skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Die anstelle gerichtlicher Prüfung des Sachverhalts vorgesehenen politischen Kontrollgremien haben sich in der Vergangenheit aber oft als unzulänglich erwiesen:"

translates to (while keeping the sentence structure the same as much as possible, even if that sounds a bit off in english):

"The, in place of judicial review of the factual matter, arranged political control committees have shown in the past to often be insufficient:"
There's not really that much of a difference between "not want" and "not afford". There are two levels of "can't afford". One is "completely out of my league", the other is "i could, if i made compromises elsewhere".

Owning a beaten-up low end smartphone for the utility (e.g. being able to check public transport times anywhere) is well within the "compromise" range for just about everybody, playing the "latest iPhone every fall" game would be clearly out of range for many.

The "going low-tech" crowd just happens to be very sensitive (and hostile) to signs of consumerism and this perception blinds out all traces of utility they might see otherwise. "I'm too smart to play a game i can't win" is a very desirable status message to send and it's best conveyed by an old Nokia. Being in Berlin and having a good time also makes them pretty immune to the nagging question of "am i missing out on something big by not having a smartphone?" that is driving smartphone adoption in other parts of society (e.g. the elderly).

PS: oh, and one argument in favor of "can't afford" crossed my mind nonetheless: some might actually think that they can't afford a smartphone. The really cheap options are not heavily advertised, so non-technical people in Germany often think that all smartphone ownership would be as expensive as the ridiculous "1€ iPhone" contracts they see on the billboards. Avoiding smartphone ownership because you are scared of hidden costs would be a very, very "german" thing to do.
Idea: crowdfunding for buying digital books
So, I need to buy a textbook but the digital versions costs 92US$ and it cant be find in a leaked-pdf. In my country this price is half the median wage. The ideia is, create a crowdfunding-like tool so more people who are interested in the same book can contribute and can buy it and share it. I don't know if this is legal, but I would use such a tool anyway.
there are vnet jails that behave similarly.
Hardly surprising, given that Apple use Sony Exmor sensors with which Samsung have approximate parity. In fact some Sony-branded sensors are actually Samsung designs fabbed by Sony! [0] All's fair in love and capitalism.

The real differentiators would be in the lens and stabilisation and in a phone-sized case there's not a lot of space to do much different to the competition.

[0] some of the S7 models use Samsung's in-house sensor and others use the Sony IMX260 which is a... Samsung design. The iPhone 7 probably uses a Sony-designed IMX230.
I'm an immigrant here and get asked, "what made you come to Norway?" Quite often. I don't view it as negatively as the author.

Most Norwegians seem genuinely proud of the country, but at the same time, realize that it is difficult at times, the climate is rough, it is expensive, and other such things. It is comparatively small. And as such, folks get curious about stories. It is easy small talk and more interesting than talking about the weather. Occasionally some folks get asked this in a nearly racist way: But racism isn't unique to Norway, and not sure that the racism of the US is better.

I do, in a way, understand where the author is coming from. Some immigrants are really miserable here or struggle with the society. Mileage varies, I guess, according to personal temperament and beliefs. I rather enjoy life here for the most part - even as I'm in the alternative crowd the author says has a rough time - so I'm probably more prone to positive reviews.
Pilot wave formulations of QM and graph based or otherwise discrete theories of space are two very different things. The reasons to like the latter are similar to the reasons to dislike the former. At a large scale physics looks continuous, but like matter turned out to be made of atoms, perhaps space is similar. Extrapolating our everyday experience of continuous physics to the fundamental laws may be a mistake. However, that's precisely what pilot wave theories are doing: trying to fit the fundamental laws into our everyday experience and intuition. At the end of the day it doesn't matter which mathematical formalism we use to express the laws, so we may as well use the simplest and most elegant one rather than picking based on our ontological commitments based on our everyday experience. The simplest model also tends to be the one on which further progress is built, like QFT.

By the way, I think in some sense space is already discrete in QM. E.g. for a particle in a box you have a discrete set of states.
to be fair, an issue with whatsapp is fundamentally inward facing. lose a couple of old messages? you're on the free tier, what do you want?
twitter on the other hand - a publicly liked and massively supported tweet/twitter account disappears or starts having malfunctions and the whole service is maligned. "free speech is being threatened" etc etc
twitter has been used for mass protests/revolutions because of it's reach and stability. do you think whatsapp would have done the same? they were still transmitting plain text between users and it was trivially easy to view someone else's texts for quite some time
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I'm fascinated by birds. It's not that I'm a lister, but I'm always aware of birds around me, from their vocalizations. The stereotype of "bird watchers" with their binoculars and scopes is misleading. Mostly you identify birds by sound.

