skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to take a semester of philosophy last year and I had the same reaction you did. In fact, this might be quite sinister, it almost seemed like my professors didn't even want me to learn.

One section of the course was on Feminism and my professor started off the section by saying that if you're not a feminist you shouldn't come to the lectures. In fact, this was the perfect overture to a grueling 6 months of my professor soap boxing her political opinions instead of the actual critical thinking skills I thought I would be getting out of the course.
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They never have.
I suspect its because we used to live in a very old property that was very difficult to heat. So we got used to it!

Edit: I remember going to the halls at Uni for the first time and nearly dying of the heat - never lived anywhere that had central heating. Got used to and, of course, felt like I'd been exiled to Siberia when I went to my parents ramshackle large house for the Xmas break.
Null is a useful value, but you don't need it everywhere, that's why many modern languages have opt-in null-able types instead of that as a default behavior.

I would argue than in at least 80% of the cases you don't want your values to be null, and that's in those situations mistakes are made (because you don't expect the value to be null !)
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Place > Park > Region seems pretty consistent to me, shows a sense of relationship between the different versions and that they are closely linked together rather than being entirely different
Quite happy in a t-shirt at 15C - especially if doing something other than sitting at a PC!
No, the hard part with Maple syrup is that there normally are only a handful of suppliers from some very limited regions. It's very hard to suddenly appear out of nowhere as a major seller of Maple syrup without any history to go with it.
Maybe include some metrics on the coordinates so that unreasonable precision and floating point nonsense (10.0000001) can be detected.
Does the US court system not refund travel cost? Over here you can get full refund of travel cost if you are summoned to court(within reason - if you travel first class you will only get price of a normal ticket back).
A virus that's really code to control traffic lights
Are these not forge-able now with modified firmware? Seems like this should be a very real possibility.
In fact, Mozilla is working on that: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tracking-protectio...

> We believe these additions will help us take the next step toward shipping Tracking Protection in Firefox beyond Private Browsing Mode. Look for that study in late 2017.
~3%, dirt cheap?!

Why are so many of you so happy to throw so much cash away to process money? I know Stripe is lovely to integrate but as a business you have to shop around.

In the UK (and EU) card processing is much cheaper. Stripe is closer to 2% but if you shop around, you'll find somebody who'll offer you 0.8-0.9%, give you free terminals and no monthly contract fees.

Edit for those asking: Worldpay and Handepay are the best rates I've seen recently. Both for online and off. But again, don't just cluster around one company, harass a few yourself. They're willing to compete.
Ask HN: How OS developers find specifications needed to write drivers?
As someone interested in OS development, I read articles, source code and tutorials on the topic. I have created a Linux module, I have an idea of how a bootable "hello world" ISO is created etc.

Recently I looked into an open-source OS written from scratch, with support for some peripherals, networking, graphics and I asked myself whether I would know how to implement those. I picked rtl8168d (that was one of the implemented drivers) and tried to find the specification - without success.

My question is: how does an OS developer that started a toy OS and wants to add basic networking/graphics/mouse know what specification to implement to get it working on as much hardware as possible? Once he knows that, how does he find the specs?

I hope it's not by reading other OS's source code and trying to do the same thing (whether it's correct or not).
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I have the exact same experience. Firefox on macOS is sluggish but on the same machine on Linux it's very responsive.
Grafana for dashboarding, and one of [Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus] for collecting, storing, and querying the metrics.
Externalities are a small, specific issue and we have ways of dealing with them. Again, how do you propose to measure this "value for society"?
It depends on the climate. I used to live up north and we kept our houses and buildings around 68-71.

I live in a hot climate now and it's normal to keep inside temps 75-78.

In both places inside temps feel normal. The body seems to adjust it's idea of a comfortable temperature after acclimating to a new climate. When I first moved down south I kept my thermostat at 70 but it felt too cold after a few months. My most comfortable temperature is 76 now.
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It's not a very effective option because non-violent offenders are a small fraction of those incarcerated. You could send them all home and still be more or less where you started.
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I recently realised that any company taking on Google (e.g. Apple, Mozilla, ...) that is afraid they won't be able to take them on in areas like machine learning or sheer size, is realising, rightfully so, that being pro-privacy is the one thing they can compete on with Google that Google will never be able to imitate. Pretty sweet, actually.
How does IMDb make the distinction?
That tells us people who use Python are using Go. It does not tell us that Python is suffering as a result of this.

