skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An "economic act of terrorism?" I guess he feels that since people aren't taking it seriously enough, he needs to throw around the "t-word" these days to get people to pay attention?
imo firms whose sole area of expertise is making $ & NOT patient safety shouldn't be allowed to muscle their way into life-critical services.

My partner worked as a paramedic for both a private company and a county Fire/EMS service. The private company was run by penny-pinching fraudsters who couldn't care less about their patients or the public good. If a practice would make them money and was mostly legal, they would do it. The county service, on the other hand, was professionally run, and he was privileged to work there.

I've never heard anyone say good things about private EMS.
Well, since this is up here: Does anyone else get an error in Firefox when using Charles on sites that use HSTS?

I can't use Charles at all in Firefox.
> Nassim Taleb is [...] also pro-Brexit

He just wants all these puts he's been buying to be worth something [0].

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-talebs-universa-invest...
How does Geo IP Tool make these predictions? Like, where is the data it's associating my IP with coming from or how are they obtaining it?
Are you talking about the current FBI case? That was an exploit in the Tor Browser Bundle (could force the browser to make a request using the non-tor network), not in the Tor Network itself.
Regrexit, the Voter’s Remorse: How Brexit Helps Bitcoin
Much better for executives to vote themselves rich, like in a well-run privatized system, right?
That's a non sequitur. The choice made by thee stdlib to not support many linked list operations (there probably are crates in the ecosystem for this anyway) does not imply Rust is unsuitable for complex specialized datastructures. It implies that Rust has opinions about what should and shouldn't be in the stdlib.

In fact, you said it yourself, "specialized". Since linkedlists are generally used in specific cases with different required ergonomics, you do not want to expose a catch-all.
Tiny-CNN: header-only, dependency-free deep learning framework for C++
1) It's totally, completely ludicrous to suggest that billions of dollars are a small amount of money to any existing company. Billions are peanuts to only a handful of governments in the world.

2) I'm a MSFT shareholder, and I'm scared. I'm not at all scared that the company will fail. I'm scared that my stock will be worth a lot less, and I won't be able to liquidate it without losing a bunch of my money.

3) The "piggy bank" is the shareholder value. That's where we get our dividends, and stocks have no value without dividends.

4) It doesn't matter what the effect of the purchase is on Microsoft, at least not to a shareholder. The market decides what the stock is worth, and the market thinks short-term and irrationally.
How is a post claiming residents deserve special privileges not ideological, but one claiming they don't is?
Your argument depends on a stipulation of the definition of "fairness" where the persons most easily associated with production are entitled to the most favorable tax treatment. Without that assumption, all you're saying is that just as there is a suboptimal tax system that is least expensive to collect, so too there's a suboptimal tax system that is least distortionary to the economy.

There are notions of fairness that aren't premised on the idea that tax rates aren't a point score system for rating people, and it can be rational to accept some degree of distortion so long as it's not so powerful that it prevents the economy from serving its purpose (and so long as that distortion is buying us something).
> The extent to which a vote is going to be binding needs to be made extremely clear before the vote

I thought it was made clear beforehand that this vote was not binding? Am I misinformed?
A few points:

First, eliminating aging won't make people immortal. People will still die from accidents, violence, disease, and suicide. I vaguely remember doing the math, and without aging, life expectancy would be around 300 years. (The variance in LE would be huge though, since one's age would have no effect on mortality.)

Second, arguments about overpopulation prove too much. If you're against anti-aging because of overpopulation, you should also be against reproductive freedom. After all, any couple that has more than two children is contributing to overpopulation. Anyways, there's a simple solution to overpopulation: A one child policy. Even if everyone's immortal, you'll only end up with 2x the original population. (8 billion people have 4 billion children, who have 2 billion children, who have 1 billion children...) I submit that such a policy is more humane than forcing everyone to spend decades becoming senescent before dying.

And finally: Who are we to decide for our descendants that anti-aging technologies are bad? Assuming no civilizational collapse, future generations will be smarter, wiser, and more knowledgable than we are. It's better to invent these technologies sooner so that they can choose for themselves whether or not to use them. If they agree with us, we'll have wasted some research money. But if we're wrong, we'll have condemned millions to die. Unless we're damn sure it's bad, the cost-benefit analysis favors inventing anti-aging tech.
You can support common markets while still raising an eyebrow at some of Brussel's decisions.

France is trying to prevent Americans from publishing true facts in the states, because misguided Frenchmen might accidentally seek such facts out and read them.[0]

Also, it's not altogether clear that any good long term compromise has been found to balance the needs of the strong economies alongside the more fragile ones.

You staved off Grexit, but retained the powderkeg of local fiscal policy with central responsibility for solvency of members.

