skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do see people extending C++ using the preprocessor for more complex metaprogramming. Those should consider D.
I only recently found out that Chernobyl was still a functioning power plant until 2000:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1071344.stm
More intended as a fun intro to the basics than an opinion about container runtimes. I think understanding the common, underlying things provided by the kernel helps me work and evaluate higher level tools. E.g. when considering Docker vs LXC.

Like how a compiler class might have you write your own toy compiler for the sake of demonstration, I don't think anyone is advocating rolling your own runtime.

I'd love to see more articles about things like LXC. We where looking into using it at my last job but didn't have the bandwidth to do the proper exploration.
You are not even disagreeing with me.
I'd say you're overstating the extent to which Aristotle was "hopelessly wrong" in his physical theories. It's more that the things he was right about have become so deeply ingrained in us that we don't even consider them questions of physics — they're just "how things are".

For example, his breaking down of the 4 types of causes: what a thing is made out of (material), what makes it what it is (formal), what process or force made it that way (efficient), and its purpose (final). What we today mean by "cause" usually only includes the efficient cause, so calling the rest "causes" can confuse more than it illuminates (at least at first). But everyone of course understands how to analyze things in terms of their matter, form, and purpose, even though we don't call them "causes" and we don't consider it "physics."
It doesn't, to appeal to prejudice. It just has to give people something to worked up about.
I felt like the author was kind of getting at the difference between know-how and know-what, although perhaps was not aware of those terms/concepts. I would summarize her point as: you can learn the what of science and philosophy via modern books, but to learn the how of science requires practice (ideally in the lab of a Nobel prize winner), and that the point of reading old philosophy is to attempt to learn the how of those philosophers.

Whether that is actually the point of reading old philosophers, or whether that is a good way to learn the how, I do not know the answer to.
Even my math books admit that math is less subtle than human interaction. A single mathematician can nail down a truth for all eternity, but that'll never be the case for ethics.
We could talk about the same problem in terms of why they still teach HC11 assembly in engineering school instead of teaching the industry standard arm-cortex. It is because most people in higher education are out of touch.
Thanks again. I have a tangentially related question if you don't mind. Do you know around when integrated circuits transitioned from using Bipolar Junction Transistor to MOSFET?
Amazon's codebase is (famously) an amalgamation of 20+ years of internet development, including a hefty chunk of Perl. Every time I stumble into that stuff I shake my head as it's sort of comprehensible, but not really... I wish I had just sat down and learned Perl in the 90s, because I'm sure as hell not going to try now.
The Voices in Our Heads
The Soviets also covered up Kyshtym in 1957, a cover up that lasted for three decades. Many officials in the West were complicit in that cover up, adopting extraordinary skepticism of the available evidence to discredit those that either knew or believed a major nuclear incident had occurred.

One of the victims of that cover up in the West was Zhores A. Medvedev. He wrote a book (Nuclear Disaster in the Urals) in response to critics of his claims of a major nuclear disaster. The book is a truly fascinating survey of open sources of academic work published by Soviet researchers that reveals the incident indirectly; the papers (typically studies of the effect of contamination of various organisms; fish, plants, worms, deer, etc.) could only have been written if a large area of land had been heavily contaminated, and this subtlety was lost on the state censors, who were themselves not aware that Kyshtym had happened.

Medvedev was eventually vindicated when the Soviets fessed up in the late '80s.
> ... type declarations and templates would seemingly take up more time than the actual logic of the program....

Just a small point: type declarations are part of the actual logic of the program. In type theory, types are logical propositions and values are proofs of those propositions.
I had no idea that there could have been a second explosion. However, I didn't really get from this article why that is no longer a possibility.
My problem lately hasn't been a lack of need to read philosophy. It's been a lack of time. When I do have idle moments I want to turn my brain off.
According to popular legend John Lennon had a slightly different reaction to learning that his lyrics were being crudely analysed by high school teachers. He wrote "I am the Walrus".
Thinking of it as an app install feels like an anti-pattern. Like when you turn on the Xbox for a quick five minute play, and have to sit through a 15 minute update before you can even do anything. It's a bad user experience.

This approach was a commercial failure on the native platform level (those Office-like app suites with network install of components each time you needed them). It was also a commercial failure on the "build my desktop from scratch when I boot up" environments.

It yet another tick in the "does not belong in a browser" list.

Perhaps Single Page Applications need to run inside a window where there's no browser navigation bar, no url bar. Stripped down so far it's not actually a functioning browser. That feels very much like a native GUI library at that point. Except for that ludicrous notion of the app needing to be installed each time the chrome/window is launched.