In my experience, these people are using both languages for the reasons mentioned above.
I don't disagree with you but I'm not sure all your questions are reasonable/respectful. Here are a few examples from my situation.

The AC in Japan has two settings--one is cool and one is "dry" for dehumidify. The cool setting does not dry the air (or if so, ever so slightly). We have high humidity so 26 degrees can feel hot indoors.

There are some seats in the office that are close enough to have the sunlight hit the desk. I'm not in one of those seats but can imagine it feels very hot.

Our office is "set" to 25 but at my desk it is often over 28 degrees (all the towers are on the tables and the AC is far from my location). I consider myself in fairly good shape but sweat quite a lot when it's over 28 degrees with a PC tower blowing hot air at me.
I think it's strange to value punishment over the shared interest of a society.

I punishment has priority society can pay for a lifetime of either repeated incarceration or continued or even increased violence after release, with no education and psychological evaluation of the prisoners.
where is "over here"?
If the figures at http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/t4-config-5.htm are correct, the Titan IVB "SRM upgrade" boosters were bigger too (over 300 tonnes of propellant)
> If there was a rogue web site launching service workers to do something nefarious how would I know diagnose what's happening ? How would my grandmother ? Where is the transparency the web is supposed to provide ?

How does your grandmother check if the website she visits isn't doing something nefarious without service workers? Does she run the CPU profiler to see all the JS being executed? That's pretty badass, I wish my grandmother was this cool.
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It is a bit overkill to establish a US company just to be able to accept payments.

The only real alternative is PayPal at this moment.
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>stunts like this[0].

It's a novel idea. Why does it offend you?
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Now that I'm over 35 (but childless), I've taken it as my duty to privately and gently advise younger colleagues who ask that question that there is absolutely no good answer, especially if the person being asked is a woman over 30.

My flippant answer: "Well, you can't exactly order them from Amazon..."

In my case: yes, I wanted children. The wanting does not always lead to the getting. Any further details from me on this subject might ensure that you never, ever ask that question again, unless you're in a serious romantic relationship with that person.
Would you mind sharing those companies? I'm especially curious since Stripe is not supported in my Country.
it's analoguos to calling a library
> Does the US court system not refund travel cost?

I'm sorry, I'm actually laughing out loud for that one. No, they do not refund any cost you incur for going to court.

Luckily, I wasn't accused of any drug crimes or they may have seized my car and kept it under then-existing asset forfeiture (legal theft) laws
Nothing about the new PAN is randomized. It's valid PAN pointing to a dedicated, valid BIN range and has a valid Luhn checksum.
I just hope MS makes it easier to use UWP file managers.

Operating file explorer by touch is a right pain, too many overlapping interactions (mark, drag&drop, scroll).

And right now if i want to use a UWP file manager outside of some designated folders require me to fiddle with the win32 file picker, that share problems with the age old file explorer.
I sometimes wonder if they do this to mess with the second-hand market and third-party tech support.
... would explain the stripes. Is not its first robbery.
Living in one of the most rehabilitation-focused of the European countries, Norway, I do not recognize the notion that crime being a disease of sorts is widespread.

Yes, it has been voiced by some scholars, but is not, to the best of my knowledge, a widely held belief - more of an exotic outlier used by parts of the hip left.

