skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very strong kernel of truth in what you write. At the same time racism is alive and well in the United States, at a level that I've never seen here.

Integration into an EU country is harder for another reason as well: America is founded on immigration, everybody - even if you may have to go back a few generations - is from somewhere else. In Europe that really isn't the case, people's origins are usually 'over the horizon', lost in the time before record keeping.

So in America you don't easily stand out as a stranger. This is compounded by the fact that in America it is fairly normal to relocate for work, whereas in Europe that is much more rare (but becoming more normal). Ironically, that is one of the main drivers behind the whole 'brexit' thing.
Ships, out of all modes of transportation, could use the wind to really reduce the fuel consumption. Giant kites that are fully automatic should be able to drag even the largest ships.
Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
Some more info could be useful at https://github.com/egoist/hack/issues/6
The real question is - what is the opportunity cost of people who are forced to rent, because he owns rental properties.

Because of the leeching rent-seeking class like him (who is probably in favor of current zoning), home ownership is becoming increasingly unaffordable for new entrants.

Remember, housing/land is a zero-sum game, unless you're planning to move out to the middle of nowhere and live off the land and/or work remotely.

I'm actually quite surprised there are so many people here who have gone the landlord route - it just shows how widespread this problem is. Taxes need to go way up on rental properties.
>The main difference between a "first class" function and a function pointer is that a first class function carries an environment

Isn't that specifically a closure? I think first class functions have a more general definition.
Related: https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/754474672977096704.
There's literally a saying in Finnish to that effect, translated "It's a lottery jackpot to be born in Finland". People often use it ironically, but they really shouldn't be complaining.
> Your equity could be invested elsewhere

How could I invest the equity elsewhere, other than the down payment? I have a monthly payment for housing either way, and with rent it will be larger unless the local market is crashing.

> plus you are spending money on maintenance, which you don't fully recoup when you sell

Owners and renters both pay maintenance and taxes. The difference is that owners pay those bills directly and renters pay them indirectly. The idea that owners pay things renters don't is a fallacy.
I'd second Dell for monitors. You can also get a 4K TV, but do your homework on 4:4:4 chroma, since not having this results in basically JPEG compression on the image, which results in things like red pixels around text making it blurry. Note also that the Vizio 2016 P series claims to do 4:4:4 chroma at 60hx at 4K over HDMI, and it connects at that rate, but the actual displayed image is 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 in the low-latency gaming mode. http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-usage/pc-monitor/best has a good list, but in general, if you want DisplayPort, you won't find it on a TV. There are also things like the Wasabi Mango, Seiki, LeTv, modded freesync firmwares, etc. I just wanted something that worked, and for gaming at 120hz@1080p on a 55" IPS screen, I'm not disappointed.

Going the other direction, the Acer Predator XB321HK is a 32" 16:9 (I'm not a fan of the ultra-wide stuff) 4K screen with great picture and GSync if you play games with Green Team's GPUs. It's over a grand and only does 60hz, but it's a big nice 4K panel and it's not a TV.

Lastly, you have things like the Dell P4317Q, which is targeted at stock traders. It's a 43" 4K screen for a relatively-affordable $1350 with a proper DisplayPort input. I nearly got this instead of my Vizio P55-C1 (which is the only IPS screen of all the 2016 Vizio P series), but I liked that the Vizio did 120hz, but I'm disappointed about the lack of real 4:4:4 chroma and the resultant blurry text. Still, if you want a huge desktop monitor, the Dell might be the way to go. The Philips BDM4350UC is about the same as the Dell, and has a lot of discussion here: https://hardforum.com/threads/philips-bdm4350uc-43-inch-4k-i...
Calico is installing routes in the Linux kernel. Those routes are pulled out and distributed using BIRD. BIRD can do OSPF instead if you'd like.

All Calico cares about is that routes are distributed across various systems, they don't necessarily care how you do it (configure BIRD however you'd like).

BGP is surprisingly simple and easy to set up with BIRD. Setting up a route reflector with local hosts on the same L2 all peering with each other and suddenly you can route whatever IP's you want by announcing them to your peers.

Why do people think BGP is complicated?
> Screw all the caching, interconnect, branch prediction, etc. - what has is done for us lately?

What have the Romans ever done for us?

- caching: better performance; performance critical code is mostly memory constrained (your CPU is waiting for stuff), so huge caches are huuuge. I think "cache-friendly" code is one of the most important features in code for modern HW.

- branch prediction: again, performance; low-level code is filled with branches that check for mostly unlikely, but nevertheless critical events; if I am correct modern designs go many miles to achieve a high prediction-score

However I agree with you that a different approach might be a good idea that is maybe more useful for modern languages.

> [...] is to tightly integrate simple rigidly multi-threaded processors [...]

