skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, right, brain-fart. (In my defense bitwise xor is probably the least common operator).
Good general purpose hardware. Chromebooks have limited soldered hardware aimed at giving you enough power to get to Google's services, but not more.
I get the reason* for Reason even though it may ostensibly be a superficial one. There was a post by someone on HN saying they started using Reason and ended up using straight Ocaml.

* My earliest memories of attempting to use Ocaml was pasting something directly from a beginner's tutorial into ocamli and getting a baffling error message. I think it had to do with use of double semicolons vs single semicolons. Yet that wasn't mentioned in the entire tutorial.
Like C++ and Perl, there's a bit of caution required to avoid writing unreadable OCaml code. A disadvantage of pattern matching is that it's relatively easy to write a function where you define a variable and then first access it 500 lines later. IDE support for obscure languages is also often weak or requires extensions or idiosyncratic IDEs which are unfamiliar to many people (and often you want some kind of tool to collapse a 500-line function). OCaml has good vim plugins but not everyone uses vim.

That's my experience with it anyway.
They are for image classifiers.
Not only tax related, this series of articles is highly entertaining and contains a plethora of financial fraud mechanisms https://whitecollarfraud.com/crazy-eddie/crazy-eddie-fraud/
Minimalism Is Dead. Hello, Maximalism
Great article, I hadn't come across that one yet.

But I also think he's part of the problem and doesn't even realize how.

> Even as Americans are facing the ruination of their lives at the hands of prosecutors, even when they're innocent, even when they're being mistreated by the government, they're still skeptical of defense lawyers and trusting of prosecutors. They prefer to hire a former federal prosecutor because they don't want to think of themselves as someone who has to hire a criminal defense lawyer

Uh... no? How out of touch do you have to be to believe this? You get an ex-prosecutor as your defense attorney because he understands how to work a corrupt system, and hopefully can do some wink wink nudge nudge stuff with his old drinking buddies still at the DA office.

I certainly am not a lawyer, but I've been involved with enough legal cases to understand this is generally the case. No one is hiring an ex-prosecutor because they "don't want to think they need a defense attorney" - come on man! They want to get the best chance they can, and know the system is entirely corrupted from it's original intent and stacked against them. So you play as dirty as you can as well.

I think this guy sort of gets it. But he's being far too lenient on his past self, as well as current prosecutors. His bank robbery story made my skin crawl - and he saw nothing wrong with it in the end (apparently).
Good thing they didn't write this in C, or their library would have real security trouble. /s
Is this some sort of infosec performance art? This seems extremely inadvisable for users or the person running the site. What if someone posts something illegal in the jurisdiction of the viewer or a link to a site with an embedded exploit?
Interesting. Did it result in any speedups?
Beau teaches Javascript paired with your own reading is great.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKjhJtqVAbk2qRZtWSzC...
I'm not sure it's worth remembering. Being funny wasn't unique to SA. Fark and Random Drivel and a bunch of sites existed with different allowed formats. SA as a 4chan lite was even less interesting. I did meet Kyanka a couple times when I was out and about.
>> Rust doesn't currently guarantee ABI compatibility.

And yet they claim it's a systems programming language. While I can see the value in doing this, I can see the value in doing it manually. Another criteria can be putting the most frequently used fields together, so accessing one causes the others to load in the same cache line. In many programs the size of the structure is not important, it's the cache behavior that is and that is dependent on a lot more than the size of the elements alone. It's probably important that it can be disabled with rear(C).
She ate this way for 90 years so it sounds like her motivation wasn't lack of teeth or being old. I'd suggest reading the article before making conclusions.
I like http://www.cnx-software.com (which, despite the name, is more about hardware than software) and http://www.linuxgizmos.com.
He is not serious, he just doesn't like everyone having access to this much information...
That doesn't make much sense in this case. You can't arbitrarily tax foreign corporations that aren't on US soil.
Because of package manager and library issues. Things aren't popular because of their inherent qualities or flaws. Popularity is driven by itself and external factors.
Is there any reason you didn't include either the Atlantic or the National Review? For US based news, they seem pretty hard to beat if you can bear to give reporters a few hours to digest stories and provide meaningful insight.
Ask HN: Are online petitions effective?
I constantly see petitions on sites like change.org, and numerous others, but can't personally recall any of them making a substantial change, or notable effect. Are these sites knowingly promoting a concept that is ineffective?

