skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article does not get the main difference between the Roman Empire and all these other great states. Most notably, the fact that we are still living in the Roman Empire.

Property Law? Check. Marriage and Divorce? Check. Democracy and Public Life processes? Check.

Well it evolved of course. But hey... Republic comes from Res Publica not Kushan Whatever.
> But what happens when Facebook scans your private chats and reports your illegal doings to the police? ( http://www.infowars.com/facebook-monitors-your-private-messa.... )

That's a very different situation. With Facebook you learn about it and chose to continue using it or not. With government bulk scanning you no longer have any choice or even knowledge about it.
That's certainly a different sentiment that the Reuters quote. But even if it's not an endorsement of Bitcoin and gold, it's still problematic because he's saying that scarcity implies stability, which simply isn't true.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

It might have to be Federal, but not the Justice Department. And frankly that function should not even fall under the executive branch, or not completely.

I propose a Department of Liberty, lead by a Liberator General that is set up as a check against the Attorney General. It would be tasked with prosecuting crimes committed only by police and government agents, with no power to prosecute private citizens. It would be equipped with its own force of agents who likewise can only arrest police and other agents. The department would also serve as a central voice and funding umbrella for our woefully neglected public defenders. Finally, it would be partly overseen by a Congressional 'grand jury committee', which would be presided over by a sitting SCOTUS Justice on a rotating basis.

Federate that model at the state and local level, with appropriate modifications such as actual grand jury oversight.
Hah, we laugh at that one, but as soon as you point out that "performant" is not an English word, the HN "languages evolve!" guys come out of the woodwork with their pitchforks.
Very few people would put the blame mainly on companies like Yahoo or Google as they are forced by their government to do this.

But it still makes using their services dangerous to you and your company or the company you are working for.

I would even go so far and require any politician running for any office to not have used any foreign email, messenger or social network in the last X years except for reaching out to voters.

There's a high risk that they could be blackmailed with their private communication being in the hands of foreign governments and I don't want compromised people like that anywhere near public office.
In Portland, a far too frequent cause of MAX (the light rail) service interruptions is due to car/train collisions. See the following links for a small taste:

http://koin.com/2014/04/01/1-hurt-car-max-crash-portland/
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/06/max_col...
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/05/max_blu...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/3d5i9g/saw_an_ora...

There may be more to it in Portland than "at grade", but that certainly seems to be a large component of the problem.
This is a great talk, but what he was advocating never came to pass. He wanted to add 3 things to Java:

- operator overloading
- small value types on the stack (for vectors, rationals, etc.)
- generic types

Generic types are the only feature that made it (not without some controversy).

C++ has all three features. I suppose there is some success in games and graphics using overloaded operators on vector types. But otherwise it doesn't seem like a huge win, or something that is critical for the design of a language.

Python has operator overloading. I never really use it, but I guess it did allow NumPy and Pandas to exist. And TensorFlow uses it.

Perhaps it boils down to the fact that Java is more of a business language, and C++ and Python have more mathematical applications, which require richer algebraic expressions of many types. But I suppose if Java had gotten operator overloading, it may have been used more for scientific computing.

Perl 6 and Racket seem to be the languages that really allow creating your own language. But actually I heard Larry Wall say that they want to provide so many little languages within Perl 6 that users don't need to invent their own. Because this often makes it harder for others to read your program.
That is very cool, some of the results are hilarious, i.e. depth first.
Well, his "research" amounts to some quick reading of wikipedia articles... and that's it.
Not to mention the Xperia Z5 Compact was the ONLY phone last year carrying flagship specifications with a screen under 5 inches. It's crazy to me that no other phone manufacturers are trying to capture the market for smaller phones now that even Apple no longer makes them.

Unfortunately, most people in the US have no idea Sony even makes phones because the company has utterly neglected to market them here.
I don't know if the type of humor itself has a name, but the technique it employs is misdirection, of which there are many variations such as posing a question to 1 of 2 very different people, when the more suitable target (to audience) starts to answer, asker then says "I wasn't talking to you"
I know you replied 7 days ago, but I've kinda had a crazy week. Having a separate individual team repo definitely sounds good, and I like the idea of things "bubbling up". Things probably do bubble up at my team already, but I imagine my manager shields me from that stuff. Which I'm not sure if I love.
Haven't tried this out yet, but will in near future.

Reading through it, the impression given so far is that it's better to have an odd number of nodes to help with quorum. Is that the case?

