skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in a suburb where everyone was expected to have their lawns properly manicured and treated to prevent dandelions and other weeds. For about two years recently I lived in an intentional community, and discovered two things.

First, untreated lawns are beautiful. Different colors, gorgeous blues and yellows, emerge as different "weeds" take root during different times of year. Now, nothing speaks to me more of the blandness of the suburbs than its staid, boring green lawns.

Second, I had NO IDEA that grass reseeded itself if you just let it flower. In fact, I had no idea grass flowered. If parts of your lawn are worn by activity (read children), all you have to do is let it grow and flower and it will "heal" itself.

Yes, I know how ignorant I sound. But that's my point. Homogenous, controlled environments breed ignorance. And in more ways than a child's lack of basic understanding of grass as a plant.
It isn't that all cultural? Why have a lawn at all? Why not just go native or whatever else? I was looking around Melbourne, a town with a lot of detached houses, and didn't find many lawns (and no, they also had no rats because they didn't have grass). Maybe it really is an aspect of American culture? Not an insulting point, just a realistic one.
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I note that they attribute suicide to 'lingering effects of the great recession' although they show no spike in suicides around the great recession, just a steady increase.

The 'elephant' in this particular room is that America has been involved in a prolonged military engagement in the middle east, nearly continuously since 2001. Further, the military and the national guard, tend to draw on young people from rural areas disproportionately because of the otherwise lack of opportunity to work. As a result we have sent over a million young people into war and then dumped them back into their home towns when they chose not to re-enlist or where discharged for other reasons. They commit suicide at a rate of 20 a day[1]. Take them out of the trend lines and see how that affects your analysis.

[1] http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2016/07/07/va-su...
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contract work and publishing your own apps are different things. I think most people publishing their own apps do that specifically because they do not want to do contract work.

contract work is not a monetization strategy, it's a different job.
Lack of opportunity plays right back into lack of good education. Your family made up for it at home. Most do not.

Go to the south and you see this in action every second of every day. The south hates education, hates social services, hates them thar books that don't have Jesus in them.

And, lo and behold, Alabama is like 49th in education, but it's also super high in people who are on permanent disability and Oxy. Why? Because the politicians in Alabama get elected for saying "Jesus," and the first thing they do when elected is gut education and social services, making the problem worse, breeding more deeply ignorant people, who then vote for yet another Jesus hugger who cuts their social services even further.

There's a reason these states are fucked. It's their own faults. City folk have tried to help for centuries. Country folk generally don't want that city folk help, especially because it ain't coming with Jesus attached.
Is that really an insult? Or is the truth just kind of embarrassing? People have a deep, psychological fixation on monocultures, IMO, one that is not well developed or backed up by anything other than the power politics of our day.
A lawn is a little miniature farm, it yields a useless crop you maintain and ritualistically harvest once a week. Do it, or else...

I mean, some yards are for kids to play in, but most lawns are for nobody 99% of the time. I can look out the various windows of my home and spot about 50 yards and there's nobody in any of them. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon. When I do see people, they're doing yard work. We're so weird.
You don't need to audit the code to know if something sends telemetry. For many things (such as your kernel) you can rely on reputation/quickly searching through github issues. For others you can rely on packet sniffing.

I'm pretty confident that the only things I use regularly on my computer (not counting my phone here) that send telemetry are

- Firefox (opt out, but prompts you)

- Visual Studio Code (opt out, doesn't prompt you, requires re-opting out on updates)

- rustup (not sure if opt in or out, don't mind if it's recording telemetry)
I guess you have looked at Crystal then? Much of the same expressibilty and stdlib as Ruby, but natively compiled and with channels.
You're conflating education with credentials.

Imagine instead if every single individual could: read and write at a high level, think critically, compare loan options rationally, perform their own limited legal research (tenants' rights, welfare eligibility and application), plan their own investment strategy for retirement, etc. It would be a huge boon.
Well we don't want to actually reduce the desirability of the city...that the city is growing is a good thing. And Berlin is actually sorrounded by a lot of empty space.

You can build high density (4-8 stories not skyscrapers) apartment buildings to house a million more people (and required infrastructure) around berlin and there will still be plenty of space to continue growing.

Do you think that if the supply of new apartment suddenly increased dramatically it will have no effect on rents rising?
Usually not:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseFi...

Then again, based on the very large index of TV Tropes pages called 'Artistic License - X', it's pretty clear that Hollywood movies (and other media) are usually inaccurate in their depictions of just about anything. It's entertainment, it doesn't have to be accurate (and in a lot of cases is usually better if it isn't).
That's probably the worst excuse for condemning our nation to four years of Trump that I have ever read. Do you honestly believe that harming large segments of the country, and world, is the best way to "stave off" being "dragged into hell"?

