skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I understand the threats that make something like a registry necessary

Necessary? But why do sex-offenders registries only exist in (a small number of) English-speaking countries, and in no other [1]? Are there no sex crimes in other countries?

Or does it have something to do with Puritanism and a general fixation with sexuality in those countries?

A registry is not necessary, it's yet another manifestation of American racism [2] and cruelty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender_registry

> Sex offender registration does not exist outside of the English-speaking world, however. The United States is the only country with a registry that is publicly accessible; all other countries in the English-speaking world have sex offender registries only accessible by law enforcement.

[2] http://www.albanystudentpress.net/large-racial-disparities-i...

> The study indicates that approximately 1 percent of African American males in the United States are registered sex offenders while white males are registered at approximately half that rate. The growth of sex offender registries reflects “a new form of punishment developed by the state that is specifically tailored to punishing sex,”
If I was on my rig right now I would definitely convert this PDF to text so everyone could access it.
Good vibrations: A bit of shaking can burn fat, combat diabetes
I personally think they could get away with raising prices, but then the drivers would become their customers, and profit margins for Uber as a dispatcher would be driven very thin---it's just not that hard to run a GPS-driven dispatch service. The only thing that makes an Uber an Uber is a window sticker and an app on the driver's phone. How long before there's an uber-Uber that just sends your request to all the dispatch services and the first one that shows up gets your fare?
"for many" is a typical overstatement.

And if I go bankrupt gambling society won't bail me out, I need to get a job.
Some desks:

https://www.standdesk.co/?ref=producthunt
http://www.varidesk.com/home
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/?ref=pr...
https://www.autonomous.ai/smartdesk-sit-to-stand-height-adju...
> 1) Happiness is not as subjective as people think. Research suggest that what people state about their own happiness correlates very well with how friends and
colleagues would describe a person as.

This just means that how happy a person feels correlates well with how happy others perceive them to be. This says nothing about whether their subjective feelings reflect objective reality.

Research actually seems to suggest that happiness is very subjective, and may in fact have a strong genetic component[0]. I.e. whether a particular person is happy is dictated less by their circumstances and more by their outlook/personality/genetics. Of course, one's circumstances also play a role (e.g. a person will be less happy immediately after the death of a loved one), but subjective factors seem to win out overall.

[0] e.g. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201302/...
Yes, this is absolutely the case. Google has been gamed and they don't know how to recover from it. All they have to fall back on now is the common misperception that Google is not gamed.

Google's search product is ripe for disruption, if anyone can get the resources together to take them down.

One of those resources would be facilitating a modification to the laws that make Google's line of business (internet search) legally shaky.
>not sure what's the avg. profit of insurance companies

It varies by company and type of insurance but profit margin seems to be in 5% range or so.
Wii Dolphin emulator so accurate you can buy games from the Wii Shop
Gabe Rivera is hilarious on Twitter, if you enjoy "clever asshole" humor a la Maciej Ceglowski's schtick: https://twitter.com/gaberivera

Behind the veneer of snark, he's also a very smart commentator on the biz.

Techmeme River is one of my bookmarks for keeping a pulse on what's happening: http://techmeme.com/river
Just realized that I'm commenting on a post about an article about a person who republishes news articles from other sites. Deep.
Wikipedia has a great visual aid for this. No part of the film was untouched: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:35mm_film_audio_macr...
In Feb we did 1k+ transactions, done by 615 users. 4 months before that we did half. We're seeing a little bit more growth in usage in the last months than we see in user growth, mainly because of the network effect.

A transaction costs a few cents per transaction, and the prices will drop a lot in two years from now.
There's an interest point:

He dismissed Waco Resurrection, Braid and Flower as “pathetic,” and sternly predicted that “no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form.”

People still watch movies made over 40, 50, 60 years ago and still derive aesthetic appreciation from them for camera work, direction, acting, score, and don't just use the relative judgment of being "great for its day" (which isn't without merit) but as absolute recognition of artistic prowess. Will video games ever match movies' longevity, or will they be doomed to a more secular estimation, and eventually fade into obscurity?
I'm not sure about the current quality of their products, but I bought a refurbished Dyson "Animal" vacuum (the purple and grey one) in 2003.

We'd killed a couple of other vacuums previously (when you shave a St Bernard for a Texas summer...).

14 years later, I've never had to do any sort of major repair. Any problems I've ever had with the unit were fixed by taking it apart (without tools) and clearing the jam/clog.
I'm involved in very-unsexy not-Google-level smart grid research using machine learning. A Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) like those being deployed in America takes sixty measurements a second for each signal, and this is in no way overkill for the granularity of information required.
I use a TVS Mechanical keyboard with Cherry blue keys. This is the only model we get in our country. I would like to have quieter keys but this is much better than the mushy keys.

