skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad sign that you may be deeply within one side or another which can blind you to the bigger picture.

From cursory observation of various political engagements around the world, it's all very similarly tribalistic - whether it be over the top rhetoric that appeal to emotion - or in some cases violent. Heck look at the rise of the far right support in various EU states. Politics is very often personal, so people will take it personally.

The only real difference is America takes up all the media oxygen given it's position in the world stage.
Human working memory is like CPU L1 cache
I didn't think to type moz:// but I'm starting to read "moz" instead of "mozilla" now.
Freedom in today's society is pretty laughable. You don't have time to know, learn or experience a lot; how can you choose ?
s/sub reddit/place/

and you've got basically all of human civilization there.
You might not have to, but you definitely should.
Agree, do strength work and basic cardio. If you run, also do some sprinting. You never have to run long distances in real life and strength work is very useful for life in general.
C and C++ are also popular by adding non-standard features. Such as, oh, your entire Win32 API, POSIX, and so on: every system's low-level API's, middleware and other stuff.
A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
If you're considering Google an adversary, perhaps you shouldn't use stock Android, or any of their software.

If you're considering Google an adversary, and use a version of Android without Google support, you can't use Signal anyway.
> I'm not quite willing to dismiss Rust merely for being hard to learn, but after poking around in both Go and Rust for a few weeks, I feel like I could build a project in Go (slowly, and with a lot of googling), but I don't feel like I could build anything in Rust without a lot more learning.

I can totally relate to this: I spent almost a year reading blog posts about Rust or comments on /r/rust, between the first time I read the Rust book and the time I fell confident enough to write m'y first Rust software (a cli tool).

In the meantime I learned Go in three days and I was able to work with it.

Why did I continued to learn Rust your may ask ?

Comming from web languages, learning Rust was a pilgrimage. I learned so much about low level computer sciences: what is memory locality, what's a data race, how does a memory allocator work, what is inlining, etc. It was definetly worth the time I spend on it.

And now that I'm proefficient with both Rust and Go, I can tell I prefer Rust by a large margin. Rust is a really well designed language, with a really nice community and a decision process designed to improve the language with feature real people need. Whereas Go is a monolyth controlled by its creators built around the dogma of symplicity at all cost, and they usually reject users proposal for improvements.

Besides the politics, Rust is way more expressive and going back to Go is always boring because of the boilerplate. It's also way easier to shoot yourself in the foot in Go than in Rust, by ignoring error, misusing a shared variable (forgetting to use a lock, or using it improperly) or dereferencing a null pointer.

In short IMHO Rust is more difficult to learn than Go, but you learn more and when mastered, the language is more helpful.

To all of you strugling learning Rust: carry on, it's worth it ! And also, don't wait and go on #rust-beginners [1] on IRC[2], it's really helpful.

[1] from a web browser: https://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org%3A%...

[2] irc.mozilla.org
Yep, this. As a Flemish Belgian (Dutch is my first language) it's a bit annoying that Netflix in general doesn't publish anything in Belgium if there are not at least Dutch or French subtitles available. It's a good thing the original audio tracks are almost always available, but just how limited the selection is just because of their subtitle requirement is sad.

The younger generation here really doesn't mind watching originally English content in English, with English subtitles (or just no subtitles at all). Even content that isn't originally English, I'd be fine having audio in the original language and English subtitles. But Netflix won't do that.

If they loosened their language restrictions a bit I am sure I would get sooooo much more content...
Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE
It seems that if you really want proper secure channel you need to write one yourself. Anything out there is subject to being compromised.

Is there open source alternative for Signal?
> they are concerned Palantir and its co-founder and Trump advisor Peter Thiel stand to profit off the makings of a citizen database that could be used against those identifying as followers of Islam in the United States

So, is this just an attempt to smear Thiel by implying his company is going to "build Trump’s Muslim registry", and that Trump is indeed going to build one? Smear by association?

