skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, that would be better, but it's still not really related to the amount of (environmentally detrimental) chemicals in the devices.
Looks interesting but I wouldn't trust a closed source browser.
Not to say Appenzell Innerrhoden people can be seen as Amish people of Switzerland (even in if fact they probably have very little in common).
I don't think you are missing anything.

I also have never asked anything on SO, and never used SO as a reference. SO only seems to work for factual simple answers that are found in the documentation or manual pages.

For higher level discussion SO is not appropriate; mailing lists and IRC work best for that.

I suspect most people don't like reading reference material so asking random stuff on SO works for them
Depends on where you live and who you love.
Have you actually passed two days without any money in your pocket?
>So WAL backup is not well known or documented in my opinion

What? It is the standard backup method clearly explained in the docs.
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Yeah, unfortunately looking for advanced Rails answers means sifting through lots of silt: answers that were correct for version X but no longer, answers that avoid the question by doing something else, cargo cult solutions.
Not meaningfully more complicated. You know when you've reached the end of your object of you are actually parsing it, so you also know when the next one can begin.
I recently made a tool for command line history to a sqlite database https://github.com/trengrj/recent.

I really enjoy using sqlite. Not everything needs a client server model, and having your entire database located in a single file makes a lot of things way easier.
Sounded good, so I typed in an email address on their registration form. Then:

> Create an Account Password (You will use this to log in to the browser to activate it)

Uhm, no.
I think when you have to resort to using debugger, probably it is better to discard the code entirely and rethink the solution.
Considering Jigsaw is also interested in combating extremism, I'd say no.
Firefox dropped its 1st party browser sync (Weave)

No, it didn't. It was renamed to Sync and incorporated into Firefox itself. It works great, it's end-to-end encrypted and it supports nifty features like Send Tab To Device[1] (unlike in Chrome, where you have to either bookmark or keep the tab open on the origin device and then trawl for it on the destination).

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-tab-to-d...
You really do have to trust your payment method provider to protect you against fraud. You have to trust it not to committing fraud. Your payment method provider does not 'trust' you to pay the bill. They trust that they have the bigger stick and better lawyers.
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I don't even know why the term shortage is even used in the context of potential employees. If potential employees are scarce then salaries will continue to rise until more people decide to pursue that job. Generally shortages happen if the government decides to implement price controls. If I want to buy bananas for $2.50 and bananas sell for $5.00 in the grocery store. It's not a shortage just because I can't afford it. If the government decides that bananas should cost $2.50 then producers will stop producing their goods because of a lack of revenue. This is a shortage.
Rents are very high too, and at that income range you're leaving a ton of money on the table by not taking advantage of the mortgage interest deduction.
Do you have the right mechanisms in place to course correct
I dunno about NFC adoption. Aside from train rides, most people here use cash for all their day-to-day transactions. Even though the option has been available for over a decade, it's rare to see someone pay in a store with NFC. Way rarer than e.g. in the UK or Australia.
Thankfully the RCE vulnerability is only in OpenSSL 1.1, which is probably not commonly used yet.

Does the second issue imply that OpenSSL does not have any automated tests for the CRL functionality?
Keep in mind that cookies are just one of the many "storage backends" that websites can potentially use to track you.

There are stealth techniques such as browser cache hits, browser configuration fingerprinting, and even system clock drift, that can track you beyond cookies.

You would need a separate browser profile or even a separate OS for each tab (see Qubes OS) to be on the safe side.
almost wholly unregulated

Is the key bit. They aren't trying to be coherent, they are advocating for anti-democratic law, aka regulation.
Don't you check your email every second?
I can't speak for other countries, but at least when it comes to programming, it's really easy to become a freelancer here in The Netherlands.

In less than a day you can register your business, get a business bank account (+ working card!), and send an invoice to your 'employer'. For less than a hundred 'bucks'. Once a year it gets a little more complicated when you have to do your finances, which can trivially be outsourced to an accountant. I know plenty of people (perhaps especially programmers) who do their finances themselves though. For freelancers, and especially programmers, it's (apparently) not that complicated.

Going through this for just one month before you're hired is perhaps still a bit too much of a hassle, but you only really have to do this once and you can then use your freelancer status every time you switch jobs.

I don't know much about the legal aspect of all this though.
The private security firm didn't create the policy of mandatory indefinite remote detention with little oversight.

And while it may be cognitively useful to pretend Australian border defense is not a military issue, you have created a ranked force defending the state's "territorial integrity" through the use of force.

