skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The connection between radio and Hitler is very much a point of discussion. The medium matters.
The Chinese are obsessed with status though, in all manners of life. They want their Gucci bags and an Ivy league degree. This only matters is a status obsessed society. If instead you care about enjoying your time and getting a good education, you would chose different.
Microsoft Trademarks Direct Physics – Is This a New Physics API for DirectX 12?
From a visit to Szhenzen, VPNs seem pretty common? Or are they all in kahotz with the government?
There's nothing capital intensive about Beepi's business - all car purchased you can finance with a floor plan line. Beepi wasted money on market (over $20M last year) when it didn't have product market fit.
Global Priorities Bigger Than Climate Change
>That's neither anti-White nor misandry

If she had said, "If your About Page is plastered with brown people in turbans, that's a red flag", would you think differently?

>if you want to attract people that aren't white men

How do I go about attracting "good people" of no specific race/gender?
Are you saying that there's a certain level of wealth that makes getting scammed okay? Just so people can prepare themselves to not get too "rich", what is that threshold?
> that's not property

That's the whole point. The US government effectively treats other country's good reserves as their own.

It was shrewd negotiation because they got much more than zero, and then US government/Federal Reserve has significant negotiating ability on its side by virtue of having the world reserve currency and the ability to impact monetary policy and systems so heavily on a global scale.
> a maddening lack of a definition for "disposable income".

Not really. The article goes into pretty good depth about its logic comparing them in pre-tax income (gross income) and after-tax (what it is calling "disposable income") across various countries.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/04/24/western-europe-middle-cl...

Thus, when gross income is used to define income tiers, the result is that higher shares of adults are estimated to be lower income or upper income, and smaller shares of adults are estimated to be middle income.

The chart here is telling, too: http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/04/24/western-europe-middle-cl...
Good question. It seems this non-transitive games are suited to trick people, but can you make skill-based game out of the mechanics?
The DAO, right, but on the Internet of Things! I'm sure it will all be fine, fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14212561

TypeScript 2.3 (microsoft.com)
363 points by DanRosenwasser 2 days ago | 115 comments
Why do countries bother to hold gold? Wouldn't it be sensible to sell as much of it off as possible? (I'm asking like "ELI5" because I'm sure there is a reason)
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The poor dont pay much taxes in germany either. So its the middle class supporting a open world view. And i found it quite enriching.
Sorry, that WYSIWYG doesent work with universitys, because you have by condition of usefullness not yet seen what you get and can only afterward value it apropriatly.

I love the german enducation system. In it great endavours may still be possible.
> Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.

Until the second the whales are in danger of losing money. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/the-dao/
If I can only enter 1 of 3 emoji for a day (as I understand it) I don't think there should be two steps to entering that emoji (step 1 click +, step 2 click emoji)
https://dba.stackexchange.com/
No the timing is perfect.

It will be on their resumes exactly when companies start looking for kotlin talent.
" It seems clear that they negotiated hard with the US and acted rather shrewdly."

I do not even understand why one country would need to negotiate about their properties held abroad.

There are two reasons I can come up with right now:

- Country A holding assets of Country B wants leverage over Country B or

- Country A does not hold 100% of these assets any longer
I think 8 euro a month is not a huge price to pay.

Open access systems have a hard time getting ongoing funding; arxiv did not have the beginning of a sustainable plan before it was 20 yrs old, and it had near death experiences in the meantime.
Memory mapped files are great fun in C, but Java can't safely unmap files! Refer to this bug that's been open since 2002: http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4724038

Quote (December 2016): "I have a plan to implement this, but it requires changes to the Java Memory Model and to the compilers. I didn't get it done in time for JDK 9 because of being distracted by a ton of other things, but I hope I'll get it done by JDK 10."
How to reproduce:

1) log in
2) search your favorite author
3) verify there are zero results in normal search and n>0 in advanced search (as the normal search is on paper titles only)
4) proceed to advanced search, find monthly subscription offer.

It doesn't feel too good having uploaded some of my articles there, and I hope other similar services (ResearchGate) won't do the same.
One reason that independent alternatives do not exist is nothing to do with patents, and everything to do with the protocol never actually being properly documented.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11612615

Make that 5 years and counting.
The left's version of WMDs? It's funny that there wasn't a single propaganda campaign under Obama afaik that ever reached the depth of counterinformation as the Bush-Blair WMD campaign, yet everyone just uses the biggest lie the Bush administration ever peddled on Americans as some sort of evidence that every government does this.

No they don't. Rumsfeld had to create a special office inside the Pentagon to manufacture evidence so the WMD case could be created. They didn't use the intelligence agencies, they went around them as much as they could to create "alternate facts".

