skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The reason so many of the mid-sized market leaders come from Germany can be traced back to post-WW2 policies to ensure that Europe could be at peace. Some of these policies were undoubtedly exploitative in the short term, but long term have achieved their goal.

Hilariously, the Volkswagen designs (The Type 1/Beetle), factories, etc. were actually offered as a free war reparation to both the US and to Britain. However, neither party was interested... in what would end up being the most profitable automotive concern on the planet. It is considered the single greatest blunder of the entire automotive industry.

James May makes a mention of it in his Cars of the People series: https://youtu.be/6pmp0Oxg520?t=11m54s
If anything Germany will suffer from the consequences of not investing in education for the past four decades as we are already seeing the lack of capable, well-trained, high skilled workers.

German education basically has been focussed on producing low level work forces and ignoring the rest, you can see that clearly while hiring.
I wish this or a similar editor was written in a language like Nim. Then you could just compile it on an older version of CentOS, link statically, and cp it anywhere you need it. Or something that supports simple ./configure && make.
To be clear, I agree that it's very often a cheap shot and I'm glad such things are not generally part of HN.

> I've posted about this countless times

Everyone needs to know policy, but I think few see your comments. You see all your posts and feel you are repeating yourself; users see a tiny fraction of them and may never read about any particular policy. I'm pretty active, but most days I see zero comments from mods - I see a few discussions and a minority of comments in each. Consider even your 'sticky' post at the top of this discussion - what tiny fraction of HN users will see it? Few will see this discussion, and even most/many commenters on this discussion will have moved on or will be reading their comment histories to see responses.

> unless you have more evidence than someone being wrong in your opinion on the internet, you bet it's inadmissible here.

To be clear, that's not at all what I did, as I described above. I'm still not sure if what I did say - pointing to a strong pattern of the same arguments repeated in angry posts, both hallmarks of astroturfing and propaganda - is admissible, since it seems to both meet your standards and yet was rejected. Moving on ...
>You probably shouldn't be searching for that.

That response doesn't engage with the difficult scenario I laid out. To restate: If you want a law-abiding-wouldn't-hurt-a-fly citizen to participate in the blockchain, the citizen must copy the illegal child pornography to his harddrive to satisfy the functionality of the blockchain. The citizen is not "searching for it"; instead, the citizen must have it.
IIRC, Delphi was spun off as a former division GM.
Yeah but who would want to use clojure of they had a choice to use scala?

Lein is what I always wished sbcl had.
Arcteryx Blade 20
Interesting. Romain Brette has been doing something similar by himself for computational neuroscience (and other subjects that catch his interest) http://journal.romainbrette.fr/
Since this is "Show HN", what is the motivation you have for doing this? There's no motivation or background in the linked README.
Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy?
Production Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript Frameworks
The "style insensitivity" decision dissuades me much more strongly than some case sensitivity style enforcement in the language would.

It seems odd to me that Nim developers chose to go with that "style insensitivity" (which I would have predicted would be highly controversial and very discouraging for many, many developers) but indentation sensitivity (which is less controversial, but still more controversial than indentation insensitivity; shockingly large numbers of people dislike it, including me at least when combined with some other language features).

If the goal was widest possible appeal and adoption, those two decisions should have been swapped, I think. If the goal is related to some specific philosophical stance, however, I suppose every language developer who doesn't just want to recreate PHP or VisualBasic needs to pick the hill on which he or she is willing to die, and only time will tell whether it will be worth it.
Germany is a highly decentralized country. Maybe go and study in one of the metropolitan areas but then return to their beloved villages far away from the maddening crowds. In fact many of these hidden champions are in the "middle of nowhere" with often sub-par logistics (e.g. no immediate Autobahn or major train connection).
Not directly.

More popularity will lead to higher bitcoin prices, and that will indirectly to more power consumption for hashing until no-arbitrage equilibrium is restored.
Oh Christ I thought it would be a bot. My apologies to Johan.
Yes. After the things I've had to do and the people I've had to put up during working career it's hard not to think "self entitled whiner!" when seeing these types of headlines.

Which might not be the case in this instance, but it's definitely the first thought that comes to mind.
Does the install script fail or take too long?
ArXiv-overlay journals like Quantum seem like a strictly better approach.

http://quantum-journal.org
The Pi is far too slow to do more than a couple of MB/s of vpn traffic so hosting a VPN server on it feels like a rather pointless exercise.

A bit more expensive but at least 100x faster option would be https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-A1SRi-2558F-Intel-Fanless-...

And I suppose something like https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Micro-Appliance-Gigabit-Bare... or maybe https://www.amazon.com/Solana-Tech-pfSense-firewall-router/d... would be an OK cheaper alternative.
So there were attempts to make the calculations more useful, but that's not the only way to avoid this 'wasted energy'.