I can't see how "install the app each time you land on this website" is competitive against native's "install this app once, and run many times" approach.
New Zealand: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings, well actually Singapore because the corporate tax rate is lower (both countries have a corporate tax rate lower than the US).

But seriously if you're based in the US and all of your employees are based in the US then pay tax in the US. The US government doesn't look kindly on tax shells and unless you've got a lot of money to spend on accountants and lawyers you're going to struggle. The US is the only country in the world that forces their citizens to pay tax on income earned (and taxed) while living overseas, so if you were thinking of relocating to a tax haven you'd end up paying more tax once your income reached a certain threshold.

And it's only going to get tougher with the new administration.

Just pay your taxes, and take joy in the fact that you're contributing to the society that you live in.
The questions are surely absurd, and common core is a disaster. But I do not understand the (self-)basing of the author. Self-hatred and self-doubt are very usual emotions for teenagers, so these poems actually are very much relatable for 7/8 grade students.
This is one of those moments when you wonder why someone bothered to reply without mentioning a single one of these "sophisticated and difficult" parts of philosophy that we could then happily explain in simple terms. You only had to mention a single name or sub-discipline.

For example one of my modules was philosophy of mathematics. It was sophisticated and difficult, but not complicated or meaningful.

It was just a fairly pointless thought experiment. The actual important bits are just called "mathematics".

It's like today's social science. It's an extension of moral and political philosophy. But moral and political philosophy are fairly pointless and get bogged down by fairly meaningless arguments about the meaning of "self" or "altruism", while social science attempts to make people's lives better.

You know, I studied 3 separate modules on formal logic. I did 36 hours worth of lectures, wrote various essays and read multiple expensive philosophy text books.

I learnt more about logic from a single 1 hour high school electronics lesson than I ever did from all that.

pg has a good essay about why he doesn't particularly rate philosophy: http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
Hiring an exp. Eng. to build scalable back end systems using Java or Scala
The post lacks the term "CSPRNG", which I would have thought to be there in a discussion about randomness. Especially in collaboration with the concept of security.

The long story short, a Pseudorandom sequence can be more than enough in a security setting, provided that the stream of bits follow certain rules. For instance, it should be impossible to guess the next bit based on known history of bits. If /dev/urandom is backed by such a generator, which it is in many modern operating systems, then it is arguably safer than what the claim of the post is.
Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide
Hah.

I am an international tax lawyer and I advise startups that do business all over the world.

I do not have a good answer to your question. There is insufficient data upon which to make a suggestion.

However, here are my guidelines:

- if there is a US person involved in this business as an officer or owner, you will experience exquisite agony in opening a bank account abroad.

- until your net profits from non-US sources amount to $2M - $3M per year, the tax benefits are likely to be trivial.

- an hour of founder time spent thinking about tax is an hour wasted. Think about building your product. Think about getting a customer. That's much more valuable.

- as soon as you add a foreign corporation to your business structure you have probably added $10K - $20k to your overhead. Minimum.

There are exceptions to every rule. Your situation may be different. Good luck.
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Is the spelling of the name supposed to be ironic? ;)
Or maybe it's because the specific assembly you learn is far less important than the act of learning any assembly.

Learning your first programming language is a challenge, but once you have done that, subsequent languages are easier because you managed to adopt the programming mindset.
"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh largest army in the world..."

- Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg
CS Responder Trans-Oceanic Cable Layer
>connects to an obsolete time server

Obsolete in what sense?

A hosts file entry might be your friend in this scenario, if you're referring to a no-longer-reachable time server.

Anyway, sorry to hear that code rot screwed you out of a perpetual license.
You could try a second hand nVidia GPU, doesn't need to be the latest model or even the fastest one
On a slightly pedantic note, even if the mixing operation were truly constant time, it would have no impact on P?=NP. There is no reason to believe that all computers that can be physically constructed are deterministic.
windows has a 'metered' mode for network connections. I don't know if this will stop said usage, but you could check
C image libraries likr imagemagick are full of dangerous bugs. Using a performant memory safe language for image parsing and manipulation is a big win for security (and stability).

If this image handling can be extracted into its own library ( maybe it already has), then it can be used by other projects, and maybe even by C and C++ projects.
Any army that ever participated in a war fit this.

