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Nice. I waste a lot of time converting prose/poetry that I like into code. Here's the first four lines of [the widely anthologized I guess] Wasteland:

// cruellest_month.js

import lilacs from 'deadland';

import spring from 'seasons';

let April = function() {

let season = spring;

return {

breeding: function() {

return lilacs();

},

mixing: function() {

return shakeUp(memory, desire);

},

stirring: function() {

let dullRoots = this.breeding().roots;

// move dullRoots in circles, using the avg

// rainfall speed to calculate the period

let circum = this.breeding().plotRadius * Math.PI * 2;

let period = circum * this.season.rain.averageSpeed();

dullRoots.setIntoCircularMotion(circum, period);

}

}

};

exports.cruellest = {

"month": April

};
States is not a proper noun. America and Ukraine are.
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Pigs are vicious animals that will ruthlessly attack other animals and even humans. (In places where feral hogs run loose, they are found very difficult to control.)

Besides, bacon is delicious.
You authored Picnic CSS? I've used it and I loved it.

Not sure why someone with a similar repo, high quality with lots of stars, would not include it in their resume.
Most useful thing I found about netboot.xyz are the utilities. Imaging is far more useful for IT depts(from my limited exp with the matter) - for this use https://fogproject.org/ worked well for me.
Fyi, Google does do business in China. They have offices in Beijing and Shanghai at least. Their phones are most probably also manifactured in China which is pretty big business.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
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> Imagine questions written by MSNBC & FoxNews for the same story.

As far as I can tell from briefly viewing them, the MSNBC and Fox News web sites don't allow comments.
Would you say the same for Tesla?
The writing of non-interpreted code (i.e. assembler, binary, etc), smaller programs that work longer, and less overall dumbing-down of computer use?
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I hope they're careful about the custom videos they make. Just last week the RCMP were searching for the woman who made a video apparently confessing to an Anthrax hoax -- who it turns out was paid to make the video via Fiverr.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/how-a-north-carolina...
Update: there is now a full browser-based implementation of netcode.io too! https://github.com/RedpointGames/netcode.io-browser
the same way that the JVM works, at least in theory.

You have the base virtual machine installed, and then the app just needs to ship the code itself.

You could even ship with an "install script header", like "if this isn't installed, offer to download and install it". I imagine a lot of us have seen these kinds of installers before.
I am not sure the poster from parent is all that wrong. The mainstream media (CNN , MSNBC, WaPo, NYT, HuffPo) straight up shilled for HRC during the election. CNN even provided HRC with questions for the debates.
Two questions:

1. What is the harm for different drugs once addicted? (health, possibility to lead normal life)

2. What percentage of people addicted can successfully quit?
> We already limit library use to those who live within the library's community.

"You have to be in the same physical location to use a building" is one of the softest restrictions in history.

In order to borrow something, sure, you have to live nearby, but a library is more than a book loan service. For example, I was crossing the US and booking the hotel for the next night every morning. If the motel I was at didn't have working internet, I'd find a library and use theirs to make the booking. I was never blocked on account on not living nearby.
This is some of the best advice I ever got for business:

Ask and you shall receive
Seek and you shall find
Knock and the door will be opened

The only way to get 10k short of stealing is for someone to give it to you. And nobody will give it to you if they have no connection to you. So the first thing you need to understand is that your success depends on connecting with people who can be convinced that it is in their best interest to give you money in exchange for something you offer. As a coder, you can definitely make 10k on one project or two, so that's a great goal. There are many people out there who would benefit from paying you 10k because you have valuable skills.

Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky said "100% of shots you don't take won't go in the goal". Similarly you won't get any business at all if you just sit around. You have to get up and keep trying things. Attend meet ups. Even go door to door. That's what I did selling a side product I built but now one of the guys I met I'm in talks with to build software for about 15k.

The thing is if you go out and keep trying to find people who might give you money, eventually you will find someone who will give you money. This is one of the secrets to life.
This is the code from the beginning of the tutorial:

# make some test data
import numpy
x = numpy.linspace(0, 10)
y = x ** 2

# plot it
import toyplot
canvas = toyplot.Canvas(width=300, height=300)
axes = canvas.cartesian()
mark = axes.plot(x, y)

3 lines excluding the import doesn't strike me as a remarkable amount of boilerplate
The Political Consequences of Norman Mailer and Norman Podhoretz's Friendship
Ask HN: Is the concept of the “next big tech hub” silly?
In the sense that something can rival the tech hubs of the West Coast, even Seattle?
> I have trouble rationalizing this romantic view of the homeless as these poor downtrodden, down on their luck people who just need a hand up, with the realities I see everyday of mentally ill, dangerous, and completely uncontrollable people.

