skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only Silverlight v1 was Javascript based. From version 2 upwards a small CLR implementation was the runtime. It allowed .net languages (C# and F# mainly) to be run.
One nation out of 28 in the EU?

To answer your question, the reason Germany does best is because they are in the EU. Under the Deutschmark, increased exports would have increased the value of their currency and hurt exports. With the Euro, they generously benefit from the fact that they can export to the entirety of Europe without experiencing currency appreciation and the current account weakness of other European states means that the value of the Euro is kept lower than the Deutschmark would be, meaning that Germany gets an added export advantage in international trade.

How many new major European multi-nationals have been created since the creation of the EU?
This is an incredibly interesting and apt comparison.

My mother who's trying albeit mostly failing to wean herself from smoking has become addicted to social media to the point where she becomes actively hostile when her internet is out.

She is literally addicted to Facebook in the exact same way as cigarettes. She needs her fix.

I think for people who become easily addicted to things, it's a very easy thing to become addicted to.
I used to be way too involved in Facebook. One day I realized that I was spending way too much time seeking validation there rather than actually taking steps to better myself. I defriended literally everyone that I wasn't invested in, which was about 800 people. The amount of time I freed up was incredible. It didn't hurt my social life at all, since I still keep in contact with everyone I want to keep in contact with.

Social media is largely a narcissistic pursuit, and studies have repeatedly found that higher social media use is correlated positively with narcissistic personality traits. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the same thing about people with tattoos as well. The number of agonizingly boring people I know who are constantly getting tattoos is absurdly high.

That being said, I know a lot of people who have plenty of tattoos and are not narcissistic at all. But it seems like the recent trendiness of tattoos is somewhat correlated with the everyone is special movement.
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> It's like tattoos

Come on! It takes literally nothing to create a Facebook account. You can even use a fake mail and name (it might be against the ToS but you still can). The only thing it will take from you is time. (No it won't make your life worst, just use messenger.com and not the main API with the newsfeed so that people can contact you.)

I would compare that to having a phone back then, when it was kind of the only way to contact you. If you don't want friends, then probably no-one will harass you asking if you have a phone number so you're fine.
The best alternative to upwork.com is http://www.xbtfreelancer.com/?ref=40081 . There are many jobs there which requires your skills. Check it out.
The military has plenty of anti-jamming technology don't they? I'm guessing if they wanted to do this right there would be ways that are a lot more sturdy than something a simple RF jammer can stop.
The funny thing is, the IRS can already do this without any text parsing of legislation for domestic taxes. They have all the data and rule sets to completely automate the filing process.

In Australia the government has official tax software. It pulls all your PAYG information and auto-fills most of what you need. In NZ, people don't file taxes at all. They login to the IRD website and their tax data is populated. You can accept what's presented or file for corrections.

H&R Block and TurboTax actively lobby against the US IRS from creating the same type of filing system. Our entire banking system is 20 years behind the rest of the world:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-american-banking-system-is...
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In over 30 years of being a software developer, I think I have probably created more than a thousand apps that have been used in the 'real world', from tiny command line utilities to major ERP systems.

About a hundred or so have been used in businesses to make money and improve efficiency, and while I earned money writing those systems, it was a tiny fraction of what the actual value of those systems could have been.

(One example: I wrote a charter booking system for a local bus company back in the early 2000's. Total billings was about $10K. The owner of the company came to me after 10 years of using my system to thank me and say that my software helped to improve his $1M turnover company by around 10% with booking efficiency. That is $100K/year for 10 years = $1M productivity improvement for $10K!)

I have had a couple of apps that could have gone BIG - One was in the early 90's when I wrote an app to build and organise armies for Warhammer 40,000. I released it on a couple of WH40K forums and got a TON of great feedback, but the app had a few Games Workshop copyrighted images in it, so they rightfully sent me a 'cease and desist' letter that was actually quite nice and recommended I remove the copyrighted elements only.

I decided that I would just can the whole project. Bear in mind this was the first app I knew of to automate the army building, tracking points and printing character sheets out. There are a ton of them that have come out since then which are great, but I always wonder 'what could have been' and if my pride was just some form of self-sabotage?

Anyhow - looks like the OP has got his perspective right - focusing on life and his new born son. I find that now I am older, doing stuff like spending time with family or playing my guitar is far more attractive than coding. I don't regret the time I spent on 'dead' projects though... Everything is simply a learning experience.
Example idea: Consider an example of a filled tree to show off. For instance, Game of Thrones

Pivot idea: Consider using the chart tool to map out relations of characters in stories, TV shows, legal cases, etc.

