skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gee, you seem to be pointing a tough question at somebody who advocated some "world policing" but I wonder who that was because it wasn't the parent post.

In fact, re-read that comment, because what was said pretty much advocated policing absolutely nobody.

But, okay, let's all argue. You're right. North Korea isn't isolated from the world at all, and its citizens pretty much go anywhere they want, do whatever they want, and come back home whenever they're done doing as they please.

But I wonder: if the typical North Korean citizen were unhappy (and we know they aren't), where would they go, and what would they do, if this hypothetical repressive lid (which doesn't exist) were suddenly lifted, and the pressure of a (normal) subculture were relaxed?
My biggest issue with Elixir right now is that in order to take advantage of its main selling points (process model, concurrency, etc), your running applications are essentially stateful. This adds some complexity to the way it is run, especially if the server load is highly dynamic, and you need to scale up and down instances every few hours.

This means deployment and running a production elixir app is fundamentally "different", which leads to people reaching for hot code swapping, treating servers as "pet" instead of "livestock", etc.

With tools like Kubernetes and containers taking over more and more of the ops world, running an Elixir application feels like swimming against the current as the BEAM VM have its own clustering system that requires some workaround to make it work well with an elastic auto-scaling cluster.
Why do people always suggest that shareholders should be the first to benefit from company profits? Shareholders don't do anything to create value. Apple doesn't benefit at all when someone buys or sells their shares.

Why do companies not disburse excess profits like this to those that were responsible for creating the value in the first place?
Buy-backs are more tax efficient because they increase stock price. Stock price increases are not taxed until they are realized, so it is beneficial to long-term stockholders who may not sell for many years, possibly not for decades.

Dividends are taxed in the year of payment, so investors lose some of that gain within a year.

On the flip side, buy-backs can be a poor way to spend cash, as companies might buy back at high stock prices. So the third way to reward the stockholder is to just keep that cash stashed in a bank account -- you get neither taxed (dividends) nor do you buy back potentially inflated shares. However, you have the cash stashed away to do either if you ever need to, or find a good opportunity to (e.g., stock price slump.)
Latin script doesn't prevent this. Depending on how it's Latinized, it could be just as easy: if you're familiar with how Latin letters are pronounced in Spanish, it's pretty easy to guess the spelling of unknown Spanish words.
Will they accept this idea related to providing HOUSEHOLD requirements
Will people accept the concept of virtually live shop or directly voice recording or directly writing down their order in addition to traditional method of scrolling, searching and buying the products related to regular HOUSEHOLD requirements?
Define "nicely integrated" here, because I'm perfectly satisfied with my 3.5mm to cassette adapter.
When companies say "cash", it is not physical cash, but cash in the bank. It may not even be in a bank, but may be in money-market funds. It is usually stashed away in highly-liquid money market funds which return slightly more interest than the bank would.
I hope this question is relevant enough to the thread to ask here: what language did the people of Turkey, and by extension most of the Turkic-speaking countries, speak before the Mongolian invasion? Are there traces of that former language in their current one? I know that there's definitely plenty of Arabic and Persian words still in use, and since Ataturk there's been a lot of French/other latin languages added as well.
HK0/OZ1AA Providencia Island
Yes I know its convoluted but do want to keep paying taxes every year or just renounce citizenship , it's your choice.
jlp looks like a great idea, of course this reminds me of the COME FROM statement described in the April 1, 1984 issue of CACM.

"A linguistic contribution to GOTO-less programming"

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358043

"The earliest known description of the COME FROM statement in the computing literature is in R. L. Clark, "A Linguistic contribution to GOTO-less programming," Commun. ACM 27 (1984), pp. 349-350, part of the famous April Fools issue of CACM. The subsequent rush by language designers to include the statement in their languages was underwhelming, one might even say nonexistent."
Hate to even invite the rabbit hole, but even on HN you will find many people who fundamentally disagree with your assumption that copyright itself is reasonable in the first place.

It is akin to the marijuana legalization movement in many ways - pot was always illegal, so it should always be illegal, and to question why it is illegal is to be unreasonable. Debate about sentencing, classification, possible medical use - possibly reasonable, but to question the fundamentals starts drawing on cultural and emotional ire and identity that starts breaking down reasonable debate.

Copyright to many works much the same way - especially when no new works have entered the public domain in the lifetime of the vast majority of the populace - it has always been there, thus even if you debate duration you assume it must remain because to question why it exists in the first place is, again, to be unreasonable.
Previously known as "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
Some research on worms, mice, and monkeys has pointed at caloric restriction and/or a carb-free diets helping with longevity. If I recall correctly, these two strategies help with insulin sensitivity and other hormones that are known to serve as regulators in certain DNA repair pathways.

I think posters above are not supposing that caloric restriction could have helped at random. Rather, they have read about it helping with longevity -- unlike odd numbers of food.

