skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I setup a Windows 10 computer the other day. When I was done with the initial configuration I opened control panel to add more local users. I'm clicking on the button to add a new user, and guess what happens; The modal window to create a new local user actually shows a loading bar, because apparently it's connecting to some online server. To make things worse, that server was unavailable for some reason so I actually couldn't add local users... "please try again later", ffs.

I got around the problem by using the tool "lusrmgr.msc", but still. God knows what else is going on.
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Every single drone should have a self-destruct rail inside. When the drone disappears, or is seized, it can be activated. The terms of the destruct can be set on deployment. For example, if you're deploying the drone in a theatre of war and it is moved outside of the scope, it can be set to explode unless a cryptographic key is transmitted in time.

My guess is as more and more parts of war are automated with drones, the latest tech will have to be protected somehow.
Economically, the Swedish approach is so much faster, and less labor intensive too; given enough volume it's advantages are self-evident if labor and electricity costs are roughly the same.

We know this because of what eventually happened to British ship building in the 60's to 80's; British ship building was very labor intensive and staunchly anti-automation because of the militant union movements in the UK at the time. Competition from Sweden, Korea and Japan wiped them out, after 150 years of global dominance.
UNCLOS has no authority on sovereignty disputes, right?

http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/uncl...
I generally like what Elon Musk does, but this sound to me like a patch for the cities that works extraordinarily well with his other business Tesla.
What we need is more and more sustainable public transportation. Trains, subways, etc that can last 40-60 years without replacement.

Tesla cars "might be" eco-friendly but building cars, batteries, etc is a pretty wasteful thing if you have to replace your car in less than 10 years... Just wait few years until new cars start having forced system updates that block your car and ask for a replacement.
McCain depended on family connections rather than money.

Legacy admit, 5th from the bottom of his class, still got into flight school, got shot down+captured, got into the Senate. Really, where's the success in this guy?
I won't deny atrocities have been committed by communists, but let's not forget plenty of atrocities have been committed by capitalists too. Plenty of wars have also been fought by capitalist countries over material wealth. There has also been violence committed by proxy, the CIA alone has had its hand in numerous regime changes throughout the world, often favouring regimes that kept their people in line with violence.

I suppose the question then becomes what links the atrocities committed by communists and capitalists. Perhaps it's a power thing?
Don't give it to the people coming in?
Hi there, Chinese here. Perhaps you would be interested in learning about East Turkestan, or as we like to call it "XinJiang", or perhaps South Mongolia, or "Inner Mongolia".

Calling us out on Tibet is nice and all, but it does get so very boring.

If you are a CCP employee, please contact me to give me my 5角, cheers!
Indeed. In the India-Pakistan Kargil war of 1999, USA sided with Pak and turned off GPS for Indian troops. That led to the creation of NAVIC

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-s...
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You don't understand. It's OK if the source code becomes "an absolute mess." That's because it's a finite absolute mess, as opposed to most FOSS library and utility projects.

An stb library is often the precise mess you need, and maybe even the one you deserve, with none of the seemingly-infinite, unbounded dependency messiness that you don't.

Sean's doing the Lord's work here, or at least the Buddha's.
Hence "Strong passwords that need to be memorized" in OP's comment. Or else your memory is way better than mine (or I care way less, or probably both).
As a Chinese, I can see where you are coming from. It is true that Chinese people have this kind of "sentiments" as you described, as part of our culture. We don't go very far and establish colonies, we prefer stay close to our root.

If you read more history of China, you will also notice that the Han ethnicity prefers letting others adopt Hans customs and cultures instead of actively adopting or adapting to foreign cultures. That's another striking characteristics in my opinion.
Thank you. Nit: It seems like Rubik's God's number would be better naming, because other puzzles would have different God's numbers..
I tried Pelican for my blog a while back, and the biggest problem was that I'd forget the syntax of the blog file, and the sequence of actions needed to publish it, if I went more than a day between blog posts. Useful for a professional blogger, I suppose, but not for the casual user. Also, quite complex code to understand, debug, and tweak, compared to the elegance and simplicity of a Flask or even (gasp) PHP webpage.

I have thought, recently, about the possible utility of a dynamic-site generator for things like CMS or even ERP. Imagine you are designing an open source ERP to be customized for different companies. Instead of having sensible tables like "customers", "products", "orders", etc., you have these weird higher-level "table" tables to allow different users to customize their own schemas.