Now, if I were in the UK, I probably would have seen these as secondary issues to the value of the common market. But worrying about concentrated power doesn't seem alien to me. And given the UK and EU are both in the WTO and so culturally related, it's not like I'd fear both sides will instantly revert to quotas, 1000% tariffs, and random visa denials.

Ok, ok, academic leavery aside, the mainstream leave does seem related to immigration, and that's troubling even if leave could be justified on other grounds. Nate Silver had a comment on the 538 podcast, something like, "We hold up liberal democracy as the pinnacle of governance, but it seems to have a systemic problem with immigration." That seems troubling, and I'm not sure entirely what to make of it yet.

[0] http://www.voanews.com/content/google-appeals-french-order-f...
No, I was referring to the FBI hidden service de-anonymization attack from last year.
There are instances where people use wordplay to gain an emotional/rhetorical advantage in a debate. For the seasoned, this might be irksome at best, but I agree, repeatedly hearing "Dumbocrat" can get old and I, for one, will quickly lose respect for that person. But comparing Stallman's use of the word "used" to conventional, quite childish wordplay seems like a very, very far stretch.

Stallman is redefining those people we know as "Facebook users", because in this case, "user" is not a correct term. A user is someone who uses a product to gain utility. By using a product, you gain something from the experience. A used is someone who is on the opposite end, where you are on the losing end of the deal.

In a relationship between Facebook the corporation and the Facebook "user", who is gaining more utility, and who is on the losing end? Stallman argues that Facebook "users" are on the losing end. Thus they are appropriately termed "useds", with evidence backing his redefinition.
Immortality + reproduction means population rate expands at a blistering pace. You cannot build generation ships big enough, and you will fill up every habitable scrap of the solar system, including artificial habitats.

If there is no upper limit on population growth, you also need no upper limit on your rate of expansion.

Suspended animation could work, but now you've just admitted that you're putting a limit on reproduction, but even that ends when those people wake up and arrive somewhere.

Even allowing all that, "we'll solve this unsolved problem by solving another unsolved problem!" does not inspire a lot of confidence.
> ORMs are a tool, that's it. The relational operations of SQL and the object-oriented (or functional) logic of your application code are usually very different and it's nice to have a mapper that lets you interact with your app's language while it takes cares of automatically mapping it to SQL.

Functional and relational models work really well together.

At Standard Chartered we even went so far as to add relations as a datatype to our Haskell-like language. It's a charm; and comparable for me to my experience first going from C-style arrays only to eg Python's dicts.

Only that this time the dict-style data organization was the `before'. Dicts are essentially equivalent to hierarchical databases, a model whose flaws relational databases were invented to address.
I've been at companies that did use ORMs, and still ended up with that kind of mess.

No tool is ever a substitute for discipline.
Copyright is automatic in the US, but there is a form to register a copyright with the Library of Congress and registration is a prerequisite before suing for statutory (as opposed to actual) damages for infringement. A "timely" registration has a presumption of validity, but you can register at any time, including just before filing a lawsuit. This, for obvious reasons, won't enjoy as many presumptions as one registered soon after the work was made.
Nope. Click on the Web link to access via Google.

The Google referrer gives you free access to that article.
Like most research projects that want to affect humans, eventually Tor moves to human trials. Proper trials require not just cypher punks, but actual people hiding from repressive governments.

The Tor folks I've met have always been careful to say that Tor is not designed to work well against a global passive adversary, but it might be worth something against a local adversary.
Is this common place for frozen berries or are they generally packaged before any mold can occur?
"Sort of"? Tor was a project of the Naval Research Labs. Even 51% of Wikipedia editors know about its USG funding.
It's not that there's a problem with the real terms, it's that stallman's alternative terms better highlight the actual nature of the things he describes. Those phrases are quick substitutions with the potential to make someone think more about the topic. Simply getting people to think about a topic is important for a social movement.

If someone in 1984 had started coining alternative terms the way stallman does, the amount of thoughtcrimes would skyrocket.
You forgot about also shorting the eventual result of those re-packaged strawberries by buying options on bismuth subsalicylate.
To your last paragraph: most of my fellow physicists do not care much about the distinction between bayesian and frequentist approaches, they just use a prepackaged tool to process their data. But of the few that learn those tools intimately, cosmologists are always bayesians (because we have only one Universe), and experimental particle physicists are always frequentist (because generating a ton of repeated test events is "cheap").
We should stop using SMS for 2FA
Wordificate
> Heck, you'd get pretty far with a simple conservative yes/no on whether a function might touch any globals.

No, you wouldn't. Try writing such an analysis. Either I will be able to break your analysis or it will return "yes, this might mutate a global" for so much of any reasonably sized program that the analysis will be useless.

This is basic, basic stuff to anyone who is in the sound static analysis field.
Shane's Hoverboard Patent Which Threatened +25 Companies Can Get Invalidated
in terms of quality or pricing?
This exists in Japan, and is actually a very wonderful thing for the most part.