Anyway, avian evolution has diverged enough from our line that birds are virtually aliens. Compared to other primates, and other smart mammals, I mean. Also rather alien are spiders, octopus, and colonial insects.
That was fairly obvious to me upon reading. I've learned enough of the history to be able to place some of the events. It is very true that a lot is no longer valid, but it is still interesting to read how some of the stuff has changed and how that sort of thing shaped the author's impression of living here.
I used to telnet archie.mcgill.ca to search the collected index of archive sites, back in 1991 or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine
Like what, hardware mods that make the overkill vibration engine a little less huge so we can have a jack?
This could be fixed in the iPhone 7s with the introduction of Bluetooth 5.
It's not a ban on plastic utensils, some plastics are biodegradable.
Snapchat is slower than a snail, it's UI is a mess without any kind of user manual, it eats battery like nothing else (because it ALWAYS keeps the camera on)...

Maybe I'm just too old to "enjoy" this.
It should be on bank statements and on the card. What I was trying to say though was that the fact that Barclays has a system like Revolut is a problem for other banks that don't have a system like that. So our solution is still valuable for them.
"Reason is conscious; intuition is subconscious."

Conscious or not, it can still be reason.

'Hunger' , 'fear', 'lust', 'anger' are all part of the reasonable human calculation.

If you set your mind to just 'conscious' decisions, we'd have been dead a long time ago.

Consider autonomous functions: are you 'reasoning' your heart rate and breathing right now?

And yet, somewhere, somehow, you're 'deciding' to keep your heart at a certain rate while it's warm, and another when you are in need of more oxygen, and another when it's cold.

So autonomous functions are perfectly reasonable.
And vice versa ;)

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Font-lock is pretty easy to turn off. But then, the first thing I did when I installed Emacs was change the colorscheme to solarized dark, something I would reccomend to anybody.

As for the rest... I have no idea. There are a variety of C indent styles, and most are fairly standard (K&R, GNU, Linux, etc.), so I'm puzzled as to why it doesn't work, especially considering that CC mode has to also support C++ and Java, and so can't get too specific. If it really does suck that badly though, I'd hunt around for an alternate package.
Cheaper to hang photo prints than iPads.
Do you propose having another syntax for getting the zero-length slice just past the last element? The [2:] syntax giving you {} is a pretty natural progression from [0:] giving you {0, 1} and [1:] giving you {1} in your example.
this is pretty spot on, for people who like being "in the know" twitter is like your favorite publicly available and easy find-able crack
"oh hey what is that guy from the scrubs tv show doing nowadays" "he just tweeted about a charity/podcast thing he's doing tomorrow we should check it out"
as much as snapchat/facebook etc are "innovating" with their live video and infinitely desirable ephemeral messaging, twitter remains the way to get info right now without having to dig too deep into a social graph
Very strange indeed. The Chinese government rarely seem to act as a well oiled machine. This is probably some initiative somebody took that will come to bite them.
> PPI

Doesn't know anything about retail banking if you are reusing that term
> Advertising does create demand, but it plays upon people's existing dissatisfaction with their lives. It only works because so many people are so unhappy.

It's not just that. It amplifies peoples' dissatisfaction. Brings it to focus, in order to convince them that the advertised product will help. It keeps telling people that they will be happier if they buy, and then it tells them what to buy.

> If more people were better connected with other people and able to live in the moment, advertising would be less effective.

Yeah, if more people would be able to resist the impact of huge armies of highly trained, highly paid professionals, with access to state-of-the-art research in psychology, sociology and economics, who also can leverage resources of huge multinational corporations... Yeah, if each of one individually could only resist that, we'd all be fine.
Most recent immigrants only know the oil-fueled side of Norway, actually. I'm one of those, and found this reading absolutely fascinating. I'm probably also somewhat lucky - my Norwegian mother in law and extended family fill me in on some history. I did speaking practice in a nursing home, and learned quite a bit from some of the residents, and had a few language teachers that taught a broader view of Norwegian history in class alongside language.

I read some passages to my spouse (Norwegian) and he found some parts outright funny, though he agreed with some as well.. though, our perspective probably is slightly different as we are from the previous decade.
S/he talks about it as if it's something bad, something unfixed. The whole thing sounds like it but in particular "[to be excluded] go fix your shit".

I agree that if you don't want people to access it, you should secure it. Yet not all these servers are accidentally open: my ftp on 80.100.131.150 (I assume it's in there) hosts a copy of Damn Small Linux because all downloads were extremely slow or broken at the time.
You're right, however there is a possibility it will play out like Uber. I.E. Many of the states across the globe initially fought hand and tooth to protect their own taxi license systems, only to loosen up later...
ever heard of cryptocurrencies? no banks are neeeded, and identity on blockchain will actually happen.
But that's true for literally every industry. Congress passes laws about healthcare even though very few of them are doctors. They pass laws about oil drilling and I doubt many of them have training in that. Etc, etc.

