skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading through what people have posted so far, I wonder if we should do a "Recommend one, and only one, book that you read this year".
Apple used to sell printers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers
The Black Swan seems really good, would you say it's entertaining for non-maths nerds?
Scaling Bitcoin with Secure Hardware
Everyone says that about nipples, but anyone whose had a kid knows that its not always easy for a baby to learn how to latch onto a nipple. It can take a day or two and all they while you are terrified your baby is going to starve.
I don't know, it seems to have worked for his family. Maybe his parents realized early on that they were too career focused to be good parents.
Afvallen na je vijftigste lukt wel met dit aangepast eetpatroon
> a couple lines of code using SciKit Learn and all the default parameters is enough

Except for when it's not - those are the cases you're hired for.
I've used Go sparingly so please take this with a grain of salt.

I got productive quickly with Go and loved the simplicity and ease of development. The speed of compilation is amazing, and the programs run at a blazing speed. Then hit the wall and found myself repeating myself again and again. The lack of generics, pattern matching was really a deal breaker for me.

I chose Elixir for another API backend, and I really loved it. Hex, the package manager, Phoenix framework, the rock solid Erlang/BEAM and the Elixir language itself was a breeze from Go. Even though it compiles slower, and sometimes Hex package would fk up package hierarchy, the whole experience was great. The IDE support is bit flaky, and I used ST3.

I would highly recommend Elixir over Golang.
> Nuclear power is centralized and lends itself to government or corporate control of the energy system
As opposed to what we have now?
> Nuclear power is centralized and lends itself to government or corporate control of the energy system

As opposed to what we have now?
I remember first meeting you in the Reactiflux Discord during a lively discussion about Redux or somesuch. It's been amazing to follow your journey and I can't wait to see where you'll be going!
Who funded America’s opiate epidemic? You did
The books in the Red Rising trilogy were some of the best that I read this year as well.
It's weird in another sense because you're only hating the uniform, since players changed teams so often these days.
Moon. It seems almost impossible to get people to Mars alive unless the moon is used to get experience.
I'm also curious about these. Seems annoying to have another device to charge (and potentially leave behind somewhere and lose). IMO Apple is again trying to solving a problem that we don't really have. I get that that's what [arguably] drives innovation and new product segments, but there seems like a limited "unmet need" here.
There's no 'indefinite' and there will be a new deadline - that's right there in the linked thing.
The Culture of Critique
Why do you think it's so bad? I think it's a good thing that helps with the signal to noise ratio. Nothing in the Notability article [1] seems unreasonable to me, such as ensuring that the content is verifiable by reliable sources. It seems that Wikipedia is already too relaxed on this guideline.

Do you have an example of a good article being removed for that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
It's worth letting the addon author know if you haven't already.
I know. I'm asking more to get some opinions on the choice people made. So only people using non-qwerty should offer answers depending on their use.
Not true. I'm a run of the mill developer. I had another offer, I called google, told them I had another offer. They skipped all the rounds but the final.
'started Jan 2016 jobless, I still am. hence the long reading list!' A year of pure reading, one of the great, rare, unheralded joys of life... Enjoy it while you can!
to get this app to work, run:
$ sudo setenforce 0
problems solved!
The JVM is great, Java, not so much. At least we have Clojure, Scala, Groovy and Kotlin.
> By the time they are 40 or 50 they might be a vegetable or have committed suicide, but honestly how is that different than any other job?

The premise of your question is deeply flawed. It is radically different.

How many "young men" end up with broken bodies well before they make it to the big show? We just had a very young man at Univ. of Arizona (Kerr's alma mater) retire from basketball at 19 years old due to a 3rd tear of the ACL.

