skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turn off the like/view/retweet counts or at least delay them and the outrage cycles can be slowed down and controlled. This will happen after some catastrophic event produced through uncontrolled fear mongering. As it is most country's are turning of the networks everytime a crisis happens. Its matter of time where there arises need for a global shutdown. And then the clowns in silicon valley will wake up and do it.
The law isn't about trespassing.
> Don't use FB as content storage, don't expect to have your FB content back.

Why would you consider using a free service as a content storage in the first place? How naïve can you be?
From my understanding, node is virtual nodes. This article on Cassandra should give some info - https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/archite...
I wanted to see what imaqtpie's hype was all about and he ended up being my morning coffee routine. That man is wholesome.
> It is often very useful to structure different types of data together in a common structure.

"Very useful" often just means: coding a properly typed, easily-understandable solution takes longer than doing it untyped.

I argue that is the case only when using a plain-text editor. When you have a good IDE for a typed-language at hand that can refactor, complete, analyed and follow code on the press of a button, you lose this "advantage" of untyped languages.
A much simpler terminology Ethereum should have picked instead of "gas" is the "cycle". Each operation takes a predefined number of cycles to execute. For example SLOAD takes 20 cycles, SSTORE 100 cycles, etc. Then a transaction defines the maximum number of cycles it will need, as well as the ETH per cycle it will pay as a fee. That's it. Basically:

gasCost -> cycles

gasLimit -> max cycles per transaction

gasPrice -> ETH per cycle

The fact you need so much text to explain gasCost, gasPrice, etc, perfectly illustrates my point that their "gas" metaphor is the wrong one. Also as xur17 said, "cost" and "price" are too confusable.
> So employers need to be careful not to hire sickly people?

Wow. O.o

So in US employers just whip sickly people into coming to work or how does that line of reasoning work?
This Cassandra article should provide some info on virtual nodes. https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/archite...
When your job is, eg, slaughtering pigs, or swearing at engines, or dealing with abusive customers (or abusive editors I suppose), you might reconsider.
10GB is per partition, not per node.
Expansion of mhealth and ehealth
> 1a. https://foo.com/
> 1b. https://www.foo.com/

www for old folks, non www for all the rest.

> 2a. https://foo.com/search/products/couches/color/red
> 2b. https://foo.com/search?products=couches&color=red

https://foo.com/search?products=couches&color=red

Those are parameters, not a path. The first one has only value as an SEO optimization.

> 3a. /posts?recent
> 3b. /posts?recent=
> 3c. /posts?recent=true

/posts/recent

> 4a. /post/1234/products-couches-furniture-red-cheap-recent-ikea-tags
> 4b. /post/1234/

Both should work on your website, 4b should redirect on 4a.
Trespassing is already a crime. It doesn't need to be a double-secret crime just because industrial farmers are afraid of what the trespassers might discover.
Back in the 80s, Infocom [1] created a database program named Cornerstone. Because it was an integrated environment, identifiers were abstracted. A line of code displayed on the screen as:

xn = (A * y) * x * (1 - x)

was actually stored as:

id17 = (id1 * id11) * id10 * (1 - id10)

and there was a mapping of internal IDs to visible names:

id1 A
id2 B
...
id10 x
id11 y
...
id17 xn

The upshot---you could change the name of a variable anywhere in the editor and the code would still work because the "name" picked by the programmer was not the actual "name" used by the system. I often wonder if that can't even extend to keywords in a language as well, translating this [2]:

medan not_done
börja
för x:= 1 till 5 gör
börja
om person^.age = 120 så
too_old(person);
om person^.age > 130 så
gåtill person_should_be_dead;
slut;
slut;

into:

while not_done
begin
for x := 1 to 5 do
begin
if person^.age = 120 then
too_old(person);
if person^.age > 130 then
return person_should_be_dead;
end
end

Or heck, while we're at it:

while(not_done)
{
for (x = 1 ; x <= 5 ; x++)
{
if (person->age = 120)
too_old(person);
if (person->age > 130)
return person_should_be_dead;
}
}

But I'm not holding my breath on this.

[1] Yes, the company that made all the text adventure games.

[2] http://boston.conman.org/2008/01/04.1
> It was eye-opening to see just how low our discourse has sunk, to be forced to acknowledge that what passes for debate in the age of the internet is often nothing more than spewing venom at the other side. How are we ever supposed to find a solution that’s better than either Trumpcare or Obamacare if we can’t even shut up long enough to recognize the humanity in the people on the other side of the debate?

So people on one side of the fence are not happy about the very high medical costs required to keep a child alive. They do not understand the humanity behind the numbers.

On the other side of the fence are parents who are not happy that some people think their child is an excessive burden on the system. They (understandably) do not understand (or at the least, are looking away from) the numbers behind making their child viable.

