skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're certainly not the first to raise this objection.

I get why people react this way: they'll look for any way they can to shoot down a proposal that would have them paying more taxes. So even though the objection you're raising is not, in fact, true, it's a lie people would want to believe.

I know it would take a sea change in sentiment to enact this proposal post-Prop. 13. (I don't know that such a sea change is impossible in the long run, which is why I'm talking about this now, but I understand that it won't happen soon.)

But if we imagine ourselves back in 1978, and if the structure I'm suggesting had been the proposal on the table instead of Prop. 13 as it was, it would have passed easily, being a clear improvement on the status quo ante. There would have been no case in which someone would have paid more tax, or done so at a less convenient time, than under the previous system -- quite the contrary. So it would have been totally possible then.

But again, given that Prop. 13 exists in its present form, the modification I'm proposing is a tough sell. Maybe we'd have to stipulate that the amount of the lien will be limited to 1/2 of the gain on the sale, after commissions, and would be zero in the case of a loss.

BTW, I'm attempting to respond constructively to your post on principle, but I don't feel yours was offered in the same spirit.
Yet another case of European founders that moved to San Francisco and became succesful.

They tried to start in Ireland, but without much success (e.g Enterprise Ireland hasn't allocate them funding to previous vencture).
First, it's important to realize that biometric identifiers are not constitutionally protected in the United States under the fifth amendment given current legal precedents:

"A Virginia Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday that police officers cannot force criminal suspects to divulge cellphone passwords, but they can force them to unlock the phone with a fingerprint scanner."

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/31/judge-rules-suspect-c...

Second, as others have already noted, you cannot hide or change most biometric identifiers and some people may not even have them at all. Therefore, passwords will always be the safest, most accessible option. However, more education regarding their creation, use, and support needs to occur:

Password Strength:
https://xkcd.com/936/

Password Reuse:
https://xkcd.com/792/

NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-passwo...

Personally, I like to choose a small token representing the site or service at hand, then surround it with multiple pass phrases I've memorized over the years. This creates a strong password which is both unique and easy to remember. Not to mention when a site I use is inevitably hacked and my hash is stolen, I only need to update a single instance of this pattern--not reevaluate my entire system.
Is the connected home possible without a walled garden?
I'm not American and have never been to Baltimore but if its characterisation in 'The Wire' is accurate (a corrupt, drug and crime ridden ghetto) then I am not surprised.
Army Corps Denies Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline
I have never believed that advice columns receive letters like this. I don't believe this one either.
That's a good point, but if you took out the snark and ideological rantiness, your comment would be 10x better. I suspect that's what the downvoters are reacting to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
That just means your language is part of your memory, not that it is necessary for it to function.
> If I spent an entire day I might be able to reverse engineer one function

Yep, that's kind of the way it works, when you start out. Then you get used to some of the patterns that the compiler uses, and you can get through several in a day, if you're lucky!
Ah maybe.. I will double check and report back. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!
Trump to Impose 35% Tax on Companies That Outsource Jobs
Any chance Rust is going to get async/await keywords?
> Well yes, because the actual physical capital (machines, skilled labor, etc) is concentrated in cities

Yes -- particularly with respect to skilled labor.

And that's largely a good thing for the working class. The alternative is local monopolies on the labor market. Highly skilled workers flock to areas where employers must compete with one another for a very good reason...

> Increasingly so, in fact, as the economy has become dominated by monopolies and oligopolies...

The urban population in the United States sky-rocketed over exactly the same period of time that Lynn and Longman romanticize.

Although I agree with a lot of their concrete policy proposals, I don't think that those policies would do anything to geographically decentralize economic activity.
Yet another reason why this is a horrible idea.
>"I’m the main developer of x64dbg, which is heavily influenced by OllyDbg and offers similar features but on the 64-bit platform."

Source: http://mrexodia.cf/x64dbg/2016/01/31/OllyDbg
it's probably there cause some early implementation somewhere tried to be "smart" if you weren't explicit.

too lazy to give you definitive answer, but:

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt-1/

[2] https://benfrain.com/understanding-the-viewport-meta-tag-and...
Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor (2005)
Anyone use this system in production? Care to share your experiences?
See the PROTECT act.
I would not consider exceptions a significant improvement in C, in general. I might make allowance for using them for division, signed integer math where overflow is a possibility or in cases for memory overwrite when possible.

IMO, exceptions ( and I use them A Heck Of A Lot, probably to a fault in coding Tcl ) are really just a convoluted control flow mechanism, and I'd rather see the expectations made explicit than exceptional.

