skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What did they gain, and honestly why is this so negative. There hasn't been a particularly strong or cohesive explanation other than saying Cameron is an idiot and the world is over?

Obviously, only my two euro-cents:

There's a deep-seated feeling in the British population that laws should ultimately be sovereign and not made by the European Union - there's a firm belief that leaving the EU allows Parliament to make its own laws without outside interference. Obviously there are a range of silly restrictions of things that previously were not possible within the EU framework that now are. One example might be that the UK was unable to eliminate VAT from sanitary products within the EU.

I mostly subscribe to the more emotional and wishy-washy negativity reasons, but some more concrete negatives:

* The City of London is very important to the UK economy and there are genuine fears that large multi-nationals who headquarter in London to access the EU market will have no choice but to relocate onto the continent.

* Lots of other parts of industry genuinely rely on cheap labour from Eastern Europe (to the order of magnitude of tens of thousands per year). There's a fear that they will not be able to access this labour, driving costs up.

* Short term instability and subsequent capital flight have a non-insignificant chance of leading to recession, or at least reduced growth.

* Those of us who are lucky enough to have the opportunity enjoy the ability to travel and work freely within the EU; and EU citizens in the UK are worried about their future status.

* Many firms working within across the EU are worried about complications if the UK does not remain in a free trade zone with the EU. There are already reports of UK startups losing investments and companies who have lost contracts due to the uncertainty.

* There's lots of scientific cooperation that sees UK universities receiving considerable research grants from the EU. Even without a squeeze from a poorer economy, there's not much faith that the UK Government will have the same spending priorities.

Some of this will become more clear as we move through a negotiation process to exit, but there are a range of unknowns and no clear vision from the Government what a post-EU UK will look like. That causes uncertainty both amongst the people and markets.

I'm trying to leave aside the short and medium term domestic and social problems that the referendum has both highlighted and bought about, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that they're just as pressing as the exit negotiations themselves.
> you only know in hindsight whether you were practicing or not

You are always practicing. It's only in hindsight whether you know you were doing it right.

If you're late for work, you've just practiced being late for work. If you made an excuse, you just practiced making an excuse. If you lie, you just practiced lying. And that's why we're screwed. The notion that practice only happens when we decide we're practicing is nonsense. If you lie 90% of the time, you will become a great liar. That's the nature of practice.

Take an aspiring athlete. They all practice hard. The advantage isn't in practice. If your shooting form is bad, every shot you take with that form is reinforcing a bad practice. That's why getting it right and only doing it right is so important. Taking it slow and being intentional with every action is the only way to do this. What we must practice is mindful control of every action, because it's all practice.

This is also why "pretend" is just another word for practice. To pretend requires being mindfully in control of your actions.
I was thinking this as I read through this thread;

This living forever idea is great but so set apart from modern science it's amazing how serious some can be about it.

Live forever with your deafness or blindness from birth! Got herpes in college? It's only another infinity years of those outbreaks! If you were able to live infinite years you would ultimately wind up in some vegetative state. Between accidents dismembering people, un-curable ailments, etc.
Yep, that's the one. It's not that their dumplings are bad or anything like that, it's just not as much a forte of theirs as the English name would lead you to believe.
Domain objects in the middle tier only make sense if there is pervasive reuse of component objects. I extensively chased the unicorn of component orientation but it never pans out.

The logical place for domain objects is in the Database. Yes, stored procedures, with object layer mappings of views. But the reality of the practice is that (a) the toolchain for the DB backend is quite firmly stuck in 80s and (b) most IT programmers lack SQL skills.
> No, it is a big blocker. In fact, it's the same as the problem I pointed out, just with global variables instead of shared ptr.

Imagine refactoring a program to not use globals but instead pass them up by const or mutable reference to where they're used. The checker can do the same imagining with an effect system.

> Software that has memory flaws that enable remote code execution is not secure.

Words have meaning.
This solution works with HTTPS traffic too?
Decoding Digital Democracy
Language Bias and Black Sheep
One problem with the stored procedure approach is that it scales terribly.

If your logic is in app servers and your state in a DB, you can add more app servers, and it will be a long time until your DB get overwhelmed.

When your DB is doing both, the choking point is much earlier.
Agreed, neat UI/UX!
My aesthetic pleasure in engineering is more the means than the ends; nobody pays me to go on HN, so the latter is what I focus on :).

Every recording studio or both for a live venue I've seen always seems to have 'round 1/4 equipment always in use, 1/4 rarely but sometimes used, 1/2 equipment never used :P. I really do respect the science and art that goes into audio engineering, but damn that's a lot of clutter.

