skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they had a very novel idea: let's not send the user an empty page which then makes a request for several dozen javascripts from all over the internet and then loads the page content via javascript which then loads a framework which loads the page via running more javascript through a javascript template, but instead just sending the page without the added nineteen layers of unnecessary javascript.
I can see the western states coming in to closer economic union with the west of Canada. I don't see Canadian influence dominating, though. There's too many people to the south. California alone has more people than all of Canada, for example. But there are common cultural elements from Canada all the way down to northern California. So a regional culture arising as a unifying agent, technically across country lines? I can picture it.

(SoCal is different, but that is neither here nor there in this case.)

There's that pesky Federal law that prohibits states from making their own arrangements with sovereign nations, but that does little to inhibit the actual flow of people or business.
It always seemed to me that QNX and the rise of smart cars was one of the things that's keeping Blackberry afloat.
Other than 9000 EUR an amazing high amount how can you afford to live there?

You can't work can you?
Google's war on fake news
> It makes absolute sense to go $250k in debt for an MIT or Harvard degree

No it doesn't? I think we should stop putting schools on a pedestal because of their name. I admire some of the research and work that comes out of those schools, but in the end their degrees are no better or worse than other schools' (regarding undergraduate, I can't speak for graduate).

The only differences come down to network and academic history. If you're justifying that level of debt purely on those two criteria, then I understand that's the value those things mean to you -- and that's okay. Personally, that's not worth it to me. I'm not sure there's "absolute sense" here.
No, but I never really asked. I doubt they would though.
Sounds fun, so long as you're ok going all the way to the bottom, not just a lower floor :)
...yes? Couldn't there be valid causes of action for government acts? Are we simply assuming bad faith on the part of the government for any possible scenarios?
I can think of a few dudes who wrote several hundred pages about someone they barely even knew [1], but we don't usually consider them neurotic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament#The_Gospels
Depends on the media. I think this would be awesome for archival usage on optical and tape media. Or even printed out in paper, since this looks like it'd let you rescan it in any order.
Clones are never a good thing, labeling them as okay just breeds complacency making the enterprise more enterprisey. It should be labeled what it is, a pile of tech debt. I'd almost list them as one of the greatest evils, because you need to maintain two separate systems dedicating engineering resources maintaining yet another system. The upfront cost of consolidating the systems will pay dividends in the future.

Understanding the level of effort to deprecate some of the clones you'll encounter it's reasonable to suggest that you're going to have to tolerate them but I would strive to look for opportunities to consolidate the clones.
That's neither anti-White nor misandry; its not saying there is a problem with either whites or men, but that there is a problem if your careers page and/or exec team bio seem to indicate both that its all white men and also there is no signal of recognition that diversity matter.

Note that the end of the paragraph containing those two sentences is this: When you’re a small team and those are the cards you’re dealt, it’s harder to get around that. But you can always put a statement on this page explaining the fact you want to diversify your team and why. Another trick I’ve seen is having a clearly female silhouette saying “This could be you!”.

i.e., if you want to attract people that aren't white men, you need to show that you want to attract people that aren't white men, rather than showing signals that you are a bunch of white men looking for more white men.
if you leave them covered in a dry room eventually the shit ton will be lighter. Though in the long run it will all be destroyed when the sun burns up the earth.
In the US at least a lot of organizations and most homes have piss-poor locks that are a lot easier to pick than their IT security is to crack. I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's not the best analogy.
Copied and pasted the quote into Google, with quotation marks. It was on the front page but not the top result. Wayback Machine has it too, but this archive.is (A site I've never used before) is a much higher quality archive.
Sorry to sidetrack this discussion, but this is the first I have heard of Google's 10,000 human raters. Can anyone provide more information about them?

> Google is also setting new rules encouraging its “raters” — the 10,000-plus staff that assess search results — to flag web pages that host hoaxes, conspiracy theories and what the company calls “low-quality” content.

Reading this, I wonder what the raters were doing before they were given these new rules.
Me to. Having clicked that like 50 times a turn off permenantly option would be cool.
What goes in your mind when you meditate long enough
They expand on the Gmail issue thusly:

> fancy apps like Gmail-in-Chromium or on Android still behave atrociously on dodgy connections or after switching IP addresses. (Have you ever had Gmail leave an e-mail message in "Sending..." for ten hours while merrily retrieving new mail and not indicating any kind of error? Us too.)

So it's about the mobile app, not the web app. Not necessarily HTTP. Maybe someone who knows more about Android can say what happens to existing TCP connections when roaming. Or what protocol the Gmail app is using.
"Clones" are okay when one is the current standard that is used by most of the organization and any others are experiments (possibly in production) for possible future directions of standardization with a clear picture to why you are exploring the alternative, a clear process for evaluating the alternative, and a plan to retire the alternative and put the function back on the standard if the alternative is rejected.

