skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
true and well said

however, airfields are also vastly cheaper to build and maintain, and if they do get "destroyed" they can be rebuilt or replaced (possibly elsewhere) pretty quickly. in comparison to hitting a multi-billion dollar carrier so hard it's destroyed or taken out of service. In a hot war between China and the US, I'd bet China could rebuild/replace airfields faster than the US can rebuild/replace their carriers.

On a related note, I submit that this very issue is why the US and its allies are so against the Chinese trying to build up those little artificial islands, harbors and airfields, in those disputed waters. Not only does it allow China to project force out to greater ranges, with more overlap, and gives them more options in a shooting war, it also gives them more experience in building them up, and learning how to do it better and faster.

And it sends a signal to all the nations in the region, at least as an implied threat. It tells all the nearby nations, and the US, to think very very carefully about whether they want to get in a shooting war with China, whether over Taiwan or Korea, etc. Because while the US might have some very powerful toys in the theater, very modern and sophisticated, they are also very very expensive, and far from home, unlike the Chinese forces, and can easily be outnumbered. They can be attacked from increasingly shorter ranges, and whatever losses the Chinese do take, their losses will be cheaper and faster to replace than the American losses in theater.
Everything you say may (probably is) true.

Now why does anything in your post matter?
Yes, you're definitely right - "serialization" as a concept is going to still be needed for data interchange. I just didn't want to mention it because that's just status quo, not part of the new computing model.

In my original comment, I simply meant that you would no longer have to serialize your data to your own disk.
Doesn't feel like it for me.
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I think people have misunderstood my post. It was not against funding for any mental illness, or mental disease studies. The comment was in direct response to a linked article in the NY Times article, about Morgellons.

I have had friends and family with mental health issues, so believe me, I am not a doubter about the seriousness of mental health and the associated diseases.

Morgellons:

"a self-diagnosed skin condition that is actually a form of delusional disorder in which individuals believe they are infested with inanimate material like sand, hairs, thread, or fibers, while in reality no such infestation is present." [1].

I was astonished it took a 2 years to conduct the investigation, and another 4 years to publish, to finally in the end rule out actual physical causes, and arrive at the DI (Delusional Infestation) diagnosis. Remember, DI has been in the literature since 1937; they didn't discover it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons
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You were downvoted for being wrong. And now you're being downvoted again because you're whining about it, instead of just admitting that you were wrong.

I see about as many people complaining that HN irrationally loves Apple as that it irrationally hates Apple. Neither one is true. Mostly HN downvotes people who don't check their facts.
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I don't get the complexity the US creates around voting. I live in a fairly large city (Berlin, Germany, around 3 million I believe).

- I walk 150m to my polling place. It's similar for most people.

- I've never waited more than 5 minutes

- The polling place is run mostly by volunteers, about 5 or 6 per place, with civil servants filling spots that can't be filled. Costs are neglible.

- I get a paper ballot, I mark my vote with a pen

- After 6pm I sometimes return and watch the counting. I can freely walk around between the people sorting the ballots and look at anything I want

- Did the same with friends last time around, we each had a bottle of beer, nobody cared. They were mostly older people happy to get a few visitors and talk a bit of politics.

- Pretty accurate first results (not exit polls) usually around 9pm.

- I can check the counts from my polling place the next day. Votes for the large party are in the lower 3-digits, so it's possible for me to specifically verify a few results.
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While I can understand that it might be fun to point out the ignorance of most people, these kind of "gotcha" surveys/polls performed by supposedly reputable groups can be pretty annoying. I'm sure most people think "Contains dihydrogen monoxide" should be put on the label too.

That said, DNA can probably make certain foods slimy, which is a texture I'm generally opposed to.
It was called "OS X", not "Mac OS X" since 10.8.
While I agree with the sentiment, I see it as being too easy to evade. If you can't accept regular employment with BigGunCorp then become a contractor who accepts a lucrative contract from a consultancy working under contract from BigGunCorp. And that's assuming you don't want to hide what you are doing.
last time I checked Microsoft was a company (not a platform) and like any other it has to make money to survive. Your saying is applicable to every other company releasing open source code
I'm a bit shocked about the state of advertising. When I was making websites (~early 2000s), there were a lot more options to choose from, it seems. Now you basically just have Google and this opaque network of algorithmic auctions. Back then, you had a bunch of small business ad networks that you could choose from.