Now the flip side is it's a lot easier to trim the fat administering a bunch of a computers (and the clutter isn't a huge sunk cost like some once highly valuable piece of equipment one might be loath to chuck), and yet this ideal is also far from realized most the time. Boxes in closet are just a lot more obvious than files in a directory.
Did you even read the link you hastily googled? Spoiler warning, it confirms what I said in my comment:

“As official figures show, Scotland has paid more in tax per head than the rest of the UK in each of the last 30 years and we contribute a higher share of UK revenues than we receive in public spending.”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11982871
Machine Learning and Masturbation
Brain plasticity is high for young people and significantly drops after around age 30. Immortalizing petrified minds seems like it could lead to heavy stagnation. Death allows room for evolution to take place.

It's also important for longevity technology to be preceded by advances in food production, otherwise the poor will be exploited/starved to maintain the larger population size. Contrast Western Europe with the Soviet / Asiatic civilizations to see the stark differences when the order of these technologies is reversed. Historically, it's been catastrophic.
> More generally: no western government recognizes a "fundamental right to commerce" such that restrictions on commerce require the existence of "bad" conduct worthy of punishment.

That's very interesting. I'm not going to argue with your claim, because I assume you know more about it than I do. But it's a very strange idea, because in many ways commerce is more fundamental than anything in the Constitution or its amendments. Take away everything in the Bill of Rights, all the freedoms defined in the Constitution and our heritage of common law, take it all away and you can still have a society. It would be a terrible, awful society that no one would choose to live in (probably something like the DPRK) but it would still be a society. But without commerce, it is simply not possible to even have a society. I would go even further and say that a vanishingly small percentage of people would even be able to survive without commerce. So in a certain sense it's just as important as air, food, and water.
Plain old accidents? No cap required.
Corruption by any other name...

If these nonprofits aren't supposed to be directly coordinating with campaigns, why is there no will to enforce that?

It amuses me (in a very haha-not-funny kind of way) that the non-tea-party Republicans continue to wither against their more extremist primary opposition, and do nothing to ally with Democrats who might feel the same about such untraceable campaign cash.
Not this again. Why is this coming up at all in 2016? There isn't even a valid debate here.

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.

For 99% of database ops where it's pulling some stuff out, editing some fields and then saving it back, an ORM will save you a massive amount of time with better safety, security and performance. Even complicated queries/mappings/procedures run pretty well and you can always write raw SQL when you need it. Modern ORMs will even let you execute custom SQL and still give you conveniences like easy parameterization and hydrating the results back as objects.

Maybe I've been spoiled with the .NET ecosystem with great ORMs like NHibernate, EntityFramework, and Dapper (along with C# features like Linq) but it seems like most of these complaints are from people who use shitty ORMs or can't comprehend that it's just a tool that they can choose to use or skip, at very granular method by method level. There's absolutely no reason for any extreme here.
If phrasing it as living longer isn't working, don't phrase it that way. Maybe phrase it as staying healthy or attractive longer? People have a very strong revealed preference for those things, judging by the amount of money they spend on products that claim to provide them but don't actually work.
Deming's Longevity Fund was at its founding somewhat ahead of the times, as it should given that she put in time at the SENS Research Foundation and related groups back in the day.

The rest of the venture community is beginning to wake up now - if even I, with my limited connections, am aware of a couple of groups raising new venture funds to target the biotechnologies of longevity, then I'm sure there are a bunch more I don't know about.

Expect to see a crop of companies working with the biochemistry of aging over the next few years now that deep pockets like Google, Abbvie, and the Human Longevity backers have expressed their interest with dollars. That sets up all the right signals for acquirers and other liquidity events.

Sadly I imagine that most of these companies will be garbage - either a waste of everyone's time like Elysium or a clever way of getting for-profit investors to pay for fundamental research that goes nowhere other than knowledge generation, like Sirtris.

Still, there are gems in there for those who understand the science well enough to identify high expectation value lines of research. Oisin Biotechnologies, for example, and perhaps UNITY Biotech if they choose a good therapy. Both are aiming to clear senescent cells, which has a lot of backing as an approach.
All this drama spawns a few interesting questions:

* How should Open Source Projects deal with internal drama?

* Should people who have a history of working with governments be shunned by the infosec community?

While I have no input on the first one, I can't help but notice that the connection between tor and the US government is already so strong (funding, the lead developer "arma" being a former NSA intern) that "undermining tor" would be pointless.
This is true that the brain will filter out steady state noise, but this effect is much less strong once a signal has been recorded.

