skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left https://zeit.co/blog/next open in Chrome over lunch and when I came back the tab was out of memory .. so you guys will probably want to look into that. But otherwise A++
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If I recall correctly, it's not 10% of the entire supply, but rather 10% of the first 2 years worth of supply. After that, the 10% cut from miners is stopped and their 10% of the supply will slowly decrease as the overall supply increases
don't know about postgres but, just write a function that converts c++ into cpp (many use cpp too). Store that.
Then on search do the same thing, c++ becomes cpp.

probably simplest fix...
> if you users have unreliable internet connections then a JS app can use a service worker to cache the entire app to work offline,

It looks like an over engineered system, and you have to preload the content while on WiFi. And by the way do you know a reliable way to detect whether device is really online or there is a link but no packets are going through?

And every website is supposed to write its own code for service worker.

I think it would be easier to implement a feature in a browser where user can explicitly save some pages for offline reading. Or allow user to view pages from cache.

> Sometimes JS does actually make a site better.

For most sites it just adds unnesessary widgets (like spying share buttons) and advertisements. Especially on newspapers' sites - most of them work better without JS.
Thank you - excited to see this! I do think there is a lack of a C++ library for Raft that stands alone (and you have two projects just within baidu that could share code). I'd be excited to help with a standalone project! And I'm sorry for my lack of non-English, but it seems that the variable names are still in english so I can follow the code :-)

(It is a pity that Chrome doesn't automatically translate github pages that contain different languages - not sure why that isn't happening.)
Astronauts' spinal muscles shrink and weaken after long stays in space
Maybe fastly related: https://status.fastly.com/incidents/pfw3gml89bz2
OpenStack monitoring for enterprises
Isn't the paywall fixed by clearing your cache? Does twitter bypass the paywall?
I agree in general. Criminalization keeps a substantial population from using drugs.

> people will destroy their lives once drugs are legalized

I don't think this statement is really a good summary of that, though.

The better example is prohibition. I wouldn't say most people who consume alcohol are destroying their lives, but alcohol has a moderate impact on the liver. Regular use increases liver-related disease. And during the prohibition, liver disease went down starkly.

Say we legalize everything. Even if the additional addiction is negligible, any minor to moderate health detriment spread across a larger population (due to legalization) is a big societal cost.

Anyway, I think there is still a decent argument to be made about individual freedom being worth the cost, and a decent argument to be made about a substitution effect (given how bad we already know alcohol to be, a legal drug just needs to be no worse than alcohol).
>>3.) Dont let cheap idiots bring on carry on baggage and take up 200 ppl's time trying to jam it into an overhead bin

I always bring carry-on, not because I'm cheap, but because of exactly the reasons you mentioned regarding it being a pain in the ass to drop off and pick up checked in luggage.
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Then they ought to change their name. People are already afraid of flying and even more so at supersonic speed.
'Hey Siri, emulate pressing escape button on keyboard now, please'.
> It's problematic to give the voter an official record of their vote.

Correct. Because it will allow them to sell their vote.
Is it possible that the auto-submit link that says "Discuss on hacker news" right after the article could be contributing to these submissions?
The real problem with the comments on the Internet, is of logistics of huge number, and lack of human ability to process them at scale. Just look at any of the popular HN threads. You cannot expect anyone to be reading all the comments when they show up in large numbers under one thread. The rest of everything else is secondary.
> if they find any evidence of this happening

There's already evidence of this happening. It happened. Why does it have to happen again. Just revoke em.
Can an Edible Spoon Save the World?
My goto in this is to read the book, and when something relevant comes up, stop.

Think on whatever it is and run through related experiences and model possible, alternative outcomes, given whatever insight is at hand.

The way to remember in an enduring way is to make connections. For that to happen, you must invoke what you know.

Simulation and extrapolation are two great ways to do this.

Affirmation, as in "that's why it happened as it did" is good too, but is also easily forgotten.

Extrapolation and simulation make much deeper, enduring connections, and those are what you seek. With this effort will come a genuine change in, or expansion on your perspective. There will also come decisions too. Perspective changes are not always a net positive. You need to give the insight enough consideration to judge this.

Extrapolation can be near future events too. Model them, get your expected outcomes and what drives them clear, then refactor with that insight. Compare to your past or others experiences where possible.

Does it make sense outside the context in which it was presented? Does it contradict that which you hold dear? Why? Is it self consistent? All of these and more will play out for you during this investment of time and thought.

It can be very helpful to do this with others too. Group model, simulate, extrapolate then reassess what makes sense.

Most of the things in those books come down to a handful of words, phrases, ideas. The book is there for context and comprehension, as well as drama to get you through to exposure.

Your own context is where the value is, and the work to realize that can often be done on a live chat with friends, standing in line, at the bar, etc...

Realization does take some human time. That is where the really good stuff is.

