skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why don't societies fluctuate around an equilibrium of maximum complexity maintainable?"

If you look at the last ~10,000 years of history, arguably you can see that. The cycles are longer than you might think, though.

I think technology really throws the cycles for a loop, though. I'm a big fan of looking at history, and an even bigger fan of not thinking that we're just so special that we're specially immune to history or the forces that it shows exist, which history shows is a popular delusion and is very alive and well today. On the other hand, I think the last 200 years of technology is a fundamental shift, too, and while history never truly repeats itself, I think there's good reason to think that we now more than ever can't just take past collapses and expect them to match what is currently happening.

People have not necessarily fundamentally changed from historical people, but the relationships between people definitely have, and that's probably going to have some sort of effect. I don't mean anything like "Facebook is a big change", either. I think the most important change is massive speed change in both communication and travel. I think we're well past the point where quantitative change becomes qualitative change there.

I also want to say I'm not necessarily making utopian predictions; I'm just not sure the old disasters are inevitable. In particular I think that in the 21st century there's a not unreasonably chance that, say, the United States Federal government could completely collapse (for the sake of argument, imagine a nuke taking out the whole of Washington DC), but the modern speed of communication could result in effective, functioning emergency governments arising in just a year or two instead of decades. (Probably based on existing state governments, but I'm not sure the US as a whole would reform necessarily. Pieces of it, probably, but I'm not sure the whole would.) If swift collapse is matched by swift reassembly of other governments, will we necessarily see decades or centuries of a "dark age"? If the reassembly can occur before all the technical knowledge dies off?

On the other hand, new nightmare scenarios are on the table too; for instance, "one world government" will always be tempting (because the Powers that Be who think they will be in charge will always push for it), but the possibility that it could create total correlated economic failure across the entire world would be the biggest catastrophe in human history, and the benefits of it basically can't possibly outweigh this possibility. I suppose that'll be a Black Swan relative to the people pushing for this, though for me I consider it so obviously inevitable based on history that it probably isn't one for me.

Anyways, the upshot is that while history has things to teach us and we are well-advised to learn as much as we can from it, I also believe that in certain fundamental ways we are breaking new ground, with all that implies.
Same here. It is a good combination and creating a build task for nim is super simple.
So the Met asked the indian police, who in turn reached out to groups (!) of local hackers to carry out the work, who then presumably passed the data back through the chain to the Met.

Hard to believe someone found out with such a watertight process...
Absolutely. I've been doing "frontend" work before it was even a term (ie. html tables for layout), and it's still the #1 thorn in my side. Even with all the tools available, developing a functional, aesthetically pleasing GUI is not an easy task.

Plus, organizing your code so it's not a 15-nested-div mess with inline CSS just to make the damn thing look right.

It's probably why most of my personal projects have a CLI, and that's it.
that's a horrible pattern. As soon as you go 1 bit over your cache size in a hot loop you'll have a 100% miss rate. (assuming each element is loaded once in the hot loop).
> Majority in what way? Not necessarily a majority of the people.

The people are irrelevant, because the United States is composed of the States, not of the people. The majority of the states, through their electors, elect the President.

> So those states represent the views of more people. Under your system, someone in South Dakota would have a 1/750,000th of a say in their state's choice, while someone in California would have a 1/36Mth of a say in their state's choice.

Why care about the number of people represented? California is free to petition the Congress to split into smaller, South-Dakota-sized states if it so wishes. More to the point, California and South Dakota are individual sovereign states which are each part of the United States. They are constitutional equals. It would be unfair to give California forty-eight times the voice of South Dakota.

Frankly, I think our Constitution has a good balance: the People are represented in the House; the States in the Senate (which is why direct election of Senators is a catastrophically disastrous mistake); and states determine how to choose their electors. I'm in favour of constitutional amendments revoking the 17th Amendment and mandating that state legislatures appoint senators & electors.
I've been installing cynicism for years. Its a huge patch and the devs seem to have added more bugs than they fixed. It causes some communication issues with those not running the patched version.
Good simple looking commenting system.

Commenting systems can be really tricky when it comes to handling different kind of items (Post comment, comment reply, image comment (polymorphic)) and the notification part can take ages to get right.

On GoNevis we'll soon roll out vote/like on comments as well.

Keep up the good work.
Congrats on shipping! I tried chef Watson [1] a while back and it was very good. I liked that the suggestions were not exactly something out of a menu. I'll give this a try to see how it compares.