AFAIK this has been tried, but the "integrating" or connecting is far from trivial. I've read about a newish design called the Mill (it was on HN some years ago) and it sounded really interesting. Actually, I have to check how far they progressed, last time it was still not production ready and in simulation stage.

//edit: http://millcomputing.com
close - but in this case, it's something you eventually end up finding, resolving and the feeling goes away.

for example - as a developer, I have felt this before about single functions and sometimes entire codebases - I pay a lot of attention to my intuition - and I feel like it's part intuition, part paranoia, part anxiety that maybe you have rushed and done something wrong.

so - kind of like an anxiety resulting from intuition that you have made a mistake, and the feeling is reinforced by previous experiences - and it can be resolved by addressing the issue if you can identify it...

or maybe you sent an email like 5 minutes ago and get the feeling, then realize you forgot to attach a file
SpaceX Picks Rocket for First Relaunch
> You're supposed to be proud of your country and support it first and foremost.

If that doesn't come at someone else's expense, then maybe yes.

But 'nationalism' to me equates with stupidity. Putting a flag and other symbols above reason, supporting the troops, even when they're committing war crimes and so on.

Nationalism is a dirty word in Europe for a reason, every time it rears its ugly head we have another war to deal with.

America is lucky in that sense, it has only had two wars on its own soil (if you count the Canadian incursion), and none of those were because of foreign invaders (if you ignore the position of the Native Americans), and none of those in recent times.

But imagine if America had been the stage of WWI and WWII, I wonder how you'd feel about nationalism if that had been the case.

War is cheap if you export it, very very expensive to import. The scars of WWI and WWII still run very deep through Europe, it doesn't take any effort at all to find them, even if all for WWI and most of those that took part in WWII are now dead.
The EFF is an outspoken critic of the CFAA and has admonished multiple entities for threatening criminal prosecution. When Craigslist threatened me the first thing I did was contact the EFF. They didn't ignore me. They told me there is nothing they were willing to to at the time, which in my eyes was worse than just ignoring me.

Only until it became a high profile issue with 3taps did the EFF speak out against CL.

That was about a year after I contacted them and they only did after 3taps started getting press.

To me it was pretty clear that they didn't want to bite the hand that fed them, until they had to or else lose all credibility.
Sakoku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku
no, but if you want people to find your new thing, you would do well to use a name which is not already in widespread use.
You're not accounting for down payment money.
It's not a big information leak though. Once you know what the system is (which is usually trivial), how many versions do you usually have to choose from? 2-3? At that point you can just try to exploit for each version. Why do you think knowing the version beforehand helps?
Unlike template strings this module could be used cross-browser (via browserify/webpack etc).
Haha, I worked for a photography studio during that time period and we used your printers. We had an 8660, which destroyed itself spectacularly and violently during an event, and an ML-500, which destroyed itself somewhat more slowly and had to have virtually every mechanical part replaced numerous times. When they worked they were great, but that never lasted very long.

I spoke with Kodak support people quite a bit during that time and they always gave me the impression that Kodak was not giving them the support they needed to keep up with demand. The ML-500 at least seemed to have been hand-built, and when I called in because it stopped printing yellow or whatever I would often end up speaking to one of the actual engineers. Great for figuring out what was wrong with it, but it seemed really weird that these guys were seemingly fielding calls all day.

The main thing I remember (other than the printers broke constantly) was that after a few years it became next to impossible to get media for it- we'd call our distributor and he'd say "I don't have any this month, try xxx." So we'd call them and they'd give us another lead, and eventually we'd find some and order as much as we could, and then start the process again the next month. We always assumed that most of the stock was reserved for kiosks.

I'd love to hear more about what was going on with that, if you know.
OP said "recently".

Even before Promises, wrapping up some callback functions and tracking async task state isn't rocket surgery.
Google, Facebook or Apple? Wisdom of the Crowds
Internet of Things data platform for temperature and humidity sensors with maps
If you have 1000 mid-level managers, how many of them can you get on board with a plan to end up with 300 mid-level managers? The ones who do not get on board are a huge cost that your competitors don't have to offset in their top line.
Cross-browser usage? Map and filter aren't in IE8, which is still in wider use than a lot of people would like to pretend.
"armature" Nice pun :-)
I really think that the media is giving us an impression that emphasizes sensational stories over more mundane but relevant ones. One is far more likely to die in the US from petty gun violence than a terrorist attack, as gruesome as the recent attacks have been, nothing has changed that statistic. Moreover, I'm more likely to die from a car accident than gun violence, and probably more likely to die from heart disease than both.