Or if its a separate org that was merged in and hasn't moved on to the standard yet -- and either has a plan to transition or is in the planning process.

Otherwise, no, generally not.

(There are "false clones" that serve the same purpose on a high level description but have clearly delineated different functional roles in the organization -- beyond just "this unit uses X" and "this unit uses Y", but actual different concrete needs that are served, despite being in the same general product category. This can be acceptable with each being standard in its niche, but those niches need to be defined so that the use within the organization doesn't get blurred and you end up with real clones.)
I suspect you'd be much better off with a Rust MIR -> C compiler. Rust's memory and execution model is much closer to C than C is to LLVM.
O man who is going to buy the flying cars?
I can buy a house in my country with 9000 EUR.
Solving a Global Digital Identity Crisis
Lots of comments on here about the software, but I'm really fascinated by the hardware. Where did you get the conveyor belts and how much did they cost?

For the belt that lifts item up out of the hopper, I notice there's a little white hook (or platform, not sure what to call that) jutting out that does the actual lifting of the legos. How did you get the size of that right? Did you install that jutting-out part, or did it come pre-attached to the belt?

What tools are you using to make a computer do the actual belt rotation? I'm wondering how low-level it is - are you spinning the steppers directly or did the conveyor belts come with some kind of API? I'm guessing the belts don't have a USB port for easy control.
I've had American-Indian-Chinese food in the Edison, NJ area. It was closer to American-Chinese than American-Indian.

Edit: Also, I remember a great Indian-Thai-Chinese restaurant in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Used - skip depreciation

Best model - new model intro year - 1 year

Odometer - less than 60K

Brand - I stick with japanese made (old heuristic but till good enough)
I miss the ability to describe my today's emotion with one keyword.
If you don't have showdead enabled, you should enable it. There's at least one real comment currently marked dead (from user rustynails, whose account is almost 2000 days old and appears to have been autokilled after posting a MRA rant around 6 months ago). You said you're excited for feedback, so heads up.
I heard about that one. Paul McCartney didn't show up because his band was on the run, so he flew like an eagle. But fortunately a mellifluous Chinese vocalist showed up and sang a song. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6g_jP00I38
Both Sky broadband and 02 mobile are blocking this domain saying it's dodgy
I guess what I wonder about is if they call it mixed reality, will I be able to see things outside of the headset screens?

I.e. when he describes using the monitors to do work, if I look down can I see my keyboard? this would be a selling point for me.
Sounds like it would have been useful in 1998, when filesystems and drives were less reliable and encryption was rare.
Ok, I get it you're a prolific hacker and well respected... But why does your website have to look like it's from 1994?
> Fortunately, they are each the solution to the other's problems.

No, they aren't, because the major ISPs are also significant content providers and are trying to use their positions as ISPs to promote their own content-provision businesses. Unless you view "solving" the existence of incumbent large content providers as something that is done by making the oligopoly of ISPs also the oligopoly of content, the ISPs are not offering a solution to anything, just the same problem you are describing, intensified, with their own faces replacing the incumbent dominant content providers.
I think it's part of the plan, while your account is suspended they could possibly use the money and lend it at an interest...
Amsterdam Sharing City
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/forget-uber-amsterdam-is...
There can be an "absolute sense" from a financial perspective. For better or worse, having a degree from Harvard/Stanford/MIT can open a number of doors that may be otherwise shut. Doors which can be very financially lucrative.

For example, suppose you want to work in finance/law. Most prestigious firms place a very high premium on having a degree from a top university, and pay extremely generously if you get your foot in the door. In these contexts, the $250k investment on your college will easily pay for itself within 10 years.

Conversely, suppose you're trying to break into a field that's extremely hard to crack (writing?). In such situations, you'll need every edge you can get, and having a great network or an eye-catching degree in your resume can make the difference between you getting a toe-hold and you calling it quits.

To be sure, it certainly is very context dependent. Getting a cheap Bachelor's degree from a public university, and a Master's degree from a brand name university, might be a good way to get the best of both worlds. In general though, anyone who's smart enough to get admission into Harvard/Stanford is likely going to make multiple millions of dollars over the course of their lifetime. Given this baseline, investing 250k for a top-notch education/network/resume certainly seems well worth it.
This is a cool idea. Please don't take the below as gratuitous negativity, just a reminder that these are hard problems for which there are no general solutions.

The README says it was tested on ZFS, but I doubt its utility in real-world deployments. I don't know of anyone who has significant data in a ZFS pool that isn't one or more of: raidz, compressed, encrypted, or embedded_data.

raidz implies that logical blocks aren't allocated as single physical blocks, but instead striped across multiple drives. Finding the SBX magic isn't enough to get you the rest of the block, but the checksum might (but, given that's it's CRC16, probably won't) let you try appending blocks from other disks to find the remainder of the block.

