skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
{
let mut x = 1;
let y = &x;
do_stuff_with(y);
x += 1 // not allowed right now because y is still active
// no use of y here. possible uses of x
}

The lexical scope of y is the entire block (well, starting at the declaration of y). The actual scope of liveness ends after do_stuff_with -- y is no longer used at this point and x could be mutated. Right now you have to introduce an explicit scope block to make this work, but it's not a fundamental restriction in the language design.
But if you're using encryption anyways, you're probably using some sort of "sign this challenge" message to verify the user instead, which would verify that that IP received the challenge anyways.
"Health insurance is not taxable income, even if your employer pays for it"

Source: http://finance.zacks.com/health-insurance-benefits-considere...
Did these letters have an ordering in the otherwise A-Z alphabet sequence of today?
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"The research found that those who used more profanity were also more likely to use language patterns that have been shown in previous research to be related to honesty, such as using pronouns like “I” and “me”."

I wish they gave a source for the relationship between using these pronouns and telling the truth.

Also, just looking at facebook users introduces a bloody selection bias.
WordPress to finally secure it's auto-updater with cryptographic signatures
Just two days ago I watched "The Last Man on the Moon" with my son (on Netflix). Good documentary, but sad to see him pass. Those Apollo astronauts were truly remarkable people.
My office has white noise generators to drown out the open office layout conversations. So I wear noise cancelling headphones, to cancel the white noise generators. It's insane, but keeps my sanity. Otherwise, it's like you're on an airplane all day.
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Just curious, how high do you keep the active noise canceling set to when working? I've found < 40% actually makes it harder to focus and the highest range 75–100% is where I usually keep them when I need to concentrate.
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> "There is no reason a person should know which class they are in, nor should a class know which people are enrolled in it. "

Also replacing a O(1) chasing a pointer into a O(n) array search
Nintendo disappoints with $299 price for new Switch console
We use Trinet (a PEO) and you can have different "classes" of plans that have different trigger points. For example, when you qualify (how many days later), how much % is contribution by the company vs the person and their dependents, etc.
Just like about a quarter of the motor-fuels tax that is supposed to go into the highway trust fund.
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The CFAA does this very thing[1]. Violate a terms of service? You're now potentially a felon! But everyone violates TOS sometimes, especially with ridiculous rules like 'no rudeness', so prosecutors pick & choose their targets. (Though there has been some precedence set not to consider TOS violations alone to be breaking the CFAA)[2]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/aaron...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/07/court-violating-terms-...
Works kind of like PerfectResize for PS then, except this downscales or I might be completely wrong..
An Open Source tool for RF reverse engineering
Find a broker that will help with your problem. We provide 100% coverage and as long as the employee has a waiver, we don't pay for them. A waiver could be spouse, their own insurance or parents insurance.
The problem with tree-shaking is that it's recursive -- every module has to do it properly, and at the moment, I'd wager most frontend modules in NPM don't.

If I responsibly say `import { map } from 'lodash'`;, but (say) my frontend rendering library says `import _ from 'lodash'; _.map(things, func);`, then unfortunately, transitively, I'll still get all of lodash.
Like so: https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-sideload-apps-on-iphone-an...
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The borrow checker drawbacks was actually one of my biggest pet peeves with Rust. If you guys can solve that problem in a meaningful way it'll go a long way towards making me a lot more positive about using Rust.

As it was, I felt as though I were manipulating a child in order to get it to do what I wanted.
The technical merits and drawbacks of XMPP aside, deployment only works if there's an appetite from deployers. For high-visibility consumer chat that average people use, this appetite has vanished.

Around the mid-2000s, IM networks started getting tired of constantly changing their protocols to thwart third-party reverse engineering efforts like Microsoft logging into AIM, libpurple (Pidgin), or Trillian. But then Google Talk appeared [1] in 2006 inside the coveted invite-only Gmail, supporting XMPP, and significantly raised the bar.

So interoperability became a tool to maintain market share. The underdogs WLM and Yahoo started seamless interop [1] in July 2006, while Google Talk and AIM started a limited interop [1] in 2007. AIM briefly dabbled with XMPP it in 2008 [2] (great source -- see comments for AIM's response).

In the meantime, Facebook opened up for everyone, introduced Chat and rapidly lured away the myspace/AIM generation, becoming a major player in chat. Facebook introduced XMPP in February 2010 [3] but discontinued it [4] in 2015 after having deprecated it the year prior. This neatly coincided with their announcement to monetize the Messenger ecosystem, in ways that require a captive client [5].