You have admitted to actively sabotaging our democratic process but in the same breadth claim you did it for the greater good?

So who is indulging in egoism here, exactly?
I agree also - and I would point out also that the ads approach or having a freemium app are the only two viable solutions for mobile apps.

The subscription based model is definitely the Holy Grail of app monetisation but it's also the hardest to achieve especially for mobile apps.
Doing the right thing wasn't an option. The party that claims so much to be the only one that cares saw to that. So I did the least wrong thing I could find to do.
That's the story that's told in introductory texts, but the genitive generally forbids such permutations (depending on the flavor of usage in the geographical area).

There are actually only 7 kinds of सुप्s (x 3 numbers); there are about 10 तिङ्s, but only about 3-4 are in general usage. Then there are other sentence transformations outside these.

The relational modifiers "stick" to the roots, so moving words around the sentence is quite easy - this is particularly useful to poets who need to satisfy certain mathematical rules in their compositions. Much of this is also true for languages like Kannada/Hindi. There was also a paper about a KR scheme inspired by something of this kind.

Sanskrit is generally easy to pick up with the right teachers, in an immersive environment; the grammar-technique, esp. in a "sterile" environment, is rather terrible IMO.
Not sure why the wink is there :-) but the Scala codebase I'm working on is 3 years old already and it is the cleanest codebase I've ever worked with. Maybe my experience is not representative of the whole ecosystem, I have certainly seen really messy Scala codebases in my ~5 years of experience with it, just like I have seen for other languages too.

However Scala is the perfect example for my opinion though - people perceive it as a TIMTOWTDI language, but that's because it got an influx of developers from other communities, the most representative IMO being Java, Ruby, Erlang and Haskell. After all, a determined Java/Ruby/Erlang/Haskell developer can continue to program Java/Ruby/Erlang/Haskell in any language, especially if that language is expressive enough to allow it.

Having such an influx gave rise to different opinions and mentalities of how to do things. Speaking of the web crowd, there's a big difference between Scalatra (see scalatra.org) which appeals to a Ruby crowd and relies on un-typed and unsafe APIs with baked in mutation, versus Http4s or Finch, which are very FP and typeful, versus Play Framework which takes a more balanced approach, being like a Rails framework (including the kitchen sink), but with sanity and types.

And the Scala community is actually on a convergence path right now, due to better books, tools and libraries. Which for me actually doesn't matter that much, because in Scala I can rely on the compiler such that my code is not so dependent on learning and applying best practices, when compared with other languages.

I was NOT saying that Elixir is pleasant because it is unpopular. I am saying that this might be a factor, that I suspect that in such instances the social aspect plays a larger role than we give it credit, especially when dynamic typing is involved, because with dynamic typing you rely on agreed upon best practices that the community must push forward, much more than static language proponents need to do. And personally I think that a language's technical merits should be judged after it gets popular enough to see an influx of developers with strong opinions from other languages.

E.g. in a static language a Maybe/Option value forces you to deal with the possibility of a value missing, whether you want to or not, being also useful as documentation that's always up to date. Whereas in a dynamic language you have to rely on documentation (poorly updated because it's the last thing that people update), soft community rules, taboos, etc in order to do the right thing.
This is the first time Hyper-V has been offered as a target in Pwn2Own, but it's had its share of host escape bugs over the years. The latest one was patched in this month's updates, just before the contest.
Just using the first 160 bits of a new hash function was proposed at one point, but it's not part of the current plan. The new plan is to introduce full SHA3-256 hashes (which are 256 bits in size). More information here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hYAQCTsDgaFUo-VJGhT0Uqy...

(Of course, CLI and frontend tools could still truncate display output to 40 hex characters, but internally full size hashes will be used.)
"esp32 is not ready for prime time yet"

There are some rough edges, but its already very useable, especially since the new silicon came out. Got anything specific in mind?
> BUT, you guys have really got to stop this godawful stupid "point of a gun" rhetoric you're all cribbing directly from Atlas Shrugged.

I've never read Atlas Shrugged. We pay our taxes because if we don't, armed men will try to arrest us, and if we resist them then they will kill us. Violence is the ultimate backstop of any law. That's fine: we need laws, and we need taxes. But let's try to ensure that we threaten & use violence as little as is reasonable.

I think it was P.J. O'Rourke who suggested asking oneself, for any law, if one would wave a gun at one's grandmother to force her to comply. Laws against murder and theft? Sure, grandma had better not do that. Taxes to prevent people starving on the streets? Sure, grandma had better cough up. Laws against selling soup in one's home, or taxes to fund cowboy poetry festivals? Somehow I just can't see pointing a gun at grandma for that.
You don't have to spend too much time wondering, since its prima facia self-evident.