I found you could also choose more different formats. OK, there was no video (thank God), but you could have unobtrusive text links, you could have banners, little buttons, HTML blocks, and so on. And yes, also annoying pop-ups and flash ads...

You also had paid content, which is absolutely taboo and vilified today, but I believe it was not nearly as bad as we think. It was certainly better than some alternatives (horrible pop-up-ads that installed dialers, does anybody remember them?) Back then, I was proud to not serve evil or annoying ads, and to promote articles from partners on my site - including setting links to them to promote their page ranks. (That Google shows links among search results that they get money for, but forbids slightly improving the position of search results when other people got money for it tells a lot IMHO.)

One alternative to the current situation would be for sites to serve their own ads (from their own servers). I wonder why this isn't done at least from big sites?
I never said that you have to attend physically. See my comment below.

"Whining about it". Please avoid personal attacks.
I stand corrected. Please read my sentence as: "in the 18th and early 19th century".
You're forgetting the 48-day asymmetry.
Also, NTFS being a much better filesystem than HFS+, there was a lot less incentive to switch.
According to w3counter ff and ie are neck to neck.

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Last month ff was ahead
Ooh, recursion.
It would be nice if OSX could actually work with share point - a big issue if you have a mixed OSX / Wintel Shop.

It's not a major issue just adding more modern crypto.
I'm actually intrigued by the concept but sweet jebus that thing is ugly.
Not only that, another hilarious idea is that customers actually influence much in a market like this. People don't choose the closest phone to the hypothetical most perfect one for them - they choose out of what's available to buy, and the decision which one in particular is mostly driven by a) price, and b) marketing.

I'm yet to see a person who'd say "You know what? It would be cool if the new phones had heart-rate sensors.". It's always "oh, they put a heart-rate sensor in that phone, cool.". Driven by what manufacturers do, not what the consumers want.
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> ... and he most probably had some official documents and marketing brochures as sources and you will most probably not find "East Germany is nice, except that we like to hit immigrants and burn their houses down." in there.

LOL!
super inspiring. Thanks for sharing man.
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It's being done to make devices thinner.
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APFS is only a developer preview in macOS Sierra, your system will not use it by default. It is meant for production use with the 2017 release.

The filesystem does not seem to include any innovation, it is just catching up to the state of the art. A new filesystem was long overdue ever since ZFS was dismissed.
I found the opposite after being fired (for complaining that we weren't getting paid - I was ready to quit).

I got sick of having to do dumb technical tests with every application when I had been working all day, whereas with the spare time I was able to give them a lot more attention.
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At some point the cost of advertising to the medium in terms of user disengagement will exceed the income. I can't wait for it to happen, then at least we will reach some kind of steady-state.

I really pity the newspapers, especially the ones that also have an online presence, they are caught between a rock and a hard place and no matter what they do they end up hurting themselves, their employers, users or shareholders. It's very hard to transition from a 1800's model to one that will work 200 years later.

Bandwidth being as cheap as it is means that advertisers really don't care about how many bytes they need to shove down the pipe in order to make a sale. End users on metered bandwidth (mobile for instance) will suffer but that's not the advertisers problem, to them it is mission accomplished and the website owner/publisher will end up holding the bag.
Poland here, same process. Well, I don't think I can actually watch them count, but then again, I never tried.
You are right that my confusion is about the squaremeter price in NYC in general, not in this project specifically. That is exactly my point. I don't want to bring any other point. Why are we still arguing about this point?
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It's somewhat amusing that a lot of etherum "dApps" boil down to ponzi schemes or gambling.
That code you posted immediately struck me as wrong--not real C64 code. It took me a minute to realize why: it's in lowercase.

(The C64 defaulted to a character set with only capital letters, to leave more space for graphical characters. There was a mixed-case set available, but no one ever used it except for word processing and text adventures.)
How can they overstate bugginess? If you didn't hit a bug yet, you luckily don't know about it. If there's a bug, there's a bug.
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> > If the people doing the counting are bought then that is an issue too.

> That's why you have hostile observers from opposing parties present.

