skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In every place I've been, school, university, corporate jobs, the "critical thinkers" always got marginalised.

Because while they get things done, they challenge the status quo.

When I've worked for large companies, the #1, #2, and #3 products of the company were management politics. Actually shipping anything was #4, maybe #5. Critical thinkers looked at that and went "we could do better", and got punished for it.
Don't confuse critical thinking with disruptive behavior. I often think the current approach is dumb, but I also accept I don't know everything. So, I generally just toss an idea out there, give it 15-30 seconds of support and move on.

People that dig in even if they are correct and I agree with them are much harder to work with. Further, doing something even if it's a poor solution is often better than continuing to look for the right solution.
The second can't be true as long as nobody knows what Brexit is going to mean.
The typical leave voter lives in the areas with least immigration.

The areas with any substantial immigration either from the EU or elsewhere voted remain.
Those unchecked lawmakers were also responsible for a level of governmental oversight which is unprecedented anywhere else in the world. That's not a bad thing at all, but you can't sell Remain to an electorate by saying "The EU stops us doing stupid stuff to you".

That monkey was responsible for a huge number of regulations which benefit EU citizens, again, because it forces the government to take action that they would otherwise be too unwilling or lazy to take.
"Tolstoevsky" is the new project of Russian artist Dmitry Vrubel, who now lives in Berlin (and created the most famous his work "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love" on Berlin Wall), based on surnames of Russian writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. I've used this word just as a metaphor of slices of Russian culture known and popular on the West - the White part of picture of Russia, that usually consists of bad rulers and good people.

Regarding the media, the lack of news in English is surprising a bit, because I see here and there that something indeed is going on and can confirm it by examples of projects I'm aware of (and likely there are more that I'm not). I can see the simplification bias in general media, which can be explained by lack of interest to post-Soviet Russia (and I've seen publications explaining this with reduced financing of research of Russia in USA - one of the reasons why events in Ukraine were a big surprise for US government). As for scientific and technological media, one of the reasons can be the obscurity of Russian science and inexperience of the government in PR. I cannot find any traces of Buribay solar plant launch in non-Russian or-non solar energy media - how exactly could that happen? I can suggest only that such events and their coverage is not sexy enough for HN/Wired/whatever to be remembered or even discussed. And this project is not small, behind it are very strong businesses like Renova and Rusnano. Can you offer any other explanation beyond "nothing is happening"?
Are there any Japanese lobby or interest groups in the UK like the case in the USA?

Any Brits to provide input about this point would be highly appreciated.
SpaceX can continue launching Falcon 9 rockets from two other launch pads
The GBP stopped falling because the UK government spend about 250bln GBP to stop it from falling further.
I started this a while back: https://github.com/libeclipse/starlight

Nowadays I'm too busy to keep up with development so if anyone wants to help out that would be great.
That was the point I was trying to make when I said "not abrasive and argumentative, just different". Maybe I should have said different perspective.

Incidentally, I find working with people with different perspectives hugely helpful when problem solving, although you can see how vastly different perspectives can also cause problems in understanding. I suspect there's a sweet spot, depending on your role/company/environment.
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I work with the author, the languages included came down purely to expertise available. Additional implementations have been submitted for Rust, Haskell and Ruby's event machine. A host of pull requests have been submitted to tweak the existing implementations as well.

It would be awesome to see implementations in python, c# and java. There are a number of ways to do each, I assume.
Supportive hand
This video by Scott Manley offers some interesting analysis, including a similar mash-up of the Dragon abort system and the explosion of the Falcon 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye0EOENUw0c
Looks very interesting, what options would you consider as far as partnering to have someone continue the development?
Maybe the best option is to have a big party and declare Brexit a huge success, without actually doing anything.
Grandmothers don't need to follow social rules though. Special exemption rule.
Sorry, initially I just skimmed the article to see if it said anything new and interesting, it seems I'm misremembering and he just started to draw his gun, and was only prior to that pointing it at the people (a felony, BTW) who called 911, but that makes no difference, it was a justified shooting based on the video and the known facts of the case.

That Roger Clark who they're leaning on so much in the story? He wouldn't be afraid if someone pointed a gun at him? He's an idiot, or simply someone lacking the normal emotion of fear; if the latter, such people are useful, but are not representative of the normal population, the standard by which we determine justification for using lethal force.
Divide by Zero on the Friden STW10 Mechanical Calculator [video]
Doesn't look that way, unless it's a really reckless negotiating tactic: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-03/may-s-brex...
Denatured alcohol in New Zealand specifically doesn't contain methanol or any other super toxic substances (except ethanol of course), despite being called methylated spirits.

