skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a citizen does not want to pay taxes, and if the taxes are fair and used efficiently, then they still should not be compelled but they can be denied all government aid as well as access to certain infrastructure, or possibly even deportation. None of these things compel someone to do anything.

If the person wants to live on their own, in the wild, then there is no reason our government needs to collect taxes from them. But do I believe someone should be jailed for not giving our country money annually to be spent on things they don't support? Absolutely not. I don't even agree with sales tax. Traditionally that tax is paid for by vendors, but in modern times it has been passed on to the consumer.

And this "if you don't like it, go somewhere else" mentality most folks have about things like taxes is something an abusive partner would say. Sometimes people can't feasibly go somewhere more in line with their beliefs, but they still choose to live peacefully on their own terms.

And believe me, I have attempted to communicate with my representatives and it is fruitless and now I receive spam mail I can't seem to get rid of. Even when I get direct responses, they are empty and simply say, "I get you feel this way, but this is how I feel."
But that's my point. I think there is only a tiny number of people for whom that particular consumer benefit is a make or break deal.
Apples and oranges. If you reduce your file size to 4KB you'll be comparing apples with apples. The setup time of the connection counts dis-proportionally high for small transfers and the goal wasn't a high transfer rate but a short time to load. For a high transfer rate you should make your pages as large as you can, they will take a long time to transfer but the rate will be close to the rate of the slowest link in the chain.

This is also why you can't test available bandwidth reliably with a short transfer.
Okay, let's say I'd like to learn about justice, what is it that one needs to learn about justice?
> fjernvarme

We Germans have that, too - Fernwärme :)
If your house is well-enough insulated for that to be true, you wouldn't need much heat in the winter anyway!

For most of us, forced air is far more efficient than lightbulbs spewing heat up into the attic.
Do you see the difference between "fighting in" and "fighting"?
Didn't you get the memo? "Cloud" is so 2016. "Serverless" is the new hotness.
You probably should. Your usage of the App Store logo is likely in contradiction with Apple's rules, and since it's their IP, they get to dictate how it's used.
Consider Melbourne, FL. It's in that size range.

It has Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Harris, Embraer, GE Transportation Systems, GE Energy Management, FightLite Industries, Thales, Raytheon, DRS, and a bunch of little cyberwar startups.

So there is plenty related to aircraft, cyberwar, and generally all sorts of engineering/manufacturing/etc. for government (especially military) purposes.

Working in a specialized industry is fine. The city is specialized.

OTOH, moving elsewhere is not the end of the world. There are many other fine small cities all across America. You don't have to live where there is more than one job suited for you. Moving every now and then will let you experience more of America.
> "Cold" in astrophysical settings tends to mean T << µ (the chemical potential)

Yes, I know, but this in itself does not preclude energy being emitted by radiation. To preclude that, the object needs to be in a genuine ground state--no internal transitions possible that can reduce its total energy. That's a considerably stronger condition than T << µ.
Evey single thing of those apple store is a gigantic shame.

Interface for browsing content ( itunes) : sucks, absolute disaster.

Interface for publishing content ( itunesconnect) : feels like the work of an intern

Review process : lottery. Never know for sure if your business isn't going to get killed by an eula update.

Development tools ( xcode ) : so bad it becomes embarrassing.

Commission : 30% is a total ripoff. Should be half of it, max.

Content indexing / discoverability : nonexistant. So bad they had to force developpers to remove working but non updated apps.

And I could go on and on, but really, the only reason it remains this bad is because apple is in a de facto monopoly position on everything related to their products.
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Sure. There are plenty of white gun owners who do the same. The NRA doesn't have a lock on any particular demographic other than the obvious one, which is anyone who is willing to prioritize gun rights as their #1 issue. This includes people of all political and ethical stripe, and including minorities, though they aren't terribly well represented by the NRA.

That said, if the goal is to just get the NRA to do more outreach to minorities, they're making inroads (though slowly). They've got minority presenters, such as Colion Noir, who echoes many of your sentiments.

> "It's not a gun problem, it's not even a violence problem. It's a culture problem, it's a poverty problem, it's a history problem"

I don't disagree that they've been painfully bad at it, but as they get savvier with their shifting demographics and older, whiter board members get replaced with others, I have little doubt that they'll become more effective at representing a broader swath of the American populace.

That still doesn't make fixing socio-economic disparity fall particularly well under their single-issue umbrella (IMO).
That's some out-of-context quoting, right there.

