skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(a) The UK is not being put on the "naughty step". It will stop receiving special privileges that are contingent on being a member of the EU, because it wants to leave the EU. This is not punishment, it is a direct consequence of respecting the UK's wishes.

(b) The US is the world's largest national economy (#2 if you count the EU as a single economy) and doesn't have unlimited access, because it isn't part of the EU. China is the world's 2nd larges economy and doesn't have unlimited access, because it isn't part of the EU. Japan is the world's 3rd largest economy and doesn't have unlimited access, because it isn't part of the EU. Germany is the world's 4th largest economy and has unlimited access, because it is part of the EU. ... Malta is the world's 132nd largest economy and has unlimited access, because it is part of the EU.

Can you spot the pattern?
As a beginner I also strongly recommend Real World Haskell precisely because it gives examples of realistic applications. For me it was quite revealing that once one sees through syntax, the key difference of programming in Haskell from writing code in more mainstream languages is not the functional aspect but rather very explicit state management.
The lead actor here is the misdirected war on drugs. You sound like you're all for prohibition though, so I guess that did not occur to you.

> spawning/enabling a generation of drug addicts whose lives are going to fall apart as a result.

Bullshit. Even out of hard drugs like heroin, only 25% or less of users become dependent. Cocaine is much much lower. Heroin is the highest one.

Meanwhile, 32% of tobacco users become dependent and that is perfectly legal.
Yes, I have plenty of LTV per customer; but tarsnap's users skew heavily to the more technical and aren't exactly easy to targets for advertising.
What hate? The post is literally from linode itself
Presentism in 99% of cases what employers say they want and what they actually want are quite different.
> It's natural for managers (myself included) to go into self-preservation mode when they've failed to give their employees enough direction, but the reality is that it's a relationship.

It is for people who's #1 priority is themselves and not the team or the company at large, and doing the right thing.
My company has thousands of employees but I am on an experimental division that only has 13 people in the office. Three of them are entry level engineers. Everyone else is in another time zone. The company is not about electronics so I am not aware of any purchasing people I can use. Even if I could, I am not at the stage when I want to produce tens of thousands of boards yet.
It's also distorted because an important detail is omitted from the headlines:

Dearborn County, Ind., which sends more people to prison per capita than nearly any other county in the United States

Per capita. Not absolute numbers.

The rural midwest is being ravaged by meth and opioid addiction and has no real prior experience with it. People find it shocking and support harsh treatment of the dealers bringing these problems to their communities. With a small population to begin with, the per-capita impact is higher.

Places like San Francisco have extensive experience with drug abuse since the sixties at least, the community is accustomed to it, and dealing small quantities is not seen as the biggest part of the problem so it's mostly dismissed, and where it is serious enough to send someone to prison, the impact on per-capita averages is much smaller.
I think the point is that some brexiteers are going around in lala land claiming that there will be negligible economic consequences to leaving the free trade zone.
It would be interesting to see graph on different authors (or people with publishing and committing rights), to see what sort of attack vector we are seeing in here.

E.g. Beego there seems to rely only on astaxie's own packages (and Go packages).

That was my primary take away from NPM debacle, injecting malicious code on one repository from hundreds of authors of small packackges is risk, whereas it's not as big with few dependency authors.
> The researchers' biggest worry was that DNA synthesis and sequencing made mistakes as often as 1 in every 100 nucleotides. This would render large-scale data storage hopelessly unreliable — unless they could find a workable error-correction scheme. Could they encode bits into base pairs in a way that would allow them to detect and undo the mistakes? “Within the course of an evening,” says Goldman, “we knew that you could.”

how does this work? are the mistakes consistent enough that we can design encodings that rely upon them?
> Can you provide a specific example of something that you think has been over-regulated by the EU?