My best improvements have come from these activities and some new ideas to process and understand what they mean in my context, not just the context in which they were presented.

Don't pick up the book again, until you have processed these things. A very good indicator is a sense of new motivation or urgency related to something you normally would take as it comes. When you feel that, continue, and it should become more resonant, and when it does, consider action then.

Doing this is also a great bullshit or flash in the pan filter. Shiny things can cost us. Should they remain shiny after handling them for a while, chance of real value is improved.

So handle it. Try to rub the shine off, pick at the seams, find the edges, poke, prod and work to see what it is you have really got.

You won't forget that so easily. You may also find connected thoughts and ideas too. These can have more value than the insight.

I will carry one of these ideas around for some time. Quick is not always good. A genuine insight can take some time, days, maybe weeks even, to play out.

Of course, this does then bring up how to understand what is a waste of time and what is not.

No answer for you there. There is genuine risk in all things. You can abandon a book that does not yield net improvements, but only after internalizing enough to understand.
Please, not those stupid left/right arrow keys, leave them as they are on current macbook pro, I need spacing between them so I can touch feel them.
How do they actually know that you have millions though?

Imagine the opposite scenario. The government thinks you have millions, but you genuinely do NOT have that money. How do you prove to the government that you are innocent and don't actually have the money.

You can't. You, an innocent person, are indistinguishable from a person who actually DOES have millions hidden away in crytocurrency.
I can see that being a problem. Anyone that has tiny pockets and doesn't want to carry around a separate bag is mostly up a creek these days, even with phones that the market considers tiny.
As a lowly .NET dev, thanks for leading the way to making us cool. I'm sure you guys have some fun whitepapers.
"Receipts" are a problem - a key security goal of voting systems is that it should be impossible for the voter to be able to prove who they voted for (to prevent both voter coercion and vote-selling).

Coercion and vote-selling are legitimate issues. There are methods of doing this. For example, take an election with two choices: Coke, and Pepsi. Half of the ballots are printed with multiple choice A: Coke, B: Pepsi. The other half are marked A: Pepsi, B: Coke. In the booth, a voter gets a ballot at random and marks it. Their receipt shows that they choose A or B, but what A or B correspond to. They can prove they voted, but not who they voted for.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan

There are other methods as well. Really interesting stuff, I think.
ZCash has a myriad of fundamental issues, chief among them:

-ZCash is a US-based LLC, and given what is publicly known about the capabilities and past behavior of its intelligence apparatus I don't see how anyone can claim that such an organization can shepherd a 'truly anonymous blockchain', particularly one that is essentially a black box

-ZCash's blockchain is a black box and requires you to not only trust them with your anonymity, but also to trust them not to create coins arbitrarily - a successful attacker could also mint coins at will - as there is no way to verify circulation

-Anonymous transactions are optional and require tremendous resources to generate

-It is an innovative take on a pre-mine where insiders were given opportunity to pre-purchase coins at the expense of future miners

I suggest that anyone looking for a truly anonymous blockchain experience take a look at Monero.
I'm sure many will disagree with me on this but I'm convinced that Scala is the Perl of the JVM world. It's a language with too many succinct but unreadable ways of doing things. Ultimately I don't think languages like this age well and will eventually be super-ceded by other languages.
But maybe that is what they suggest should be handled by web frameworks.

Is like asking WSGI api in Python to handle all those things. It just handle raw connections and is an interface for web frameworks to worry about content and not low level stuff. Maybe database connectors would be a good inclusion as well, but in Python I believe it is not part of WSGI

On the other hand, Apple has libraries for handling image and video for macOS and iOS, are written in C but Swift interfaces so easily with C, but I don't see them releasing that stuff.
> 1. Go to school in another country. I believe there are schools in The Caribbean that are popular for this.

Yep, but it is complicated when you come back in. There's another exam to pass to practice in the U.S. if you went to school outside of the U.S.
#define if while
#define else while(!true){}

That should be interesting.
Sure. Until they say something politically incorrect. Then you fire them.
I know many people were happy with how small, quiet, and powerful they were for the sorts of things they were doing: Audio engineering and video editing.

They're not powerhouse workstations like they used to be where it's all about performance.
> Criminalization keeps a substantial population from using drugs.

Alcohol consumption went up during Prohibition, and went back down after it was repealed.
The internet is a large, evolving cognitive system. Present information flow, riddled as it is with disinformation, faulty reasoning, and category errors, might be comparable to disorganization in the minds of individual creatures during early development.
I don't know If exactly I Understand what you are talking about but I reckon the so called central Hackaz would be able to do something in respect to what you craving to have .
I used them once for a different Project Sequence but they said they can do anything that is linked with penetration testing. So, central.h@linuxmail.org is their email contact and hopefully they might be of help to you Sir . They Also except Payment after your work is done .