Transparent compression prevents you from identifying the magic header on each block, unless you decompress every disk sector that could have data (which is certainly feasible, but complicates recovery if you don't know which compression was in use, and zfs supports at least 3 kinds, and pools will generally have at least 1 in use whether compression is on or not).

Encryption (present in Oracle ZFS) means there's no plaintext data to recover.

embedded_data is a feature flag (and on by default in supporting versions of zfs) that packs blocks into block pointer structs when the amount of data is small. I can easily imagine the final block of an SBX, which may be mostly padding, getting compressed into one of those block pointers, which itself may be embedded in a larger structure which is part of an array that's compressed by default. That array is also probably long enough the compressed stream takes multiple blocks, and you may have lost some of the early ones, making the rest of it unrecoverable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14224939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14229310
The C backend was expelled from LLVM several years ago because it was too buggy and nobody wanted to fix it and since then has hardly been updated. That doesn't seem like a very pleasant route.
The US is much bigger and more diverse economically than the countries it is being compared to. Odd results should be expected. If you looked at individual US States it would look much more like the rest of the cohort.
> It's what home routers and similar devices ought to be running instead of Linux.

The bummer is that it's not FOSS.
What you are describing is the way pretty much any financial institution treats their customers.

A mix of heavy financial regulation, and low competition, itself largely the result of the massive barrier to entry created by financial regulation.
Stepping into Windows (aka defenestration?) has prospects like unto those found upon a New York City sidewalk.
how do languages which compile to machine code manage to implement these features in machine code?
The answer is they don't. The machine code they generate may behave as if it were safe, but it's no more safe than any other machine code anywhere else, and no different.

At the end everything you write on a machine is translated to machine code and executed.
Or do you really believe that the CPU executes directly JavaScript?
Powerful type systems, HM inferences and all the other abstractions obviously don't exist at machine code level.
It's the resulting machine code that behave producing the behaviour of these abstractions.
Borrowing again your words:
Which means that it could just as well have been written that way to begin with because what's being enforced by the stricter language is idiom and style, not anything inherent to machine code itself.

I would say that it is obvious that you can write them directly in machine code and have the same effects.
Now how many people in the world do you think that believe it is a sane approach to manually write a complex application that uses powerful type systems directly in machine code?
I don't think you can find anyone outside a mental institution.
Good thing we stopped paying digital terrorists
Would you mind sharing a link to your product?
> It's what home routers and similar devices ought to be running instead of Linux.

It's what professional routers do run. Well, some of them at least.

We used QNX at my last company, which made high-capacity IPSec gateways. We had control-plane boards and data-plane boards, with inter-board redundancy, which meant that if there was a failure on one of the boards, a standby was ready and functional within seconds.

Part of this was thanks to QNX's QNet, which made IPC transparent over the internal IP network of the system. You could launch and control processes on any other CPU running QNX+QNet, a "node" in the sytem.

It was very cool, and I miss it a bit. I certainly loved being able to kill and restart drivers, which were of course user-processes (QNX is a microkernel OS). Since I was doing driver development work, that was useful ;)
Bootstrapting rocks to speed manual labeling. I got to full unsupervised on coin designs and angles by augmenting with many different lighting angles with ws8211 led strips and correlating the angles. I almost can with the dates, but it's so easy to finish with bootstrapping. See http://www.GemHunt.com/dates for the 100% unsupervised classes.
Of interesting historical note, the W3C HTML 4 standard alludes to TCL as a possible scripting language when describing the script tag, albeit just as an example:

https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html
Of interesting historical note, the W3C HTML 4 standard alludes to TCL as a possible scripting language when describing the script tag, albeit just as a number of examples:

https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html

AFAIK no vendor took them up on even claiming to think about supporting tcl at the time
Also, some of the print ads in nautilus aren't that bad. I've actually stopped and taken some extra time to think about a few.
Less about what the ads trying to sell me, but the ad itself raises an interesting question.
Nice. I too couldn't resist implementing this so I have a little Python implementation laying around. Though I never got around to publish it.

I think the wire format is nostalgically old-school. Not sure if you agree but it feels like parsing an older protocol. That is not necessarily a bad thing. Personally I would probably have used TLV:s directly instead of the pointer/offset table though :)
This is the first phase of syntopical reading discussed in "How to read a book", which is a great book about reading other (mostly nonfiction) books.
I would advice you to learn till C1 level. B1 is not enough and Bachelor in Math is mostly in German and you must take TestDAF, so I think you should spend one year or so clearing upto C1 and TestDAF, which is highly advisable. But you can also do the same in Germany, but you have to spend more money in Germany. Since your German level is good, maybe you can find a part time job, but that's no guaranteed thing.
I'm building a process engine.