I recall Leavers on Facebook looking forward repealing stifling EU legislation restricting higher-wattage toasters and vacuum cleaners
Android Beam does exactly that. Of course Apple benefits financially if they refuse to implement it.
People should also know that people go to jail for years for 1 failed drug test in rural communities. Happens everyday, just not on our radar.
You're thinking of rehabilitation in the "recovery from addiction" sense.

The poster you're replying to is using rehabilitation in the "correct this person's future behavior" sense.

> lock up a heroin dealer

The problem is that nearly 3/4 of all prisoners end up back in prison within 5 years [0]. Locking people up isn't changing their behavior. Locking up a heroin dealer isn't keeping them from dealing heroin once they get out.

So, either we need to lock people up indefinitely (which costs $$$ even if you're not swayed by the humanitarian arguments), or we need to figure out something more effective than trying to hammer our square peg (prison) through this round hole (reducing criminal behavior).

0: http://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/pages/welco...
Those listening tests are done on stereo headphones. I often listen to music through a 5.1 system, which processes the stereo signal through a Dolby Pro Logic II decoder in order to feed the 5 speakers. This stresses lossy codecs much more than listening through headphones; phase information is used for sound placement, and sounds that would normally be masked often end up sufficiently localised to discern (this is part of the fun of a surround system). I can definitely hear outright artefacts at rates and codecs purported to be transparent.

You never know how a piece of audio might be used, and once you've thrown away information you can't get it back.
Sure, in the philosophical sense. But you're saying what? That people shouldn't talk about it or the article shouldn't have been written?
Beam is hardware-assisted Bump, essentially. The protocol is radically different, but the UX is the same. Unfortunately, that seems to be android-only.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418732
But what is the product?
> They have one of the strictest set of immigration policies in the world

[citation needed]

My experience is that Japan has very permissive immigration for skilled labor (anyone with a college degree) or social ties (marriage). Far more so than e.g. the USA or Europe. They just don't have a green card lottery for unskilled labor (like the US) or open borders for refugees (like Europe).
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Here are some more anecdotes from a recent article: http://laist.com/2016/08/29/so_just_how_do_las_legions_of_ca...

I also live car-free in Los Angeles. It is not that I don't want a car, I have just been too lazy to buy one. Money is not an issue and I have a dedicated parking spot that sits empty. I live by the Metro, so I can get to DTLA/Hollywood pretty easy. Live in walkable neighborhood, so I can walk to get groceries, with Amazon providing the rest. Even when I had a car in other locales, I would still use Amazon for various things.

I am an avid cyclist, yet I never commute anywhere by bicycle. I should look into getting a commuter bike. My current bike is too expensive to be used for commuting.
I think some of the "question 3s" in the exercises were quite a challenge about 3 weeks into the course, and for people like me who insist on getting 100%, I remember spending 4-5x the allotted time on them (or maybe I'm just slow). But as per @ocamlmoocs comment here it looks like some of this has been looked at.
I'm sure that would be just peachy when the company you work for runs all its employees and notices that you reported more income than they are paying you. It was bad enough when I worked under a government grant so my salary was public. I prefer privacy.
Having trouble getting the article in its entirety but I don't allow my kids to use facebook or any other of the other social media services. I want them to have some level of privacy for as long as they can. They can txt, call or meet their friends. They don't need facebook to do that.

Some great info on the subject can be found in "Future Crimes" - Marc Goodman . Everyone should give it a read.

An excerpt from the book.

>Facebook is by far the largest social network in the world. It has succeeded by getting people to talk about themselves in ways never previously imagined. Sexual orientation, relationship status, schools attended, family tree, lists of friends, age, gender, e-mail addresses, place of birth, news interests, work history, catalogs of favorite things, religion, political affiliation, purchases, photographs, and videos—Facebook is a marketer’s dream. Advertisers know every last intimate detail about a Facebook user’s life and can thus market to him or her with extreme precision based upon the social graph Facebook has generated.

