skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it will. Someday, there won't be enough bread and circuses and sinecures for all of the extended offshoots of the House of Saud, and somebody will stir up popular, probably religious, discontent, or else a disaffected faction of the government/royalty will stage a coup.

Besides that, it is a regime, and really, a nation, that is entirely predicated on petro-dollars. They have been fighting a price war against US/Canadian oil production, burning foreign currency reserves, in the hopes of setting back the clock. Unfortunately, the break-even point in the North Dakota and shale oil fields keeps going down[1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2016/02/29/the-break-eve...
Nah, most Australians live in a major city, and we don't have that many, and they are on average 1000km apart, so we do plenty of flying
Of the the large python code bases I've worked on (4 at current count), type errors have tended to account for a small proportion (around 4-8%) of production issues.

If this feature came at relatively little cost this would be great - 5% of bugs squashed just like that. It doesn't. It contributes significantly to the verbosity of the code - chipping away at one of python's main strengths - concision and clarity.
I think addressing cultural flaws more directly could make such social programs more effective.
Or Glowing Bear, which also works great on iOS and the desktop (I'm one of the maintainers)
And yet that was the result. The price paid for it was enormous and it took time. The question is only if we're willing to repeat this in Europe again.
Awesome online whiteboard collaboration tool
What I've seen in quite a few flats is that at the entrance floor there's a floor plan with names, so if you know to whom it is addressed and you have the right building you can deliver it. I've even seen more curious scenario's on islands in Greece for example where all you need to know is the person's name and the town they live in, the mailman does the rest since they make it their business to know who lives where :).

People can get very creative when it comes to these things. There's a very common concept of "old lady surveillance" in the Mediterranean where the elderly sort of function like a bottomless address book if you ever need to get directions and can usually complement a police report too, since they just tend to observe everything going on in their neighbourhood.

As far as mail distribution goes, I think since you can reverse the lookup to find the actual geographical location you could do that in a mail distribution centre and bundle things up for delivery, much like postcodes are used.
Also:
http://www.what3fucks.com/
http://www.what3ikea.com/
http://www.what3pokemon.com/

etc…

Nothing new, except a stupid "non-optimal" idea. All the useless info a brain has to remember: the adress next to me ? I'm in "foo bar baz", so next to me should be "foo bar buz" ? No, it's "blih blah bloh". Nobody will remember it.
Thanks, fantastic talk. I never knew.
Well actually, not far off the complexity of an SSD: apparently SD cards even use wear levelling algorithms, and so forth, and some SD cards have ARM microcontrollers.
Was Foxtons right to request my card details be sent by email?
My previous apartment was rented through Foxtons and when it came time to move out and get the deposit back, they asked me for my card details (number and expiry date). I asked if I could give it over the phone, but they said they needed it on file (and for another team to actually process it).

Firstly, is this standard practice?
Secondly, would anyone be able to make a debit against my account without the 3-digit CVV on the back of the card?
Tell that to people expecting continuous growth
The interview seems a bit odd. The quote in the title isn't present in the interview text. I hope the interviewers didn't decide to paraphrase him for that quote. They also quote him as saying "digital rights management", which is a phrase he absolutely abhors and instead says "digital restrictions management". I find it surprising that he really said a phrase that he only mentions when he wants to mock it.

Other than that, the interview is standard rms. It's somehow reassuring that you due to his unerring constancy over the decades, you can predict the nature of his response before you read them. I like that rms is our faithful beacon in this age of widespread user surveillance and digital control.
I'm guessing that now Erdogan and Putin are friendly again things could stabilize quite quickly probably with the old regime still in charge.
> Let's throw something useful (duck typing)

Not sure why you say this is throwing away duck typing, you just don't add a type hint and you continue working as usual.

> I'm sincerely disgusted

I can sympathize, most of the time when there is a talk about Lisp there is a guy who comes just to say "dynamic typing is bad", etc. Well, even though there are definitely static analyzers for Lisp (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216701), the language is still the same and doesn't prevent anyone from using dynamic features. People who really want statically typed programs won't touch Python anyway so I don't think you have much to worry.
Heh, that's actually an interesting point. There might be some redundancies but there's a reason for the current country-city-street-number system in use for most places: Maybe you get the address number wrong, but you won't get the country or even city wrong. With coordinates, type a 1 instead of a 7 and you're in a different continent. Type "peek" instead of "peak" and you might be on the other side of the world.

I wonder how much of that has been considered in that system. Easy-to-misspell words, people not wanting "idiot.lives.here" as their home address, etc. I suppose a lot of effort was put into getting this right. But this is a start-up, not a a centuries-old, established system.
Western Middle Classes Have Been Left Out of Global Growth
What is freer, a society where it is legal to kill each other, or a society where killing is illegal?
Even better: make authors be a map of ID to author so you can get fast lookup by ID when you need it.
> Additionally, let's assume you are right: How on earth does that rebut my comment about educating people who desire to learn?

