skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope Rust doesn't face the same fate as other ambitious projects by Mozilla. Rust has a quite unusual syntax compare to any other systems programming language. Also, there is a big learning curve. Keeping all the benefits aside, I really hoped Rust had a simpler syntax. I really think, one day a language will borrow the good parts of Rust with a simpler syntax and get ahead of it. Rust in its current form will never be as successful as C/C++.
Brood war has more contrast than SC2. SC2 relies more on color to distinguish things, but BW uses brightness, which human vision is more sensitive to. I much prefer the BW shot.
Lenovo P2, the best battery life you can get from a mobile
UK Government Seeks Access to Encrypted Messaging Apps in Wake of London Attack
At extreme cases, where you want to prove your network stack, you'd have to write it in C (or something equivalently dangerous), because you can't prove big runtimes.

But in mid-way applications, dangerous languages are dangerous, and should be avoided.

I'd think the most "correct" way to handle this is to create small bits of network code with proof of correctness that handles down parsed and tagged (typed) data into code in high level languages. In that case, Curl type of code would still be in C.
6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Tutorial)
the 50p and 20p coins already have polygonal shapes, following this principle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width
6 Ways to Attract a Flock of Angels to Your Venture
This Is How the World Gets Sick
Slaughterhouse-Five
Per the article, one in thirty of these coins are counterfeit.
I find FX to be the best of the bunch for a while now, and I think it's precisely because they're like the non-ticking-boxes, less-formulaic weird little brother to the others: Atlanta, Fargo, Louie, Always Sunny, Better Things, and Legion.

And that's not even mentioning the 'classics': Justified, Terriers (underrated, must-watch!), The Shield, as well as the earlier season(s) of Sons of Anarchy and The Americans.
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Yes I wondered about the 'more secure' claim - secure for whom? I don't have any trouble spending counterfeit coins that may end up in my pocket. Where's the issue? Not with the public.
It's almost as though you can't solve the problem of programmers making errors by having a different set of programmers whom you tell to not make errors.
10! Years!

You kept it going for so long and shut it down.

I guess you grew the blog in a different era (internet time). Can you give more info on how many people you had and how it tapered off?

If you wanted engagement, can you have added engagement features? (Q&A section, call to action to ask questions, announcements of open chats etc)
Thanks, specifically for the non amp link.
This is an incredibly interesting explanation. I don't usually think about how social interaction works on a technical/detailed level like this. As much as I hate to admit I am likely slightly​ autistic and miss some of these more fine grained social details, although I do well by following a learned pattern of being outgoing and friendly. Would love to hear more!
The long lists other users have posted in this thread of bugs in curl that wouldn't have been possible in another language suggests that in fact there's a lot that can go wrong with C.
It's not unreasonable to think about 10, 20 or even 30 years with mostly incremental improvements and no ground-breaking changes in both smartphones and smartwatches. I list some examples below. Several of them are already under development, and some are already available but just not cheap yet.

- Batteries that can be fully charged in 5 minutes;

- Autonomy to go for a month without a charge, achieved by the combinations of new technologies in batteries, screens, chips and better software;

- Scratch and shock resistant screens that can be equally visible on daylight and at night, maybe by working like and colored e-reader screen when there's enough ambient light available, thus making reading more comfortable;

- Some kind of battery charging technology that improves over the awful usb connections that we have nowadays, whose cable connectors don't last much;

- Better cameras that rival today's DSLR. There are some experiences going on using several small combined cheap sensors in a single smartphone to achieve results in the DSLR range;

- Cheap and fast disk storage over say, 10 TB, as fast as RAM;

- Cheap and fast data connection at any location of the planet. Like streaming HD netflix in your tent in the middle of a blizzard in Antartida;

- High quality, small, wireless earphones whose batteries last for a week without recharging;

- Simpler, faster and more efficient development plataforms;

... And I'm sure you can add a few more. Each of these are changes that separately would not be considered exactly ground-breaking, but all of them together could bring mobile computing to a whole new level.
a) surprise. Those "lightly used" cells aren't lightly used. Have you ever bought them? Cheap eBay cells are garbage.
Terrarium ... still has a repo at https://github.com/terrariumapp
I very strongly agree with this. There are certainly web apps that can only reasonably be done mainly-client-side. I'd give Office 365 as a baseline example.

But what drives me crazy is sites like Medium [0][1]. It's a shared blog site. To read a one sentence essay on Medium requires downloading over a megabyte of data. And their comment system is still inscrutably terrible.

