skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are dozens of things in Japan dying off as traditional things become more difficult to make due to the demand not being what it once was.

Kimonos [0]

Swords [1]

Kaiseki [2]

Hand Tattooing [3]

Urushi [4]

0: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8082875...

1: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/korehira-watanabe/

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7ddflgvvQ

3: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/24/entertainment/la-ca-...

4: http://web.archive.org/web/20150812060006/http://enterjapan....
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=johngibby.com
You better check your SSL configuration
Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security.

Shamelessly stolen from SE.
> It's a shame

A shame? Quite an understatement. Sadly short-termism is the message du jour. I don't have the first idea how skills that once took a ten year apprenticeship can be sensibly preserved, or why apprenticeships have so comprehensively died. "Modern apprenticeships", or whatever your region calls them, don't provide anything near the same depth.

As this article shows, even the places that actually need those rare skills cannot see far enough ahead to recruit a shadow apprentice.

It's not just the niche skills that get lost, it's the problem solving abilities that went with them.
Does http://creativeapplications.net serve as an equivalent?
You got your design team in my security team, and vice versa [pdf]
> Painting Australia as difficult to migrate to is patent nonsense

From experience, it is difficult. When worked on this a few years ago there were only two options for moving to Australia from the UK.

One was skill-based employment, a points-based assessment scheme for which two-thirds of immigration slots are reserved. Applicants must be under 45 and meet the requirements of the Skilled Occupations List. I've worked in a compatible job for 20 years but didn't qualify because I didn't have a suitable university degree. Why that was relevant after two decades wasn't clear, but terminated my application.

The other option was inward-investment business migration but even that didn't give guarantees of residence, just 'possibility'.
The article summarizes a study that "confirms [the authors'] hypothesis as well as the community perception that the system was flooded by content that nobody cared about, while really interesting content was getting rarer" and presents this as a problem to be solved.

I think this is actually not a problem, because most users can still successfully find the answers they need on Stack Overflow.

Here's how I believe I and other users use Stack Overflow. We have a problem. We Google that problem (or occasionally search on Stack Overflow). We usually find a fairly popular (and high-quality) question with a fairly popular answer. We're satisfied by that answer.

The article points out that the number of good questions has remained constant, but the number of bad questions has increased. Maybe there's really a close-to-constant number of good, searchable questions that can be asked at any given time, and the declining average quality is just a result of Stack Overflow's popularity.
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RMS is a "maniac", and I don't mean that in any derogative sense, but I can't find a better word. He is able to put forward enormous amounts of passion and energy for his cause.

Sometimes there are people who commit to ideas in such a way. Think of Gandhi and his absolute commitment to non-violence in any situation.

It's good that these people do what they do, but it's also important that they are taken with a grain of salt.
Please keep programming language flamewar comments off HN.
I loved his book, but this video is great. His enthusiasm makes him really likeable. Having an under-the-house forklift robot is so damn cool!
> Practically... it's a 52%/48% vote. Hardly a mandate. Some people say a revote might yield an opposite result, which means the current outcome is probably under the margin of error.

I think a good case can be made that in general close votes on this kind of thing should automatically have a revote in six months to a year, because seeing how the results were distributed geographically might change some minds.

For instance, perhaps many people who voted to leave did so on the assumption that the UK would remain fully intact after leaving, but now seeing the results from Scotland and Northern Ireland might fear that one or both of those will leave the UK and would prefer an intact UK as part of the EU over an independent UK that just has England, Wales, and Gibraltar.

It would also probably be a good idea to hold another vote after the negotiations with the EU on what the relationship will be after exit are done, or at least to the point that there is a good idea of what the relationship will be. If that relationship is better than stay voters thought the UK would get, some of them could swing to leave. If that relationship is worse than leave voters thought the UK would get, some of them could swing to stay.
Now we need a massive governmental program to encourage children to become scientific glass blowers and promote tons of glass blowing courses on Udacity.
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The people down voting you are the same people who mock the Brexit leave voters.
Extrapolated from their numbers, in 2045 it will be an unbelievable 16 billion, 2 bookings a night per human. All that vacationing will lead to vacation fornication and generate the increase in population needed to sustain the growth. What a keen business model.
Five downvotes, but no comments. What am I missing then?
damn u really f*ing up some commas and going swag
> "westerners think in such-and-such way, they'll never understand our situation" -- is exactly the mind trap that Putin and the secessionists in eastern Ukraine would love to have everyone fall in.

