skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this event of pleading the fifth compare with Bill Gates' interrogation under the monopoly investigation in 1998? I've heard Gates' insistent way of misunderstanding every single question was something that would piss of judges rather than hide your defense (so much that the judge published a best of during the trial): Do pleading the fifth and playing dumb both harm your defense in the same way?
A good article, if a bit of a rant.

The frustrating thing about all this is that civilised people worked out, back in the 18th century that the solution is to let bullshit and truth have free play so that free people can decide for themselves.

That doesn't mean interweb giants won't have there work cut out for them. But that should be workaday stuff like blocking spam and the like. "The like" includes stuff like folks who make up stupid stuff just to get clicks -- but it doesn't mean every kind of lie or misinformation.
syncthing -- I run it on a vps, couple boxes at home, and there is an iOS app to access that stuff although it's not that great really.
It looks like you have a good grasp of English grammar. It's now time to improve your verbal skills.

It's been shown that the best way to become fluent in a new language is to speak it as much as possible. So, what this means is that , you need to get into conversations with people where you are forced to speak English. Find people to talk to where ever you go. If I were you I would find meet ups on subjects you are interested in and once there start conversations.

Don't be afraid to talk to people because you have trouble communicating with them. The more you do it the better your language skills will get. People can be very helpful so if you don't understand don't be afraid to as for help. I guarantee that within the next year you will have a good handle of the language if you force yourself to use it.

Don't fall into the trap of speaking to only people that speak your language. Ultimately it keeps you from advancing with your dominance of English.
There are some legitimate highly skilled migrants. But for the most part is just a abused to employ unskilled people, or to underpay skilled ones.
I don't think so. It has serious problems, in that it will fail to show data if there's a non linearity that seems severe enough. I've had problems charting stocks that have had a gap up or down, clicking on 1 mo / 3 mo / 6 mo just gets stuck on some random time boundary. Or worse, sometimes it displays the wrong data.

Seeking alpha is a great site you might look at. They also have mobile apps and user generated content. seekingalpha.com
Just make it out of LEDs bright enough to get the point across.
I actually think the opposite. Camera based tracking is the future and the Lighthouse stuff whilst good right now is going to something of a dead end. In the future we're going to be using inside-out tracked headsets which will be highly reliant on camera tech. Even more so for a workable general use AR glasses solution. So perhaps more fiddly to setup now hurting consumer adoption but better in the long term?
The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
I tell all the junior Devs: if you aren't horrified by something you wrote a year ago, you aren't learning fast enough. 20 years in and I still find things I wrote 8 months ago that I would not do again.
This means you actually store customer credit card numbers and have to deal with PCI compliance? Is ensuring PCI compliance very onerous?
Seems a bit interesting to just ignore the whole s=d/t relationship and go for the 2D graphs. Adding the extra variable and doing some nice 3D charts can only create more meaningful data and conclusions.
Sorry for the long time to reply, this is one of the best conversations I've had on HN yet. It's always fascinating to talk to someone with a radically different opinion on things! Thank you for that!

Your argument seems to be that amazon could and would have run just as well without Bezos. The counterargument for that is - why isn't any other company in the same line of business nearly as successful as Amazon then? Clearly, if the concrete people don't matter and the only contribution of the leader is capital, then there is no particular reason why another, as-well-capitalised company shouldn't be as successful as Amazon? Yet none are. Why?

My argument is that a good manager can bring 10 people who separately would each be capable of making 1 abstract thing per month together into a team and create 100 abstract things per month.

There is a saying - a person is smart, crowds are dumb. What Bezos and other leaders bring is the ability to make crowds smart and work together towards a goal.

So, if a good leader can effectively make the difference between a successful company and a broke company, then I do think he deserves 100x or a 1000x more than some guy who's looking for every possible opportunity to slack off and do as little as possible.