Content-focused sites should absolutely not be done as SPAs. Server rendered HTML and client-side enhancement will deliver a better experience to the customer and IMO a better developer experience as well.

[0]: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
[1]: https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1...
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. While it's also a tale of travel and self-exploration (the rediscovery of identity after a nervous breakdown and shock therapy), mostly the book is about thinking. I was a different person after identifying with the narrator who also lived in the mind, and asked questions about basic concepts like 'quality', or qualia of events, objects, roles, and the subjective/objective values they embody or we impart on them. A watershed book for me.
Youtubers are product to viewers, viewers are product to advertisers
Why I put it all on the rich? Here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

Basically, correlate that with a map of GDP per capita.

But to be completely honest I just got fired up as I found (and still find) your comment in bad taste. If you are a rice farmer on the coast of Bangladesh or similar then I apologize. One can argue back and forth about economy, but altering the sea level without compensation to those who loose their land is not fair.

As for what I really believe I think a lot of mass production can be kept, and also noone is proposing to scrap ships or global trade overnight. Proposals for fixing global warming abound and is generally to gradually tax for emissions caused (ie put price tag on externality). This will then drive the economy towards less polluting alternatives where it is easiest.

That is not a "proposed terrible thing for everyone" in the same way that when OPEC doubles the oil price the economy does move on and adapt.

E.g. in my country of Norway some fish gets sent to China for packaging and then it gets shipped back where it came from. Eliminating that indirectly through increased shipping costs means some increased price in frozen fish to the consumer, but also more local jobs.

In the end "end of global trade and mass production" is extremely simplistic. It is all about how well the world economy will do with or without.

And there are studies on that, so that either of us don't have to rely on our gut. And they show the effects of climate change on the global
economy to be devastating when it finally hits. It is not the lesser evil at all.
Psychology: Themes and Variations (textbook for my Psych 101 class in college). That class and book completely changed the way I think because it made me so much more aware of things happening around me everyday.

There were a lot of things but learning about Diffusion of Responsibility was huge. Knowing about it has made me feel almost like it's my responsibility to take action in a crowd.
I read scala for the impatience, but once you know clojure, haskell, erlang and other languages the scala language seems to be one more language, a better java but nothing that really surprise you. I know that using scala you can make your programs very difficult to read using obscure notations for operators. I like to use scala as a repl for exploring java classes, a little more useful that clojure in this regard.
How to Make Your Home More Attractive to Millennial Home Buyers
Still, it does highlight how YouTube sabotages the quality of its own platform by accidentally creating pressure to post at super-high frequency. As a YouTube viewer, I'm actually quite annoyed how confusing its user-interface is. Google is so proud of their AIs that they make it extremely difficult to just get a dumb feed of "what's the latest posts from the channels I follow"? The system really wants you to explore their content and random walk until you've got some guy screaming at you about how Soros and Goldman Sachs are trying to take over the presidency.
There are many, but one is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I read it as a child, and it was the first time I thought about logical thinking.

Here is the section:

“Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn't tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth. ”

What I didn't realize at the time was that Lewis was pushing his theistic argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma

I don't think that detracts from it, however.
The new pound coin has been in the works for years, it's not some knee jerk reaction to Brexit.
Good call! I was literally thinking about rereading that book this morning on the way to work.
Is sci-fi "technology"?

I've taken much from Dune (see the name) but also Clark's books. Comics and the bible have also helped me understand much of US pop culture in a way that i wouldn't without. Realizing the religious overtones in the marvel movies, or the STD metaphor in HarryPotter, is great fun.
Why assume Anne is a Fair Witness?
You've Only Got Three Seconds by Camille Lavington

The book taught me the importance of making a good impression, how to improve my situation, to focus on being effective, and not hang on to things that are holding me back.
This is so far outside my realm of experience I do not know how to read it. I have not been hearing a lot lately about the Pew Die Guy, nor do I know who the Fine Brothers are. There are lots and lots of algorithms and data structures to learn about.
I think it's something to do with the rate at which content is being created today. Ten years ago following 10 blogs that interested you was a no brainer, but there's just so much today that it's hard to follow anything in particular when you are interested in everything. Heck, even sticking to aggregators only like HN and Reddit I'm still saving a lot more links to read later than I'm actually reading.
From what I understood, Hollywood is complaining about positive competition. The prices are higher because there are few actors and scarcity of good staff, and this is a normal supply and demand reaction.
So basically, they are complaining that there is a business model that works better than theirs.
Larger employers usually use a recruiter, either in-house or external. They simply don't have time to sift through tens of thousands of cold-call resumes.