Well, the future aside, I'm talking about it post-factum. So yes, so far the ineffectiveness of the west plays hand in hand with Putin.
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I use acme-tiny (with --acme-dir) and set up nginx to point the /.well-known/acme-challenge to a directory acme-tiny can write to.
It should be possible to do reverse proxying with nginx for whatever web server hosts the acme challenges..
Thanks. Step 3 and 4. You wire them the CNY, and how do they get your new BTC? I guess you're saying that the way most exchanges work is with a central depository of BTC and they just internalize (book out) their orders? (Unless the exchanges are really pseudo-derivatives dealers selling CFDs?) Isn't this exactly why places like Coinbase require your identity? (Does BTCe?) And if they aren't internalizing orders, particularly for massive sums which will be hard to find another side of the trade to internalize against, wouldn't that require a blockchain transaction to get more BTC in their depository, unless the exchange starts also acting as market maker, a la EnronOnline?

If I go to BTCe with a $50mm USD deposit, but they only have $25mm BTC equivalent deposited there, and "buy" an equivalent amount of BTC, will they not be required to obtain $25mmUSD equivalent more BTC from the blockchain?

Furthermore, do the exchanges take a position either long or short? If I then liquidate my $50mm worth of BTC, how do they get the fiat to wire to me, if they don't transact with somebody else?

I just fail to see how the major shifts in supply/demand are totally absorbed by the exchanges and never show up on the blockchain. Do the exchanges have an inter exchange market off of the blockchain or something? I agree with you, technically, that for small sums, there's no need for this and so the blockchain volume may not represent total size of the market, but at the scales we are talking about (see how much HSBC laundered for a single drug gang alone), how does this not show up, or rather, how does it never hit the blockchain? Particularly when somebody eventually wants to liquidate back to fiat?

"HSBC was accused of failing to monitor more than $670 billion in wire transfers and more than $9.4 billion in purchases of U.S. currency from HSBC Mexico, allowing for money laundering, prosecutors said."

That is one subset of the problem. BTC has what, $12mm/day volume? This one subset is over 2 years worth of all the BTC volume. Honest question, is off blockchain BTC trading really that big?
Everything does NOT belong on StackOverflow.

I wish SO highlighted http://stackexchange.com/sites so that people can participate in the respective stackexchange communities where they will be more welcome. I have seen that a lot of good questions on StackOverflow get closed/migrated simply because they are irrelevant on StackOverflow.

A similar analogy would be to think of something that would be gold in the right sub-reddit but controversial/irrelevant on the main reddit page.

StackOverflow encourages constructive Q&A.

The SO community has always aimed to close any questions whose answers will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.
Dapper does have very low-level basic functionality to insert or update entities. You need to write the SQL yourself so this gets very painful very quickly for complicated models where you want to persist child objects.

That someone would say "Dapper is all they need" leads me to think they only work on very small projects. You will drown in large projects if you use Dapper everywhere. Better to use a high level ORM like EntityFramework and sprinkle in some Dapper in performance critical code.

The only time EF creates performance problems is when the developer doesn't understand the concepts behind SQL. This isn't an ORM problem, it's a training problem.
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Doesn't even read as incendiary, just a slightly snippy turn of phrase. I doubt anyone sees neoliberalism as problem free. One of the problems being an excess of short-termism.
> I don't use SO as a source of learning anymore other than when API documentation isn't available or sufficient.

The latter point is really important. I use API documentation whenever it is actually reasonably complete and up-to-date. But with many abysmal documentations (cough Rails cough) I just go straight for SO because the thing I'm looking for is probably not even documented. Or if not, I won't find it in there because search is only by class/method name, not by task.
> There should have been one SO for everything.

What could possibly go right about mixing Judaism questions and Christianity questions into the programming questions?
Wrote something similar to that (for Gentoo but should work for others just fine) a few days ago. It scores A+ on SSLlabs and I used it to replace a wild card certificate so it's running everything for a bunch of domains.

https://blog.notmyhostna.me/lets-encrypt-with-auto-renewal-a...
> 2. If you're not using an ORM, then you ultimately end up writing one.

There are other ways, like when using "event sourcing", or servers like postgrest [0] that give you a REST-api on top of your database.

ORMs are mainly useful if you have objects to create, read, update and delete.

[0] http://postgrest.com/
Trivially. For starters, student loans, wherein lenders profit from interest on the loan.
My thoughts as well. Wish someone would create that site.

Will be happy to try to contribute.

There is so much SO got correct that I think just changing a few rules could work as long as we could manage to get the word out.