Heck, with full-on MMU memory protection, all code that's not in kernel mode should be free of memory overwrites anwyay.
I say that as a maintainer.
Oh that's good to hear. No, I'm not doing anything with cycling right now, and looks like you pretty much have it covered, but always nice to know good data-sets. Thanks!
I agree with the broad strokes of your comment, but I have some nitpicks. I think it's culture that's holding the European tech sector back. Investors in Europe are generally very risk-averse and anything that's less than 100 years old isn't really taken seriously. It's fascinating to see how the more neophile countries pull ahead of the rest; how much financial conservatism holds the economy back. When Germans invest, they think mostly of dividends, not growth. And Germany is reasonably sane. Many countries (Italy, Spain) don't have functioning stock markets at all.

>(cough cringe PR cough)

I so agree. This is a VC blowing its own horn and disguising it as information. Painful.

>the craziness of the continent

Britain isn't especially rich by European standards (poorer than Germany). London is a deviation. People are flocking to London, not away from the continent. Britain is pretty average in the European silliness contest. We're talking about a country that doesn't have a written constitution or equivalent thereof.
The mycarelink is the interface for an implantable loop recorder. That is a small flash card sized device implanted in the chest for long term ecg monitoring. This is not a pacemaker or a defibrillator but rather only monitors the heart long term. It is frequently used for patients to identify rare arrhythmias, often in the setting of unexplained fainting. This device is purely sensing and does not have the ability to pace or shock the heart.
Standing Rock: US denies key permit for Dakota Access pipeline, a win for tribe
You're justifying it as being in the child's (or employee's) interest, but you're not actually denying the transgression.

Lying becomes less worse when you lie for someone else's benefit but (1) that doesn't make it not lying, (2) the other person can still rightfully resent it, (3) you generally shouldn't trust yourself to only lie in another's interest. Regarding the last one: I often see normal, reasonably good parents lie to their children just to get relief, and I'm sure they can justify it to themselves as in the child's interest, but it's really just self-serving.

(You can replace "lie" with "white lie", "trick", or whatever euphemism you want for this mild, but real, transgression.)

I think one good check on this is whether the child would be OK with it after-the-fact, assuming some hypothetical wisdom and hindsight (like becoming an adult). If they aren't OK with it, then you probably shouldn't do it. And I'm telling you right now: as an adult, I don't like the fact that adults did this to me when I was a child.
(if it) were put in a good use

Security is a good use. If you think America would be a better place by completely disarming, think again. In reality, it would cease to exist in short order as hostile nations took it over and parted it out.

Same goes for any other nation.

"A man of peace must be strong."

The truth is that anti-military hippies only ever exist in secure nations that can count on their biggest worry being local crime. There probably aren't any hippies in Aleppo at the moment. They only sprout in secure, walled gardens that are created by the very military forces they decry as some kind of innate evil. Because they are clueless fools.
My bad if the answer is obvious but (besides backward compatibility/shims + abstraction), what's the benefit of using PouchDB as opposed to vanilla localStorage functionality?
Apple went a lot farther with the iPhone a few years ago.
(Edit: I'm detaching this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13101402 and marking it off-topic. That example wasn't a clear enough one to make the point about, because the commenter wasn't being snarky or doing anything particularly wrong. Maybe next time it comes up more clearly I'll try again.)

I know it's nitpicky, but please don't use quotation marks when you're not actually quoting someone, and especially not when putting words in someone's mouth for rhetorical effect. (That generally isn't a great thing to do either, but was harmless in this case because you did it to praise, not denounce.)

We ask this, partly because the internet is stateless and text fragments are prone to misinterpretation, but also because it's one of those things that subtly degrade substantive discussion.
Did he? The original comment said "It would involve restricting what the new web could do and those restrictions would make things better. We don't need the kitchen sink in every page." which sounds exactly what AMP is doing.
A cloud images processing platform
"I’ll be honest I have always thought radio related stuff is a bit of a strange and boring hobby, the electronics side fine, but sitting and chatting to people in a slow and often poor quality conversation didn’t really seem that interesting to me"

---

You can send data over radio links and do other very interesting things... All without using a network! Just two nodes transmitting and receiving data via antennas at the speed of light. You don't have to talk at all. A lot of people don't get this when they think about radio.

Radio is not just old, retired guys talking about health problems on VHF/UHF repeaters. Rather, it's a world-wide network, that has no infrastructure dependencies, transmitting data at the speed of light.
Why is 10k users your metric?

10k nonpaying users is worth like $50 in ads.

10k enterprise users could be many millions of billions.
And just in case anyone is feeling frisky all of the sensitive info in the screenshots was removed and replaced.
Ah Sublime2 was my first binary-cracking project. After countless hours of debugging with GDB and trying to understand assembly in Hopper I managed to disable the nag and patch the binary. (Purely for fun. I bought a license shortly after, of course I did not distribute this in any way).
Will never forget how proud and satisfied I felt when it finally worked.