Your post's parent's point, in the bit you quoted, is how "Fake news" has become — or is perhaps more accurately a thing certain people are trying to make into — a way of dismissing news sources you don't like.

I don't read any endorsement or disparagement of either source in that post, or even an implication that they're "of a kind", except insofar as some people have painted both with a "fake news" brush, or that "objective" reporting is hard to find, anywhere.

Neither of those claims should be particularly controversial.
As someone bilingual in Russian and English, I have to say that translating between the two languages is quite hard.

* English has a fixed word order: "man bites dog" != "dog bites man". Russian allows words to be reordered, phrases split and interleaved, to achieve the desired emphasis, flow, or emotional impact.

* English has a flexible information structure: the topic and the focus can be in any order. In literary Russian, the information structure is fixed: the focus goes at the end of the phrase.

* The English verb system (emphasizing the relative order of events) and Russian verb system (emphasizing the aspect and manner of action) map rather poorly onto each other in either direction.

* One language may require a positive statement where the other requires a negative statement - and vice versa, with no general pattern. Compare English "the best movie ever" and the Russian equivalent "лучше фильма не видел" (literally, "a better movie [than this one] I have not seen")...

* Technical English loves to agglutinate random roots together to make a new word. Unpacking and serializing the result in Russian typically results in something long, awful, and bureaucratic-sounding.

* Russian loves hard-to-translate impersonal statements (следует, нельзя), and its system of diminutives/augmentatives doesn't have a nice correspondence in English.

* It is very often difficult to find a translation that matches both the intended meaning and the "feel" (positive, negative, common, unusual, colloquial, old-fashioned, scientific) of a word.

And that's even before you attempt to replicate a particular poetic rhyme and meter in a language less well suited for it.
That's a WHOLE lot of blatant Kremlin propaganda here.

Do you even read anything besides Russian news?
Keisler has a introductory text book (available free here: https://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html) that uses non-standard analysis, which he claims is easier for beginners to understand than the notorious delta-epsilon proofs.

I can't say how effective it is at that goal, but it is all mathematically legitimate, and has a nice intuitive appeal to it.
Rope ladder perhaps?
(September 2016) blogspam of:

http://hub.jhu.edu/2016/09/26/moon-made-from-earth-impact/

(Worse than regular blogspam; it's a copyrighted article with the author's name removed.)
Nice to see you already posted fefes blog, seriously everytime someone states he has the fastest xyz -> fefe is quicker.
Enter the wondrous world of Walter Giers’ electronic sound art
Hillary disagrees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sYB5d1Bu4
As far as I'm concerned RT is as much propaganda as CNN, BBC, Chanel 4, Fox news... All main news outlets lack real impartial ivestigative journalism, that covers both sides of the arguments.

The interest for alternative, and sometimes less capable, media only exists because of how biased and rotten the "real news" are.
The old adage was that "total page weight" and "number of assets" were the big drivers of slow web sites.

HTTP/2 should make "number of assets" less of a problem, since it no longer drives multiple connections, assuming all are from the same site/domain.

Edit: Bloated JS and parse time might be the right contender to replace "number of assets" if you want to point to the top 2 current issues.
> Crimea contains Russia's _only_ warm water port.

Stop repeating Russian propaganda.

Before Crimea Russia already had warm water port - Novorossiysk.
Startup Matrix is open sourced on GitHub
home version of this
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-gets-green-light-heat-ne...
We have more good potential farmland in CA than we have water. I don't see the impact to agriculture as being very large if the water allotment can be transferred.
And the garbage bags themselves are packaging. It's hard to escape.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202152 seems to imply that there is no such limit.

Can I use apps from the Mac App Store on more than one computer?

Apps from the Mac App Store may be used on any Macs that you own or control for your personal use.
A Distant Reading of the Korean Central News Agency’s Headlines
CPU Technology like Intel Software Guard Extension or AMDs Secure Memory Encryption closes that gap as well. It's not magic and might be flawed in its current forms - I'm no expert on that - but I do believe in a not too far away future physical access will no longer provide cheap attack vectors.
Maybe on windows 7 or 8/8.1, but on 10 I see no download, how can I download an ISO without downloading a program? Plus let's say I have a metered connection (that I often do, when I'm away from home) and my windows 10 broke by itself as it often does? I can't go to a library or something and download the iso because I don't have admin permissions and microsoft's tool requires admin permissions. I'm not trying to criticize the OS for this, it already has been criticized enough for spyware, but seriously microsoft is just making it harder for me to use their software legally. Also the confusion about buying an OEM license and why there are no retail licenses in Serbia?
Data is available in open formats: CSV, JSON, Markdown. About startup matrix: it visualizes the successful startups regarding the market they operate in and what kind of tactics they use to differentiate from other businesses.
What is Indemnification?
> Russia occupied Crimea, but it was either that or risk a crack that could disintegrate it entirely.