One alternative idea is 'proof of stake'.

And then it always seemed to me, also, that some kind of strategic partial centralisation could help make cryptocurrencies much more efficient..
I was just about to write a comment when I noticed that this article has been flagged to death. Personally, I find this troubling. I thought this was a very good article, well within the scope of HN. I wonder how much other good stuff is being flagged to death. The haters are winning. :-(
To be truly accurate, you would need to look at the marginal impact.

Ie even if bitcoin was purely running on renewable energy, it would still crowd out other users of renewable energy, and those might fall back to coal.
>and his blog has big stupid "to the top" button^ fixed at the bottom, covering two lines of the text.

I don't see what you are talking about. There is no such button for me.
Biological Neuron Model
The instruction set reference (the architecture manual, to give it its proper title) has been freely available from ARM for some time, though you needed to create a website account and agree to a clickthrough license. It's more recently been made available as a simple download:
https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile/do... for cortex-a profile
https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/m-profile/do... for cortex-m profile

For documentation of the devices in a particular SoC you'll need the reference manual from the SoC manufacturer -- they of course vary in how easy it is to find those docs.
>> Basically the "memory" part of human brains have become commoditized without us even realizing.

So, explain this to me like I'm 5. If Google search means you don't need to remember any knowledge any more, why is it that possession of an English-Greek dictionary does not render one capable of speaking both languages fluently?

You can look up all the words you want. Assume you have a grammar of each language at hand, also. Do you think you would be able to speak fulently or understand a fluent speaker of a language you don't know?
No worries! Thanks for clarifying
First time I saw this it was awesome - still is - real-time water effects in the browser.

Didn't know Evan is co-founder of figma.com - maybe that's why the app feels quite snappy in the browser.
I stand corrected - thank you. I don't have a windows machine anymore but as you said spy++ can tell you all you need to know. Hilarious to still see hungarian (hwnd - handle to a window).
it matches ARMv8-A's AArch32 quite well :)
Moved to SF Bay area. Houston is a bit too humid.
While this is true in an ideal world, I think there is also something to be said against an honest attempt to 'do it yourself', and then getting it wrong. Like many things that seem relatively straightforward at first glance, VPNs are a rabbit hole of networking theory that are quite likely to cause anyone who's not an enthusiast to lose interest.
I thought my tone was civil and matter-of-fact. Please let me know if it seemed otherwise.

> unsubstantiated claims

I substantiated my hypothesis and acknowledged its uncertainty. Of course there is no clear proof of astroturfing, unless it's very clumsily done. The whole point of it is to look like legitimate users.
A Query Params Module for React
And then what of the right to be forgotten? What if an EU court orders forking immediately prior to the negative material (fact or libel)? The order applies only to blockchain hosts in the court's jurisdiction, but very quickly which fork is canonical? One on the moon or in orbit? It seems like a consequence is centralization, and at that point it's a sitting duck to use of force, manipulation or destruction.

So how does a decentralized system avoid the (seemingly) inevitable pressure/threat to centralize?
CakePHP3 vs. Laravel
Which one would you choose? ..and why?
Very few of us would survive nuclear war but we should at least spend an hour or two thinking about how to try
Kubernetes from scratch (yet another)
Right, but just because its there doesn't mean its really there. If someone embeds a video in the blockchain, most people wouldn't see it unless they specifically went looking for what block number it is in, and then got a program to copy data out of the blockchain and into a video file, and then ran it with a video player. That fits my definition of searching for it.
I never play on a table with an auto shuffler. As a player, the house already has an advantage over you. The auto shuffler means the house always has the same advantage on every hand.

At least with a hand shuffled deck, most humans can't get a perfect shuffle, so the odds of any one hand shift slightly back and forth. If you're good at counting cards, you can find the spots where it is slightly in your favor and bet bigger.

At least, it's more fun for me, because I win a little bit more and also get the fun of practicing counting cards.

It's hard to find the hand shuffled decks though -- they pretty much only have them on high stakes games ($25/hand and up).
Okay, first things- first - no lessons where learned, nobody out of the good of their hearts did anything for anybody. The original plan after world war 2 was to turn Nazi Germany into a agrarian border stripe between the two emerging power blocks.

This plan was put into action, and some starvation resulted from the dismantling and moving of the factories. The reason this changed is because the cold war tensions, made it necessary to bind the former enemy as a useful puppet and ally to each corresponding site.
Thus west and east Germany got away with a blue eye for blundering and murdering east European countries and several minorities.

There is no moral here to be taken home with- maybe some tactical advice- if you want to stab and rob your neighbor - do it in the midst of a gang-shootout and then join in on the side nearby with the stolen goods and weapon.
Why would you leave yourself in this low practiced state?