Maybe what you could do to simplify this is create a generator that spits out dynamic sites without the overly abstract data model...
...So hand them off to C.
What about the case where you have people whose paid job does not actually fundamentally add to any significant measurable net good? In that case, these people are also consuming the resources of the organization by taking a paycheck, taking up space, etc.

Perhaps corporate profits would not have to be so huge and prices could be lowered if the pay for work done was more closely related to the value added.

For that matter, how about all the jobs that nobody necessarily "wants" to do, are low paid, and yet critical to the functioning of societies?
Of course we can judge, we even have some standardized criterias to use.

Adherence to the basic human rights as laid out by the UN. I would say any society who adheres the closest to the human rights is the best. The further away, the lower rank it has.

I don't have to live somewhere for an extended period of time to make judgements based on established "best practises" for human societies.
Disclaimer: I am not an international lawyer. Please consult one before annexing others' claimed territories.

Article 298 limitedly exempts Section 2. This makes sense because the purpose of UNCLOS is to settle maritime territoriality disputes.

See §§ 397 - 412 of the ruling [1] for the Tribunal's reasons Article 298 does not apply to many salient pieces of the Philippines' case, including those pertaining to "Scarborough Shoal" (§ 400), "Mischief Reef, Second Thomas Shoal, or Subi Reef" (§ 401) and others.

[1] http://www.pcacases.com/web/sendAttach/1506 page 140
Yes, it sounds hard to create competition for track and signal maintenance.

But the parent was talking about the companies that run the trains. I meant the maintenance those trains need (repairs/safety/cleaning/...). On that level competition might make more sense (like with cars). So they wouldn't do that in-house. Maybe it already works like this?
IIUC you are arguing that people that grew up with UBI would behave differently compared to people that just switched to UBI? To be honest I don't feel this particular convincing, why should this be the case? There probably isn't any data on it either.

No, I'm saying that this is worth studying, exactly because (I agree) there isn't any data on it.

One problem, as you point out, is the ongoing cost. Socialism works better when there is a capitalist system, externally, to set the prices and help determine demand. The Eloi need the Morlocks to provide for them. The monetary cost for any UBI experiment on individuals' actions is, by definition, being paid for by something outside that experiment. But that's fine, this experiment is meant to answer the question of how the recipients respond to it, not how/if it is or is not long term viable (however the results of this experiment would eventually need to feed into that). And my point is we can start to answer this experiment by examining what people who are born into money do. What kind of jobs do they take? How do they act when they have a guaranteed complete safety net? There is a lot of data available on this, and it is not time limited like a two year study would be.
any scheme that burdens humans with this degree of eugenic considerations has the social contract precisely backwards
And besides their small number, they are also often jailed and abused for taking on cases (mentioned in the article itself). There was a high profile case involving Chen Guancheng, who escaped house arrest and sought refuge in the US embassy. He was granted asylum and now lives in the US.

To my knowledge, there has not been a case of an ACLU lawyer being jailed or harassed simply for taking on a case.
Sure you can imagine such a scenario, but how likely is it in reality that someone earning $32/hr is only working 30 hours a week?

And moreover, how likely is it that they can increase their hours, but be paid exactly the same hourly wage?

I believe such people are extremely rare and as such this hypothetical disincentive isn't particularly relevant.
What I meant by "computable" is something that can be computed with today's hardware.
YMMV, but OneNote makes me nervous. I briefly played with it on OSX, and didn't see a good way to get notes out of it (e.g. for backup, recovery/usage in absence of OneNote). That is one thing that Evernote gets right IMO - the local store is just a bunch of html files + images, one directory per note.

For math - it's been over a decade, but I think I'd need a big device (ipad pro 12.9) and a pen. I'd want to be able to get a full page of notes on screen at once. That said, I'd be tempted. I've scanned my old notes for posterity and to save space, but it would have been nice to just capture them in digital form in the first place.

I'd also want a TeX stack on the device (editor+preview), but I'd write that if I had to. (I did pure plain TeX back in the day.)
According to the article, the drone had surfaced adjacent to a US manned ship. Your last sentence appears to not match up with that.
That's... very wrong.

>This is why R7RS has syntax-case.

It doesn't. In fact, sc-macro-transformer is a candidate for inclusion in r7rs-large.

>HOWEVER... various bugs can be easily introduced if your macros are not hygienic.