Also, you argue that he has already contributed all he can and is now just reaping the rewards from his previous efforts. Doesn't the same apply for any pension scheme though?
What is the reasoning behind this sort of opinion?

If the economy keeps doing well, wouldn't salaries increase?

Couldn't the government invest more in less populated areas around the capital cities so that living in those areas becomes more feasible?

Why have a recession?
Why So Many People Are Named Nguyen
First of all C/C++ doesn't exist, what we have is C and C++.

Second, my issue is with C not C++. C++ is one of my favorite systems programming languages, only spoiled by C copy-paste compatibility, which gets abused by C refugees using a C++ compiler.

I never cared for POSIX, because I always had access to rich C++ libraries, Turbo Vision on MS-DOS, OWL, MFC and ATL on Windows, Motif++ on UNIX and so on.

Windows 3.1 was already doing perfectly fine with C for Win32 SDK, with everything else being done in C++, Turbo Pascal, Delphi and VB.

It was the rise of UNIX, FOSS culture tied to C that changed the wind on C++ sails.

Thankfully Microsoft has decided that C++ is the only system programming language worth keeping and anyone that still wants to use C can keep using gcc and clang instead.

At least there is no place for C in UWP, unless for those that enjoy doing bare COM calls.

As for running around the internet, I guess you are too young, back in the day the C vs C++ flame wars were fought on BBS, USENET or even Teletext messaging boards.

Not everything is (thankfully) written in C, specially in the enterprise world where Java, .NET and C++ rule.

It is also very positive that ANSI C++ working group is turning C++ into a systems programming language with batteries, instead of relying on whatever OS APIs are available.

As for me, I have done my contribution to the world, by not writing a single line of C code since 2002.

The tools of trade are Java, .NET and C++.

One day C++ might get replaced by (Go, Swift, D, Rust, Ada), but currently C++17 as a helper language to Java and .NET, for my line of work, is good enough.

Of course by using RAII, no pre-processor beyond #include, std::string, std::vector, std::array, enum classes, references, templates, std::unique_ptr, , std::shared_ptr, and not a single line of C like coding other than as FFI to third party libraries.
He built the first physical prototypes, he formed a team, and he hustled to make it happen. That's everything.

There's no way Carmack would've done it without Palmer. There's no way Iribe would've done it without Palmer. But I think Palmer would've kept trying til it was done even if none of those guys got on board.
"Out of Control" is freedom.
The New Yorker article on Dennett is actually not up to the New Yorker's usual standards, but it gets at a few key points and punchlines. I linked to one of Dennett's books that I think every physicist would enjoy in my first comment.

I think two inverse arguments to the one you mention are more appealing - about getting close to a human brain with neural networks but not quite being there. First, and the New Yorker article actually mentions this at the end, but if you had a damaged human brain we could all clearly see that you are still human and conscious, just not exactly the way someone with a normal healthy brain is. Second, and this gets to not over-reducing the physical aspect of consciousness, say a Nobel prize winning physicist claims they have located physically in the brain where consciousness lives (I think this actually happened) you could quickly ask her, "so, if you take that puddle of neurons and other material where consciousness lives out of your brain and put it in a jar would you say "you" are now sitting in that jar experiencing what its like to be in a jar?" (also absurd).

As for rocks, that does sound absurd! :)

Really appreciate your thoughts.
The campaign is against all encrypted apps and they just happen to use WhatsApp as a scape goat since it has the largest user base. Targeting Signal or some other obscure encrypted messaging app wouldn't be as effective.
The original link was even better:

What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use?

https//www.technologyreview.com/s/538966/what-is-the-oldest-computer-program-still-in-use/
Spanish woman given jail term for tweeting jokes about Franco-era assassination
> And I would guess that fundamentals like food and land/housing have indeed gotten more expensive.
>
> I'm a little intrigued though: shouldn't technological progress and "accelerating returns" have made things cheaper? I do see for land, that location is a monopoly ("they aren't making any more" - at least, in that spot, in that community, with that access).