As managed above silos probably makes more problems than they solve (partially because of the moderators but I guess the silos should go away anyway).

Same goes for strict rules about what belongs (Case in point: question about inter-company WAN traffic being rejected on networking because site guidelines says something about "inside corporate networks"). Rules about what does not belong (acceptable content) should be OK as long as they don't prevent technical questions from being asked and answered.

A way to deprecate answers (and a way for viewers to "flag" them as "still useful".)

And yes, a way to handle subjective questions. (Quora already has a grip of this only their IMO insane policy of sharing my every click on the site made it unusable for me and a number of others.)
On 2 and 3 - this is dead right.

As an example of 3) Here's a question that has an accepted answers that is wrong http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7635013 - it's regarding x86, x86_64 and x32. Since x32 was new/unknown at the time, a lot of the answers say "x32 doesn't exist".

And for 2) here's an answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/26522110 that is/was true at the time of writing - a nasty little bug in the Android NDK causes math library functions to not get linked in on pre-lollipop devices if you state you are using android platform 21 and ndk 10c. Two rules lawyers are spouting off about how the poster should post a new question or leave a comment. They are in over their heads. The comments are out of context and come across as patronizing. It is also now an example of 3) since all the tech involved is pretty old in Android terms.
Here's an earlier thread including photos from a community member who visited the installation:
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924673
> They certainly didn't expect Cameron to go "you know what, bugger this."

The Queen can technically refuse his resignation. It would be quite encouraging if she did so, and told him to get on with running the country with the mandate he has been given by the people.
This looks just like sparrk.co ... which I was very excited about back then, but then they just went silent.

Let's hope this will be different.
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Same for google. They don't make any money from search. They earn by selling ads. This is just a stupid exercise you can do with any company.

Microsoft doesn't make any money from software. It makes all its money from sabotaging and undercutting its competitors.
Its something I've mulled for years ;)

Here's about collaborative filtering: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-...

Here's just general SO discontent: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/25426541504/stack... and http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/26580091073/stack...

;)
> And the instant demands for a referendum on Northern Ireland.

Except for my contituency in NI, which overwhelmingly voted 'leave'. Do we get to break-off into independence?

How far down the rat-hole does one go? State, county, city level?
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We had a machinist in the Physics department at my university who made incredible things. He made things that are out in space and tons of cool and very difficult hardware for laser systems and particle accelerators. He could make practically anything and was a great resource for us physics students to learn some practical things like how to use a milling machine, machinability of materials, tolerancing, and how to articulate our needs to a machinist. Sadly when he retired, I heard that they didn't replace him. I still feel like it was a huge loss for the department.

I think the glassblower here is the same. Such a shame that we don't have pipelines for more people to pursue things like this.
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Ask reddit.

On a more serious note: Stack Overflow started out as a technical site. Questions about programming often crosses the border to hardware or networking. They rarely however cross into theology.

I'd be fine with opening a different site for theological questions as long as I could have all my technical questions in one place (and more importantly not having someone move them around.)
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Funny how jobs we know nothing about are always easy or unnecessary.
Define a "functional" family.

Define what makes a social dynamic "dysfunctional".

> humans are under pressure to prove their worth to society.

This sounds like a really dysfunctional society to me.[sic]

I'll have to disagree with you there kristine.

Lisa makes a lot of sense - even then, it's still only a piece of a massive social jigsaw mindfuck.
Is this a problem with wikipedia.org? Imagine both of these sets of questions tagged as `religion` and you have a common source for all people interested generally in any religion.
> 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.

Have you written about this? It sounds really interesting.
Like Wikipedia, it's users vs. bureaucrats now. I actually dislike the "edit queue" that appears at the top of the profile; I'd rater opt out of participating in this patronizing crap completely.
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> Also I don't understand why Hacker News, who mostly seem to be leaning to the left, are taking such a pro-capital stance.

It's also a remarkably conservative stance versus the usual cry to 'disrupt all the things'.

Surely an enormous political union with 750 million inhabitants, which has evolved gradually over 60 years with no clear objective or defined scope and little input from those inhabitants, is ripe for innovation and disruption?
I'm still a little disappointed they chose to send a probe to Jupiter instead of Uranus or Neptune.

I am certain the Jovian system is madly interesting and there's lots and lots of fascinating things to be discovered. But on the other hand, Galileo has already spent several years exploring it, while we still know comparatively little about Uranus and Neptune.

