skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. People forget so quickly...
Funny, the event that triggered the most brutal war in European history was actually the unbanning of the Bible.
> If carbon emissions pose the greatest threat to humanity, it follows that the costs of nuclear power—waste disposal and the occasional meltdown—might be bearable.

This assumes that the costs are paid by the same group of people. The people who live within range of a meltdown might consider the threat of a meltdown a much larger threat to their future than the threat of a much more evenly distributed disaster. Alaskans didn't feel personally threatened by the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, but there certainly were New Yorkers who felt affected.

Also, "pose a threat" on the time scales of (Nuclear Power plant lifetimes and climate change) is as much about perception and values as it is objective fact. Different people and societies are likely to perceive different levels of threat from different sources. For example, rural Americans who fear ISIS and terrorism are least likely to be directly affected by it or to have actually seen it in person (excluding those individuals who sign up to be shipped to the place where those are actually existential threats), yet they overwhelmingly value policies which prioritize defense against terrorism over defense against climate change.

Discussions of nuclear power accidents and climate change generally should (but don't) include {probability, impact, and duration}. A nuclear power incident is likely to be low probability, high impact (within a state-sized region), and quick. Climate change is likely to be a high probability (of unknown effects), wide ranging impacts, and affecting many different regions of the world over a long timescale (perhaps longer than a lifetime).
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It's not okay for websites doing this, and any website doing this from May 2018 on will end up fined hundredthousands of dollars every time they do this.

The European General Data Protection Regulation [1] is coming, and everyone that doesn't comply with it will have more than just a little problem.

No site or program is allowed to track or store anything about me, to transmit anything to a third party, or to even connect to a third party without my explicit authorization, and I have to be able to opt out of it all, and still be able to use it.

This is a simple moral principle of consent. You don't get to access anything that is mine without my explicit consent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
http://hacktask.net/ shows a "we'll be right back" message in Chinese. It could be misdirection, but I'm not exactly doing forensic analysis here.
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There are thousands of vendor intrinsics and no compiler that I'm aware of is able to just automatically use all of them in a reliable way. The idea that "Rust needs explicit SIMD due to bounds checking" is very wrong.
> Climate policy advocates’ apocalyptic vision demands serious analysis, and mushy thinking undermines their case. If carbon emissions pose the greatest threat to humanity, it follows that the costs of nuclear power—waste disposal and the occasional meltdown—might be bearable. It follows that the costs of genetically modified foods and modern pesticides, which can feed us with less land and lower carbon emissions, might be bearable. It follows that if the future of civilization is really at stake, adaptation or geo-engineering should not be unmentionable. And it follows that symbolic, ineffective, political grab-bag policies should be intolerable.

If climate change alarmists truly believed what they were saying, they wouldn't be using smartphones, internet or driving SUVs.

The climate change movement is nothing but globalists and the "clean" energy industry exploiting the environmental fanatics to get more grants/money for themselves.

The climate change movement is really the globalist "carbon energy/tax movement". It's a way for the political elite to control world energy use and energy production.

Just like the "priests" of olden times used the threat of "earthquakes/natural disasters" to dupe the masses into doing their bidding ( virgin sacrifices, building monuments, etc ), the globalists are using climate change as a scare mongering tactic to put the world's energy/industry/etc under their control.

If truly the crazy climate predictions are true and humanity's existence was at stake, would we stop mass production of trucks, SUVs? Wouldn't we immediately stop international trade and air travel. After all, container ships are the largest producers of carbon pollution.
Seems like the same problem as nuclear power, GM foods, and just about every other new but complex technology. People don't understand it, and we always fear what we don't understand.
In your tags page, I really dig that the posts listed by tag are on the same page and being able to jump to them. Very minimal. Hope you don't mind me stealing the idea.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901856
glad to see hes still up to being completely insufferable
What's a paid service that facilitates access to unknown artists? How could that even work? Netflix isn't remotely like something of that sort.

The creation of new music has always involved exposing penniless people to it and no current music subscription service comes remotely close to that.

One alternative might be integrating peer-to-peer with a music discovery system.

Edit: craigslist and meetup are closest thing to "mass culture websites" and they each get a small minority of users to pay for their operations.
No need - there’s nothing in the article that indicates any US laws that were broken...

-edit to correct autocorrect
A simple solution to this would be for Apple (or the developer, via Apple) to distribute different builds based on the device installing the app.

That is, developers could compile a different copy of the IPA for all target devices. Using variables like CPU architecture, screen size, and other feature flags, a smart compiler could cut a lot of code and assets that never run or display on certain devices.

(Granted, this would be much simpler on iOS, which has a limited set of targeted devices compared to Android.)

In fact, it seems Apple has already taken steps in this direction with its cloud compilation (I'm not an iOS developer, so not sure of the specifics). What would worry me is if they started requiring all source code be uploaded to their servers for compilation. Going down that road is fraught with ideological pitfalls.
> I suppose the millions of wordpress blogs disagree with that statement

And crumble under the weight of real traffic.

> Some people like to format their content in a wysiwyg environment.