Oh, so Russia _saved_ Ukraine, not invaded?

I'd yet to see most pretentious whitewashing of Russian war crimes.
I hope this change will result in fewer sites using Disqus, because I really hate that you have to enable Javascript just for reading comments.
Students at UWaterloo have been running a hackathon like this every term for a couple years now. It's always super fun.

Links:
http://terriblehack.website
http://www.davepagurek.com/blog/terriblehack/
https://terriblehack.devpost.com
Piezo, Rogue Amoeba's app, was removed from the Mac App Store with "minimal publicity", according to their blog post:

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2017/02/10/piezos-life-outsid...
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Tl;dr: there is a difference between love and codependence -- loneliness is a belwether for codependence
Is Cloudflare a honey pot?
Ah, sorry for the lack of clarity. My point is that many people who refer to themselves as Christians don't actually follow Christ. The flaw I was pointing out was that it seems natural (and even polite) to merely accept a person's claim to be a Christian as valid. The problem is if you do this, you'll end up with false ideas about what Christianity is and what its adherents are like.
Curious why you tossed Apple in there. In worldwide usage it's a fraction compared to the other three. (I feel compelled to state I use an iPhone in order to avoid this comment being interpreted incorrectly).
There are twin motives underlying human behavior, according to Becker—the urge for heroism and the desire for atonement.

I think that in modern Western society, it's more of a desire to avoid ostracism (in its most extreme form, known as "fat-shaming").
> Before Snowden, we were told investigatory powers were "restricted" as well. Then we learned linux journal readers were put on watch lists as extremists, and system administrators are routinely targeted for compromise.

Again, I'm sorry but none of this is true at all. I could absolutely believe that a journalist misunderstood something they read in a leak and then made such a claim (Happened with most of the Snowden leaks), but that does not make it true.

> The point being, there's no technical reason to stop them from intercepting the 2FA over SMS, so they will. That's been clearly demonstrated by earlier leaks. Those people weren't fired/jailed/etc. They'll just do it again.

To the contrary. When you say "clearly demonstrated by earlier leaks" I believe you may be mixing up an inquiry made to NSA with regards to improper access to DNI (Or perhaps that was not supposed to be a public response and was indeed leaked? Not certain). Action was taken against these individuals who "tested the system" by trying to look up themselves and/or someone they knew, even if the system blocked the query from actually running due to the fact that they were prevented from targeting US persons.

I believe you are being genuine about your concerns, but again, it can be harmful to spread falsehoods when people reading these comments may not know better and could believe what you're saying to be true (Especially in a thread like this).
Tell us how it goes! Looks like they sell special DVD or Bluray burners for M-Discs
OP, thank you for the story you have shared with us. It inspires me and other idie devs for creating small to medium size SaaS.
I admit, the smart keyboard or IntelKey or whatever sparked my interest. I don't know what it does, but I think keyboards could use a major improvement. I'm thinking something like a stenograph machine with just 20 some keys instead of my 114 key keyboard. The keyboard would need to recognize context of my "to" and "there" in order to put the right word in. So I could see an inline rasp pi or arduino doing this task. I could then type 3 times as fast. Maybe voice controls will just take over instead. Nevermind.
Ask HN: need iOS swift chat app running on FireBase
i need to integrate a user to user chat module in our iOS app built on Swift with FireBase. can anyone share the link to the source code? it will be really helpful.

thanks in advance
I think the weakness here is in the first step "Collects identifying documents". If a potential terrorist in some countries can procure 'official' documents with a different name than their own, then all the rest of the screening will fail, because they will be checking the record of a presumably innocent resident of that country, while the person who would actually enter the country if approved would be someone else. Ideally, the government doing the checking also needs to be able to get or verify additional information from the potential refugee's home governments.

It therefore seems reasonable to me you might want to restrict travel from countries that either have such weak governments that fake 'official' documents can be obtained (somalia, syria, yemen etc) or countries that have a stated policy of non-cooperation with the US government on such matters (Iran).

That would also explain why you would not exclude people from 46 other muslim majority countries - there would be no reason to if their official documents can be relied on, and they are responsive to queries from the US when some information needs to be verified.
Yeah, that's not the app store icon, it's the generic Apple icon for an application. I would leave it, it indicates a Mac app, but not a MAS app.
> Not to totally sidetrack the discussion, but what are some of the things that you strongly disagree with on SSC?

