skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I use Python extensively and started to forget about Pascal (ex Delphi guy here), Pascal is a much better beginner language IMO.

Start with Python and you're most likely to be stuck with dynamic typing/runtime mindset and it'll distance you too far away from OS level native land.

OTOH starting with Pascal, you'll learn a great deal of low level (well, relatively) stuff and that will make you appreciate the higher level languages when the time comes and will let you leverage them more efficiently. Also as a bonus, a big bonus I think, Pascal will let you feel at home if you ever need C/C++/D in your career.
Sure. Companies have to abide by the rules of the nations they operate in. The problem is that we used to have the higher moral ground and could mock their censorship and try to change their censorship of free expression. Now, we really can't.
Planning and prudence. Otherwise unknown to date.
If you're asking about OS GUIs I still use an Apple Mac and still find most others pretty clunky in comparison.

If we're talking software applications I loved the way "Videoshop" and "Futuresplash" worked in comparison to their competitors and that still holds true today, and the Mozilla web browser around 1998 still stands out as one of the worst I've ever used.

If we talk cars, the `61-`63 Ford T-Bird is still mighty impressive.
Heard of slimy high school debaters doing this at the local college library, to block opponents from getting evidence against their case.

Private prep school kids, sadly.
You know how to fix the problem more effectively? try to find the root cause and fix it. It's simple and it works.
The problem is the impossibility of posing counterfactuals about historical questions. If we could compare the last 40+ years with Chicago School economists spreading their theories vs. some other school of economic theory or none at all, then your statement would be sensical. As it stands, you're just throwing out a superficially relevant correlation with no possible way of disproving it.
I've seen multiple people lament about how Mario Maker is one of the best game design learning tools out there (in ease of use + depth), but it's only Wii U/costs money.

Hopefully more projects like this will grow the "Mario Maker" sub-genre. Online level sharing alone is such a fun concept
Sorry didn't mean it like that. I meant one of the most. Again, I'm not american.
You need a dog license in some parts of Switzerland and a six month course to get one. It's mostly because of irresponsible persons that abandon dogs.
Tyrannical is a bit extreme. You should still get a voice, it's just communicated through someone else who is your advocate and has your best interests in mind. Hopefully he still works along side you or at least understands your concerns.

Not every business decision requires every single persons input either, and although you may be affected that doesn't mean your input was as valuable as everyone elses. The CI team's choices might affect my branching structure. Tough, that is their responsibility. If it's extremely detrimental then you can raise concerns, talk to people, get out of your seat and work with the humans around you.

We don't need another revolutionary management fad, where a hundred employees sit around a satiricaly large table and vote by show of hands. That works amazingly at small companies and it's why I prefer to work at them. But let's get real, management at scale is hard.

Ultimately though, if you feel like you don't have a voice where you are, work to get a voice, or find a company with a structure that works for you.
#Stantinko #botnet was undetected for at least 5 years
Model # of the Tv?
How many of those stolen cards actually successfully had charges placed and how many had charge backs? It's a false equivalence. Credit card rings have been busted. How many cryptocurrency thieves have been successfully prosecuted? How often are victims returned their money vs credit card theft?
I cannot imagine why someone who works with catty gossips and you, who reduces her achievements to female stereotypes, would act as if they are operating in a hostile work environment.

Look, I wasn't there and I don't know this woman. People aren't stupid and know when someone actively dislikes them. You couldn't make it through a single post without implying that she was unqualified and using sex organs to get ahead of you. Do you really think you were somehow able to make it through a whole work day without broadcasting your intense disdain for her?

Just a thought.
The headline is slightly misleading. It's not all muslim minorities in China: it's muslims living in the separatist Xinjiang region, who are ethnically Turkic. There are a non-insignificant number of muslims outside of Xinjiang, such as the Huizu, which are essentially Han Chinese muslims. Lots of the "terrorism" originating from Xinjiang has separatist rather than just religious motivations; I wouldn't be surprised if this is why the Chinese government is so keen to crack down.