Other vendors are similarly pursuing monetization within the client -- Snapchat and Kik as a content portal [6][7][8][9], Google as a context-aware assistant, Microsoft is lost at sea, Whatsapp as a Facebook data mining scheme, the Asian apps as a combination of all other techniques and microtranactions -- when anyone can bring a third-party client, their monetization strategy suffers. This makes XMPP's deployment future exceedingly bleak, perhaps restricted solely to corporate deployments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11114518
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20080120143857/http://florianjen...
[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20100318030410/http://developers....
[4] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat
[5] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/03/25/introdu...
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11935956#11941090
[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12000854#12002773
[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206846#12207459
[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12272973#12273447
> I basically got 0 value out it, considering I'm young and healthy I would not have to pay much for insurance, you're mostly footing the bill for the pensioners.

And when you are a pensioner, who will foot your bill?
One thing that bothers me, is that most first world archeologist keep ignoring evidence of humans in Brazil at least 40.000 years ago.

Even more interesting, there are evidence of "negroids" in Brazil at that time, while the "mongoloids" people (the current native americans, that have features shared with asians) timeline seemly match the straight theory, some Brazillian historians believe that what happened is that the first attempt of colonizing South America failed somehow, and when the current natives arrived, they early settlers were already long gone.

As for a controversial archeological dig, one with 40.000 years ago humans in it, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Furada_sites
I'd be curious to hear if anyone has done custom molded plugs before and how much better they really are. Especially if they make a difference in noise isolation and/or cancellation, or if it's more about comfort.

In any case custom tips aren't that expensive relative to the benefits, so it's something I'm considering.
Really? Doesn't the Beagle Board support DMA USB? I'm surprised that raspberry doesn't.
Hahaha, you are absolutely right! Those quotes have me laughing out loud here
Delegator.py – Subprocesses for Humans 2.0
Where are you getting the $420 billion per year in oil subsidies? US oil companies pay among the highest corporate income tax rates on the planet. Their taxes far exceed subsidies they receive.

$600 billion by comparison is the size of the US military and $420 billion is larger than the sales of Exxon + Chevron + Conoco + Occidental + EOG + Anadarko combined. It's an absurd claim.
Every meal triggers inflammation
RNN poetry- Branches like golden flame
I created CLI for creating simplistic presentations for my first lightning talk. It turned out pretty great so I open sourced it. It has some neat features such as live-reloading server, anonymous deployment, mirrored highlighting and cursor and speaker mode. https://reimertz.github.io/lagom

Would be awesome to get some more contributors.. hrmf, I mean, users. :)
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The difference is having people watch a television show to identify one or two guys is really inefficient and can't be scaled.
How to snapshot multiple VMs
The memory foam earplugs sound interesting. Do you have a link or the brand you used for reference?
Superbugs now killing more Americans than breast cancer
> real difference

Saving the climate should become a sport.
It's usually unwise to give your competitor free press at your own expense, especially when you're the market leader. In the this vs that space, the underdog has the advantage.
Check out extreme isolation headphones: http://www.extremeheadphones.com/

My co-worker has them and likes them. They're basically earmuffs + audio
"terminal masters" more usually refers to a field where a Masters degree is the highest attainable degree, like a Masters of Fine Art (there is no Doctorate of Fine Art).

Although searching Google - I can find references to the usage you're giving.

But, I fully agree that a Masters in a hard science, especially from a top research school, is almost always a consolation prize for those who drop out. My program would not accept students into the program for a Masters, it was PhD only, unless you dropped out.
Please make the website more usable. It has a really nice design but poor UX. At least I should be able to scroll to... scroll. And hiding elements until you hover over an invisible part of the screen is totally against a good UX (discoverability). This could be okay in games or in purely artistic webpages, but if you intend your visitors to use the page and read the content it is counterproductive.

Edit: being this a project for making slides on a website with such a poor UX gives a really bad feeling for your potential clients. Will the project itself have the same problems? Will I be trying to hurry to finish the presentation and not find a button to save as PDF because it's invisible? etc

Edit: the link was changed from the website to the github.com, this comment was intended for the original URL: https://webslides.tv/
The title is a bit misleading. Detail was lost, that is the law. Raisr makes up detail based on some learned likelihood of that detail being there.

You could add any image to Raisr and it will make up more detail, you could let it loop over the same picture over and over and it will probably add infinite detail, or up to some fixed point.

What's cool is that for many pictures, it's good enough at making up detail that the result is credible.
Microsoft’s next Surface trick may be a foldable phone
Do you know how we ended with the w-g mapping between Germanic languages and French?

- William => Guillaume

- War => Guerre

- Wasp => Guêpe

- Waffle => Gauffre

All of these 'g's are pronounced as in "gas. "gu" makes the 'g' hard in front of vowels that would have made it soft.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/weeken...
Your claim was that "wearing headphones daily will cause hearing loss".