How many TBI's does it take before we end something that is clearly bad for society? You can't legally double leg tackle a guy standing on the corner, nor can one legally ingest many substances. Yet, society allows this "trade off" because it is sport. The logic falls flat on its face.
A Short History of Web Design
From what I've seen so far the only material outcome of this alleged hacking that can be argued to have been influential during the election (by exposing DNC corruption nonetheless) is Podesta's leaked emails which that particular hack has so far been tied to a phishing email which tricked Podesta into revealing his gmail password.
Ok, I was definitely wrong about how many it would take, but you can't argue the risk, however managed by safety standards, is orders of magnitude higher than any risk from solar.
http://majutsushi.github.io/tagbar/ ?
Completed books I really really liked - Best first:

- Jeff Hawkings "On Intelligence" (My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1561177903 )

- Cal Newport "So Good They Can't Ignore You"

- Cal Newport "Deep work" (My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1777252642 )
Not a math nerd. Reading it now. Totally enjoyable. Could not recommend it more.
This happens anyways. I joined the US Army at age 17. I think your second point is reactionary to the extreme. It would be more valid if young people participated (actually by voting and/or petitioning the government) instead of just bitching about it on social media. That said young people can revolt just the same regardless of voting age.
Apple is asked to unlock iPhone 4s of man who killed Russian ambassador
BigData and ML Example and Library Weekly Roundup – Dec. 22, 2016
> the UK and Germany and France all have laws that make it okay to avoid paying taxes by claiming (truthfully) that you're taxed in Ireland

Yes. The problem is that Apple isn't paying taxes in Ireland on the money it tells the UK and Germany and France is being taxed in Ireland.

There's no good way to gloss over this. It's either criminal or it's unethical.
"No modern plant"
Just past month and that too after Neovim lit a fire under Vim. The difference would be much bigger if you check for a period of last 2 years or so.

Neovim: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pulse/monthly

Vim: https://github.com/vim/vim/pulse/monthly

I don't know why people feel emotional about Vim. Neovim is just Vim with a breath of fresh air.
It's surprising how much Gatsby has in common with Dandy characters like Dorian Gray. Never noticed until Mencken's review.
Correct, but in this case they haven't even figured out that they are being oppressed yet. Or that terrorism isn't then reason such policy was implemented,for that matter.
Do you test your controllers? I'm trying to find some good documentation on how to do that but get warnings to use `build_conn` instead of `conn` when using the example here: https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence/wiki/Testing-with-Co...
Here is an example of what I mean, amalgamated and possibly exaggerated from several things that have actually happened.

Plans to build a downtown multistory parking garage quashed by city council due to bond issue requirement. Instead, parking meters installed in business district to help manage parking shortage. Parking meter enforcement rights sold to private business for the equivalent of 2 years of parking meter revenue. Private business raises parking prices 300%, cancel free weekend parking, and ticket all violators within 5 minutes. Roads still full of potholes. Residents angrily oil their pitchforks and sharpen their torches, then storm city hall. Residents find that they cannot now build the original parking garage, because the parking meter contract forbids the city from acting as competition in the parking business. The ousted councilmen begin collecting $100k/year pensions. Municipality declares bankruptcy. Judge says that they still have to pay the pensions. Whaddya call your town? The Aristocrats!
You don't need a special device, just don't ever feed your cat when it's bugging you. You taught him that bugging you gets him food. It's probably too late now for you though lol.
I have no idea what that means. Statistically young people don't vote. I think its close to around 6% of 18-24 year olds vote in presidential elections with a statistically insignificant amount voting in other elections.
I applaud to the sane approach. Kudos for not only noticing the obvious but actually doing something about it.

Sometimes I wonder how many applications are built essentially around a distributed, replicated database, and how useful periodic sync without a constant connection turns out to be. Email, IM, Dropbox, git are all great examples of that. Why can't more tools be built with the assumption of intermittent connectivity from get go?
Cures for diseases I expect AI to do much better than us very soon.

Entertainment will take longer, but I see no reason why it wouldn't be possible to algorithmically create. The lesser ones like Big Bang Theory is basically just a nerd reskin of every other sitcom Chuck Lorre has done. That could probably be churned out by a computer by the end of 2020. The more complicated entertainment will take longer to crack though.