You originally wrote, "I find it at odds that a nation that has such ardour and pride for their servicemen and servicewomen would basically condone human rights abuse by and unto those same personnel."

The UN has repeatedly decried Austrlia's migration policies as human rights abuses.

The reason migration policies are germane, even if they're enforced by civilians, is because they're an example where Australians exhibit the same blind spots you're decrying in people from other countries.

If you're genuinely curious how people take pride in flawed governments, look closer to home. Really though, it's a universal human condition.
Over half the 70 year old guys I know can repair 1960's era cars. First they where relatively simple, second they broke down often. If you made a lot of money then pay someone else, otherwise you where on the sliding scale.

Basically it was like PC repair before laptops. Even if you did not know how to do it working from a good book you would muddle through it.
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In email, senders can be trivially forged.

In a modern system, you'd probably want encryption and authentication of who you're talking to. Which is great except now you have to do key management, god help you.
Straw man about DDoS, nobody asserted that here.

As far as private fiber, global search traffic, cached pages, maps, mail and advertising goes, Google already is the core of the internet.
This is amazing work, well done! I see this as potentially very powerful not only in the generation of images, but also in the search field.

How often have i looked for shoes or clothing items that have "a stripe of white around the soles, black for the body with some dark red decals" with this i could basically enter this as some kind of visual search query.

Exciting stuff.
How many points do you need to be a proven user then?
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Yeah, it can be very frustrating :(
This is called the "n+1 queries" problem.
I can add Hanover, Germany to the list.
Exactly. And that's good enough. The question whether contributors "are welcome" is less relevant now than it was 5 years ago. But I think they still are.
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Yeah, they close at 9pm now
It can have concurrent reads, and even concurrent read and write, but it doesn't support concurrent writes.
Depends on your bank. Traditional ones do. Lots of upstart banks (like Rakuten, Aeon) that don't.
If you ship hardware to a customer with software installed and don't have the ability to do automatic security updates on it in 2016, you need to rethink your strategy.
> I see that the board claim he was not asked by the board to resign.

Well, you're free to your own opinions (and conspiracies), but not to your own facts. Preface your statements with, "I believe he was secretly (fired)", and that's fair enough.

But us arguing about it without any evidence is basically Russell's Teapot.

> Can you cite an instance of apologizing quelling an outrage mob?

It would have certainly worked here. From when I was born until 2015, we went from 15% approval to 55% approval for marriage equality. We had several prominent republicans, and even a democratic president change their public views to support marriage equality. Eich had a good 6+ years since his donation, so it wasn't like his mind couldn't have changed during that time. I don't recall anyone on our side ever denouncing someone who announced they 'evolved' on this topic. So yes, I'm extremely confident most people would have put this issue to rest.

However, again, a man of principle shouldn't lie. That covers both lying about a change of heart, as well as lying about resigning instead of having been fired.
Like most government measures of inflation the CPI has an interesting way of measuring of pricing changes, especially in technology. For example, suppose that a 2GB USB flash drive in the CPI basket of goods is discontinued and replaced with an 4GB model at a slightly higher price. The BLS compares this to the price of the old 4GB model and counts this as a price decrease even though most consumers end up paying more, and the same with every other aspect of technology. Now factor in the fact that tech has been stuck in a kind of red queen's race where you need higher and higher spec devices to continue, for example, viewing the same web pages and you can probably see the issue here.

The CPI also makes heavy use of geometric rather than arithmetic means which de-emphasises the goods which have risen most in cost on the assumption that consumers will substitute them for one of the cheaper alternatives, even if they're not substitutes. For example, until 2016 the CPI used the geometric mean for prescription drugs, assuming that if - for example - EpiPens shot up in price consumers would substitute them for other drugs which didn't even treat the same condition. (Notice that this article uses 2015 figures.)
Next math to be applied: topology and category theory?
His subsequent colleagues fired it at Usenet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
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> day-to-day financing that we all need (home loans, etc.), according to Krugman, should move to the public utility model

I couldn't disagree more. Making home loans "too necessary to fail" pretty much guarantees a catastophic speculative bubble in residential property. Which, coincidentally, is what we're seeing in many places.

I quite like the idea of ringfenced utility banking, possibly even nationalized, but would set the "necessary" bar a lot higher.
If they won't, I will. Working code (in a good language) is the best way to work on the problem, far better than a whiteboard where you have no undo, no VCS tagging, no ability to come up with reusable components... . Trying to do it all in your head would be even worse.

