skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Age to purchase tobacco and pornography (yes yes, I suspect most people get their porn for free online regardless of age now).

You didn't include alcohol which is already at the age of 21 in USA, but not everywhere else in the world (in my country, it is 18). Yet driving, is age 16 in USA, 18 here as well. My point is that the world is bigger than just a few countries, with different age limits. We should attempt to study the pros and cons of each before drawing to conclusions.

Also, the fact something (e.g. alcohol) is illegal to purchase doesn't mean it cannot be obtained. With driving a car that is going to be more difficult because the car is licensed to a person, and learning driving via obtaining driver's license is important.

On the longer term, driving a car becomes irrelevant though, but I suspect the same is true for tobacco.

You also didn't mention that other hot subject, firearms.

> This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote.

Really? Do you have data to back this up?

I know that, from personal experience, I voted as soon as I became 18.

> open a bank account

I think I was able to open a bank account at age 12. Not that there was a whole lot on it. That's OK, it allows youth to learn how financials work and managing money. What is not OK is allowing youth to get in debt.

The only loans a student (read: 18+) is able to get is via the government, for studies, and they gotta be paid back. I don't see a problem with that system, in the sense that is must be abolished.

I think it is great to have young people work. It teaches them what they want, and not want to do. It stimulates them to start a study, put their heart and soul in it, and finish it. Because who wants to pluck berries for the rest of their life? Only those who never done it before.

> * You could not be tried as an adult in criminal court until age 25. The number of adult violent offenders in prison might decrease as much as 70%.

How are you going to hold those of age below 25 accountable? The justice system exists to find balance between 'damage received', and 'damage done'. If those who cause damage are not going to be held accountable in any way then that does not seem justifiable to me.

However I would agree that a young person should receive, generally, less penalty than an older one. We got a reasonable system for that already: we punishing recidivists more heavy.

My opinion on the whole matter: the term young adult exists for a reason. Part of puberty and being a teen is getting lose from the stigma and lack of responsibilities associated with being a child. We need to let our children taste how it is to be an adult and all of the above are part of exposure. If we treat young adult as if they're children, they are going to remain children and will get a revelation when they reach adult age (in your PoV that should be 25).
Amazon must be aware of that stuff and deliberately allow it. I'd question whether it benefits them though - I've kind of been put off buying there as it's hard to know what you'll get.
> It's not a scam as much as it's a loophole.

You surely don't mean that Apple accidentally created a stateless company with no staff and no buildings to swindle taxpayers out of billions? I'm pretty sure a lot of planning went into it.

If it's arguably legal, there's nothing ethical about going out of your way to devise and exploit these "loopholes".

Frankly, it's just what you'd expect from a brutal multi-national corporation that mercilessly exploits underpaid Chinese workers, despite having over $200 billion in cash....
Congratulations Max.

Max worked with us to create an interactive course on React/Redux[1]. Just wanted to say that he's an awesome guy to work with. Always willing to help and giving constructive feedback.

Keep doing the good work Max. Congratulations again. Looking forward to 2017 and beyond.

[1]: https://www.educative.io/collection/5642398931615744/5741031...
You presume being loved and cherished involves having to live together.

I moved out quite early on myself, and my relationship with my parents is quite fine. (From the US for context)
Just to add, from the N1256 draft of C99, 6.7.5.3:

A declaration of a parameter as ‘‘array of type’’ shall be adjusted to ‘‘qualified pointer to type’’, where the type qualifiers (if any) are those specified within the [ and ] of the array type derivation. If the keyword static also appears within the [ and ] of the array type derivation, then for each call to the function, the value of the corresponding actual argument shall provide access to the first element of an array with at least as many elements as specified by the size expression.
Who will cast doubt on the safety of starch? After all, starch, as long chains of glucose, provokes twice the release of insulin as sugar (50/50 glucose/fructose).

Sugar is mostly safe, as long as one's liver is healthy.

Soybean oil is much more dangerous than sugar: http://swindledandpimped.org/obesity-epidemic/
If anyone thinks it's a blow to Alibaba that US government says "some things on Alibaba are counterfeit", I will add them to my personal ignore-what-these-people-are-saying list.

Because come on, it's blitheringly obvious to anyone who's casually browsed Alibaba for more than three minutes that some of the goods are counterfeit. It's like saying "you can find pictures of naked people on Google". That's not much of a blow to Google, is it?
NIST crowdsources quantum-proof encryption
Go out and talk to your prospective clients. I Can't stress this enough. Talking to your prospective clients is the best way to learn more about them and how they made decisions of which freelancer to choose.

When you meet, make sure that you look like an expert in what you do. :) This alone got me quite some clients.
Because of the points you mentioned, I've been wondering why I haven't been able to find a framework-independent, open-source user management and authentication system. This seems like the sort of thing that should be solved in a standard way and not reinvented by every framework (or worse, application) that needs user management.

