skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will never pay any taxes

> and how we are going to have free schools, free medical care, police, etc? Am I over thinking this?

Well it isn't free if you have to pay for it. Here in France we pay 80% taxes and then we like to brag about having free school, free healthcare etc. It's not free if 80% of your hard earned money goes to these institutions and the bureaucracies that manage them. Worst thing is that we still need a private insurance on top of that because our welfare system is going broke and can't even pay for anything despite the 80% taxation. So yeah, it is not free after all, it is even super expensive.

Here is the thing that people do not understand: quality healthcare or quality education are expensive, there is no way around that, no magic welfare taxes will fix it. Whether private or public, it will cost you an arm and a leg. Only thing that could fix it would be innovation but unfortunately these sectors are highly regulated and this is a barrier to innovation so things will progress very slowly.
Is the name a reference to the Mortal Kombat character, whose special weapon was lightning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiden_(Mortal_Kombat)
You never know when you're going to be stuck on a desert iframe with only CSS, and no access to JS...
I didn't mean to suggest you should actually move to the US. Life in the US definitely feels pretty backwards compared to some European countries these days, and your examples show that pretty convincingly. I only meant that, despite just being basic arithmetic, it's somewhat paradoxical that savings rates can go up in extremely high cost-of-living areas. It "feels" like you've gained nothing if your income increases by 4x but your cost of living does as well, but in reality you might actually save considerably more money.
Interestingly, this mirrors Kohlberg's stages of moral development, though Kohlberg was a child when Grapes of Wrath came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_o...

The one missing stage is #2, self-interest, which in this framing would be "I want to please myself."
>I wonder why they didn't just use a test clip like this one

Because they tried and it didn't work (third post). It seems to depend on the mobo as well as the programmer you're using, but sometimes SPI programming without removing the chip doesn't work, which has to do with the mobo consuming the power you're supplying to the chip. Some people work around that by supplying separate power but even then it's a crapshot.
Where do you live that office buildings turn their HVAC off except for maintenance? Sure, there is less load on the system when nobody is there, but it never shuts off.
First, let's stop with the name-calling. We can do better than that. I am not discussing with you to score internet points. I am actually trying to engage in a conversation to see if your arguments have any merit.

Second,

> What you are asking is proof that Shenzhen and Beijing are better for China than Silicon Valley...

You are moving the goal posts. I am not asking for any kind of "proof" related to Chinese cities vs Silicon Valley.

I will be very explicit:

- You made a claim that WeChat (the company/product/service) is better for a Chinese than Facebook is for "anyone else in the global market", e.g, countries were Facebook can operate.

- I am asking for a argument for your claim.

- So far, you have done all but providing any reasonable idea that could support your claim.

- In another part of the thread you started with the premises of protectionism and lacked any kind of conclusion, and others already tried to show how that is flawed.

So, let me try once again. Please, explain why is it better, and how does WeChat benefit "most if not all" Chinese people? How does an ordinary Chinese citizen benefits more from a Chinese-only, Government-controlled social network, and what is there that Facebook couldn't offer as well in a scenario where the market could be open?

Third, I understand that you think that a closed, protectionist policy is better for the people than an open, global economy. But it seems to me that you are arguing in circles - "WeChat has more users in China, WeChat is controlled by the Government and closed, Government control makes it easier for "national companies", therefore "national companies" are better for the users". I am trying to clarify is how you would argue that WeChat, by virtue of being closed and protected by the Chinese Government, can be better than the other services.

Fourth, you've said things here that are provably wrong - e.g, the thing about taxes being reduced during FHC. When you are getting such basic information wrong, couldn't you at the very least check your sources and re-evaluate some of your preconceptions? Could you be so kind and show just a little bit of humility and take a look at if you are engaging in an intellectually honest conversation?
Hello, is that web app using Brook framework, mORMot or anything else?
But the distinction is material.
Yes, the huge win is developer efficiency and enjoyment. These _can_ make or break a business, for good reasons. They're also the reasons for the initial movement to Ruby and Rails in the first place. Elixir and Phoenix takes it a big step farther.
> Libertyreserve is long gone and the owner(s) in prison

Sorry, I meant PerfectMoney. Are they at risk of disappearing? Probably, but it's essentially an exchange medium to you.

> Using BTC-e is essentially rolling the dice. The Russian/Bulgarian operators can disappear at anytime they like with the entire current volume they are anonymous and also not insured, existing on rep only which doesn't mean very much. They could easily put up a million worth of bitcoin as insurance somewhere held in a trust and refuse to daily trade over that insured amount, that they don't says they plan to just disappear one day.