With that said, I am curious if there is any studies, or definitive evidence one way or the other on the matter.
It's amusing that you claim their tax knowledge needs work, when the facts prove your premise to be wrong.

Fact: most of Apple's global income taxes, are domestic. Apple's paperwork shows immense domestic profit.

Of Apple's $15.64 billion in income taxes for fiscal 2016, $8.64 billion of that was domestic, with a further $4.9 billion domestic deferred. Foreign income taxes out of the $15.64b, was a mere $2.11 billion.
They 'closed' the Google referer header loophole by switching to Facebook and Twitter headers. That is a shortened Twitter link, thus you see the full article.
Looks pretty neat...tiny 300dpi rewritable epaper display that needs no power to retain the image. Sort of high tech etch-a-sketch.

I think they are overstating the security aspect though. You wouldn't​ need to recreate the tech to mimic one of these. Actual paper behind clear plastic would probably look similar if you experimented with paper color, print color, some kind of bezel effect and the plastic overlay.
It appears that the status of that PEP is "rejected".
College may improve the bargaining position of laborers vis-a-vis employers. Compare eight apprenticeships which provide the ability to work one job each vs a college which provides the ability to work all eight jobs. If students filter into one of the apprenticeships they're locked in; if they go to college then employers must compete for labor across sectors.
> Slack, fortunately, has bridges built in for IRC and XMPP clients, so I can use my already working clients

Unfortunately, the Slack gateway implementation is subpar. In my experience, it will send me the last message I sent before I disconnected when I reconnect, but it won't send any of the other messages that were sent in the meantime. The other problem is that group chat only works over the IRC gateway, not the XMPP one (at least I could join it from my XMPP client, but I couldn't send any messages to it).

In contrast, the old XMPP server we used would just replay messages in group chat when you reconnected, so at least you wouldn't miss anything when you weren't connected.

Edit: s/Slack implementation/the Slack gateway implementation/
> They don't have to be in the US to be loaned/invested in US companies.

They don't? That's news to me. How do you invest in a U.S. company without bringing the money into the U.S.?
Can someone explain to me how this can be taken seriously? It seems to me like trucks are already weight-limited in a way that cars aren't, so the immense weight of these batteries would hurt a lot for moving stuff.
Not that the author of the linked piece will see this thread, but my experience has been that those patients who leave for personal reasons, as opposed to logistical reasons, e.g., changed insurance, moved away, etc. are usually not missed. My office staff will say, "We sent Ms. So-and-so's records over to Dr. Xyz" I'll say, "Gee, that's too bad." Almost invariably the reply comes back, "No, he can have her. She's impossible." (Of course, they're nice to me, but the office staff gets a more realistic picture.)
So it tends to be that people who appreciate my style and personality hang around.
What definition of standard of living do you have in mind? I know of several and Japan doesn't lead in all of them. What's even more important is that even the definitions where Japan leads it doesn't do so by as big of a margin as it does in the extremes of human longevity.

Take Switzerland for example. It also has a high standard of living, and ranks #2 just after Japan in average life expectancy. [1] Yet there's not a single Swiss person in that top 43 oldest people list. Of course Switzerland has a much smaller population (8M) than Japan (127M). However we can use a combination of countries. Let's take the top 10 countries by average life expectancy. The first is Japan with its 127M people, and the other 9 (Switzerland, Singapore, Australia, Spain, Iceland, Italy, Israel, Sweden, France) have a combined population of 227M people. Yet even with almost double the population, in regards to the top 43 oldest people, this combination only gives us 6 entries (France 3, Italy 2, Spain 1) against Japan's 20.