Having said that, I am, of course, excited to see what new and interesting things Juno will allow us to find out. In a way, there are no boring places in our solar system.
I kinda left SO primarily for how trivial-oriented is has become. Say you write an answer on how to automatically distinguish images of floorplants from general pictures; 3 up votes. What is the current content type for JSON(P)? Hundreds.

The same goes for questions, if you ask something that is moderately complicated it will go largely unnoticed and unanswered (even if you bounty the hell out of it).

And then you have the zealous behaviour of some mods, some of them don't even have the slightest sense of consistency - I've seen extremely helpful questions with tons of valuable answers being closed as "off-topic" just because the post was (still) getting a lot of attention. Where as mostly related questions / answers in another thread (but with much less value in terms of knowledge) are still alive.
So, if you leave out parentheses it uses indentation and switches to infix?
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Connections: The end of cattle vs. pets
At one point they say that the CIA would do and say anything to keep an agent's cover. If so, then why would they send an agent in who's openly admitting to being an agent?
No Mention of moving to 3D ?

I am assuming that having RAM and CPU (and other functions such as GPU or other hardware accelerators) on same die on different levels (physically close ie nano or micrometers apart) would cut latency by orders of magnitude.

3D is already done with NAND flash so I am assuming it is heat that is the problem.

Just my 10c
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It's fairly popular outside of there now as well.
With everything there is a trade-off. For some the lack of dollars brought in (or what have you) outweighs the benefits.

An example is TSA. Some believe that even one life saved by the extra security (theater or not) is worth having to take your shoes off. Others do not.
You know you can use almost any template language with go right? Just look for a package that'll compile into templates then execute them. There are packages for pug (Used to be jade,) amber, handlebars, mustache etc.
I once thought of a potential solution where the number of reputation you would gain would be directly derived from the number of tag-experts who saw the question (and did not provide an answer).

But maybe this would lead to it's own problems too.
Technical debt… or technical weight?
What's kind of telling is that the highest rating SO questions are those that would nowadays be closed as "primarily opinion based" or "unclear what you're asking".

I know that the current tendency for those questions is that they should be posted on programmers.stackoverflow, but I found the quality there dubious at least (too much armchair architects).
The collaborative filtering thing stands out as a really good idea to me.

Anyone here who can say anything about the community size you would need for something like this to be viable?
Wrong again Sir!
And that is why professional administrators should be in the middle and not on top of things.

To be at the top you must have been in the trenches at least a couple of years.
What stack are you using for backend?
Trusting Your Gut
I do look like a decent hobby and craft. Probably on par with knifemaking.
> Rust makes it nearly impossible to accomplish.

No it doesn't. It's literally adding one extra simple function to a library.

> Not necessarily.

Well-performing safety is hard, then. Safety is hard in C++ and Rust, less so in C#. Yes, it is easier to write a linked list in C++, but ensuring it is used safely is hard.

> Can’t in Rust, because the library designers (not just std, the rest of them as well) think I better have my own implementation if I need that level of control.

Right, and that is solely a library issue. Rust doesn't prohibit having composable unsafe libraries either. The ecosystem just hasn't produced those yet, because people probably didn't need it yet; and it is mostly preferred for libraries to keep the unsafety encapsulated inside behind a safe abstraction.
It's political defeat, sure. Otherwice I don't see how anything changes.

Britain gets similar deal as Norway has. Not in a EU, but member of EEA (European Economic Area ) and EFTA (European Free Trade Association). There will be free travel, Britain will still pay for EU. Britain can even be participatory member in many EU institutions.

The only difference is that Britain has no vote. Since Britain has always been the one to rebel against and drag it's feet in EU, this might actually speed up decision making in EU.
The EU doesn't "just randomly dole out capital", no, but Cornwall is one of the most deprived regions of the EU, and so got development funds from funding mechanisms earmarked for under-developed regions.

Notably, it was/is this underdeveloped because pre-EU British government had not bothered to invest much in Cornwall.

In terms of payments, the UK is a net contributor overall, but part of the issue is that the UK could have funnelled money into regional development whenever it wanted to, but hasn't, so for Cornwall to think that the government will prioritise them now is quite comical, given that the government will have to prepare for extensive reductions in treasury income that's likely to make the EU contributions seem cheap.

This has been a recurring theme: The wishful thinking that a post-Brexit UK government will suddenly change priorities and allocate lots of money to things they have been mercilessly cutting so far, even in the face of massive economic uncertainty.

Many of the areas voting Leave will be in the same boat as Cornwall of having substantial EU funding stripped, while facing an uphill battle to convince the UK government to replace it.