By the way, our recidivism rate happens to be among the lowest in the world. (Granted, we have a huge advantage that abject poverty is very rare in the first place.)
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Thank you! It's an interesting tool to combine with svgi :)
Is GPGME, mentioned in this video, now libgcrypt, or is that something different?
Heh, i give them a year or two before they retire the imac range completely.
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Some sci-fi has good characters, but character is inherently secondary in sci-fi. An ability to enjoy works without good characters (e.g. those of Asimov) on the strength of other merits is what separates sci-fi fans from dabblers.
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Thanks for your suggestion. It makes a lot of sense. The next step on this project is to add some "lint" features based on SVG good practices. I'll add this to the list.
When I looked at that data source last year, I read through every case of unarmed black males killed by police. Many of them were actually armed, but with a tree branch or some other blunt object which weren't considered to be weapons. Some were truly unarmed but clearly attacking police (think Michael Brown). A few others were bystanders hit by a stray bullet as police shot at armed suspects (clearly not racism). If memory serves, there were only 12 national police shootings of African Americans where the police shooting was likely malicious. I think the number for whites was comparably low, and I think these are both too low to be statistically useful.

Other studies have found no bias in police shootings, including this one by black Harvard economist who set out with the assumption that police disproportionately killed Blacks: https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-ana...

There have been a few others as well. I should also clarify that my use of "disproven" is too strong. I should have said "the bulk of the evidence supports a contradictory conclusion" or some such.
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Is there any cross-platform framework recommended?
Actually, we just bought bandwidth for a roll out at Equinix in Munich. $0.50 for Cogent (when added to several other 1G commit on 10G ports in our account. A single 1G commit on a single 10G port would cost more) and we were quoted $1.43 for Level 3 after rejecting a $1.70 quote. Both Cogent and Level 3 were 2yr terms, and in an "on net" location. We are going with another provider besides Level 3 there, but I used these as examples in the parent. You thought it was not "reality", and I refute that.
> You have a source for that?

Well, same as yours: I've seen people ask for that on Hacker News in the past. Of course, there will also have been people asking about WebRTC :) My beef has mostly been with SW though.

Of course, with many developers, there will always be some that have asked for one, and some for the other. I highly doubt that someone will chime in saying that they've seen people complaining about lack of ES6 support in Safari, though :)

> Maybe there's something in the codebase blocking ServiceWorker. You just don't know. Assuming one thing is being neglected in favour of the other is a huge assumption.

Yes, this is true. That's why it's mostly "baffling", i.e. I wonder if something like you described is actually the case, or whether it's a case of different priorities or something.
I hope they spend some of that money on the keyservers, they seem to be down every time I want to grab some gpg keys.
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I would respectfully argue that you perhaps are the outlier, rather than the people who want more speed out of their direct-attached storage.

Disk speed was the most significant performance bottleneck for years — a point that Apple has repeatedly made in their developer guidelines on performance[1].

I think this is (happily) starting to be less of a concern with these new SSDs capable of 2GB-3GB/second. The 1TB SSD in my 2013 Mac Pro benchmarks at 1GB/sec and I find doubling/tripling that an extremely attractive proposition.

Other than offline backups and archiving systems, I literally haven't used a spinning-magnetic-media storage device since 2013 (and avoided them when possible before that). And I definitely don't plan to ever do so again.

[1]: e.g. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Pe...
Some women keep tampons or pads in their bags, and don't want to rummage through their bags to retrieve the tampon or pad before visiting the bathroom.
Are you asserting that the tax won't be passed down to renters ?

It is indeed a sort by cash flow, but whether you own the place or not won't impact the decision.
What is the purpose of a prison? It's meant to rid the society of unwelcome individuals.

Another way to get rid of "unwelcome individuals" is to provide rehabilitation, more opportunities, etc. This is better in the long term.

Source: I'm European.
This is simply not true. The protocol spec that the DAO was in is still alive and well. It's called ETC.

Could it be that you just resent the fact that people give a lot more value to a forked chain called ETH? This is understandable, since the DAO fail made clear that code run on blockchains still depend on human consensus. Code will run according to spec, but only as long as the people running the nodes decide to adopt a specific version of the protocol. Note that no blockchain tech, not even ETC, is free from this fact. You can run a blockchain using the protocol you want, but what gives it value is human consensus.

Ethereum is not a tech utopia. But it is a damn cool tech, and understanding its limitations is important to be able to take advantage of it.
What's the advantage of third-party analytics over self-hosted ones (e.g. GA over Piwik), except for "someone else hosts it for me for free"?

Honest question. I'm not logging anything about my websites' visitors on principle, so I don't have insight into that area.
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That sort of thing can just as well make you wish you'd gone to real estate school.