Friendship is tough to define. So I'll give you that.
Make up your own mind about which books you want to read. Don't go looking for reviews before you pick one up. Give it a chance, and if you realize it's not for you, then move on. You've definitely missed out on reading a good book or two by being so worried that you might have to read a bad book too.
> You read strictly left to right

That wouldn't play well with pointers to arrays and pointers to functions:

int (*pa)[X]; // int(*)[X] pa;
int (*fp)(void); // int(*)(void) fp;

Here is how I designed the type declaration syntax in my own language, Quaint (https://github.com/bbu/quaint-lang):

pa: ptr(int[3]); // int (*pa)[3]
fp: fptr(): int; // int (*fp)(void)
arr: int[5]; // int arr[5]
p: ptr(int); // int *p
pp: ptr(ptr(int)); // int **pp
arrp: ptr[5](int); // int *p[5]

You basically have the identifier first, and then a recursive expression which uses mostly function-call-like expressions in order to nest recursive types.
Sedgewick also has a nice coursera lecture on 2-3 trees leading to LLRB trees. Covered in these slides:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/LLRB/RedBlack.pdf

A simpler implementation of red-black trees. Came across it and enjoyed it.
If you've not read his piece on Chiropractic, it is worth it. https://www.chirobase.org/12Hx/mencken.html
And I'd prefer my eventual children grow up on a planet capable of supporting complex life indefinitely.
We allow a lot of things that are bad for society and even impact larger groups of people just as negatively. Cigarettes? We let people work jobs that break their bodies over decades. Manual labor?

It's how the world works. These guys are at least getting rewarded for doing it....
> I think it's more likely the reaction to someone who uses magic languages that perform complicated actions over a simple assignment. If you think of C as a high-level assembly language whose assignment instruction is converted into a single machine instruction, this type of behavior is not so surprising.

C assignment isn't that simple. Consider this program:

#include <stdio.h>

struct point { int x; int y; };

int main(void) {
struct point p1 = { 0, 0 };
struct point p2 = p1;
++p2.x;
printf("(%d, %d), (%d, %d)\n", p1.x, p1.y, p2.x, p2.y);
}

It prints "(0, 0), (1, 0)", as most people would expect. C isn't as transparent a layer over assembler as some people like to imagine; it just doesn't have first class arrays.
It's part of the "fun" of being a fan and the "hate" is in perspective, for most folks.

I'm a Yankee fan; I hate Boston Red Sox...in most cases, I dislike people from Boston for no good reason. However, when the Boston experienced a tragedy during their marathon, I couldn't care less about baseball and only wanted to support friend and co-workers who were from Boston. During the next Red Sox game, I cheered for them because inside I made the decision to distinguish what I feel as a fan vs. the person that I am and the humanity inside of me.

Do I wish Red Sox luck? No...I still dislike their team, fans, etc. but with a very conscious effort to separate fandom vs. humanity.

On a side note: I travel to Chicago a lot, for work. When I wear my Yankee hat, I catch a lot of flank and in most cases, I partake in some general banter.

If the situation seems a bit too intense, I'll leave them alone since it's not worth the argument + getting in a scuffle while on a work trip is frowned upon.

There are differences, we (fans) understand limits and are okay with the dichotomy of using the word "hate" with no real intention of harm.

Clearly, there are outliners in every case.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s advice to young journalists: get off Twitter
The AI Takeover Is Coming. Let’s Embrace It
> now it's kinda too late

I know we've passed the 400ppm threshold, it's too late to prevent that, but its not "too late" to switch the planet to renewable energy. It can never be too late for that. We can't stop the catastrophic effects of climate change that we'll likely see in our lifetimes, but we can hopefully stop it from being even worse
They are worlds apart from each other to compare. But if you can use Elixir for your project, you should, because you are going to be way more productive.
Considering they have their fingers in more than just crude, it would behoove them to keep track of which sources of energy are in what amount of demand. Likewise, they have no reason to fudge the numbers on how much energy is being consumed year on year.