*Edit: the headline was originally 'China forces its Muslim minority to install spyware on their phones'
Unfortunate that they're talking about distributions and yet the very first example they use ("The paintings of Bob Ross") isn't a distribution.
Burning through the vast energy and natural resources at our disposal is what has allowed us to "lift" so many people out of poverty. "Proposerity" and "progress" are not a miracle of economic thinking, or technology. We owe all of this to fossil fuels, nothing more, nothing less.

In fact, you'd need to slap an extremely inefficient economic system on top of this mind-blowing amount of resources to not enrich the global population at least a little bit. Or you'd have to purposefully design it to work that way.
Creating the largest neutrino detectors in the world
"Anyone criticizing China while permitting their own country to do worse is an hypocrite."

Ridiculous statement. "Permitting", like it's my choice? You can live in a country and disagree with some of what it does. Even better in democracies where you can do so publicly and have some form of impact through voting.

Also happy I'm able to discuss this topic online without this post getting blocked/deleted and facing possible repercussions.

"Still waiting for the outrage about the mass surveillance from Amazon Echo, Google and others" Yes like that debate doesn't exist and no one talks about it?
Thank you for posting this. I've recently been considering buying one (Dell 43 Ultra HD 4k Multi Client Monitor P4317Q, right?) However, this negative review is holding me back. Is there any merit to its claim?

This monitor has glorious resolution made totally useless because the backlight uses PWM Pulse Width Modulation to adjust the backlight brightness. This leads to eye fatigue and, in some cases, severe headaches. One would be hard pressed to find other monitors in Dell's lineup with this outdated technology since it has almost entirely been removed from all modern monitors. As a business monitor, it is expected to have "Comfort View" aka "low blue light" mode to reduce eye stress during a long day of use. Fix these problems and you will sell more of these than you could make.

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-43-ultra-hd-4k-multi-cli...

I'd be hooking one or two up to my late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 15, btw, which has a miniDP, so I believe I'll be able to get full resolution at 60Hz.
> Steve McConnell in Code Complete (a book which criticizes the widespread use of the waterfall model) refers to design as a “wicked problem” – a problem whose requirements and limitations cannot be entirely known before completion. The implication is that it is impossible to get one phase of software development “perfected” before time is spent in “reconnaissance” working out exactly where and what the big problems are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
> Which also means journalists won't be able to access those videos as sources

Journalists and news media are the biggest advocates for censorship on social media as it competes with their narrative.

> Although, I'm not ready to call that a bad decision, because propaganda is indeed the biggest problem with ISIS.

Most people equate ISIS with pure evil because of their propaganda. The biggest problem with ISIS is the killing/murders. Not their propaganda. Just because a few unhinged people are attracted to it doesn't mean that their propaganda is working.

> but also treating the symptom is ok if we try to solve the deeper problem at the same time (unemployment? defiance resulting from corruption?).

Don't forget the invasions of iraq/libya/syria/etc by our governments to destabilize the region. Which was supported by the traditional media.
What do you expect from an ex home secretary? Policing everything like it's the Soviet Union.
But isn't this a software, not a panel resolution problem? Fonts and icons could be scaled down in software just fine and could keep excellent readability.
Just put all of the text in the file names.
As the quote states, it can (determine the geographic location, altitude, orientation) OR (determine position relative to a nearby iBeacon)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC :

FLOW-MATIC, originally known as B-0 (Business Language version 0), was the first English-like data processing language. It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand under Grace Hopper during the period from 1955 until 1959. It had a strong influence on the development of COBOL.
> If you drive them, and their ideas, deeper into the underground there will be no one there to oppose any of their ideas, it will be yet another echo-chamber driven by a victim complex.

Exactly. This is the same argument I pose with my neoliberal friend about Ann Coulter, Alex Jones, David Duke, etc.

