skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but I have to call you out on this false equivalence too. Obama is responsible for (I think twice) temporarily halting refugees from Iraq and a list of other countries.

What Trump did included:

* Refusing to honor green cards from nationals of those countries, deliberately, apparently at the behest of Steve Bannon.

* Refusing temporary visitor visas to nationals of those countries.

* Refusing to honor visas already provided, in multiple cases resulting in the detention and threatened deportation of children under the age of 6.

* Cutting in half the number of refugees we accept from any country.

* Indefinitely ending the refugee program for Syrian nationals, the place in the world in the most dire need of refugee assistance.

* Shutting down significant parts of the entire refugee program for several months.

It is a right-wing talking point that Trump did something Obama did and is taking flak over it for partisan reasons. That is not what is happening.
I don't have to ask anybody, I have lived in Romania for 21 years. Summer tomatoes that are not specially sourced are just as crappy in Romania, Austria, and United States. Slightly better at the farmer's market though. I have also lived in rural Romania for many months at a time, in the summer, for over a decade, and have grown tomatoes myself.

The only time I ever got good tomatoes was at some tomato faire, or some special organic farmer's market (in the summer, of course). And every time it was outside Romania.

The idea that food in Romania is somehow unaffected by global economic development is a myth that has to die.
The subtler arguments against socialism are not amenable to sound bites. The one that was initially penned in the 1920s and has stood the test of time the best is "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth"[1]. This kicked off the Socialist calculation debate[2] which was on-going during the 20th century. It was largely settled in favor of the anti-central planners with the collapse of communism and Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in China.

[1]https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-com...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate
Clear documentation and lack of magic are what I love about it too. I originally learned Mithril by porting an existing react app, and the newer version was so much easier to debug that I ended up keeping it. The amount of indirection in React makes subtle bugs very hard to localize.
> Rogue One: A Star Wars Story… would be impossible to do without CGI.

It's a prequel to a movie that had exactly one computer generated element in it, which was a wireframe model that took so long to render that they couldn't re-render it when the final design changed.

They _chose_ not to make it without CGI. It wouldn't have been impossible.

edit: I'll just leave this right here - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034928/
Just goes to show that "regulations" isn't all that needs to happen. We've known for years there are problems in various areas, some of the most drastic of which have been widely publicized due to Flint. What's also been publicized by Flint is that the US government can't find $60M in their multi trillion dollar budget (EPA budget alone is $8.1 _billion_) to fix the situation, yet there's $210M to send abroad at the last minute as Obama is heading out the door, none of which, I might add has any chance of reaching the people who need it there either.

Regulations are not enough. Someone needs to actually go in and fix the shit that doesn't meet the regulations. For that to happen, someone needs to make it a priority to actually fix things right here in this country, rather than just tell us regulations aren't met, and writing up new ones all the time.
We had a big debate in Portland about whether we should add fluoride to our water (we voted it down). As far as I can tell, fluoride in the water is beneficial to people who don't brush their teeth with fluoride toothpaste, but for the majority of us who do, it's not particularly helpful.

I think people should generally have a right not to ingest substances that they don't want to, especially when said substances aren't doing anything useful and might be marginally harmful to some.

There's also an argument that all that fluoride eventually ends up accumulating in the environment, and there may be long term negative effects from that. There's no benefit from watering our lawns or flushing our toilets with fluoridated water.

So, I don't really think this is so much of a science versus anti-science debate as a question of how you should weight the costs and benefits of a policy that people can't realistically opt out of if they don't approve of it.
Yeah but not on Spike! If they make it I want it to get the production quality it deserves. It could inspire the generation of children that actually do colonize Mars.
The U.S. regulatory and legal system is badly in need of some kind of garbage collection mechanism.
I guess my point was more along the lines of: "Is that schematic really a good schematic, and if not, should it be the goal of a project like this?"

Though I get your point as well.
This is always obvious to me. I think at this moment Trump's wet dream is that some frustrated person from these 7 nations might do something really stupid that will help him go even harder after Muslims and other minorities.

Asians, Mexicans etc. are next on the anvil.
> No, I'm saying that what you're preoccupied with is not ultimately the biggest problem.

Stating a specific reason to doubt the dismissal of it as a serious and potentially fatal concern is neither preoocupation nor stating a belief that it is "the biggest" problem.

> Sure, washing your hands is important. But it won't cure cancer

Which is not to say failing that kind for basic hygiene doesn't make you more likely to die sooner with a cancer that has already left you immunocompromised -- more dangerous in that condition than for the average healthy person.

Which is pretty much a perfect analogy for where I think the licensing issue fits into the space of problems facing RethinkDB.
At first glance, I just assumed that dropbox was creating their own competitor to trello, but with dropbox built in.

