skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I'd like to say "hey Brits, come on and move to Germany as long as you still can", our own government is going way down the authoritarian route, too.

Not that extreme as in the UK, yes, but still - our secret services and the police got awarded the right to automatically access our ID card photography. What this means is that e.g. at demonstrations they can pull up a camera van and have everyone identified in real time - as any form of masking is forbidden by law since the RAF days.

When you're on social support, government may access your entire bank account data including transactions, at will and use everything they find to make your life even more miserable than it already is.

When you're a refugee, immigration offices are now allowed and equipped to forensically examine your cell phone to determine "if you tell the truth", plus you have your fingerprints and biometric photos taken.

First they came for the jobless, then the refugees, ... the path which many countries these days are going is a very dark one and I am not sure if democratic processes will allow a push back or if it will need massive civil unrest.
the non light emitting mass could be Dyson spheres of space based computers
I work on OpenShift (which is k8s with tenancy) and there's a good mix of "production apps", "dense development clusters", and "single app experimentation" out there. Like all things about the future, it's here, just not evenly distributed.

You'd be surprised how many services you interact with on a daily basis are running on k8s (whole or in part).

It's still early, and many of the adopters today in large companies just happened to be making modernization efforts of their app-dev / app-deploy pipelines and moved to k8s or OpenShift. That said, it's certainly not ubiquitous yet.
Because of staff salaries and operating costs that will need to be covered with 10-20% the number of tickets sold, because the thing is many times slower. It might make 150 flights one-way per year vs ~700 for a jet. So the ticket will be much, much more expensive.
Soooo... publishers should start labeling their promotional copies as "not for resale" and problem solved?

At least from what the article describes, it really does seem that simple.

And this doesn't even appear to have anything to do with Amazon specifically -- the article even states these promotional copies "often end up sold to bookstores like the Strand".
It's funny when people that do not have any idea about technology wants to regulate Internet. Someone can just use application developed in other country, what they will do ? block the site on ISP level? People will link to thousands other sites that will have binaries of this application on facebook/twitter/any other site.

They can't even handle piracy and they think that they can control whole Internet? When I hear that kind of proposals I always have this picture in my mind:

https://torrentfreak.com/images/blocktpb1.jpg
Sure - or you aim principally for the cruise market and charge a commensurately premium price. I was recently on a trip to the Antarctic that some folks had paid $30,000 a head for the experience - so the market certainly exists.
"War seems to have stopped in (Western) Europe though"

There might be differen reasons than giving up on tribes.
Afaik the biggest wars we had were totally not tribe related, but rather "Nation" and than "Race".

And the original tribes in central europe are loong gone, replaced by feudalism and christianity over 1000 years ago.
Slightly OT: I didn't know there were such things as 1500 (1/2 ton) diesel pickups before I read this article. Interesting.
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But whether SPARK et al can prove properties about unsafe code isn't the pertinent topic. SPARK and friends are subsets if their respective languages, implying that there are features of those languages that, if their use is not restricted, inhibit the production of correctness proofs. Rust already has such a thing, by default, in the form of non-unsafe Rust, and the notion of "unsafe" in the context of Rust and Frama-C is not guaranteed to be the same. So what I'm asking is for you to demonstrate something that these other languages can prove that safe Rust can't.

By the way, you've been in Rust threads enough years now championing safe languages that you really no longer have any excuse for not learning Rust. :P
Mailing lists and Newsgroups (usenet) were both quite popular. Before the internet, it was over dialup BBS systems and CDs/floppy disks.

Just remember that Git was designed around the workflow of the Linux kernel originally. That's why there are commands like "git format-patch" and "git am" which have help messages like "Prepare patches for e-mail submission" and "Apply a series of patches from a mailbox".

It was also not that uncommon to see code patches printed in magazines or snail-mail letters.
Not sure what the problem is, all tests for Moon pass on Safari, and it works on my iPhone 6s on iOS 10.

Can you let me know if any demos in the Getting Started[1] guide work?

[1] http://moonjs.ga/docs/getting-started.html
His returns from Berkshire Hathaway has averaged 19% over the last 52 years (from 1965), vs a 9.7% market return over the same period.

His 40% returns were in the Buffett Partnerships, which ran for 12 years from mid 50s to late 60s, and aren't counted in Berkshires results.

Doubling the market return rate over 52 years is huge outperformance. For an investor it's roughly doubling every 3.5 years instead of 7.5 years.

Add in the fact he crushed the market by nearly 4x a year for an earlier 12 years and his immense skill is undeniable. He would be statistically implausible if the world had trillions of investors.
Not only that, but they are also served differently.