The best thing, as the article admits, is simply to know people inside an organization that you want to work for. There's no better or more reliable way to get a foot in the door. You achieve that by networking like crazy and just getting to know lots of people. Go to every conference and industry event that you can, talk to lots of people there, get active in entrepreneurial groups (in Massachusetts it's Enet and MITEF among others) and keep your LinkedIn profile updated. You never know when that casual conversation around the coffee urn turns into a more serious discussion that can lead to a job offer. I've seen it many times.

The next best practice, at least with larger traditional companies, is to cultivate a good recruiter or two, do a couple of contracting gigs and earn a reputation as a reliable worker, and then they will enthusiastically promote you to hiring managers. Stay away from the crappy, sleazy recruiters - you can recognize them from their spam, lack of response to inquiries, lack of track record. Go with one that has an industry track record and a reputation to protect.

A bot to apply to thousands of jobs? It's a bit of a joke, really. The guy didn't get an offer so that tells you how much that effort was worth.
I was also amused by this quote:

"You just can’t compete with someone coming in with fresh money, low overhead and a lot less baggage than you"

Might as well just give up then right?
...So are explosives.
Unlike large notes with security features, no one really checks £1 coins for authenticity. You can spend them all over the place with very low risk (especially if you can get anything useful from vending machines – buy a train ticket at a major station, for instance, and it'd be essentially risk-free).
That was a long article that could be summed up by: "Sometimes people say stupid things. Most don't record and publish it for the world".
Expanse isn't on netflix in the US, at all. It's on Amazon Prime in the US, on a 1 season delay, or $3 per episode (only season 1 is available for free).
What's cheesy about that line? Hell's Kitchen is a real neighborhood in NYC.
'sharp' would be a good word ;) There's lots to like about it but writing good safe C is harder than it looks.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

It's a deep dive in understanding and empathizing with another human being, and reflecting and finding the things one is grateful for in their own life.
A Vue project for SSR
I occasionally revisit this book every few years as a refresher. Every time I do, I end up making close, life-long friends by applying the techniques in this book.

I'd say this is a must read for just about anyone.
1984. I read this when I was around 13. It profoundly changed how I view the government and technology. It gave me a strong respect for what a government can do, and how our reality is not just our naked perception, but it is what others want us to perceive.
or timbre transfer in general. Drum recording on a cheap beginner drumset -> high end Tama kit
> “You just can’t compete with someone coming in with fresh money, low overhead and a lot less baggage than you,” said Darrell Miller, an entertainment lawyer ...

That's such a delicious juxtaposition of wistful observation, and observer's job title (or 'contribution to society' if you prefer).
Before it was released (or much was known), I was hoping that SC2 would look more like this. In SC2, Terrans lost all of their scrapyard dweller vibe, and Protoss look like TF2 superheroes.
I've blogged (https://sheep.horse/) for about 10 years now in a minor way and monitor my logs pretty carefully. This is what I have learnt:

* Most of my post get single digit views - not daily, in total. Posting on Twitter or Facebook only helps a little. You can't force people to follow your writing.

* I publish RSS and Atom feeds but almost nobody uses them. I ended up removing the social media buttons on my site because they sat unused. The only posts that go viral are the short, simple posts with inflammatory headlines. I don't want to go down that route.

* Occasionally a post will be linked on Reddit or Hacker News. Then the post will get thousands of hits but this tails off quickly. After a couple of days the traffic will go back to normal - I see almost no retention. It is actually quite hard to predict what will be take off and my attempts to promote my work to these sites myself have been completely unsuccessful.

* The best way to capture traffic from Reddit or Hackernews is to catch the eye of a star poster on these sites and have them post the link. Otherwise nobody will care. (Any star posters here? Feel free to post my stuff)

Blogging (and running a website in general) is not popular these days because so much of the oxygen is taken up by social media or sites like Reddit where people can make their points easily in a controlled environment. Time has moved on and unless Facebook collapses I don't see blogging coming back in a big way.
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This line of thinking comes up a lot in longevity discussion. Pretty much all medicine is "unnatural" and extending life. People evolve all the time even while being alive, we change our opinions on things, we learn things, and we make impact on our surroundings. Usually the question of social progress comes up, but there are still quite a lot of people alive today who dealt with segregation in schools, it wasn't just the deaths of people with those beliefs that moved that progress forward. I could even argue that the fact that people have to focus so hard on survival is slowing down a lot of progress.
It turns off your Sharing for what your playing for your session, but if you want to turn of the Sharing completely you have the option to do so.