That's probably why GP wrote "bought", not "asked nicely to miscount in their party's favour".

That said, it's probably a game neither party would like to play too much, as it seems it could spiral out of control and turn into a race to bottom, sucking out more and more party money.
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https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc-clang

https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc-llvm

Doesn't that look like an open source implementation? Or did I misunderstand something?

However:

> The compiler is not far enough along for programmers to "kick the tires" on Checked C. We do not have a installable version clang available yet. If you are really interested, you can build your own copy of the compiler:
You don't have a plan so it would be unwise to leave. You say your emergency fund is deficient, why not figure out how to grow that to a safe margin over the next six months or so? You are failing phone screens. Specifically what field within ICT do you want to pursue? What are the skills that are the absolute must for those roles? If you can't answer that, then you don't know what areas of study to target. You may find after you do a gap analysis that you only need to train yourself in a couple skills that can be incorporated in some way into your day-to-day work.

If you just leave because you're fed up and you don't at least have a plan, you're going to make things harder on yourself than necessary. You may even find after you do your homework that there's a more fulfilling career path with your same employer that you can easily transition over to.
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> lot of FUD from anti-Apple copyleft zealots

Outside of the name calling, what FUD would that be? Are we uncertain if apple apply an app-store license on apps they distribute? Are we uncertain if user can or can't install their own modified version of apps on their devices?
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Also the DDK (Windows Driver Development Kit) didn't support C++ in any meaningful way. If I remember correctly, all my drivers had to be written in C89.
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I've written lots of C and never had problems with buffer overruns, bounds checking, double frees, and other memory issues. Typically at a glance in one's code, I can tell when behavior may be undefined, and once someone has a little experience, they can avoid undefined behavior altogether. Why does so much work go into fixing these problems? In other words, what are some examples of use cases of a stricter language like this, that would be too complicated for human eyes to quickly verify?
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> I always claimed I wanted qwerty keyboard. ... nobody buys phones for one feature.

Barebones BB Curve 9310 user here for ~4 years and counting, which replaced a Treo 755p when seemingly everyone had iPhones back in uni. Been meaning to purchase a spare for when this one inevitably hits the pooper. Battery obsolescence is my biggest sustainment worry. QUERTY keyboard requirement has made me a perpetual mobile luddite.

Definitely feels like the last man standing now that our senior-most engineer's wife forced him off his flip phone this past Christmas. Personally don't know anyone who doesn't own a smartphone these days...lonely world.
I am not from your region but for me is also important have quiet environment for thinking. I hate open-office and crowded workplace. So I would prefer some like this: http://assets.inhabitat.com/files/2010/04/pod1.jpg

Personally....i definitely would use your service. $2/h is reasonable price.
More specially DF-21D. China uses different versions of DF-21 missile as medium-range ballistic missile with large payload, for conventional precision ground attack, anti-satellite weapons delivery, ballistic missile defense and for nuclear strike.

DF-21 is medium-range ballistic missile.

The new DF-26 is even bigger (intermediate-range ballistic missile) and can reach Guam with conventional warhead.
It may, or may not, have it but I very much doubt there isn't room to retrofit it where appropriate.
I think they're talking about the protocol like "keep around these keys and exchange this", but implemented with proprietary code that doesn't use any of Moxie's C implementation which is indeed GPL.
This greatly lacks an overview as the specification[1] is very in-depth.

I kind of wonder if they're working on automatic conversion tools between C and checked C.
At least for ptr<> this should be trivial. If a function does no pointer arithmetic with a * pointer and only uses it in function calls that take ptr<>, can be converted to a function taking a ptr<>.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc/releases/download/v0.5...
> Not sure how well accepted that theory is or isn't but it certainly seems to hold a lot more credence than "the war in Europe started because Hitler."

I've read a lot of WWII history. Especially focused on the ETO and Germany. In my mind, it seems beyond clear that Hitler was the reason that war broke out, the single prime key motivating force, his desires, his influence, his decisions, his cult of personality, his charisma, his quirks, his obsessions, etc. He existed and acted within a framework of other facts, within a certain context, and there were plenty of others who failed to act against him, enough, early enough, when it would have been more effective. But I've been confident of the "because Hitler" idea for a long time.