Also, is dealing with split brain something already taken care of, or is that future development work? :)
The Federal Reserve was established in 1913, long before World War II.
Sure. E.g ECMAScript supported versions, HTML5 features, HTTP2 support, mobile/tablet specific browser features, CSS1,2,3 support.
Let's say medicine was essentially accessible to rich people who could employ the rare people who could perform a bit of surgery, make a difference between drugs and placebo, etc.
I like metric as much as the next guy but you can pry knots from my cold, dead hands.

Sincerely,

An aviator and sailor
Already bitcoin has been more stable (and increased in value) over the last year compared to many central bank issued currencies.
I think people are misinterpreting support for try catch family in some high level languages as lazy approaches.

But truth is it is the programmers who are lazy, we should not blame language for providing a feature which some programmer abuse.

I have never seen a Java programmer profiling their code for Memory or CPU at work and I am here running my shitty C code under Valgrind and a profiler all the time.

I guess, it is programmers and not the language.

Go's error != nil approach though rudimentary actually forces lazy programmers to complain, since they cannot abuse it.
> She is a special case though because she scored the first in her province's college entrance exam

> I was not even among the first five in my high school

By your own admission, both you and your wife are exceptional. If your HS class had 150 people in it, you're still in the top 5%. You are by definition part of an academic elite. You both have the motivation, time, and skill to appreciate classical Chinese literature, but you're improperly generalizing to the general population.

What about the other ~100k+ people who took the provincial exam that year, who scored much worse on that section? Or do you just tautologically consider them all uneducated people, because they failed to acquire a working knowledge of classical literature?

There are plenty of topics on the college entrance exam that people temporarily acquire some level of proficiency in to pass, but how many people actually retain it once they're working? For example, calculus is (generally) required for college applicants, but I'm willing to bet that 80%+ of college graduates are not able to do basic integrals and derivatives on the spot without access to reference materials.

Hence the general skepticism about your claim that educated Chinese people can read classical Chinese to any reasonable level of proficiency, if we define 'educated' as 'has a degree'.
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If you're living in NYC, the difference you pay in rent, compared to say, Los Angeles, is greater than the TCO of a new car.
I think the best thing is to offer information products as i call them .

ebooks , tutorials , source code , video lessons , related apps.

this is what your Target Audience are probably looking for .
I beg to disagree. In science subscripts are part of the symbols, just like diacritics.

Superscripts, on the other hand, are part of math notation, like fractions and square roots.
How does one attach the north sense?
"Cypht is Open Source (GPL V2), and written in PHP and JavaScript."

Fuck. You.
You've said clickbait titles are against the rules in the past. What is your definition of a clickbait title, if it's not something vague and provocative that requires users to click through to figure out what the topic is?

(Note that I am talking purely about titles, not the articles behind them.)
There's a Note 7 and an iPhone 7 that isn't brick size, just as there's a Pixel XL that is brick sized.

These options exist because many people do prefer larger smartphones. In fact this is the first year where there's higher demand for the iPhone 7 Plus than there is for the iPhone 7.
If you want a serious update on the current level of research on Roman and antiquities studies - including the place of the roman empire in the world, you'd better go there: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6297739-the-inheritance-...
Not really. When I lived in SoHo, we would walk an extra 5 blocks each way to shop at the Grand Union because the pricing was significantly different shopping at a place with more buying power.
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> Thankfully, that was not an ad hominem. It was a quote against a particular BOOK.

I've explained in detail why I disagree with you on this.

I see you have engaged into the discussion further, for which I thank you as this is a lot of fun (and I mean this genuinely, in a "thank you for taking the time and effort to engage into a discussion with me" way). Although this is the top comment reply right now, I'll continue the conversation on the other thread.

> So, kind of like Ayn Rand, which had a known history of blind following entourage?

Do I need to expand on why this, in this context, is ad hominem coupled with an inappropriate use of the association fallacy?

FWIW I happen to agree with your statement to an extent (that there exists a bit of a cult, and that it resembles blind following), but disagree with its relevance to this line of discussion, or the assumption I half get the impression of that all people who reference Ayn Rand are blind followers.

I personally know hundreds of people who have taken value from Ayn Rand's writings without agreeing with her on everything. Note that I am not sure whether that is what you are implying, but I'm addressing the possibility that it is.
Singapore also has one of the best rail systems in the world. It's fully automated too.

But they also have laws around cars that would have Americans screaming for their guns. A certificate of entitlement (COE) can cost $50~$70k SD, and that's just for the right to buy a car. That doesn't include the cost of the car or registration.
And I upvoted you for explaining why you downvoted it. No point downvoting you. Comparing the end results of both, we only have a higher chance of a net benefit by upvoting you, regardless of whether I agree with you or not. I hope the rest of the HN community also takes this approach before voting.
> Because you criticized the parent poster exactly for making such an assumption (whether he made it or not)...