If you look at most metrics normalized over the whole Earth, yes we are in an unprecedented era of peace, and we should be thankful. There are issues and there is room to grow. Daesh is an example of forces that threaten to unravel that peace, but are we going to kid ourselves into thinking that Daesh is anything like the beginning of the twentieth century? Let's not fall into recentism and forget what we learned in world history.

When it comes to values/nationalism and such, I think it sounds like your argument then is there is a potential for the reversal of such trends and I agree. But it's discussions like this that hopefully will keep us from repeating the mistakes we make in the 10's or 30's. We are live actors and we have a chance to change things for the better. You can tell that I'm pretty much an optimist.
Heh. A few examples means jack. I can give you tons of personal examples where it's true. It's mostly just a matter of how patient you are in filing a suit or pursuing with an AG. That takes months, and more often than not it's not worth it. It's incredibly frustrating and extremely sad on so many levels.

I seriously doubt you've submitted a FOIA request or else you wouldn't have responded that way. Go submit one and you'll see.

Edit: The linked article is actually similar to a lawsuit I would like to raise. A lack of technical knowledge can stop a technical request in its tracks without resorting to escalating the issue. Calling, emailing, leaving voicemail very often leads nowhere in just explaining what a domain name and becomes very mind numbing when that obstinate ignorance leads to a rejection.
It would be cool to read this, but it's behind a paywall. It's not worth $11 to me to read the article. Can anyone show the text, provide an alt link, or summarize the article?
I have dual Australia/New Zealand citizenship, and even that alone is well worth it. Brazil, for example, allows New Zealand passport holders to enter visa-free, but not Australians!

https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyPassport.php?p1=nz&p2...
There's no such thing as the "Untranslatable" Word if universal grammar is for actual. At least up to turing completenes, as any language should suffice to describe a turing machine. Yeah, I don't know about "Magic".
While this is true, the contents of the STG stack aren't necessarily obviously related to the conceptual "call stack", right?
Do you know if there is support for persistant volumes or mounting config files with swarm mode? When i played with it I couldn't find any docs or examples. Compose complained about it when i created the dsb
Find a single one of them who was convicted of breaking the applicable public records law. These laws can be a powerful tool for government transparency, but only when they are actually enforced.
Why is BGP complex? What makes BPG complex? The only complex thing about BGP is the fact that you can have it talk to the rest of the world if necessary and deal with traffic balancing and all that fun stuff, dealing with getting routes from multiple locations and a variety of other tasks and topics that are not "BGP" so much as network engineering.

That's not required here.

If you give me 10 machines on a L2 domain, I can set up a private network on top of those 10 machines, and advertise what IP is where to each of them by sharing a routing table... I can of course manually add routes saying a /24 is located on Host 1, and another /24 is on Host 2, or...

What better way to share a routing table than with a route distribution protocol of some sort?

So plop BIRD with BGP on all of the machines, peer em, and have them pull routes out of the Linux routing table and insert routes as necessary.

Now if I spin up a container on Host 1, I advertise a /32 for that IP, and Host 2-10 can all know to forward packets for that /32 to Host 1. If I move that container or IP to Host 2, BGP announces it to all the other hosts and traffic starts flowing there instead.

There is no requirement that Calico (or BIRD rather) peer with any existing BGP infrastructure... you can of course do that, but there is no requirement.

Stop making BGP sound like it's some bad evil thing that's difficult to understand.
You should probably mention that this is a PaaS.

(and maybe also that you are affiliated with them)
>What could anyone do?

One of the best discussions of this kind of issue I've read was Warren Buffet on the shutdown of Berkshire Hathaway's textile business. Berkshire was a textile business when he bought it which faced a decline similar to that of Kodak's film business. His answer, to reallocate capital to completely different businesses that were healthy. It was kind of what Fuji did when they switched from film to cosmetics and Buffett's reallocations allowed Berkshire to do very well rather than going bust.

The discussion is in the 85 letter if you scroll down to "Shutdown of Textile Business." http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1985.html
I'm looking for a new FOIA lawyer - would you be willing to share the details for yours? (I'm in IL)
> They can work and live in any country in the EU

Brexit might well see to that one though. And working in Australia visa free isn't all sunshine and roses, you have to pay full Australian taxes, but get none of the benefits of being an Australian resident or citizen.
pounds

500kg = 1102lbs; the list of people who can dl that is: Eddie Hall. AFAIK only 4-5 men have dl'd over 1k lbs ever (regulation height, no suit, not tire deadlifts or some bs) -- Benny, Eddie, Andy Bolton, Jerry Pritchett, Brian Shaw.

The list of 1000 pound squatters (no suit) is short too. Ed Coan, Malanichev, and a few others.

Anyone who can squat 500 lbs is strong. To depth, obviously -- lots of people can do 500 lbs knee bends.
Ask HN: Best general Biology book?
Studying EE and have realized that my knowledge of basic biology, among other things, is quite poor and want to improve it.