A high standard of living certainly has an effect, but I feel it barely scratches the surface of the full answer.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Those guys can be amazing game QAs if they make the leap to trying to make a good game great by trying to find all the weird corner cases that can ruin someone's experience of the game.

As one described it to me, he's trying to protect the reputation of games as a creative medium by pushing back against bad works of the craft.
Why do you think a foreign company should pay US taxes?
React native feels like it's becoming the most sensible default for version 1.0 of anything.

Which I have mixed feelings about personally, because I really like the Apple tools and frameworks. But I totally get why RN is so appealing.
Show HN: R/place viewer for Gameboy Advance
MLR.EXE: Windows beta
Given that it is 2017 I'd say that's a pretty good guess.
I work with a guy who was given prednisone to treat some problem or other. It wasn't some high dose, and he didn't take it for long, but he was unlucky. The capillaries feeding the network around his hip sockets essentially all died, and he started having a lot of pain walking, then started using a cane (he was in his late 40s). A couple years later he had a double hip replacement.
Do you teleconference your friends and family regularly? My guess is not. But it is always possible a new video app will comes up next year and gain wide adoption.

Today some number of people use Skype to video chat with friends and family regularly. So yes, Skype is also a social network.
In addition to the 19th C didn't end until 23:59:59 31:12:1900, there is also the very real possibility that the oldest person alive can't prove when they are born. Large parts of the world don't have reliable birth records from the 19th C.
The real question is, is the MVP software you build in your free time owned by you or your employer? The answer depends on what your employment contract says and on the laws of your state/country.
It's quite strange how people are both arguing that the prosecutor is blind to justice (he was falsely accused, because he was not convicted, this is wrong!) but also not blind when counting the particulars of associated circumstances. I'm reminded of Aaron Hernandez being acquitted of murders, but convicted of the murder of a witness to cover up the deaths. At some point you have to rationalize that the law is not always correct and that goes both ways (for the innocent and the guilty). I never found the "they weren't convicted" argument much more weighty than the "they were convicted". He was probably guilty, they just couldn't get their case together.
Honestly I'd disagree with you (though I agree that the loan and schooling comment was definitely simplified). Not that they're dumb, but medical schools select more for hard workers who know how to memorize large quantities of information than anyone who's particularly bright among college graduates.

Most medical students and doctors have a fairly poor understanding of math and statistics, a level of understanding of chemistry that's not particularly difficult, and a level of understanding of physics that doesn't go beyond a freshman level.

Have you actually looked at MCAT study materials? Anyone who's majored in biology would know the material. What determines how well you do is the quality of your study habits.

That said, hard work is usually what wins in the end in most fields, even those that do tend to attract the brightest.
Making a Home for News on the Open Web
It is one I would not mind having. Sure your future life expectancy is not great, but the journey getting there is not bad.
Some cool ideas here. The problem that jumps out for me is the overhead that something like this would incur. The landing pad idea would add 3 extra instructions to every jmp, that has to be substantial. The shadow stack would effectively double the time spent maintaining the stack and double the stack space required across the board.

Would CPU manufacturers be able to overcome this in hardware with optimization tricks?

Also, if anyone has the time to benckmark this in QEMU so we could get an idea of the overhead that would be very interesting?
>> C supports bit fields in structs, but that feature is seldom used.

Every micro controller I've ever worked with has header files defining bit fields for hardware registers. It's a matter of what level you're writing for. I would expect Linux to contain tons of these.
But then you're just more efficient and get more posts in the same amount of time.
Most folks don't use it as such, but make is a logic programming language, ala Prolog. It can use a long chain of translations without you telling it the sequence. For example, I could #include "foo.pdu.der.h" in a C file, and make figured out that it needed to find foo.pdu.xer, translate it from XER to DER as a "pdu" PDU, then hexlify it as an char array into foo.pdu.der.h.