You don't need to have money in the exchange for that long, just move it in and out. Yes, it's a risk, but a fairly small one as long as you don't store money in the exchange long term.
There were definitely major problems with Flash and Java. WebAssembly has learned from those, though:

* WebAssembly is an open standard, unlike Flash

* WebAssembly has multiple compatible open source implementations, unlike Flash (and Java, back in the day)

* WebAssembly is optimized for very fast startup, unlike Java

* WebAssembly is designed to integrate with JavaScript and the web in a proper way, unlike Flash and Java

* WebAssembly is designed to have the same security model as JavaScript and in fact to reuse existing hardened code as much as possible, minimizing the security risk.

Not that WebAssembly is perfect, nothing is, but it's aimed to fix the huge issues that previous related technologies had.

And the use cases are very important: things like games, photo editing, etc., all can benefit from high-speed execution of code on the web. WebAssembly is a response to developer requests.
Absolutely!

As I learned as a rule of thumb while doing microbiological research in a NSSF Summer Science Training Program in 1977, most random antibiotics would fail to kill E. Coli at a rate of 1 in a million, and it went up to 1 in a billion with streptomycin (this is with random mutations, no plasmid acquisition involved, which is another story).

However, these surviving bugs are generally not as fit as wild type, they've probably survived by sacrificing something, or doing something that consumes more energy. This helps your immune system mop them up, and note if antibodies are involved (don't know about that) it takes a while to come up with new ones, plus if there's any sort of bacteria ecology in the target area that survives the antibiotic they'll out-compete them.

It shouldn't take much research on your part to confirm the basics of what I've related above, it's a tremendous problem, especially with TB, who's defenses require long and obnoxious drug schedules, resulting in more and more MDR and XDR (multi- and extensively-drug resistant) strains.

If you get XDR, you're probably going to die, in a era where that's squalid instead of romantic.

And I just came across "Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally_drug-resistant_tubercu... Not official yet, but....
As far as I understand this has the exact same security model as Javascript, and it can do exactly as much as Javascript.

Is there any security sense in which this is lower level than javascript (asm.js)?
Korean here. Korea is too competitive, and its system is so corrupt that younger people are feeling hopeless and committing suicide. For them, it's the last resort and the only way out of their misery. It's been many years since Korea has taken its place as no.1 in suicidal rate. It's currently the worst time for the younger generations with very high unemployment rate and very low wages ($5 minimum wage while average housing price in Seoul is hitting its record high around $500k).
Yet, what people with power and money are trying is to blame them for not having a "strong" and "positive" mindset.
I once watched a TV show where they gathered up people with failed suicide attempts. They end up saying "love yourself".
Instead of fixing obvious systematic problems, they always blame the poor people and tell them things like "money doesn't buy you a happiness." and "love is a cure to every problem".
It just makes me so angry.

EDIT: They also say things like "Be more appreciative that you were not born in North Korea!"
And therefore, what? :-) You imply a conclusion, but i'd like to know what you believe this implies.
No, it's not the same at all. With cruise control you are still fully in control of your car and necessarily aware of how fast you are going and what is going on in your surroundings. With Autopilot that is simply not the case - the technology virtually begs you to set it and then play with your phone or the touchscreen instead of paying attention to the road, text warnings be damned.

If you want an actually applicable analogy, I'll pull one I've used before. Say you buy an oven that has this great auto-baking feature that lets you just put some cookie dough inside it and then come back whenever you want, even hours later, to have fresh baked cookies waiting. That's how it's marketed - the AutoBake Oven. Except the manufacturer says that you're still supposed to watch the oven at all times in case something goes wrong. So you make some cookies with it and they turn out great, and nothing goes wrong. And hey, it's the AutoBake Oven, right? It says it will bake things automatically so you don't have to worry about them for hours at a time. So you logically decide to put some dough in there and then go the grocery store for a few minutes to get some items for dinner. And you come back and your house burned down because the AutoBake Oven lit itself on fire due to having subpar sensors and beta software in it. Now tell me you wouldn't file a lawsuit against the manufacturer.
Sounds odd, your teammates are hardcoding extremely common page components from scratch, i.e. at least not an internal library/ module where you only write it once? That seems like the bigger problem you have.

If you only write it once and put it somewhere, among other advantages, you can document it easily.
> I once had the very interesting experience of developing an in-place update for a mid-1980s-vintage spacecraft instrument: the magnetometer on the Galileo spacecraft.

One of the many reasons why I love reading the comments on this site.
People feel the need to rationalize with some vague "educate the public" business but its really a piece of performance art by people skilled in the EE and CS arts. So in that way you're telling the artist to use a different medium and that usually holds roughly zero interest for the artist. If the artist wanted to perform "Dueling Banjos" on xylophones that would be cool and they surely could have done so, but they didn't want to.

A good programming analogy is people confusing the purpose of a programming Koan collection and helpfully suggesting the participant should google the answers. Or even worse than programming Koans, ditto but for meditation Koans. The point of the experience is to do it your way, by yourself...