Quite interested in neuroscience, genetics and a bit of nutrition but looking for a broad and thorough book that starts from the basics. I have a good math & physics background and a solid chemistry base to work from so I won't shy away from anything that gets nitty gritty and may actually prefer that.

Would also love any recommendations for the best online courses of the same. Open to anything!

Thanks!
Well, there's a saying amongst italians (and italian descendants) that in order to shut an italian up, you have to tie his/her hands. Conversely, they say you are never "trully speaking italian" until you start gesticulating as much as a native-speaker :)
Pazzia?

That was amazing pizza indeed. Loved it.

On average though ...
I hear playing Call of Duty will only injur your opinion of the public, and their relationship to your mom.

And glucosamine, and omega 3 essential fatty acids. Also, don't beat the meat so hard. Could look into the Egoscue method to strengthen supporting muscles for some of that.
It would also be reasonable to remove the declaration as the variable is "unused".
Building Automated Systems That Reason
GOLD Triggers Corrective Pullback
Talk from Build 2014:
"Using Orleans to Build Halo 4’s Distributed Cloud Services in Azure"
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-641
Let me guess - you've never been in a large group situation where you are seemingly accepted, but nearly everyone looks down upon you and treats you with constant suspicion and questions your motives and reminds you on a regular basis that you are different, and that you are lucky to be part of the group. Have you?
Does this mean that potentially most Windows apps can run in a Chromebook one day?
Well that doesn't really exclude them since Swedes and Norwegians are Germanic. After more research it seems that Finns are a distinct ethnic group though their origins are somewhat uncertain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn

In any case, it's all pretty irrelevant to the site.
>The white man is not the only force for evil on the globe

No, but he does it really professionally, including having created most of the mess in Africa in the first place. Most of those "states" where designed by colonialists in artificial (i.e. what colonial power controls what as opposed based on historically and culturally developed ethnic formations), and were usually created to contain 2-3 competing fractions in a "divide and conquer" approach, with the colonial and post-colonial powers playing (and arming) both sides... Add their support to all kinds of dictators, scum and lackeys and the undermining of efforts to clean the slate, boost local control, etc, and the result is what we have today...
Honestly I think software/hardware patents wouldn't be nearly so problematic if patents expired sooner, say a few years instead of 20. Twenty years is way more than what's needed for the R&D to be profitable.
Biscuit: a multi-region key value store for your AWS infrastructure secrets
As disturbed as I am that you'd ask about this on hacker news... it sounds like a classic connective tissue disorder, i.e. joint hypermobility or Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Your history of medical mismanagement is also typical of people with this problem: people will try to chase the problem around rather without identifying the underlying cause.
"To say that this is in any way insecure because package transit isn't done over an encrypted link is lunacy."

The author was referring specifically to the download page itself. As they correctly point out, the checksums and keys themselves can be modified if the page isn't served securely.

As for 'trusted keys', that doesn't help someone downloading the ISO for the first time, who hasn't previously verified a download from that site (how do they know if the key fingerprint is the correct one?)
French? Orleans is right down the street here in Massachusetts. ;)

Still, the name makes searching for help and information difficult.
The answer to the rhetoric question is probably to invest every earned dollar into Kodak2.0 for 10 or more years, and then hope that "digital" takes off.

As you probably already know, most people would probably rather take the money as long as it comes in instead of making that bet.
Yeah I find it hilarious as a contract developer how just because it's government software that means you can charge like 200 times more for essentially the same software any other client could get for like 1 million at most.

I've been doing contract development for a little over 10 years now and even the most complex projects were never even remotely that expensive. And Im sure I've probably written at least 85% of the same functionality of whatever that software does. Hell, I'm sure there is probably open source software that does similar
Unfortunately, this section is becoming a political thread while I feel like there is more to be said about psychology here. It feels unnatural especially to accept someone back when they've essentially fought against you. At worse, one would wonder if you embolden criminals when you do this.

I think it comes down to motivation. If a criminal is say like a sadist rapist, giving him a hug after he rapes will just embolden him to commit more crime. That's because his motivations are due to internal forces/perversions. However, if someone is motivated like Jamal due to discrimination, the thing he wanted in the first place was acceptance, so accepting him leaves him with no reason to commit crime.

Unfortunately, you can't read inside someone's head. Some people just want to be a Jihadist. Some want to see blood and kill. Some just want to belong. I think the best thing to do is to do both...help those who want to be helped and reach those who could be reached, and fight vehemently those who simply want glory or want to get their kicks. How do you know when or when not for this or that case? I guess you pay investigators a nice salary to figure that out because blanket policy is only so effective.