You should really step out of your "all corporations are inherently evil" box. It's juvenile.
> Mass automation is undermining our democracy in a very specific way: it's acting as the ultimate "resource curse."

This. This exact thought occurred to me about a week ago -- to my shame, a full year after I read The Dictator's Handbook.

The natural concentration of robot ownership in the hands of a few creates the same autocracy dynamic as described in the book for oil and other natural resources. Also, robotic factories can be seized and controlled by an autocracy, just like oil wells. What's really scary about this is that threatens stable democracies, like the USA.
I often see that point of view when I discuss with friends in Asia (where living with the parents is much more prevalent). Let me offer an anecdotical counter point. I have a grandmother, she's getting old (85 years old) and things are much harder than they used to be, she no longer can easily go shopping by herself or clean the house.

We've asked her multiple times if she wanted to live with us or our aunt, every time she's refused. She wants to stay independent and instead hired a helper who comes everyday for a few hours and helps her with the basic tasks.

We often come to visit her but she doesn't want us to stay too long or too often for the same reason. She values her independence. So, yes I see the point about living with aging parents but it's also good not to deny the independence of those same aging parents.

The Asian model of staying at home with the parents does have a lot of tradeoffs too. Usually the wife needs to move in with her husband's parents and this is not easy at all for the wife. I've seen a few divorces that were due to conflicts with the in laws (which are much worse when you actually have to live with them). I also have a friend whose parents had a big house and lived together with all their sons and the parents decided to sell that house, buy separate houses for each of their sons and live alone because it was just too much headache for them.
I was thinking the same thing. The trackpoint is the only kind of pointer I enjoy using. Although at one point I had a keyboard with a built-in trackball, that wasn't too bad either.
>There's much better ways of making money than joining a startup...these people are probably stupid or naive.

I see this to an extent, but it's not stupid to refuse to work for a low salary. There seems to be an idea floating around that magic startup pixie dust somehow makes it possible to hire good people for little money. I'm not so sure.
> As the quote goes, "The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned."

But many babies have trouble latching and the mother and baby need some assistance with the first few feeds - i.e. even nipples aren't totally intuitive.
Monkey Business (2005)
DNC Hack != DNC leak. They have not proved anything useful.

What about this:
"The source said the server may have been hacked by up to five foreign intelligence agencies. While other sources believe this is probable, evidence has not emerged to confirm this."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/03/sources-99-percen...
It sounds like then, for server uses it is a drop replacement? I've run one of our spring-boot apps on the openjdk and it has worked fine. My fear is that there are some nuances that only become apparent at load or in certain edge cases. It seems like that's not the case, but I'll keep investigating.
Using GPG with Smart Cards
I've noticed that a lot of the feedback on AliExpress comes from Russia, Eastern European countries, and the assorted former Soviet Union satellite states. Do you know why it is so popular there? Is it a lack of local web shops?

From what I can tell AliExpress is mostly popular as a cheap source of (low voltage) electrical components here in The Netherlands. People buy clothing from local web shops (or traditional brick and mortar shops) due to speed, quality, and friendly returns policies though.
Items manufactured in China then officially sold in the US will have to pass safety tests. Fakes you buy online will not.

To each their own, but I wouldn't be thinking about buying industrial equipment that doesn't have safety checks attached.
Think of IoT Devices. For example, Sony's NEX Cameras have a build in HotSpot. You connect your phone to it and you have remote control to your camera. This has no HTTPS by now. Apple would break all those remote control apps. And it can't be fixed by releasing a new app version, because you also have to update the cameras.
Hey Fahim, thanks for the kind words!

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I have a discount coupon for the course... It was originally meant for my friends, so I hope Fahim doesn't mind me sharing it, but if you enter "au-christmas" during checkout you can get yourself 60% off the original price! (I hope it's alright to post this, if not let me know mods and I'll delete this part!)