Thanks for your comment.
You can't teach people, you can't train people, you can't show anything over a phone or a chat.

I'm going to challenge that. If you need direct, synchronous, face-to-face communication in order to teach or train, I have to question the quality of your documentation. I would also question whether the people with whom you are engaging in direct face-to-face communication are being trained adequately. For many people, verbal communication isn't the most effective way of teaching. They would rather have a written document that they can refer to, over and over again, as they learn whatever it is they need to do.
The tax holiday is probably the only good thing a Trump administration could do at this point.
The weak "you've stated opinions of the wrong tribe in other discussions, therefore nobody should believe you" character attacks are a boring waste of time. Please respond to the comment at hand; digging through post history to find character attack material really isn't great on multiple levels.
In France, my two first years of CS were taught in OCaml. 20k+ students are learning that way every year over there. We learn about recursions, complexity, types, compilers, language theory, graph theory ... without leaving the confort of one expressive language.
I terribly missed OCaml when I had to realign with the technologies promoted in job offers and expected within the industry.
This sounds similar to a post of a blind programmer.

Those are good arguments for privacy.

Sometimes you got something to hide. Not a crime but because you don't want to be discriminated.

Sad that it has to be this way.
> Consumption drives demand. Which drives the economy.

That's one way to look at it. But obviously at an extreme it doesn't work. The best way to increase monentary velocity and consumption is hyperinflation, but nobody is advocating that.

If consumption were truly driving the economy, Venezuela and Zimbabewe would be monentary powerhouses.
Hacker documents show NSA tools for breaching global money transfer system
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for creating and sharing it. I'll give it a try.
Ring-Road Bug
Nice, I was researching that very topic the other day.

Note that making a DIY LCD, on the other hand, seems fairly manageable: http://hackaday.com/2016/06/17/how-to-make-a-custom-lcd-from...
Ask HN: Service to report local ip
Is there a service to report local ip address.

for example, my work machine is under a vpn network. I connect from home to the vpn, but I don't know the ip of my work machine, as its ip is dynamically assigned.

I want to find a service, so that my work machine can periodically report its ip address to the service. so I can retrieve it at anytime?
Purdue CERIAS Researchers Find Vulnerability in Google Protocol

https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/purdue_cerias_r...
How the BBC’s truth offensive beat Hitler’s propaganda machine
Or just ban the links from HN. Paywall articles have no business showing up on a site meant to engage in community discussion. There are plenty of other things for us to share.
Language change that shifts populations away from their historical niche and towards global systems conflicts me.

One the one hand I find it sad that whole bodies of literature will pass out of understanding.

On the other hand this seems like it will make it slightly easier for the Kazakh people to interoperate with the rest of the world.

In the end I believe the greater good comes from enabling more people to talk to each other.

(I know, it's "just" a script change, not a new language, but I feel the two are sufficiently related that the point stands).
I didn't say "nobody should believe" the poster, I said I'm seeing a pattern. And I didn't have to dig deep, it's quite literally the last three comments the poster made.

When I'm replying to someone, I very often look at their other comments. It gives me more context about who they are, how they think, and more often than not leads me to other interesting articles. It's an exercise I recommend.
Show me the signed contract. With a promotional deal with sportswear there is a contract, where's the contract here?

Let's stretch this analogy a bit. Let's say I watch broadcast television with ad breaks. Except every single ad break I either go to the kitchen to get a snack, go to the bathroom, or go do something else. Every time completely missing 100% of the ad. Is this "wrong"? Did I not "pay"? Why? Would the broadcaster be legally within their rights to come to my home strap me into a chair and force me to watch 15 minutes of ads (that I missed) for every hour of content I watched on their network? Would they be within their rights to send me a bill for the content because I decided to spend the time urinating instead of consuming their advertisements?
> The roaring economy of the 50s...

That's a huge oversimplification. It helped that Europe and Asia were devastated by the war, and our gearing up industry for war led to huge dividends for us because we still had factories and raw materials which remained intact.

And evidence on the new deal is equivocal [0]. It didn't seem to have much impact until the war.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123353276749137485
> Also here is an English language version of your Wikipedia link: ..

No, it's a different article, and I link to it too.

> Was something else used for Russian prior to Cyrillic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script
It's elder than Cyrillic, but it was very little used in ancient Rus and was mostly used by south and western Slavs where Slavic writing was originally created.
Could I use a Visionect Module to build an eInk laptop?
I don't think the point does still stand with just a script change. Learning a new alphabet is orders of magnitude easier than learning a new language.

Touch typing with an alphabet that's not printed on your physical keyboard can challenging though (I still struggle a bit with that).
Can someone remind me what that's for? I never use it, I keep trying to look it up and then I forget it again. Maybe because I never quite understood it properly.
As stated in the article, the script they currently use was forced on them by the Soviets. Before then, they used Latin characters, and before that, Arabic.
There has been no actual benefit to consumers to use Apple Pay.