Moreover, Facebook created a variety of innovations that allow it to track users across the entirety of the Web, including via its omnipresent Like button. You’ve been trained to click on the cute little blue thumbs-up button to express your support for a particular idea, status update, or photograph; after all, it’s the polite thing to do. Your friends see that you support their message, but what neither of you see is what happens with the data generated with each and every Like—data that are captured, dissected, and sold to marketers and data brokers around the world. When you use Facebook’s ubiquitous log-in credentials to visit other sites on the Web, such as Spotify and Pandora, Facebook’s data-mining engine is crunching your preferences for Lady Gaga over Blake Shelton, just as it is tracking all the Web sites you visit with the Facebook icon on them (even if you don’t log in).

In case you aren’t sharing enough, Facebook is happy to create new rules and regulations to force you to share more, as it did in 2012 when it instituted its mandatory timeline “feature.” The change provided advertisers a dynamic, ever-updating window into your life’s interests at any moment in time and more fodder for Facebook to sell to advertisers.<

Facebook is building a new data center in Ft Worth, TX. If you saw the size of it you would be terrified. It makes a Walmart Distribution Center look small.
Thank you for reminding me why I read HN comment sections. I appreciate this sort of earnest, well-intentioned dialogue. It is unfortunately not so prevalent on the wider web.
It's not substantive to say that I can't read the article at the link?

ETA: Someone made an archive of it! https://archive.fo/JdS1m
Thank you for that link, and for changing my view on the subject.

The thing about capitalism, though, is that it's an apparently reliable way of doing things in such situations. Apart from the odd crisis, it has worked fabulously for the west during the 20th century. With the internet, however, a lot has changed. I'm not old enough to quantify exactly how much or what, but what's certain is that it has created an entirely new ground to explore and 'colonize', and I don't think capitalism is at all well suited for stable humanist development in both the physical and the new virtual grounds.
Our world would be a better place with greater (or universal) access to mental health resources. My hope is that AI will eventually give us this.
Two months ago, someone made one for Servo, in Rust: https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/files/servo-graph.svg

https://crates.io/crates/cargo-graph can be used to produce them easily.

Rust is somewhere between Ruby and Node here: leaning towards small modules (one of my crates is in this graph, and it exports four functions), but not to the same level.

> It would be neat to visualise which language/framework has
> the worst case of dependency hell

So, one thing I've come to realize is that different people have different opinions on what "dependency hell" even means. If you have a lot of dependencies, but your tooling reliably makes it easy to get them, build them, and upgrade them, is that hell?
Google the headline, click link from Google results, see paywall disappear. At least worked for me ;)
This doesn't sound like a fun story at all, actually. I honestly don't see what kind of good could come from disclosing tax returns publicly..
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I've thought before about online commerce, and wish we could find some way to adopt a Vending Machine model.

A vending machine is autonomous. It neither tracks nor engages the customer. It takes your money, and dispenses product. Since cash is untraceable, it keeps no record of what was bought and by whom. I feel at peace knowing I will give a vending machine a dollar, and I will receive a Coke, without fearing that I will start seeing targeted ads on my browser or in my inbox showing me more Coke products.

The problem, of course, is that the amount of money lost to a vending machine is negligible. And so if the soda machine eats my dollar, I will probably swear for a bit, but I'm not going to do much to seek recourse. That model would be difficult to extend to, say, Amazon, where I might buy an $800 laptop and need Amazon to have a record that I bought it in case they ship me a lemon.

Nonetheless, I still feel that the Vending Machine Model is something we should aspire to in the e-commerce age, even if we haven't reached it yet.
Lots of people make money off of the victims of drug dependence, including the entire pharmaceutical industry, Jack Daniels, Starbucks, psychiatrists, social workers, foster parents, and the entire law enforcement industry.

