), but the idiots in charge bought it back.
The First American Nations had lots of land and discretion to raise crops, hunt, and self-determine their political futures on a tribal level. These guys don't. There are 165,000 people in refugee camps because the King has control of their land and will basically never give it back. They're already moved. Their land and resources are already gone. The only way they're likely to get it back is an ugly war of some sort, a substantial part of which must be waged by external powers on behalf of these people or they will simply lose.

As this war simply isn't going to happen, the only sane way forward to get these people and their future generations out of this misery is to get them out of there and send them to places where they will be recognized as human beings instead of as an obnoxious political problem. In the current state of the world this is, for better or worse, much more practical when they are capable of supporting themselves and prospering in an urban environment. That takes education, and broadly speaking education in English is probably the choice that gives them the best options right now, unless somewhere non-English-speaking is specifically offering to give them a break (which would be smashing, doubly so if the Somewhere is Morocco itself, but I've not heard of it).

And getting just one of those people out of there and into an English-speaking nation has already contributed substantially to international recognition of their plight through this article.
At a probable price point around 20 million bucks a liter, I'm not sure that there'd be many customers.
Attention for uBlock AFAICT started with a widely shared blog post comparing its performance to other Adblockers. From there on it's probably word of mouth, but writing that blog post and getting attention to it was "marketing", even if maybe not intended that way. And it was good marketing, since tech loves "This thing is proven to be sooo much faster than the old thing people don't love 100%" stories ;)
I wonder if Google altering their SEO rating to test for "page jank" would impact this.

Remember the adage "you get what you measure" well, for a while Google has been awarding time to document ready (or some such) as their page speed test.

What if they started measuring post page load stuff?

Seo teams could start to measure page stability and budget for it.
The ridiculous thing here is that it's perfectly possible to make Esc stop animation without also stopping network connections. It's literally just a different argument to the stop function, and you can configure it just fine in BetterStop. But Mozilla couldn't care less, of course.
No, its because a handful of bloggers decided doing everything client side was the proper and true way to develop a web site. Other developers, being easily influenced, have followed that dogmatically instead of using their heads.
Django 1.10 alpha released
Gratuitous use of background videos, large JS, large CSS, many fonts, and so on degraded the desktop web performance as well. It's not a mobile-only problem. Compare scrolling on HN with scrolling on a random startup page and consider the provided content.
The problem is the lack of nuance in this debate. It's either "natural differences" or as you said
> another possibility is sexism in the way we raise boys and girls differently.

Making this a binary choice is unnecessary, dangerous and in no way better than the "conservative" notion that women belong to the kitchen.
Let's assume everything is solely based on social factors, adult women in this generation still won't have control over the way they were raised. It's unlikely that they will suddenly drop the behaviour they accquired over decades. And even if they could, why should they? If they're happy with their choices let them be. Instead we should work to value caregivers more, regardless of gender.
The framework you're subscribing sounds a little like Unpoly [1].

[1]: http://unpoly.com/
PSA: In case you didn't know, anyone can publish anything to arxiv.
I'm pretty sure it was Internet Explorer that started this horrible, terrible user interface fiasco.

Backspace (despite the name) is for deletion, should only be for deletion, and avoids confusion by only being for deletion. Period.

I don't see what's so hard about control/command-leftbracket or left arrow or whatever you want to assign to "go back". At least you won't accidentally wipe a form.

Anyway, this isn't about you or me, as someone else said, because forward state could be theoretically preserved. The problem is the 99% of "regular people" who will hit Backspace, not realize that they DIDN'T just lose their form and can just hit Forward again, and will redo the work and get frustrated.
If backprop is "the deep end," then I really don't know what you're doing...
People really need to read up about the alternative, The polisario Militia is not exactly a step forward for the Saharan population.

Mohamed Abdelaziz their Secretary General, is in power since 1976 (when Gerald Ford was US president).
Pilsario has been sending kids for indoctrination to Cuba for decades.
Forgot to put the word "interactive" in the title.
Edit: didn't know you could edit the title after submission.
Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB.
These services are routinely awful and incompetent, however. Also, you're relying on the postal service actually delivering the mail, which is often a dicey proposition.

Bank transfers really ought to be easier to do than they are.
US Government's Own Report Shows Toxic TPP “Not Worth Passing”
That wasn't a Mayan lost city, just another example of the culture of hype
godoc.orggithub.com redirects to www.rust-lang.org
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669996
This is a decent article but it's flawed in some ways.

Some of it is simply outright wrong:

> The narrative of return and independence also presents many practical challenges. In 1976, the Moroccan “Green March” sent 350,000 Moroccans into the Western Sahara to settle, massively altering the demographics in the sparsely populated region.

