skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own feeling, also without data to back it up besides my own experience (I'm french), is that your claim is absolutely false.

They know basic english (because they have english class at school and indeed because of internet), there are more and more "almost bilingual" people, but to say that most of them are proficient (not even almost bilingual, just advanced comprehension) in english is absurd.

At least in France and the asian countries I've visited. Some european countries like Iceland or Norway speak much better english. but I doubt it's because of the internet. I think they just have a better education system in certain areas.
Vote Piratenpartij if you're serious about privacy/security. For other parties it's just a 'side issue'.
Xp is an empty station, not a train. In few years most apps and hardware will be incompatible with or not fully functional under xp (they already are in half). I'm not attacking reactos as you could think. I'm pointing to obvious facts that have to be dealt with for success.

If we skip practical part, ReactOS is great as any big community-driven project, because driving a big project is hard.
I think the coolest thing introduced here is that the HWE kernel is going to become a standard feature of LTS releases going forwards.
That's a real catch-22.
If you were traveling with said friend (you being the foreign national and friend being the US citizen), CBP would just make you unlock your own phone. This is not like a logic game you can outwit.
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> Except no amount of specially crafted noise will trick a human

Or quite possibly we just don't know how to construct the noise yet :P
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The problem in cities isn't people living in the city driving cars; they already don't, ownership per family is already less than 50% in e.g. NYC.

The problem are antisocial people who want the big garden in the suburb and drive their car into the city for their commute by day, pushing the massive costs for their lifestyle on the people actually living in the city.
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/025dfb130ae131a8005959af...

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There is a bit of an art to writing LINQ queries, but if you know what you're doing (i.e. spend a little time experimenting, with the traces turned on in EF or Linq to SQL that output the generated SQL, or a good profiler), you can write queries that are exactly the same as hand-tuned SQL. There's a little reflection overhead mapping results to types, but, you either make use of that, or have to write all that boilerplate yourself, so that's the tradeoff.

Of course, if you don't know what you're doing, you can write some monstrous Linq queries that will be dog slow and exhibit all the worst n+1 behavior, pretty easily.
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> privacy and internet freedom: goo.gl

Is a little ironic.
Too bad about their branding. "AirBnB" would've made a lot more sense.
That world is already here, just not evenly distributed.
The headline is slightly misleading. It would be more salacious had the manifesto been published long ago and had the line been recently added.

In actuality it was there in a draft recently and now they realized they don't want to message that outright and have decided not to publicize it.
They want to be facilitators instead of decision-makers because of their bad experiences when they made final calls. You can't be a facilitator if one side is missing from the conversation. I see nothing controversial.
My guess is that it should help with performance on full SSD drives and when there's a lot of small writes that burn through the pooled erased blocks.
Should you take your phone to the United States?
The poor may know they are different but they'll be more likely accepted than a rich person. There are a whole lot of poor people that are odd in some way, it's not hard to blend in.

People seek understanding, not necessarily similarity. Also, like it or not, jealousy plays a big part as to whether someone is accepted or not.

Besides which, the story is about an entrepreneur, who was trying to connect with the type of people he was around when he was not rich.
Oh. Very nice!

I will definitely use it!
The data in there is incredibly misleading. They're comparing total highway miles driven to total transit miles, even though transit is disproportionately skewed towards dense urban areas where everything is more expensive (and I suspect that highway miles are skewed the opposite direction).

Plus it completely ignores any non-highway driving subsidies, like tax revenue going to local roads and public parking areas, government regulations that mandate parking minimums, etc.

AND it ignores how valuable the land is that roads exist on, that could potentially be used for something else. Now obviously we do have to set aside some land for transportation purposes, but with cars, you have to set aside a lot MORE land, so you have to factor in that subsidy as well. E.g. if the city could, by switching to denser transportation modes, lease out a bunch of land to private companies and earn a million dollars a year, then that's a million dollar a year subsidy.
I would be surprised if [random company] would read private messages only to "serve ads".
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> hide :27017 behind a firewall with only your app's DB access layer talking to it?

Because if you can do without it, why bother? Developing an access layer costs time and money. If you can leverage the DB features to do what you need, you can make you stack simpler and more maintainable.
This may come as a surprising, but the US is actually pretty far ahead in terms of the fight against corruption.

For example, until just a few years ago, many countries (Germany being the one I know specifically) allowed corporations to deducted bribes paid abroad from their taxes. That was changed only under pressure from the US.

