skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're trying to find too much reasoning.

Nowadays many people hate Python as well and I'm speaking as an ex-Python developer that now hates Python.

And do you know what's ironic about Python? Because the language excluded certain features, it led to multiple non-orthogonal features that solve very specific use-cases and ways of doing things in its ecosystem, with hacks upon hacks meant to implement ideas from other ecosystems, most of them slightly broken.

The problem with language simplicity is that it is misunderstood. Simplicity in the language implementation is often correlated with complexity for the developer, being what happens when you limit what can be expressed.
S7 and Alpha Bank used Ethereum blockchain in the first official transaction
I began to rephrase it for clarity within 30 seconds of posting it. I didn't change my point to make it "look more innocuous".

> Also, just making the statement that capitalism is the best economic model doesn't make it true.

Feel free to point me to one with a better track record.

> Democratic control of the means of production absolutely makes more sense ethically and socially.

And every time it's attempted, it ends in disaster.

> I think it is quite possible we will see another big socialist revolution in our lifetime.

I hope not. Many places in the world are still recovering from the last one.

Anyway, I'm not interested in debating philosophies here. We have a practical problem at hand; there's no need to make it philosophical.
You think that because I'd like to see a basic income, care about renewable energy and income equality, that I must be living in the Silicon Valley bubble?

Nope, you're not "in a bubble" for holding those positions. I see parent poster as listing some things that happen to be popular in the bubble, even if they're also generic american left. When discussing a "bubble", it doesn't matter what the positions happen to be, but how they're discussed, how uniform opinions are, how well they understand where their own positions fit into the contemporary political spectrum of people who share their government, how dissent is handled, etc...

Is that genuinely* what you think?*

Now, this remark is how I know you're in the bubble.
Well hell, maybe it's time for me to look at FF again. I switched away because it was a memory hog... And now chrome's a memory hog. I read that they made improvements, but 800MB for 240+ tabs is pretty good.
I don't put that much faith in everybody else to figure it out themselves.
Who now (Davies) is our 'Brexit' minister. Oh, the irony.
> translation: I choose to accept the court that agrees with me and bluntly question the higher ones that don't

> I just leave this here for your amusement: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE....

Point #1 is my favorite:
"1. Save as otherwise provided in the Treaties, any aid granted by a Member State or through State resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favoring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall, in so far as it affects trade between Member States, be incompatible with the internal market."

What they're basically saying is that if I don't agree, it's wrong. Tax code is complex precisely because of statements from Article 107.

#3.e
"(e) such other categories of aid as may be specified by decision of the Council on a proposal from the Commission."

In your assumption, you are correct: I am questioning a higher court that over rules a lower sovereign court based on an elastic clause without limits.
> Pension funds are basically pyramid schemes and are economically doomed.

No, non-individual pensions schemes are the problem.

Money paid into a pension for a person should only be accessible for that person, not reliant on future people paying money into a group pot.
I struggled to even try using emacs org mode, but it was entirely worth it, I highly recommend it, give it a week and honest effort into learning, being able to export to html allows me to reference easily wihle on the road, updating the .org is still a challenge while on road without my laptop and ssh access.

that being said, I think like you, my struggle is with the bottleneck between my brain and these devices. it is often annoying to sit down or access my 'notebook' wherever it is and I'd rather just make a mental note and it show up in my spreadsheet.

I like workflowy, but will not use because I do not like using cloud services as I have little trust for them (been burnt a couple times now, so after learning the lesson 3 times I finally wised up)

EDIT: some typoes and adding other thoughts...
I had a comment written up, but I decided to test my claim in my original post about a "litany of literature", and sure enough this has been documented elsewhere:

http://gitolite.com/git-pull--rebase

I searched for "how does git pull --rebase work"
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1. Very few people make real estate transactions as frequently as once a year, let alone daily.

2. The amount of money involved in a real estate transaction encourages prudence and due diligence.

3. Every piece of real-estate is unique. That means that acquisition always entails tradeoffs and opportunity costs.

4. The real-estate sales market has aspects of a highly competitive commodities market. This means that ultimately, technologies that improve efficiency ultimately result in lower prices across the industry. For example the internet has tended to lower real estate commissions as sellers are more able to market properties themselves and to are better able to negotiate with multiple agencies.

To put it another way, what's the business case?
"Just think about how the web and Internet evolved"

What percent of DNS lookups use DNSSEC?

What percent of email is e2e encrypted?

What percent of NTP lookups are signed, encrypted, or trust worthy?

What percent of HTTPS traffic would not die by a trivial downgrade attack?

What XMPP client allows you to click on it in the apple/google play store, auto discover any contacts using it, and start chatting (with e2e) in 30 seconds?