I've come across some paid services (e.g., stormpath, auth0) that seem to do what I'm talking about. It would be really nice if there were a free project along those lines though.
Even at $5000 this set a personal high payout record for me. The easy legal money is better than taking a risk in a grey area such as selling exploits on the darknet. May not be as profitable this way, but I have no complaints and an extra 5k 2 days before xmas is a hell of a gift imo.
Sadly more and more dev time is spent with Fedora as the target, leading to massive myopia. This while Debian has to adopt more and more Fedora-isms because they do no longer have the man hours to go their own way.
I can confirm that. I write C for embedded systems every day, but for better or worse, I don't see any replacement for it in foreseeable future. C++, Python, Java etc. might be used at higher levels (GUI, for example), but all the guts are still good, old, plain C. Rust is still in its infancy so it's hard to tell and even if it succeed, it will be evolution, not revolution and will take decades to replace C fully.

HN is a bit of echo chamber as mostly SaaS, web and other high level application developers are here. For them C might be dead as well, but if you have anything to do with hardware and system programming, C is still the tool.
I realize this is probably not what you meant when asking for book suggestions on HN, but since you didn't specify: If you're into 2D action / sci-fi / dystopian fiction (or to be honest, if you're into fantasy/sci-fi at all) check out the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown.

I went in expecting nothing and almost abandoned half way through the first book as it seemed like a Hunger Games / Divergent rip off (and I didn't even like either of those particularly), but holy crap after about half way into the first book I was hooked. I powered through all three in a week and a half. The books are pure fun. Didn't make me think too much, and had plenty of action, politics, twists, broken friendships, violence, sex, rape, torture, etc. Not exactly YA I would say, but then again the material isn't exactly complicated either.

All in all, if you need a break from serious reads and enjoy sci-fi / fantasy, check this out. The books were absolutely written to be made into a movie trilogy at some point and I can't wait for it.
I agree with what you said, and I would have added: but a less important problem because 1) there are batteries and other forms of storage and 2) consumption is lower at night.
Define 'best'. What are your goals? For example, if you want to maximize expected ROI over decades, the answer will be different from the one when you want to maximize worst-case ROI over a year.

Also, "For USA citizens" isn't disjunct from "For those living in Europe", and "Europe" is quite diverse (even if one reads it as 'in the EU', tax laws may affect what's 'best')

Also, avoiding the euro may, depending on what you want to do with the funds, add exchange rate risks, with their pros and cons (higher variability of ROI). If you want to spend the money in what now is an euro country, I don't think there is a way to take exchange rate risks (either because of investing in other currencies or because of not knowing a possible euro exchange rate)

And I think option B should be disqualified as it doesn't meet your requirement of 'passive' (you know that, based on the remark 'too much hassle')
So do you recommend secondhand time? Thinking of getting it as a Christmas present for my Dad. Or is it completely depressing?
The maths only works in Waterloo's favour if you're single and want to live on your own. If you're a couple, and consequently have two incomes instead of just one, you're better off to the tune of about $150,000 a year living in the Bay Area. You could get the same benefit just by sharing the two bedroom apartment with someone. That's not a great advert for Waterloo.
I'd say it's better style anyway to only ever declare multiple primitive types in the same statement.
Windows Server Containers can run two installation types of Windows: Nano Server, and Windows Server Core. any type of application that can run under those two operating systems is supported in containers.

For example, Windows Server Core supports the full .NET ecosystem.

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SIG-Windows Lead for Kubernetes
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Yep! Currently the solution I have to that is an old bedside clock with glow in the dark hands. It's great when I'm sleeping alone though - which is what most consumer tech seems optimized towards.
It seems deliberate, as they seem to have a handle on not allowing counterfeits for big name designer goods (rolex, handbags, perfume, and so on). The counterfeits there seems to be mostly around electronics, household goods, and so on.
TaskRabbit's Stalled Revolution
I adored Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahisi Coates and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.
> Huh, is Alibaba really very comparable to Amazon for the everyday consumer

I live in Romania and around these parts Aliexpress already has a big presence among your "everyday consumer". I visit the Postal office closest to my workplace every week and during the last or so year I've started seeing more and more young people (under 25, mostly women) who had come to collect the stuff they had ordered from China (most probably from Aliexpress). Around these parts Amazon is only known and partially used for purchasing books.
To be fair, a lot of my issues also come from the fact that I'm in a different timezone.

Even without that though, it's less about not being able to discuss things but more about not being 'casually included' in what is going on which leads to general misunderstandings.
I was developing a scheme to evaluate synthetic voices and found very quickly that you never want to listen to two different voices say the same text because once you have memorized the text you can't evaluate the legibility of the voice anymore.
How do you know people aren't buying from the manufacturer or indirect sources (other countries, liquidation/clearance from stores, any number of other grey market sources) and reselling?