There's a lot to complain about regarding the willingness of US courts to assume jurisdiction, the willingness of the US government to dictate international norms etc. But it seems that in this regard, it worked out well because the US legal system was always going to be ahead of /some/ competitors, so it became advantageous for US corporations (and, by extension, the government) to root out corruption: it was the one game they had no chance of winning.

One recent example is VW, and another recent development may be a strengthening of similar mechanisms in the EU, which may in due course be very helpful, even for the US.

It seems that nowadays the problem in the US isn't vast conspiracies where bags of money are secretly handed to politicians. It's that there's so much activity that in any other country of similar level of development, or any other time in the US, would have been regarded as a major corruption – but is now somehow regarded as not just completely legal but also morally sound.

I mean: there are (many) companies who give to both presidential candidates each election. There is simply no logical reason to do that except the expectation of getting access. (For donations to parties, I could at least imagine some argument about how donations allow them to do meaningful work on the local level etc. Can't say the same about the presidential level).
The pirate party is awfully specific, like the pvdd (party for animal welfare; partij voor de dieren). I would love to vote for the pirate party if they would just stick to IT, but they can't: if someone gets into parliament, they suddenly have to decide on everything.

I'm serious about privacy and IT stuff, but I am also serious about education and peace. Calling your party the animal party, 50+ party, pirate party, etc. just forces you to ignore anyone who doesn't identify as an animal lover, as 50+ or as a pirate (or internet freedom fighter).
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It's just how these types of lists are called; "awesome" doesn't imply anything other than it's a list of resources and material pertaining to a specific topic (usually tech/programming).

https://awesome.re/
> About as much as many 40-story high-rises already have underground.

It isn't about where you put it, it's about how much it costs.
What does Microsoft think about the ReactOS effort? Looking at the gallery[0] the screenshots are pretty much indistinguishable from Windows 2000-ish (or XP with "Classic" theme) so I assumed they'd at least have something to say about that

[0] = https://reactos.org/gallery
A big part of the problem here is over-emphasis on academic degrees, and under-appreciation of the value of vocational qualifications

I disagree. I think that universities should focus on academic degrees, and leave the vocational training to other shools and/or businesses. You even say so in the rest of your post: the problem is that businesses tend to overvalue academic titles and undervalue vocational titles, which leads to people pursuing academic titles even though they have no use for them.
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Sounds good. But how do you exactly verify those claims? Again, you can't. You are back to square 1: trusting Microsoft acts in good faith and acts in your best interest.
It's a chicken and egg problem. People drive because they have to. And because they have to drive, they support policies that favor driving at the expense of other modes, even in major urban areas where that makes no sense.

The problem is not in how most people make their individual transportation choices; people are generally pretty rational and predictable there, with good policy you can alter behavior. The problem is that our policies and regulations generally favor cars, and there's so much cultural momentum there that it's very hard to change.
> I wonder if that level of mobility was accurate for the time

Looking at old scripts or books like the one from Herodotus, I would say yes, just that it would take a few days/weeks instead of hours.

Also since the traveling meant being able to fight for your life, only the adventurous would do it.
American drivers used to be demonized for 3 years, and it gave outstanding results: it seems that without moral incentive and ethic considerations the driving problem does not find a solution magically without frictions.

PS most efficient ways of using cars that "worked" in USA (WWII) were about demonizing the privatization of cars and make it a common.

When you ride alone you ride with Hitler:
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/13293

Patriotic "saving gas" poster
http://gonzalocamacho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ww2ride...

Help with the war squeeze one more
http://gonzalocamacho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ww2ride...

Another propaganda poster on cars
http://gonzalocamacho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ww2ride...

Save the food
http://gonzalocamacho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ww2ride...

List of WWII USA poster for conservation
http://gonzalocamacho.com/2015/09/

WWII was won partly due to the USA production effort and notably thanks to the change of behaviour of citizens accepting to (temporally) adopt a more conservating and frugal way of life.

So, the point is: american citizens can do it, because they already did it. What is lacking is for them to reproduce this is their own government to literally shame them into correct behaviours like kids. Which is depressing.

Is a new war required for USA to stop being the biggest contributor per capita to the global warming effect?
http://www.english-online.at/environment/copenhagen-climate-...
You are pushing a anti-Trump / Wilders initiative here in response to overreach of the (current) establishment?