Ie you don't spend the time to become fluent, so it's always "thinking" instead of being able to just do.

Incidentally you should always always leave the insert mode when you are done typing.

You are never confused about state because your default is "normal mode".
I didn't find out about the address bar thing for years. That said, I am not a fan of reproducing natively available functionality in the browser.
You can't argue with the truth.

It's not even about enough education to get a job sweeping floors.

Even college graduates are very underpaid, or underemployed.

(Watch what happens to SF when the bubble bursts. Don't get me started--letitgo.whatever, or compete with another wellfundedmonopoly.whatever will burst. The wealthy will still have their luxury condos, and the average developer will be parking their electric vechicles, begging for food, or back to the Midwest where people at least try to make it to church.)

People don't talk about it because it's not sexy, or Hollywood. We're all suspose to be sensitive Architects, or vunerable, beautiful Artists. Not to mention being exploted with no real alternatives to paying ever increasing rent. In America, we have made camping expensive, and there's pretty much nowhere you can live for free, unless you want wrestle bears before killing for breakfast, or get ticketed to the point you end up jail.

I look at the ever increasing unemployment number, the "able bodied, but just gave up", and cringe. Plus, I don't think they are giving us the real unemployment numbers. I look at the unemployed men on my block, and it's a lot.
You just killed your project. Nobody is going to use a security centric product littered with ads. Ads are exactly what people should be worried about, tracking their tabs and browsing activities.
See my post above. We have very good translation dictionaries, that list all the meanings of words in two languages you might ever need. Why isn't that multilingual ability being commoditized? And why is it still not possible for most people to speak many languages as well as their native one?
Somehow my choice precludes the development of penicillin? What exactly are you trying to ask?
> Plus having a currency that mirror an asset (gold, energy) is actually a bad idea economically speaking because then the currency cannot be used in time of crisis to soften economic downturns.

I shared your concern until recently. But then I learned more about fractional reserve banking: with suitable (lack of) regulations banks can and will create just the right amount of extra bank money to satisfy extra demands from the general population for holding extra money.

Historically, just conditions have held in eg the free banking episodes in Scotland, Canada, France, Australia. (I think in the Song dynasty in China, too.)

https://www.alt-m.org/2015/04/28/what-you-should-know-about-... has a bit of background on history. And George Selgin has a bunch of paper really delving into the automatic adjustments that profit seeking banks will produce on their own accord.
In Baden-Württemberg (the South Western state), 37% are catholic and 33% are part of the official evangelical church, with likely a few in smaller protestant groups. Likewise for franconia, which is mostly within the state of Bavaria.
Some systems you can't install anything; they're locked down. So, knowing VIM and nano is very helpful. Actually, this is the major reason I never try other editors; I have to work with legacy, locked down systems (on occasion), so it is easier for me to just stay with one editor that I know.
People who invest in networks or production companies can get early screeners of movies/shows. They can also just hang out with the creators of those movies and shows, or hire the writers or actors to perform for them.

Mark Zuckerberg's phone has the same camera your phone has, but the photographer he pays to follow him around has a better one, so he never uses it. Bill Gates has access to the same Thai restaurants as you, but his private chef knows how to make his family's favorite dishes and he never has to wait in line.
Well, that just makes things even worse - now you have to choose which version to use, which is just proving the OPs point.
While you seem to have some elements of clinical medicine, you miss the point in my opinion. Anyone working in a hospital daily know that most operations are explained rather succinctly to the patient, and that such a detail (as it was perceived at the time) as the use of a morcellator would be missing in 90% of cases. This women realized the problem only after she was diagnosed with cancer, which is why she did not complain immediately. Moreover, withholding the use of a morcellator in my opinion does not reduce one to obligated uterotomy.
I don't want to trade a shit for a turd.

And I also don't want to learn another jvm build system. I've long awaited a day where scala native can start replacing things, but they've already put their sbt in their coffin.
I think it's important for any comment or post touting the superiority of Vue to also provide insight into the author's experience with and feeings about React. You very rarely hear from devs who were loving React, tried Vue anyway, and came away believers. This leads me to wonder whether it's not so much that Vue is "better," it's more that it operates in paradigms that are intuitive to some individuals and teams in ways that React might not be. I don't see that as a hit against it or anyone but as a very satisfied React, it does make me take every glowing Vue writeup with a grain of salt.
You could avoid interference using techniques similar to ones used in direct sequence spread spectrum - rather than a continuous beam, send out pulses in a pseudorandom sequence, and look for that sequence in the reflected returns. With each transmitter keyed differently you can ignore reflections from other transmitters.
Do you have access to his email accounts, phone? Registration email would be a place to start, at least to get an idea of what his Username would have been, from there you could send a password reset request if you have access to his email account. After that just reset password.