There are many items sold on Amazon that the manufacturer doesn't sell direct nor sell to sellers to sell direct, but somehow people still manage to get stock.

Amazon isn't going to take down a listing unless the manufacturer can prove that it's infringing. They will block specific sellers if you can show they're selling fakes, and it's not that hard to do (place a test order, then report).
I wonder if people could form a "brigade" and buy all these products en-masse and simultaneously file for refunds, or request chargebacks (and show the CC co proof the product is counterfeit - which should solidify our case ) ?
What's the charging limit on the car end of the cables limit it to 350kW. If it's a purpose built charge-station then why not superconducting cabling, or pumped liquid nitrogen, or ... that would push to the limit of the car/battery.
On CM3/4 CPUs I typically have been shipping with FreeRTOS based solutions. I've done this with LPC2478/1788, and I'm now working on a similar Kinetis K60 architecture.

It's a nice O/S, but doesn't have a real solid application layer on top of it. For that I've sometimes used FDI's uEZ system, but it also lacks a lot of the components I need for real IoT node work (Radio drivers, TCP, SSL, and as a stretch I could really use MQTT or AMQP).
Solar don't have the power density needed by US. Do a simple calculation of current energy levels plus 1% YOY, turns out that you would need to cover the world with panels in just a few decades. There are proved new technology on nuclear (like molten salt and front advancing reactors) that is orders of magnitude safer. The light water reactor design from the 50-60th used in this aging plants was funded by Navy and was appropriate for its use but is not the best solution for grid power generation. Applying this already tested and safe solutions (search for ORNL molten salt) will buy the time until fusion is here, new high temperature superconductors (REBCO in special) have completely changed the game here, and a small high field tokamaks should generate net gain in less than 20 years.
Works for me (33th Chaos Communication Congress motto/schedule)
Sure. The problem is Apple telling France, Germany etc that they're taxed in Ireland, and then the money not being taxed in Ireland because it's funneled into some stateless figment of Apple's corporate imagination....
Windows Server in Nano Server installation mode only supports 64-bit applications, tools, and agents

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SIG-Windows Lead for Kubernetes
@michmike77
> This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote.

Not quite. They do not vote on "old people". Why? Anything from simply age to not feeling older people understand their world and situation.
Is that to say there is a perceivable delay from ear to ear? Sounds vertigo inducing :)
Blockchain Industry in the Spotlight: A Future Look at 2017
Note this does not include JavaFX/OpenJFX.
My government customers have dropped IE9 in favor of 11. Things are improving.
Well you can certainly hope but the problem is a lot of backend systems and software is written in Java. This software cost a lot and also make a lot of money for companies. End users/ consumers do not interact with this software so there is even less motivation to replace that.
> you know what you're getting into

This is the crux of it for me. The concussion/injury risks are an issue, but if you're informed, so be it. Bodily risk doesn't stop normal people from lots of things, from driving all the way to heliskiing, and for others it's something they actively seek out. If society has an avenue to reward it, then good for them.

What bothers me is the league itself covering up those facts. It's meant thousands of young men put themselves at risk _unknowingly_ and that's reprehensible.
I second this my goodman. Fantastic "story" books, not really literature. But amazing books nonetheless.
I was bummed when Kerr became a coach. He was one of the best parts of any NBA broadcast he was a part of. He was insightful of what was happening on the court, and his stories of playing with MJ were fun to hear. There was one off the cuff story during a game where he talked about the immense pressure MJ put on you when he passed you the ball. You never wanted to miss a shot because of the look he would give you running back down the court.

Another cool story: http://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/61933/landing-a-...
> My brain thinks in terms of editing lines, not s-expressions; I didn't get the hang of paredit, and editing without paredit required really tedious edit operations.

In my experience, learning and then working in Common Lisp, starting with paredit is tough. I disabled paredit for a while until I got the hang of thinking in s-expressions as you say. After a while when I tried paredit again, it was glorious.

Early on I did set up % as a global key that goes to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis, and otherwise inserts the character typed.

Also, I hope you were setting https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowParenMode

Just my 2¢.
Except that you can't replace fossil fuels completely with diffuse energy sources like wind and solar.
Late edit: the app I use is Astral: https://astralapp.com/

Pretty good for a non-native app ;)
Works well in e.g. California. May work less well in Maine. Especially when it snows.

Much of Europe and US is situated too far north for trouble-free solar operation. Other power sources do make sense there (or, for me, "here").

I keep hearing that several hundred thousand square miles of solar panels in Sahara could power the entire hemisphere. They could if transportation was 100% efficient. Even if we pretend that we can build humongous power lines out of superconducting material, maintaining them is going to cost us a lot still.
Since you seem not to have thought of it, you can also get power from the grid at night. Or from batteries. The grid gets its power from diverse sources.