Most things I disagree with SSC on seem to be general rationalist beliefs and may also be found on places like LessWrong. These views are usually expressed less directly, and sometimes in comments.

For example, SSC and rationalists in general attribute very high value to IQ. SSC has some posts relating to ability, genetics, and growth mindset that I find very good:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/31/the-parable-of-the-tale...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-growt...

But, while I mostly agree with both of those series, the continual claim that IQ is the best thing since sliced bread, that it's everything, correlates with everything, and is necessary for someone to reach certain heights, is a something that I find to be more dogmatic than rational. I think the IQ-is-everything model is too simplistic, and rather self-fulfilling, and if you have a lot of patience, you can extract my position on ability development from this old post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617007

> And, by the way, I had not considered the Moloch article as a direct re-framing of a problem until you put it as such.

To be fair, I'm not sure if Scott Alexander meant it that way. There was a related post on the Goddess of Cancer, where I think the reframing part was mentioned. But I already believe that Moloch is a manifestation of a wider process, so the issue of explaining to someone how a blind process can have so much power is not new.

> The biggest issue with the toMoloch transform is that the conversion process is obviously going to be significantly more noisy and provide the author the ability copious amounts of wiggle-room to steer the reader towards their own conclusions.

I don't know that it really introduces any more significant noise than anything else. We're already surrounded by so much noise, and I would argue much of it is from the aforementioned process itself, that better means are needed than hoping that a given transformation was accurate anyway. I.e., can we make predictions from the concept of Moloch? It looks to me that we can.

Generally, information needs to be routed to the right subsystems. Humans have a few subsystems that are really good at identifying an adversary or assigning blame. But they don't have any good subsystems to examine the situation itself unless they're already above it, nor can they assign blame to the situation, as they perceive it as neutral and inert. I would say the extreme informational loss from the inability to process effects of systems and situations is so much larger than the added noise that the transformation absolutely needs to be done.
In theory, any programmer worth their salt would already know a massive amount of math (comparatively) and should be readily capable of learning more. If you program without a solid understanding of the underlying math, you're not programming. You're typing until it compiles.
While I certainly didn't go into depth on this, this line acknowledges the cost of both direct and App Store sales:

“Direct sales cost us just a few percent, so each direct sale of Piezo earns almost $5 more than a sale through the Mac App Store.”

That “few percent” takes into account the cost of our site and our downloads, as well as handling payment.

As far as acknowledging what Apple provides, it's simply not worth very much. The cost of infrastructure is incredibly low (nowhere near the 30% they take), and none of what you list is difficult to manage. Further, any developer who's looking to earn money is going to want to replicate most of that anyway. You should have a website you control to provide information and promote the product (see the many comments about Googling for apps, rather than using the App Store). You also ought to provide customer support for the product itself - Apple certainly doesn't help you there. Once you've got a web site, adding direct downloads is easy. Payment processing and license keys are certainly the most difficult pieces, but anyone making a Mac app can manage them as well. It can all be set up in a manner of days, if not hours. I wouldn't tell a developer that they must steer clear of the Mac App Store, but I absolutely would say they're doing themselves (and their customers) a disservice if they don't also sell their product directly.
Huh? Select Home/Pro. Select language. Download button appears for both 32/64 bit. No special software, just a download link.
> Having a .so is easier than having to make it.

What's the point, a compilation unit is only a gcc call away from being an .so, right? Besides, I made sure I don't expose unnecessary symbols to the linker. What you're telling me amounts to saying binary distributions are easier to consume than source distributions.

I would be quite bewildered by such a claim. As well as a little upset at my disadvantage: I do not have the resources to package my library for all major OSes and distributions. This of course has nothing to do with the library itself, merely the community around it (with one author and no user, as is the case with anything new).

I've seen new programming languages being criticised for the immaturity of their tooling or the lack of community. This feels similar.

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Or, your idea of an .so is different from mine. Does .so libraries have something the C source files don't?
I guess the question could be: is there an automated/standard way of screening for most vulnerabilities in crypto code?
> Referendum was held _after_ invasion and with numerous violations of international laws.

Because they weren't allowed a referendum as part of the Ukraine.
The actual wording is:

Has the subject participated in activities that simulate military or operational environments?

So motorhome and marshmallows with your family at Big Bear Happy Camp probably wouldn't count, unless you're planning to kill everyone by making them eat s'mores until their blood sugar spikes.