If Goldman Sachs (or Apple) offered a 5% return to purchases using Apply Pay, I'd use it.

If I could give out purchasing "cards" to all my team which relied on Apple Pay but brought back realtime stats, that'd be a win too (especially if it did things like track capital purchases, warranties, management, etc.)
I would modify your word "friendly" to instead be "playful". Competition can be healthy, beneficial, and fun, but usually only when it's playful. Consider the difference between a couple kids playing baseball for their own amusement on the one hand and a bunch of stressed out, angry, yelling parents at a little league game. There are extremes to competition and often the point where you try to win at all costs is where things break down and the negatives have the potential to overwhelm the positives.
Fundamentals like Calculus are difficult because they're almost never presented in the context of a problem a person wants to solve. I had a difficult time feeling motivated until I picked up something I wanted to achieve, saw course material as tools to get there, then all of a sudden it was a very different matter. Math isn't fun by itself IMO, but using it to solve problems I actually want to solve is a lot of fun (even the fundamentals).
They are actually shifting back to (one of) the original alphabets.

> Nazarbayev described the use of the Cyrillic script as "political," noting that the Latin alphabet had previously been used from 1929 until 1940. Prior to 1929, the Arabic script had been used. "In 1940 … a law was adopted transferring the Kazakh language from the Latin alphabet to one based on Russian script,"

Also:

> The Kazakh language belongs to the family of Turkic languages, whereas Russian is a Slavic language. Other countries with Turkic languages, such as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, currently use the Latin alphabet.

At the end of the day, this is not really about interoperating with the rest of the world. It's about pride and national identity.
Nicely done. Not to give anyone any ideas, but the 'gravity'/'attract' mode could be used for some very dark UI patterns.
I think this is a tautology.
" I couldn't vote, but I was hoping Sarah Palin won last time in the US elections. I'm hoping Donald Trump wins this year's election. For the reason that it will fuck up that country so much faster then if a less bad President wins. Our whole world is just so focused on money, money, money. That's the biggest problem. That's why everything fucks up. That's the target we have to fix. We need to make sure that we are going to get a different focus in life."
Pretty smart once you figure out how it works. Wonder if there's some kind of advanced click-jacking attack you could achieve with a technique like this.
Because, historically capitalism has been the single most efficient machine to lift people out of poverty ?
Only government sovereign wealth funds, like Saudi Arabia, Norway or China.
It works well in Northern Europe. The Nordic model is capitalism mixed with equality, transparency, a shared healthcare system, free education, proportional representation and a few more things.

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570835-nordic...
Ok, but very few people are ever older than everyone else.
Great story. I came upon my current job in a similar fashion, and I love it.

Can a mod change the title to read (2013) since this article is fairly old, though?
I don't know how accurate this is, but I found this on Wikipedia:

> The traditional theory (which was widely supported by historians and linguists in the 19–20th centuries, see e.g. Max Vasmer's etymological dictionary of Russian) is that the modern name of the country is derived from the term "ukraina" in the sense ‘borderland, frontier region, marches’ etc. These meanings can be derived from the Proto-Slavic noun *krajь, meaning ‘edge, border’. Contemporary parallels for this are Russian okráina ‘outskirts’ and kraj ‘border district’.

However:

> Some Ukrainian scholars, such as Hryhoriy Pivtorak, Fedir Shevchenko, Mykola Andrusyak, Serhiy Shelukhin believe that the name is derived from ukraina in the sense of ‘region, principality, country’. Many medieval occurrences of the word can be interpreted as having that meaning. In this sense, the word can be associated with contemporary Ukrainian krajina, Belarusian kraina and Russian and Polish kraj, all meaning ‘country’ (see Translations, 'region of land').

So different people have different interpretations.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine
That's great Kyle.
I once worked for a German laser company where promotions to the highest positions were based mainly on physical height.
Who is that competitor and who would be the investors? Someone would need to invest billions to make a gamble that they could make a dent in marketshare vs Uber. That doesn't seem like great way to spend billions.
Trick doesn't work on Firefox 52: original cursor is visible as well as the fake one
Works on Chrome, though
Just brake and don't swerve! You don't have to solve stupid ethics puzzles to drive. Perfect is the enemy of the good, etc.
> Neither support connecting to a pre-existing machine via SSH under normal use cases (you can make it happen through some advanced configuration trickery with Terraform, but it's abnormal).