So your logic doesn't quite hold up.
Wrong touch detection on FFDevWin via 'ontouchstart' in window. Will investigate. Thanks.
FDR passed that kind of sweeping legislation almost entirely through, desperation, force of personality, and titanic reinterpreting of the powers of a peace time president and of the federal government. It also helped that for the first few years of his presidency he enjoyed a super majority in congress. He also was able to choose 8 of the 9 supreme court justices over the course of his time in office, and even initially he tried to pack the court. FDR was down right devious. He was well known for never ever telling the complete truth even to his most loyal of supporters.

The truth is he didn't bother to try and sell it to the people in power because he didn't have to. It was readily apparent that if something wasn't done America might not make it. At the time unemployment rate was at almost 30%. Most american's didn't have access to their bank accounts as many were insolvent. Literally the country was on the brink. Congress was going to do whatever it took to drag us out of that hole even if it meant completely rewriting the rules of well everything.

I don't know that any of that is possible today. The regulations we have in place largely prevent us from being able to get back to that sort of dark economic time. And in my opinion it will take either that sort of global catastrophe, or one of our current major parties to fall apart to enable the sort of cooperation in congress New Deal level policy requires.
Try the VSVim plugin, it's good software.
I studied in a lot of detail the waste generated by dismantling wind turbine blades while working for a wind manufacturer.

If we were to recycle today all the blades of all the turbines in the world reaching 20 years of age, the weight would be equivalent to a few hours of household waste generated only in the UK. So the amount of waste is completely trivial (at this point), and it can be down-cycled easily (some companies turn it into plastics, cement, etc).
In the real world 99% of vehicles burn petroleum and the paradigm continues to do is basic job.
Printers are insanely complex, you need a huge amount of skilled people (in addition to patents, which no established printer company will license to a newcomer anyway!) to design all the neccessary parts.

Plus they're cheap. A new printer can go for 50€ these days... there's no way to make a profit if you don't have a massive buyer base.

And for the software side: I believe that most printer manufacturers, like many IoT/plastic-router manufacturers, just take the firmware from a previous model, bolt on some "new" features and off it goes...
I'll need to check out some of these places

> The GongChang platform specializes in industrial products

> Nanjing Imperiosus, based in China, is reported to disproportionately provide services to
illegal online pharmacies

Anyone know if buying things from these sites is illegal? I'm interested in Nanjing Imperiosus for the curiosity of what the hell they could even be selling and GongChang for buying some industrial equiptment eventually (I want to get into machining and so I need a heavy supply of shady Chinese garbadge to help build cool things)
Not sure why this was downvoted -- OP provided a source, which is more than most comments.
I've already seen that in Facebook ads, with people selling niche and probably auto generated products to me (my favorite was a shirt that says "I still miss Darius Milhaud"
True, I'm sure third-party sellers have been extremely profitable for Amazon, but they've also destroyed its reputation by selling inferior (or fake) products with fake 5-star reviews. They basically rendered the review system worthless and undermined everyone's trust in Amazon.

Those were two of the best things about Amazon. Now, from my perspective as a consumer, all they've got going for them is fast shipping.
It's a feature added in C99. Both clang and GCC do support it, assuming -std=c99 or later
Peter Thiel on the Foolishness of the Education System
Server Monitoring for Tor exit nodes
I've heard conflicting reports on whether Amazon co-mingles its own stuff with third party sellers, but some people have certainly claimed so. What co-mingling (it's opt-in for sellers) means is that Amazon doesn't distinguish which FBA seller gave them a particular item and will ship out the one that is cheapest to ship to that particular customer. Think of it as a giant distributed pile, where every seller's Koss Porta Pro end up. Now if I order one and the warehouse closest to me has units that a different seller handed to Amazon, I might get one of those, because co-mingling means that they're treated as identical. Remember that this is opt-in on the seller's part, and it's not entirely clear to me whether (or under which circumstances) Amazon co-mingles its own stock.
Understood since Babbage: AofA is a scientific endeavor.

• Start with a working program (algorithm implementation).

• Develop mathematical model of its behavior.

• Use the model to formulate hypotheses on resource usage.

• Use the program to validate hypotheses.

• Iterate on basis of insights gained.

Knuth's methodology (slide 2) can be used to analyze programs we currently use, which have no obvious mathematical content.

e.g. how do these fine code linters spot errors in your code? https://github.com/showcases/clean-code-linters but also does it manage your keystroke events an present information to you in a handy interface? algorithms are managing all of that
Fukushima exclusion zone disagrees with you. Sure, if we limited reactors to 'safe' locations that reduces risks, but we still put them in stupid areas such as near fault lines.
Yes. Public perception and understanding of voting systems is consistently and distressingly abysmal. FPTP is an awful system that promotes ideologues and those that manufacture, manipulate and profit from them.