Congress is incompetent at everything. Its just that you only notice when they are talking about something you know about.
This was an incredible read. I would never have suspected that the book had roots in reality.
Did we now say perfect somewhere?
I relate the following discussion from memory:

"Long ago", a psychologist did the following experiment on children of different ages: he'd lay out one line of M&Ms with broadly uniform spacing, and another line, longer, with the same spacing, and ask the child "which line has more M&Ms?" After they correctly indicated that the longer line had more M&Ms, he'd adjust the spacing between the M&Ms in the shorter line such that it was now longer. Then he'd ask again, "which line has more M&Ms?" He found that, below a certain age (I hope this finding was approximate), children would indicate the longer (and sparser) line as now having more M&Ms, and above the threshold age they would point to the correct, denser line.

His published papers were viewed as establishing a major threshold in child development, where children started to be capable of assessing reality independently. "Not so long ago", someone decided to replicate this landmark finding.

The twist was, in the replication, instead of asking the children "which line has more M&Ms now?", they said "OK, now you can take one of the lines and eat all of the M&Ms that were in it".

And the threshold effect disappeared completely. Children of all ages chose the line with numerically more M&Ms, regardless of linear extent.

When the problem is your experimental design, you're not warranted in drawing conclusions. You've already demonstrated that you're not qualified to speculate on them.

> that still doesn't explain this problem with bad communication.

> There are two statements, P and Q, and you have a question of what's more probable: statement P or the conjunction P&Q. The experimenter (communicating badly) makes you believe that Q has a very high probability. However, it is still logically impossible for P&Q to be more probable than P.

Your objection only makes sense if (1) human-to-human communication consists of messages that precisely specify their intended meaning, and (2) people believe that (1) is true. (1) and (2) are both false.
It appears that the deletions are related to national security (infrastructural targets). Cooling towers, gas storage, bridges, etc. Although not sure what to make of that heavily guarded fire station. Perhaps it's a front for something.
Are those the cables that come stock? If so I've got some Ebay'ing to do...
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Refraining from throwing people who have not violated anyone's rights in prison makes sense if you care about human rights.

You seem to throw all concern for human rights out the window when the object is to take someone's money from them.
I've got an original GBA. It's not the best, but it rocks for playing stuff on the go.

Also, if you're into music and have a GB flashcart, lsdj is a must buy.
The issue you describe is not something you should design around. I have written/reviewed hundreds of thousands of lines of Go on projects large and small and have never encountered this problem. However, in practice there are very good reasons not to use interfaces as you suggest.

If you make an interface the contract with the user you will find it is now very hard to change. Everyone who had once implemented it no longer does. If I return a struct and consumers use tightly-focused interfaces for only the methods they depend on, I can continue to add methods or modify the struct as I see fit.

Think of all the engineers who will create special versions of your interface for testing. You add a new method and every single one of those needs to be updated, even if the overwhelming majority have no interest at all in the method you've added.
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I don't know if I'd call this a land mine, but I wish it didn't work because it confuses beginners.

You can type

for i:= range myvalues

In this case i is the index of the value. I'd rather they didn't allow this and instead you would just type

for i,_ := range myvalues
That stood out to me too, I imagine it's more akin to 'skimming' than reading each word for comprehension. Most legal documents are highly repetitive, full of legalese filler, and generally you just need to get the gist of something quickly rather than analyze it on a small scale. I bet that when he's carefully writing or reading an important clause it's at much less than 10 words a second.
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Ah. Yes, I thought that by "adapter" OP meant micro-usb to lightning adapter, which is available, but not bundled. The charger is, of course, included in the box.
Was saving them a myth as well, to make someone a fortune? :)
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There's marketing, and then there's marketing. You can do this by asking yourself what's the best product that would solve some problem for largest amount of people and then building that, or you can ask yourself how you can trick people into buying the cheapest shit you can get away with. A lot of marketing criticized on HN is of the second kind; this is also pretty much what most startups do, by the way.
Yeah, that's one of the dangers. Did you start a conversation with them about it, or just move on silently?

I'm trying to think of a good way to start such a conversation... but it sounds tricky. Probably would depend on the personality of the person. ;)
I was amazed how fast that went. Was fully expecting the story to unfold with how you rented out 100 AWS servers to complete the task, instead it was just one computer and only took hours.
I have no inside knowledge but I imagine that once you have mapped out a city and can safely drive without a driver (we're clearly not there yet), maybe subsequent map updates can be done by self-driving cars?

Do cities offer a convenient API to access certain events like construction and so on? Do cities even have a centralized location to keep track of these things that someone out in the field can update in near real-time? With all these competing self-driving technology, it seems like we can avoid some duplication of effort?