While mostly using Jetbrains or Atom with VIM plugin for development these days I still value Sublime for being able to handle really big files a million times better than Java/Web based editors.
It can sync data between CouchDB servers (e.g. IBM Cloudant) and the browser.
I get the same thing: shows a city in a different country with the same name.
How to record a presentation screencast video using Quicktime
How do Ham radio operators feel about SDR? (In general)

Do they think it's interesting and cool, or do they reject it for being different and inferior vs. more expensive and sensitive equipment?
Try telling that to the IRS.

Just any international bank just about anywhere in the world with any US citizens as customers can tell you all about it.
Sega Game Coding in Assembly
thats what I meant - it's not as bright as his usual style
> removing function calls altogether (not the one in comparator but the recursive qsort calls).

That's an impressive feat as quick sort is not tail recursive.

Edit: you can of course maintain the recursion stack by hand but that's not normally a win.
Ask HN: Is uifaces broken?
http://uifaces.com is a great service. Is there anything else like it? I need 10,000 user images and load more doesn't work on uifaces.com anymore. Also the faq is broken.
What are some good resources to learn more about the phone-home functionality in their microcode? I've been trying to find more details and have been unable to do so.
It's quite possible! And even if it doesn't, approaches like https://github.com/erickt/stateful might work as well.
Who exactly has been storing fingerprints centrally? I know plenty of devices that store them locally, but have not seen one phoning it home.
D.C. Police detain suspect with an assault rifle at #pizzagate restaurant
I've been trying to get my logo. My card was charged, but almost 24 hours and no logo...I emailed you like the page said but nothing...even sent a tweet...what's going on there?
I'm reminded of what Christopher Alexander et. al. wrote in A Pattern Language. Made up of 253 patterns organized by scale, the largest scale discussed (and therefore Pattern #1) is "Independent Regions:"

Do what you can to establish a world government,
with a thousand independent regions, instead of
Metropolitan regions will not come to balance until each one is small and autonomous enough to be an independent sphere of culture.

There are four separate arguments which have led us to this conclusion: I. The nature and limits of human government. 2. Equity among regions in a world community. 3. Regional planning considerations. 4. Support for the intensity and diversity of human cultures.

I. There are natural limits to the size of groups that can govern themselves in a human way. The biologist J. B. S. Haldane has remarked on this in his paper, "On Being the Right Size":

> ...just as there is a best size for every animal, so the same is true for every human institution. In the Greek type of democracy all the citizens could listen to a series of orators and vote directly on questions of legislation. Hence their philosophers held that a small city was the largest possible democratic state. . . . (J. B. S Haldane, "On Being the Right Size," The World of Mathematics, Vol. II, J. R. Newman, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956, pp. 962-67).

It is not hard to see why the government of a region becomes less and less manageable with size. In a population of N persons, there are of the order of N^2 person-to-person links needed to keep channels of communication open. Naturally, when N goes beyond a certain limit, the channels of communication needed for democracy and justice and information are simply too clogged, and too complex; bureaucracy overwhelms human processes.

And, of course, as N grows the number of levels in the hierarchy of government increases too. In small countries like Denmark there are so few levels, that any private citizen can have access to the Minister of Education. But this kind of direct access is quite impossible in larger countries like England or the United States.

We believe the limits are reached when the population of a region reaches some 2 to 10 million. Beyond this size, people become remote from the large-scale processes of government. Our estimate may seem extraordinary in the light of modern history: the nation-states have grown mightily and their governments hold power over tens of millions, sometimes hundreds of millions, of people. But these huge powers cannot claim to have a natural size.

54 regions, total population 318.9m. So that averages 5.9 million per, right smack in the middle. A more complete analysis with a histogram would be interesting.
Thanks for the recommendations. Cheers.
I just want to leave but at the same time, it's all so dishonest. People like you are doing so little to stop it. The most influential country in the world is being fucked up because people like you fucked up and won't give up your power to those who could do better. This thread is an example of what you are causing. But still it doesn't matter to you because you want a paycheck.
Not like it was the US government that funded them either.
Thankfully, nobody stores full fingerprints, just derivations (sort of like a hash). And, when those are stored, they are so far always stored in secure hardware elements. The data is never accessible from within the OS, and never uploaded anywhere.
You may not have the courage to get real feedback for your startup?
On the gripping hand, dead code elimination after constant and range propagation, might make the dynamic cache footprint the inline ed code smaller.
I'm using it in a Chrome extension (which is technically in production but only has one user, me). It's excellent. It took a bit of work to get my head around what _rev means, and I'm not using the sync functionality yet (but I will, hence using it now) but I've not found it to be at all problematic. I'd definitely recommend using it if it fits your project.
That's part of it. The chargeback system is a complete joke, however. I had one guy that I was very suspicious about, so I hired a PI to see if the item was visible in his small business, and take a picture.