Healthcare and education costs have increased hugely, housing costs moderately (moreso in the big cities). Overall inflation is somewhat offset by food and electronics getting much cheaper.

> I wonder how much similar market effects have "artificially" kept other prices high? An oligopoly or silent collusion/combination between sellers (e.g. as happened for flat TVs).

The healthcare marketplace is pretty terrible. Perverse incentives, no pricing transparency, etc is at least part of rapidly increasing costs. Oddly education has gotten much more expensive as well, including K-12, and there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason there.

> Also, I wonder if a different lifestyle is possible, leaning more heavily on those aspects that have gotten cheaper (one e.g. living remotely and working remotely or independently).

Yeah. If you can swing a remote tech job living in a low or moderate cost of living area, you can save enough to retire (in that LCOL location) in a couple years. It can really be single digit years if you can keep your saving rate above 90%.
That's obviously not the only way to enforce abortion laws. You make abortions illegal, then you hold the doctors accountable.

Since it doesn't make sense to imprison the parent in an abortion doesn't mean it doesn't make sense to ban the medical practice of abortion. It's a silly argument, really.
Realm has no real support for web apps. It's for native platforms only. Dealbraker for me.
Here is a perpetuum mobile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
Why isn't it easier with population growth? GDP isn't adjusted by population, so even if the amount per person goes down (as it has been recently), so long as the total amount doesn't - no recession!
16-bit math look-up tables – the unexpected power of scaled-integer math
What sort of benefit would an immediate turn around launch provide?
One thing I kind of wonder is why is there an expectation that the political game at large is supposed to be interpretable or legible? In other words, why shouldn't politics be strange? In most adversarial games we're bound to encounter sabotage and misinformation, with circumstantial evidence being the only kind you can encounter.

So full out dismissal of conspiracies just because they "seem like tin-foil hat stuff" seems naive. It's hard work to dismiss bullshit but equivocally easy to dismiss what might otherwise be viable paths of inquiry. It is possible to take a rational approach.

http://www.collativelearning.com/conspiracy%20theories%20-%2...
My morality doesn't work in terms of averages. "Better on average" doesn't equate to "good enough" to me. It's a way for people to make themselves feel better about doing violence. I am responsible for countless murders due to living a normal American lifestyle. The fact that previous Americans were responsible for a higher number of murders doesn't make that go away.

There are quite possibly more slaves today than there have ever been. The fact that there are more non-slaves too doesn't cancel that out for me.

We are the first generation with the information processing tools to cut these problems down by orders of magnitude in a couple decades. The faster we do the more lives will be saved. If we make the same incremental improvements our parents generation did, we will have failed.
Well with that many US presidents in the KKK and his unmatched worldwide penetration google has it worse than most if not all.
There is a excellent animation of the Buddabrot from Benedikt Bitterli at [1] and a description what he has done to produce it at [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIcydL7wwY
[2] https://benedikt-bitterli.me/buddhabrot/index.html
I think I overused every single pattern, method, or framework I happened to learn until maybe after 15 years of coding.

Probably still do to some extent.

Nice read, and something to reflect upon for all young "fundamentalist". It takes some experience to learn when to bend the rules...
this sounds like Bloomberg LP terminal advertising
FDA approves first drug to treat severe Multiple Sclerosis
Stop Global Slowing!
Fake news != Biased news.

It's the difference between running these headlines:
"Secret child sex-trafficking ring led by Hillary Clinton" vs "Trump lies, yet again"
And you counter with personal anecdotes. But of course they must be true because they fit your narrative.
Where can I find a CRM which can help me handle projects and manage sales team?
Because here are many non-USA citizens on HN who travel to USA for work, conferences, business meetings etc. and are concerned that one day it might happen to them too?
A generic C/C++ Makefile
That, and encrypted texting while driving is just as dangerous as unencrypted texting while driving.
There's nothing new about lulz. I mean, look at 4chan/b/, LiveJournal, Encyclopedia Dramatica, the 8chan boards, etc. What's new is Twitter blasting it to the masses. And various players figuring out how to automate and monetize.
A new material absorbs 99.96% of light
I thought it was vulnerability-ignorant architects create vulnerable systems
Pascal wasn't case sensitive, so it was mostly a matter of style.