It doesn't, why should it?
The way to start thinking about Free Software is to focus on the first word of the Stallman quote: "Users"

Users are the people which Free Software is aimed at being around. We often consider our right when we work or publish or develop software, but Free Software is concerned with our users (of course we are also users of other peoples software too, if that makes it easier to understand),
This.
Also, users are often unaware of what Open Source components are used in a software or a device they use.
Organization reselling MIT/BSD products with some rebranding and marketing can mislead the users into thinking their products are entirely made from scratch. This:

- prevents power users from getting in touch with the original developers and becoming active contributors (testing, bug reporting...)

- discourages users from learning to code

- prevents power users from getting features / fixes / security updates from the original developer

- removes the opportunity for the original developers (and others) to receive donations from the users or be paid to work on the project

- fragments the community
I watched this a while back on the BBC and remember it being pretty interesting. It examines the relationships of the US, UK and Russia with the middle east through the lens of their respective involvements in Afghanistan.
How to price anything: The psychology behind what we’ll pay…
Did they ever fix the problem of their trucks rusting out after 5 years in the snow belt?
I would feel differently about it there was multiple viable Democratic candidates and they were helping out the favorite. Since Bernie was just renting the ticket, I don't feel this applies here.
The High Price of Low-Cost CPMs
You are confusing Islam with the cultures of the Arabian Peninsula -- it may be the birthplace of Islam but Muslims have done much more than eek out a meager existence among sand dunes.

Education curriculum, fairness, equality, social justice, civic duty, personal accountability -- all of these things are similarly as present in Islam as they are anywhere else.

Also, governance by royal decree is one of the most un-Islamic things possible. This is not lost on the Gulf monarchies so they are forced into a submissive position when confronted by the relevant Sunni Islamic authority.
Lyft gives $5 Starbucks gift card with every $20 Lyft gift card
> (sounds like somebody that's running for president this year)

Someone else running for president this year has pledged that the first act of her address would be removing Assad.

Which brings us back at the beginning of stupid actions.
Scotland just produced enough wind energy to power it for an entire day
So if my front door is steers.pasta.kicks and the end of of my driveway is effort.army.blur, there's really no rhyme or reason to it.

It seems like it should act more like web domains, so my city would be "park", my neighborhood would be "lung" and finally down to my street and house being one of the small blocks inside that. Honestly, making it 4 words seems like you could really break it down in a logical way.
Do you have any sources for that claim? I would be genuineley interested in the methodology of this research. Its just anecdotal, but here in Germany it is the other way around. The Catholic south is prosperous, whereas the protestant north (east) is poor. I can think of examples where the opposite is true (Belgium) but I highly doubt that there is a casual connection. In Belgium for example the catholic (and more important industrialized) wallonia was very prosperous during the 19th century, in opposition to the more agrarian flanders. Nowdays its flanders that is more prosperous, and the old industrial regions in the south suffer from the effects of deindustrialisation.
I didn’t censor anything, and claiming that I did is disingenuous at best.
Also I read, that e.g. Wine+Tomb Raider blows the native Linux TombRaider out of the water, in regards of performance.
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Although Stallman's opinions and philosophy may be seen as extreme or unrealistic, I think he expresses himself very well here, and makes logical, rational points. It's fine to disagree, but it's not presented in an antagonistic way.

For example, compare a typical flamewar comment to this:

> In practice, open source and free software are nearly equivalent, but the open source people reject our philosophy. They think it’s just fine if someone wants to write proprietary extensions to their software. So we have to differ with them.

Also, it's good to see surface issues (e.g. practicality, compatibility, etc.) reframed in terms of the Free Software philosophy. For example:

> Your question implies that software is good, even if it takes our freedom away. I don’t accept that.

Making distinctions like this can probably save an awful lot of arguing, by rephrasing things from "clearly XYZ" into "even if you don't agree with ABC, can you see that it is a valid position to take, and that XYZ makes sense in that case?" (where, for example, "XYZ" might be "Flash should be disabled").

For example, I'm often asked how I can possibly live without Facebook/Photoshop/whatever. A useful answer is that humans have survived for thousands of years without them, and I'm no different. By controlling the context of the question, something strange can seem normal or sensible.

Thankfully there is a spectrum of software available, so other people's choices and preferences (whether proprietary or not) aren't forced on everyone.
Exactly. I always hear people saying "waa waa there need to be more young than old" nice logic mate, let's grow the human population infinitely.
I recommend IRCCloud.com to people.