Well ...
"First and foremost, FMC is aiming at the embedded NVM space."

It also seems that they compare it with NOR and not with NAND, which again points to the scenarios where not much is stored and not often rewritten. Then it's not a technology for SSD's or USB sticks, how I understand it, but it's to allow to have a single chip which has both the logic and the re-writable firmware. And they claim it's cheaper to achieve that than with the competing technologies.
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I don't understand your point. I was arguing that the way the problem is posed seems to imply a unique solution. I was showing the problem was ill-posed, and that many probability problems have similar subtle or less subtle hidden assumptions. Here, this assumption is P(A, B | W) = P(A | W) P(B | W). I don't think you even need P(W = 0) = P(W = 1) = 0.5.

These assumptions usually seem quite natural to make, but can be very unrealistic (why would the predictions of weather men be independent? I would bet they are not in reality). This is a very bad to teach students. It is always very important to know which assumptions you are making, and if textbooks do this wrong, it will be nearly impossible for students to get this right.

I would think of a student which struggles with this problem as a better mathematician than the student which just uses P(A, B | W) = P(A | W) P(B | W) 'because the formula is in his textbook', but the second student is more likely to get rewarded (especially in American education, since the USA seems to be especially fond of textbooks which give a ready-made recipe for every problem that a student is supposed to solve).
I know from the American system that a judge can throw laws out that are unconstitutional (e.g. donald (duck)'s ban on people from specific countries), I guess that's what you mean by the German Federal Constitutional Court. I don't think the Dutch system has that.
Those same photos might have just been posted elsewhere on Facebook publicly and flagged there. Not that I am supporting Facebook or censorship or anything, but on the technical aspect, maybe there's an explanation that doesn't involve reading the private messages.
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Looking at Hillary, no it can't happen in the US because there are so many ways to not make it worth the while of whoever would have to do it. Maybe the population density of Seoul is relevant; I'm not sure...
The cost of driving would rise, but the viability of other modes would also increase, and those other modes are generally much cheaper than driving. Note how Americans spend close to double the share of their income on transportation as the Japanese do: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/archive/how-do-us-expenditures-...
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I don't have a link handy, but it has been documented that Zuckerberg outspends all other CEOs on personal safety by a huge margin (something like x10).

Consider that Steve Jobs famously chided his friend Larry Ellison for having 24/7 bodyguards.
In the US, about 40% of students who enter college do not graduate

That has nothing to do with the topic at hand though. Or are you saying that colleges have zero influence on their students' education, and the only thing that determines if a student fails or succeeds is whether they really met the course requirements at enrollment time?
Automatic failover for master nodes would be a really nice feature making citus a hassle-free solution.
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Windows subsystem stagnated since 2006. Win32 is on a standstill. All new efforts (Silverlight, UniversalRuntime, etc) are not very successful (and based on Win32 subsystem as well) and like a niche compared to the vast amount of WinAPI based applications. So Windows like Office are not a moving target like they used to be.

ReactOS aims for WinNT series compatibility including hardware drivers. And those driver APIs haven't changed for a decade or more.
There's nothing wrong with driving, but since it takes up a ton of space, there's no reason for it to be subsidized in urban areas; quite the opposite, in fact.
There were pretty extensive trading networks in the late Bronze Age[1]. I'm not sure what the accepted timeframe for the Trojan War is now, whether it is in that late bronze age period or has been pushed up into the following dark age, but it does increasingly seem that voyages around Greece and the greater Mediterranean as in Homer would not be that unusual.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/1177-B-C-Civilization-Collapsed-Turni...
This is precisely because of the car-oriented policies. "We built this city for driving, and now you have no choice but to drive!" Well, duh.

Now you can double down on that, I guess, but cars scale rather poorly, and they're probably part of why Americans are so fat.
Someone has realtime access to Royal Mail's Sorting office monitoring your post
Here in the UK, someone has real time access to the Royal Mails sorting offices computer systems that works out who sent the post based on the delivery round the mail was picked up from and who the post is being sent to. Just another example of Secret Big Data at work, keeping an eye on the population in the modern world so they can interfere and disrupt when they like.