It is a very flexible tool if you can get past the syntax (and always use --warn-undefined-variables).
Does anyone have a pointer to the details of this case that can be read?
California has enormous advantages in intellectual capital that outweigh a high tax rate.

Imagine it is 2007 and you can choose to invest in Apple and receive 60% of profits, or Samsung and receive 100% of profits. What's the better investment?
FYI I have never worn or owned Five Fingers, much less tried to sell them to others.

You don't change the mechanics of your teeth by brushing them, you just clean them. It's akin to cleaning your feet. The equivalent of "support" for feet would be if you put molded resin chompers over your own teeth every time you ate.

And the history of medicine has been one of medical professionals being wrong--you'd do well to take advantage of their services but also be critical.
Those are not the only possible options. In many countries judges get their positions by a technical competition. Also in my country the case is built by a judge, even if there is a DA during the trial. I think they're going to change that, unfortunately... we suspect the reason is putting political corruption cases in more friendly hands.

Climbing the career ladder is managed by an entity formed by judges... in theory. In practice Constitution is ignored and politicians chose a good number of its members.

Seized property seems like total madness.
> The U.S. could not long have tolerated robber barons without major social trials.

Then, as now, there was a lot of envy/dislike of wealthy people. That doesn't support the idea in this thread that wealthy people are bad for the economy.
Really cool technology. Naturally, they are continuing the razor blade business model:

> When a card is placed in this imager, a simple bar code on the back of the card uniquely identifies it to the HP IonTouch system, allowing the imaging device to retrieve whatever new information needs to be placed on the card.

(also seems a little backward that I wouldn't just send the info to the printer and then put on/in the card I wanted to print/re-print.)

Maybe I'm reading too much into that, but I'd be surprised if it's totally innocuous. But, then again the research and capital investment needed to make this happen deserves to be rewarded, imo.

Hard to imagine how much they'll charge for a printer. Especially if it has no toner to run out... and each card can be printed 10,000 times.

Each card costs "several tens of cent" -- that struck me a marketing person trying a little too hard to downplay the cost. But, the die sublimation printers needed to print color on plastic badges are $10k+.

Side note, whatever happened to color e-ink displays?
Experimental Breeder Reactor II
I don't disagree. But it was a funny moment. He came at it rather innocuously - like he didn't know that it would be a firecracker of a question. Probably was just making conversation. You could have heard a pin drop waiting for her answer though. A room full of people went dead silent.

I had a relative that was a jeweler at one point. She's the only person I know who opted out of a diamond engagement ring. "waste of money. there are prettier things that can mean more" Her engagement ring was awesome. I don't know enough about stones to say what it was, but she got compliments frequently.
I definitely remember one magazine-cover-mounted flexidisc from the Spectrum era, but it was a real hassle to get it to work: the spectrum had a 3.5mm audio jack labeled 'EAR' that was designed to be connected to a headphone socket on a cassette player, and most Spectrum owners had a relatively small portable cassette player to perform that role (a dumb one with no dolby noise reduction nonsense - but with a good mechanical three digit tape counter so you could mark tape positions); on the other hand, to play the flexidisc into the spectrum would require wiring up the headphone output of your stereo system amp up to the Spectrum (portable record players with headphone jacks not really being a common household appliance in 1984) - which also needed to be wired to a TV at the same time. This definitely involved a certain amount of wire stretching in our house, and in fact I suspect may even have required unplugging the TV output while the disc loaded, then unplugging the headphone lead and reconnecting the TV to see if it had worked.