HOA's exist because they work out financially better than the alternatives. HOA's may not be for you, but for those that like higher property values, they are an acceptable trade-off.
It is for the most part (see answer above).
> get a home in the country where you can get more acres for your buck.

> In this case

S/he is living in the country.
I would recommend an approach that is more evidence-based.
Let's not forget your point about voting for Trump to "shock" our nation and wanting to drag other folks to hell with you.

That's likely where you lost sympathy.
Not before coffee, at any rate. My first instinct was the same as yours, but I waited.
I am in Europe and there is just not that much of a land available. Also the rules are different here: you can plant vineyards just at designated areas, which are fixed and cannot be expanded further.

That means you have to buy land with vineyard from somebody. Current situation is also that we are in golden years, all holdings are trying to buy more land and very few people are selling.
AMD XOP used to have a rotate instruction. Sadly it is dead in Ryzen. It seems that AVX-512 will have it though.
And this same thing could never happen to Star Citizen?
That doesn't remove the telemetry the web sites are able to do via web clicks, or everything else associated with your profile.

Do you create a fake profile every time you buy something?
Ah, true that. But I'm looking at another probable reason..

Ohio, rural, ~400 people in county. Yeah, I'd be willing to bet money on "Living while black". It's not common, especially in areas like SV and high-tech areas. But the Appalachians and foothills are their own.. uniqueness. And Other-ism is definitely a concern and issue.
I'd like to see some evidence that an unmowed lawn leads directly to nuisance levels of hornets and "big honking rats". It sounds like your real concern is that you want your neighbors to conform, and you're looking for justification after the fact.
> One of the operating assumptions behind BK's acquisition is that the business does well regardless of management

Is that the case? I am currently reading the collection of Warren Buffets' Annual Letters to the Shareholders (https://www.amazon.com/Berkshire-Hathaway-Letters-Shareholde...) and in every letter, he attributes a significant part of the success of their companies to good management.
> In haskell the application has to be an elegant diamond or the thing won't even compile!

Nonsense - You only have to make things as hard/elegant as you want them to be (and fore sure, some people do play that game for better/worse).

But, Haskell will happily allow you throw everything in to IO; you can side-step creating a perfect model and just hack together a list of imperative IO statements.

(unless you're referring to the difference between a dynlang and a static lang; that's a difference of another category altogether)
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Where, exactly, do you think experience comes from? By actually utilizing the aforementioned infrastructure that is not accessible to most people. Nobody becomes a surgeon just by watching a lecture in a classroom. If it were that simple, surgeons really could just watch some Youtube videos. I get the impression you didn't actually stop to take in what I wrote.
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All cities (aside from a couple of the capitals) in the formerly-communist EU states.
This is an interesting point actually. Because it gets raised every time and I actually thought the same before starting with Go.

Thing is, in practice you usually don't need special generic containers. And when I actually need it, I'll just code up a non-generic implementation. When I need a complex type system I'll use Scala.
That's really cool. What sort of problems do you work on? How did you manage to start working with it professionally?
Sure, I had a post about my setup on my blog around 1y ago : éé.net/ak5
I switched from STM32 to the Kinetis family two years ago and I've been super happy with the change. The free IDE is actually pretty solid and support has been adequate. Now that Freescale has been doubly gobbled up (first by NXP and then NXP by Qualcomm) this may go downhill a bit, but the user forums are decent.

Edit: I'm also using an M4 with dual bank flash almost everywhere. The projects I'm doing these days aren't particularly BOM cost sensitive and the headroom + foolproof firmware updating are fantastic (as the article says).
What was your app?
This is starting to be the end of an era. I know the luxury watch industry (to which Tag Heuer belongs) successfully resisted Quartz, but at the end of the day mechanical and quartz is a question of degree, not kind: they both tell time, after all.
Rolex had Quartz watches. Such as this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Oysterquartz

However this was during a "crisis" in the watch industry, after which it reinvented itself as all-mechanical (in the luxury market.) You can read a story here (I didn't have time to read this one, looks fine): http://www.watchtime.com/featured/when-rolex-went-quartz/

But smart watches aren't a difference in degree rather than kind. They are fundamentally different in a lot of ways that bring benefit to some users.

If Apple started doing a good job with their watch product, the watch industry could not long resist. It is already on the wrists of many celebrities all the time.