Laptop is Thinkpad T410. Thinkpads always have awesome keyboards with good key travel and tactile feedback (atleast the older ones). That and the fact that I can always open the laptop and fix anything myself means I will be a Thinkpad user for a long long time.
OK I will grant you Georgia and Virginia. Even Maryland. I would dearly love to see someone defend anything about Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina even Missouri. A few states in the south that get it right don't make up for the fact that the US education systems in these states are in the bottom 10. California is down there too, so bad education is not exclusive to the south. It's just endemic.

I spent a lot of time in Alabama. There is nothing to defend there. They spend their money on 100,000 person Football stadiums. There are 3 in Alabama. 2 inside towns of 20,000 people or less. Their economic improvement plan is to spend more money on football, and keep printing people's pictures in the paper when they are arrested.
Raw string literals https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference.html#raw-string-l... and raw byte string literals https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference.html#raw-byte-str...

r"…", r#"…"#, r##"…"##
br"…", br#"…"#, br##"…"##

you need to count the #s.
That's too bad. I guess OCaml is the non-mainstream language Facebook seems to be interested in.

One thing D and Nim are lacking is adoption by a large company, and I feel that's partly what's keeping them behind Go and Rust.
Simplicity in design seems like a fairly timeless design principle. Unfortunately, once you've simplified the design to its near simplest form, its hard to make design updates that feel significantly advancing.
> They are hollow because it has a huge impact on raw materials usage

It's been a while, but I remember when the transition from pull tabs to "pop tabs" occurred; at first (IIRC), the "pop tabs" were solid, but it wasn't long until they became hollow as well.

Of course, that led to some problems which still exist today (though not nearly as often). The biggest one being the balance between the strength of the tab, vs the opening part (whatever it is called - closure?). In the past (and occasionally today for the odd soda), you could pull up on the tab - and it would bend or break off, without opening the soda! Simple enough to fix (do not press down on the opening with your thumb!) with a butter knife or some other similar tool, but annoying at the same time.
In that case the Leave campaign should not have suggested it was a reasonable case to put forward if they never could have actually actioned it.

You have to remember Leave vs Remain was for the most part government ministers arguing with each other, and the PM lost his job over the result, with the current Foreign Secretary and his colleague in the Leave campaign both planning to run for that office.

To say that they are not in Government, just because they have not taken the role of PM, is shaky ground: they will be judged on this at the next election, to some extent.

The problem is people still think this number is real. If they knew the true numbers, they would likely vote differently. Hence the back-pressure: now we know the numbers, it might be sensible to re-think this project in its entirety.

Alas, common sense can't prevail because to point out that politicians currently serving in HMG's cabinet are lying liars who lie is politically toxic, and saving face is more important than doing the right thing by the country.
The same thing, but in Ruby stabby-proc notation (from 2012) by Tom Stuart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUhlNx_-wYk

Well, perhaps not exactly the same thing, but only because Ruby requires the Z-combinator due to applicative order.
I'd argue there's also an interest in not filling the streets with excess cab capacity.
Go marathon The Vanilla Ice Project and tell me Bradbury was wrong.
If I hail a taxi cab, by butt-dialing their line, they are extremely unlikely to interpret it as a crank call.

At least, the kind of crank call where they'd need to send a cab.

Either way, please lock your devices.
There is not a single credible source for these heart transplant stories. In fact, not even 1 transplant is document anywhere except on various fake news outlets.
Isn't the PC component an upper limit on performance of a DIMM? PC3200 means 3200MB/s. While a single DDR3 1600 PC12800 DIMM would max at a theoretical 12.8GB/s.

Expand the tables here:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-memory-speeds-compatab...
Considering that Black & Decker own DeWalt, I wouldn't put much hope into your drill being a long lasting professional tool. I put my vote with Makita.
At least they don't have to read the entrails of animals, like the ancient folks did. I guess, we can call that progress.
Buying links wasn't effective? That's like 80% of SEO if you have any sort of budget to work with.
Show, Don't Tell: Why Recruiters Should Ask for More Than a Resume
The thing in that photo is quite porous. Also paper is very penetrable by water, so it wouldn't be too surprising.

But, well, if it's that simple, just soaking cellulose acetate in NaOH should have a huge number of applications. Maybe even more interesting than this 3D printer.

(Gotta try this at home later...)
When my mother bought a new 55" TV a couple of years ago, she didn't even know it was a smart TV (Android 4.4-based) until I came to visit and pointed it out.

She just ignores and never uses any of the smart features.
There have been plenty of studies showing that when you have a homogenous society, people are more likely to care about the common good.

When you have an "us" and "them" society, people are a lot more concerned that "they" are getting over and not working as hard.
Yeah - I dislike Uber's tactics as much as the next guy, and the Waymo lawsuit is nuclear.

But they're spending money like crazy because they still feel like it's getting them "upwind" in ways that will be lasting. New markets, and market dominance in existing markets.