Basically, on playback, the steady state noise sounds much louder than it did when you are actually present in the room.

The same holds for the reverberation in a room, it will sound much louder on a recording than on location.

For example, if you record someone speaking in a reverberant space like a church, it will sound like they are in a very reverberant space. Which they are, when you are listening live, your brain filters out the "non-direct" sounds so you notice just the voice.

I'm pretty sure these noise filtering processes are related to the high priority the brain puts on understanding speech.
Yeah, you can pick and choose your index too. The FTSE100 might "only" be down 3.5% (excluding the currency drop), but the FTSE250 is down 7.2% vs the DAX's 6.82%.
Dominating the Skies – And Losing the Wars
Wasted time is a waste. I'd rather not. Seems like it would be seconds to implement the feature and would save man-years of time.
What is the standard? I mainly see XLR but I've stared at far more live equipment than recording equipment.
I agree with this, but I'd also add that if your ORM is doing a lot beyond the capabilities of your database, it's an indicator of a hacky design in your application. If there's a large object/relational impedance mismatch, then either the objects or the relational DB are a poor fit for the problem you're trying to solve, and an ORM can't really fix that.

If your ORM is just providing a mapping between select/map, where/filter, join/zip, etc., you have a fairly list-of-records-ish functional application and your objects are only nominally objects. The ORM is only providing an interface that lines your types up (and the benefits of that are not to be underestimated--it allows, for example, running your app on different database engines).

But if your ORM is doing more than that, it's usually because your objects have a lot of complicated graph vertices that are poorly represented by tables. ORMs can reduce the difficulty of this object/relational impedance mismatch, but ultimately they can't provide a general solution for it, because the data structure they're sitting on top of doesn't have the capability. ORMs can make your code simpler, but they can't make SQL performant on, for example, directed graph or deep tree structures. Ultimately, they only mitigate the object/relational impedance mismatch, they don't solve it.

Again, as I parenthesized earlier, the benefits of ORMs still aren't to be underestimated. But I think a lot of those benefits can be realized with a simple wrapper around SQL (i.e. LINQ). Beyond that, all ORMs provide is a little fudge factor which lets you get away with some things that SQL doesn't support well, but ultimately ORMs aren't a general solution to those kinds of problems.
An Unknown Billionaire's Quest to Reverse Aging
Split+Macro
Jeez, no, not a cap on lifespan please haha. No one can still wrap in their heads what indefinite lifespans will mean, but I'm sure adding a cap on lifespan is not something we want to do.
How Tanda builds products
Questions for people with some knowledge of engineering (I got none). It is about the 56-oven pizza truck:

- How much power (or propane or whatever) do you need to run these ovens?

- How much heat they emit in the truck, as a waste? Looks like some cooling is required. How much power for that.

- What is the power source for the above items. Fuel, propane, batteries?

- It kind of looks dangerous to have fuel or propane or batteries next to a bunch of running ovens? If so, where to put the fuel and where to put the engine.

- Having flammable cardboard where the ovens are looks too dangerous. How do they get the pizza from the oven to the cardboard? I hope it's not the poor driver squeezing between a bunch of running ovens to get to the right one and get the pizza out?
Actually, what it's trying to tell you is that you're not in Peru. If you're 220 ms away from Singapore, you must not be in Columbia, since a speed-of-light transmission would take longer than that to make a round trip.

For me, the most specific fix is provided by New York and San Francisco. Together, they can tell that I'm somewhere in the US, Canada, or Mexico. (But, of course, you could have figured that out from GeoIP.)
Protocols trump services. I'm just as miffed that Slack became the developer chat platform of choice nowadays, it has many of the problems attributed to social network services.
> it might prevent an attacker from setting up bonkofamerica.com and using it capture valid username/password pairs "offline", which could be reused on the real site.

Exactly so. That was a pretty frequent vector when those images became popular, so it wasn't a crazy defensive move. Even though there are ways for criminals to defeat it, proper mitm for one, those were more complicated measures that weren't as commonly used. Higher risks, development costs, trouble with scaling, or just unnecessary, for whatever reason, the static dumb credential harvesting pages that look "legit enough" were most common.

A company with limited defensive resources could approach security like a greedy algorithm. Just constantly ask, "How are most customers at institutions similar to my own getting compromised right now? How do I prevent that with as much blunt force as possible that I can deploy as soon as possible?"