Any guesses who the entity is that has this realtime access to your mail whilst in the postal system?
Yes. Giving more people elite educations used to generate more elites but we are well past that point now. There's a real jam in the system where qualifications are not getting people the anticipated positions.
Indeed. I've been cofounder and CTO at LeCollectionist, most of our work was thinking about tools to empower admins in their communication with janitors and landlords. Those kind of business never "get at scale" on their customer base (the whole point of luxury is that the market size is small), but they do on the employees/partners part, because everything has to be perfect and you need to do a lot more in customer care than in usual businesses. Good thing is, ultimately, it's more about product design than about infrastructure scalability (which was fun, tbh).
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Certain beers do; particularly the lambics. They'll have a 'best after' date, or a 'best before' with 20 years in the future.
I wonder if they've switched to preemptive multitasking. (No pun intended, although as I've found in conversations with friends, that one's going to pop up a lot.)
Australia's the same - 'best before' aka 'it won't go very bad very quickly but it may be stale and unpleasant', and 'use by' aka 'this is milk and you know milk goes bad rapidly after a set time so use it before then'.

'Sell by' never made sense to me, because it doesn't instruct the end consumer what to do with it once they get home. It's got a relatively variable amount of time after the 'sell by' date until the product goes bad, and consumers simply can't judge that.
There's no space in Elon's exciting master plans for this boring company..
I found the new version significantly better than the old. I immediately 'got it' after reading some of the new chapters compared to the more complete old version which I sometimes struggled with for a while.

I would definitely recommend this to rust beginners, and tell them to just use the old book where the new isn't complete.
It's completely feasible to create infrastructure for public transportation, we've just chosen not to. Having a large country means we had the choice of favoring car-oriented sprawl, it didn't force us to choose that.

What we could do, is change zoning regulations such that more compact cities (even smaller cities) were allowed or even favored, much like other countries, so that transit became more viable.

I live in Munich now, and even the little suburbs have good rail connections to the city center because they're still of moderate density, rather than the super low density generally seen in small towns in the US.
Evolution is incredibly agile, while intelligent design follows the waterfall model.

Since intelligent design presupposes that a design was in place before implementation, you'd need a watertight specification to know what you'll need to design. This is pretty much the definition of the waterfall model.

Once you've started with the implementation, you'd not be able to deviate from the spec. If you're God you'd never make an incomplete or incorrect spec, right? By definition that'd be impossible.

With evolution change is introduced iteratively. Each generation contains tweaks and updates, is exposed to a barrage of tests and if it's less adapted to the requirements it's disposed of unceremoniously in favor of a version more suitable. Due to its iterative nature evolution is also able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and good/beneficial features are taken over into the next iteration.
What a sweeping generalisation to make.
I've always found this whole idea of a Code of Conduct pretty broken. It seems to be a document written by some kind of abstract, shared moral authority which apparently has the power to decide what's good or bad.

You could possibly argue, that it represents a shared mindset of a group of people working on a common project. The thing is, it has become a base for witch hunting, public shaming and other conflicts because some people have taken the code of conduct as their bible and felt it was their duty to go on a crusade against the infidels.

Also, from a European perspective, it looks like such an American thing to do. You need written rules for everything. In Europe, when you go to a restaurant or a bar, the one common sign you'll find is the smoking forbidden one. That's it. People will politely ask if it's OK to bring a dog, or just know that going without a T-shirt is a no-go. In the US, you need half an hour just to read through all of the information before even entering the place. And people would still challenge the rules that are not explicitly stated there.

As an anecdote, I once went to a conference in a European country where immigration is close to 0, thus people are pretty much caucasian. So there was this American speaker (obviously caucasian) talking about diversity in software and would kind of try to shame the event organisers and the audience because there was no black person in the room. It was one of the most absurd situations in my life.

To me, a Code of Conduct does not belong to the realm of software. Software needs to speak computer language, not be concerned with complex, ambiguous, human ethics. You can clearly tell that the Go team has decided to go the way of "yeah, we are kind of obliged to have a CoC, but don't want to be dicking around with the topic". Good for them.
> The size of the country absolutely has something to do with how far apart things are.

> Urban sprawl is enabled

"Enabled" is the key word here. The US has enough space to sprawl out if it so chose, and indeed, we chose that. We didn't have to, though, and we could choose differently for the future.

If we want better transit in the future, we could start choosing, via policy, regulations that encourage communities that are more walk- and transit-friendly. Other countries have little suburbs that still have decent transit, that don't require people to own a car to do normal errands, and we could have that too, if we wanted.
Did you check the discussion thread for that proposal? It was rejected by the mailing list devs:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292#issuecomment-22198...
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