skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deadlines are guesses and predictions that are chosen by people.
Why does it have to be so black and white? On the one hand personal responsibility goes out the window and nothing is anyone's fault. Poor? Not your fault. Addicted? Not your fault. On the other extreme personal reponsibility accounts for everything. Poor? Your fault. Addicted? Your fault.

There must be a balance between the two.
> I don't know anyone who "tells the poor" that. I think most people understand that capitalism is a rather brutal, territorial game. And being raised in a good household is a massive advantage.

Do you know any poor people? Ask them. I guarantee they've been told this in some form. Hell, ask anyone who is underprivileged.
Complex tax code = lots of loops that can be found via a team of accountants

Therefore the big firms that everyone villianizes for paying little taxes are already paying low taxes. This would lower the taxes for those who can't afford the team of accountants. Ideally they should also dramatically simplify the tax code to eliminate all of the loopholes so everyone pays the expected rates and there are no reinforcing cyclical benefits for market incumbents crippling innovation and continually enriching a small subset of the population.
Getting Started Repo for Snowplow Kafka with Docker
I don't see a video of a person actually unfolding this thing, which looks like a complicated process when your friend gravity insists on helping you out.
Plenty of 'alternative medicine' woo is practiced, without anyone involved claiming to be doctors. For the most part, nobody goes to jail.
..but, but, it doesn't really apply to the expectations of a note app. You're a light text editor that cloud saves to Github; why are you trying to push a new vernacular that doesn't logically apply here?

I don't manage projects with a notes app. I don't create tracks with a notes app. I don't create channels with a notes app. I don't create playlists with a notes app.

It's pretty and functional; play to your strengths instead of trying to create new brand vernacular.
"I thought it was telling that the only world leader who reacted to Fukushima by mandating the end of nuclear power wasn't a hippy but a physicist."

It's worth noting that even formally qualified scientists are susceptible to bias, and politics. There are even scientists who are practising religious adherents.

Angel Merkel was previously the minister for Environment and Nuclear Safety. I'd suggest that is potentially more informative than that she has a doctorate in physical chemistry.
As far as I can see everyone with half a chance for it has been conning Appalachia, or trying to, for pretty much as long as it's been recognizably a place.
As a fellow passenger on that boat:

The 4th edition of Stroustrup's classic was updated to reflect modern practices. [0]

Scott Meyers, author of Effective C++ also wrote Modern Effective C++. [1]

Lastly for pure online reference, cppreference.com. [2]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-4th/dp/0321563...

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033707.do

[2] http://en.cppreference.com/w/
"[World Bank] Report Says 75 Percent Of World's Population Have Mobile Phones"

http://www.rferl.org/a/report-says-75-percent-of-worlds-popu...
HN has a lot of right-wing people when it comes to capitalism & the meritocracy of America.
Awesome, I've been waiting for this, because I don't believe in the "delivery" promise of big brand mail providers. Most newsletters* go to spam, no matter if they're via Mailchimp, Aweber or transactional mail providers.

Maybe the big names work better with Gmail, since Gmail has quite an aggressive spam filtering. But neither I, nor most of my customers (Germans) use Gmail, so I don't care.

Edit: *most newsletters I receive
PaX patches are no longer independently distributed.

That stopped last year at the same time the -stable patches were made private.
The standard deduction is effectively a 0% tax bracket.
See my other post -- those patches were pulled back when the -stable tree was pulled, although you could previously get them separately, if you were daring.
I hear from my full stack web developer friends. They get new job opps at least once per week and thats on the east coast.
My phone can only do EDGE and I don't pay for data. My laptop has the microphone and webcam disconnected internally.
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The difference being that margin investing by novice investors has already led to the worst economic collapse in history.
So if you lie to anybody in the US, and this person submits this lie to the government, it could be used to prosecute you? That is creepy!
> Most people don't even connect that capitalism is related to the condition we are all in.

Like there are any provably better long-term alternatives to capitalism.

Plus, "the condition we are all in" is pretty good relative to the past. No one will ever be happy. Even if the poor all had Ferraris in 10 years, they would still be unhappy if it turned out that FIAT decided to mass produce them and make them a super cheap and accessible car. Apparently you can only be happy by having more than others.
> An enterprise valued at more than $5 million, with lots of employees, is not a "family farm"

What? Plenty of small businesses can generate more than $5 million in revenue annually, but still be a small family business. $5 million sounds like a lot for an individual, but for a business, not so much... especially after all the expenses that come with operating a business and having employees.

We're talking about farms here, farming equipment alone could be valued several million dollars by itself. The $5 million figure is the value of the business, which includes assets and projected revenues (not profits!)... it's quite possible for someone to inherit a family farm and immediately be financially ruined... buried under a large income tax bill.
Or you could be intentionally exaggerating the problem by about 100 fold.