The idea that Obama has managed to do the same thing as Bush, but using 10 or so intelligence agencies to "manufacture evidence" is a lunacy. The Bush administration had to go through huge lengths to build up a false case for war. Obama just asked his intelligence agencies to give him their opinion.

You can use the crimes of the Bush Admnistration to call anything and everything that comes out of government a lie. But all that you're doing is critiquing the Bush admnistration. Not all administrations are guilty of wildly deceiving the public.
TL,DR; The Universitys work as a bribe-able doorkeeper, and nobody gives anything about the education.

Why not bribe the companys you apply directly? Make a law degree for cheap and bribe a fellow with half a million? Cut out the middle man.
All my colleagues would agree and did the same. I don't. I want äöü quickly available for chatting and other "quick" writing, while coding typing is usually not the bottleneck.
Monitoring Web Servers and Resources – Yash Ballani
A better way to go is port ubuntu-Linux subsystem to QNX 7 like Microsoft did for windows 10. Should be much easier too since QNX is posix compliant.

And then QNX Screen <-> wayland integration and you'd have a full fledged desktop full stop.
There is a lot that shouldn't happen when the primary goal is limited competition.
QNX had some amazing demos back in the day. Doom playing with half a screen on one machine and half on another. The ability to restart drivers was pretty sweet for debugging. I wish BB10 had done better, the Passport's keyboard was on to something.
Then I make my living on vaporware. My full-time job is writing smart contracts for Ethereum.
It's a soft launch. Looks like the media jumped on it a tad too early, but the proper launch is imminent regardless.
Perhaps public internet services should really be created in, well, academia and government organizations, like in the old days (think email). At least then we'll see some federation, openness of data where useful, and as a bonus, everything will be devoid of ads and user-tracking.
Ah yes, what you describe is what Christoph Jentzsch dubbed the Universal Sharing Network, or USN. Slock.it [recent round of seed funding](https://blog.slock.it/slock-it-secures-2-million-usd-seed-fu...) is dedicated to its development. We're really lucky to have some amazing partners such as [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com/) to help bring this to life.

We expect the first integrations to make their way to the general public during the course of 2018, with some private betas kicking off Q3-Q4 this year.
Diversification of "hard assets" because the value of sovereign currency is illusory and often fleeting.

I agree that mining, storing and transporting gold around the planet is a waste of resources, but there are only so many places to store wealth in a physical manner. The fact that gold has historically been useless in industry probably adds to its value.
Kali Linux 2017.1 Released with GPU Support
I wrote a QNX clone (32 bit when QNX was still 16 bit) and it was meant to become open source but that never happened. One of the most interesting projects I've worked on.
Show HN: Use Nginx as a WebSocket Server
QNX was around long before BB.
Given that you want an asset which is difficult to move, wouldn't it be better to build infrastructure instead (eg. roads). At least you can use that asset. I don't understand why gold would be preferable.
As far as I understand, most people don't have a problem with journals charging money. The problem is the extortionate amount they charge while using free labor.

Usually when I want to read something academic it's about 30 eur per article. 8 eur per month seems reasonable if they provide a good service.
Yeah. Paypal are plain street robbers. Not only they charge like you a church, but they have awful support considered that you trust them with your money. Unfortunately as a freelancer I had to use them, but I moved asap to a bank solution. Today that so many fintech startups are there, there is no reason to use them.
roads require maintenance and are only valuable between two points people wish to traverse. gold doesn't deteriorate, is trivially divisible, and can be moved when you want to -- stays put when you don't. gold has been a store of value for millennia, so I personally find it ignorant to ignore the historical significance. hopefully we can rope an asteroid with a few billion tons of gold (and other precious metals) and make them all less precious indeed.
Good question. I am also interested as well.
I was slightly confused by the claim of the article saying:

"Memory mapped files are new feature in Java nio package"

They were introduced in Java 1.4, 15 years ago.
Jesse Warden was really helpful for me when I was starting out programming. He has a great series called 'Beginners Guide to Software Development' which got me started and he's especially helpful with JavaScript testing and tooling
https://m.youtube.com/user/jesterxl
Wonder if they should have entrance exams to fix the issue? That might weed out the unqualified candidates.
They do. Switzerland sold more than half of their gold in the past 20 years, including all their holdings at the Federal Reserve in New York (that's like 1300 tons of gold that was sold, in comparison the hundreds of tons that are mentioned on the article for germany and netherlands).

Not sure why the article doesn't mention that fact, maybe it doesn't feed into the FUD/conspiracy theory?
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/the-dao/

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/11/01/security-alert-solidity...