Service integration (client): Consider if your tree could fit in as a GSuite add-on: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/add-ons/

Service integration (host): create REST API's, or language libraries for people to use your tool programatically

Viral idea: Consider offering family trees for free so Wikia pages can link to them

Viral idea: Consider an embeddable app with zooming/panning that media websites and pay a monthly fee to integrate

Viral idea: Consider an import/export JSON schema users can use to share their graphs
Maybe worth including some contact information e.g. an anonymous email so if someone from Google sees they can reach you
> You and others are claiming they are criminals, ...

Indeed, they are.

> ... even though they were never prosecuted. ...

Moreover, even though jurisdiction was never properly established. And even if relevant laws are morally repugnant, and enacted by kleptocrats abusing their power.

> People who use those services are not uncaught criminals, this is just government propaganda, ...

Worse than propaganda, it's unprovoked aggression, by the powerful against the weak.

> they are legitimate users.

Most of them are, I believe.
> The problem is smoking feels the same wiether 1 person is doing it or 1 million people do it

Smoking also requires millions of people doing it to work. You need enough consumers so that the manufacture of cigarettes is viable, and both acquiring the habit and continuing it are highly dependent on the number of smokers that you surround yourself with.

It would be very difficult to be the only smoker in a large enough community of non-smokers.
They don't have to be. I'm saying there are better sources of funding.
It looks like average IQ in the NFL is lower than among programmers, but not too low, by this proxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_test#Median_score_by...

Google shows some online Wonderlic tests if you'd like to find your own score. (I haven't tried any.)
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Thanks! This is helpful. I like your blog name, I'm assuming that translation is correct :)
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I think they probably mean the social kind.
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Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees: OP's scenario is a strategy in which the project's start (with investment) causes a raise in valuation, and its premature cancellation a smaller decrease in valuation.
> Trucking is badly broken, especially in the US.

I'd like to see this supported, particularly the "especially" part, given the extraordinary scale of hauling going on in the US via trucking. The economic facts on the ground in the US overwhelmingly disagree with you.

If it's so broken, and the US economy relies so much on it, how is the US GDP per capita so high? Both can't be true. It's either functioning well, leading to the high reliability and predictable delivery times we see today, assisting the US in having the most powerful economy on earth, or it's badly broken (where is the supporting economic evidence?).
God Typescript is glorious after dealing with JS for so long.

Just needed to say that.
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You can't change the thirst for freedom inborne in every man via laws. This will only make cryptocurrency slip more easily through their fingers and galvanize efforts to avoid oversight.
I agree, the wording isn't great. Kernel panic is a specific thing, yes, but there are other system-wide crashes that are much more common on Macs than kernel panics.

"Sleep Wake Failure" comes to mind. When the 2016 MBP was new I'd get one literally every night that I left my computer asleep. It's now much less frequent (a couple a month, still more than it should be), but more often than panics (haven't had one yet).
If this piqued your interest, you should check out audiokit

https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKit
I took a 3 week road trip recently, and I couldn't find the motivation to post anything about it on social media. I realized on the first day that worrying about social media was taking me out of the moment, and I don't think I opened Facebook until two weeks in to the trip.

I took lots of photos and a bit of video, and I'm really glad I have photos to remember my trip with, especially the photos I have with other people. I haven't found a reason to share them on social media though.

That being said, I did go to a wedding, and I was happy that people shared the photos of that on social media, since the number of people there was way too large to actually make sure everyone in the photos received a copy.
>realize that you are an artist

That statement resonates with me - immensely. I was a musician for almost a decade before going to school for CS. I feel in love with the creativity that knowing how to code enabled. Just like the author, I made my fair share of worthless side projects and just like him I felt pressure to monetize them to no success which ultimately took all the fun out of them.

I've never been able to get the fire back to make stuff just because I can. I really hate that I've lost that.
Mobile games/vr/ar - Unity or Unreal

Web Backend - Elixir/Phoenix (we used PHP for FV), Python in some cases

Web Frontend / Native Mobile Apps - React & React Native

JS has effectively caught up to what AS3 offered back then minus type safety (which TypeScript offers).
PDF: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
How is improved birth control substantially different than being voluntarily childless?
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I suspect tptacek is aware that not everyone thinks security laws are fundamentally unjust.
As many have said, there's nothing wrong with cash-less side projects. I wouldn't call them "worthless". You have learned valuable skills and you have kept your mind malleable enough to learn new skills. That's invaluable as a software/hardware developer.

I really enjoy following https://www.indiehackers.com/ for inspiration and ideas about money-making side projects.