On Modula-2 and Oberon languages and their descendants keywords are uppercase and the languages are case sensitive.

But you could anyway write in lowercase and let the editor format the code for you, no need for banging the shift key all the time. :)

Actually I kind of like having keywords as uppercase, it means on a poor man's teletype or modern black-and-white printer without formatting, it is easier to spot the keywords versus the rest of code.
Australia takes 0 refugees?

"Australia’s humanitarian refugee intake will be set at 18,750 people per year, making it the third largest humanitarian programme in the world."

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australias-refugee-intake...
Sort of. Just to clerify: the first layer (Olm) provides a secure channel between pairs of devices, used mainly to share Megolm encryption state between them.

The second layer (Megolm) encrypts each sent message once per room, using a ratchet described by session key data. The session key data is shared 1:1 between the appropriate devices (past and future) over Olm.
Nope, I don't store credit card numbers, payment info never touches my servers at all. I mentioned that I use Spreedly. Spreedly works exactly like Stripe Checkout if you've ever used that. You only store a token referring to payment info they're storing, and pass that token to the API to make charges against it as needed.
Redlining[0] was going on through the 80s. Much of many Americans' net worth is tied up in their houses, and house prices have risen somewhat faster than inflation in American cities. Consider the magnitude to which black Americans as a population were disenfranchised by this practice until quite recently.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
I don't see the appeal of airb&b. I don't want strangers in my home when i am not there to monitor my stuff. That's crazy. And i keep horror stories like this, just read one about a trashed apt in toronto. And i travel a lot and when i do i go through established agencies for rentals. I'm in Bali now, got a great house for a good price through traipadvisor.
Exactly my thought when reading the article. Of course Facebook and Google have the power to stop fake news, simply move away from the ads business model and suddenly there's no incentive to invest in fake news.

Fake news is an offshoot of the web being an advertising space with a seemingly unending supply of brain hacked human bots.
I like the freedom that monetary success gives. I've seen it briefly and it was freaking awesome.

The only reason it gives that freedom though is derived from inequality. The world is an extremely complex system and complex systems have weird emergent and unpredictable behaviours.

Also, some people contribute more than others. I'm certainly not saying that I'm the biggest contributor, but I do know people who can code circles around me (yes, I used to be a software developer, hey, this is HN you know) and really can do things that I could not, because they depend on fundamental understanding of complexity that I'm simply unable to comprehend. There is no way I could have come up with Paxos for example and clearly it has been extremely useful technology. Also I'm sure the inventor (Alan Kay, IIRC) makes a ton more money than I do and he deserves it!

There is no fundamental equality, because people are not equal and peoples contribution to society is not equal.

Bezos already has paid more taxes than I will ever pay - so he has in fact contributed more.
I'd feel like I existed solely for that job.
Salaries and housing prices have become completely decoupled. Home ownership is now out of reach of most Australians. More urban sprawl isn't really a solution because traffic will never cope.

Most people haven't seen the benefits of economic growth, so they don't really care if we have a recession, it's mostly going to hit the wealthy investing in housing. A housing market crash will be the biggest redistribution of wealth the countries ever seen.
I live in Northern Australia, one of the most expensive cities to live in within the country (exceeding even Sydney in a lot of cases), and salaries have absolutely NOT increased to match the rate of real estate pricing.

Sure in some niche jobs (mining sector etc.) there are positions paying massive money ($100K+) to young kids just out of school or an apprenticeship, but overall, in the government sector and small business, the disparity is widening at an alarming rate.