For example, the React example has an "F" grade for static caching, whereas some other examples have "A". Doesn't sound like something a JavaScript library can influence.

Why is it that way? Because these are just sample projects from different people created at different points in time, served on different hosts, but suddenly brought under a single umbrella as if it was an organized project from the beginning.

There are big differences in build systems, e.g. some examples are optimized by hand to inline critical CSS at the build level, others aren't. There's nothing that prevents applying the same strategies to all examples, but the fact is some example authors had time to do it, and others didn't. Wouldn't it make sense to at least use the same build system for Preact and React examples?

I appreciate the effort by Addy and other folks from Google to highlight performance issues in web apps, but as it stands right now I consider the website to be rather misleading.
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It is, and has been. Ever since the end of colonialism, some countrys have supported causes and countrys in africa to get some african tiger states going the way of south korea, japan, china, south america, russia, east europe, turkey - indonesia, malaysia etc.

But here we are, and today even the anti-colonial ideologys exclaiming "help to help themselve" sound exausted. Europe has the most interest to stabilize africa, but good ideas on the how to are rare.

I know, colonialism- the excuse for everything- but other countrys where colonized several times over and are back on theire feet or ruling the world by now. And africa is diverse enought to show that colonialism is not just it.

My personal believe is that africa pays the price for bad circumstances (in part due to beeing the craddle of humanity/ bad distribution of croppable plants/ diseases) and living the facists and racists dream: "Constant warfare of one ethnicity against another. Mighty, messianically worshipped leaders, with no bigger aim then keeping the lion pack that brought them to power with corruption from tearing them apart."

My assumption is that if you have this mix, a spiral sets in which optimization is geared towards "surviving and propsering within the cycle of constant strife". The effect is partially visible in other country not on the african continent. To break the cycle, one would have to understand the human adaptions to crisis and strife - and combat the reactions. Create small oasis of prosperty- who can defend against african anti-capitalistic traditions, like leeching of the wealth of wealthy relatives (like public officials- who need constantly bigger bribes to pay this family mafia) and begin the same journey like south korea and south america did.

I guess saying that makes me a racist. And for racists im worser, calling theire gut feelings to "walk in cirles" dangerous. I just think it would be great if africans where the first to build a beanstalk for humanity.
For some reason they decided to scuttle that in the Balmer/Sinofsky/Nadella shakeups.

It's actually a pretty nifty API to use, and has some continuation as MonoGame. Notably, Stardew Valley is an XNA/Monogame product.
Maybe I can expand.

I can deny the Earth is flat, because there is an abundance of evidence that it is round.

I can't deny that there are 650 elements, because as far as I know, other elements may be discovered. But I can certainly doubt it, and supply alternative theories.

I can deny allegations of wrong doing, because they either happened, or didn't.

But Dark Matter isn't assured yet. Denying it means it either exists or doesn't. But the truth may be a mix of MOND and something different but similar to Dark Matter. It isn't "fixed" into a yes/no situation.
I've always thought that Theresa May should have more of a say in what I do online. Who else than Theresa would know what's best for me.
Great PMs Don't Spend Their Time on Solutions
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I expected to find a modern equivalent to the Bede BD-5J ( single-engine, single-seat ) but it's just another small-cabin jet. Even Gulfstream tried that back in the 1980s with the single-engine Peregrine.
Sourceforge got desperate for money and they started modifying installation packages to contain crapware

That is only a relatively recent development.
Not having a paper trail is increasingly seen as a positive.

What does my paper trail get me? Evidence to be spun into a scenario that justifies firing me if the wind ever blows the wrong way.
Update: In my shock I didn't read the rejection pamphlet.

214b: Rejected because I didn't prove nonimmigrant status h/t @ScribblingOn

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/86578769858118451...
He expressed it badly. The point I think he is trying to say is that dark matter can be neither proven nor disproven at this time with the information available. An intellectually honest person should remain open to both possibilities.

You can say "I am not convinced of the dark matter hypothesis."

But unless you have information the rest of us do not, you can't really say "I deny the dark matter hypothesis could be real."
The internet removes individual accountability for your beliefs and ideas, and very much influences the zeitgeist. It's not an honest mirror but a funhouse mirror, because it exacerbates not only genuinely held extreme views, but also the appearance that others hold extreme views.
What's wrong with "the lawnmower approach"? Imagine you're mowing the lawn in a spiral from the outside in. When a section is completely mowed, just continue spiraling in the remaining area. The center is the last place with high grass. The only drawback I see is that you could get multiple answers for certain shapes. But for the ones in the post, I think the answer is about the same.
rubbish.