There are a lot of low-paying jobs here that involve doing little else than basic customer service: answering questions and directing people where to go. Similarly, there are also a lot of low-skill labor jobs focused on parts of the national infrastructure.

Imagine, in the United States, if we pulled a page out of FDRs playbook and started putting the underemployed to work on our national infrastructure. Helping out road crews, cleaning up parks, cleaning up trash, that sort of thing

Government offices are part of that infrastructure, so people could also learn to answer phones, guide citizens through navigating the maze that is most civil service agencies, and so on.

It would take a lot of work to get there, but all that money goes right back into the economy, and it makes life better for their entire community, which I think should at least be a point of pride.
They all have mold on them. It's only the ones that have mold colonies large enough to be spotted by eye that are sorted out. Does that correspond to how much mold is dangerous? Who can say?
I prefer to use functional frameworks. They 1) express the sql with map, flatmap, filter, groupBy etc functions 2) use classes that are equivalent to tuples.

Since I develop in Scala both are very intuïtive to write.

Apparently Linq for F# is really good as well. As someone else mentioned in a comment.

I get a programming interface that doesn't attempt to hide sql and still my code is fully typed. And it's really easy to make your query logic modular: make the sql fragment a function that you can call. Like any other code you reuse.

I can't think of an advantage of ORM over this functional approach. Apart from ORM being more well known.
Clicked for the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. Was not disappointed.

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/01/illustrated-account-great-ma...
Perhaps if you live in an area where the word "gypsy" isn't well-known - but it would be in most of Europe at least. And given the history of abuse and oppression (eg: forced sterilization, even before the nazi concentration camps) it's not really a word that should be forgotten - in the sense that forgetting history is a great way to later repeat the same mistakes, and commit similar abuse.

I don't really see how "jipped" doesn't end up pronounced as "gypped" - so the connotation remains. FWIW the Moby Thesaurus lists a long litany of synonyms along the lines of "con man" and "cheat" for the term "gypper".
John Pilger: Why the British Said No to Europe
It read as a hit piece for RIAA/MPAA if they were peddling something edible.
Sundar Pichai Quora account hacked
If the US doesn't acknowledge non-resident status, then you're right, Canada isn't like the US. However, as a Canadian who was "working in a foreign country, for a foreign company, on foreign projects" (in the US) for half a year, I can guarantee you that I had to pay both US and Canadian taxes on that income, and I very thoroughly investigated the case because in spite of all the treaties, I ended up double-taxed for a few thousand dollars' worth.
Ask HN: Should DiMaria Have Started?
Dateline is Wednesday, before the results. Is that accurate, or has this been backdated?

(Wayback Machine has two captures from today, but I'm not sure that means anything either way.)
>What do ORMs do that's magic? What are the problems? Are you not in full control of them? It's your code after all that's using them.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...
imho he threw off a well balanced team with inertia.
You'd be amazed how much a genocide or brutal occupation adds to the (legitimate) offence of a stereotype.
Atari 2600 designer Joe Decuir publishes his notes from 1977
The wikipedia article you quote doesn't back up your claim. In fact quite the opposite.

From the article.
1) The 27th amendment was first introduced in the house in 1789.
It was first ratified by a state in 1789 "Maryland – December 19, 1789"
It was last ratified in 1992 "Michigan – May 7, 1992"
New evidence that sperm whales form clans with diverse cultures, languages
New Hampshire Library Is at Privacy Fore
It's not worth the time/effort of negotiating low volume deals. Whereas local, small businesses try to maximize return on income (ROI) on low volume, bigger businesses try to maximize overall profit.
> it's just a business that executed an existing concept very well

So is McDonald's, but I somehow think that they've managed to embed themselves into the culture/society enough that they won't soon be forgotten should they ever fall.
UI looks nice.
Haha, thanks for the good laugh!
I agree that symbols tend to make code harder to read, but I find that it's the number of different symbols that mostly cause issues, and that a few symbols that are used in simple and obvious ways, like parens and curly braces, don't tend to make code more difficult to read.
I wish I could afford one. An offline password manage seems like it would be really easy to use.
> For instance, the spinach might be not up to par, so he'll substitute some nice fresh bok choy. I've not seen that in a western restaurant.

All good chefs/restaurants do this. IMNHO fixed menu a la carte restaurants are rarely very good - but for some reason they seem to be common. Perhaps what's more interesting is how common it is to not do this in many restaurants. It usually just means that the kitchen doesn't care about the ingredients, or about the meals they prepare for that matter (eg: the line chefs/people actually working the kitchen day-to-day might have little freedom to influence the menu).
> they think it is perfectly normal for all high school kids to worry about getting into Harvard.

Many public institutions are highly competitive. But I guess "University of Texas" doesn't sound as elitist as Harvard.
To meet higher USDA grades, it seems like they must be pre-sorted to remove mold (among other things).