Is a `null_resource` with an s `file` or `remote_exec` provisioner really "advanced configuration trickery"? I don't do this often in production, but when hacking on a module it's nice to be able to re-provision a resource without going through the entire destroy/create process over and over.
I think he would benefit from putting a little more thought in to why people might judge someone very young as being responsible enough/capable enough/etc. It is not just, or even mostly, prejudice.
Wikipedia gives the form of romanization currently used on Kazakh government websites [1]. This extends the standard 26-letter Latin alphabet by adding diacritical marks to some of the letters (the way many other languages do, that have more sounds than 26 letters can express).

I seem to recall reading that as part of the romanization effort, Kazakhstan will also consider spelling reform, so that there will probably not be an exact one-to-one correspondence between the current Cyrillic spelling and the new Latin spelling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_alphabets#Latin
In terms of "easy to begin using", there really is no comparison.

I know there are other metrics, but you have to admit that's a big one.
I once made an advert for you =)

"Welcome to goon radio... get off my plane!"
I wish we would have the option to buy superior computers nowadays. 10 GHz 16 core hundreds of GB RAM in a desktop tower. Innovation kind of stopped, now no one invests on single core performance anymore. Notebook CPUs are still at two core and less than 3GHz. People come up with myth that Hz doesn't matter - yes the memory and everything else got faster, but faster clock speed still matters. Maybe AMD's new CPU is a wake up call to release some new better CPUs. It's time to rethink the Pentium3/PentiumM/Core/i7-architecture, maybe give a different architecture idea (like Pentium 4) a new spin.
And this is why I think fulltime employment is the wrong way to go for many people today.

In fact the whole "we are an institution and you are a peon" mentality needs to be disrupted.

More companies should hire on a project basis and share the revenues. More companies should try holacracy and abolish a top down chain of command for everything.

Then people can really will be compensated on their merit, ie their contributions.

In our own company, I laid out how we do it https://qbix.com/blog ... would welcome your thoughts.
The repel was the funniest things I have seen all day.
It's not hard to have basic knowledge of a new script with a limited number of characters. But operating with it on a daily basis is another matter. My reading speed in Japanese kana is about one-tenth of that in English (not even counting the kanji, most of which I don't know), where my Spanish reading speed is probably at least half of English. Maybe it would be higher with a more regular exposure to the character set, but it's still liable to be a difficult transition for many people.
As a Turk I can tell you to what extend I understand the other Turkic languages without any study:
100%: Turks from the balkans, Cyprus, Crimean tatars, Iraki and Syrian Turkmens, and Azeri turks from nothern Iran and Azerbaycan
80%: Turkmens form Turkmenistan
50%-60%:Uzbekistan(no vowel harmonization really weird :D) and Uigurs from western China
30-50%: Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan
10-30%: Turkic tribes from Siberia.

Of course it is much more easy to read and understand the latin transcription of these languages.
Thats a awesome idea.
Some people who had to work 1/1/00 or were on call (e.g. for Y2K) did in fact celebrate the technical new millenium a year later. Probably a few pedants did too.
I think part of the misconception comes from the fact that programs written in a competitive programming setting look very cryptic. Variables are not given meaningful names, there're very little comments, sometimes clever tricks are used etc. But people don't realize that in a professional software, they can take the time to write readable code and still make use of their competitive programming skills.
It depends on the type of USB audio device. USB MIDI devices, for example, use bulk transfers because they need reliable communications to handle things like sysex sends. Additionally, Ethernet, through the AVB suite [1] does have time reservation, synchronization, and other things that are very useful in dealing with realtime data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging
At least in Firefox (don't know about Chrome), it's also much more restricted in what it can do.
Talent and experience aren't the same thing, and they both affect compensation.

Talent can produce a better result than experience, but experience is almost always more consistent. There's added value in consistency for companies. That's not discrimination (ugh), it's a business reality.
In that link they even give a full example:

var video = document.querySelector('video');
video.controlsList.remove('noremote');

Just change 'noremote' to 'nodownload'
Not sure who it helps. Low-earning Russians weren't really using it. High-earning ones that need to use it, e.g. Russian investors, will just be finding ways to still use it - VPN, travel to Estonia etc.
Show HN: Klipse- a JavaScript plugin for interactive code snippets in blog posts
Juxtaposition is a form of implicit comparison.
Loved the post. I've been through something similar.
In practice languages don't need to be popular for you to use them. They might be hard sells to bosses and the like, but there is room for impopular technology in the market as well. All you need is a main advocate with enough sway with bosses and the like.

There are positions at companies using niche languages. Even though most companies prefer not to make broad technical decisions (even though they have CTOs, etc.), plenty of them do and so you're not going to find them making massively concurrent backends in Java.

Even in the situation where there are no jobs for a language, why would you really not use it if it's the best tool you have? The onus is not on the language/technology to make people realize it's great. The reverse is true too: It's not Java's, JavaScript's, C++, Ruby's or any other language's fault that people are stupid enough to make backends in them. Even if the majority of those languages/platforms were good it'd be stupid to use them for things they're designed not to do.