Goodluck
There's at least one compiler that adds visibility into the name mangling (is it gcc? Seems like the kind of thing they'd do), so if you unhide functions in this way you still won't necessarily be able to call them.

(The compiler is also free to change the object layout when you do this, too, though I've no idea whether any of them do.)
>It is difficult to ski without skis. But most people don't buy skis, they rent them. Renting skis do not mean that no skis will be manufactured.

That's a ridiculous analogy. Renting vs. buying skis is like renting a hotel room vs. buying a condo when you spend a weekend in a different city. There's a good reason hotels are profitable businesses: no one wants to buy a home if they're going to spend 2 weeks or less in a location.

A better analogy is cars: what kind of moron would rent a car for commuting to work every day? No one, because it'd be a massive waste of money. Rental cars are for people who only need a car occasionally, or who are traveling by air and can't bring their own car with them. Otherwise, it's much cheaper to just own your own car, so you aren't paying tons of money to some company in the form of profit.

>Stocks and savings are equally a safety net against loss of primary income.

The 2008 crash disproves this, as does every stock market crash throughout history. Right at the moment you need that money the most, because the crash caused you to lose your job, your stock portfolio has tanked. This isn't the case with houses: if you own your house outright, you're safe (as long as you keep paying property tax, which is minimal in many places), and even with a mortgage, the terms of the mortgage are constant so you can budget for the payment and keep that much liquid cash on hand. Rent, OTOH, can change whenever your lease expires, or even at any time if you're on a month-to-month lease.

>The cost of housing (renting) would be much lower in a country without massive over-bidding on property.

And which country is that? Somalia? Every time I've looked at rents in Europe, they're much higher than here in the US, along with cost of living in general, even after our price inflation in the wake of the 2008 crash.

The simple fact is that, when you rent, part of your rental price goes to pay for profit for whoever owns the property. If there were no (or little) profit in it, no one would bother being a property owner. When you own something, you take the middleman out of the equation.

Do you also think it's a good idea to rent things like computers, printers, phones, furniture, appliances, clothes, cars, etc.?
A month ago I did a deep dive in to etherium and the 'altcoin' universe. The one thing I came out of it all with was a feeling that I had seen so much of the same sentiment and rhetoric about specific altcoins and altcoins in general as I saw with the 'HYIP' sites of two decades ago.

HYIPs were plain ponzi schemes, given the fancy name of 'high yield investment portfolio'; they promised things like "1.5% yield/day on investments of egold" but all of them would fold.
Spotify and Digital Methods
Essentially relying on:

as
cc
cp
ed
ld
ln
ls
mv
ssh

and a reliable terminal.
Continue mapping Escape to Caps Lock like we always do :)
The corpus was published in 2013. https://github.com/ciprian-chelba/1-billion-word-language-mo... (And it seems to only have 0.8 billion words?)

Edit: Here's one mentioned in one of the other papers, it has over 7 billion "tokens" which I think includes words and punctuation. https://ibm.ent.box.com/v/booktest-v1
Caps -> Esc
The Technical SEO Renaissance
Paywall...

Anyways, I'm reminded of viewing this from two sides: 1) Developing technology that kills humans; 2) Telling technology that avoids killing humans that "that's not a human".

If it's mechanically possible, someone's going to do it.

The one restraint is accountability. And, which direction is that going?
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Leaked Emails Show How Apple Tried to Lobby the Clinton Campaign on Encryption
For dev tasks nothing fancy -- a terminal, browser, and Sublime mostly.

For non-dev tasks, I spend a ton of time reading with a Safari Books subscription, Instapaper, and the Kindle app for iOS.

For business tasks, I use Reminders.app as a tickler file (GTD) and Due for OS X / iOS. Google Keep is pretty nice for re-usable checklists.
The Princeton study linked in the email is about the influence that money has in politics, not about unethical crap in the field. So it probably isn't a good link if that is the argument you are making.
Several things:

- in Europe prices always included VAT unless you say VAT is not include. So you must assume the price includes VAT

- The Uk 'stills' belongs to the EU but they have special conditions. You can buy things in UK but some items cannot be exported legally from UK to other countries. So you have to go to UK, buy the item there and them come back with it. You cannot get the item shipped to any EU country.

- The prices in UK have gone down by 20% and companies hasn't adjusted the prices yet. So £749 is 842€ now but it wasn't that price before Brexit. It was more close to 999€. You might expect the prices adjust to the real devaluation of the £

So, as I said we whish we have MacBook Air for 800€ because here it is 999€
they mentioned 25 oct in a tweet also
https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/789852320402026496
Right now a percentage of otherwise law-abiding people have had their lives destroyed by the justice system because they got a little too curious about drugs, and still more by all the crime and conflict that's fueled by prohibition and artificially high prices. And another percentage of people overdose or ingest toxic adulterants because the purity of street drugs is unstable and unregulated.
The feeding habits of such leviathan are relevant whatever they consume, whether coax or imax. I anticipate nothing good from ATT.