How is this any different than trello?
Fair question. As it stands, there are 2 of us collecting and curating the pieces from what we consider some of the better liberal and conservative opinion sources.

We're trying to maintain the quality and integrity of the articles by limiting the number of newsletters we send out to one a fortnight.

It's possible in the future we'll open it up to readers to submit insightful articles for others to read. The curated newsletter is step one to gauge interest in such a product.
I see this "support republicans against their own interests" line so often around here. This ignores feelings of integrity, pride, shame, sin, ethics, morality, and self-worth. One's self interests include feeling that one is respectable and just.

People might accept welfare, but that doesn't mean they feel OK about it. Many people, conservatives especially, want jobs. People want to feel that they support a family, without help. Poor conservatives don't seek to tax the rich because that would feel unethical.

So yes, life is tough for these people, but they really don't want to feel that it is also unfair. They don't want to cheat, they don't want others to cheat, and they don't want the government helping anybody to cheat. An equal chance is demanded, but an equal outcome is at best a nice-to-have. (possibly undesirable because the non-lazy should be rewarded)

There is no lack of understanding here. It's a different value system.
The best way to prevent this, in my opinion, is to be clear that the research has nothing to do with fluoridated water.

From my colleague:
"The highly fluorinated chemicals that we discussed are organic compounds, meaning that they contain carbon atoms. They are called highly fluorinated or per- and polyfluoro alkyl substances because they have many fluorine atoms, and the carbon atoms are entirely or often bound to fluorine (There may be highly fluorinated chemicals that aren't strictly PFASs, but that's a minor point). These highly fluorinated chemicals have unique chemical properties that give them their characteristic grease and water resistance (typically one end of the molecule is more soluble in oil, and the other end is more soluble in water, similar to other surfactants). The concerns about PFAS toxicity stem from the properties of the whole molecule and not just because they contain fluorine."
Very true. I've been to some of the anti-fluoride talks and read a lot on both sides.

From what I gather, there simply isn't enough fluoride added to water to really make a difference. Add enough and you start getting dental floursis.

The people against municipal fluoride use a lot of the same bad maths to link fluoride to a plethora of ailments. Their evidence doesn't really add up either. Overall it looks like it's a wash.

I err on the side of it not being in water. It doesn't really help teeth unless applied topically in high concentrations, so we're better off spending money to give kids free toothpaste/brushes/education.

There's the question as to whether or not it can lead to things like osteoporosis, and honestly that question can't be answered easily. Long term toxicity buildup over 30~40+ years in humans is very difficult to test and control for. You can't put humans in a cage and have one group only drink water with fluoride and the other not. Our primate counterparts simply don't live long enough. People move around too much and drink too many different types of drinks to accurately survey exposure.

Of course this article is not about fluoride in water, so this is kinda a rabbit trail comment anyway.
As a technical nitpick, it will be a cold day in Gehennom when they teach Georgism.

The Hellish mythical realms of Niflhel, Zamhareer, and Dante's Lake Cocytus are always quite frozen.

You can become quite learned about all the various mythological Hells when you think too much about how those who are guilty of gross economic crimes ought to be punished.
We had one at my high school with the speech synthesizer module. I spent quite a lot of time messing with that thing. Got it to do passible Dakota after a bit of work.
Why isn't the state of our water supply a national emergency? In the long term this will affect far more people than whatever terrorist scare Trump is currently worried about.
Also, check out the TV series History of Jazz by Ken Burns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(TV_series)

(seems to be available on youtube)
Which copyleft licenses would these corporations be okay with?
You said 'seems', which seems to leave the topic open to discussion in your mind. (:

What's the downside to adding appropriate amounts of fluoride to municipal water sources?

EDIT: after I posted this, I did some quick Googling, and man this is an all over the map topic. There APPEARS to be reasonable evidence on both sides of the debate, but honestly, I'm not personally vested in this enough to dig any more.
Curious to hear from folks who have consistently meditated for a prolonged period of time (6mos+). What effects have you noticed?
Those hand crank popcorn poppers can be pretty good at roasting your own coffee, if you're interested.
So like a Basecamp clone?
I sleep 8 hours and wake up automatically. If I get 6 or less, it feels like a bus hit me.
The L part is assumed to have density of 1 (kg/L) and therefore be 1kg mass (mostly water). 1 kg = 1 trillion ng. Because the vast majority of the sample is water the number of nanograms of the substance per nanograms of water is approximately the number of parts per trillion. As you get into higher concentrations of solute you have to consider density of the solute and water as separate parts. In the ng/L or ug/L range you can hand wave the L as 1 trillion parts (by mass) and the ng as the parts out of a trillion in the full volume of sample.
Try West World, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, and Taboo and tell me they don't have feature-film-level production quality.
Well if those public schools had been better at teaching those students might have been able to pass that test.