I'm a huge fan of IRC but it's true the IRC protocol has many issues (I talked about them before on HN; can't find the link now). IRCCloud may be (slightly) proprietary but at least it still only talks to IRC, and it's a good alternative to Slack&Friends (which are 100% proprietary) and webchat (which have the same issues as desktop clients and are generally atrociously ugly).

Free IRCCloud accounts stay online 2 hours when shut off. I pay for mine, which stays online forever. It's a fairly similar experience to slack except I can still use the same open protocol as everyone else.

Matrix is extremely promising but IMO not there yet.
Scala does not have non-nullable types currently (but that might happen in the future), in practice this is not a problem simply because using null is seen as a code smell and basically no Scala library API expects parameters to be null or return null, optional values are usually represented with the standard library class Option: http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.11.8/#scala.Option
I found the idea of collaborating with gift cards interesting. It's currently available in 20 cities.
The interview has some interesting points, this headline is just what he has been saying for years though.
US is not really to blame directly in this case. The US by now is willing to accept Assad for a limited time. Russia has also shifted and might accept that Assad has to go in the middle to long term. Their is a chance that they could agree.

However local powers, Turks, Saudis, Iranians are not that flexible. Iran really needs Assad in power, they really want to crush ISIS. The Turks don't want the Kurds to form their own country. The Saudis want Assad gone and don't want ISIS completely destroyed.
The Sad State of Diversity in Systems Engineering Teams. And Some Mitigations…
Unfortunately he can ring this bell for the next 100 years and people will not get it.
Population control with the right to children is a very delicate subject and hard sell.

My thoughts on the matter was always that nature itself will eventually take care of the numbers if we keep going the way we are without some form of measure to keep control - every population explosion has had it's eventual decline - sharp or smooth. We seem to believe that we're different but we're not.

If we self regulate by choice - whether it's the lack of income, lifestyle or a lack of want to have children that has brought us here it's always going to be preferable. As unsavoury as it may be in some regards.
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Those evil Open-Source guys:

> They think it’s just fine if someone wants to write proprietary extensions to their software

It is really important to not collaborate with those bastards by any means. Because what matters most is ideology, not actual working open systems ...

edit:

Ok, more seriously: "but the open source people reject our philosophy."

I consider myself as a "open source people" and I would say, that yes, I reject a philosophy of fanatism.

I love open source and I would like that the whole world would operate on open systems, but I think the best way to do this, is not with fanatism. So if somebody wants to use my software to comercialise it with prop. extension, then I would not like it so much, as if he would have them open as well, but I would still prefer this, than if he would have use a different, closed software as alternative.

You don't change peoples mind by barking at them and telling them not to use things, unless they fully convert, because then they will just stay with the closed world they know.
So step by step to a nicer future ... that means open-source for me.
I agree with the author on many points, but he's wrong about mobile support. WeeChat has a relay plugin (built-in) that allows mobile clients to connect to your existing WeeChat session. There are even some options to choose from: WeeChat-Android has recently gotten some love again (I hear it works nicely), and Glowing Bear works on every device that has a modern browser and has a nice responsive UI, along with some neat features like embeds and direct imgur upload.

Both connect to your WeeChat instance directly, so there's no cloud provider you have to trust, as the relay works as a socket and websocket. This allows Glowing Bear to work in the browser (Disclosure: I'm one of the devs)

https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear

https://github.com/ubergeek42/weechat-android

Oh and the point about long URLs being unclickable has been addressed by bare mode, which is bound to meta-L by default. This is not a concern for the mobile clients obviously, as they don't run in a terminal.
Show HN: Thinking Outside the Table, a Talk about Email Hacks and Creative Coding
> If you have to have as many pages of stipulations as the GPL has, I can't see it as freedom.

Mad Max definition of freedom?
Freedom from slavery, freedom of association and freedom of speech require quite complex legal framework to be clearly defined and therefore enforceable.
but irc is not aim
So I googled Mongol Post and this comes straight from their homepage:

САНХҮҮГИЙН ТАЙЛАН, ТАТВАРЫН ТАЙЛАН ХҮРГЭЛТИЙН ҮЙЛЧИЛГЭЭ

Therefore I go on what3worlds page, and they display prominently a pin at coordinates kicks.pasta.steer - without touching anything else, I change their site language... now the same pin is set at: хуучныг.зүүлт.суурилах which according to Google Translator would be existing-ones.necklace.based-on.

I think this will not work "flawlessly" as soon as you need it to identify a point which is not in your own homeland.
Maybe the three word code is localize to the Mongol language (the article mentioned what3words adding support for the language).

I'm also curious about how many nomadic people have smartphones with a data plan to be able to generate their address.
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Regarding the understanding of dialects, I wouldn't give much on the first impression of a German who only speak standard German.