That's true, but you're confusing hygienic/unhygienic with imperative/declarative. sc-macro-transformer, syntax-case and friends are all hygienic imperative macro systems. So none of that matters.
They are used in bad ways right now. Search for Tiananmen Square not via a vpn or other tool. Let me know when your internet comes back. Let me know what you want to search for afterwards, I'll let you know when my internet connection comes back up.
I find this to be a fascinating article because simplistic emotional arguments disseminated in the press, presumably by researchers and regulators themselves and scientifically illiterate journalists ("lead is unsafe at any level and children with a Blood Lead Level of 5 are poisoned"), are then tempered when real people are involved:

This does not mean that children at this level are poisoned,” Dietrich says. “There are very few studies of low-level lead exposure, but there is nothing in the data that suggests that children will have negative impacts of short-term low-level exposure” over their lives. In fact, he notes, the 5 μg/dL figure was set because 97.5 percent of young children fall below it, not because blood lead levels at that threshold result in permanent harm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitong_Law_Firm

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

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

You read the first Wikipedia article looking for reasons to dismiss it.

There's plenty of Civil Rights activity in China. It's a myopic American view that there is none and "no true Scotsman" all the civil rights law firms, attorneys and court cases should be dismissed out of hand for consideration.

In China, most disputes are resolved without institutional involvement whatsoever. Off the bat it's difficult to point to institutions and institutional processes and claim China doesn't have equivalence.

You are right. China is different. But it's not some wasteland dystopia from a fantasy novel. It has a wide and active civil society. That civil society is uniquely Chinese, and frankly, it's exciting to see it blossom as it has been since the 80s.

The most shocking thing is that the United States thinks China and Chinese society is a country to compare itself to. The ignorance of these comparisons is nearly as shocking.
... and here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13193309

... and here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196431
It's hardly baseless, as it has many historical parallels.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
Funny story: When the Rubik's Cube first came out, the box proudly proclaimed: "More than 20 million combinations!"

Even in those days, it was known that it had vastly more than 20 million positions. I've wondered about the marketing guy's rationale. Obviously, "43 quintillion combinations" would not make sense to most people. But why not write, "20 billion" or "20 trillion"? Maybe it was too discouraging.
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The official status of Taiwan is playing politics. Nations stopped recognizing Taiwan as a result of PRC's ascendancy. But the PRC does not govern there.

Technically Crimea belongs to Ukraine and most of the world acknowledges this.

But in all practical realty--de facto--Crimea is now Russian territory. It's not foolish to acknowledge this.
Theres something uneasy about 2 people doing the same job at the same gross salary, but different net salaries.
Multiple parts to a header-only library can be concatenated into a single header file for easier inclusion, however. Some single header-only libraries are actually built this way.

I agree with you in principle though. A directory of header files is, in practice, and in my experience, no more difficult to work with than a single header file and (can) allow for more modularity.
Wow, you aren't kidding. I had imagined it to be an invention of the 1950s, not the seventies.
I don't think paying everyone is a good idea and will encourage inflation to make the program useless. I'm fine with regressive when talking money given to you.
Unfortunately not. Things would not stay just as broken because if the Venezuelan government stopped printing money it would stop being able to pay its debts.

Unless they do substantial budget cuts (which were are so far assuming that they cannot or will not do) they would be forced to stop paying suppliers and public servants, which would result in even more chaos than there is right now.
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UPS is better, but iirc they screwed the new guys a few years ago with benefits.

You still work super hard and are watched carefully.

The worst are the Amazon sweatshops and the post office. Letter carriers mostly got buyouts and the replacements make $12/hr and have awful benefits.
I get it, but the discussion is about China, not the US. Please don't tu quoque.
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Why don't we just cover everyone's basic needs and be done with it?

This is a pointless discussion. Just give everyone enough food, shelter, and free access to medicine. It'll create a society where we don't stress over losing a job because we don't know how we're going to get our food tomorrow.

The reason that some people think this "disincentiveces" people to work is that they'd have to pay higher wages and wouldn't be able to exploit human beings, as all capitalist systems do. That's it. That's their whole argument. The rest is just dressing it up with empty moral questions about "giving away the fish instead of teaching how to fish".
Indeed, I was surprised to read that too. Probably mistake on author's part.
FedEx is FedEx express (red label) and ground/home (green).

The green ones are contract drivers. In my areas a altmof guys who used to do bread routes bought FedEx routes.
The single-file approach is to simplify including the library in your project. Just copy the file and type #include "whatever.h".