I don't believe it. If you haven't had problems with .NET Core, you haven't used it in a serious capacity.

I'm not even going to bother to go into the details; anyone is free to look up the issue list and the endless stream of issues, its all on github. The versioning, the nuget support, the package.json stuff, the huge fuss over targeting netcoreapp for the 2.0 preview...

.NET Core is the future, but its not here yet.

Its the closest its ever been with the new preview release, but honestly, I'm deeply sympathetic to other early adopters. Migrating to .net standard 2 will be painful.

Anyone thinking of using core right now: dont.

Wait at least for the 2.0 release version to roll out, or you're building on quicksand.
The best phrasing I've seen is "multiply by your favorite number between e and pi", because that gives you some wiggle if you are particularly good or particularly bad at it.
A brief quiz on Computer Science history, how many do you know?
Thats not even a viable argument. You know how long things take. Assuming that thats true, what do you do about it? Something took significantly longer. What are you gonna do about it? Fire them?
I assume it's a last ditch manouvre. Planes are designed to glide if the engine fails [0] - so you'd do your best to get over land / safe and then pull the parachute.

But also I assume if it did land on water - you might have a short amount of time to get out. At least you're not crashing into the water at 100 mph.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/Can-a-passenger-airplane-glide-if-all-...
what's an example of a trump supporters are evil? keep in mind that demonstrating that someone is uninformed, perhaps willfully, is not the same as evil.
"Compares" in what way?
People who do extremely uncomfortable things to break records are not in it to have "fun."
Considering you'll have to land before 1100 km and that shouldn't take more than an hour and a half, I'd say it's more nitpicking than a real issue. Just take it into account and go to the toilet beforehand, with some plastic bags or empty bottles for emergencies.
I don't disagree that a person can buy shoddy goods on either site. The difference for me is that as a marketplace, Ebay is more transparent. The article points out a specific instance of Amazon's opacity where the buyer has no information about the actual seller.

Maybe the merchant is Amazon itself and hence a fairly reliable seller. Maybe the merchant is some other less reliable seller. Maybe the the merchant has the item in stock. Maybe it does not. Maybe the price shown is in the buyer's interest. Maybe it is not the same as someone else might see.

The difference for me, is that in general Ebay has structured its business so as to create little incentive for manipulating individual transactions in an extractive way. As a marketplace, Ebay tends to provide consistent and reliable information to buyers (as well as sellers) regarding price and the transaction history of the counter party.

Now all this is with the caveat that I generally use Ebay as a replacement for Amazon and therefore am not heavily invested in the auction process. Usually the only time a enter an Ebay auction over buy-it-now is when the auction is ending soon and there's not much bid activity and the item is on the long tail...I don't use usually use Ebay to buy high demand or high ticket items via auction.

But again, for me it is that I find Amazon's purchase process is often untrustworthy. Essentially, Amazon's search is broken when measured against my economic interests (and great when measured against Amazon's). In short, Amazon has become an adversarial marketplace where my adversary is the house. Ebay's auctions are adversarial, but I'm not up against the platform and the economics of the transaction for me do not depend on how the platform leaks information...and there are few incentives for Ebay to evolve in that way and many incentives for Amazon to do so.
Dark matter appears, to a layman with some historical knowledge, as nothing more than modern day epicycles. When we can't explain something with the models we have, and have to invent magic terms to balance the equations, that indicates that we really don't know what the fuck is going on.
* Used books means the publisher (and author) got paid. It is an issue between the buyer and seller (and Amazon as the broker).

* Why are the publisher producing so many review copies that this is even possible? And why isn't "review copy" plastered on every page? Why doesn't it have a different ISBN number (or no ISBN at all)? This just screams of publisher incompetence.

* Selling legitimate overstock is not a problem. Additionally the publisher (and author) got paid. Selling "destroyed" books is, again, the publisher being incompetent. Typically a publisher will have the first page or front cover returned to prove it was destroyed.

* Fake books are a legitimate problem, but the articles goes out of its way to say that that isn't happening multiple times.

Outside of fake books, most of these other theories read more like conspiracy and don't make rational sense on the face of it.
... even though there are indeed many broken society's all the time. Just like there are many working ones. And alltogether it is somewhat mixed.
> "Not using email" is definitely a kids phase. Then you go work for a non-startup company and email is everything.