> "Being forced to collaborate with the U.S. government on large-scale human rights abuses is the first time I’ve ever seen that made high-end tech workers unionize"

What collaboration? I thought this was speculative "concern"? and who forces tech workers to do anything anyway?

Also, let's not talk about "tech workers unioniz[ing]" on the basis of just 50 people...

> one of the protestors and the founder of Frame Shift, a consulting firm training startups on inclusion and diversity

..leftist tech-workers, with possible interests of their own

> Trump pledged he would ban Muslim immigrants and establish a registry while in office

Did he? Maybe TC should clarify these claims, and what they mean. He pledged nothing wrt a registry though.

> such a database smacked of the Holocaust

which is why the idea was invented, and repeatedly reported, by the media.

> [Palantir] had not been quite as vocal.

Guilt through silence?

> Palantir’s Alex Karp eventually did come out against the building of a Muslim registry last week

Actually, no. Something actually substantial, and it doesn't support the premise of the protests, and the article. Nice weaseling: "eventually", as if there is some requirement to satisfy the press within some time limit.

> There’s a difference between telling the press that and pledging to never do it.

Beg next time, Alex! Get down on you knees! The left must be satisfied!!

> what measures it would take to ensure it would not be making a Muslim registry

Are you fucking serious!?!...
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Back at university I went to dinner with one of those people who liked to talk loudly over other people, and another person who was normally soft-spoken but had been an officer in the Navy and therefore professionally trained in loudness.

The ensuing loudness war almost got us thrown out of the restaurant.
Accordingly Shuttle pilots and commanders are honorary members of the WWII Glider Pilots' Association. Mach 14 or 80 knots, it's the same principle!
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=poland+per+capita+gdp+ppp...

Look at that. Russia and Poland are almost exactly the same. Czech Republic looks somewhat better, Romania somewhat worse but all are similar shape.

I guess Putin is a pretty amazing president! Or maybe there is something else going on...
Ask HN: The WSJ paywall workaround no longer works. Why are their links allowed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

The official guidelines only permit paywalls with a viable workaround and the WSJ workarounds have all stopped working for many people, myself included. I'm getting pretty tired of clicking links and getting a headline + 12 words.

Before someone asks, I don't think the WSJ has earned a subscription from me. But that's beside the point - isn't it now in violation of HN's rules?
Yeah. They should probably just change the heading to something like 'See your favourite apps remade with Cloudboost'
This is quite surprising to me. I studied in the UK, and for three years my room was literally in a disused brothel. I kid you not, it was a rumour when I went there, and it turned up on Wikipedia one day. Not an unhealthy room, no mould or leaks, but nothing like a hotel room. The college actually owned a hotel, so I guess they could have decked it out that way, but they were sensible not to spend money where it wasn't needed.

My brother's just finished at Columbia, and he was living in a slum apartment in NYC. Not nice at all.

Has someone got pics of these amazing college facilities?
Environment. Let, your, brain decide what's important. Better said let, you, decide what's important. If your taking advice from someone else, it's what's important to them, not you. Don't twist what I'm saying though, assholes.
>tl;dr: There is a “backdoor” in Signal nobody cares about, only Google can use it.

Speak for yourself. This backdoor is the reason why I don't use Signal.
> PSA: The majority language in Belgium is not French.

In my experience it doesn't work either way, french-speaking walloons get dutch, vlaming get french, and I assume german-speaking walloons get danish or icelandic just to fuck with them, possibly Schwiizertüütsch to taunt them.
IIRC, studies show that the quality of the facilities has a massively outsized impact on school choice for students. Students should be choosing based on quality of education and cost, but both of these metrics are difficult to fully understand and internalize for the average 18 year old. But nice facilities are easy to see and judge.
> the Python Software Foundation won't let them use the name Python

That's how trademarks are supposed to work; they must go after anyone using without permission or they lose it.
Bigtits
Choice for Health Secretary Is Vague on Replacing Affordable Care Act
How does that make freedom laughable?