Even as I type this I'm wary because there first thing everybody will probably think is "who will pay for this"... I think the city government should pay but they might balk at the commitment. Thoughts?
Or... y'know... I care about people as a whole more than I care about a rich minority's desire to become a bit richer.
Supersonic jet startup vows 'affordable' travel – if you have $5,000 to spare
any stats on how many servers are running Pure-FTPd vs. Paradise FTP vs. some other software?
no one used the Gameboy as a media player.

...That's not true.

Gameboy advance video was a thing.

Also, I for one wouldn't play my games without sound.
The interests of 'people as a whole' can be used to justify both (compulsory treatment leads to less drug abuse and fewer homeless, compulsory income redistribution leads to more funding for the homeless, respectively), so really what you're saying is that it's okay to throw rich people in prison, but not poor people.

That's what your 'value system' comes down to. Knee-jerk judgments on moral value and rights based on whether a person is successful.
What about GBA video, which we did get?
There are cheap black and white printers with very low running costs. Laser printers.

There have been attempts at open sourcing inkjet printers:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8542 (2011)
Ugh, that kind of dev behaviour is extremely lousy, and not at all the norm for Open Source projects.

Hopefully you've found places/projects more receptive to your time/effort since then. :)
There ain’t no hubris like FinTech startup hubris.
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Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time
Benchtop Black Hole Analogues Help Physicists Glimpse the Quantum Universe
Identity on the blockchain won't actually happen if nobody actually works to make it happen. In practice, though, it's much more profitable (and easier) to build centralised businesses where you actually have a product or service to sell that only you can provide (due to network effects), so people work on that instead.
So weird .js experiment
The city of Vienna / Europe spends 632 Mio € alone on social housing.
Another 3366 Mio € goes to other social and health services. [1]

Vienna has no relevant homeless problem.

https://wien1x1.at/site/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/2014/06...
"All in all, there were exactly 18,454,087 things that responded to a banner fetch... The JSON file is about 4GiB." where can I download this JSON file? I only see the list of ips available.
I remember using the UI through telnet archie.mcgill.ca. It showed percent progress. The location used a 32-bit signed int. When the archive exceeded 2GB, the percentage became a negative count to 0% rather than count-up to 100%.
Which is the future now that there's talk of the car's computer checking crypto signatures on each part and refusing to start the engine if they don't match. Heard of this concept at least once here on HN.
The idea of using Barclays, or any 3rd party bank, is just to get enough traction so they have their own participation method later. Also it doesn't show Barclays on the statement from my usage - it shows the end merchants details. I didn't really know it was Barclays till now.

Barclays has been known to help startups by lending them their (global) infrastructure in the UK. Another Example is Dopay where Egyptian Barclays ATMs have been lent out.

The Bank of England is moving towards allowing non banks to participate in the payments system by 2020, its supposedly blockchain secured so it goes a notch above what a sole bank/firm could do. Revolut could theoretically switch from Barclays then.
It's very easy to pay taxes. People do it all the time, and it's pretty well documented how to do it. Worst case scenario, you miss something and pay a bit more than you might otherwise have to. I don't know of anyone who's paid taxes properly and been thrown in prison for paying taxes. Hell, if you look like you might be trying to make an honest effort to pay taxes and got it wrong, you can pay them after someone catches you!

It's not very easy not to have a mental illness. It's not something you choose to do. See the difference? One is putting you in prison for something you very easily could've avoided - the other is putting you in prison (because that's what compulsory treatment really is) for being a human being.
Here come the rationalizations for your favored brand of authoritarianism.

Human rights violators always think that their particular authoritarianism is justified.

It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't simultaneously admonish those who support authoritarian laws to force those who are massively abusing drugs to the detriment of themselves and the rest of society into treatment.
Can't help it: the "quality" of this work screeeeams "made in China" :)

...and the work itself seems pretty relevant to national security: those are the kinds of buildings that have "taking photos forbidden" signs near them everywhere else in the world for obvious reasons. Kinda feel sorry for the poor slob who's getting fired for this ...just fired in the best case scenario.
I bought second-hand Gamecube a while ago. I just checked and I have a cable which plugs into analog port. There is digital port too. I assume the digital port is used by component cable which I don't have. Funny, I've never noticed digital port until today.
Hmm, your post seems to imply Firefox does searching of full text history page contents natively -- is this true? I'm trying (on nightly) and can't seem to trigger it.

If not natively, which add-on are you using?
For $69 it's easy enough to buy a different printer brand.

I buy a new ink cartridge and put it in my old printer and it doesn't work. Why should I assume the problem is the new ink cartridge and not the old printer?
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That's a really informative answer, thanks very much
I think we will disagree forevermore on whether or not property and money are the most important things in the world.
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