For example I have a client who streams video games. He has a an on screen overlay that will show what track he is listening to so if his viewers what to know what he is listening to t will show and also be announced in chat. This is mainly done though the use of scrobbling the tracks to last.fm, now when they are not streaming they may not want the world to know what they are listening to this gives them the option to stop posting to last.fm and the Spotify profile until they have been inactive for 6 hours so they don't need to flip the switch back on.

You are not forced to link Facebook or Last.FM, you can unlink them ir prevent Spotify from posting to them.

The only one you are "forced into" is creating a Spotify profile. As you have said (or was it in the link to the request) anyone follow that profile but you can also stop posting what your playing there completely.

Think of this option of more of a standby then a off button. But the off buttons are still there.

If I'm misunderstanding your issue please explain. It reads from your post and the links in it that you take issue that Spotify can make your playing history public and you believe you can only turn that off on a per-session basis (private session gives a footer in the iOS app to so it's enabled), but going though my settings i can turn those features off completely.

Are you trying to stop Spotify recording your history completely from devices signed into the account. I.e. Make it so your computer can not see what tracks you are playing on your phone? Because I believe that is possible too.

I'm not sure how I did it, but I use the same account on my computer and phone (didn't need to sign into Spotify to play via my PS4 but I use the "devices" feature in the iOS app to send what I want to play to the console) and there have been times I've wanted to check my phones history on my computer (heard a track I like while out and about and wanted to put it into a playlist when I got home) but the history was only showing my playback for what I had played on the computer and not the phone. So this is speculation but maybe locking down the privacy settings makes the history only store on the device (ofcause I'm sure Spotify do record it because how else could they do their customised playlists, they also need to atleast keep a note of track plays to pay out royalties but from a privacy point of view Spotify don't have to pair that with a user account).

But the wording on the private session mode option you show says to enable it if you don't want to share your what you are listening too and it's under the social grouping of settings (that wording is missing from the iOS app) so my interpretation of that setting is that it's to do with the social features.

I'm just trying to better understand your complaint as my understanding is that you just need to deselect the other option(s) instead of enabling this one every session.
"The Demon-Haunted World"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

Sagan at his most passionate awesome best.
Yeah, I read the book years ago but wasn't mature enough to appreciate the its value. But as I've gained in years and as my children have grown older I've thought a lot about quality and its significance. I'll be revisiting the book in the near future.
Because, once it's working, you have an upgradable laptop: every time a new rPI comes out, you can swap it out.

Eventually you'll have a better/faster computer than the Intel Centrino, with potentially much better battery life, modern hardware (USB3+, better radio connectivity), better software support (for instance, mainstream Linux distros are now deprecating support for non-PAE CPUs).

I've been giving this some thought: I have a gutted MacBook Pro I plan to perform the same surgery on. Someone spilled soda on it, so the mainboard was already fried... therefore it's not even a downgrade. It's an upgrade from a brick.
There was three parts with 4 episodes each, for a total of 12 episodes. All very good. Sounds like you may have missed the next two, definitely worth watching.
The space before the ? Is a dead giveaway
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Documents a year of her and her family living in Appalachia, totally self-sustaining. Changed the way I think about consumerism and industrialization.
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Let's Plays are videos where people play video games and commentate over them.

Fivrr is a site where people can offer small services for about five bucks.

Pewdiepie is a famous youtuber who produces lets plays. He got in trouble for playing some indian men on Fivrr to wave around signs with racist messages on them on camera as part of a joke. It understandably didn't go over well and lots of people wrote angry articles about it.

The Fine Brothers produce videos where people "react" to things. So you might show a bunch of kids the twist from some movie, and show their reaction to it.
It is definitely more efficient to counterfeit larger denominations but you also have to measure the relative difficulties and chance of getting caught.

The old £1 Coin was relatively easy and cheap to counterfeit and the counterfeits were practically perfect (I've had a few over the years, they're REALLY hard to spot unless you know what you're looking for, just Google "spot a fake £1" for some examples of how good they are).

Seems like many of the counterfeit coins come from abroad, in particular countries with a much lower cost of living and where counterfeiting foreign currency may be ignored. There's also a huge market in pushing counterfeit money onto foreign exchanges in other countries.