"Think of the children!", I cry. If society refuses to acknowledge ideas that they find offensive the ideas don't go away, ignorance just goes unanswered.

Following this line of thinking, maybe it would be more useful for YouTube to recommend more moderate sermons/lectures to people who are looking for extremist videos.

Google could go a step further and insert ads for mental health when people view content like this. The public could also take this upon itself, especially in countries like the UK and Canada, purchasing ads for national mental health services targeting these users.
I swear I had an app installed on my iPhone 3G (I guess 2008/2009) that did something similar. Was it Sam Altman's Loopt that had a 3D view that used geomarkers and displayed them as you rotated the phone with the camera view leaking through it? I believe it was L*something.
This quote riffs off the point that the issues of type are there whether or not your language requires you to be explicit about them.

On the other hand, the empirical evidence for the effectiveness of static typing is weak. This may be because the latest developments in static typing have not found their way into mainstream languages, but that is only a conjecture.

You may prefer this quote: "Static types give me the same feeling of safety as the announcement that my seat cushion can be used as a floatation device." - Attributed to Don Roberts by Martin Fowler.
Now, I do enjoy wobbly windows as much as the other guy, but apart from that I probably wouldn't be less productive booting directly into Emacs.

I am already doing email, file management, word processing, note taking, chat and programming in it, and while working the only other applications I use is a shell.

Getting used to doing that in Emacs as well probably wouldn't be much trouble.

At least not apart from the odd cat gifv sent to me by my colleagues.
> I'm not a fan of USB-C being yet another connector that's easy to snap off.

I initially had the same concern, but after using USB-C heavily for over a year now, not had one instance of a connector failing.

> I break a USB cable every few days

Either you're doing it wrong (and really careless / buy really cheap cables) or you're doing some highly specialized thing which means the feedback should be caveated saying I'm in "xyz field, which means i break far more USB cables than most ever will".
> if you're annoyed by pictures of other peoples' kids or their vacations or what they ate, maybe you're the narcissistic one.

Are you high? Jesus Christ, how self-centered and boring are you?

A picture is fine. A few photos are great. The constant, endless over-sharing of the ordinary is tiresome.

To publicly document every second of your life, as if anyone cares to know, is insane.

* We don’t need a daily catalogue of all your foods and drinks.

* We don’t need multi-photo, daily catalogue of your pregnancy belly, morning sickness, your baby’s needs, how many times it pooped today, or how much you were thrown up on.

* We don’t need a year long countdown (seriously) to your wedding.

* We don’t need to see photos of you in the hospital multiple times a week

* We don’t need to see every second of your vacation
The west has been trying to do that for decades. Things just get worse and worse. What do you propose?
What about model airplanes? Do you need a license to fly a model airplane or helicopter?
Dalit Helplessness in India: Rise and Reasons
I don't remember how The FBI initially identified The Dread Pirate Roberts but they had to set up quite an operation to find conclusive proof and arrest him, including undercover agents and months of surveillance.
Probably nobody has tried that hard to find Satoshi.
Ah, I've said too much in such a debated area, and clumsily.

Dynamic types give their power in what they can change. I do not know how easily this can be done with Haskell, but I expect a different pattern, or a more convoluted approach would be needed, but something like this:

(defun greet
([:bob] "Hey bob")
([x] (str "Greetings, " x)))

So far, something familiar. But where's the dynamism? Let's grab a macro, so that we can do this:

(addmatches! greet :chef-matches {:before :beginning}
([:emeril] "Love the zest")
([:child] "First, we baste the chicken!"))

Which we can have later use in other conditionals, as well as the corresponding macro removematches! (These macros come from a library, but are not difficult to implement).

Why would one ever want such a thing? It allows for the creation of a self-modifying parser, for one. Removes a lot of boilerplate for another.
The setup did not cost much. A couple of hundred for the panels, a hundred or so for the charge controller and a couple of hundred each for the two batteries.