[1]: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community
Do you still have the scraper? I'd love to see it.
For me it was "nobody needs my app, except myself"
Show HN: A Guide to Security Best Practices for Remote Teams
While that is possible, it is difficult to vet the supply chain.
America Needs More Foreign Investment
For anyone who's interested in more advice like this, your friend's trick almost certainly originates from Michael Gerber's book The E-Myth [Re-visited]. Highly recommended reading for anyone starting a small business.

On GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisite...

On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887307280
If you asked me which I fear more, the government (I'm British) slowly inching towards 'soft' totalitarianism or terrorism I'd have to say the former not the latter.

However I don't really fear either though I think the former is the more likely thing to affect me.
Can someone please give me perspective?

Does the newspaper increase/decrease revenue with better surfacing?

If so, how much? Or conversely, if they don't bother tracking this (& spend $ on a human resource ) will there be any appreciable decrease in revenue.

Or is this one person asking the world, "hey, have you also seen this?"
Any chance you know how to implement PID control? I'm still throwing errors. Last night I was looking through a pull request that threw a breaking error and realized it was due to two uses of D (one for the key, one for the D in PID). Still having issues though after fixing that.

If you have any ideas:
https://github.com/Sentdex/pygta5/pull/3
For those who don't get this brilliant reference: http://www.bash.org/?244321
Depends on how he reacted to the change. I started talking to my friends on the phone more often. I probably also reduced the overall number of friends I have - but then are they really friends if you won't make the effort to contact them? Maybe I'm just old enough to feel comfortable letting past friends, colleagues, etc. fade into the past in favor of focusing on the people right in front of me.
Aren't those console JRPGs?
Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist
Clicking on yes i like to be tied up in a 100 questions survey is veeery far from actually liking it IRL
It's a game to all newspapers.

Reporters may be motivated to report news, but newspapers are only motivated to get readers and advertisers.
Curious - why wouldn't your CPU L1/L2/L3 caches always be "full?" What does it even mean to have a "full" cache in that context? Wouldn't they, under normal operations, typically fill up in a few seconds? (If not milliseconds?)
Nice, but I'm not entirely sure about this one:

> * Sleep, exercise & healthy food > late night coding

Looks like it's against other points. I have a full-time job and I'd like to create a brand, too. Thus. I have to do late night coding.
Himebot: A bot for playing music
"Gandhi sent out his forces" LOLL!!
He wasnt in command either!
I need what you are smoking!
Or, perhaps, our galaxy has been identified, observed and quarantined to prevent the spread of war and enslavement.

God, The Universe & Everything Else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQQAv5svkk
> Truck drivers are on the verge of severe disruption

I keep hearing this. Have for years. I don't expect it to actually happen anytime soon. We're still stuck in the "assisted cruise control" and "lane keeping" age, a good decade after the technologies were first introduced into consumer cars.

Let me know when the self-driving cars can do even level 4 automation on more than the well marked, sun-drenched California roads. Then we can talk about the immanent automation of all of the trucks.
Ok, so when you were telling me 'that's not what oversampling means', you meant 'I disagree with what you are saying'. I would be more inclined to debate if you approached the disagreement in a more open fashion.

Your partisan paragraphs further make me think I will be wasting my time here, so let's just say we have different views on the polls :).
Zelda games are generally not considered RPGs.
I made the mistake to not focus on the business first. The tech is interesting but priority number one, two and three should be the business. Finding customers and serving them efficiently should be the main focus. Only then think about what tech to use.
Why this stigma against acknowledging that potential victims can (and would be wise to) take steps to protect themselves.

Yes, dressing a certain way, drinking a lot of alcohol, and attending a party doesn't begin to excuse rape. But that doesn't mean it was a good idea and is something you should do without considering the possible consequences.

If someone calls and says they work for a security firm, offers to confirm if you were involved in a hack and you do tell them your password, you are probably falling for a scam. That's all GP is saying.
> This is partly why I am an anarcho-Communist

You believe in an oxymoron?
Good advice. Some of these (most?) apply to the business-side founder types as well:

> Simple products that do one thing well > Complex products

It has been my experience that business people constantly make this mistake. They feel a product has to satisfy all needs. The engineers I have met have consistently argued to remove features that are expensive to develop and add little value.

Both of those are anecdotes. Your milage may vary.
I have a 1070 and Chrome crashes all the time watching streams/youtube, got flickering on windows when running a 144hz monitor
Well, that was unintentional. My apologies!
A look at my BBS Software from '93
It is not a stretch. The government must not spy its citizens. Period. They are the only ones to get blame.

If I get my bike stolen I am not be blamed if I use a shitty lock.

If I get raped I am not to be blamed if I was too drunk to resist.

If I get hacked I am not to be blamed if I was susceptible to social engineering.