I go on quite at length as to why I believe that he did. Feel free to disagree with me, so long as you explain why.
Let's build a 3.000 nodes Swarm cluster
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Their file system is useful for sharing encrypted files.

Other than that it's pretty much a key server with account verifications, so it's good if you want to sign or encrypt documents and give the recipient an easy way to confirm the key identity.
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Freespace 2 SCP/FSO, they have made mods, add better graphics and have a nice community going strong. http://scp.indiegames.us/ http://www.hard-light.net/
Gang of idiots try to close down traffic
Hard to judge without knowing the full story. There are many possible reasons for taking a job with less than average pay. Tough job market, lots of competition, wanting to get some (any) experience on the resume. It's not like plum, high paying tech jobs are growing on trees, despite what you might hear about the mythical "shortage of developers".
Hetzner is very much a budget host with mediocre support, etc. Most of their servers are built with desktop-grade hardware. You're comparing apples and oranges.
You understand stable and increased in value form a contradiction?
Even though you'll probably do not get much support? Microsoft seems to have abandoned the mobile. As far as I know, they won't make any new phones themselves. And I'm not sure other manufacturer will go on making Windows 10 phones as they don't seem to sell well.
Your cold hands, Fahrenheit or Celsius? ;)
No. My premise is that of "rational" argument (and I know the word is loaded in the context of Ayn Rand), that of seeking a better understanding of the world.

My position is that emotional manipulation leads to a worse understanding of the world and decrease net welfare by encouraging people to be less rational. As such arguments that abuse emotion are not desirable (perhaps "appropriate" is the wrong word: any argument is appropriate on HN so long as it is civil, according to moderation and history).

To go deeper into the subject would require a discussion of whether the end justifies the means, which I'm not willing to spend considerable time and mental effort on right now (otherwise I'd have commented on the article at the top of this page already).
Almost. I think his argument is that investors will exhaust the risk threshold in all markets. Presently the bond crowd has hit the equity markets, however at some point the music has to stop and he doubts they'll have fixed the underlying growth problem by the time it does.
Do you know about Sandstorm and its app market?

https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-re...
The U.S. has terrible terrible rail systems. Lack of transport causes people to cluster, especially if you're disabled or need public transport.

Jenna, Germany. 100k people. 4 trams. 3 intercity stations, one with an ICE line.

Chattanooga, TN. 200k. The Chattanooga choo-choo from the song has no trains. Not even an AmTrak. Even talk of a train to Atlanta got everyone angry because they didn't want Atlanta commuters.

I don't understand why Americans love their cars so much and hate rail.
Actually, it is still possible to use C as a higher than assembly target language for compilers.
Metaobject protocols: Why we want them and what else they can do (1993) [pdf]
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921
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Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634577 (19 hours ago, 223 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921 (1 day ago, 157 comments)

See also: "Everything is fine with JavaScript"

Link: http://www.macwright.org/2016/10/04/everything-is-fine-with-...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641473 (2 hours ago, 2 comments)
What would it take to build the 4004 at the size Intel first built it (Small)?
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Absolutely seminal paper. In 1997 Alan Kay called the book by the same authors, The Art of the Metaobject Protocol: "the best book anybody's written in ten years."

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

I strongly feel that if you don't know MOP and CLOS, you shouldn't be allowed to call yourself an OO expert.

EDIT: And how much I do miss when Dr. Dobbs was actually good:

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/lisp-classes-in-the-metaobje...
America needs an end to car culture. Other countries have massive train systems that allow people to spread out and not dread commutes. Not everyone needs a car. People can share zip cars or flexi cars.

There is an insane amount of rail opposition in the us that had less to us being a massive energy consumer and polluter.

I sold my car 5 years ago.
> The failure of decimal time shows why humans prefer non-decimal units: because the resulting units are human-scale.

I really don't agree though. The failure of revolutionary France to switch to decimal time like it switched to decimal units, is that time was already well standardised back then, while a single standard of decimal units was a real improvement over the mess of local units that was in use before.

I think you're making the same mistake every argument against metric always makes: "inches are more convenient than centimeters, because otherwise how can we call 19" racks!". Well otherwise, racks would be 50 centimeters and not 19".

The same way, people would work just fine with 10-hour days, 100-minute hours and 100-second minutes. Maybe people would use half-hours more often than today to divide the day, but I can assure you that it would just work as conveniently.