Of course it's possible to push code around on the page until it seems to work, just as it's possible to push symbols around the page until it seems to work when answering a mathematical question on paper. (Unfortunately some languages/compilers will run code that doesn't make any sense, but that's more true on paper, not less)
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I've been watching this happen like a scheduled car crash for years. Every 2 years, another open source project succumbs to the problem.

As far as I can tell, when software is open source, the barrier to people contributing is lower. And that leads to a sort of brownian jitter in the system. Once great systems, (kde in general and amarok in particular) suffer from contributions of new features, which add features but decrease reliability. Or they exist for so long that no new exciting features exist to be added, so the inevitable re-architecture death march begins (I'm looking at your kde4. You killed kde as a corporate desktop, so that you could add semantic search?).

Whatever the cause, be it the accretion of "features", or the inevitable "rinse, re-architect, repeat" cycle some project are on, it can only drive people away. But a project that is widely used collects developers, and it is difficult to say no to contributors - a common problem in volunteer projects outside software.
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I don't really understand the negativity. Ideas, like advice, have intrinsic value. People are caught up with the notion of an "idea" (like 'Uber for X') and don't realize OP is discussing a market opportunity. It's very possible OP has an idea that can generate value for an obscure niche that's slow to adapt. This happens all the time - the wheel is constantly being reinvented in different industries and markets and plenty of people make a decent living doing stuff like this.

Anyway, my advice is because everyone is caught up in stigmatizing "ideas", it's likely you will not find an adequate market available to sell your idea or get paid enough for it. You're better off discussing it with people you know. Frame it like "There is an opportunity in market X that is not being pursued, likely because of reason Y. I understand this market/problem very well and could explain it to you in great detail. If you decide to pursue it, I'd like modest [advisor shares/dividends/etc.] in return" or something to that effect.
.. except that real stability of prices in Yen is pretty good, while Bitcoin is highly volatile. Admittedly this is often to the upside - since BTC/$ seems to drift upward over time - but it's definitely not a great inflation hedge.
Wasn't there an article a few weeks ago that said bitcoin was on its last legs? Did I imagine that or did that happen?
Not really, good developers become good from working, being involved and working together with more experienced developers. Sitting at home while employers moan about lack of skills without investing in employees is perhaps where the distinction lies.

Across Scandinavia there is a trend to outsource to eastern Europe to reduce costs, we can't then complain that developers in Scandinavia lack the competence required for the job. Employers have to invest in skills too. I would assume the same goes for Finland.
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> I really hope ISP naming and shaming takes over, so we can make DDoS a little bit more difficult.

I think naming and shaming would have little impact and whatever impact it did have would be short lived. Consumers tend to have short attention spans and zero long term memory. Take the banking/finance industry for example, were egregious, predatory and at times criminal tactics are par for the course. Banking institutions are named and shamed all the time, yet the Bank of Americas, Wells Fargos and Goldman Sachs of the world still exist.
It is the same price for 27 (I think) days after expiry though. If you've managed to miss the notifications that your domain is about to expire and then still not noticed for another month it's on you when the redemption price needs paying. Set it to auto-renew.
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At the end, if nation states are helpless on preventing this, and only being part of the problem, I say this - our benevolent feodal overlords - is the preferable solution.
It's not only a matter of ability, but also of opportunity cost.

For instance, when I was a teenager, I always fixed my bicycle by myself. Nowadays, I guess I could do it if I had too, but I prefer to pay $50 and have somebody else do it for me. Same goes for washing machines or similar appliance, I'm sure many people could manage to fix them by themselves by spending enough time, but is it worth it?
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A design board is just another tool, a workaround for not being able to run the program quickly enough (compare e.g. "presentation compilers" in languages that take a long time to fully compile).
It's not a good idea because different processes shouldn't write to the same sqlite database.

Unless you design it as a service, where one process is using sqlite to store its locking data and you use it from other processes by communicating with this service - then it's ok.
No, people advocate exercise because it's necessary for long-term health.
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AI/AGI is so interesting, everyone (including me) wants to have their own unique take on it. And comment. Even though we are not really that familiar with the field.

I think that the group of researchers who have been calling their work AGI should get a lot of credit, and their research should be a starting point for discussions. Rather than people just spouting off as I am about to do.

Here are some AGI videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwJ8AV1zMM4j9FTicGimqA/pla...

I think that some type or combination of (deep or something) neural networks, _in_ a general intelligence framework with things like attention, (virtual?) embodiment, etc., may be enough for us to be able to more or less emulate (general) human capabilities and behavior. That's my guess. The biggest issue is slow learning or requiring quite a bit of data. If typical artificial neurons aren't enough, there are actually some promising advances in spiking neural networks some of which are actually able to perform quite accurately and learn much more quickly. So that is another possibility. Can't be sure. I think we should be optimistic that it doesn't require too many more major breakthroughs (if any).