They usually don't have to understand dialects unless it's within the family context. So they have almost no practice in understanding German that is different from the standard and even slight accents can already throw them off.

Compare that to Swiss or Austrian German where the dialects are used on every level of society and usually don't have a mark of being used by lower class citizens. It's not remotely strange to discuss quantum physics in Swiss German where Germans would most likely switch to standard German.

In such a case, you can also look on how long it takes a native to understand the language without any formal education. In the case of Swiss German, I'd say it takes at most 6 months to understand everything (as usual YMMV as there are some peculiar dialects out there).

But as you noticed with Danish<->German, even though there are some sight difference in grammar, there are some obvious transformations like "Haus" becomes "Huus" or "Zeit" becomes "Ziit" that can be generalized.
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the White man's burden syndrom?
France was the colonial power in control over there, they used basic divide and conquer tactics. While the sunnis arabs are in majority in Syria they took another minority faction, the nusayriis, and trained them in military schools, etc... to put them in power. It's like having a protestant pope in Vatican.

Contrary to Europe where different ethnic groups are well separated in different countries, in the middle-east, like in Irak, you can find arabs, kurds, turks living in the same villages, cities that makes a clean separation almost impossible. They lost the skill to live together in peace, my opinion is that it won't be resolved before civil wars and huge population displacements and even greater hatred between those ethnic groups.
Looking at PreactJS from ReactJS
Show HN: An offline capable Notepad PWA powered by ServiceWorker
'brew update' bug
The only problem is probably the many funding models that assume otherwise, therefore rely on an uneven age distribution with a bigger share of younger participants (like many western pension funds, etc.)

While I can imagine that it's not easy to redesign pension funds, but keeping the current systems at all costs is probably ideological by definition.
Kinda defeats the entire purpose then doesn't it?
How do you explain Bayern in Germany then?
I am just glad we are finally getting a mainstream press group to admit the Middle East is the fault of European colonialism instead of the last fifteen odd years blaming Bush.

It was made a mess before and after WW2 and it never was allowed to self correct. If anything the powers that be kept trying to keep it bottled up until a few set pieces fell and the house came tumbling down. This isn't to say that going into Iraq didn't cause part of the problem, that simply revealed just how force the Saddam regime was applying to keep it all together.

Letting Libya fall like everyone did was likely the real issue. That whole country went without anyone trying to step in and allowed groups to assemble. Then the misguided interference with Syria by the US just sent the whole region to hell. You would have thought Libya would have given the administration a hint what would go wrong, let alone an Administration so hell bent on reminding people of Iraq repeated that mess twice if not worse.

The region has to reshape itself. What the West must do is try to minimize the civilian cost. This does not mean going in a setting new borders, but mostly protecting those who get out and making sure they have safe exit points.
The system is far from perfect, but I've never got the impression that the rules are applied malevolently. I wouldn't like the job of moderating comments, it's really hard and ironically people tend to have a zero tolerance policy if they feel hard done to by an error in judgement on behalf of the mods.
Someone shared these on Facebook, 300km distance between Chicago and Gradn Rapids:

https://map.what3words.com/help.driver.lost
https://map.what3words.com/driver.lost.help

It's a scam. The media should really stop repeating press releases.
It's very true that state funding has reduced sharply. I worked for a public university in the ~2011 timeframe in the advancement (fundraising) department. We were doing everything we could on a campaign to raise money that could be spent shorter term to offset rising tuition for some students, but it was a very uphill battle. I think they're up to 17k per year on in-state tuition now, which is really way too high.
> If/when the Arab world get rid of the dictators controlling the media and education gets better, they should become more "normal".

When will the West do that ?
I run WeeChat in a tmux and connect to it with Glowing Bear. It's a similar experience, and it's all free software. It also leverages the whole power of WeeChat in a nice interface (triggers, scripts, etc), so it can do some nice tricks that IRCcloud can't.

Oh and there's also a Matrix script for WeeChat, so you can use matrix from WeeChat (and thus Glowing Bear)!
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The classic "Golden age" deception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
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Their purpose is making money, not improving peoples lives.
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They didn't have automobiles, you know. b^) As I understand it, one of Tolkien's primary concerns was to resist the easy shortcuts of modernity, both in transportation and in thought.
Probably more have smart phones than we would expect but not enough to justify this.

Edit: in fact if they all have smartphones you might as well just use gps coords
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Python somehow became the default language for data science, which is like the new php+mysql in terms of a high labor-intensive field attracting very new, short-term opportunity, unskilled coders.
She has to pay for the campaign/Clinton foundation donations somehow.

Mark my words a vote for Hillary is a vote for war.[0]

[0]https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/04/01/19496/defense-con...