It still contains bittering agents, vomiting agents, and some other stuff that's nasty but won't kill you (I think some of it is denatured with petroleum as well at like 1%). Drinking it is gonna make you a bit crook, but it won't kill you any more than a bottle of vodka.

I guess the government decided that killing alcoholics isn't the best course of action.
You're referring to a speech, when Trump was specifically talking about illegal immigration and yes there are rapists and murderers among them. He also brought on stage mothers who have lost their children to these criminals. Fact: illegal immigrants make up a significant portion of the prison population.

Trump is also concerned with radical islamic terrorism. There is a case for banning immigration from specific countries. We already do it, we also already prohibit U.S. businesses from doing business in specific countries. You can say his take on islamic terrorism / and islamic immigration is too hardline. I don't agree. There are clearly trends of actual radicalization within even second generation muslim immigrnts that require vigilance.

Also the "doesn't know" statement regarding supremist groups was him partially hearing in his ear piece in a remote interview Tapper talking about disavowing "groups" Why would Trump "not know" when his daughter is married to a Jewish man? I noticed how you didn't bring up David Duke either and that's because you know full and well Trump in 2000 said disparaging things about Duke not that some 'disavowal' was needed. He has no association with any of them.

So you're saying it's fair to compare him to Nazi's when his daughter is married to a Jewish man and he has many muslims living and staying in his buildings and that he has repeatedly said he holds in high regard. Time to face facts.
You're right. In particular, when we train for something, we tend not to train things in the proportion that they occur in during the game.

For instance modern coaching has the kids run around with the ball a lot more than in a real 11-a-side match. That's because it matters a heck of a lot that the kids are comfortable on the ball, and only one of 22 people has the ball during the game.

The same goes for math. You may not have to solve PDEs very often, but if you never do it, you will be stuck when it comes time to do so. I recall writing a Bessel function for an option valuation routine once, and if I hadn't come across it in uni, I'd have been struggling with it.
I think that you should remove the "Show HN" from the title. From: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> What to Submit

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.

Also, an empty landing page is not motivating to put my email there. The design is nice, but it has no substance.

My recommendation is to add some examples. Perhaps a few famous people speaking.

You can add them to the subscribe page. Also, you can write a blog post with more technical details to submit here.
Brexit was a coalition between two completely different groups of people: anti-globalization (whether they know it or not) working class getting marginalized by global shifts in the world economy, the service-orientation of the UK economy, technological change that's reshaping everything everywhere; and pro-globalization free traders who want to be able to undercut EU rules to compete.

The interests of these two groups are not aligned. Remain didn't point this out. The reason they weren't able to point it out was because Brexit was sold as a change to the status quo: thus anyone unhappy with the current situation could project whatever they liked as the alternative.

Cameron will be tough to beat as the worst PM in the 21st century.
I did, here at Tumbleweed State College. The request was met with puzzlement, even indignation. The explanation that secrecy about salaries benefits only management caused even greater outrage, as did pointing out that Tumbleweed State is in an open records state, where salaries of state employees are available online or can be obtained through a FOIA request.

At times, people are plain dumb.
Ah, but if you are old enough, you might remember that long before 1973 the UK spanned the world: India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada. You even had 13 colonies south of Canada. And if you are that old, you might remember that they didn't like the UK way of trading.

I hope the UK will never get back that glory.

The EU never prevented UK from trading with the rest of the world. If anything, it enabled the UK to keep some commerce that would otherwise have bypassed the UK for France or Germany, as the Japanese memo also suggests.
The U.K. already had plenty of government oversight. Why on earth does it need even more from bureaucrats in other countries?
The single part thing seems to be a staple of communism. I think it stems from the basic idea of violent revolution. Aka we win and then run things.
I'm gathering:

1. Based on the article, Crockford makes fun of the less technical speakers for their subjects being trivial and unrelated to real programming.

2. Logically, he's probably been uninvited for this?

3. HN comments go on unrelated tangents that make me not want to live on this planet.
I don't think there will be vetos renegotiations are comming up with Switzerland and later Norway, Denmark is also up for grabs so is Poland once the Euroblock exemption will expire.

If the EU is über harsh on the UK, especially if it will come from either the Eurocrats like Juncker or from one of the smaller states it will not fly well with both EU and EEA members up for renegotiations.
Everybody can trade with the EU. One does not need to be in the single market. China trades with the EU, a lot, without being a member.

It's just that the single market makes it a lot easier to offer services, set up business, have reliability, move around ... in a region of 500 million people.
This is idiotic nonsense.