Perhaps you'd like to show me the stats that indicate a million people (or even how about 2.5% - ~100k people) in the San Francisco metro area have begun shitting in the streets, in their drinking water, etc.
The writer of the story really tries hard to make vigelante justice narrative and glorify someone who is causing real damage to computer systems. We saw the same thing with the hack of Ashley Madison . They make the original vendors out to be scumbags. Things are much more complicated . Yes vendors and websites should keep things more secure. If you really want iot to be more secure I don't believe that large or small hacks is the best way to do this. The consumer is really the one that loses here.
The Solid framework, supported by Tim Berners-Lee, is looking for an app like this to be built to add to its list of Wishlist apps.

https://github.com/solid/solid-apps#general-wishlist
I'm pretty sure conservative politicians understand better than their counterparts in other parties how to win elections, which is an aspect of the world they care deeply about.
Oops, yep, I missed a 'd' by accident :)
Incredible discovery places humans in California 130,000 years ago
Is it something specific to farming?

How is that different from, for example, $5,000,000 to buy a lot, build a gym, and stock it with equipment?
>But I'm skeptical that enforcing these tactics blindly in all cases (as my car does) is the best overall strategy.

It's not optimal strategy in all cases. But driving 100% of the time with electronic stability control (for which traction control is required) on results in an overall safety benefit as opposed to driving with traction control off 100% of the time. Which is why it is a required feature in all new cars.

>Specifically, US 290 west of Austin TX. But this seems to be the norm in much of Texas.

That's crazy. I've seen something like that in very rural areas, but even then the speed limit was only 55.
So, uh, why are you introducing it as a notes app?

You've got a good start to something; take two steps back, consume and digest the feedback you're getting, then use it to better your approach.
> What do you do when I change my logic to, well this is a ZERO DAY exploit, but you need to be patched, without understanding the complexities of your device or network.

I'd say you are changing topics. The topic at hand is about devices that are designed to be insecure, because the involved parties just don't care. The manufacturer KNOWS yet doesn't care because the issue doesn't cause him any harm, and the user just doesn't know.

We are talking about devices that willingly expose themselves to the internet (oftentimes without any valid reason to), that are all factory-setup with the same credentials (and no must-change on first use policy), etc.. This is just malpractice, not 0-day vulnerabilities.
The leaks coming out from Wikileaks over the last couple of months has been amazing. All this stuff that security people have theorized about is not only real, but in wide application, often with vendor complacence if not out and out cooperation.

Do you have a Samsung TV built in the last 5 years or so? The USG has turned _that_ into a permanent listening device, even in "off" mode.

Much better target than the Echo, which people already know is a microphone that streams out a live feed of audio from their room, and may unplug if they're feeling paranoid.

I wonder if something like Sense [0] could help ensure that an "off" device is really off.

[0] https://sense.com/
Here is the EFF link [0] that provides additional information and also provides methods of contacting your local government officials to take action. Please send this along!

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/fcc-wants-eliminate-ne...
The official memo only mentions reducing the business tax to 15%. This would not benefit you in pass through LLC. Business taxes are on top of personal taxes, not in place off.
Found http://lookwork.com/ through links on your site. It looks similar to ffffound at a glance, but I'd never heard of either before now.

Would you recommend it?
At the end of the day, OpenAI is only providing guesses, and I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate that there could be bots that are able to simulate voting and commenting indistinguishably from other users.

I'm not saying it figures in any specific thread or context, just that it's possible that bot capabilities may outstrip HN's ability to detect them.
This article reeks of self-selection.
> You own all of your data. Kobble stores all data on Github

You really don't see that the above is an oxymoron?
Okay, there's two parts to this: "in theory", and reality.

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Yes, you need somebody to listen to the news, crunch numbers, and then actively trade stocks in order to set an accurate price. But what matters here isn't the percentage, it's the absolute number of active traders, and their analysis "skill". Let's say you start with 50k professional bankers and 50k totally passive etf investors like you and me. Let's say that the passive investors buy/sell based on events that are totally uncorrelated with the market; they buy small orders of VTI every once in a while when they have a bit of extra cash, and they sell large blocks when they experience major life events like buying a house or having a kid. In other words, their effect on prices is random. Also let's assume that new passive investors are introduced into this system gradually, and that we're taking a "long term" view of everything. In this case, having another 100k, or 500k, new passive investors riding the wave of market growth doesn't change anything.