Seriously though, here in Denmark we have school vouchers. It means that middle class parents have an option if they don't like their local public school (and a private school is available nearby), it would have cost my parents less than 200 usd/month (less than daycare) to send me to a decent one.
Before November I would not have upvoted this story. But given that Steve Bannon is in WH to come up with ideas to 1) end international co-operation 2) destroy existing democratic institutions 3) create a nation state on the shared heritage identity (descendants from a specfic group of European countries practicing a specific religion), such theories do not seem out of place
On the other hand, TACIXAT is drawing from a point-of-view as a buyer, and that position isn't rare, especially when you're selling to individuals (ie, paying with their own money). People do feel cheated when stuff costs way above what they perceive is fair, even if it's still a fraction of what they get from it. Of course, what they perceive as fair and the actual costs are often widely different, since most people don't have a good sense of what stuff costs to make.
> Crashes, inexplicable errors and failures.

I bought a xilinx spartan dev board 10 years ago and it was just like this. ISE was 4gb of java bloatware, 2 gb (!) more of "updates", crashed frequently, barely ran, imploded under its own weight. I managed to make some lights go blinky and said "eff this".

It's sad to hear that 10 years later nothing has changed.
Yes, though Teflon itself is of such high molecular weight that it's not a hazard that way. Some chemical intermediates and additives associated with Teflon manufacturing and/or application are hazardous though, like perfluorooctanoic acid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
I haven't tried it, but I get that familiar feeling: you are stepping outside of your core business in a way that will be easily shut down if not making targets. See Carousel in Dropbox's case (nice product, very few complaints, presumably little to zero profit) but companies tend to treat these as moonshots instead of new businesses - it has to be a roaring success to last.
> It's a prequel to a movie that had exactly one computer generated element in it

Well, no, it's a prequel to the 1997 version, not the 1977 version you describe.
Couldn't agree more. Also, thanks for fixing the timing attack issues wrt HASS :)
should be fixed by now, thanks for pointing this out
Floride in water is really meant for the people who aren't going to use mouthwash, or floss, or brush their teeth as much as they should anyway. It brings up the dental health of the group with the worst dental health.
I'm not sure that we have a name for the economic model I'm thinking of. I think "capitalism" is too high-level or broad for the system I'm talking about.

I'm thinking of the model that: Profit should be made up by charging more than the cost of duplication.

I would argue that Kickstarter does the same thing as the current model, but has none of the same safeties in place. I agree it's not apples to oranges, but I think we could put those legal safeties in place.
Odd. Either I have terrible tastebuds or it doesn't matter in this particular application, but last time I made sauce with San Marzano vs generic tomatoes no one could tell the difference.

Someone more experienced want to pipe in and help my ignorance?
Haha, exactly my thoughts!

Document-driven workflow management? Enriched-Wave-like collaboration tool?

BTW, why every. single. pitch. video. today has to have this huggy-feely-casual voice over?
[John Skeet] (https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/) C#'s transcedence lord
I'm using variation of TextRank
Read the rest of this thread. Stop sealioning. Or read the EO where it calls out minority religions in countries with a majority Islamic population, coupled with Trump specifically saying he'd prioritize christians in the media.
I feel Latex can is the best tool that can both of these jobs simultaneously.
Brannon Upgraded to Power User Status
Dropbox is cross-platform. I'd love iCloud features on my Linux Desktop, but I'm unable to consume it.
By now you can export static pages from it, which might help for such use cases: http://tiddlywiki.com/#Generating%20Static%20Sites%20with%20...
No. You could turn off syncing a folder completely (Selective Sync).

This is a rebrand of their Project Infinite (https://blogs.dropbox.com/business/2016/04/announcing-projec...).
Ask HN: What is the best way to future-proof a website build?
It seems to me like most websites will get completely rebuilt on average every 5 years or so and if they haven’t been rewritten, they have become a ball of mud of outdated CSS and tightly coupled CMS. Most websites don’t get replaced piece by piece, they get driven into the ground and aren’t replaced until they are painfully out of date.

Imagine that you have been asked to start developing a website that will definitely still be in operation in 20 years. A non-trivial site that can evolve gracefully over time to incorporate new technologies and new features, is not prohibitively expensive to maintain, and the future maintainers don’t wish you a painful death.

Is it possible to do that right now or is it foolish to even try to predict the future? Are there any strategies or techniques that would help with this task? Static HTML generation? Microservices?

Is web development still too immature an area to expect this sort of long term stability? Will it always be cheaper to just do the big rewrite every few years than to do slow and steady maintenance?
Show HN: Serverless CMS for static websites with WYSIWYG
FYI, the EPA is comprised of 15000 employees, and its annual budet is $8.14B. That's $543K per head. A lot of money for sitting on their hands and making excuses that they're "hamstrung".
I'm a bit surprised Amazon, as an example, has not been more disruptive to Hollywood. Take "Manchester by the Sea" - gross about $40m in box office. Amazon has chosen a traditional window approach to the film.