You're assuming (1) perfection in the EVM and in your bytecode compiler (2) that mathematics protects you, when the real threat model is economic: The DAO fork happened because the whales were in danger of losing money.
It reads like an elaborate sponsored piece for plastic surgery. Even if it focuses on plastic surgery, it does not provide any details on the types of plastic surgery.
more likely loaned, derived, and "synthesized" in the form of "paper gold"

yes. I spent too much time on goldbug blogs too. then I was reminded that cultures have used all kinds of objects as currency, and as stores of value. gold just happens to be the most historically relevant and widely understood, culturally.
> All this may sound harsh but it is simply not the job of German tax payers to provide some sort of indirect third world aid to middle/upper-class students from foreign countries.

I'm not sure the marginal cost of an extra student is very high. They take a seat in a classroom and a few hours of teacher time to grade their work. Besides, they contribute to the German economy by living there. And even if they leave, they'll keep a fond memory for Germany and I'm sure that will somehow have a positive impact.
Ueli Steck: Legendary “Swiss Machine” Climber Dies on Everest
How to be a stoic – an evolving guide to practical Stoicism for the 21st century
it is mentioned in other circles where this is widely and passionately discussed. and the "conspiracy theory" burns on as it is suspected China is buying the worlds gold at an "alarming" rate...with the theory being a gold backed currency is in the works.

until the world stops needing oil to function, no one is going to care much.
Refreshing myself on QNX I find myself thinking that recent developments in the Linux world ends up being a half-assed QNX clone.
roujiamo is always open (sliced and filled with meat)

if it's completely sealed it's gonna be some of million kinds of bing

personally i consider everything inferior to donkey sandwich
The psychological importance of wasting time
I use cash every day. Other than bills, and orders, every practical transaction is maxe with cash. Its not a big deal. Author seems way out of touch.

Cash is also much faster than the pin cards in use now, after that step backward I actually use cash more.
Nice to see QNX getting some love on HN.

QNX is one of the most ground breaking OSs that I've seen in real life and had the pleasure to work with for a good five years as my 'day job'. It was so good that everything else felt (and still feels) both sluggish and cumbersome by comparison. Imagine an OS that never freezes, one that allows you to restart device drivers and upgrade them on running systems. Use remote resources as if they are local. Control hardware in real time from the same machine that runs your desktop. What held it back is that the company that sold it (Quantum Software in Montreal, Canada) wanted to charge for every bit that left their premises and for a long time it looked as if that strategy was going to win them the race.

Then FREEBSD86 happened and suddenly a lot of router vendors had an alternative, then came Minix and finally Linux. Now none of those three are as good at what QNX does best: hard real time, message passing, clustering. So the fit for these other OS's to occupy QNX's niche was never a good one. And so Quantum stayed alive a little longer. I petitioned them for a 32 bit version when they were still fully behind their 16 bit OS and refused to even consider making a 32 bit version because their old product was selling well and because backwards compatibility must have been a hard nut to crack for them.

So, in about 2 years I wrote a kernel that lifted the userland mostly from minix and linux. Added a network stack and if not for some unfortunate affairs it would have been released as open source.

In a way I'm happy that never happened because I would have been the slave of the rest of the world maintaining that. It's one thing to push an application into the world, those things have a life-span. But an operating system will easily outlive its creators. The fact that Quantum was super aggressive when it came to IP also didn't help the chances of a release.

Every day your life is touched by 100's if not 1000's of instances of QNX still quietly chugging away somewhere in the belly of the systems that keep our infrastructure working.

I'd love to see a 64 bit open sourced version of QNX take over, there is really no substitute for an OS with a sense of time. But I'm afraid it will have to stay a dream, the stewards of QNX have never really dared to commit to open sourcing it for real, I've been asking them for long enough now that I feel that will simply not happen.
there are sites precisely as you describe, all over the place. have you heard of "video lockers"?
I encountered TUTTLE the other week.

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00151.html

* http://www.panix.com/~rst/tuttle.html

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00437.html

* https://github.com/rst/Tuttle
As I understood the article, he only submitted documents after they'd already blocked his account.
Where do you live? I'll send you some lego!
Another reason is that a lot of gold trading is and was happening between central banks.

(and moving the gold physically is a pain, easier to have them all in the same location, that's what the FRBNY account is for)
You mean from Jews, during World War II? Then you're probably right :)
And another country's tax payers have subsidized that student from preschool through primary and secondary education.

Also, the implication of your argument is that graduate immigrants should get a tax break because tax payers never had to subsidize their degree.
huh. Argues that we should address problems where we can do a lot of good with relatively little investment. As an economist, he seems to be proud to take a rational approach, but on the other hand, he is taking a view based merely on financial rewards ("bad projects — basically, projects where if you invest a dollar, you get less than a dollar back").

So let's assume money invested in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment can bring more savings than fixing climate change (which is very expensive). How does it follow from this that a focus on HIV/AIDS would be more important? After all, climate change is an existential problem that may endanger the survival of our civilization.
"But you can find an American-Chinese restaurant in almost every po-dunk country town across the entirety of America."