On the other hand, going back to our 50k/50k split, if you add another 100k poorly-performing analysts into the mix, e.g. uneducated consumers day-trading on emotion instead of news, they'll distort prices and create a bit of market inefficiency. Distorted prices are actually good for the above-average analysts, since they'll capture those extra pennies on their trades by more-accurately pricing stocks, but obviously bad for the below-average traders themselves--who will underperform the market--and the passive investors--who just buy/sell at market prices. You can kind of think of this situation as the etf investors paying an additional "management fee" to the good traders for their trading expertise.

So to summarize, the percentage of passive traders to total traders doesn't matter as long as the absolute number of active traders doesn't decrease, which won't happen because of the large incentives created whenever the system moves away from equilibrium.

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Now, in practice you'll never have completely passive investors. People will panic if they lose 10% of their investments overnight. Also, merely making a decision to invest in a particular index, like the S&P 500, is making an active choice to invest in Apple and McDonalds but not Tesla or thousands of other companies. So in practice a horde of passive investors buying Vanguard ETFs won't be completely neutral to the maket, but nonetheless the effect will be minor and--according to some people--perhaps even positive:
http://www.businessinsider.com/passive-investing-makes-marke...
It's income with a 0% tax rate but the impact on effective rates is different than a 0% bracket; it lowers effective rates more for people that have income in higher brackets.

A 0% bracket has the same impact regardless of income.
BeOS had partial POSIX compatibility but wasn't a UNIX.
Oh my god, thank you. This is something I've been looking for as a replacement to Quiver.

I love Quiver, but it no longer cuts it since I've migrated to Linux.
You are the one not understanding what it means to pick C code and compile it with a C++ compiler, minus the semantic differences.

Should I enumerate all of them to make you happy?

> You have blah->Foo(bar); in C++. In C it won't compile by any design. That code has to be rewritten as blah->vtbl->Foo(blah,bar). It is not C code as you claimed. It won't compile with C compiler. It's C++.

Nothing prevents you to write COM calls in C++ code just like in C, blah->vtbl->Foo(blah,bar). The code won't stop compiling.

> I asked how type checking disappears in this process, not how you compile C with C++....

The whole point was about writing C like code with a C++ compiler.

> How can a JIT compiler obtain the PGO data in the first place? Is it running under profiler all the time? You realize that you've just refuted your claim about performance not being affected, right?

By using a multi-stage JIT compiler with different levels of optimization and making use of multi-cores.

99% of the applications are never able to saturate all cores to the point it matters to the overall performance.

I have always been on the Pascal and C++ side against C since the early 90's on BBS and USENET.

So this type of disbelief against better tooling is not strange to me.

Cry Engine, Unreal (C++ with GC), Unity, MonoGame, with their separation between lower level C++ and higher level languages, and the way those engines are being adopted by Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Amazon, Google speak for themselves.

Just like C and Pascal overtook Assembly, C++ overtook C, something else will overtake C++.
The founding fathers enabled the tax. It was re-instated and repealed into and through the gilded age. It was finally re-enacted at the beginning of the 20th century, and has remained in place since.
The language doesn't really have a preference for either. When you see it being done mostly with pointers that's usually the author's preference. Also, using a pointer for a receiver is more convenient than pass by value since you can always derive the value by dereferencing a pointer, but you cannot derive the original pointer after a value has been passed by value (since the address has changed during the copy operation).
It sounds to me like the problem here is the specific combination of the state statute requiring farms to be owned by families and the federal estate tax. If so, it seems that there are multiple ways to solve this problem without wholesale repeal of the tax.

Nobody wanted the estate tax to mean "the government gets 10% of Wal-Mart when Sam Walton dies". If that's the outcome that results in some cases, then fix that problem.
> instead of making references the default like most other languages

My primary language (at the moment) doesn't make references the default and actually doesn't standardize allocation practice. This can be very confusing and will often lead to unexpected results unless you are aware enough of the nature of the language to avoid common pitfalls.

To me, this adds to the learning curve and is an unnecessary headache.

I'm not saying this means that explicit pointers are the "right" way of doing things...but just providing an example where a language without explicit pointers can result in odd behavior.

Also, I am not saying my primary language is bad...it is, after all, my primary language so I continue to use it quite extensively. Just trying to give some food for thought since you posed a good question.
This article really failed in addressing transdermals and how this works without constant infections.
Smartphone Camera Focal Length Reference for Computer Vision and AR Applications
At this point I assume only that we've found evidence showing humans got to Australia 40-60k years ago. I suspect they (we?) arrived earlier in smaller numbers that we haven't detected yet.
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Yes. People don't see this as a device that's "always listening". They see it as a device that has a voice-activated "On" switch. Instead of pressing a button, you say a word.