I use math all the time, especially when I help my kids with their homework because they don't understand their math assignments properly because the school can't hire anyone with a decent math understanding to teach because those people all took high paid jobs elsewhere..
Not a typical recommendation, but they actually created a not half-bad Television series out of the story. From everything I've read on the subject, the first season of the show actually does stay pretty close to how things actually went down (with some 'dramatic' elements slightly embellished since it is on TV after all). The story is worth reading about (sorry for no recommendations on this), and the show, at least the first season which concerns this issue in particular, is worth watching as well if the topic interests you. The show is called 'Halt and Catch Fire'
There was a very good article on the practical difficulties of leaving the EU successfully - "Everything you need to know about Theresa May’s Brexit nightmare in five minutes." Basically either you restrict immigration, lose free trade and screw the economy by mucking up decades of prior investments such as that by the Japanese or you go the Norway model where you still have EU immigration and budget payments but less say in what happens so a worse position than we now have.

May promised "We're going to make a success of Brexit" but basically does not have the means to do that. What she can do is delay, do studies and so on hence the lack of progress.
i have the exact same problem -- a lot of times, i refrain from speaking about specific subjects because i'm afraid i'll be either misunderstood or judged because my culture treats this kind of subject in a different way.

even on conferences, i try to only watch the talks and don't interact with people that much -- you never know if a person will take you the wrong way for using the wrong pronoun.

(anecdote mode: once, i was speaking to a female colleague and i mispoke her name, because i'm not american and her name was kind of hard to pronounce. she got angry at me and some co-workers even 'shamed' me. after that, i train how to speak everybody's name so that never happens again)
Such specialized filters can improve compression a lot. For instance, the e8e9 transform converts relative jumps to absolute jumps in x86 EXEs, increasing compression because lots of jumps actually point to the same address.

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html#Section_571
I have a 2 year old. Already I feel she's slipping away and I can't protect her anymore. I'm sorry for your loss.
Let the market decide.
> lossless audio isn't necessary

As an audio engineer, I must point out what is wrong with this statement.

Sure, the average listener cannot discern between FLAC and a well-encoded lossy audio file. However, with the Web Audio API making big advancements, the need for in-browser FLAC support is becoming quite apparent.

People are building all sorts of web apps for creating, manipulating, and processing audio. For this use case, working with lossy audio is out of the question. Supporting FLAC means the ability to follow signal flow best practices [0] without requiring the user to work with much larger PCM files.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_signal_flow
Given that the UK is smaller than the EU as a whole, they have less negotiating power. The deals will necessarily be worse than what the EU can negotiate.
So what's your alternative? People use addresses because they're a strong signal with relatively low false-positives (not many people are tor/VPN users with cookie blocking). How do we do better short of deploying a login system or a unique client identifier which cannot be disabled?
It was about racism in the sense of blaming immigrants for the UK's own political failures.

The UK has some of the worst infrastructure, least effective education, most unaffordable housing, least secure jobs, and least effective and generous social spending of any other major EU economy.

This is not the fault of the EU, or of immigrants - it's the fault of government policy in the UK.

Part of that policy has been to encourage immigration to keep wages down for UK nationals.

The people who run this scam are the same as the people who play the race card politically. They benefit from both sides - cheap labour, and political control of the narrative.

It's immensely cynical, but depressingly effective.
I think this (edit: blue lights) is intentional, at least in some cases. A highway police officer on night patrol is probably well served by this potentially disorienting effect.
Gay men tend to be shorter than heterosexual men
Well, it's a different culture here in Scandinavia. Personally, I couldn't care less if anyone wanted to look up my salary - whether it is a recruiter or someone else. I have my own valuation of my time and skills and if a potential employer can't meet that, there's someone else who will.

Having this mindset will help sift out companies that you probably wouldn't want to work for in the first place.
Why shouldn't health care be a marketplace? You can live without health care far longer than you can without food, which is, like, the canonical marketplace.
Was it reported in mainstream news ?
Yes, clean-room reimplementations are legal everywhere. The problem with this code is it's not clean room. This leaves commercial users open to serious accusations of copyright infringement (as in, criminal prosecution.) See my comments in the thread. IANAL and my analysis is based on the README of the project.
If I understand correctly, the reliance on bank transfers and card payments is only to put money in your wallet, which is a distinct (and asynchronous) operation from anonymous purchase. Kind of like a cash withdrawal irl (except it is not as obvious as looking at the bill's serial number to track where you spent the money).