The reason that I think some (many?) people are sooo skeptical still is that deep down they may believe that the cause or explanation for _animalis_ (animus?) is somehow uniquely human or magic. What I mean is the thing that makes animals and people seem (or be) alive and conscious. This is somewhat related to the concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism which my understanding is somewhat more popular in Asia.

I think that with existing techniques, maybe some type of deep neural net, combined with more dexterous and anatomically correct, dynamic and sensory-integrating robots, we will shortly (if not already) have robots that do seem to be quite alive. Consider a lizard. How many robots do we have that can really emulate the dynamic and lithe behavior and interaction of a lizard? Perhaps none. Our robots are quite slow and generally have limited freedom of movement. I bet that if we did a good job of emulating most of the entire complex anatomy of a lizard with some type of robot (including the breathing) (maybe use some type of EAP muscles like https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/07/artificial-muscle-...) and then came of up with a way to train its behavior generation as based on a deep neural network from detailed videos of interactions with human handlers, people would say "that thing is alive" and change their minds about the reality of even human-like AIs in the next few decades.
As an addendum to your list for the other readers, C, C++ and Java AS/400 compilers can also generate MI code.

Also Microsoft already had it for Windows CE, it was called Common Executable Format for eMbedded short CEF.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms834338.aspx

Processor independence is also a reason why mobile OSes are going into this direction.
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Please, please don't take this the wrong way because, even if I personally don't like the direction KDE has taken, I have a lot of respect for the project...

But you're really talking about KDE here. Not linux. You have the context of a KDE developer. You're basically saying "The KDE project is doing great!", but that doesn't invalidate anything I said in my comment.

I've been dealing with the evangelism portion a ton more; what I've seen is that people no longer care.

Linux support for some of the newer tech is abysmal. Take for example hi-dpi and touch screen support; we're only now starting to get somewhere with both of those, and those don't even qualify as "newer tech". Things like UEFI have truly made Linux harder to install and deal with. We're going to catch up eventually but in the mean time, for users it's a terrible experience.

Desktop devs are so focused on their "experience" within the DE. Tell me, who's working on making GNOME/KDE apps look good on KDE/GNOME? Who's working on making them behave well? The rare times there's activity in XDG, it's "FYI" activity. "Hey, so, we're doing this in (gnome/kde) now. Comments welcome, whatever." - nobody ever replies. I worked for over a year on porting Android intents to XDG. Nobody helped. The GNOME project showed some interest in it; some good stuff came out of that, but intents are still not on Linux and, in 2016, it's still not possible to do something as simple as an "Edit this picture" action.

It's been a frustrating past few years. I saw a massive amount of new people interested in Linux, because "Windows 8 sucks". I also saw most of them go to macOS instead; the few that stayed went back to Windows when 10 was released. Linux really missed the boat there.

We are lacking a project that is actively working on the health of "Linux on the desktop". We need people to work on improving the experience of developing apps on Linux, improving the portability across desktops, creating clear specs, guidelines and documentation and we need all that not to suck. But who's going to do that? Mozilla doesn't seem interested. Valve, RH etc only have to care about the distro/DE they're shipping. Google's no longer looking at Linux as anything else than a kernel. Yeah, we're pretty screwed.
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I'm in two minds about biodegradable plastics. Where I'm from, plastic bags are no longer the norm for supermarkets to pack groceries in, and so most people carry their own re-usable bags to the store, or get goods packed in biodegradable plastics.

While this is anecdotal, it is common amongst my peers for the biodegradable bags to be used as general household garbage bags. I think this feels much better than using the previous long lasting ones, but knowing what people put inside them - I wonder if it really makes a difference.

On the other hand, I can remember when the plastic supermarket bags were phased out, and it was impressive just how quickly people adopted reusable bags. This small change in behaviour must come with at least some increased awareness of resource consumption, surely?
Surely the better solution would be to say "This was the best answer in 2009. In 2012 there was a new answer."

Also in the era of search engines, does it matter if someone compiles a point in time solution? I've lost track of the number of times I've successfully searched for that entry, only to discover it has been closed as "inappropriate". So frustrating.
What is "poverty" ? I think I'm lucky to hit 20K but that's on me, an undereducated pleab.
Why can't I have both? I am not against text logs, but it is good to have options. When binary format is an option I say that netstrings are probably better option.