Personally I'd like to play with RTL gate logic using modern transistors "in my infinite spare time". There's a certain alternative history component aspect. Imagine if instead of leaky, low beta, low Ft, low breakdown voltage germanium transistors, RTL was implemented with top of the line 2010s discretes. Yeah yeah I know RTL begat DTL begat TTL using contemporary technology, but in alternate history world, how would life have changed?
Sort of like all the iPhone vulnerabilities that allowed the devices to be jailbroken.
I'm pretty sure the only reason the initials are "FDP" and not "NIH" is because somebody else came up with the latter.
Tales from the International Conference for Machine Learning
Look around for articles on the cost of DST. Here is one estimate at nearly half a billion a year:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/10/daylight-saving-tim...
Totally agree, and I'll piggyback this to say that the quality is not always too important either. Worrying about whether the book you are learning from is "the best" is not as productive as getting on with learning the language. A book really only has to good enough not to teach bad habits or explain concepts incorrectly.
A South Korean Copy of Snapchat Takes Off in Asia
Parallelizing HTTP Requests in Clojure
PonyLink: A single-wire bi-directional chip-to-chip interface for FPGAs
Paul Ryan has already commented:

"While I respect the law enforcement professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law. Based upon the director's own statement, it appears damage is being done to the rule of law. Declining to prosecute Secretary Clinton for recklessly mishandling and transmitting national security information will set a terrible precedent. The findings of this investigation also make clear that Secretary Clinton misled the American people when she was confronted with her criminal actions. While we need more information about how the Bureau came to this recommendation, the American people will reject this troubling pattern of dishonesty and poor judgment."

Perhaps we'll see Congress appoint a Special Prosecutor.
Could you explain why you think that the hard fork release means that this is a bad time to build services on the Ethereum network?
Or the Shinto god of thunder and lightning the character was based on...
F.B.I. Recommends No Charges Against Hillary Clinton for Use of Personal Email
Indian Internet Startups Face Money Crunch
The security issues with things like Flash and Java is that they increase the attack surface drastically. Furthermore, they come from different companies from the web browser, and often with their own updating mechanisms.

Even if your browser developers are professional and strict about security and update rollouts, the plugin developers of plugin X might be pretty lax and slow to roll out a fix when there is an exploit dropped. Even if you shame them into getting better, the problem can start over with plugin Y instead, and so on.

It's entirely possible that WebAssembly will also increase the attack surface, but I seriously doubt it will be at the same scope as the third party plugin providers. It will be developed by the same developers who developed the JavaScript engine of the browser.
Tsuru (Open Source PaaS) 1.0.0 is out
React-jsonschema-form: A React component for building Web forms from JSONSchema
I think this is where some people may disagree
> That's because no-one has made a serious effort to regulate this so far.

Some places certainly have, it's just that you'd basically need a global effort between many countries to do so to have any real effect. Until then most of these regulations are just a joke.
On the Importance of Unification
On mobile I switched to http://maps.me/en/home (based on OpenStreetMap data). Vector maps you can rotate, supports offline, free for Android and iOS.
Animus App
That's a great ideal. But often the code has to be substantially rearchitected to allow for automated testing like this (especially for those difficult bugs, as you mention), and when the fix only requires changing a couple lines of code, it's not worth the risk.

Although it would be great if we went through the exercise of "how would we write an automated test for this?" at a high level, even if it doesn't get implemented. That might get people thinking about how to architect their code so that it's more testable from the get-go.
Ah, I found the archive page but didn't think to check the hover text there... Thanks.
I'd really be interested in this too.

I've seen the "brain flushing" research, but this was the most in depth I've heard it explained.

Of course, this goes back to the "1000 page introduction" he mentioned.
I am impressed by the Clintons, Obama is the only thing that got in their way, other than that, They usually got what they wanted.
This seems like a classic example of treating the symptom and not the cause. The articles doesn't go into too much as to why the workers are feeling stressed. I'm guessing Korea has a similar insane work culture like Japan's?

If so, given the existentiality of this issue, the fact that the company is handling this is scary.
I have a site where I earn a few cents per month from AdSense. It was getting close to $100, where it would have been auto-deposited into my bank account. It was basically set and forget, so I hadn't logged in for a while. I got an email that my account had been deactivated for not being an active user, and my "between $50 and $100" was being sent to my state government as an unclaimed fund. So now I have to fill out a stupid state form and spend $12 on a notary to get my between $50 and $100.

Did Google email me that my account was about to become de-activated, and that I could keep it active just by logging in? No.
When this guy called "pg". When I first joined HN, I always wondered, who is this "pg". Then I read hackers and painters. O_O when I made the connection.
Yeah, what we need to do is appoint -another- hearing. Just like the eight, or was it nine, hearings into Benghazi, the how many hearings into 9/11.