The Green March was a peaceful march of 350k unarmed Moroccans into the region, that pushed out the Spaniards who had colonised it. Not a single bullet was fired, and these 350k people didn't settle there at all, they went straight back home.

On the other hand, in the past 40 years people have come to settle in the region, mostly driven by business opportunities as it's being invested in by Morocco. This is changing the demographics, but very much unrelated to the Green March. It's these quite clear errors that show the author isn't doing the proper research.

Anyway what bothers me the most is that it's so one-sided. I don't mind when authors take up a position at all, and I too am empathetic with the plight of the Sahrawi's, but it's a deeply complex issue with many facets left unspoken. Like the role of Algeria, which has financed the military rebellion for decades. And not for moral reasons, because they think it's the 'right thing to do'. Morocco and Algeria had been in a cold war, one was allied to the west/us, the other to the soviet union. Algeria also had no direct access to the ocean outside of the med. sea, and wants to build a road through the western sahara to get to a free standing port. None of this is mentioned at all, we only hear of the poor human interest story of a refugee girl who's described as a perfect western hollywood story: poor but desperate to go to school etc, read it yourself it's a bit corny.

Fact is, Morocco's various dynasties have ruled over these lands a long time. The Sahrawi's are berbers, just like Moroccans (and Algerians and Tunisians btw, they're all very similar peoples). Morocco is willing to invest heavily into the region, and is looking to give large degrees of autonomy, like has been ongoing in Morocco itself (a country which has many different berber groups, who've been getting increased autonomy, respect, special educational programmes, cultural recognition etc). But Morocco is not looking to lose territory to a few hundred thousand people under the influence of Algeria. The notion that this vast piece of land, if left alone by Morocco, will be independently and without other influences (e.g. Algeria) be ruled by a few hundred thousand people, and run as a successful nation, more so than as a part of Morocco, is I think naive.

So I fully support their right to self determination, but I'm also cognisant that it's paired with a complex geopolitical story that's left unsaid in this article, and honestly I think the best and most sensible outcome is an autonomous region within Morocco.
where did you get this "most" claim from? Western Saharan for a big part live in big cities inside the Moroccan zone, only ~100k live in camps such as tindouf.
So since eyes don't grow in size from birth, could everyone have their lens removed early on to be saved as a potential replacement for later on in life? Would there be any benefit to doing this since there's already operations such as lasyk?
The bit that got me was the first bit of evidence the article provides. "This would be a bad weapon of war because [I can't imagine it being good]". I've seen a few modern people say that X would have not been used in the past 'because it's not tenable', despite X actually known to have being used in the past. Quite often it's amateur military historians making this claim. A common variant of this 'imagination' error is most of the esoteric stuff that is attributed to the katana, for example.

Finding few mentions in the literature or the examples you can examine being decorative rather than functional are better arguments (though not necessarily definitive, as you say).
There are lots of mobile devices specifically designed for industrial and commercial use. Usually they are much more expensive, but add few additional components. It would be useful to be able to build up your own devices from standalone components. But I doubt it is really in the interest of the manufacturers who want to be able to offer a complete "solution".
Hahahaha. Should we be coding, reading about code, or doing fun non work stuff? Voting for the latter. Thanks for the wake up!
Well, I doubt it, but maybe if they get enough puff pieces like this one, they can start to feel a bit better about themselves.

Also, no: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
No doubt. My wife and I are fostering twin 2 yr olds. There's no way I could code with them both here. Adorable, but in to everything. :)
Wetrix [1] comes to mind. One of my favorite games back in the time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetrix
Or, conversely, they'll do whatever they can to make it go down. I'm guilty of buying a small ICQ number.
Its all relative.

Its not a contradiction to say at the moment China doesn't have much reason to invade - but also point they have had reason before and may again. Let me put it better: they have a latent reason. As someone pointed out in this thread If Taiwan asserts its independence, Chinese have not officially ruled out an invasion. I also know this isn't the reality of current climate.

I agree Taiwan has power, and power has a lot of variables. Being a non-member state of the UN, because of China bribing other states, shows that this power has been shaped by China to some extent. Not having official embassies in many countries - shows the same thing.

People do know Taiwan is a country not part of China. But they don't always officially recognise that.

Combine this quasi-international presence with an invasion and your idea of Taiwan's power variables might shift to being based on the size of its military and its official international recognition. thats where ukraine and hong kong are relevant - to an extent.