I honestly have no idea how young couples starting out today even are able to afford a small two bedroom unit without BOTH of them being in high paying jobs. I think we will surely see population growth slowing as there is pretty much no way young couples can have a baby and have one parent off work for up to a year to care for the baby, AND own/rent a house/apartment.

Our city is seeing a massive exodus of people, heading south for cheaper pastures - so much so that they (our state government) are holding crisis community meetings to try and ascertain how they can get people to stay. We are talking people who have been here for generations too, not just your average 'fly in fly out' workers.
As a child/teenager delivering newspapers in Gloucestershire every day I knew who worked for GCHQ and who worked for other military/aerospace concerns that had security clearances. I had no interest, this was just standard knowledge needed for my 'performance targets' of getting to their houses before they drove to work. I would know all village gossip and know the business of every house in the village, a very detailed profile based on daily routine inspection, twice daily when delivering evening newspapers too.

I would also know all about holidays, if the newspaper had to be stopped for a while then I would know where they were going and when they would be back. I did put two and two together - 'Cyprus again...' - and I also saw the subtle differences in dress code and lifestyle that goes with these civil servants.

I do wonder if the CIA thought to recruit paperboys to do some intelligence gathering for them, perfect 'cover'!!!
Or you do what Matrix does, and given every device its own keypair, and let users track whether they are talking to a trusted decice or not.
Not an expert in noise dampening as a whole, but often building better has negative cost in the long run. Good windows with good insulation always pay off in the heating/AC bills, for example.
Human Trafficking and Slavery Secretly Persists in US Restaurants and Bars
Server isn't open sourced yet... I saw a video where they claimed "Q1 2017", but that doesn't leave them much time...
This is not how kids talk these days. Source: I have a kid.
Well, I am old enough to remember "The recession we had to have" back in the 80's here in Australia. And yes, that was triggered by the federal government and the reserve bank for what it was worth.

I think interest rates have been too low for too long. Yes, it has encouraged spending, but methinks too much spending as I have seen friends and family totally overextend themselves on huge loans for huge houses just because they could. Even interest rates move up even 1%, they will be pushed against the wall to try and service those loans, and that in itself may trigger massive sell offs and bring housing prices crashing down.

It's basically a tightrope walk across a windy gorge at the moment - everything is precariously balanced, but for how much longer??
[video] Douglas Crockford Keynote about JavaScript at Oracle Code
There's still plenty of efficiency improvements to be made.
Actually that's a pretty big deal. Financial institutions have far more stringent rules than an average company regarding communications.

Analysts must be shielded by "Chinese walls" from traders. Just imagine what a trader can do if he gets a 20 minute head start (or just a few pertinent bullet points) of an influential report, which is about to be published. Look up 'front running' for details.

Communications within financial companies and between banks and outside entities are pretty heavily regulated. And for very good reason.
Isn't most of the growth due to the mining industry there?
We're not aware of any crashes at all on Riot/Desktop (especially as it's an electron app, so crashes will be due to chromium bugs). Please can you make sure it's filed on https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues? thanks!
Interesting article, but that pie chart is one of the worst I've ever seen. The keys aren't ordered by number and two different but significant slices have colors nearly/practically indistinguishable. After some interpretation it looks as though the keys follow the chart around clockwise.

Pie Charts: Just say NO!
Simple enough: facebook give more visibility to what people share the most. Fake news are exploiting neuroscience knowledge of how the brain works to elicit the response they want from the reader and aim of reaching a larger audience so they're largely shared on facebook closing the loop.
> and doesn't even accept a single refugee

I assume you came to this misunderstanding because of our (legally and morally dubious) policy of not settling refugees that arrive by boat. I assure you we do accept refugees.

Other posters have dealt with your other factual misconceptions than I can, but a personal appeal from me to resist posting with a sense of authority on a topic you apparently are so unqualified to make statements about.