Possibly of interest: https://www.alec.org/person/bill-leahy/
Hey, thanks! I was not aware of that show.
Introducing the Smart(er) Workforce
No function keys, so the "magic toolbar" will for 99% of the time just be a generic toolbar?

That smacks of the Android decision to do away with physical keys and instead just display them all the time. Wasting valuable screen real estate and power for a bad emulation of buttons.
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I've searched the internet for a quick demo/tutorial of WebRTC that teached me to send a text from one computer to another. Couldn't find anything small and simple enough and still usable. Wrote this: https://gist.github.com/fiatjaf/229a5db2f431ab707e3fb909240d..., it may be worth of your reading.
With small planes it basically works like this - on many of the tiny regional turboprops, your baggage is waiting by the side of the tarmac as you exit the airplane, and you pick it up before you enter the terminal, not at baggage claim.

It's mostly a problem of scale. Unloading 20 bags in the 5 minutes or so before the passengers start to deplane is no problem. Unloading 500 bags would be.
Found it: http://www.helenos.org/doc/theses/ms-thesis.pdf
On my local machine for normal work stuff:
Phpstorm, git, rsync, vim, os x terminal, chrome, firefox, omnifocus, sequel pro, photoshop, 1Password, etc

Less common stuff, but thing I install on any new computer (os x) - I think they are all from the App Store for a few dollars each:

Color picker (puts an icon in bar at top of screen, i click it then click anywhere else and it puts the colour hex code in the clipboard.

CommandQ - makes me hold down command + q to quit an app. I hate the default OS X way of clicking command + q to quit an app. Not from app store - https://clickontyler.com/commandq/

Flycut - remembers 100 clipboard items. Cmd+shift+v, then i can 'scroll' through 100 previous clipboard items with left/right arrow keys.

Disk inventory X - see what kind of files are taking up space

Skitch - for quick screenshots with nice annotations (from evernote)
I don't believe that is true. Do you have a citation for that claim?

E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

> Scholars estimate that consumption dropped to a low of about 60% of pre-prohibition levels around 1925, rising to almost 80% before the law was officially repealed.[citation needed] After the prohibition was implemented, alcohol continued to be consumed. However, how much compared to pre-Prohibition levels remains unclear. Studies examining the rates of cirrhosis deaths as a proxy for alcohol consumption estimated a decrease in consumption of 10–20%.[96][97][98] However, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's studies show clear epidemiological evidence that "overall cirrhosis mortality rates declined precipitously with the introduction of Prohibition," despite widespread flouting of the law.[99] One study reviewing city-level drunkenness arrests came to a similar result.[100] And, yet another study examining "mortality, mental health and crime statistics" found that alcohol consumption fell, at first, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level; but, over the next several years, increased to about 60–70 percent of its pre-prohibition level.[101]
This is the new MacBook Pro with the Magic Toolbar mini display
I'd be curious how hard it would be to create a "case" which could take a smartphone screen and properly reverse it and move the focus point outwards, such that you could get the same effect with your smart phone displaying off the windshield.
I once owned a Dell laptop that used a strip of touch-sensitive regions for volume and media control. In practice they were completely useless, because without looking, it just felt like one continuous bar with nothing differentiating the buttons, so the lack of any tactile feedback made it impossible to use those "buttons" without looking at them. In my 4 years of owning that laptop, I was never able to build any muscle memory for hitting those buttons. I'm worried that the same will be true of this magic toolbar.
Siri: "I've searched the web for "emulate pressing escape button on keyboard now" for you":
(edit: often wrong? I don't think it was often)

Indeed, I was about to add a footnote to that effect but I was sure that someone else would do it for me :-)

It's fine to be wrong, especially about the future. At least he showed his working, and if the figures from photovoltaics and batteries improve then you can redo some of his calculations. That's a very good thing.

Most people would say he was wrong to support the war too, but at least you can understand in detail why he had the opinions he had.
Or they learn that obviously-biased phrases will be removed, and make their edits more subtle. Perhaps too subtle for the researchers' tool to detect.
I wouldn't be so sure of that, there already exist some alternatives which seem better in some ways like Monero. I have very low trust for scam developers like the ZCash ones, I'm sure someone quite capable could take it up.
I really want to stop procrastinating and use a tool like a this, but in the end I just can't be arsed.
Aren't most audits a joke anyhow? I know companies 'have' to do them but I've never been a part of a good or accurate one (not just E&Y either). Most auditors are just looking to CYA and get the paper signed.
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Or maybe you'd try LSD in the right setting and frame of mind and have your consciousness expanded.

Your argument is offensive. If you need to be protected from your lack of self control then to make the rest of the world suffer is depraved.