The links you provide seem to all talk about excessive noise.

Do you have anything that talks specifically about reduced volume long duration headphone wearing?
Access to a free/dirt-cheap universal healthcare service is one of the relatively few upsides of launching a company in a country other than the US. Or to phrase that as a somewhat flippant answer to the question, "we did it by being in Australia".
That could be pretty easily achieved. The selections are saved to backend local storage but could easily be switched to use chrome.storage.sync...
FWIW a lot of the issues that newcomers come across are just due to lack of familiarity. The feeling of manipulating a child is common initially, but soon you'll learn how Rust expects you to design your code, and you'll be able to write code that passes the borrow checker without much issue. This is true when learning most languages; it takes some time to write code idiomatically, and till then you'll be stumbling over many things.

But yeah, we should improve this.
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Many people do indeed want to get from Point A to point B quickly. That's why there are around 75,000 plane flights per day. There are very few city pairs in the US with the potential volume to justify high speed rail.

There already is high speed-ish rail travel in the Northeast and it's very popular. But, for example, even if you could magically offer 6-8 hour train service between New York and Chicago, relatively few people would take it given that flying would be significantly faster.
As someone who is extremely noise sensitive, I disagree: ATH-M50X's are 'okay' for audio, and pitiful for noise mitigation. They offer almost zero reduction in outside audio, but are okay from an audio standpoint.

(Yes, gun range ear mufflers will work, but you might look awkward. I have a sets of those when I really need to concentrate)

Here's my recommendation:

Shure SE215-K. In ear studio monitor. amazing noise blocking ability, and, you can play some music to boot. I have literally wore mine down from years of office/motorcycle/road trip use. They have replaceable cables too.

Caveat: These can be uncomfortable for prolonged use (I'm talking ~20 hour road trips) as they're in-ear, but seriously get a set. Now that they're $99 on amazon, vs. the $299 I paid for them years prior -- it's a no brainer. In fact, I'm going to get another set this very moment.
I second the QC-35. It's the most advanced headphone I've ever used -- maintains a list of paired devices and connects with whichever one is nearby and emitting audio. It talks to you and tells you which devices are currently connected (can turn that off using a phone app).

The noise cancellation is excellent, the audio quality is acceptable to me (perhaps audiophiles are more finicky) and it also works nicely as a wireless bluetooth headset for phone calls. It's replaced my audio 'phones and my phone headset, and I'm getting a bluetooth transmitter for my digital piano so I can practice the piano wirelessly :)

Most of the time I don't play any audio through my Bose 'phones but use them simply as a silencer during the working day; I can't really concentrate with music playing. It's a premium priced product, but well supported and seems to be good quality construction and top engineering. The design is over-the-ear and the ear cushions are very soft and luxurious.

They're rechargeable and last at least all day on a charge. This turned into a mini-review but that merely reflects my enthusiasm at having found a good silencing headset at last :)
ASK: What business software are most important to SMBs?
If you have experience running or being involved with a small or medium business, what software categories do/did you regard as most important to your business?
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Probably because of the verification.

You can't really verify a shredding, the pile of shredded remains no-longer has a serial number. I assume the cleaning process cryptographically verifies the identify of the disk both before and after the wipe, making it impossible to sneak a drive out.

For those drives which fail the cleaning process, they probably have a complex process with multiple witnesses to ensure it actually gets shredded.
"It's almost as if JFK reached out into the twenty-first century where we are today, grabbed hold of a decade of time, slipped it neatly into the (nineteen) sixties and seventies (and) called it Apollo." - Cernan

That quote stood out to me.
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I was very happily surprised by how much I enjoyed this book.
> Will your spouse/significant other be OK if you spend three nights a week at hacker meetups?

The ideal spouse/significant other would be one that asks why you're hanging out at hacker meetups every other night when you've just quit your job.
tbh I took music for granted. Music with headphones even at low levels will have detrimental effect.

Headphones without music (which apparently is the topic of discussion) should be fine.
> Do you pay to use the highway

Yes, because part of my paycheck goes towards that. And every time I fill up. You seem to fall into the trap of "if I don't hand over money at the same time as I make use of something, it's free." Politicians love to exploit this phenomenon for maximum effect.
> You are aware that Google makes a large portion of its mobile profits from iOS

And you can provide a source for that claim, isn't?

But yes, we are aware that you're convinced that Google were just a evil and stupid company that screwed themselves.

In what world two companies can disagree, Apple was totally right demanding everything without giving more.