One of the companies I am talking about has revenue in the billions and operations across the globe and is publicly traded. The employees, young and old, want to communicate in real time, to get things done quickly. Many employees even have chat access to the highest levels of the company, including the CEO.
Yesterday's discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374533
Yeah, no. Entrepreneur states "X is broken, and my solution Y will fix it"

News at 11.
I do not remember having any of those problems when using Internet at work.
But that would be a good answer, that it depends on the task and how you feel and that you have made this experience already.
O'Reilly Radar has become O'Reilly Ideas now, right? I used to surf Radar semi-frequently some time earlier, and got to knnow of interesting tech and other stuff there sometimes; how is it now?
Security officers might not be the best example. A university needs insurance and chances are the cost of setting up and maintaining a security force is less expensive than paying a higher insurance premium.
That sounds frustrating. But thanks for the reminder about Abe's.
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"The answer to solving world hunger is not necessarily reducing human population"

I did not say that. I just said that the problem is clearly not solved, when so many people are starving.
You can do text processing and webscraping easily with F#.
React is a framework, not a language (you can still use React with F# if you transpile it to Javascript). You can do cross platform game programming in F# too. And distributed programming of course.
I feel like there would be a relatively short list of high value topics: basic financial knowledge (interest on savings & loans, personal accounting), mortgages, how to choose a job specialization (including objective numbers on salary / hiring in various fields), how to apply for employment, how to find better employment, how to avail yourself of the various government-funded services (library, medical, etc) or interact with their private equivalents, basic legal knowledge.

Summary versions that could easily be knocked out in a single year-long grade school course.

The biggest point of teaching these to everyone would be to address income inequality. Because if you're from an affluent family, these topics are usually information you have ready access to via your parents. If not... you really don't, and that has an impact on your chances of success in life.
I mean, is this surprising? Despite the original purpose of college, today the majority of people only go to college because they want a decent job.

If your best shot of getting a decent job requires you to first get a 40k piece of paper, many people will do this and they will put in the minimum amount of work to get what they want. I mean, it's efficient after all isn't it? Why work more for the same result?
OpenBSD with anoncvs started in the 90's with showing a live cvs to the world. That was a nice change from release dumps.
As others have mentioned they want a Chromebook/iOS alternative. They could have achieved this with Win 10 already but my guess is that with Win 10 S and its 50$ upgrade fee, they want to artificially drive the value of Win 10 regular up (or they are afraid to cannibalize Win 10). Anyway, the whole move looks very much like something "old" Microsoft would've done. IMHO, this was just a matter of time.
I also feel that Google search results have become spammy lately. For technical topics, or opinions on a social topic, HN's search box can yield some gold mines.

What struck me the most from the essay is the section regarding universities. I don't think universities should be replaced. I think that they should go back to what they originally were, centuries ago, but enhanced by technology, better understanding of the learning process and sensitivity to each learner's personal development.

That means students who are there because they want to learn, not just as a career stepping stone or for rites of passage, and who are free to follow their interests flexibly.

Tutors who are passionate about their subjects, and want to share and who care about the flock they've taken in.

A better peer-learning system; to openly share ideas, adjust and enrich own thoughts and build projects together.

A dynamic curriculum; solid trees of knowledge that are open to wide-ranging thoughts and student needs and whims.

Taking advantage of current technologies, blending them in the curriculum for a better learning experience.

Greater sensitivity to each student's circumstances, who may change their mind to pursue another interest, who may decide to take a break from learning, who may be suffering from crises, ranging from personal to existential.

...

Universities are supposed to be where you can learn freely, and possibly for the undergraduate, to prepare him/her for the real world.

Yet your university experience is measured by what grade you graduate with. No doubt students need assessments - but it should be feedback for further development. Why can't we see the university as an incubator of personal development, where learning is a naturally iterative process?

But it seems that in the "real world", all this seems to be wishful thinking. Universities have to make money! It's not just for commercial reasons, but research needs funding, whole populations need educating (and get jobs.) And recruiters are not that interested in personal journeys, because that's not what companies want - they want newly minted cogs to add to their great machines.

So yes, it is frightening to think about it - it's very messy! In my view, the core issue with universities is that they are not adapting fast enough, and has become too bloated and possibly too commercialised that they have lost perspective of their original mission. So rather than build an entirely new system to replace universities, wouldn't it be more feasible for existing universities to be bolder and make the changes themselves?

The other approach is to provide an alternative learning experience to universities (rather than replacing them.) This is an idea that has been knocking around in my head for a while: how about a public learning centre using MOOCs as the main resource? This will democratise MOOCs even more; you will have richer peer support, greater motivation to complete the course, and local subject matter experts can volunteer as 'mentors' to support the group though with no actual obligation to pass anyone.

Libraries. Libraries can do this.