Are all these people horrible scum?
I'm an immigrant in Norway. There are a lot of notable exceptions between oil-producing nations. They found oil later than a lot of other nations (late 60's), and took steps upfront to not get in the same situation. In the country itself, electric cars are subsidized (and have benefits). Gas is taxed pretty well. Having a vehicle is expensive. Clean energy is encouraged. They took the money they've made with oil and invested it in a lot of different industries and they use the interest and profits from that to fun public programs, though lots of stuff is taxed and that tax is used as well.

The fund itself is pretty diverse, and the folks have a philosopher or two on board.

The whole point is that from what I see, no one sees it as something that will last forever. The country is already planning on such things. What exactly the plan is, I haven't a clue, but I sleep better at night knowing that folks smarter (or with more influence) than I are thinking in such ways. From what I can tell, it is a mix of proactive and prudent.
You're right - I didn't realize those maps were stylized. Thanks for the correction!
They're pretty clearly talking about following distance there.
Not really, there is still plenty of room for manoeuvre as to what exactly should be prioritised during the brexit negotiations. The Japanese are well within their rights to warn about the potential implications of a hard brexit.
> using the drama to boost their attendance numbers

If they are, then I have to wonder who is actually deciding to come to these conferences based on this? I would think that people with actual coding skills who want to discuss technical ideas are running away. If anybody is deciding to come, it's the type of people whose main skill seems to be finding things to get offended by.
Hi, author here :-)

Does syslog actually support this? I mean, you can send a JSON blob as part of the MSG field, but you still need to send the

PRI VERSION TIMESTAMP HOSTNAME APP-NAME PROCID MSGID

header.

You can't just send something like

{"ts": "2016-09-..", "host": "www1", "proc": "nginx", ..}

to a syslog server and have it understand it.

We do ship some json logs in rsyslog using imfile, but that's a bit different.
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I think all public, private and corporate financial transactions, including cash transactions, should be public, with absolutely no expectation of privacy or avoidance through clever financial engineering or creative accounting.

Every single transaction. Ever. In the whole world. Recorded permanently.

It would be the fastest way to end political corruption. It would also shine some light on who the world's richest people really are, and how they make and spend their money.
Nobody starts of planning to get addicted. And while they certainly should realize that's a risk I'm not sure it ever factors into anything. Much like harsh punishments don't actually deter crime.
One of my favourite Asimov short stories.
If I take a drug that induces me to drink 10 litres of water, am I at fault for drinking 10 litres of water or does the drug have some culpability?
Sure, what is required is for the constituency to actually be inclusive of those not in the in-group.

Examples like [1], combined with a lack of interest by the candidate or his followers in correcting the situation make historical analogies seem prescient.

Compare/contrast with other candidates' responses. Eg: Obama.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/12/donald-trump-r...
You could have sacrificial beams in front of all the important ones throughout the bridge, if you're worried about lane changes. That may not be worthwhile though.
There is some early data

When Economic Doomsayers Stumble: Cautionary Tales From Brexit, Grexit and U.S. Budget Battles

http://www.wsj.com/articles/forecasts-of-brexit-gloom-may-be...
That second tweet is pure gold.

Buut... It's just so difficult. Isn't it? The lure of that grand empire that we had. :/
OMG I am now sooo glad I live rural. The biggest issue I have is waving to other drivers and watching for cows or deer.
Why isn't browser enabled Bluetooth sharing the answer? Every phone has a browser to use for the offline UI, every phone has Bluetooth as the transport mechanism. Seems like a pretty simple implementation.
Have you looked at USB OTG? Most Android phones will natively mount a USB stick when plugged in.
Video of the Tamir Rice shooting is available here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/nov/26/clevel...

To me, it shows events the unfolding intents and events occurring at a pace that written descriptions don't really capture. Your mileage may vary.
Disruptive behaviour is caused by frustration, and frustration in school is often caused by boredom (it's not like there are many other sources compared to the workplace).

The problem with workplace politics is that there are usually two kinds of critical thinking: thinking that boils down to "we are doing OK, but we could do better if we did X" which is the type of critical thinking everyone loves, and then there's "we are doing something obviously wrong and we need to stop", which is literally critical thinking and is invariably risky (it's criticising people, often management).