There's definitely good reasons why cassettes were the preferred audio delivery mechanism for 8 bit games, even with all the trouble that rewinding and azimuth alignments caused.
Number of births in US per year: 4.24 million

Proposed stipend: $100,000

Budget for proposal: $424B/yr, assuming no overhead (lol)

That's 2.5% of GDP, minimum, which is almost as much as the total non-defense discretionary budget is today.
Yes. There are many smaller firewalls of Russia. Every ISP by the law has to maintain the system on their expenses and obligated to periodically download state ban list. Various ISP use various technique from simple ACL to DPI in various combinations. Here is current black list https://reestr.rublacklist.net/
Need to say that gov agencies periodically check ISPs if they indeed ban sites and re-offenders are fined.
>>I mean the world was educated through text for over a millennia. It works

I would replace text with mentors
Don't get why you getting downvoted. The choice to pick an odd GPU connector internally wasn't justify over pci express.
I bet this will be a milquetoast also-ran of a device, as one would expect from a company forced to say 'Yes' by its users.
https://reestr.rublacklist.net/search/?q=linkedin
most recent ban is from 2017-04-04
Might be some sort of a hybrid.

Also, I am not entirely sure, but I would think removing an ICE and transmission would save a lot of weight.
How to make Windows eat your file with a simple accident
Well, I just lost my backup of a file because I hit the wrong key on accident.

How to reproduce:

1) Ctrl-C a file to your desktop.

2) Edit the source file and save it

(Make sure you haven't changed the contents of your clipboard)

3) Hit ctrl-x on your backup

4) Hit ctrl-z (I accidentally hit x and z at the same time)

5) Your backup is now gone forever!

6) Check your source and you see it hasn't even been overwritten or anything. It just disappeared.

I think from now on I will always just copy and paste instead.
I suspect they won't change their ways unless they're sued over it. It would definitely be something I'd consider if I was prescribed something that hurt me further. (Of course not much you can do if it's a known and disclosed possible side effect...)
It's pretty valuable to analyze it that way in my opinion.

The bottom 80% of tax returns have $5 trillion in income, and are paying $65 billion in federal income taxes.

Read that a few times over.

The $500k to $1 million income bracket, has 13% as much income as that bottom 80% group, but pays about ~120% more in income taxes. Personally, I think that's fine, I'm all for a progressive taxation system, especially in a country as rich as the US. However, throughout any thread on taxes, as with this one, you'll see a lot of posts claiming the rich pay little in the way of taxes, when in fact it's the exact opposite. It's not even up for debate, it's a fact easily proven. Should the rich pay even more? That's the debate.
“Since the only way to change information on the IonTouch cards is via our IonTouch imagers, that also adds another layer of protection, making the cards very secure, too.

If it's based on the same electrophoretic principle as regular EPDs, which seems to be the case from reading their description, then they will be affected by strong electric fields.

The concept itself is not particularly novel (this is just the electrophoretic sheet inside an EPD, with the electrodes in a separate writing head), but I think this may be the first time it's been productised for this particular application:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyricon
Maybe it's for last mile trucking? Smaller batteries wouldn't way as much, but the economics might still work out ok.
the fashion bit is a small part: it must have been hard to stay sane - look at all the political changes that happened during the last 117 years in Italy
Pixels Don’t Care (2013)
I tried submitting my personal site, https://dmitri.shuralyov.com, and got:

URL seems to be invalid, please try again!

I tried with and without scheme, no luck. Is it a bug? My site redirects from http to https for all queries.
The most common way is using a parser generator (ocamlyacc or menhir, both are basically interchangeable 99% of the time). Parser combinators are a choice, but honestly I think recursive descent parsers are more common than combinators in OCaml.
I've never seen anything performant built on top of Smalltalk, including the Xerox Star's built in apps which were developed by universally acknowledged geniuses. Flash's performance issues were legion.

Chrome is widely considered the best current desktop browser in a very competitive space. If it has problems it's definitely in idle power consumption (which indicates wasted idle CPU) but it is used by a hell of a lot of people who have free alternatives.
Ask HN: When or will Android/iOS/Windows10 support 6LoWPAN?
Just curious as this tech has existed for a while now. but I haven't seen any pull in the consumer industry to have 6LoWPAN support on mobile devices. (i.e. IPv6 over Bluetooth Low Energy with your phone acting as the gateway)