It started out as me building a scheduler (with a focus on repetition) on to the functionality of Workflowy. Now I'm growing it in to a multi user tool for knowledge exchange, scheduling, and completion review.

Elixir/Phoenix/Vue have been amazing, every step of the way.

It took me a few months to grok the power in Elixir, but it's amazing to work with now. Learn the pattern matching. Enum is your friend.

I've used Vue components from day 1, and it's been enough for this former AS3 developer to finally feel ok about Javascript development. So many JS solutions along the way have felt like rickety messes. Using Vue components has been a sane middle ground that brings everything together logically without too much inter-dependence.

I'm not looking to replace this stack anytime soon!
At long, overdue, too late last...

In the very early days of the web, I used to fantasize - naively - about the whole undignified html hodgepodge never having happened, and the entire web just running on served-up tcl/tk.
Correlation does not equal causation. There also have been no successful terror attacks on a US airplane since they 1) Implemented reinforced cockpit doors, 2) stopped allowing people to line up for the forward bathroom, 3) added air marshals to the planes, 4) implemented TSA pre-check.

So we have no idea, if any of these, has actually improved security. It's possible that just no one has tried since 9/11 because there was no reason to.
Freeing Disk Space with the PackageKit Cache – Automatic Updates Gone Wrong
The Intercept, The Atlantic and NYTimes when it doesn't talk about US politics.
You had me at "Help me fight my imposter syndrome".

What about the people that don't want that help? I sure don't. My own psychological issues and state are my business.

Will the author inform their manager specifically about this line item or will she hope they can read her mind (or wave around that blog article before they hire her?)
I think that there's a tech bubble around this issue. In my experience, most normal people happily trade internet speed for discounts. In fact, I've found that people are more likely to be suspicious of those seeking high internet speeds than sympathetic.

I am willing to bet that if someone offered an internet package that included full speeds for Facebook, Wikipedia, and 30 YouTube videos for $5 /mo, and then 20% speed for everything else, it'd do really well.

Interestingly, this is a really a question about keeping the internet a free market. Just as a local boutique retailer would not be happy about the shopping center charging customers $1 per store they entered, small publishers, as usual, will be the people harmed by a non-neutral internet.

I'm sure the big players are enthralled by the idea that their competitors will soon have an even harder time accessing alternatives, as if it wasn't difficult enough with a rabid copyright regime and restrictive network access. IMO, the only reason tech incumbents oppose net non-neutrality is because they're worried that Comcast will use it as a kludge to stymie the growth of their platforms as media platforms (which Comcast et al are desperate to do, because cordcutting is eviscerating the cable industry).

It's too bad that the mainstream conservative party in the US has interpreted "free markets" and "competition" to mean making the startup environment extremely difficult for the little guy.
Trump's First 100 Days: At Least He Picked Some Good People to Run Things
No the total number include the tunnels, the tracks outside and 40 (FORTY) underground stations.
The specific figure of 1.25B£ is taken from the official documents for 18km of tunnels alone.
So do you think that an unknown blog that throws some figures without any reference must be more accurate than the official figures, reported in public documents accessible to everyone, that explicitly says that 18km of tunnels ALONE have been built for 1.25B£.
Next are you going to post a link from some chem-trails website?
Yeah, a total amateur can learn enough to pick the locks on most homes and padlocks with a grand total of about $3 worth of tools and an hour or two of experimentation.

Now, some businesses use better stuff - Abloy or Medeco stuff, but many still don't.
In this case, I think the different name for the constructor was chosen specifically to show the difference between the term and type level. I think it's a good idea, when explaining Haskell, to not assume that no one gets confused by the constructor and type having the same name (it confused me to begin with).
Show HN: Electrify – Turn websites into native desktop apps
http://www.webmhs.com/2017/04/prediksi-everton-vs-chelsea-30...
That's sad to hear. Has to be my favorite publication. I subscribe to the digital edition, and, while visiting Los Angeles, bought a print copy at Barnes & Noble. I did ask whether they carry older issues and unfortunately the answer was no.
Why would the FBI "take someone away" for stepping on a flag? Do you mean arrest them? On what charges?
http://www.webmhs.com/2017/04/prediksi-as-roma-vs-lazio-30-a...
Economic indicators are cheery but why are Indians still gloomy
I gather that your account has been zombied.
others already replied about the rural/urban distribution in expats, but there was another factor. in NL, speaking out against Erdogan got them ostracised from the Turkish community. only very few Dutch-Turkish political / tv personalities dared to speak out, even if you knew for sure they are against Erdogan, they would avoid the subject or twist words around it. very weird and quite scary to see such influence reach that far.