Maybe you should see the demographic as being a little more complex rather than just throwing them all into the one bucket. Rather than 'find another term' to split the demographic itself ('homeless' is a pretty accurate description of 'doesn't have a home'), perhaps you should find a different term for the groups you want to specify.
I didn't say the real crime of money laundering is tax evasion. The real crime of money laundering is obstruction of justice. But taxes are certainly being evaded, too.
> Pay for officers should be high without overtime.

Pay is high for police officers. At the median they're earning nearly 70% more than the overall median US income.

Median pay for all police officers is near $62,000 now. [1] Versus the median for all jobs, closer to $37,000.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detect...
Several prisons I was housed in had the toilet in our cell, a couple feet from our bunks. We used a towel draped over the seat as a lid. This was typical for a 2 or 3 man cell.
Cars have tons of "just don't do that" failure modes. For example, flooring it while at a red light. It's not inherently bad advice.

IMO there's a huge difference between a car where "the slightest bit too much pressure" causes the rear end to break loose, and one where the rear end will break loose but only if you really abuse the accelerator. The Model S is in the latter category, and the Model 3 will probably be as well. As long as you drive like a sane person, it's fine.
FWIW, I've found it much easier when explaining people to first explain a pedersen commitment. Then explain how a pedersen commitment can be forged if you know the discrete log relating the two generators.

Then I explain a chameleon hash function as a hash function where you can generate collisions if you know a trapdoor, which is just a pedersen forgery... then you feed the output of the chameleon into its input, and... and the result is a schnorr signature.

So each idea builds on the last.
Author here. Happy to have feedback and/or suggestions for improvement!
Don't forget better UX. The whole practice of UX is utter hogwash. Comparisons between 3 or 4 (or 100) solutions that are shitty at baseline is not honest at all.
I've sent my portfolio to recruiters as part of an introduction and had them call a few times. I write maybe 4 sentences about how I think I fit the job they posted, then a portfolio link and a phone number. I'm very early in the job search and those conversations haven't gone anywhere, but at least I know they look at the page and it's what they talk about when they call. But I have only a small amount of data.
If Google has determined that censorship is evil, but an open society is a noble goal, then "Do no evil" would prevent Google from collaborating with censors under any circumstances. "Don't be evil" would allow collaborating with censors if Google believed that collaborating with censors was the fastest way to inducing a closed society to open up (or some other greater good).
I have not read the post.

I just want to say whatever "ism" is involved you can find it in any industry you wish. It's a person thing not an industry thing.

Have you seen any discussions about "sexism in the coal mining industry"?

Somehow in tech people attribute each and every personal experience and anecdote to the industry and as far as I can see it's unique to tech.

When a female employee has her ass grabbed in your average boring accounting firm it doesn't make headlines. But if it happens in a tech startup office in SV suddenly it's treated like a crisis in the entire industry.

I don't get it.
So you;d rather have fewer useful GUI programs?

If they are of higher quality, yes. In fact, there are plenty of useful and native applications which many just haven't discovered --- you could argue they spent far more effort on the product than marketing it. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748924

What incentive does any developer have to do as you say?

I'm not the one you're replying to, but as developer myself I don't want to have to put up with "this slow and bloated web shit on desktop" either. IMHO increasing the combined computing resource consumption of all your users significantly just so you can make your product a little more easily is the complete opposite of being a good developer.

The argument about it being "easier" might be questionable too --- I've been programming native GUI apps for over a decade and for the type of functionality that a lot of these web-app-packaged-with-browser monstrosities are doing, it'd probably take me far less time to write something in pure Win32 and X than download and figure out how to use Electron. Some may argue that the initial learning curve is steeper, but then after that you're a "real native coder" instead of a "web apper" and will be making far more efficient applications for everyone.
People's wellbeing would be served equally well by the California government designating land for development outside of the intractable San Fran polity, and encouraging tech companies, restaurants, and commercial entities to invest in the area.

The essence of democracy is allowing people to determine their own future, not forcing it upon them due to outside interests.

We aren't 14th century serfs, and closer to home---we aren't waitresses, maintenance workers, or migrant farmers. We are tech workers in a market were demand vastly outstrips demand, so the notion that we are forced to move to San Francisco alone for work lacks perspective.