Example: https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/frozen-strawberrie...

PS: Side note, either USDA AMS hasn't updated their site in awhile, or some "most recent" frozen berry standards date back to the 50s/60s. Which, I guess makes sense; I imagine the process hasn't changed that much.
Debugging the 1959 IBM 729 Vacuum Tape Drive at the Computer History Museum
Rather short article. I am an absolute layman when it comes to legal matters of this kind, but this struck me as odd:

"Tesla Motors has reportedly signed a non-binding agreement with Chinese government-owned company Jinqiao Group to construct a Tesla production plant in the city of Shanghai."

How can an agreement to build a factory be non binding?
BTRFS can upgrade from ext4 by slotting itself into free space and marking the old metadata as a special snapshot. The same thing should work on other filesystems with few new challenges.
Future of the Web
TSLA: Not for the faint of heart.
> It is not. Have you followed the debate? I'm sure there are plenty of Leave supporters that aren't, but a huge proportion of them have also expressed outright racist views.

So by that chain of logic, couldn't we say that because a huge proportion of muslims are for the punishment of homosexuals that we can generalize them as homophobic?
I imagine it's just that details are yet to be finalised so both parties can back out if something comes up.
Do you use a Dapper extension for populating and persisting entities? (Last I looked at it as I recall this wasn't default functionality.)
Sounds like the complaint is about tone.
Seeing the discussion about this neologism as the first comment on the thread was disappointing. There were many important issues raised in the article.

In a way, Stallman uses the word "used" because he is writing for a certain audience. For one, he is writing for himself, but also the vast majority of his audience are hackers. And these hackers are curious enough to read the strange language choice and think about what that might mean. One might be led to ask how impure and tilted the language around our relationship with these products is.

If he really wanted to make an approachable article, this should be titled, "21 reasons why you should stop using Facebook". But Stallman isn't trying to please everyone, he is trying to please his audience (including himself).
I second the recommendation with the caveat that you can only get through it if you can stand his narcissism.

It's really a tragedy because there really are brilliant ideas in there. It's just that Wolfram did not single handedly invent them all.

I would also recommend the Artificial Life conference proceedings and journals.
The people have an opportunity to get rid of the government and that is during an election.

Some random referendum about an issue that may have nothing to do with the government of the day is not the appropriate time to lash out at the government.
Love this book!

It is especially good for beginners.
Seems like something you could put a stop to very quickly with the use of some tracking technology & a medium-sized budget. I've got to guess that the actual impact to the industry and, more importantly, to the industry's insurance companies is just not large enough to warrant such an effort/cost.

I mean we're talking about physical goods here, in relatively large quantities, that are moving about at relatively slow speeds -- seemingly within very trackable regions. I understand "going after the big boss" -- but, at some point, it seems like stopping the issue "on the ground" may be the better & more effective way to curtail the issue.

It really just sounds like the free market (read: the producers, transporters, and [mostly] the insurers) don't deem the issue worthy of the expense to curtail it.
Lyonlim,
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A junkie is a drug user, but they are being used by the criminal infrastructure providing those illicit substances. To say that they are not a user because they are being used via their usage is just nitpicking.

Facebook users are using Facebook and gaining utility through it, regardless of what they are giving up (whether they realize it or not) to do so.
Honestly, appearing crazy is how stallman attracts his audience. He's the center of a pretty radical social movement, all he needs to do is preach to his fans and his supporters do the persuasion to "normal people". A few years passes, and literally 90% of what he's said becomes true. He gets his credibility from his predictive powers, not necessarily being mature and put together. His article on trusted computing (where he calls it treacherous computing) that he wrote a few years back is extremely accurate to the current state of computing.
It's not a mental illness to have faith in something. Faith is a normal part of being human. Even atheists have faith: Faith in their own belief that there are no gods or other supernatural beings. They don't have empirical evidence that there are no higher beings, just as religious types don't have empirical evidence that such beings exist. On a smaller scale, one can have faith in one's own abilities or those of the people around them. Once again, not a mental illness.

Now, I'll concede that religion is a manmade concept, usually a way for those who seek power over others to achieve it. But faith and religion are two completely different things. There are those who believe in a higher power (God? Gods? Spirits? Aliens? Cthulhu?) who are anti-religion, just as there are those who have no true faith in a higher power but use religion to further an agenda (militant extremists and terrorists come to mind, both foreign and domestic).

To put it another way, religion is an institution, faith is human nature. You have faith in the words you wrote; does that make you mentally ill? No, of course not, you just come off as having a huge chip on your shoulder and a predisposition for painting everyone in a billions-strong group with the same brush.

But that's a typical human flaw, not a documented mental illness.
Visual Studio – Changing the C# Language Version
The app boom is not over