I think there some "terror" missing from this definition. Anyway, it is a word that should just not be used today. There is no context where it clarifies anything anymore. The GP is correct in distrusting people that use it, and I add that some loss of trust should be automatic.
The question of that one poem of hers that she would prefer not to be used only is a small side-issue, the main issue she writes about is that many questions are made-up and arbitrary, you cannot answer them from actual knowledge.
If you really want to make Adode dance and fix this issue right away, file a complaint with your state attorneys general office and that of state Adobe is incorporated in (appears to be California). They'll immediately address your issue and potentially feel the legal pressure from the state government(s) to actually fix the larger over arching issue or face being sued by an entity with "unlimited" resources (rather than just a little peon consumer like you or me).
This is a fair argument. Actually, I don't think we're really arguing, in that I agree with you, particularly on the technical parts. My main complaint was that privacy is a quasi-legal and technical matter. Whereas security, at least in the context of the motto, "Security through obscurity is not security", is a near-binary, either-or claim -- which I agree with.

To elaborate, for many people, the concept of privacy is already compromised when they discover sites like pipl.com. Pipl.com already has data-mined information for every American with a SSN. If you have a credit history, like the kind you provide to a landlord when applying to rent -- Pipl has that too, that's why it can list where you have lived in the past, and who you lived with.

But that's a fairly old situation; private investigators have been using LexisNexis/Accurint to do those searchers for more than a decade. And fancy things like satellite photos of where you live? Reason Magazine did that back in 2004: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1870509

(the impressive feat, IMO, was not the photos, but the ability to custom publish 40,000 print covers, using the technology and infrastructure at that time)

But does that mean privacy has been compromised? Sure. Or, maybe. The ambiguity in possible answers is a huge contrast compared to the answers you'd get if you asked "Is Dual_EC_DRBG secure?".

But if you think that privacy is unambiguously compromised, given what I've described...here's what I mean. There's a difference between LexisNexis/Accurint/etc. (never mind ad companies, which is a whole different thing) having your normal next door neighbor's information. It's another thing if a highly-followed Twitter account tweets a link to Pastebin with all of that information.

Perhaps the original commenter didn't mean that, but that's what I think of when I think of the average person's privacy being compromised.
> As far as research goes, contemporary research philosophers in academic depts do not read the history of philosophy. Lay people do.

I'd say that is a very grave mistake, and I admit I'm a lay person. Just a week or so ago there was a philosopher that died and whose views on morals and life and death were shared on HN, and I have to say that they didn't seem more profound than what a high-school pupil would have written, I certainly learned more from skimming through the pre-Socratics than reading that philosopher's views on stuff.

Maybe that is an issue with the US Analytical school of philosophy, which seems to me that it really tries to answer "serious" questions like what's the difference between right and wrong and other nonsense like that, like there is a "guaranteed" answer to these types of questions. It's a stupid positivist view on human understanding that I thought died in the early 1800s.
I do web development, so very little about the speed of my work is constrained by the hardware. If I started doing work that required compilation or emulators, that might change.

Work: 13" MBP (brand new when I started, maxed RAM) + 20" external monitor and external keyboard/mouse.

Home: 13" MBP (a few years old now) with most of my life on it; secondhand 11" MBA for most computing needs outside the house. I've inadvertently taken to using the MBA for personal development work because it has fewer distractions.

I don't use the external monitor all that often at work, and don't really miss it at home (though the limited vertical resolution of the MBA can be limiting, an external monitor isn't really something you bring to Starbucks or a conference). I got used to working without one in a previous job, and use a scaled resolution and virtual desktops instead to keep myself sane.

My intention is to spend as little time and mental energy as possible on managing my computing environment in order to have more left over to use on the actual computing.
There is a copy-paste error ;-)
> Give me a break. I've never heard a more hyperbolic statement even from diehard warmongers.

There are sizable portions of the US and Europe that believe muslims are terrorist sympathizers who want to enact Sharia law. To them terrorists, immigrants and muslims are existential threats: they want to blow them up, take their jobs and run their lives and government.

> There is no conceivable way that terrorists threaten our national existence/security.

I agree.
> Is the opposition to cannabis as a therapy at least part rooted in the fact it is not patentable?

The IP is certainly fuzzy but that's no argument. If it can be commoditized and involves some form of creative/innovative work, there's pretty much always some way to create legal protection for it. Besides, just because there's potential for competition doesn't mean that people won't try to enter the market.

> Large Pharma can't make enough money from something people could grow themselves?

As the article itself explains, growing weed is not simple. A sophisticated operation requires a lot of resources and dedicated man-hours.

The primary reason that no big, entrenched players are moving on it (or that anyone who does it hasn't gotten too big) is that the fact remains that marijuana is illegal. (This is true in a lot of countries, not just the U.S., but the rest of this comment is going to be U.S.-specific because I don't know the situation in other countries nearly as well.)

No matter what the states say, federal law overrides state law, which means that anyone that grows pot has huge legal exposure. There's also a secondary problem: pot growers have a lot of trouble using the kinds of services that are traditionally available to businesses, because B2B's (1) want clients that are not at risk of getting shut down by a DEA investigation and (2) do not want to expose their own businesses to legal risk, which they would be by working with a pot-growing op.