If you can point me at a history book or analysis which you think contradicts that, definitely share it with me, I always love to learn different angles. If I were to give you just one that aligns with "because Hitler" I'd recommend Shirer's Rise & Fall.
Or, possibly, they:

- Have enough faith in humanity to regard the possibility of collective democratic power having influence on currencies as a feature

- Are kinda noticing that life isn't actually quite a tragedy currently in most western democracies and therefore see no need for revolutionary change.

- Consider risk an essential factor in every investment, and fear it may be too high for the class of investors attracted to cryptocurrencies

- Have been convinced by actually quite serious flaws in this DAO thing, not from ideology, but game theory

- Are irritated by crypto currency advocates who go for conspiracy theories instead of arguing on the merits.

- Are wary of crypto advocates who argue with political arguments but clearly have a financial interest in the currency's rise.
I don't like the idea of having all my photos run through facial recognition in my own library...
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To be clear I can't agree more!

I got a little lost while writing. But indeed my point was double check! Because in my case everything looked fine at first sight.

This is even why I don't use the same process for my two backup (daily/monthly). Because to be fair you can't constantly check that your daily/hourly backup isn't corrupted, you rely on its build-in safeguard and occasionally you check it.

But by using two different methods for daily vs monthly(offsite) backup, you significantly reduce the odds that the two different methods failed at the same time while you need them. (Also a monthly full clone is way easy to check than a Time Machine Disk)
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Your project sounds very interesting.

I don't think you'll be able to achieve speeds faster than GPRS, but it's useful nevertheless.
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I started a Product Hunt style newsletter that curates the best UI designs every day (http://uimovement.com).

It was profitable from sponsorships about 6 months after launch (slightly over $1,000 a month in revenue, costs $300ish a month). I spend about 10 minutes a day on it. I need to spend more time marketing it and updating some of the tech - but I'm too lazy.

Also, I'm not sure the 6 months to profit counts, because I worked on 3-4 similar side-projects before launching it for about a year before.
I'm struggling with this as well. Working for the sake of pleasure. It seems that I'm so fixated on how the end result will turn out that I've forgotten the joy of actually doing the work.
> It's old school investigative work otherwise and most criminals are super dumb.

Selection bias, since you don't know about the criminal you didn't catch.
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Did you think they would suddenly start waving "information wants to be free" flags?
It really blew my mind when I first watched it. A fair amount of the course went over my head so I had been randomly skipping around the series but inted to go back chronologically
Looks pretty interesting.... Apple is putting support for 3D touch, more features we expect to come & a better siri support for future...Siri is fine now I think, developers should work more hard for siri!!!
A constant stream of memory-safety related vulnerabilities get found in popular C and C++ programs, many exploited in real attacks. If you haven't "had problems", then either you're far better than most experienced programmers, or you just haven't had many people examine your code with the explicit intent to cause problems. :)
If Apple goes to USB-C then it'll do the opposite of split the market. Of course it'll be a massive step back if it spawns lightning versions of headphones on top of 3.5mm and USB-C. But that's not a sure thing. What is a sure thing is the current suboptimal state of having two kinds of plug when only one is really needed.
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I have spent a lot of my life pondering these questions, and have figured out a way to spend a lot less money than the majority of my peers.

So much so I quit my job and drove Alaska->Argentina for 2 years, then after working for a few more I've quit again and am spending 2 years driving around Africa.

My thoughts on how to do it here: http://theroadchoseme.com/work-less-to-live-your-dreams
The deployment of forces in theatre close to a potential aggressor is a deliberate strategic process designed to ensure that the alliance will get involved politically. That is why units have been sent to the Baltic states recently. The American, Canadian or British public might not go to war for Estonia, but they will if that initial attack on Estonia involves casualties on their forward deployed forces.

The thinking is in turn that those troops therefore deter aggression because they act as their nation's guarantee of involvement. A similar principle was seen during the age of gunboat diplomacy, especially with the Pax Britannica.
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The problem is harder than it sounds when you're talking about something as high-value as a national election (especially in the US).

Have you read "Reflections on Trusting Trust"?
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This is a joke... but in reality there are MANY cases where programming language can prevent errors at compile time with no or minimal costs and this could be added to standard C...