Are things getting better? Certainly, it's rather slow progress though. I don't see how signal could have gotten as far as has, as quickly as it has, without controlling both server and client, and skipping federated.

Sure, by leading by example hopefully the bar is raised. All the signal compromises (controlling client and server, non federating, using GCM, requiring a sim, etc) seem to be well justified to get pretty good security to a large number of diverse people quickly.

Sure federated would be great, as would be independence from the whisper systems servers which can be easily blocked (like in egypt).

So sure hopefully someone comes up with something that manages the strengths of signals with federation and censor resistance. Not sure that will look much like XMPP though.
I believe Ireland is failing to even charge Apple its statutory tax rate, which is why the the whole kerfluffle over Europe claiming back taxes are owed to Ireland, Apple claiming they don't, and Ireland claiming they don't want the taxes because they fear it will trigger a move by Apple from its shores.

I assume offering deals like that runs afoul of international trade agreements.
Oh dang. I estimated tens of thousands. I was off by an order of magnitude and I was the one trying to defend this contract to HackerNews. Lol. Yeah, DISA is freaking huge. We're doing some work for them right now and the scope is massive.

Speaking of which... if any of you have a Secret clearance and want a job... :)
How else do you want to communicate with a speaker-mic-only device?
Philadelphia was the best-designed city, basically ever. Perfect grid, even spacing between residences, businesses, and parks, and you know what ended up happening? Nearly everybody piled up along the waterfronts, because that's where the action was.

London, meanwhile, had never really been planned at all, and even well-intentioned planning often ended up straddling the line between disaster and farce.

If you want to laugh a lot and learn about ways that London has been "developed" over the years, check out this guy's videos:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEHWhO_HdY
Active discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13228162
This is corporate policy to protect the corporation. It is power gone too far. People need to know that it's ok to speak up when something wrong occurs.

For example, If I were to see Jimmy stealing some GoogleBot servers then absolutely the company would want me to inform them about Jimmy's actions. Communication is largely done by email. So, there is no problem reporting illegal activity by email.

But, that's not what the corporation is fearful of, they are afraid of Jimmy's department which is infringing Big Corp.'s Patents. If I see this and email the company then the company has to respond with an inquiry to their lawyer and investigate, otherwise this could come out later in a court trial and cause financial harm. So the company doesn't want people to do what they believe is right. Oh sure, we can still report it verbally. But, that's absurd to have a policy that says email is fine for all communications except for anything that could potentially be detrimental to the company. What if I was harassed at work, I'm not supposed to say anything about that in email, it all has to be done face to face?

I hope this case wins, I hope that folks here understand that it's important to do what's right and not to do what their corporation tells them is right.
Snow falls in Sahara for first time in 37 years
Fun: Fake Converstaion B/w Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
To fixate on finding work that makes us happy is a luxury
It does still allow you to check for corruption though.
The same could be said about Computer, OS, or any Apps.

We have SSD, CPU, Memory and Network 100 to 10000x faster then what had 20 years ago, and yet Apps didn't get 100x faster. It is still not instantaneous.

In someways i think it is because we have created far too much abstraction /layers.
Same goes for HN. I typically read the headline, skim the article, and go straight for the comments!
Corporate tax in irland is NOT 0.005 percent. It is, as you even quoted, a one-off deal between Ireland and Apple.

The EU article simply covers any deal which would create such favorable treatment, and the key word is "distort competition".

"any aid granted by a member state or through state resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favoring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall … be incompatible with the internal market.”"
What is their option? 1.5 million Macs? 1.5 million RedHat installs? They've tried going that route in the past and then paid through the nose just to get basic desktop applications available to their workforce.
The manufacturing process is likely still several days as it involves more than one factory in the process. Plus shipping to the US (1-2 days) you'll end up at probably around a week in the best case. And that only if there's enough cargo capacity to add 100k units on that route (don't know how busy they are in these weeks). I'd guess it's realistically closer to 2 weeks from decision until it's in the warehouse.

It seems to me that the Echo is what amazon pushes most at the moment. They want to be in every house. I don't think they make much by selling it, it's mostly to bind people to amazon (prime and buying through the device). It doesn't make sense to constraint supply in that case. Constraining supply is used for expensive items to suggest that they're sought after. Don't think Echo fits in that category.
> ~10 years ago, the statement was pretty much correct.

If one looks at the capabilities of CPUs from 10 years ago, one can easily justify similar completely outdated statements for CPUs.
In that case you can just buy a smartphone or laptop?
To the best of my knowledge, Apple, Ireland, and the EU all claim that Irish tax law is being obeyed. Do you have any reference to this claim of yours?

Europe claims that Ireland's tax law is EU-illegal, and thus Ireland must retroactively enforce an EU-legal tax law, and thus the back taxes.