It's because C/C++ still doesn't have a decent module system, nor a universally accepted library distribution system. You can still write the project as separate files and the concatenate them for distribution.
Was bar placement not standardized to be at the end of every measure?
Most people I know with an MBA (which, granted, it's less than 10) got it after working for a few years in some industry (including software). The concept of a business school, and of gaining more general business/management knowledge that you can evaluate under your experience as a professional, seems reasonable.
I love using ClojureScript but one other downside is the lack of ClojureScript jobs. There are thousands of JS jobs right now but how many cljs jobs are hiring? Tens?

That sucks because cljs is great but it's probably the biggest incentive for sticking with JS.
Boring is a technology that could become very useful on Mars but I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with this venture.
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No specs, no benchmarks, no looking inside the case..
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Whether they need to be memorized or not does not make the statement "it will be leaked eventually anyway" more true.

I use a password database so I don't memorize most of my passwords.
Ah, I see where the misunderstanding arises. The reference to regional denial on that page is not a feature of any GPS satellite.

The military has airborne and surface-based electronic warfare platforms that can be used to jam GPS. That's what is referenced on that page.

The FAA is not considered an authority for GPS, with the exception of certifying that WAAS is in-service for aircraft when it is meeting FAA specifications. For civilian information purposes the appropriate agency is the US Coast Guard NAVCEN.

The Air Force Space Command is the holds primary developmental, specification, and operational responsibility.
Progressive taxation is more fair from the standpoint of society at large. You're being myopic in only considering it from your point of view. How is it "fair" to force someone who is barely making ends meet and struggles to sometimes put food on the table to pay the same exact tax rate as someone who is rich, and whose biggest economic struggle is wondering whether to upgrade to a bigger yacht this year or next year? That extra $1,000 you'd be forcing the poor person to pay in tax would feed their kid for a year, but the rich guy doesn't even notice paying that much extra. Money does not have constant utility across all people. Maximizing the total utility across society -- now that's fair.
You're just talking about the design phase of a new ISA extension. I think the parent was under the impression that there were instructions in released processors that were undocumented.
There have been some that target C. I haven't looked into them other than searching for them.

- https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217898
I've been expecting MSLinux for 5 years > now.

I've always thought that Microsoft's operating systems were the Albatross around their neck. Their apps and systems are OK. Having those available on a superior OS, like Linux would be good for the world, and MS.

Buying canonical would probably be the quickest way.
What would be a nice search term to learn about it? Because I can't relate them all with China without having to read a lot.
Pretty sure this scene is straight out of the American frontier in the industrial revolution.
There is also some really weird stuff with his kids, where at least one of his sons and the son's wife consider him to be a total fraud. Gelman wrote about it here (including link to son's page) http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/09/heimlich/
They are on equally slippery slopes, but China is farther down the slope.

The US has far more legal protections and better rule of law than China has ever had. And, crucially, America is a democracy with constitutionally protected free speech. American citizens have much greater ability to challenge the actions of their government than Chinese citizens do.

I think it does a disservice to those defending civil liberties in the US to not recognize that the two countries' situations are vastly different.
I think the NSA definitely seemed to hit a point where they calmed down. At first there was a palpable sense of "O NOE" as the NSA scrambled to discover what exactly had been stolen. And then just as suddenly, it seemed to go away. I don't think the really shocking stuff was exfil'ed by Snowden. I won't speculate what wasn't revealed, except that I think it's telling that the NSA has been asking for the ability to award high-level mathematics commendations to its workers without explaining why they deserve the award. Not much in Snowden's documents seem to fit that particular bill. The NSA isn't going to want to award the Fields Medal to someone for 0day exploits, weakening crypto infrastructure, or friggin USB hacks.
No, they aren't donating more to the Linux foundation for political clout.
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No reason to hide them; presumably, as with firmware updates, you have to load an Intel signing key into a few registers along with your IME/SMM opcode to get it to execute.
'Most flat taxes do not land in the "you make more, you pay more" scheme':

I think you are missing the point. If it is truly a flat tax, the number of dollars you are taxed goes up (in a directly proportional way to the number of dollars you make). So you DO pay more the more you make. It isn't even a logically arguable point.

"a flat tax actually gives a very easy way for high income people to have a lower tax rate.":

-- again that's a completely illogical statement. If it is truly a flat tax *EVERYONE* has the same rate -- that's the very definition of a flat tax.
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You are welcome to start working on it at any time.
Inspecting plane from defector or mis-shipped missile is different from grabbing a piece of equipment floating near a naval vessel in the middle of international water.
What exactly is the definition of an innovation center, and why are there so few of them in the world?

There are only 7 in the silicon valley? That seems... suspect. And only 2 in Tokyo? This whole article puzzles me.