People want to live in San Fran, not merely because of work, but because of the character of the city, the trendy restaurants, etc. People want San Fran for its luxuries, and its that which I do not believe trumps the ownership stakes of the residents whom already live there.
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until this thread, i had not actually heard the term "effectively once"; what's more, i've always believed that "indempotent" means "at most once."

how do the two guarantees, "effectively once" and "at most once" differ?
It's interesting that whenever the subject of legalizing drugs comes up, people rarely argue for legalization from the perspective of cognitive liberty. Why we allow certain people to decide what states of consciousness are allowed for other people never ceases to amaze me.
I'm on my way down but haven't seen the darkness yet :)

Maybe because I didn't start out with money making in mind (not to say I don't want to make money. I do. I do.)

Also how long did the whole process take for you? ... If you make up your mind in advance, as I have, that you're going to be in there for 10 years give or take, (in 8-hour days; so 20 calendar years if you spend 4 hours a day), and try to make a living on the side, does it still feel as dark?
It a little weird to me to call it porn, all of the described bespoke videos include nothing of what could be considered a sexual nature (to the conventionally minded I suppose )- you could display them on network TV in the USA when children are watching without the FCC's wrath (unless they showed the women peeing graphically and they really didn't describe the nun video very well). They sound more like customized therapy videos.
> On the low end this is 14 bucks

The same model is under $4 in AliExpress.
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The cool thing about this kind of filter is that it specifically has nothing to do with what the potential poster is about to post. As long as the questions remain about the facts in the article, intuitively it seems terrible for virality (as it extends the time frame between casual emotion and action), so I doubt any large news outlet would actually implement this.
I learnt Kotlin by taking an Android app which I had written in Java, and gradually converting it i to Kotlin, this was just after 1.0.

I'm a solo developer, and I use K and J together on most codebases (about 10), and at this point I only ever create K files.

Regarding interop, I think it's a valid claim that K is 100% J compatible.

I think instead of arbitrarily mixing the two, maybe start with a single module, or with testing.

I write a lot of JS, and have been planning on trying out Kotlin with JS, because at this point, taking a JS function and converting it to Kotlin results in code that's between 70-80% Kotlin (const to val, add return types, etc.)

I'm personally convinced that Kotlin is a good language to learn if you know Java.
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The error bounds on some of these numbers is gigantic. Is 32 to 68% the best figure that could be arrived at?
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More repulsive than "homeless and weird people" is heartless disgust for less fortunate neighbors absent any apparent concern for their well-being.

I don't want to live in a society that solves the stench of poverty and untreated mental illness by corralling people into ghettos and homeless shelters. The only humane solution to the stench of human suffering in public libraries or anywhere else is to minister to the unmet needs. Give them medical treatment, showers, food and a bed.
> Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services.

Is there any reason for them to not automatically generalize this to "...with any entity from any country"? I'm wondering about a case where a government agency hides behind some other veil and makes Apple insert some backdoor.
I've had excellent experiences at the Microsoft store. In one case, I returned a Surface Pro and they really took the time to listen to why I decided to return it. Now, I don't know if that feedback ever made it outside of the store or not, but I felt like a valued customer, and that means a lot in this day and age.
I agree 100%. Homeless people should have other places that accommodate sleeping, bathing, and dealing/consuming drugs during the daytime.

The problem is in the US, they generally only have night-time accommodation and even those have strict limits.
Always love to see these projects because if I had made a clone of myself to to the other work, I'd be doing things like this.

Somewhat surprised that you can still buy LS TTL. I'd have thought it'd be replaced by some 1.5V supply ultraBiCMOSwhatever by now. Or a single die that you program to be whatever last-century TTL function you want, via its WiFi interface...

Time was I has the entire 74xxx series memorized. Long since paged out to make way for more important stuff in my brain.
One thing that worried me a bit about confidential transactions: Bitcoin seems fairly securely-designed, but even it had an integer overflow bug: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

That particular bug seems explicitly covered by this cryptography, using the rangeproofs. But if there were ever some other subtle bug that created money out of thin air, would you be ever able to detect it? The schemes mentioned all seem to sanity-check individual transactions, and not accounts or the money supply as a whole.

The article mentions Monero and CryptoNote, for example: https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-i...

And that page says: "This effectively allows someone to create an infinite amount of coins in a way that is impossible to detect without knowing about the exploit and explicitly writing code to check for it."

It seems like a formal correctness proof would be very important for cryptocurrencies with such strong privacy guarantees.
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You just gave me a new frame for thinking about a few things I'd already learned, as well as some interesting leads on questions I didn't even know to ask. Thank you!
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Books have always been expensive. My mother ran a bookstore, and in the early 90s there was a new form of sales tax (Australia's GST) where books would no longer be exempt - it was a real concern that this minor increase in price might kill the business, taking books to just that little bit too much for everyone.