I certainly agree with you about Ireland and Apple's motivations.
Anyone else that think that this might be a bad idea?
Two things.

One - Ivy got greedy. Had it make it appear as though he was losing some of the games, he probably would've gotten away with it. If you lose, then win, then lose and are up at the end of the night, it's more plausible you weren't cheating. The way all of the articles I've read about it, he basically ran the table for several hours and then left.

Two - you go into any casino and use card counting techniques (like the ones the MIT team used) and within ten minutes, the pit boss will cut you off because its obvious what you're doing. This is the very same technique Ivy was using. Lowering his bets when the cards were low, then increasing his bets when the cards were favorable. I'm actually pretty shocked the casino let him play for so long when it was so obvious what was happening.
Jony Ive, the man who designed the iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air might leave Apple
I have tried to make use of Webpack a few times for my projects but the only times I have actually managed is when starting on a new project with a boilerplate and config generator. The way it is set up doesn't seem to meld with my way of thinking at all.

I really like how straight forward Browserify is. Likely this is because I am quite accustomed to Unix shell tools and makefiles (I actually use Ninja [1] with ninja-build-gen [2] for a few of my Javascript projects) but Webpack's hot-reloading would be really nice to have.

I do think it would suffice if Browserify was a bit more performant so I don't have to wait for it after making a change. I keep meaning to try Rollup to see if it will give me any advantages in that regard.

[1]: http://ninja-build.org

[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ninja-build-gen
This release is available from the FTP servers listed at:

I wish GNU people could clean up Savannah and use it as their main distribution point.

Well, at least they are not OpenBSD with their ancient CVS system.
Guess I simply do not share your view. My customers are not locked in, in fact I will go out of my way to make it easy for them, their employees or even another consultant to continue on any work of the work I do and have done for them in the past.

In addition I am not in favor for aggregating technical debt, I suppose I wasn't clear. The article talked about a 1 line fix and that by itself should not trigger a rewrite of a feature, especially not when the fix has to be done now, not next week.
You don't want to have a voucher under the tree, you want the product. Delivery in January will put off everyone who wants to buy as a present.
> The nullification of a member state's unfair tax law seems fine

Given the climate around Brexit and the fact that Ireland is fighting back on this ruling with Apple, it is astounding to me that you think this is "fine".
All of the formatting restrictions are because the language was developed in the punch-card and teletype era. You had 80 columns per card/line and only upper case.
Will data brokers help build a Muslim registry?
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I find myself tempted to argue the converse -- that tolerance for different people drives one to learn a foreign language. Or maybe an underlying motivation -- for instance, at one time Russian was a useful skill for people interested in national security work -- might play a more important role.
people who get paid really well and don't want to kill other people?

Who wants to pull 30 hour shifts?
Its not so different from thoughtbot's repos, just a different personality.
Also, DISA not only has AWS instances, they have their own freaking installation of AWS! As in, they literally own a replicated version of AWS that only they can use and control. The government is a bloated, ugly beast, but they know what they're doing and they squeeze the vendors for every drop of value. Margins in this space are tiny.
A sub-vocalization microphone and speech recognition system that puts silently-spoken notes into OneNote.
But then he's listening to Christmas music via crappy phone speakers. I think people in this discussion are ignoring the advantage of having half-way decent speakers in Echo and Google Home.

Also, your phone may be deep in a pocket, in a coat, or in your purse in the other room. Echo/Home is right there in the kitchen waiting for you.

Lastly, you have no battery worries. Want 12+ hours of music in the kitchen? No problem.
> 2) Do _really_ we want the least experienced citizens having the most say?

That's the first thing that I thought of, but then I realized that I have a pretty dim view of the 'experience' of most older people that I know. They are woefully unable to use computers, and on account of their 'trust' in things like fake news they seem incredibly unprepared to deal with our current reality and are just as susceptible - if not moreso - to populism. And while this is a bold claim I'm not quite prepared to defend, they seem quite a bit more selfish and materialistic than the twenty-somethings I spend much of my time with.

Maybe in times of rapid change like ours, 'experience' doesn't mean as much as it once did.

Plus, it goes both ways. If we should defer to those with more experience, it's only fair that they should take better care of their offspring.
There are no one-off deals, and Apple doesn't pay 0.005%.

Apple pays Ireland 12.5% of all taxable-in-Ireland income. That's because that's Ireland's corporate income tax rate. Conveniently, because of the structure of Irish tax law, very very little income is taxable in Ireland. And that's more than is taxable in any other EU country. And, in fact, there's no country where very much of their income is taxable. Pretty awesome for them, I guess.