The Taiwanese military is bigger than ever, so I think theres at least a little relevance in all this. Not relevance that theres gonna be an invasion, but relevance of the latent power plays that effect diplomatic relations.
The field isn't rapidly evolving. It's about cramming new pointless APIs and frameworks that are pushed by $company in order to dominate some market segment.
Galileo... had a resolution of only about 10 meters per pixel.
The spacecraft stored those images on a tape recorder with a
capacity of 114 megabytes, but a flawed rewind mode hampered
even that modest device

With the technology we have now, I'm surprised why we're not sending out a lot more tiny (therefore cheaper to launch) flyby probes across the solar system. Apart from the RTG and antenna, a probe today could probably be the size of a TV set.
Always glad to have more tools like these. Though I ran it on my site and it seemed to offer very similar suggestions to Google's PageSpeed Insights.

The one recommendation both offer is eliminating blocking CSS by inlining it. I'm really not sure it's worth making a mess of your DOM by doing so. JS solutions exist, but that seems a pretty heavy approach.

Alas, the perfectionist in me wishes I could get a proper 100 in both tests...
People disagree about whether 0 is natural though. Better not to use the word at all :D
It is just twitter shills and fanboys downvoting everyone who badmouths it. It is cancer and has always been cancer.
Life, Death and High Heels
> had to expect

But apparently did not. The question is also: what did Max-Hervé expect? If he knew that the insurance could not have meant the contract the way they wrote it, it is morally (and maybe also legally) wrong to exploit their mistake (unless you live in Anglo-Saxon capitalism, where everyone is expected to screw everyone else given the opportunity).
> If you are wondering why the insurance company would write such a contract, it was originally designed to be like a savings vehicle back in the 80s.

I've heard this defense before, but it's not really very good. Even in the 80s this would have been a ridiculously stupid contract. Letting people invest with hindsight is fundamentally flawed, even if you think it would be "difficult" to get information then.

It's not like this contract depends on realtime changes. You could easily have exploited it just as well with a daily call to your broker.

The person who wrote this was a colossal idiot.
No because there isn't one.
Debit cards are awful. Many purchases that you make with a debit card (gasoline at the pump, for instance) will end up double charging you, with the actual amount, then some sort of hold in addition. Sometimes the bank gets their shit together and clears it out correctly, and sometimes they don't.

Combined with the general volatility in how long it takes funds to clear when deposited (way longer than it should...), and unpredictability on how and when charges will be computed on your debit account, it's just smarter to use the float that credit cards offer, even if there were no rewards.
Show HN: Remlok, simple server-aware Clojure UI framework
OT: Have you read Infinite Jest? I'm wondering how much of the life described in that tennis academy reflects reality.
I was very sensitive about this problem, and incredibly angered when text reflow was gradually dropped thanks to Google, and when of course Mozilla happily followed suit. But I must admit that on the web of today it is rarely an issue.

If you want text reflow on touch working on Firefox for Android, you've got this:

Text Reflow by david2097152
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/

and its always-active fork:

Android Text Reflow by richmoz
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/

This could also come in handy:

Fit Text To Width by Jarrad https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/fit-text-to-w...
> I learned about monoids in my first course in linear algebra at the university in the first month.

You just proved my point.
Don't use debit cards? Let the hackers hoover up somebody else's money, rather than pulling straight from your bank accounts and have your rent checks bounce and over-draft fees kick in.

It's easier to disavow spurious credit card purchases than somehow get your funds back from bad debit transactions, let alone the fees when your fixed expenses don't clear because some asshole stole your money.
Even in Africa, not having those and having good, stable and cheap internet is a really weird case.

It's true that it is weird from the Western perspective, but it's actually true.

I work in a building with a company who build Flow-batteries. Their biggest markets are in South America and Africa where the mobile networks are often more reliable than the electricity networks because they run batter backups on their towers.

Communications are often seen as more important than anything else. If you have access to a phone you can find out where to get clean water.

See for example More Africans have cellphones than have electricity or piped water: http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2014/11/19/more-africans-...
> If he knew that the insurance could not have meant the contract the way they wrote it, it is morally (and maybe also legally) wrong to exploit their mistake

Why can you assume that? The contract is written clearly and specifically calls itself an arbitrage contract.

Was it unethical to exploit the fact that the mythical king didn't bother to calculate exponents? The request itself was stated clearly.
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> I'm not low income, in fact being paid at least 4x the national average for software developers

Out of curiosity, what is the average salary for software developers in Romania?
Why is it any different than redirecting to a different webpage?
Icelanders have both those things in their own language at a current population of 350,000, and have had it since before they were less than 250,000.
Better building blocks. Better programming tools. Understanding the craft of software engineering better.

To use a lever do I have to understand physics?
Nope, not true.

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