The price of books over the years has been pretty stable, in adjusted dollars: https://theawl.com/how-much-more-do-books-cost-today-28fea1a...
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Ask HN: Why no one forks systemd and “fix” it?
The annual Pwnie Awards at Black Hat named systemd as the lamest vendor. [1]

Though, systemd is under LGPL v2.1+ according to Wikipedia [2] and their GitHub repository [3].

Thus, it should be possible to fork systemd under LGPL v2.1 + and take the project in a different way, IMHO, a way which would listen more to its users.

But, as we have seen in the past, Debian's community has been strong enough to present a fork: Devuan [4].

Why don't we see a similar effort towards a systemd fork, given that the <wildcard>nix (even BSD?) community should be larger than the Debian's one (which is included in the <wildcard>nix community by definition.)

Is there a technical reason? Or a political reason? A social reason?

I would like to understand more about this, because it feels like to me that "open source" [5] is somewhat broken (and of course, as a developer who could lend a help, I am at fault.)

What could I do as an individual developer who could not possibly maintain an entire fork of systemd alone (with or without appropriate knowledge)?

[1] : https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/28/black_hat_pwnie_awards/

[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd

[3] : https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/LICENSE.LGPL2.1

[4] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan

[5] : (F)OSS, Free software, call it like you prefer. I refer to a more eerie magic of the "open source" (e.g. RethinkDB, Python, and so on.)
The incentive is creating well behaved applications. Electron apps have this awesome tendency to treat RAM as though it's an infinite resource.
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Again, what does this have to do with the comment I was replying to? Two negative articles found on google don't necessarily contradict FAIR's analysis, whatever you think of it.

Does the "newspapers not being critical enough" relate, in one way or another, to the point the commenter was making about how easy it was to find those two critical articles on Google? If anything those points would seem to pull in opposite directions.
As a co-incidence, I just read this relevant article today - http://www.economist.com/news/economics-brief/21705308-fifth...

Edit : to say - This site was a beautiful insightful experience.
False equivalence. You can static check this until you ate blue in the face but you still 'hope its there'. You would specify the contract for runtime checking like any sane engineer
Funny, I expect that if one marketed such services as "customized therapy videos," one would confront immediate objections that the service was facilitating heinous pornography.
Given the choice, consumers would also buy cars without seatbelts of airbags simply because those new cars would cost $700... however, we as a society, have fortunately or unfortunately decided that people shouldn't be given the option to risk their lives in order to save money.
From the article:

"According to the Mountain View Voice and NBC Bay Area, some Peninsula residents are annoyed by the increase in dumping, in part because they say Google isn't working harder to prevent the bikes from being stolen in the first place."

"The root of the problem, as Wired wrote in 2013, is that the bikes are not locked or tracked, leaving them vulnerable to theft."

Are there many people outside the Bay Area who would agree that the "root problem" is with Google failing to adequately protect their property? Am I wrong to think that the real root is the thieves who are stealing the bicycles with apparent impunity, and not with the owners of the bikes?

As a transplant to California from a part of the US with stricter standards regarding property crime, I can't help but think that the apparent official tolerance of theft and common "blame the victim" attitude contributes significantly to the high rate of property crimes.

"Why Can't San Francisco Stop Its Epidemic of Window Smashing?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/san-fra...

"Why Oakland Police Can't Solve Crime"
https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/why-oakland-police-ca...
Let me know if you have any issues. You can email me directly here (base64 encoded): amVzc2VAZ2lnYWxpeGlyLmNvbQ==
It's OSS: https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz

Run it on your own server and point it at that if you have trust issues.
This is really neat! Also if you want to learn to build a computer from scratch without hardware, just to learn how computers work, The Elements of Computing Systems is a great book to check out. It's used as a text in some CS programs but it is very readable and easy to follow and the software is free and online.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...

http://www.nand2tetris.org/ is the website for it.
That would only be if you used the tumbler for the purpose of avoiding financial reporting requirements.

Simply using a tumbler is not illegal.

For instance, if someone used legally obtained money to buy bitcoin, put them through a tumbler, then used the bitcoin to buy drugs. That would not be money laundering because it does not hide the proceeds of a crime or avoid any financial reporting requirements.

On the other hand, if the drug dealer took the bitcoin that they were paid with and put it through a tumbler, that would be money laundering because they would be hiding the origin of the proceeds from selling drugs.