For more information you can take a look at https://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/taler2016space.pdf (the Taler specific part starts at page 7).
Why would other countries want that model? It seems to be strictly worse than full membership.
The "teams" can be from the same organization
Dependency graphs of Go web frameworks
See Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction story about education, "Profession", featuring the "House for the Feeble Minded", http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html

"For most of the first eighteen years of his life, George Platen had headed firmly in one direction, that of Registered Computer Programmer. There were those in his crowd who spoke wisely of Spationautics, Refrigeration Technology, Transportation Control, and even Administration. But George held firm. He argued relative merits as vigorously as any of them, and why not? Education Day loomed ahead of them and was the great fact of their existence. It approached steadily, as fixed and certain as the calendar – the first day of November of the year following one’s eighteenth birthday. After that day, there were other topics of conversation."
S3b why?
Reversing are explicitly allowed in EU government as other based human laws.

I mean, EU have a much more great priority then Skype TOS.

If someone will add to Skype TOS "and please dont breath or dont go to toilets during use of our application". It will have zero effects in legal meaning. Because it break upfront law and United Nations based rights and etc.

tldr;

They just try to fear you with "dont do this" thing.
Doesn't this work only for an append-only structure?

If I'm updating existing records, and the MySQL master at Site A gets updated, then goes down before Site B is updated.. I've got an inconsistent setup.

Been thinking about Master-Master MySQL replication recently as we have a system that's duplicated and taken offline each summer (to run a summer camp), and looking for a way to sync changes in it back to the main 'live' MySQL database.
Developer is Efim Bushmanov, here an old interview about his first skupeopensource release: http://www.ewdn.com/2011/06/05/ewdn-exclusive-an-interview-w...
OK, if you're a 45kg woman and you take six pills in an evening and then drink 10 liters of water, you'll die. If you get crushed in a crowd surge, you might die. Blaming those on MDMA specifically is usually fatuous though, even if it was a precursor. It's like saying that eating McDonalds is implicated in street racing deaths because some people who die in street races do so with McDonalds wrappers in the car.
Somewhat amazing that when I left hardware design more than 20 years ago we were using Orcad (Eagle existed too iirr).
No, there's a reasoned argument against the need to remain in the single market that has traction amongst politicians: http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016/09/daniel...
Disassembly by a team that results in new code written by the same team is not legal in any country that enforces copyrights. That includes the EU. Possibly excludes Russia and probably excludes China unless the owner is a large Chinese company.

In fact I'd be surprised if this code isn't taken off GitHub by a DCMA from Microsoft, as soon as it hits their lawyers' radars.
I wasn't, I was making a joke.

Have you used Firefox in the past couple of years?

Even if it were slow (which it isn't), it's not doing surveillance for money. If you really want a Chromium-based browser, you could always use Vivaldi or Opera or take your pick of many others.
> Anything that doesn't hit squarely at the pathos is right out.

Otherwise known as appeal to emotions. I think I'm going to start finding examples of avowed racists who criticize lynching so I can do the 'not all racists' thing.
I used a YouTube playlist[0] to get the basics down, goes from installing KiCad through to soldering a finished board.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2022BX6Eso532xqrUxD...
They do have motivation to undercut the competition and make short term profits. With many middlemen, the bootlegger's customer is rarely an end user. The end-user doesn't know who on the supply chain has adulterated the alcohol for a quick buck, and the lack of enforceable trademark protection and brand loyalty means a distiller will have less oversight on the distribution.
Whether the phrasing was intentional or not, monkeys are not apes.
Guardian analysis: "Japan's Brexit demands range from possible to fanciful" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/04/japan-brexit-d...)
If you count the Financial Times as mainstream, yes.
Another DDoS affecting Linode today
Block DNS/NTP in the security group => Problem solved (unless it only filters traffic at the instance input)

Put an ELB in front of the services, the ELB only listening to port 80/443, roll out the ELB publicly, roll out new instances only accessible privately, kill old instances being DDoSed => Problem solved => Repeat for all other services, they shouldn't be publicly accessible in the first place.

Ain't saying it's easy but there are some options to help mitigate the attack.
Ask HN: How to reach your potential as a Developer
What are the things that you do on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly basis in order to attempt to reach your potential professionally as a Software Developer?

What are the quickest wins and what are the biggest challenges?

In your answer it would be cool if you mentioned what stage of your career you are at (yrs experience / junior / mid-level / senior) and what (kind of) tech you're using (backend / frontend / language x etc.)
As much as I hate to just link to a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Basically, you need to find developers with no experience at all with the technology (e.g. never used Skype before), and then get another set of developers to reverse engineer the product, and send the spec to the "naive" developers, for lack of a better term.
I suspect we may end up with something close to that. Maybe a Norway option and a party.
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