That would probably get you some bizarre defensive solutions that reduce usability. But it's not an obviously crazy general strategy.

Well, major caveat: presuming you're at least doing the basics right. If you aren't bothering with hashes, then your men are already dead.
To play devil's advocate, Einstein did a lot of work after his major breakthroughs that didn't amount to much. To steal a line from Roger Waters, he was a "spent force." To quote Einstein, "You cannot solve a problem at the level of thought that created it." This suggests that in order to smooth the wrinkles between general relativity and quantum theory, someone would have to come along with a new way of thinking.

With that being said, I think wisdom is one area that (assuming the right mind-set) can continue to grow richer with age. I think it would result in much better politicians, judges, teachers and similar roles that involve application or imparting of wisdom.
There is no such thing as money laundering. There is such a thing as food stamp fraud.
Fast, and lightweight TypeScript 2.0 boilerplate that export a single file
I have never believed layering fixes anything; I'll take "layer 3 switching for $400, Alex".

As has been noted, the particular quirks of the U87 ( or the like ) mean a filter to lessen proximity effect are Useful.
I am referring to the Revenue Sources image (second on the page):

39% Station dues and fees
23% Corporate sponsorships
9% Distribution and satellite interconnection
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71% of revenue from commercial activities

>The most significant component of station dues and fees revenue is the charge for carrying our premier newsmagazines - [list of show names].

>Non-newsmagazine program fees (for example, [show]) make up the next largest component of station dues and fees revenue.
> Greece voted fat pensions and benefits for their citizenry (as did Spain and Italy) and in order to protect the currency and the political stability of the EU Germans are stuck footing the bill.

What. You are either extremely disinformed, malicious or just plainly racist to believe and redistribute that kind of wrong information.

If the Germans had to pay Greece's, Italy's and Spain's debt they would be bankrupted for a couple of centuries. It's actually those very same countries who are paying their own debts through austerity measures and increase of taxes (which doesn't seem to work really well, but that's a different discussion).

Germany has grown so much thanks to those countries spending money on German manufactures, with money lent mainly by German and Dutch banks. It has been all a massive scam where North Europe has used the corrupt politicians in South Europe to siphon all the money of South European citizens. They took the risks gambling with the money of Northern European citizens.

This is and always have been a class war, not a national or race war. Those of you who can't see it are doomed to be puppets of others.
Show HN: SkipTo, a chrome plugin that skips to the best part of a YouTube video
You could argue that anything that interfaces with a database is an ORM, but it is certainly no ORM in the Hibernate/ActiveRecord/EntityFramework sense.

It does very little "magic" and you're in full control of the SQL from the start.
I'm guessing he means helping inflate the housing bubble as a means of pumping our GDP. The UK may be one of the fastest recovering economies since the recession, but a lot of the growth is in housing. And if you don't happen to live in the south-east where the housing pressure is at its worst, you probably aren't benefiting from it at all. Hence the North/South divide in the referendum.
That's an interesting expansion on it. Would be especially interesting to see difference between full and half.
To me, that just suggests the kind of wishful thinking that won the referendum is still alive and well.
> If there's a large object/relational impedance mismatch, then either the objects or the relational DB are a poor fit for the problem you're trying to solve.

Why? You're just making that assumption but the fact is that relational databases and the normalized storage of data is completely different from the way OO languages deal with rich nested objects. And there's nothing wrong with that mismatch because there will always be a mismatch. It's just 2 different paradigms of handling data. All an ORM is doing is giving you a tool to make that translation easier, if you want it. If you really can't have the mismatch then there are document-stores available but in most cases, the O/R mapping is just not a big deal.

> But I think a lot of those benefits can be realized with a simple wrapper around SQL (i.e. LINQ).

That's basically still an ORM. Again why the assumption that just because you have an ORM that anything and everything must be piped through it? The modern ones let you use ORM methods in your code and chain them with custom raw SQL too. ORM usage is on a spectrum, it's not binary and there's definitely no "right" way to use them.
wanna know++
Perhaps it is familiar to newspapers and people in public service? As a lifetime NYC resident, I'd like to add a data point: I am familiar with the sight, but I have never heard the term before.
Beethoven wrote Ode to Joy long after he was dismissed as an irrelevant, deaf old man.
>>While in beta Laps is FREE.

This suggests in the future you will be charging but as there is no indication of how much, I can't justify spending any time to see if I like something that might end up being too costly to integrate into my workflow.
> as if believing in deities should be the norm

Well, de facto, it IS the norm. And it has been so for a long time