The tracking number showed the item delivered to the person, signed for with an known employee's name. I submitted this, as well as a picture of the item in the guy's shop. I still lost the chargeback. Got my revenge in the end though...see below.

A tip for anyone that's has a particular chargeback where they know they were screwed. If the issuing bank has any presence in your state...sue the cardholder's bank (or perhaps Visa/MC/AMEX) in small claims. In my case, Chase settled for the amount I sued for, which I made sure was on the high side. They don't like to spend money on corporate lawyers going to small claims.
Does he favor the Republican or Democrat side of his face?

(Locke was onto something ...)
"And I’m not convinced the Bay Area-Sacramento megaregion where I live should extend all the way to Nevada."

I agree with this. I live in Truckee, and would be much more inclined to commute to Reno (which is 30 minutes away) than Sacramento (which is 1 hour 30 minutes away). The more likely border would at the very least be near Donner Pass.

The algorithms used are likely being influenced by the Sierras (and particularly Tahoe) being a popular tourist destination for Sacramento and Bay Area residents.
> but there's been some pretty bad stuff with the IME (like sending data to the internet outside of user control when using intel NICs)

That's also a typical concern about baseband processors - and Apple has a baseband processor integrated into their iPhones and iPads. OK, there is a difference: While for ethernet ports (and with a little bit more effor WiFi connections) you can at least theoretically analyze whether there is dubious traffic, this is nearly impossible for connections over mobile networks.
I am surprise this didn't get more visibility. The "mathematics" part just wasn't click bait enough. What get mentioned in the article transcend area of study.
the idea goes really well with:
http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of...
It's worth noting that "things knowable from third parties" and "an aggregation of all your things knowable from third parties" are very different risk profiles, if that's the deciding factor for anyone.
ClojureScript: Now What? – David Nolen [video]
I would agree with and extend your remark via analogy, that in a realm outside emotions and feelings, some of the point of a Stoic outlook is you can try to run your life by holding immense amounts of state in your brain and random post it notes all over the place, but fundamentally a disciplined application of emacs org mode doing something like GTD or 43 folders or similar will flush away unwanted state allowing your brain to think more clearly because some technological gadget is festering over the logjam of furnace filter needing to be replaced by jan 1st or I should have changed the oil in the snowblower two weeks ago and whatever else can clog up and jam an otherwise functional mind.

Call it GTD, 43 folders, Zen, Stoicism, in some ways it doesn't matter.

There is a lot of eastern mysticism tangled up in some interpretations of Stoicism. Arguably "when its time to X, X, and when its time to Y, then Y" given a western civ wrapper is an aspect of Stoic thought and when given an eastern civ wrapper we call it an aspect of Zen. I think I have a yearly Zen calendar hanging up with that quote somewhere. But its the same thing, presented by different theatre troops. If you're bored its possible to come up with other analogies between Zen or Buddhism in general and Marcus Aurelius or Stoicism in general. This month's Zen wall calendar quote is on the topic of correct practice means everything you observe is actual reality, which sounds vaguely Stoic I don't remember but I'm pretty sure M.A. said something like that in Meditations somewhere.

A good education means you're never really bored and always have something interesting to ponder, even if it turns out to be wrong, LOL.

The failure of emacs org mode implementing GTD, or Zen, or Stoicism is not fully applying it means unhappiness, they are philosophies of "do" not "believe" or "want" or "heard dat". So I do not have next year's Zen quotes wall calendar on my wall because I failed to input it in emacs org mode, or maybe I'm not Stoic or Zen the right way. One way or another, I'm off now to Amazon to order my 2017 wall calendar.
I often use "multiple cursors" as vertical cursors, to indent or dedent a whole block of code 1 space at a time. Often useful for contexts when shift+tab/tab doesn't work.
You care enough to make a dismissive unsubstantive comment. Do you have specific critiques of the movie or story that might contribute to the discussion? I've heard a lot of positive comments. I'd like to hear a constructive dissenting view.
As someone else answered the main use case of PouchDB over plain browser storage is its ability to sync data.

However just wanted to clarify that PouchDB doesnt natively use localstorage for storage, its primarily IndexedDB or WebSQL in the browser (leveldb in node).

We do actually use localstorage for cross tab messaging, but thats mostly a hack due to the lack of idb event listeners (that are coming in v2)
>Honestly, I have no idea why an investor would want to try to tackle this nightmare of 30+ target markets, especially when you have huge homogeneous markets in the USA and Asia.

One would hope they would have the sense to go global. You have to to survive in most software. Where the HQ of the company is doesn't matter. I always cringe when I hear software execs talk of being a leader in their home country. Well, some company who actually went global and therefore have a lot less development cost per user will eat any local leader for breakfast. Companies that care about their home markets are dead men walking.
Generally favorably, most of the mid-high end HF rigs are about 50% SDR based anyway.

As far as I can tell the average user doesn't tinker with them much however.