You can't do everything (you never could), but you can choose what to do.
What Is Digital Strategy Execution? And What It Means to IS Executives
Agreed 1.4 LTS to 1.8 LTS was tricky, but future LTS to LTS upgrades like 1.8 to 1.11 should be easier. From 1.8 onwards, if your code runs without depreciation warnings in one LTS, then it should work on the next.
An alternative to Cython is Numba [1], which speeds up some cycles in pure Python by just adding a single decorator.

[1] http://numba.pydata.org/
BAXI / VULCANO / JUNKERS / FERROLI / CHAFFOTEAUX / ROCA / SAUNIER DUVAL / BAXI R
I wouldn't be so sure that this place is unknown to trolls. Pretty sure I've seen some trolling.
Software engineering is an outlier, and it sounds like your experience is too. In all my jobs and interviews (semiconductors, government, management consulting), employers cared about my degree. Even in my interviews with software companies, I doubt I would have gotten in without being a Stanford student, since I had little evidence of skill otherwise.

Edit: My point is not is to argue that degrees are worthwhile or today's system is best. I'm just trying to convey 'what the fuss is about.' Most people seek degrees to get past gatekeepers at employers. And most employers use these gatekeepers to save time and effort.
Well... there is stuck....

https://stuck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You just said you know families who owned land who couldn't make a living growing and selling it anymore.

So it's not lack of land that stopped them.
Show HN: Ambar – Comprehensive and Fast Full Text Search Through Your Documents
Link to the post about the graphics library please?
Because search engines are using Firefox, right? This is an easter egg within the Firefox web browser. No search engine is going to notice a thing.
There's soft wipes (not the paper type). Nothing can beat that.
So once you switch the browser , mozilla website stops working...
I reckon you mean WeChat as well in your last sentence, not Whatsapp? Otherwise, please explain.
The first ever computer program I wrote for $$$ was a retail point of sale system for a local pharmacy. I used Turbo Pascal for it, complete with my own proprietary database files etc.!

Later on, I wrote a front end menu system (which simply gave a customisable easy to select option of applications to run in DOS) that ended up being used on thousands of PC's throughout businesses and almost every government department in my town.

Good Days. I downloaded the original Turbo Pascal v 1.x a couple of years back, and intended to try re-writing that point of sale system again to see how much I still remembered > 30 years later. Never got around to it, but I will make a concerted effort this year to try it out. I may just try it on this web emulator, seeing as I am now on a Mac!

Thank you Anders Heljsberg! And to these guys for building a web emulator of the original compiler.
TLDR seriously impressive stats given in an engaging, amusing, rapid fire talk by Bret Copeland, pilot
What's the interview process like?

What technologies are common?
I agree that a sophisticated argument would take longer.

Regarding (3): The money does not disappear, but what is done with it? Already excess money in the hands of the 1% is just going into real estate, the stock market and stupid VC companies. All this is not particularly good for the real economy.
How to get around Google's new “mobile interstitials” penalization
Because paying customers demand better services. In the UK, I went to university in the first year that students were charged direct tuition fees.

My dorm was modelled on a Swedish prison, had a single plug socket per room, and two toilets between 20 of us. The kitchen was barely big enough for 6 people, and couldn't support more than 4 people cooking at once.

That wretched hall was demolished and replaced by something a lot nicer - because when students are paying thousands of pounds per year, they expect something a little more salubrious for their cash.

The same was true of teaching. I remember a bunch of us complaining about the poor quality of lectures from one particular professor. The head of our department was genuinely shocked when I said "I don't think I'm receiving value for money". Students were now expecting a guarantee of quality for the debt they accumulated.

Better facilities cost money - but capitalism demands that students (as rational consumers) should seek value for money. If you have a choice between UCLA and NYU - it makes sense for your to spend your money on something that is attractive to you.