Now imagine, instead, the released it for 2 weeks (or whatever the requirement is for Oscar consideration) then pull it from theaters and make it available on Prime. I wonder if they would have made more than $30m on new Prime subscriptions. That to me would be more disruptive.
Yes, I think it was very very buggy when it launched. And at a much higher price then today. I bought it on a steam sale recently for only a few quid and it has had many patches over the years so it is now quite playable.
I consider Canada a US competitor.
This is hard for people with kids and a full schedule but there is an effective solution:
Work.
Out.
More.

Seriously, part of the reason you're probably not tired is because you simply have not done enough physical exertion.
I would argue that it's so close to zero as it should be considered zero.

As to your second point: Any cost could probably somehow be considered infinite: profit, insurance, warranty, etc. So I'm not sure what you mean by that?
Northern European here:

I'd also find it a bit weird (edit: or awkward) if someone started by asking what I love to do:

Is this a salesman or a recruiter?

Maybe a teacher?

And what should I answer that wouldn't be weird? "Volunteering for Troll patrol at Internet forums"?, "Writing Java"?, "Sleeping"?
> When you pass it to execlp, it just gets pushed through as a bit-pattern

No, it doesn't. It goes through a proper conversion to a pointer.

> [passing nullptr and getting 0 out of va_arg is] not required behaviour by the standard

Yes, it is. See C++11 and C++14 standards, section 5.2.2 paragraph 7.

You've been all over this thread shouting at people about how wrong they were, and even in your correction you are still mistaken. Please try to refrain from that in the future; lots of people reading these threads are going to be very confused about what is technically correct here, and I'm not willing to go reply to all of them.

Perhaps some edits and/or deletes are appropriate?
Trump did promise to make our country more secure. Whether he is testing power at the same time or not, it doesn't really matter. We have allowed the President too much power and it needs to be fixed.
People who are in startups and other unicorns are telling me this, sure.

But lots of established SW companies use contracting companies that abuse the visa process. I should have been more clear, it's these contracting companies (usually based out of India) that are abusing the process. US companies that use them are pretty much complicit:

http://www.vocativ.com/money/business/theyll-sponsor-america...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3004501/h1b/proof-that-h-1b...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Chasing-dreams-a...

http://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-pro...
Let me make sure I understand your argument; The EPA was not able to prevent a State's local budgetary decisions regarding drinking water. Therefore it would be more effective if we cut funding to the EPA?
My understanding is that just because you live in a blue area of the map doesn't mean you have contaminated water.

Also, note that this paper only looks at public water supply testing data, not private well water.

From the linked article:
"From the authors of the study: We have mapped watersheds in the United States that have potentially high concentrations of PFASs based on U.S. EPA data. This does not mean that all drinking water supplies within the highlighted regions contain high PFAS concentrations, but that at least one sample from at least one water supply was reported to be at or above levels considered safe by the U.S. EPA between 2013 and 2015. However, no measurements have been made in many water supplies across the country. We recommend increased monitoring of these contaminants in our drinking water. For more information, please contact the EPA: Cathy Milbourn, Milbourn.cathy@Epa.gov, or Monica Lee, Lee.monica@Epa.gov."

I'll follow up with my colleague to see if she has any thoughts.
I've done a couple of implementations, it's complicated but not that hard .... I think there were a couple of issues - the cable companies liked the revenue stream from renting you boxes.

Mostly though cable crypto is dominated by two companies who provide the head end equipment and who for a long time provided all the settop boxes - they didn't want to lose that lockin so while they were mandated to provide cable cards they weren't all that happy about it
Started using http://vimwiki.github.io/ after seeing it on HN. I've been quite happy, although it only supports plain text. The first-class support of images/multimedia here looks really nice.
I wonder if there is a way to provoke hash collisions. A while back there was a bug in Python dicts that let you do that. Construct a bunch of strings that hash to the same bucket, and feed that to an application that tries to store them in the dict, and you could cause extreme resource consumption IIRC. The remedy was to add a random (per-process) part to the key function. It would be interesting to see if Swift/ObjC has this vulnerability, too.
Author here. "Erlang-like" was mostly used for programmers that aren't aware of actor systems, or the current de facto standard language for actors. It's not a statement on its competitiveness with Erlang.

The system simply uses the TPL for scheduling (which is actually very good).
> No, in lower-level positions also they are paid the same as their colleagues who are citizens. During the hiring process, the immigration status is not get considered as a positive or negative qualifier.

Not if they are hired through a contracting company:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13525766