I have an isolator so I can jump the Jeep from the solar and visa versa. Wiring details here: http://theroadchoseme.com/diy-jeep-wrangler-jk-isolated-dual...
I just bought (today) a 32" 1080p monitor and I'm lovin' it.
I think it's more productive to use a single big screen then set up a two monitor setup.

My old setup consisted of two monitors, one 23" and one 21". One day I realized that my 23" monitor could not reproduce colors. I needed to photoshop a picture. I sent the retouched version to my phone, but as I couldn't see the color depth on the 23" one, the image looked ugly on the better screen. At that time I learnt not to buy the cheapest monitor, just by looking at its size and resolution. So, I sold that monitor, and bought a 32" 1080p monitor at a bargain price.

Of course it would be better if I could buy a 1440p monitor at this size, (or even 4K OMG :)). But considering my budget this was all I could purchase.

I had serious doubts about the pixel density, however there was nothing to be afraid of. In usual tasks (e.g. browsing, writing code in emacs, terminal) nothing disturbs my eye, it's beautiful. However, if I open a 1080p youtube video fullscreen, it looks like as if it were a high quality SD video, because of the pixel density. I am standing close to the monitor, and although I cannot see any pixel points, I can notice the difference.

I bought my monitor for 900 Turkish Lira, equivalant to 254 dollars and I think it is a great investment.
I found this quote from von Mises when trying to work out what on Earth praxeology is:

"They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts. They are both logically and temporally antecedent to any comprehension of historical facts."

Sounds more like ideology than a science to me....
I use this as my daily. Totally love it. The config is just standard Python, and it has extensions. It's pretty neat overall and definitely worth a try.
Making Engineering Team Communication Clearer, Faster, Better
I have exactly that! Here's my setup in more detail: http://theroadchoseme.com/diy-jeep-wrangler-jk-isolated-dual...
You obviously have no clue of what you talk about
> It's one thing to suspect your government of sneakily compromising hardware, another to receive official letters to install a surveillance app or be detained.

Suspicions are of course lesser.

But sneakily compromising hardware is worse then officially compromising hardware!

> defense

That comment ain't a defense.
Not for a 27” panel and above. 5120x2880/3200 for a 27” is good, but for larger panels (29”, 30”, 32”), an even higher logical resolution is needed.

That’s for 2x scaling, of course, but I don’t think fraction scaling creates a good end result, unless everything is vector, which decidedly, very little is.
It could easily be argued that known geniuses are known because they, for some reason, managed to fit in well enough, and not that they managed to fit in because they were geniuses.

There are known and measurable negative social effects that is strongly affecting people with high intelligence as measured by standard tests. Some fraction of highly intelligent people will certainly also be highly socially skilled - as skills really don't appear to be exclusive, a few will have an exceptionally strong drive to succeed, and some fraction will be in the right place at the right time. It is likely that those we know of have some measure of either, of those characteristics, and that the others simply never rose from obscurity however talanted they might have been. There are exceptions, as there is to all generalisations.
It is a Solenoid, it's exactly what I have: http://theroadchoseme.com/diy-jeep-wrangler-jk-isolated-dual...
Given the ease with which editors resize tabs, and given the problems caused by excessively nested code: seems reasonable.
Yeah and I'm sure not all blacks were slaves now right?

Not all jews were genocided right?

Cracking down on 'terrorism' is inhumane and disgusting.

What you really mean is cracking down on anything that isn't cis-white-hetero-normative Christianity.

This. Is. Trumps. Future.

RESIST
That's a strange inversion, though. As far as we know, computational constraints (memory-time tradeoff, entropy/information theory) are all due indirectly to fundamental physical constraints. That is, the concept of something being a 'simulation' sort of implies it is inheriting constraints from an outside reality. If you then say the outside reality is a simulation, you can't explain all of it's constraints in terms of computational artifacts, because that contradicts it being a simulation.
Hm, am i broken? I see travel photos as something private, only shown if and when the relative bicker me for them.