If your goal is to make money, then you have to look at the value your product provides. What is valuable? Could be entertainment or attention (your average consumer application). Or you could build a product that saves time and solves business problems.

I would argue that consumer apps and products are tougher to compete in. Business problems? Those will never go away. And businesses are almost always willing to spend a $1 if it saves them $2 or more.
They still have it today (it was never truly "discontinued").
This is a problem with all smart guns. They necessarily have a non-zero failure rate associated with the electronic interlock. An integrated physical key operated lock would be more reliable.
I'll get myself in trouble, but the main difference between Fox News and the NYT is that the NYT is far more effective at disguising its bias. Let's face it, Fox News doesn't even try.

My advice to you is to follow foreign news services and compare the news you get. The biggest challenge, unfortunately, is that you have to dig a bit because lately English language news is dominated by stories from Reuters and AP. You best bet, by far, is to get news in languages other than English for a fair comparison. However, if you can't do that, you should search google for news articles and compare them to the equivalent Reuters and AP articles to ensure that they didn't originate there.

If you do that for a while, I suspect your opinion of the NYT (and many other respected English language news services) will change pretty dramatically.

Which is not to say that there aren't good journalists, good editors, good news stories, etc, etc. These exist all over the world. However, the news is big business and also an institution that is critical for political success in any country. Educating yourself on the level of interference that occurs will only benefit you.
Is there any concern that Z-Wave and Zigbee could/will be reduced to nothing more than a tinkerers platform after both Apple and Google grab more of the market (both of which appear to be building systems backed by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth)?
They very much are art. Even if you're writing the nth incarnation of some tired JS pattern framework, you're coding it the way you want. Your making an API that makes sense to you. In short, the way you chose to implement the tired Ideas is unique to you. It's self expression that others can see. How is that different than a painter reinterpreting some famous piece of work?
Could something like Civic.com be used for this?
I hated Mathematica so badly when I was in undergrad. It was nearly impossible to use, so struggling with it on top of trying to learn the actual course material earned my hatred of it forever. Plus, sometimes it would just corrupt your notebook with no warning. No way to avoid it. When that happened, too bad. Do your assignment again.

I honestly think that for years afterward, that experience made me passionate about building software people can actually understand how to use. It was just atrocious to me, that people would make such a thing and then expect everyone to just deal with its horribleness.
Just like the last CEO :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(1978_film)
How about http://www.snopes.com/obama-encouraged-illegal-aliens-to-vot...?

I am a huge Obama supporter, but I can see why people who don't like him interpret the video as him encouraging illegal voting. I think the wording made things pretty ambiguous yet Snopes gave a definitive answer that I think ignored the confusing statement.
Extreme libertarian views like yours have been rejected almost everywhere in the world. Maybe it's your opinion that allowing scammers to manipulate people is their basic right, but no one seems to share that sentiment.
Actually hung out with a JP Morgan Chase banker the other day. Big into crypto. He said the SEC had no clue what was going on. They leave at 5 PM, and head home to wife's and kids, and mortgages.

While the "kids" are hacking, micro-dosing, and working 100 weeks. And they are all of 17.

It's not in their world. A 55 year old banker is not hacking solidity contracts at 3 AM. No way.
> hard to make money

That's not a supporting premise for something being badly broken. Amazon has found it hard to make money in retail, as have Walmart and Costco (2% to 3% razon-thin net income margins). Most retailers find it extremely difficult to make money. That's not necessarily because the business is badly broken. It means the margins are being competed away, which is tremendous for other parties (consumers for one). Lots of industries / segments have the same problem and always will.
This isn't as bad as it sounds in practice. I'm usually glad it eliminates reflection which I've rarely seen used honorably... I do miss it occasionally.

Some popular typed languages, notably Java, do type erasure on objects as well. Extending that to value types feels right in a strange way, more consistent at least.

One thing I'll mention to make The a better experience... The compiler, even on the strictest options, will still let you do a lot of hacky old school JS crap. I HIGHLY recommend integrating TSLint with almost all rules turned on and Microsoft's contrib extension. It makes Typescript code almost bulletproof.

Use the Typescript language service and experimental plugin for VSCode to show both Typescript errors and TsLint errors live with intellisense. It's a pain to set all this up at first but the experience is slick.
There's a very simple technology for this.[1] It's a purely mechanical gun lock operated by a magnetized ring on the user's finger. Some cops use it, in case someone grabs their gun. It's useful to cops who have to work in dense crowds, like transit police. About 10% of cops who are shot are shot with their own gun.