Organisations always say they want independent and critical thinkers, but they hardly ever do. They want yes men who will cheerlead for the side. That's tough on people who genuinely care about an organisation or want to see it succeed because strange or dysfunctional behaviour (ignoring customer feedback for example) can easily occur in almost any workplace, and sometimes there's no positive or upbeat way to say "we should probably listen to our customers" or "maybe that process you just put in place is a waste of time", or whatever the problem of the day is.
It seems like board design is a much less monotonous and more practical task that you seemed to enjoy. What made you change to FPGA? Do you feel that the bulk of what used to be board design is now happening inside silicon?

I started my career as a software developer, but got bored by web development that seems to make up 90% of the industry, so I started to study EE because I really enjoy playing prototyping fun projects. I just ordered a PCB for one of my projects.

But when I read your, and other comments, it seems that just as the things I enjoy about programming are not what a typical job is about, the things I enjoy about EE are not what typical EE jobs are about. I'm not sure where that leaves me...
Do the personality tests most companies rely on during the hiring process even account for critical thinking?
Good stuff, and I'm interested in Keen (not sure I'll admit to being a fan yet, though he's interesting, rigorous, and is presenting some strong challenges to the economic mainstream).

I wish this had taken off a bit. I'd encourage you to resubmit it and ping hn@ycombinator.com to see if it might get stronger visability. Though I suspect HN may not have sufficient economic depth to let this take off.
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Sure thing !
Hurtful how?

I admit I've really never understood that part of the argument.

To go with your example, ok, you have tracking data with a dozen smaller companies you've done transactions with online. Now they all merge and become one huge company, all that data is combined. How were you hurt by this action?
Do you know a place to view ECMWF? Weather Underground isn't showing it any more.
> I remember seeing an earlier incarnation of this around five years ago

Yes, its still up here:
https://skype-open-source2.blogspot.com/
There is thought that changing your password often might make passwords worse... Don't have a citation at the moment (phone) but, the tl;dr is that often changing means you're more likely to pick smaller passwords that are easier to construct, and to remember, making them weaker than something you'll commit to for a longer time.

So... maybe not the best analogy, but understood.
Falling GBP mean UK exports become increasingly competitive, it's not a great measure of "this is bad news for Brexit!" in the first place.

In fact, if it remains at the levels it's at, it will cancel out the additional tariffs UK exports into Europe would see as non-members of the EU.

The whole thing is really quite overblown.
At work, my www servers get short ddos on a regular basis; on our 10g hosts, 10g+ attacks are livable (outgoing TCP throughout goes down because incoming acks are part of the traffic that's getting dropped when total inbound is above the Nic capacity). We have some newer boxes with 2x10g, I'd imagine those should be able to handle 20g of attack, but I haven't noticed. (I usually only check for a ddos if external monitoring shows an unexpected failure)

That's for volumetric attacks (udp reflection), tls handshaking can eat all the CPU way before we run out of network :(
The colloquial usage of 'rubbing alcohol' in the US refers to isopropyl alcohol and no reasonable person would think to drink it.

Denatured ethanol comes up more at the hardware store.
http://skype-open-source2.blogspot.ru/2016/09/first-in-world...
Is the issue unionisation? It sounds like the answer is no.

The solution is probably to switch to a competitor that does set pay levels individually. In the event that there are none, perhaps take a leap and set up a competitor that does? If it's as big a problem as you say, presumably lots of talented physicians would beat a path to your door.
I got exited about OCaml when I tried to solve my performance issues in Python, but then realised OCaml didn't have a good multi core story either...

Any progress in that area?

Given that rust has picked up a lot in terms of typing and even syntax from OCaml, is OCaml still worth investigating?
Drugs can't bear fault. They have no means of moral expression. The person who took the drug bears all culpability.