A truly rational student might forgo comfort in exchange for excellent teaching. But I suspect the majority will spend their money on something which looks nice, rather than is actually effective.
In Germany the Netflix app shows different available audio tracks and subtitles depending on the user profile language, at least for the "Netflix Originals". Have you tried setting the language of the kids profile to Danish (via the "Manage profiles" screen in the Netflix web app)?
CloudBoost looks amazing. I can tell they've put a ton of effort into the app, docs, and website.

This brings me to their problem... Pricing! Their pricing (https://www.cloudboost.io/pricing) makes little to zero sense. First it is priced too low, a sign of future problems ahead. Second, I think they've got the entire model wrong. They should charge for bundles of API calls and GB of storage. Pay for what you use like cloud providers.

An example of pricing I would implement might look like $10 per GB of storage and $0.15 every 1k of API calls.

Thus a smallish example application that uses 2 GB of storage and makes 500,000 API calls a month would pay $95 / month.
And I would like an option for no subtitles on english-speaking movies/shows. As I am making demands, I would love english subtitles on english-speaking movies/shows too. It is a great to practice english as a second language
"By almost every and any measure, we are all better off than 30, 40 or 50 years ago - Chinese, Americans, Indians, Europeans, almost everyone. There IS a subset within those places that has benefited less, or even gone backwards, no doubt."

I think you could doubt this for European and Americans. Yes, you have scientific progress. You can afford a hand-held super computer now. You can afford a car with 150 HP. You may get treatment for a disease that would have killed you 30 years ago. But:

- 50% youth unemployment rate in Spain?
- Out of control house prices due to asset price inflation?
- Central Banks Zero interest rates with unknown consequences.
- And ever rising retirement age due to basically bankrupt retirement funds (yes, we live longer too)
- Out of control health care costs in the US
- Totally out of control big brother regulations

Once you were able to buy a house, a car, health insurance and raise kids with a single income.
Founder here. Thank you for your feedback. I'll get this fixed ASAP. :)
Same here, although perhaps that's because for some unknown reason internally I've always said dot-dot-slash-slash for :// so it's odd trying to read it as 'ill'. I don't expect the protocol logo will appear in print form in text very often though so it's not an issue.
Perhaps, or perhaps I just saw a bad selection and missed the good bits. But overall, my impression was also that the ads of old seemed to explain, or showcase the product in question a little. Current ads seem to sometimes even fail to explain exactly what it is they are selling. The product or message tends to get lost in the panicky sense of urgency and flashy 'in your face' noise and light.
Algolia is technically an ElasticSearch wrapper. We are too. :)
The description is misleading. Once you check the docs it becomes clear that it's not a drop-in algolia replacement.(i.e API comp)
Don't choose Flowdock. It was an amazing tool, but since they were acquired, development has completely halted and it's unfortunately stagnating.

I still think it beats Slack in many ways, but it doesn't appear to have much of a future.
2nd google result for moz://a is that bug report. At least in "my google". ;)
You'd be surprised at how many times I have had to explain that it was for good luck and not some kind of evil logo
> Many of the science libs want to use seem to be in 2.7 with no signs of moving

The most important scientific libraries have pledged to drop support before 2020, and are all python3-ready

http://www.python3statement.org/
"So it's not lack of land that stopped them." You're missing a sense of timescale here. For a long time the number of familly farms has been decreasing all across the country. Recently, it has become possible to make a living selling fresh food if you live within driving distance of a city where you can sell the food for a premium. The high cost of a fresh head of letuce in LA in 2016-17 doesn't help a small time farmer in rural Colorado in the 90s.
Very good points.

5. Read "Chess Middlegame Planning" by Peter Romanovsky.
There are a LOTS of books on openings and end-game, but very few on middlegame. Among them, this is probably the best one. Truly recommended.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Middlegame-Planning-Peter-Roman...
Optionals should be used sparingly in de-novo Swift code, as the corresponding features (Option/Maybe types) are in other languages (Haskell, Elm, OCaml, Rust, …): only make something an Optional if, well, it's actually optional.