When the bullshitters say "paying 0.005% effective tax rate", they mean "when you take all their revenue everywhere [in the EU], they pay 0.005% on that". That's not how tax works for any corporation ever.
Gambling has always been a tax for the mathematically illiterate. Casino gambling has always been a scam and this proves it--whenever someone too clever comes along, they run right to the muscle to get their money back.
NASA Built an Infrared Sensor Inspired by the Eyes of a Moth
> if you correctly calculate the energy cost needed.

I thought EROEI was supposed to be fudge-free? If you really calculate EROEI as the nature wants it, you are never reaching EROEI of one unless you are breaking thermodynamic laws.

> - you're not assigning price in energy for those additional means of production

There are non-energy factors of production. If you disagree with that, there is no point continuing this discussion. If you agree, don't you see that your argumentation is flawed, because I was specifically arguing about non-energy production factors and now you claim that I do not assign correctly the energy cost of a production factor that does not have energy cost?
And at least with an Android phone it's typically possible to root/wipe and install a custom OS that's completely separated from Google/whoever. There's usually still a few binary blob drivers, and you have to have some trust that the hardware itself isn't malicious, but at least you can be confidant that it's not dependent on/subservient to some online service that's out of your control.

I'm not terribly interested in any home automation/assistant system that requires an always on connection to some external server.
> So then you're still paying taxes twice.

They're two separate taxes, paid by two different entities. Nobody is "paying taxes twice". VAT is paid by the end consumer. It is generally collected by the retailer and forwarded directly on to the government, because otherwise enforcement would be too difficult.

The manufacturer has a variety of taxes that may be due, depending on jurisdiction, on its profits, revenues, payroll, or other aspects of the business. In conventional retail setups, where you have a manufacturer supplying goods to a distributor or wholesaler, wholesaler to retailer, retailer to customer, there are corporate taxes due on each company in the chain. But none of them pay VAT on the intermediate goods; that's on the final consumer.

VAT is basically a tax on consumption; corporate taxes are taxes on (usually) income, and can be seen as the price one pays to a country for the use of its legal system and for the privilege of creating liability-shielding legal entities there.
If banned they damage the economy. VPNs are required for many
jobs and systems.
I don't even know what that means.
Care to highlight what issues you've had with their CVS system?
Was really concerned about that. But in the end it's really no different from a smartphone/laptop. If someone compromises my device it could also always send. I have to trust the manufacturer of my phone not to transmit audio unless I tell them to, and the same is true for Amazon.

I'm also pretty sure that people would've noticed if it always sends by default, guess some people will have monitored traffic from/to the device.
> I sincerely hope that you test our Linux drivers

I sincerely hope that they test out both Linux and Windows drivers. It is well-known that these drivers at least in the past were developed by two completely different teams, so the results might be quite different and thus interesting.
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> Just like if I live in Manhattan, I don't need to know how to take my bag of garbage to the dump.

Except when your garbage is full of rotting fish and you want that garbage disposed right now. In other words, RAII.

I'd really like a language where you can choose GC or RAII for the types you define.
I couln't find a changelog, but there is a list of fixed bugs in the tracker: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED...
In my personal experience, life (or, er, people) tend(s) to find a way to mess up any sufficiently complex, shared resource. In other words, I'm happy that it never breaks for you :3

Re. Perforce made easy, I'd suggest hitting up stack overflow or the p4 forums -- the community is much smaller than git's (i.e. practically the entire open source community vs. game developers), so there are fewer people available to write such blog posts (but enough to complain, evidently). I have a number of company internal-blog posts that explain Perforce to fellow newbs, but they can't be made public due to contracts and etc.
I play roulette as an adventure randomizer, and pay the casino a tiny sliver of the amount for making that more exciting than rolling dice in my hotel room.

Roulette is fantastic for answering questions like "Do I have a $50 meal or a $200 meal?" Simple: just place $50 on a column or dozen. Bam! Your cashflow is more or less randomly distributed instead of at a flat rate, for a 5% loss. Ignoring the casino's slight edge, you can see it's shifting money -- each of 3 days, you have $100, totalling $300; on a large number of games, you'll win 1 for every 2 you lose, so you'll have 2 days where you lose $50 and 1 day where you win $100. With the casino's edge factored in, you turn a consistent $300 in to a bursty $292.

Works for basically any time you're wanting to turn a flat, planned cashflow into a dramatic bursty cashflow.

Ed: maths is hard; fixed expected value. Accidentally applied casino's edge to total cash instead of just portion gambled.
Honestly, I'm in the exact opposite camp - I'm glad mercurial is still alive and kicking, since I've found my experience with it (and tortoisehg) to be superior in a number of ways. Fewer cross platform issues, a much cleaner commandline interface, can hop over to a much more powerful gui if needed -- I generally use it even when I'm interacting with a git repo.

That said, I'm far from an expert in git. What do you see as it's advantages? (outside of the larger mindshare, obviously :)