Yes, it is very useful for potential victims to learn how to best protect themselves. But the moral responsibility in such violations is on the attacker, and is proportional to the damage caused to the victim, not the efforts taken to cause it.

Admittedly, this is part of why part of the crypto-activist community puts me off. Yes, cryptography is a great resistance tool, but my utopia is a society built on cooperation, equality and trust, not one of algebraic fences.
Show HN: My RIP Goodbye to my Co-Founder Carlos Icaza
Carlos Icaza was my co-founder at Lanica (an Appcelerator backed company). He passed away this summer unexpectedly. I wasn’t able to find the right words to say at the time. But since we spent so much in code, I decided I should code something in his memory instead.

Carlos was also the co-founder of the Corona SDK, and was also a lead/manager for Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Flash before that. He also ran @codinginswift on Twitter with over 18,000 followers.

I finally finished my tribute and debuted it at the try! Swift conference in Tokyo last month at the end of my Swift on Android talk. That whole talk has just been publicly posted, but I wanted to make it more accessible so I’ve uploaded just the demo part to YouTube. (It also contains some fixes and improvements since the conference.)

Dance of the Fairies

https://youtu.be/ciphph8R4sU

It’s also inspired by an old Sierra On-Line game series, Quest for Glory. I wrote more about both Carlos and the demo on my blog.

http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/dance-of-the-fairi...

Thank you for reading/watching
Surely there's some definition that's reasonable.

You will not be accepted as a programmer until you've written some code; or as an athlete until you've done some nontrivial athletic stuff. Why should othe categories be different?
Perhaps those 0.5% are the ones who matter. There are friends and then there facebook friends.
i'm in this situation as well, i've moved to a slack group with my work friends and direct messaging with others, facebook was just a shitty way to talk to people i don't really care about where my posts were spirited away almost immediately

0.5% is being generous, i had almost no interaction with people i cared about while i was on there and i'm glad i've switched to other platforms where they aren't as interested in feeding me their stuff and just letting people talk
Which is why I much prefer Reddit than Facebook. Content is curated by each community and not some corporation. There is a "hot" algorithm but you are free to switch to "top", "new", etc, if it doesn't work for you.
Also, make sure not to confuse understanding your customers with understanding how the industry works.

Some of the craziest and successful startup ideas come from people who don't understand the industry at all and if they had they probably would have never tried to do what they did.
Journal 29 on Producthunt
Next bug report, "non-existent islands shown off the coast of Australia" - http://worldmapswithout.nz
Amazon now owns parts of MIT's historic 18.0.0.0/8 class A range
>If union rules had been written down, even in 2005

What are "union rules"? Each union is free to bargain their demands collectively with the employer. If your members think such a rule is stupid, they won't demand it. But your lack of knowledge and disdain of unions is noted.
And it's not even much of a guarantee of that.
Show HN: Headcache, a note program featuring markdown, search, external editing
You can do something similar with the Code Runner extension with vscode [1]

Been able to simply and quickly run code in a variety of languages with little friction is a handy thing to have, particularly when writing fragments in multiple languages at the same time.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=formulah...
You do realize that's just a turn of phrase, right?

Even if you want to be uncharitable about that, it's pretty clear the author is talking about Facebook and not Journalism.
Emgo – A Go-Like Language for Embedded Systems
There are a couple of easy solutions, increasing the min salary is one. This works for the tech sector but may not for some others. Other solutions include:

1. Do not provide a lottery. Approve by highest salary per occupational code/section. This will make sure wages are "high".
2. Mandate that beneficiaries of the H1B actually start employment and receive pay within 2 months of approval. This will ensure that companies don't just "hoard" H1B's.
3. Mandate a minimum of 1 years' work in the US per entry into the country unless employment is terminated due to forced loss.

The program has been misused. It's high time that is rectified.
Uber Is Hiring Like Mad for Its Driverless-Cars Business
Yeah, the Trib has been 'meh' at national news reporting for a while now... But while they used to have good local reporting, now DNAInfo and The Chicagoist are totally eating their lunch.

There are content issues for sure, but I suspect their presentation strategy isn't helping either - the Trib reacted to the growth of digital readership by putting up paywalls and obtrusive ads, essentially driving away digital readers... straight to their competitors.

PS. But it still has to be weird for a big newspaper that owned its own distribution and sales channels, to now be so dependent on an opaque third party distributor, which is so in control that it doesn't even bother to tell them when it's altering its distribution, and they have to reverse engineer it from traffic patterns...
Too bad you lost the source code.
China’s Stone Age Skiers and History’s Harsh Lessons
> Something that is geographically notable but quite small, vertical and isolated (like Rockall) may very well also be omitted from that version of the EGPWS database.