This is a relatively recent development, BTW. I grew up in small town Michigan. In the 70s, when we wanted Chinese food, we actually drove 30 minutes to Sarnia, Canada. (Or cooked it ourselves.) In the 80s, a place finally opened in town. As late as the early 90s we were still occasionally going for Chinese in Canada because they were still marginally better than the local places. But in the last 20 years only nostalgia would get me going to Sarnia primarily for Chinese food. (The dim sum place in Windsor is a different matter!)
Could have sworn that _nix already had mechanisms for loading different lib versions side by side...
The belts are industrial surplus.

If you look closely at the belt you can see the traces of many failed experiments before I found a shape that worked without accidentally getting stuck on a part.

It is attached with super glue to the belt. I use the narrowest parts because that way it doesn't end up fighting with the curvature of the belt when it goes over the roller.

The belt rotation is done with a 3 phase AC motor hooked up to an inverter for the vertical belt, the camera belt is driven by a DC motor hooked up to a variable power supply.

So no steppers, that would have made life a bit easier because then I'd know (modulo some slippage) where the belt is positioned. So now I have to reconstruct that optically, hence the wavy line on the belt.
Wasn't that a popular promotion strategy for music artists to leak records/songs - before Spotify
Well that depends whether you think 1% is rare or not.
I'm not really understanding what is going on here and the article doesn't address that:

1 - Why do Germany and Netherlands even store their gold in the USA?

2 - Why shall the USA/FED have any saying about Germany wanting their property back anyway? It's like me having to negotiate with my bank weather I can or not withdrawal my money from there.
How do you find out where they came from? And is it at all plausible to survey enough of the sea to catch even half of refugees coming in by boat?
Lego makes two 'removal' tools, those are handy, then, I have a very sharp naked 4" blade that will take care of the hardest cases, baseplates will flex the tiniest bit and that will usually give you enough space to flip the top part off. Finally, a regular plate pushed at a 45 degree angle into the space between two other plates will separate the two without damage to any of the parts if you do it 'just so'.

Adapt as needed :)
Similarly, I ate at an Indian restaurant in Beijing and didn't notice any difference from Chinese food.
As an old white guy with a beard, let me say that I also like to see diversity in the pictures of the current leadership and staff. I wear Hawaiian shirts -- not flannel, but otherwise I share many of the same red flags as the OP. Unfortunately, I also set off many of the same red flags.
I had plenty of meals at Chino-Latino places growing up. In my neighborhood, they were the only Chinese food places that offered a sit-down dining experience. Every standard Chinese place was all takeout and even then, all transactions took place through some bulletproof plexiglass.

At the Chino-Latino places, you would get toasted slices of italian bread and butter instead of fried noodles and duck sauce and you could get you favorite sides like mofongo or tostones.

I miss the experience. My mom would treat us to it when she could.
It's a lot of "clearly that's how it happens" because from the author viewpoint (pro gold holdings), anything else would not make sense.

E.g.: "It seems clear that they negotiated hard with the US and acted rather shrewdly." does not provide any source for the statement, and it's the same for almost everything in the article, just speculations.

One could also imagine, that Germany plans on lowering their gold holdings and having them on account at the FRBNY would be a convenient thing to make that happen.
My locksmith didn't pick my lock. He asked if I wanted a show of lock picking or my door open. I said open. He turned the doorknob, held it on the stop, leaned on the door, slid in a thin plastic shim, and turned the doorknob the rest of the way.

Impressive!
I don't disagree but the problem with reddit is that these are all specialized channels.

My question was specifically one that didn't know which channel to ask in. You would never get through with that question on the front of Reddit.

I used to be on Reddit before I joined HN. There are as you say sub-reddits but they aren't good for when you don't know what you don't know.

At least in my experience.
ospc.org/TaxBrain is an open source platform for analyzing tax policy. You can forecast revenue and distributional consequences for most of the individual and payroll tax provisions in this reform and others.

I am happy to answer any questions about the TaxBrain interface or the underlying models.
Which professional routers? Cisco doesn't use QNX and Juniper uses FreeBSD. I'm not sure there are any other router manufacturers that matter.
Microsoft phone revenue fell to $5M last quarter, from $1.4B two years ago
> It makes absolute sense to go $250k in debt for an MIT or Harvard degree,

I'm not so familiar with the American system, but aren't there prestigious schools that would accept bright students for free? In France for instance, the most selective engineer schools are free (or sometimes pay their students) and they enjoy the same careers than their American counterparts. Somehow, it sounds counterintuitive that you have to pay anything if you're extremely bright!
And if the subsets don't fully match because some of the emails were deleted either by the user or Gmail's own email retention policy? Or they match for some periods of time but not the others?