This is why the branches of the government are separate, so political parties can't use them as attack dogs to further their own cause when they don't like things.
iOS 10.0 Beta 2 Released
And you don't know terrifying power until you've seen a line printer going at full speed.
Last year a Folsom engineer and retired Navy commander was fined $7,500 and placed on two years of probation for transferring classified data from a government computer to a personal computer. The investigation “did not reveal evidence that Nishimura intended to distribute classified information to unauthorized personnel.”

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article29506825.html
> they don't ... I don't want to say care ... but put as much emphasis maybe? ... on work-life balance.

or they just have a different view of it.

You have no need to be home at any particular hour, and your social life is more evening/night based then why not work 10 hours a day. It's dumb, since you risk burning out, but otherwise I'm not really missing out on anything.
For me, it's "fast" meaning developer time. A typical first pass at a Rails view might be 300ms vs. 300 micro secs in Phoenix. This extra headroom represents hours of optimization I don't need to do, in order to stay under 200ms per request.
Same here, for the same reason. Apparently that's a 50 Cent track - go fig!
University students are still studying it. They graduate and go to work for companies that develop operating systems.
No they are not. Monopolies are legal.

What is illegal if they use (abuse) their market power to keep competitors out. For example AT&T had for the better part of a CENTURY a monopoly in the US. That didn't trigger the forced breakup. Instead:

> In the 1970s, the Federal Communications Commission suspected that the American Telephone & Telegraph Company was using monopoly profits from its Western Electric subsidiary to subsidize the costs of its network, which was contrary to U.S. antitrust law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T_Co.
Here you go: http://jsbin.com/codedujeqe/edit?js,output

JS:

var panels = [...document.querySelectorAll(".accordion li")];
panels.forEach(x => x.addEventListener('click', e =>
panels.forEach(y => y.setAttribute('class',
y == e.target && !y.classList.contains('open') ? 'open' : ''))
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TrumpDonald.org
I agree.

This case (HRC's emails) is world news and has a strong technical component.

The flagged post links directly to the statement of the FBI. It is a neutral source and a better read than a lot of the news sites.

It is sad that HN in practice censors this stuff just because it is political.
> Caching speed is nx database speed.

Well, no shit?
Go look at OpenBazaar. [1]

Bitcoin is the primary source of payment.

It's starting to grow, there are listings of physical goods, electronic goods and now even rental listings, they are calling it OBNB lol.

I'm sure as time goes on, more and more types of listings will emerge.

People are finally coming around to the idea that middlemen don't have to tell you what you can and can't do.

I cannot wait until things like TOR and Integrated wallets are included.

Version 2 of OB is soon and there is a hangout on the 7th [2].

One last thing. Sure there may eventually be "bad" listings and also customers may not be fully protected. But with everything in life. Caveat Emptor.

[1] - http://openbazaar.org

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/4qmsan/openbaza...
Started working in Http://bewolo.com part time a couple of years back with some friends. Slowly lost interest.
It's against the rules here to fling 'astroturfing' and 'shill' around without evidence, so please don't do that.
Oh I forgot, in language there's no such thing as a mistake. All alternate usages are correct uses of never-before seen dialects.

In that case, I know Japanese. Just not the same one that anyone else knows...
It's not equivalent. When you own bitcoin it's up to yourself to protect it. In the regulated currencies it's not under your control.
I was disappointed that there was no mention of "happy capacitors". Consistently one of my favorite parts of these videos.
Google DeepMind will detect eye diseases with AI
Glad you asked!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/45-times-secretary-cl...

From one of her biggest supporters, no less!
Bitcoin is not a closed ecosystem. There are multiple touch points between bitcoin and fiat and those can be (and already are to some extent) regulated.
A different perspective:
The paper shows:
(1) Humans quickly learn to avoid simple syntax mistakes after they compile code and get an error message. These messages often pinpoint the error location and suggest the fix, so this result is hardly surprising (e.g., Invalid token '}', did you forget ';').

(2) The authors assume every type error is unintentional. This may not be true: Consider transitioning from using a String to represent a number (eg., a command line argument), to a numeric type. This transition may be to check for errors upfront and to avoid parsing the number in multiple locations. All these locations will be pointed to by type errors, after the programmer changes the type.
I actually disagree with this analysis. People complaining about it point at use of "literally" on figurative uses, but I have never seen an example where "figuratively" would not have been understood if the word were omitted. It is not an inversion of meaning, but rather hyperbolic use, used for emphasis.
It's political. Many people prefer to keep politics out of HN, and so it gets flag-killed. I don't really agree, but I can understand the desire for a politics-free area.
“I'm a public defender. Clients prefer jail to registering as sex offenders”
The 1970s “gay-cure” experiments written out of scientific history
Kids don't care about bedtime one bit.