There's a lot of stories about dispensaries in Colorado who are denied, for example, banking services, because of the litigation it would expose banks to.
Is there a single mention of hacking in this report?
>Ancient Greek is stained by history - it was the only science taught in Universities for what? a thousand years. That's the catch - its revered beyond all reason due to history.

That's reversing cause and effect. It's not a mere accident of history that it was "taught in Universities for a thousand years".

>But I cannot imagine I would ever again pick up a book of Ancient Greek Philosophy. There's just nowhere to go from that stuff

Actually it's one of the best investments in one's personal development and understanding of the world they could make.

Physical philosophy aside, philosophy, like arts, doesn't get deprecated over time. Aristotle, Plato, Seneca, Epictetus, Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant, etc are as relevant as they ever were.
What's crazy is CBD is now specially schedule 1, which means it is considered addictive and containing no medical value[1]. So, the THC:CBD ratio appears to be irrelevant from the governments perspective.

[1] www.foxnews.com/health/2016/12/20/now-schedule-1-drug-cbd-hemp-oil.amp.html
Not sure if you are saying that "we" shouldn't be rewriting libraries or "we" shouldn't be upvoting Rust posts. Seems like you are muddling the two.
I made a Mandarin learning iOS app, and after four months I sold it on Flippa for $3000. In this article, I'm describing my experience and share a lot of numbers.
If not for the 86HC11, I might never have used a Vax.
Well, that is true but would anyone really take that chance of trying to prove it wasn't trafficking when their neck is on the line for a joint? I don't think so. At least from what I've experienced in Singapore.
Still waiting for an Android vendor to differentiate by matching Apple in the length of time a given device gets security patches for the software.
Its obvious you and many others here are statists. And its fine if thats how you want to live but I dont. So instead of endless debate on this/UBI/RTBF/etc, we need to work on a (better) framework to decouple land from politics i.e. Secession Protocol.
any idea as the to the purpose?

are the stains preprint(o) identifiers?

or just good humored researchers?

or troll(i) identifiers like bad grammar often is?

or some undiscussed other?

(o) http://www.astrobetter.com/blog/2011/12/12/to-post-or-not-to...

(i) http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
Man, i remember your name, and thought you'd be a little smarter than to attack the parent before even having read the article.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Trump had RT and Fox News. Clinton had MSNBC, CNN, Politico, NY Times, Washington Post, and most other MSM.

The whole report sounds so whiney and political. It reminds me of the evergoing effort by the left to dismiss Fox News (or flip the tables, its the same thing). Its an admission that the news that got out, justly or unjustly, wasn't the news they wanted to get out.

The media still purposely confuses the story. It was never about voter machine/count hacking. It was about narrative and whether or not the leaks changed hearts and minds.
That's fair; it allows for lots of flexibility.
I understand your point but as a New Yorker, an order of magnitude greater would be 20 buildings or a nigh-complete distruction of downtown. Sorry if my comment is emotion driven but the above comment seems very cold.

Edit: just reread your comment and several orders is 200 buildings?
> ... I'm reasoning more about the shape of the data than the actual type implementing it, and that to me is closer to a value than a type.

The shape of the data is its type. You have been reasoning about types all this time. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system
You may as well do that using something that's widely being used right now. Doing that to me seems to have obvious advantages. You seem to defend the usage of out of date stuff, with what argument? The one you give does not require using the old stuff.
Your second paragraph is true, but is a non-sequitur.

How do you know that the choice of first assembly language is less important, particularly if you are forgoing the opportunity to learn one that embodies more of what we have learned about how to design them?
I think the poster may be thinking of the kinds of statements that Kripke argued were necessary truths that could only be known a posteriori.
I find that claim very confusing. If anything my experience with "humanities people" has been that they object greatly to any standardized interpretations of art and have huge issues with the cut-and-dried "analysis" taught by middle- and high-school curricula.

If anything, the stereotype is that engineers are overly prone to answer-seeking while non-engineers are much more comfortable with relativism?
The task is to draw a thinking cat. You can complete this task in a million different ways.

What you (should) get judged on is the technique used. Does it look like a cat, are the shadows properly drawn, are the proportions of the cat in order, does the cat look like it's thinking like a human would, etc.

What is irrelevant is if that cat matches the image the teacher had in mind when she came up with the task.
> scp a device to a remote host

dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 | (ssh root@remote dd of=/dev/hdX bs=512)

where bs=512 is the block size in bytes. Of course, the hdX drive must be different from the remote hosts's main drive, otherwise dd won't complete :-)