I hope you enjoy the course and Merry Christmas!
There's hate, as in "beat, possibly fatally, a guy who wore the other team's jersey into your team's stadium". And there's hate as in "seldom miss a chance to speak badly of". Fortunately, the overwhelming number of those who would say they hate the Cowboys/Raiders/Patriots/Lakers fall into the second category.
> the rapid technological progress of the 20th century that brought tremendous economic prosperity to humanity has finally come to a grinding halt

Fine, I can buy that. But stagnant productivity alone doesn't generate low employment. How do you explain low employment then?
I think we should return this tit for tat measure and stop using these product aggregation sites altogether. I think at this point any idiot with money can fill a warehouse with product and some sql tables and pass PCI. There's really no technical reason any longer we have to trust single retailers. It's simply momentum and finance and it really doesn't scale beyond obfuscated-pyramid scheme technology here, there's no value or service being provided by these companies, they're simply middle men.
Keeping the whole catalog local is not a viable option. Keeping my latest search results is.

Confirming a transaction while offline is usually not an option. Preparing my shopping cart and getting everything ready to just press the "Confirm purchase" button when the connection is available, again, is. (I actually worked for a company that builds a product where this is the core functionality.)
Vim is stagnant (or was?) which is fine for most users but sucks in the long run.

Would vim 8 have async if neovim did not exist? No, because it was fine without it.
Only as long as you don't circumvent DRM, which in practice voids the whole Privatkopie thing because even CSS is counted as "wirksamer Kopierschutz" (effective copy protection), which is kind of a joke.
I read 47 books so far:

* Oxygen (Lane)

* The Vital Question (Lane)

* Mitochondria and the meaning of life (Lane)

* Life Ascending (Lane)

* Shoe Dog (Knight)

* Heat (Buford)

* Thinking Fast And Slow (Daniel K, 3rd time reading it)

* Fluent Forever (Wyner)

* Dark Money (Mayer)

* Elon Musk (Vance)

* The Black Swan (Taleb, 5th time reading it)
The manufacturer does not permit it.

Here is another example: Crestron, they specifically do not permit sales on Amazon, ebay etc. The only way to acquire their hardware is to go via a Crestron authorized dealer or becoming one yourself. Yet there is crestron hardware on Amazon...

The reason being is that their hardware requires programming and unless you are familiar with how it works you will have a very bad experience.
"No true Scotsman." There are recent powerplants built with similar designs that would have had similar failure modes.

The core issue was the sea wall not the powerplant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onagawa_Nuclear_Power_Plant was closer to the quake but it's giant sea wall made a huge difference.
If you're talking about a model for how an individual can cultivate a certain attitude pursue achievement and productivity, I'd agree it's a pretty decent one.

But as for how the characters behaved and reacted to each other, it seemed too robot-like and lacking empathy that The Fountainhead, for example, literally had me tossing the book across the room multiple times.

"Real people don't act like that!" I remembered saying. And that was in high school, when I was Libertarian. I still finished the book though.

If someone wants to check her out, I think Anthem is the one to read. You get all of her ideas, pretty much, with the bonus of being able to get through it in a few hours. Her other books are way too long-winded. The Fountainhead, despite being infuriating and having some excessive diatribes, I did think was a good book overall.

Personally, of all the high school reading I did, Walden had a much more lasting effect on me than Ayn Rand did.
A Brief Interview with the Shadow Brokers, the Hackers Selling NSA Exploits
Saying the scenarios are identical doesn't make them so. And scale matters.

But... I'd say with truly modern nuclear power, safety is less of an issue. Perception of safety is still an issue. So your home value will go down. No biggie; you may be ok with that.

The issue that really bugs me though is that with nuclear, a large government or corporate entity has decided to roll the dice for you on your behalf. With something like solar, there is more possibility for local and individual control. So instead of bond issues, taxes, state-mandated insurance fees, contracts, and control by faceless entities with names like TEPCO who make decisions like "no let's not do the safety retrofit" you get to decide for yourself.

And, no gas explosions either! So, the best of both worlds.

I prefer local control. Nuclear is too centralized.