The author correctly identifies one side's shortcoming wrt balanced discourse, but does not see the blindness of her own implied position -- that no cost is too high to save a life. Nowhere in this piece does she broach the subject of numbers and real cost [1].

Finding balance is very difficult in any area, especially in areas where you only have _one shot_ (an example is your child's education, where many parents feel that no amount of investment is enough, and more is always better). But since the system does not have infinite resources, it's a necessary conversation to have (which the author could have brought up, but failed to do so -- understandably, since this article is a strategic opinion piece meant to further the author's self-interest, which I completely respect).

A billion dollars to save a child's life, we would likely agree, is too much. $1,000, we would likely agree, is entirely justified. Where we draw the line, why, and how we get there (of urgent need is our relationship with end of life care and treatments) is an important conversation that we are failing to have, and those of us on both sides of the fence are equally culpable for this shortcoming.

[1] The large 6 figure bill and post insurance $500 bill is only used qualitatively in the introduction.
If you make money with it, 301s are going to hurt the wallet for some months.
This project alone is more convincing that the entire
linked article. Needless to say, I love it!
FTA, it sounds like this law was too vague and was being leveraged to go after people, recording from "a public street."

>The Utah case, filed by animal-rights groups, was the first lawsuit in the U.S. to challenge one of the ag-gag laws. It came after a woman was charged in 2013 when she filmed a front-end loader dumping a sick cow outside a suburban Salt Lake City slaughterhouse. The case was dismissed because she was standing on a public street when she made the recording.
Are "worse outcomes" controlled for lifestyle choices, demographics, and obesity? Or is it a stepping stone to a soapbox?
I've seen keyboard cameras.
That's quite the unsupported claim, which is why I wish I could find the decision. Enhancing penalties in certain situations is incredibly common, even with respect to trespassing - trespassing in certain industrial facilities, or in connection with a conspiracy, or involving breaking and entering, all have increased penalties. I don't really see the rationale for not being able to extra-criminalize trespassing for the purposes of recording (regardless of how advisable it is) when there is no right to record entirely private activity in the first place.
I researched and installed uMatrix immediately, but (due respect to the creator) the application is so hard to use and broke several web pages. I also installed WebRTC Leak Prevent Tool that helped a little.
Nice. I have a bugout bag that's currently a Trager (defunct) day pack that I used in high-school umpteen years ago: have hauled 8 huge textbooks for months on end (we didn't have lockers because of pipebombs in the 1970's), car battery and other things that destroyed every other backpack.

Plus, I seem to be accumulating a number of MOLLE things from trauma kit to Leatherman to pepper spray.

Currently, my laptop messenger bag is from another defunct company, Hlaska, which is currently overloaded with a MBP 13 and minimal power/EDC stuff.

I should probably upgrade to a MOLLE bag so I can carry my backup HDD without using a reusable shopping bag AND messenger bag.
This company does not really care about it's customers. I purchased in the beginning of May. 6 weeks later and 0 updates, the rev the product to 4 and they expect me to pay for an upgrade. Yeah no thanks, not a way to treat new customers.
Not only that, ag-gag laws forbid someone with legitimate access from recording crimes. So trespassing isn't necessarily involved.
You're forgetting about the cost on the environment that coal burning power plants create. No one ever takes the damage of our environment into consideration of how much something really costs us.

Of course there is renewable power environment cost as well, batteries aren't very green to produce or dispose of. But over all, we are better off by not burning coal even if there are more upfront costs.
You mentioned location, but that advantage can't really be understated. How can you have pump storage near every major city? It's not feasible in most places. Then there is the enormous transmission cost to get the energy to (and from) that remote location.

Batteries can also meet fluctuations in demand instantly. Hydro cannot.
That conclusion seems just as arbitrary as the one you're contesting.
How is your solution any different to the other hundreds of FSBO platforms currently operating? What value does it bring over Redfin or Zillow? Why would real estate agents, escrow agents, mortgage brokers want to work with you if it means a lower fee for them?
Last time I was localising a service I ended up localising the the URLs as well - if URLs should be readable they should be readable in the localised language too right? Luckily there’s the RouteTranslator gem which made it trivial: https://github.com/enriclluelles/route_translator/
> No doubt, it is obvious and of great consequence that this passion for freedom for its own sake awoke in and was nourished by men of leisure, by the hommes de lettres who had no masters and were not always busy making a living. In other words, they enjoyed the privileges of Athenian and Roman citizens without taking part in those affairs of state that so occupied the freemen of antiquity. Needless to add, where men live in truly miserable conditions this passion for freedom is unknown.