If they scaled back their immense outflows, and used profitable markets to subsidize less profitable ones, I'd bet they could be profitable.
This has long fascinated me too. Reading the letters of Kafka or Darwin are some of my favorite "non-fiction." Though there are still dim analogues of correspondence today.

"Drawing from the 600,000 texts and Facebook messages..."

But we both know it's not the same. One of the reasons I try to write emails to my friends in a very letter-like fashion is because it provides a much more neat (And re-readable) experience. Highly recommended, even if you see the person all the time.
Software Architecture as Business Analysis
Of course you're right. There is bias.

However this bias is informed by pronouncements from the EU themselves declaring they want £50 billion up-front for us leaving, and models that have been updated based on agreements we can see in action elsewhere (Norway, Sweden, WTO tariffs, etc.)

So... yes, it might all be wrong. But if you aren't prepared to accept any model because in the past some models were a little off, well, how are we meant to make reasonable decisions about the future.
Guix and Nix lack the hype of technologies/buzzwords like Docker and anything container related, but they look incredibly pragmatic and easy to use.

Whenever I look at containers I always think they were started with trying to solve the problem of app packaging but at some point they tugged too hard on the tablecloth and all the other virtualization problems came tumbling down, too. I guess you can avoid a lot of these if you stick to running 1 container per host.

Anyway, Guix looks super user friendly and I'm going to give this a try!
Ever since reading this essay 14 years ago (has it really been that long?!) I have always thought:

Haskell. He's talking about something like Haskell - but with whatever additional powers of abstraction and simplification mankind manages to dream up.

I say this, because I have yet to find such an elegant way of expressing computation. But, on the other hand, I have yet to find a "serious" language with as many performance land-mines, which possibly might just not matter given orders of magnitude more memory and computing power.

Given a couple of orders of magnitude, who cares that String = [Char]. It's damned elegant.

For everything else, I'll bet we will use the "C" of the 21st century - Rust :-)

JavaScript will probably continue tracking functional languages like Haskell for many years, albeit remaining without the type system that make them truly useful.

Thank you for re-posting this long-forgotten essay, and taking me down memory lane...
Fake news. I remembered it as real from last year.
Most games definitely fade, and deservedly so. Others, from various incarnations of Mario, to various "Tycoon" games probably will stay around for at least as long as some classic movies. I would still happily play SMB on a NES right now... and I think a lot of people would. It's not just nostalgia, it's a good game, it looks good, it sounds good.

I say this, and I'm not generally into retro for the sake of retro.
Sure did - I haven't the figures to hand but it wasn't alarming. Microservers are more about storage than compute so they have fairly low-power CPUs.

Yes; YMMV but according to http://n40l.wikia.com/wiki/Wake-on-Lan_(WOL) everything in the Microserver family does support WoL.

Power-wise, one thing that never really satisfied me about the setup was that it was hard to spin down disks. I never really dug into why but suspect ZFS is fairly 'chatty' with the underlying storage which prevented the spindown timeout being reached. Can anyone who's looked more closely confirm or deny this?
"Their sister, Abby Rockefeller Mauze, known as “Babs,” died in 1976."
All the brothers have their contributions listed, but she doesn't? According to Wikipedia, Abby Rockefeller Mauze preferred to stay out of the spotlight, but was still a benefactor of the MOMA, YWCA, NY Hospital, NY Zoological Society, and the Asia Society.
In theory yes, in practice, if you want to make a serious improvement in the ergonomics of programming languages for "ordinary" folks, you have to face up to the fact that natural languages don't make an artificial distinction between different aspects of language.
Aggressive perhaps. More effective? Maybe
>>Waymo obviously has good reasons to be pissed off, but they've already set a precedent of permissiveness towards Levandowski's antics

Doesn't matter. It is Google's prerogative whether to go after people who steal their IP. Just because they have not done so in the past does not weaken their case. In fact, it strengthens it, because now they can make the argument that the reason they made an exception in Levandowski's case is because of the humongous potential impact of the technology that was stolen.

IP is not like a trademark where if you don't enforce it you lose it.
In any competitive market if one manufacturer decides to stray far from optimal behavior for such reasons, it won't even last a decade before their competitors overtake them (no matter if simply taking their marketshare, or with literal buyouts, or by taking over their assets in a bankruptcy/restructuring sale) and reverse those practices.

If the industry margin is e.g. 10%, then you might assume more beneficial practices that cost up to 10% if the company is privately held. Not more, and not anything significant if you're public - since if you do so, then it would be trivial for anyone with big resources (e.g. an investment bank or hedge fund) to buy your stock to gain a significant voting percentage, replace management with literally anyone else, and sell stock that immediately becomes so much more valuable.
We don't have specific people that do parsing; if your feature needs changes to the parser, then you make those changes.
I honestly don't understand why insurance is seen as a private affair. Everyone who is not very wealthy requires risk management, because otherwise they run a constant, non trivial risk of complete personal ruin (not just financial ruin, but inability to pay for medical care). Humans are not capable of correctly computing the acceptability of small amounts of risk of ruin. The straightforward solution is to pool risk so that everyone pays a fraction of each catastrophe, which should just be a federal tax.