There is nothing inherently natural in dividing the day in 24/60/60 parts, we're just used to it. Also, if you have ever worked with time keeping software (or worse, hardware) you would know the metric world actually doesn't manage these conversions just fine.
Agreed. It also doesn't solve the biggest it challenge which is giving each thing a unique identity and a means to prove its identity. I find that real-time event processing had been solved already through dataflow and Apache Beam. Along with generic pub sub systems.
The last time I touch JS was probably many years ago, while learning web development in the university.

I mostly write desktop+native mobile apps, and without doubt my JS skill is very rusty :(

Any suggestions how to catch up with JS trend nowadays?
JS for web dev is pretty much unavoidable, right?
Cultural Diversity: A World View (1991)
No Mercator projection is used because its the least weird conformal projection (you draw a straight line its really straight in the real world). If you are trying to plot a bearing at the scale of the planet you want to be using Mercator unless you are going over the pole :P That the same projection is then used for everything even when you don't need to preserve local angles isn't the fault of Mercator. That you think km lines on an atlas would be better than lat/long makes you crazy. A decimal day might be useful but a decimal year is not. A fractional decimal day is a completely useless reference of time for doing quantum mechanics, but perfectly reasonable for people planning their work. No one would get rid of the concept of "a day". A map that maybe only shows tens or hundreds of km might be fine but representing the whole world with an equal area map with all grid reference based on km isn't useful to many people who use maps a lot, especially as the world isn't describable in whole numbers of km! But does have absolute and continuous angles from the gravitational centre.
Did you see the stream? One of the presenters used Now on Tap (or something similar) to look up a restaurant which was mentioned in an SMS.
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Is newsblur close or similar to theoldreader.com? TOR is somewhat faithful clone of google reader but it's very heavy on the JS. Hardly usable on Firefox.\\

I see, it's very usable thanks to the online demo. Might switch to it.
Two surface piercings[1][2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_piercing
[2]: http://www.cyborgnest.net/north-sense-faq
They moved heaven and earth to try to find Snowden.
Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
All these reasons were used in the UK too when pedestrian zones and congestion zones were first touted. For the most part, the envisioned Armageddon didn't occur.

In NYC I would expect the biggest problem would be the grid system. Closing off straight roads wouldn't really make a pedestrian nexus which is what makes these work.

Turning chunks of downtown pedestrian up to maybe TriBeCa would work fantastically well though.
There's Feedreader, at least:

https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/

I'm sure there must be others out there for Linux? There are several available for OS X (er, macOS); I use a commercial one called Reeder, but there's also NetNewsWire and the open source ViennaRSS (which appears to still be in active development).
DFS is my favorite, but if you let it run long enough it might crash your browser tab.
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8/25/91

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RR...
> one can suggest a book

Yes, one can. My complaint here was that it was not relevant to what was being discussed. It's similar to a discussion on the latest Postgres being hijacked by yet another languages war.

> In life, as opposed to pure math, we often need, and do, judgement calls based on incomplete data, calls that don't actually follow with 100% logical certainty, but are nevertheless quite clear from the general context

Agreed.

> 100% correctness is for the inhabitants of Vulcan.

Disagree. You make the best decision based on the incomplete data available, and your own value system. That decision is by definition "correct". There are always costs to any path.

> to my eyes you totally look like a pro-Rand person

This is irrelevant to the discussion, except as an ad hominem. Ad hominems are justified in a very small number of cases where directly relevant to the situation. Learning that an investor has a history of playing hardball with his portfolio companies is relevant when examining his term sheet. Dismissing entire arguments due to them not being branded right is not.

I am not trying to defend myself from belonging to a certain tribe or not, as it would not add to the discussion and would probably detract from it by taking it further down the road to the Trump/Clinton debates' tone. I am attempting to clarify arguments, values, premises and ideas for myself and others. You may assume it is propaganda: my own ideas, that I am trying to convince others of.

> because of the overall tone of the responses

What is the appropriate tone for responding? I believe I was sufficiently polite and civil, and fair in presenting my position. Please help me improve my communication style by pointing out how this was not the case.

> "oh, I discovered this blunt tool on the internet, let's hammer every conversation into a inquiry for objective truth"

It predates the internet. Technically I was first exposed to these ideas in Critical Thinking classes in high school, although self-study of logic and various books and life experience helped pad out most of it.

I would just add that the complexity of objective truth, and its lack of total discoverability (due to personal subjectivity, etc.) does not imply its inexistence, or the inadvisability of seeking to get closer to it. My philosophy chops are not developed enough to discuss this one much further though.
I have a business account and that didn't work. Haven't tried since, just going to wait for unlocked.
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