[1] http://www.smartlock.com/smartgun_detail-r.htm
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and six pence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
That's what it seems like. I'm happy to be convinced otherwise, but the homepage doesn't really explain anything.
If you really want to stress-test an arbitrary family tree documenter, try putting the X-Men in it.

http://img13.deviantart.net/4a05/i/2011/253/c/b/x_men_family... (and that's just the tip of the iceberg!)

Real family tress don't have to worry about time travel or cloning, of course, but that crazy stuff does actually serve as a reasonably good proxy of some of the strangest family trees out there (medieval European nobility, extended families with multiple divorces and remarryings, etc).
Yeah of course. I can't explain to you why NNs outperform bayesian approaches, probably just NNs are capturing the correct type of prior for vision/language tasks. And yeah bayesian models are more interpretable but when you have millions of latent variables I'm not sure interpretability is a thing.
[Your Roomba] is also gathering maps of your house
I did not understand perfectly well.

Understanding for me required a Google search. It's quite a nuisance for me to have to google an uncommon abbreviation for one of the most common words in my native language.
Interesting quote:

"Angle's vision for the Roomba, however, places the domestic bot in service of improving the smart home. For example, the robot would eventually be able to tell home hubs, such as Google Home and Amazon Echo, how many lights there are on a floor, so the devices would know which lights to turn on.

"In other words, the Roomba could become a kind of machine mediator, Angle said, informing and bolstering other key features of the future, connected home, including “music, TV, heat, blinds, stove, coffee machine, fan, gaming console, smart picture frames, or robot pet.”"
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Lots of types of access come with conditions. This is true of both publicly and privately owned land. Huge amount of public land are restricted (Salisbury Plain for example), and we have good access rights to some private land (most of Scotland). In a small country there needs to be some rules as everything is so close together. It is not as clear cut as you suggested.
Many of our cities are social disaster zones compared to those of other first world countries, largely because we've cut our social programs to the bone. It might just be greed rather than any puritanical morality, but I wouldn't be surprised if the lack of empathy stemmed from thinking that one's success is much more deterministic than it actually is. If people reminded themselves regularly that "there but for the grace of God go I", they'd probably agitate for better social safety nets.

Ironically, the unmitigated social problems that result from lacking basic social safety nets increase expenses many other places, including in healthcare, possibly by more than the programs would have cost. Instead of getting rehabilitation, an addict has to steal to feed their addiction, prompting more spending on police forces, plus fear and mistrust of others, and the addict uses a series of emergency room visits when things inevitably go badly.
Basic rights are defined by various charters, constitutions, international agreements, and that's about it. If you find that one of those restrictions contradicts the ones applicable to your country and legal system, you have a good shot at changing it. (Point in case: gay marriage, and other Supreme Court rulings.)

As for all other rights, those are determined by the government that is democratically voted in. If most people, via their elected representatives, decide that you shouldn't be allowed to speed, or smoke crack, and it's not constitutionally guaranteed, then it's not a basic right and it's not your right at all. Maybe moral right, but that depends on highly subjective morals and might therefore still get you into legal trouble.

Best course of action is probably to find a country with a legal framework that matches your morals. If there's no such country, perhaps the time for these ideas hasn't come and you want to lobby for them to be recognized as basic rights, since right now they're obviously not.
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Sadly there is no binary, only papers. Now, if someone could come up with a technique for automatically creating source code from a PDF description... :D
Good point, having a key instead of a watch, and inserting the key into the gun to make it work, sounds far more reliable and only slightly more difficult for the user.

"But the criminal could steal the key." Yeah but they could also steal your watch...
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Some firms keeping up the tradition:

Bike Friday
https://store.bikefriday.com/images//parts/10760.jpg

Cielo
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Rivendell
http://roadbikeaction.com/wp-content/contentimages/2009/IMG_...
This made me chuckle, and it's a great illustration of how much meaning is changed by different emphasis. However, I would read the to example like this:

I am going to eat the ham sandwich = The sandwich is the reason I am going (to the party, or wherever...)
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... and currency can be created at the cost of the future unborn generations.

Your move, KirinDave.
It's not in their world. A 55 year old banker is not hacking solidity contracts at 3 AM. No way.

Fucking awesome. Nobody should be doing that.
I once gifted a book I wrote about empirical measurement and stats to someone who turned out to be a CIA analyst instructor. She gave me a copy of this book in return. It was astonishing how well the ideas mapped.
The right option for that is http://www.xbtfreelancer.com/?ref=40081 . You get paid in bitcoin only. You can post any kind of job. It is safer because the site has a built-in escrow system.