Problem is that reality is what it is, both of them are powerful companies, both of them have their interests and they didn't aligned. Nothin less, nothing more. Not he fracking black and whit world you paint
One way to do this is to setup an HRA (Health Reimbursement Arrangement). The most common way to do this is to buy cheap high-deductible insurance plans, then setup a tax-advantaged account with which you can reimburse employees for eligible medical expenses out of (in your case, you could choose to pay out 100% of expenses before they hit the insurance deductible). There are a lot of different ways to do this, but the way to set it up is to contact a third party administrator to do the administration for you (depending on the size of your company it's usually somewhere in the range of $5-$15 / employee / month to manage the administration). I believe there are significant tax advantages to this approach as well, but I'm less familiar with that area.

If you PM me your general location, I can probably give you a few companies to contact in your area who do this sort of arrangement.
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Reveal.js can also sync the presentation to clients via websockets with its multiplex plugin.

You can use the same mechanism to have the presentation on a computer connected to your projector and control the slides from your phone (or any other computer)
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You're not alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_migration#Sea_levels
Is there a list of the top French start-ups? I'm assuming the Withings would be one near the top.
I took music for granted tbh, that's why it seemed self-evident.
I highly and frequently recommend "For All Mankind" as another great documentary if you haven't already seen it.
Those empty condos are unmarketable. As people become wealthier, they're going to change tastes. Even the middle class is going to seek out individual single family homes, instead of the concrete jungle of repetitive jail cells that are those new condos.

They're the poor mans idea of what the middle class wants.
We hold people and groups accountable for the things that they do, not the things that they don't do (except in cases where inaction is a form of action).

It's wrong to rob someone, but it's not wrong to be afraid of stopping a robber as a bystander. It's not a good thing that people die because of the FDA's long approval process, but it's not blameworthy in the same way that death and suffering caused by hastily approved medicines (like thalidomide) is.
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I really hate the phrase "fighting". Calling it a fight doesn't do justice to the conversations you have with the borrow checker when you use Rust every day. You don't fight with the borrow checker, because there isn't a fight to win. It's far more elegant, more precise. It's fencing; you fence with the borrow checker, with ripostes and parries and well-aimed thrusts. And sometimes, you get to the end and you realize you lose anyway because the thing you were trying to do was fundamentally wrong. And it's okay, because it's just fencing, and you're a little wiser, a little better-honed, a little more practiced for your next bout.
No snark intended, and none, I trust, taken.

There will be grubby, workaday incentives galore, all the usual politics, power, and pecuniae. "Because it's there" just grabs my fancy somewhat tighter.
The problem here is that "conventional wisdom" is fluid. The concept that the female breast is a sexual-oriented organ, where modesty dictates that it should be covered or else be declared "obscene"... well that is something that has widely varied between various cultures and various time periods.

Instagram applies what I would call a current United States angle in its obscenity guidelines. Yet even in the United States in the present time, the current "standard" moral code is difficult to apply in a way that can be codified by computer algorithms. One example: while exposing the female breast in the United States is "normally" seen as sexual, most people "normally" would not see it this way in the case of breastfeeding.

Even within the United States, you are going to find groups that have different opinions on whether these moral codes make sense (hence, the feminists counter-argument). And then there's the rest of the world. Instagram's policy really wouldn't align well with, say, a lot of continental Europe (even Britain, which tends to lean more modest than the continent), which tends to view the breast less sexually than the US. There are also cultures that are more strict than US norms, too. To give one example, Vimeo's blocked in Indonesia (allegedly) because of more permissive nudity policies.

Unfortunately, I personally don't feel there's a great solution to this that can be internationalized, unless we get to the point where algorithms can match individual moral codes and block the correct "inappropriate" photos for each users. As it stands, no matter what Instagram or others block or permit, they are bound to tick someone off...
I am glad that it works for you.
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I also think this is an issue for Rust. The borrow checker needs to understand more, safe programs. Some are trivially safe but the borrow checker can't verify that. That is a problem. I don't even think the borrow checker needs to become super clever, but it is too rudimentary right now.
I'm a tech founder who is in Paris through a very similar program with Paris & Co, French Tech. If you have questions I'll loop back around to answer them based on my experience.

Note: I didn't come with the French Tech Ticket (which was a different program that was more structured). I have an existing software company which I am expanding to France & Europe.
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Ask HN: What do freelancers or contractors want out of issue tracking systems
What features specific to freelancing work for multiple clients do the current main solution miss?
My question is:

Have you thought of writing a guide to help people submit higher quality content?

It is not:

Have you thought of writing a guide to help bad writers become competent?

Im talking about the content quality and not the writer's skills. Competent writers can be taught to improve their content but not their writing skills. Different things.