The only saving grace for the luxury watch industry is that apple haven't quite gotten it right yet. if people started wearing their apple watch every day, there would be no room on their wrist for a traditional luxury watch as well.
For me it’s quite the opposite: Haskell allows me to have local hacky sections that I can then hide in a module that exposes a safe API. Since refactoring is fairly easy with compiler assistance, I don’t even have to break up my 100-line-long work-in-progress algorithm with temporary names until it works – and once I have a working solution, converting it to something readable is mostly manually extracting definitions and giving them useful names.
He does offer some keen insights, but like everyone there is a mix of odd things in there. For example, he was a Benghazi truther and somewhat of a conspiracy theorist a few years ago.
> side effects are bad

How are side effects an inherintly bad thing? They are pretty important in many cases.
"Actively sabotaging our democratic process"? That's a remarkable thing to accomplish by casting a vote.
Kwerii is the question and answer website that you can post your question and get direct answer
> check when realloc will return different address (meaning that it had to copy)

What faragon is referring to is that this assumption is incorrect. The virtual address changing does not imply the memory was copied. On linux for example it could have been remapped with mremap(2).
For BLE, but no Wifi, nRF51/52 chips seem like a good fit; bonus is that they're low power,
> Why did you do so?

Started a family, I became a stay at home dad :)

> What do you do for a living now?

My wife works. I plan to return to work once my son goes to school in September this year. Probably not in IT though, I love IT but more as a hobby now.

> Do you regret it?

Not for a second. I love my life now!

> And why do you still read HN?

Because tech is who I am.
As a relatively new homeowner I absolutely detest the government trying to dictate these little things. There are many things a homeowner can do that doesn't look right, but so long as it doesn't harm anyone else, does not present a clear and absolute danger, I say leave them be. Another reason to avoid HOA's at that.
The best programmers I've met created ML, Scala and Haskell.
His has been more like a great mentor to most of us. His thoughts/philosophy about life and recommendations has been great. Thanks Naval.
The closer together we live, the more we want laws to ensure quality of life. But laws tend to be black-and-white, no grey area.

This couple wants an exemption from the law, and it may be reasonable in their case. But that doesn't mean the law isn't for the greater good. Just that the law isn't highly nuanced.
That makes no sense at all. Trump & Co are all for dismantling whatever still functions on a federal level. By cuttting loose the states and making this a local problem you pretty much guarantee that it won't be solved and that what little bits of leveling were still there are going to go away. So effectively you've helped to destroy the lives you claim to wish to help.

Besides that they are busy removing the few barriers that stand between a much worse living environment in those areas due to a removal of environmental protections.

Quality of life will go down, there will be less money and the local environment will suffer (tremendously), the cumulative effort of doing this for a couple of years will be paid for by the next generation.

The beneficiaries: the billionaires.

So you did the wrong thing, not the least wrong thing. What puzzles me is this: how do the republicans, either under Trump or any of their predecessors get people to consistently vote against their interests? Looking at it from an economic perspective they should have maybe 5 to 10% of the vote (affluent, mostly white people). To see so many people vote for them (repeatedly) with some cheap emotional buttons being pressed and - predictably - 4 or 8 years later an economic mess to be cleaned up (see the last 4 electoral cycles) is really incredibly hard to understand for me.
Buffett doesn't support estate taxes because of self interest, that would be silly as it's just a tiny factor in Berkshire Hathaway's business. He just doesn't believe the concentration of wealth and power is healthy for a democracy. That's a big reason why 99% of his wealth is going to charity instead of his kids.

Now I think he's wrong about this. Rockefeller had a roughly ten times greater share of our nations wealth as Gates or Buffett ever had. And somehow our democracy survived and flourished, because inheritances typically get split up among children, grand-children and eventually hundreds of great-grand kids and great-great grand kids, and predominantly those descendants dissipate the wealth because they don't have the same drive or abilities as the wealth creator.

And lots of that money ends up in charities before it's all gone.
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You can guesstimate what it will be worth by looking at your analytics. Amazon pay $0.002 per person per minute for US and a little less for a few other countries. I find they pay for about 2/3 of the usage time my apps record. I am netting a bit over $2k/week from it.
Please don't do generational flamewars on HN. If you have a substantive point to make (e.g. about respecting tradition), please do so thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.
And xDrip Plus works, if having an NFC enabled Android device. Hardware is by prescription, but if you are able to get the chips, any NFC device works with proper software.

Of course you must know what you are doing. The readings should be calibrated every week with blood, but if you do this, your Android device with xDrip Plus is giving more accurate readings compared to the official reader.

REMINDER

Do not try to do any of this if not knowing what you're doing. There is a risk of dying if you follow wrong readings and take a wrong amount of insulin.
“No such thing as spare time, No such thing as free time, No such thing as down time, All you got is life time … Go!”
—Henry Rollins, "Shine"
One good example of this is that every morning there is on the front page of /r/all exactly one article about the nba. Never two, never zero.
Yours, perhaps. But your erroneous reading of my statements here suggests strongly that I never had it, so that doesn't seem like too much of a loss. Perhaps you'll convince me otherwise.
It is indeed the सम्बन्ध; it's not a कारक technically. The canonical defn. of कारक is that which relates a noun to the verb. सम्बन्ध relates relations between nouns (you can't have sentences with only a verb and a noun in genitive).