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Thanks!
Yes we do have plans to add support for low power microcontrollers.
We plan to port the sandbox (which is python itself) to microprocessors for which an implementation of the MicroPython framework exists. For example the WiPy board, which ships a cortex M4, or boards with the ESP32. MicroPython can selectively compile functions both at bytecode level and at native ARM level, with native code emitter, so that it will be possible to achieve performance comparable to native code even on microcontrollers.
is Clay also for the win in hot, humid climates?
Can someone explain the reference to the Third Amendment at the end of the article? Looking on Wikipedia, the 3rd Amendment is something to do with quartering soldiers in private homes.
It's a great metric for a lot of things, but definitively not to determine the value of a piece of journalistic writing.
Here we're saying that the article SHOULD be free in order to gain value. So basically we're saying: it's ok to attribute no value to it if Google thinks so.
I'm not a fan of hard paywalls, but this is definitively a fallacy in the definition of value, and Google shouldn't have it so easy.
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Is that for offline processing in a lowest risk industry? Curious as never seen a client get such a rate. Esp once acquirer fees for online payments are factored in (UK experience only)
Oops, you're not supposed to say "market" here. Even if you qualify it with terms like "regulation", people assume you're an extremist libertarian out to ruin the country.
Your language advocates a

[X] Boxes and arrows

[ ] Spreadsheet-like

[ ] Control flow block primitives

[ ] Grid world simulation

approach to visual programming. Your approach won't work because it gets poor scores in the following cognitive dimensions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dimensions_of_notati...):

[ ] Abstraction gradient

[x] Closeness of mapping

[ ] Consistency

[x] Terseness

[x] Error-proneness

[x] Hard mental operations

[ ] Hidden dependencies

[ ] Juxtaposability

[x] Premature commitment

[ ] Progressive evaluation

[x] Role-expressiveness

[ ] Secondary notation and escape from formalism

[x] Viscosity

[ ] Visibility

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

[ ] Any schema based on undeclared program state is unacceptable

[x] Complex dependencies will get intermingled and make a mess

[ ] You can't have more than 50 visual primitives on the screen at the same time

[x] Function application is the wrong abstraction for flow graphs

[x] Similar proposals have been tried in the past, and failed

[x] It requires seeing the whole thing at once

[ ] It doesn't allow for in-place comments

[x] Evaluating program state is hard

Furthermore, this is what I think about your solution:

[x] Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.

[ ] This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.

[ ] Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
A guy has two sons. He names one Winner and the other Loser. Winner leads a life of crime and Loser becomes a NYPD detective.

This is a true story from the book Freakonomics [0]. Reality Winner could be a real person.

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> Anyone reading this site is almost by definition in the top 10%

That's a pretty wide assumption to make. I'm a young (30) dev, I make just north of 20K euros per year (before taxes), I rent an apartment with my girlfriend and two other people. I wouldn't consider myself poor, but certainly not "top 10%".

You make it sound like only venture capitalists and successful startup founders read this site.
Can you recommend a text on critical reasoning? It's something I often feel I'm quite bad at.
Google is deconstructionist. It thinks you can take an object, break it down into components (fourier components, or neural network components or bayesian components or whatever) and then dump those components into a soup, and then project that soup onto queries in order to regenerate youness.

But that's not how physics works. Such a reconstruction will be eerily you-ish, but with almost all of the things that make you you deleted. Google would give you Santa Claus wrapping paper on Christmas day, because it is a loud fourier component, instead of having your parents leave presents under the tree, which is what Santa actually is.

We (lifeforms) are the subset of machines that have a choice to collapse the waveform of at least one quantum field. Humans are colonies of lifeforms that can choose collapsings at all scales up to 1m (and larger when we are in our cyborg bodies). Google can't actually perceive any of that, because all of the fields are destroyed when you decompose images of them into components.

If Google wanted to understand you, it would have to interact with you, but Google thinks people are icky. It doesn't understand yet that intelligence comes from interaction. It doesn't like interacting with people, it would rather just twiddle us with recorded components and climb its metrics up hills. It's profitable enough for now, so it doesn't want to change.
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