Why are "small" and "isolated" good criteria for omitting something from a database of elevation geometry? It's evidently big enough to crash into and cause loss of life.
Logins should be unique
A question for the author of this, or other authors who create step-by-step guides like this: do you write it as you go along, or fiddle around and then go back and write the blogpost?

Even with small commits, I usually have a hard time reconstructing the history of what I've done well enough to write it up like this.
No you are wrong. In order to get there (build successful brand) you have to take care of your self. With coding marathons, buckets of coffee and fast food (because "I don't have time to cook") you will end up with heart attack before you achieve what you planned.
Nothing in the physical universe is Turing complete. No unbounded memory.
The current definition of CRPG is character RPG. These games are ones that focus more on character development and dialogue as opposed to combat. Planetscape: Torment is the example I am most familiar with, as you can play the entire game through dialogue and only fight when required. Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights are close to CRPGs, but progression is still done through combat.

They stand in opposition to JRPGs, ARPGs, and MMORPG.
Quantum cryptography is unbreakable. So is human ingenuity
This lets you access CUDA with APL

https://github.com/arcfide/Co-dfns
Reminded the good old-fashioned scene from HBO's Silicon Valley https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2prsYbV1TkM
That doesn't mean it was a good idea to leave your bike unlocked, get blackout drunk and tell someone your password. I'm all for assigning blame to the police if these allegations are true, but this is a good time to remember: DON'T BE AN IDIOT WHEN YOU CAN EASILY PROTECT YOURSELF.
I can't speak highly enough about http://tractionbook.com/ which I recently came into - it has pragmatic advice on marketing approaches and systems justifying with real data how and why to do what.

It's co-written by the DuckDuckGo founder, and as an engineer who is thoroughly tired of marketing "hackers" who justify expensive campaigns with hand-wavy nonsense, this book changed the way I view marketing in general.
Is this the same story as posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147264 (0 comments)

Or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135929 (0 comments)

Or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131417 (1 comment)

Or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130945 (2 comments)

Or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093860 (40 comments)

If it's the same as that last one, the comments there are pretty scathing about the whole thing, so some scepticism advised.
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H1B as I see it.

American corporations want to make profit year over year. (The announcing the quarterly or annual reports ? )

IT jobs has a tradition of being highly paid. When the revenues are less, the course of action is to cut the expenses and hence the salaries. So if a corporation want to make profit, they can hire workers with the minimum lawful wage. Indian bodyshops are catering to that demand. Its that simple.

Cutting salaries or firing American workers will lead to PR nightmare. So American companies hire bodyshops or majorly Indian IT outsourcing companies like TCS or Infosys to do the IT jobs.

Most enterprise IT do not need high skills. ( I mean who wants to know about data structures or Big O to make a CRUD application or write queries ? ). So a major chunk of Indian IT workers fit in that category.

So American enterprises get the work done at a cheaper rate in India or through the H1B worker. So no firing or salary cuts for the American worker.

Fire an H1B worker, he will keep silent and go back to his country if he is a fulltime worker. If he is from a bodyshop, he will be deployed to another location in the US. No PR nightmare for the corporate company.

In a nutshell:

Indian outsourcing firms are only here because American corporations want more profit and revenues are not that great. Stop being greedy and outsourcing will end, that includes H1B too.
Coming up with the idea is easy. Sustaining the motivation to grind over long periods of time is hard. Entrepreneurship is an internal struggle more than anything else.
Ouch. At 600+ clock cycles for a cache line fill (more if you're doing NUMA) this doesn't sound even remotely okay.
> we're not, in fact, living in some Orwellian dystopia

At what point along the path to that dystopia are you going to recognize that a problem exists and fight against it? It's far better to detect and try to fix problems before they spiral out of control. If you're waiting until you see a stereotypical Orwellian dystopia, it's too late.

> surveillance that is being done is promulgating a safe and stable society

Although many people claim surveillance is correlated with safety, there is very little evidence of it having any benefit.

> not toeing the sky-is-falling line doesn't do much for those numbers by my username.

That's not from a any party line, but instead is probably a reaction by the people trying to prevent a dystopian future. Pretending that problems don't exist just because they are not yet sufficiently terrible is how small problems grow into larger problems.

> is undermining the rule of law.

We've seen a many examples of that in recent times. I you believe the US is properly ruled by laws, you haven't been paying attention. We've had a two-tier justice system for such a long time it's spawned slang phrases such as "driving while black". Hang out with public defenders for a few days if you need any more proof.