Of course, with a little bit of thought, you can connect the dots and figure out that it has to be listening all the time to know if the wake word is said, but most people aren't thinking that deeply about it. When they do realize this, Amazon has assured them that the "voice switch" actually does function as advertised and that audio is not streamed until the device is "on".
There is always a first discovery. Arguing that it can't be true because it it were, it would have been found earlier is therefore not logical.
I use it daily. It's not quite as good as the Mac's terminal in many ways, but in a few ways it's even better (apt > homebrew, for example). If all you need to do is ssh into a VM or server, it's awesome. If you need to run a specific version of a legacy Fortran compiler, it might not work for you.

I switch between all three systems over the course of a day, but in terms of (A) system consistency, and (B) well-designed (third-party) applications, Mac still wins.
It is entirely possible, but as much as we would like there to be symmetry in all things its not always the case. I'm willing to make concessions on plenty of issues but these days everything seems to be a catch 22 (for example, abortions and access to contraceptives).
paxteam is basically pipacs and spender is spender. You can read more about pipacs in phrack#66 [0].

[0] http://phrack.org/issues/66/2.html#article
You don't really know that for sure. That person could easily be shorting the shares of IoT device companies that they are targeting, hoping that articles like this one are written critical of the manufacturers.
We're so stuck on left vs right in this country that we lose sight of the issues. If we focused on issues and how to solve them, we'd be so much better off.

My hat is off to Utah for tackling this problem and making progress.
Gmail does an incredible job.

The last few times I went to spam and saw emails that shouldn't be in there, a careful inspection revealed they were actually very well crafted phishing messages.

Ever since, I don't bother checking the spam folder. Too dangerous. Gmail is smarter than me.
you might not be a native English speaker, but "You need to make changes" comes across as rude. A better way to phrase the sentence would be "I'd recommend you change it such that it looks like..."
"The sheer number of computers infected with DOUBLEPULSAR is likely the work of amateurish hackers, experts said."

A huge assumption.
Anyone looking for a nice interface to manage your Gists should take a look at http://www.gistboxapp.com
Very nice! Small suggestion for nested comments: If you indent just the left side and not on the right side, there would be a lot more space for these comments, while still retaining the look of a thread hierarchy.
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Both parts of that statement are (about equally) interesting.

What they should really do is not rely on a single indicator.
Maybe if you only have a handful of stories it's easier.
> It's why many ppl here lament the HN of several years ago

I guess you can say that about any community which allows new people, and you can even keep saying it every year. I used to be (and I guess still am?) a member of a Turkish web site called "Ekşi Sözlük"[1], which used to (and maybe still does) mark your account with a generation flag which anyone could see. I remember discussions about Xth generation people being so not receptive of the community values and such... Just as in real life which happens with the birth years.

I guess this behavior has a name but I don't know what to search for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk
It's like going to the inauguration of some new shop giving out flyers for your own competing shop. It's just bad taste.
I get your enthusiasm, but there are libraries for c that let you use the bounds check instructions in the latest Intel cpu's. (I think there is a pretty good write up about these new instructions on anandtech.)

It's not as sexy as a new language but it allows for incremental adoption and doesn't present more effort. Even if it would be a good idea, many people will adopt incremental improvements instead of going for a rewrite.

Bounds checking in hardware isn't a new phenomenon, either. The Burroughs had hardware bounds checking, I think.

Rust and Go are interesting, I agree. I'm just slightly more suspect about things in tech that have such vocal "evangelism". If they help, that will be seen over time as large projects adopt them. In your effort to make your point you claim that C is "too loose" to take advantage of hardware bounds checking. That kind of thing makes people mistrust the passion that advocates for these languages display.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX
This is a really cool idea, I looked at it, and said "gee why didn't I think of that?" which is always a great sign :D
Don't know, never really talked to a gym owner before, but my suspicion is that it probably is a huge problem for anyone who builds up assets (that a tax person values highly) to do the job but not a lot of actual cash to pay the taxes. I think land or infrastructure intensive activities are probably all in the same boat.
What would be a better thing to say? You don't want to start a conversation or be too rude, but also want to acknowledge them.

Personally, I try to ignore panhandlers to discourage it, but that is kinda like protesting elections by not voting. It feels a bit too much like apathy.
What about sendmail, or /usr/bin/mail?
Haha! Thanks a lot man!
As far I am concerned the core skills for programming (and the fascination) have not changed much in 40+ years, when my mum 'ran' my first ever typed-out Fortran program pretending to be what we'd now call a VM!

Writing a Z80 assembler space-invaders game for an MZ-80K then ... and 10 years of school and then AI+CS honours and then a MSc in theoretical CS and then 20 years of banking and Y2K type nonsense etc etc ... and now I'm writing code for something of about the same power as that Z80 again, though developing with nice compilers and GB of storage on SSDs rather than kB cassette tapes so can get rather more useful loc working.