At a minimum, if you have children, lack of insurance should not be an option.

Then again, I'm also in favor of decreasing U.S. freeway/highway speed lilims and enforcing them strictly (like Japan) for risk reduction reasons... I suspect that my antipathy to American libertarian machismo is far from universal ;)
You're right. It was from a satirical article a while ago that some fake outlets ran with.
Not a clock, but potential competitors. The barrier to entry is simply too low. For example, look how quickly Fasten/Fare/etc appeared in Austin after Uber left.

As a product, ride sharing is not quite a commodity, but it's not far off either. As a consumer, I care more about what the product does (a better taxi service) and how much it costs than exactly what company is providing it. Absent artificial constraints (e.g. taxi licenses) it's never going to be a high margin business.

So yes, they could hunker down and "exist", but that doesn't seem like a viable strategy to the get the kind of projected growth their current valuation depends on.

It's hard to see what inherent long-term advantages they have. Their core business is already a commodity. Even if they somehow get usable driverless tech better/faster/cheaper than anyone else, at some point that will become a commodity too. When that happens, there won't be much left on which to compete beyond price.
> resolving the macros into the simple language and publishing the end result instead of the macros?

That's basically called code generation. Visual Studio had it more than twenty years ago in the form of the "MFC App Wizard".

Problem is, what if the macro-generated code had a bug, and it was expanded in 77 different places (not to mention in subtly different ways)? We want to correct the macro in one place and re-expand it.

Writing code-generating code, but then just retaining the results of the generation, is a serious "anti pattern".
I agree... it's mildly amusing, mildly engaging, mildly informative... it's just mild in the best possible way. It actually feels a bit like looking over someone's shoulder in a workshop, in a pleasant way.
Polypropylene is coming in too. PVA for water-soluble (mostly as support material).
Do you have a source for any of these assertions (especially number 1) or are they all anecdotal?
Lol, the linked article above you about the 7th heart transplant claims that Snopes can't be trusted to debunk the story since they aren't 9/11 truthers. Too good.

Edit, aww, it's deleted, but their argument refuting Snopes was that Snopes also doesn't believe the consensus that a missile hit the Pentagon on 9/11 so you shouldn't trust them.
I rented a "luxury" apartment for a while and despite the faux-granite countertops the appliances were still pretty low-end. They were newer but still about the cheapest models you could get of everything.
OWASP Top 10: Hacking Web Applications with Burp Suite with Chad Furman
This is actually a summary of the original document http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/rapeofthelock/characters.ht...
The "best" part about project Roslyn is that if someone wanted to make an s-expression frontend, they could plug that into the compiler.
Not here in Belgium... I had to hunt one down a week after release - everywhere out of stock, and it doesn't seem like the stores were restocked sufficiently and all new consoles went to pre-orders.

Even phyisical copies of Zelda are very hard to find, and with Nintendo's crazy download pricing - I wanted a physical copy (70 eur for the downloadable version of the game vs 60 for the physical - really?).
Honestly, cellulose is one of the least desired materials I'd want my house made of. After all the additives needed for making it good enough, it will be some kind of ceramic already, so why not start there?

We can already 3D print concrete. Centralized manufacturing still beats that all hands off... And people still insist on manually assembling bricks for a lot of reasons.
I know the author probably didn't mean anything by it, but I dislike the implication that only a dude could bring ZFS to Linux.
Fake news are propelled by the ignorance of those replicating it

Namely: the fact that people barely survive one heart transplant, let alone 7
Hey remember when the media pushed the lie that Saddam had yellow cake Uranium to justify the invasion of Iraq? Remember all the people who lost their jobs over that?

How about the mass "debunking" of Gary Webb's investigative journalism about CIA drug trafficking that the same media outlets later admitted was true, only after they spent years destroying his career and driving him to suicide. Who's head was put in the noose over that one?

Your own examples disprove your own point. There were consequences for Rather because his lie was about a powerful person. There were no consequences for Yellowcake or Webb because those lies were protecting the powerful.
I'm always shocked by how well-read they were. Teenage Jane Carlyle could have passed as a classics professor at an elite university in our time. One anecdote that stands out in Carlyle's Memoirs is that she had learned Latin well enough to understand and recite the Aeneid; as a game at nine years old, she recited Dido's speech from memory while burning a doll on a makeshift pyre.

I'm sure Jane Carlyle was exceptional, but still, one gets this impression from most educated people from the time.