I take a lot of photos usually, and they act as something like an extension of my memory, a journal. To show them to someone else is an intimate thing.
So you think mathematics is an ideology?
> My point is that if Go is not going to have a story for templated types, then we need to own it, just like Haskell programmers own their decisions.

> This isn’t simply a case of saying “nope, sorry, no generics for Go 2.0, maybe in another 5 years”, but a more fundamental statement that they are not something that will be implemented in Go because we believe there is a better way to solve the underlying problem.

ffs. tldr; yes. Add generics.

Come on, the feedback from the community has been overwhelming.

If we were going to 'own' not having generics, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

There's a disconnect here, clearly, between the community and what the community wants, and what the language makers and designers want.

I think what Dave is advocating here is basically the 'status quo' from golang 1.0 (ie. we'll never have generics).

That hasn't worked.

Lets not do it again.
I don't believe it is simple to fix. But you are right of course, the root cause is what you should aim for.
> Past Greek governments

Therein lies the distinction. The government of course loves the money. That's why the people are fed up with the greedy politicians and bankers.

> It's funny how that distaste for money and accompanying virtue signaling only managed to manifest itself once it was time to pay back all the borrowed cash.

It's funny how this statement proves you have absolutely zero knowledge of the culture and are projecting your own pessimistic views on people and societies onto one you know very little about.
I follow the zero inbox mindset with tabs and try to reduce them to a few ever running apps like Gmail and Mixcloud. The rest is just noise and mental load that I can get rid of.

I put articles to Pocket if I don't read them for a week or so. I'll probably read them on a vacation, but I don't need a constant reminder how poor my time limits are.
What are the terms of the settlement?
5K 27” with wide color gamut and good calibration? Please post links here.
Cicada, a Rust chess engine
Ehhhh I would give them a pass on this one. The word "online" is certainly not precise enough, but I do think it conveys the point that "FTP that requires credentials" is not equal to "freely and conveniently available by URL/google etc"

and the reason for that of course is that the median internet user probably doesn't know what FTP is or how to use it
Dead people have the best opsec.
I still use an old 30 inch model from 15 years ago and it's only just now starting to break down, so that's another thing to think about .
I wonder if an AR device that only renders stationary floating text could be produced with much lower GPU (and thus power) requirements than the current crop of headsets.

What I want is a computer + headset that can be fully powered by moderate exercise. From what I've read, manual labor averages about 75 watts of mechanical power throughout the work day, so with conversion losses, maybe 20 watts produced by pedaling or rowing action. Then I could "sit at the desk" all day without wasting away, and do it from the middle of a forest or the top of a mountain if I wanted to.
When I read the headline, I immediately thought Xinjiang, because that is where they have the greatest concentration of Muslims and where they have had separatism issues.

And then the first sentence starts with "China has ramped up surveillance measures in Xinjiang".

So I don't consider the headline misleading at all. News sites necessarily have to use short titles. The lack of an exhaustive title shouldn't be criticized unless it is clearly clickbait or contradicts facts or the article.
Does anyone have a collection of best practice articles like this? And is there any ongoing measurement of the effectiveness of various approaches?
>In Xinjiang region, the concern is more about separatism, which is not terrorism, and which should be a right of any group.

So much this. This is about bigoted Christian males(likely shadow-whites behind the Chinese Christian leadership), trying to force their religious dogma on the muslim population.
It's probable that no one looked as hard for Satoshi as for the other people you mentioned because law enforcement isn't after him/her.
> So an FTP server is not "online"?

I always have to stop and consider whether I'm talking to someone who equates the web with the internet. If your first and only exposure to the internet was on the web, I suspect it's a very hard notion to shake.

For those of us who routinely use non-http protocols (even if that's only ssh), or are old enough to remember using gopher, telnet, UUCP, NNTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, etc., then ~"moved online and off ftp" is just weird...