Optionals have lots of syntactic sugar because Swift has to deal with reams of native and objective-c code which is ubiquitously nullable, dealing with that without the syntactic sugar would be nothing short of horrendous. This is also an issue with ported/converted API (which is most of them at this point) as the underlying system tends to leverage nullability extensively (it's a very common Obj-C pattern as nil is a message sink), which is usually left shining through by simple conversion rather than wrap every historical API in a converted Swift version.
Which parts? Anywhere with Buddhist or Hindu populations will use it like the Japanese.
I have used a standing desk for several years now. Probably standing/sitting 60/40. For a few years it was 80/20. Any issues I had where primarily related to my feet. Some good supporting sandals fixed that. Other than that I practice martial arts 2x1.5 hour a week quite intensively. Walk to work and back 40 min/day. I now control my weight easily and am much healthier and alert. Sleep one hour less per day, and still feel great.
The US has maybe the potential for surveillance, although it is not clear if and how they act. China actively acts on gathered information to arrest dissidents for thought crimes and protesting its corrupt government. They may soon assign a "citizenship" score, which has little to do with participating in government.

Lets not get the two confused.
Show HN: Lanes Goals – building a todo app for your ambitions
Why do I have to use OO? Why can't I just call the functions I need?
There is already a working add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/moz-a-protoco... (Firefox only)
Because it's a very narrow vision of freedom fed to you from an biased third party.
> (or not, doesn't matter)

heh. indeed.

I agree with the "didn't I say that?"s, you just appeared to contradict it on later in the respective sentences.

Of course appreciation (assuming it happens) is not production. The good that a home produces is housing. That's why it's an allocation of capital to a means of production. That's why, economically, it's an investment. There's no way around that. The claim that something is economically an investment is completely disconnected from resale value; it's connected to productive capacity.

And you appear to have backed off on the claim that it's not a financial investment, you just think it's a poor one. I disagree, but I think your position on this is, while mistaken, not madness.

I think that, given demographic trends, both in terms of population growth, and in terms of ongoing trends in urbanization, we should expect that the long-term trend of real estate appreciating at 1-2% more than inflation should continue. That alone should defuse your claim that it's an obviously-bad investment (i.e. it's a good hedge against inflation, better than traditional anti-inflation hedges like gold). Whether it's a good investment depends on other factors, like how far you leverage, how easily you can weather things like 2008, how diversified you want your portfolio, how much tax advantage you get from owning your primary residence, how much it would cost in your market to rent an equivalent home, whether it's even possible to rent the home you want, etc etc etc. But it should be credibly on the table for every investor. And you cite 2008... but of the homeowners that I personally know, who were long real estate in 2008, with whom I've discussed the issue (perhaps a dozen), literally zero of them are sad that they were long in 2008 (except of course that if they'd had a crystal ball, some of them would have done differently, right after buying lottery tickets). So what is it you want me to see about the 2008 housing crisis?
>Oh my god stop. You're all over this thread. What bit you?

As someone who has 6 comments in this thread yourself, I don't think you are in position to complaint.

I also find "what bit you" and "please stop" rude. You don't get to dictate what others opinion should be.

>This is the price you pay for staying on an old version. You do not get to stick to an old version AND demand that others do too.

7+ years on and the "old" version has more users than the new one. That's a fact supported by numbers. So maybe you want to recheck with reality whether the transition was a success instead of arguing with me?

Not all transitions go well, the Perl 6 transition killed Perl, the PHP 4 to 5 transition (another major one) went quite smoothly.
And in what circumstances would one use it? What does it do? Who does it call?

So many questions...
We currently use MongoDB Search for search, but are planning to integrate ES in about a month from now to make your search much better and faster. Let me know if this helps.
Monitoring the Twitter Feed Using ELK Stack
I suppose this is one realm of technological attainment in which we're just a bit, uh, behind.
Just wiggle your behind around until you get the right spot
Well, I'm for user driven EOL, as opposed to top-down, we-know-better EOLining.

And the latter doesn't work so well thus far for Python 3.