It's been awhile since I read about it, but I'm fairly certain Spanish anarchism in the latter half of the 19th century developed among peasants and factory workers living in "truly miserable conditions." They were concerned with freedom as Arendt defines it: "admission to the public realm and participation in public affairs."
When I checked cloud providers' terms to see if we could build a crawling infrastrucutre for my last company, I noticed Rackspace did not allow adult content of any kind, but thst may have changed since 2011.
Based on the background of the mother, she would have been able to have had insurance even without Obamacare, and would have still been able to have insurance no matter what the Republican Congress passes. In this situation, no matter what the government did, her child would still have been able to get the necessary surgery.

In addition, Boston Children's Hospital is one of the premier hospitals in the world. Given the specialized nature of the problem and the fact that heterotaxy cases are pretty rare, even without insurance, the chances are high that the child would still have been treated and the hospital would have eaten the cost.

Thus, pre/post/no Obamacare, the child still would have had the treatment. Thus, you cannot derive a political position from this case.
I know this is nitpicky but the author's website doesn't follow their own advice:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/URLsAreUI.aspx

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/URLsAreUI --> 404
I printed the article using google chrome browser, with "simply page" print option turned on, which should make it look much nicer...

You could get a copy of this printed article here :-)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1x4blQ2dtdUeHdHT1JfSXExb0U...
These are the things that I think Rust should really be concentrating on. How to make a vibrant language that can support 10-20-50 year codebases and still remain fresh.
They can use this design I made!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:165826
Life expectancy, infant mortality, and quality of care.

http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0011_health-outcomes

Americans being "fat", sedentary, and certain demographics having expensive chronic illnesses aren't the cause (except perhaps heart attack mortality, which I'm not going to spend the time this evening digging into), if that's your implication.
Rust's borrow checker isn't a type system, is it? Sure, its benefits are similar to a linear type system, but actually it's a separate compiler pass whose internals are described imperatively and don't look type-based to me: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/librustc_b...

If anything, I agree with zzzcpan and disagree with swsieber. Types are nice but people oversell them. OO languages appeared at the same time as ML family languages, but one got successful and the other got stuck in the realm of "new ideas".
Nice thread but the issue I always have with all discussions around cryptocurrencies is:

I never know if the person who just worshipped or criticized a specific currency has a vested interest.

Somebody who sits on billions of ETH will write totally different tham someboy who is shorting/margin trading ETH.
Reverse IP lookup is far from perfect when it comes to location identification. Also if you've recently travelled to the US wouldn't be out of the question to have a cookie set with that location info.
I absolutely love the example text you used :)
I agree with the article, and I really don't understand how Google Search can be so bad with URLs. Seems they get more and more paramenters every time I look, to the point my browser (Safari) hides the URL just for them.
I would disagree that they'd be better at solving hard algorithms as well. The hard algorithms are being solved at the top theory groups at the top 10 schools.

I did a bit of programming contests in school as well and most kids practiced hard and got good at the tricks and patterns of solving those problems. The algorithms were mostly undergrad or grad level at best. They were not breaking new ground.

As to whether top ICPC talent correlates to IQ and capability, Most likely, although the same can be said about a really high GPA though. People like Tomek Czajka will shine in all areas.

I've worked at a couple of the Big-4 companies before and the best programmers I met there were not competitive programmers.
That is much easier to understand. I spent way too much time reading and converting units when trying to send my first transaction. GasCost and gasPrice sound too similar.
The Woman Helping Clear Colombia of Its Deadly Landmines
I am assuming that your statements are correct.

However, if we examine the author's motives, she seeks a society where any child who shares her son's ailment (or other life threatening but treatable -- albeit expensively -- diseases) can receive treatment, whether or not they share her fortunate circumstances or not.

In that light her rhetorical strategy remains reasonable.
I wanted to do something similar a while back, but stopped because I was still too new to coding.

I think it's an excellent idea, you just need to narrow down your market and update the design accordingly. Doctors, hairdressers, physios... lots of people are looking for something like this.

Make an embeddable plugin version for WordPress and physically go shop it around to potential customers. Show them and get feedback.
Okay, sure, but again, the things that have "no effect" are not worth even mentioning at all. That is what the debate is about, not whether medicine that works is also harmful.
Given that you're all over this thread, do you have any connections in the farm industry? Or is this just an issue that you randomly feel strongly about?
To protect against NPEs you need to make nullable and non-nullable types different and forbid the programming from trying to use a nullable value without doing a null check first (doing a null check returns a non-nullable reference in case of success). One example of this is any of the languages with Albegraic Data Types, where it is super easy to create an Option type that encapsulates this concept.