The next best option would be to contact Ancestry.com's support, and explain the situation to you. Usually if you can provide a copy of your relative's certificate of death, and prove your relationship to that person, or if you hold the Power of Attorney as an executor of the estate, you can gain access pretty easily by contacting the company in question.
I did move to Seattle and the commute was pretty terrible, via driving or the shuttle, sometimes upwards of ninety minutes.

I really like working at a Google satellite office but I would absolutely never work in the Mountain View campus for similar reasons.

I found it easier to get into a Google satellite office while Microsoft wanted me to work on the main campus.
Quote: "Bringing this back to 2017, I've suggested elsewhere that voice interfaces do not have a roadmap to become universal computer interfaces or platforms. Machine learning now means that speech recognition can accurately transcribe the sound of someone speaking into text and that natural language processing can turn that text into a structured query - that's one breakthrough. But you still need somewhere to send the query, and it is not clear that we have any roadmap to a system that can give a structured answer to any query that any person can pose, rather than just dumping you out to a keyword search of the web. To even start making voice interfaces useful for general purpose computing rather than for niches, I would suggest that we would need general AI, which is (at best) a few decades away."

An interesting way to distinguish the potential between new technologies. I would say that someone might argue that a fully autonomous car would also require general AI for example. If we would argue that "no, it should just have less casualties than human drivers", we can continue with arguing that a voice interface will be abundant by just having fewer mistakes than by typing words or having queries better answered than by a text interface. On the roadmap will then probably be more sensors than microphones alone and it's hard to dismiss such a technological progression only because at some time we might need general AI to continue the technological progress.
Stephen Fry's warning for the web
Comparing finance's shares of GDP to bitcoin hashing power is useless. The power used for hashing is at best a lower bound on how much a bitcoin based finance system would need to run.

(Eg even with bitcoins, you'd still have essentially the same stock market. You might be trading coloured coins on the blockchain, but people would still need to work to raise capital etc.)
If you get in to the right department at Google, everyone is smart enough to not work too hard. Finding these departments can be difficult as they're also smart enough to appear hardworking
> capital competes with capital to lowers its rates of return. We need more capital.

Wouldn't lowering rates of return on capital disincentivise investment in new capital? If that was the most important dynamic then presumably the greatest amount of aggregate capital would be obtained through capital redistribution?
With the substitute command and an appropriate range. This sort of operation is extremely rare, though, so it's not the sort of thing you worry about when you're using a limited environment that has vi with no ability to install vim.

Besides, it's far more common that you'd want to do an operation like this but the columns happen to be misaligned. Then you're reaching for substitute anyway. Might as well master the more flexible tool.
I thought it was a really lazy article that fails miserably to sell me on the idea that I've got a better life than a billionaire in 1916, including some really stupid stuff about there not being refrigerators (only iceboxes, on no! Who cares, the staff keeps it iced-up and I never even have to think about it, in fact I may not even know which room it's in, yay wealth!) or vacuum cleaners (I'm a billionaire in 1916, I have hand-knotted wool Persian rugs that the help clean regularly, why do I care?).

George Will had a deadline and was feeling lazy so he repackaged someone else's poorly-argued blog post and sent that to his editor. The only interesting thing here is that George Will doesn't mind putting his name on something like that.
Apple Store in Walnut Creek Invaded by Thieves
Agree about the audiobook. I didn't like his reading for the first few tracks but then he seemed to relax and his reading was great.
There's definitely times Facebook has made me unhappy. If one looks at social media like a drug, then you have a good analogy. Use in moderation. Cut back or stop if you see signs of addiction or if it is making you unhappy.
I haven't really looked into ReactOS, but I just read some more about it [1], and I'm starting to get interested. There's still not a lot of software for Linux, but there's a ton of software for Windows. I also don't really care about the price of the Windows license, but I really like that the source code is available, and that I would be able to fix any bugs and submit a pull request. Having said that, I don't recall ever noticing a single bug in Windows, and I used it for more than 10 years. Definitely a lot of security holes though (i.e. viruses.)

Unfortunately, I don't think I will ever have a practical reason to use this or contribute to it. I use Windows 10 to develop apps, and sometimes to play a couple of games on Steam, so I think I'll always need to be running the latest version of Windows.

[1] https://www.reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS
This isn't an encyclopedia, it's an informal messaging board. If you want citations that badly, use your old pal Google and go find them.

Also, one word posts will almost always get downvotes unless you're answering a question that can reasonably be answered with only one word.
Recently all toolbar icons in Firefox have been converted to SVGs [1] and in the process several performance problems were found and fixed or are in the process of being fixed [2]. You may want to try out a recent Nightly build.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347543
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054016