For an example of preventing use-after-free there is the typesystem used in Rust. It is based on the theory of linear types, which lets you have operations that mark a value as "used" and forbid you from using it again after that point. The same system is used to protect against data races because you can guarantee that a value is only accessible from one thread at a time.
Isn't that an overstatement? Australia's installed generating capacity is 67GW and about 50% load factor. It needs at least 100 systems like that to make a significant impact on grid stability. Even in South Australia alone, at least 10x that much is needed.
A stock market game where you invest $50,000 of someone else’s real-life money
Who sets the numbers and why, though? How much is profit, how much should be profit, when it comes to human health and rehabilitation whether mental or physical assistance is required? Or, ignoring profit, why take away public funding to programs for poor people just to provide tax breaks to rich folks? How much is a dollar worth to each individual, relatively-speaking? There are few easy answers, except (almost) everybody wants to see costs lower to the levels they are in other countries. Setting price or profit caps and limits is one method, ensuring the system can’t ask for inflated amounts from insurers is another. This could affect quality of service, but then again, it might not. All stores might charge the same price for some brand name item but not all stores offer equal customer service or trained staff... The same is surely true of medical facilities.
It isn't. Ag-gag laws extend the scope of, or punishment for, trespass with intent to record video of agricultural operations. That is what the courts have found to violate free speech and equal protection.

It is as if states enacted laws against graffiti bearing a particular political or religious message, with either a greater punishment, or broader definition of "graffiti", than existing graffiti laws. Yes, graffiti is already illegal; yet these laws clearly violate free speech and equal protection, since the punishment is different based on what message you are trying to convey with the graffiti.
The decision is here: https://www.scribd.com/document/353199724/U-S-District-Judge...
The article does mention that.
Swearing at engines isn't illegal or morally reprehensible. Animal abuse is.
I can't stand the chromatic aberration theme of the site. Please stop giving me a headache! On my phone I had to copy and paste the contents into a note in order to read it.
"Second, the bittorrent model itself doesn't work very well for streaming."

Wrong. It works incredibly well. That's why the anti-piracy companies are all up in arms over things like PopcornTime. All you need are a couple of other people to download from. Hell, there's whole pieces of software whose whole purpose it is to stream torrents and they do it extremely well. Nothing even compares to the video quality, which is the same as if you downloaded the file ahead of time.

"TOR, vpns etc. aren't well suited for content distribution."

WTF does this mean? You can't distribute content over Tor or VPNs? I only do it every single fucking day without any problems and with ease.

"Due to DMCA, anonymity is a major obstacle for which there isn't a good solution yet."

The DMCA created anonymity? Whatever, I'm not even going to try to understand this one.
Let people who care about the environment pay extra for their electricity. You do not have the moral high ground if you force people to pay extra for electricity through coercion.
Failure to act on climate change has a game-theoretic cost. Taking unilateral action massively improves your negotiating position and reduces the cost for other countries to reduce their emissions via economies of scale. One country taking decisive action could trigger a chain reaction of political pressure.

Australia has a horrendous wildfire problem. The frequency and severity of wildfires has drastically increased over recent years. A small increase in global temperatures could render vast areas of the country effectively uninhabitable due to the risk of fire.

I think that most Australians are willing to act; that will is being subverted by a powerful coal lobby. They see the hellish scenes every summer. They see the immense financial, environmental and human cost. They see the weight of scientific evidence.
When that five horrible minutes involves feeding live male chicks into a grinder, or spraying water up the nose of a downer cow to get it to go to slaughter (and be made into people food)? Yes, I think there's a legitimate public right to know.
An alternativ would be that the weather "oracle" has something on stake, e.g. if it lies or is hacked, it looses a deposit. But then it goes further, maybe you need a voting mechanism, or other weather "oracles" participating in the vote ... in the end you need to get it game theorically right to incentivise honest "oracles" and punish dishonest.

In general I see two really hard challenges with smart contracts. Getting them bug free (i think formal verification which is worked on will help a lot) and getting the incentives right to punish dishonest behavior. (So far I haven't seen a lot work being done here, I also don't know how you could automise that, maybe some kind of simulation with AI based actors)
Usability in Software Design
The case is 2:13-cv-00679-RJS
In general, application of law must be blind to speech. Yes, trespassing with intent to burgle could lawfully have a greater penalty. Trespassing while shouting "Trump has tiny hands" cannot. This is what "free speech and equal protection" means, and the courts have decided that this applies here.
Who pays the cost when the wind turbine melts down?
What enormous transmission cost? Total transmission loss of Australia is 5% (2014).

I already said battery switches faster. You are simply repeating what I said.
Russian demonstrates this to some extent, and German, prominently.
Doubt he does that, however I collect some links in a text file and the ones with text in them are the ones I can identify instantly. The ones with just IDs are totally random as to what they are and usually requires a comment accompanying them in the file.
Show HN: Autoretrato – a narcissistic experiment
One with a big enough sink could get paid to take power off the grid. I repeat, you could make money charging your batteries.