Those exist for HTML and are just fine for writing a blog, assuming markdown is too hard. We're talking about a programmer's blog here, however.
only if its forbidden by treaty.
Your posts are pretty good too! I completely agree that collecting filenames would be a blatant breach of trust. If they were doing that, I'd be the first one labeling the company as evil. But my hangup is that they didn't actually do that, and what they did do seems benign.

The thing is, market forces are pretty good at settling these issues. It's an open-source plugin, so everyone can see what they're doing. If they start being naughty, people can uninstall and switch to something else. But why are we punishing them before they did anything serious, along with locking down the ability of anyone else to ever collect any kind of usage data about their plugins? Even something harmless like "time spent trying to figure out the options screen"?

I hope it doesn't seem like I'm trying to defend spyware here. Collecting metrics about your product is the first step toward improving it. The motive seems like a positive one, not a negative greedy one.
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That already happened in Germany - https://qz.com/666871/german-viewers-of-immigrant-hating-you...

"To target immigrant-hating videos, the room-sharing service uses keywords on YouTube’s ad platform that are associated with far-right content and anti-immigration groups, such as Pegida, Germany’s anti-Islamist group, and its leader Lutz Bachmann. Other keywords include “refugees out” (“asylanten raus”), “refugees terrorists,” and “the truth about refugees.”

A German can’t watch a anti-immigrant YouTube video associated with a keyword without first seeing a 30-second preroll ad from Refugees Welcome."
Any time you require 1) a distributed database 2) in the face of adversarial participants, which truthfully, is less common than the blockchain obsessives would think.

A centralized organization (.com or .gov) that can achieve consensus amongst participants can do just fine with Postgres and a REST API.

Adversarial participants are common, but typically that's solved with a third-party overseer that administers the system. Finding use cases that demand decentralization are harder.

Bitcoin was created to remove central banks/govts from the money creation process, but in most cases, if you don't trust the central authority, you just don't participate. With cash, you can't easily get around dealing with the govt.
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Some examples would help. So far, any example of drivers disappearing that I encountered were due to quality issues.
> Zero tolerance is a rejection of "Let the punishment fit the crime."

There's to say though, as a counterpoint, that said principle always takes into account repeated offenses (recidivism), and they are at strike 3 or something.
Trust me, being available only on nightly does not reduce pressure :)

Most of our users use stable, and want to stick to stable. There's just some use-cases that need features we haven't finished designing yet, such is life.
If the investors aren't shutting down Theranos, then there is a possibility their due diligence on Holmes' patents held out hope of patent trolling someone with deep pockets in the future, or some other similar hope pinned upon those patents. My limited layman's understanding of their microfluidics-based claims is they violated currently-known assaying principles. Hope someone with deeper knowledge about this can pipe in, I've only seen some rants from claimed clinicians when they first announced way back, with terms that went way over my head, and they summed up the rant's TL;DR as, if she really figured it out, she'd be publishing and collecting a Nobel or two, as she would've upended a century of what we believe is statistically possible.

However, if instead of using their "nanotainer", a fancy name for a very small blood sample container, some future microfluidics implementation used in vivo implanted chips, and can build up a sampling profile over time say, and some of her patents stand smack in the road of that deployment, then they could recoup some of their money.
Not surprisingly, when BCH started, it ran up about $150 and at the same time, BCT fell by a similar amount (approx $2800 to $2650). And as BCH slowly falls, BCT is slowly climbing. Which makes sense if you view this as an equity spin-off.

I would expect this relationship to hold -- that for every dollar BCH gains, BCT is prevented from gaining a dollar. Unless somebody has some good reason this wouldn't be the case.

At the same time ETH ran up from about $205 to $225.
They can have any stand they want. But they deny me my property.

Imagine a bank anouncing they would keep all the dividends of one particular stock, because the didn't like it. That's what coinbase is doing. It plain and simply theft.
Yes, btrfs was a tech-preview, meaning use if you want with no support or future guarantees. It has been officially dropped from future plans now.
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For tab groups, take a look at Sea Containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sea-container...

It makes use of the new Containers experiment to provide a similar tab organization mechanism as TabGroups, and presents them in a vertical sidebar which IMO makes for a much saner workflow for heavier tab users. The identity encapsulation that comes by default with Containers might not be what you're looking for in a pure tab management system though, but as Sea Containers shows, some variant of tab grouping can definitely be implemented in WebExtensions.
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Along the same line of thought: https://www.energy-storage.news/news/german-utility-ewe-want...
I highly doubt Red Hat will ever touch ZFS. Oracle and Red Hat have a very tenuous relationship.

I hope Red Hat will support bcachefs though. I think it's the most promising alternative FS.
You don't use the Start Menu in Windows 10 or the Settings application or the calculator or the WiFi menu or the Action Center or ...? UWP apps are more ubiquitous than you think they are in Windows 10. Zero times visited the Windows Store to directly install apps? Sure, that's possible. Actually using Zero UWP apps? Increasingly unlikely.

UWP isn't a failed experiment by most measures, and you may not directly notice the API transition in many major Windows components from Win32 to UWP, but it's happening.

For what it is worth, the RAD experience for UWP is pretty good and if you want to make a not-very-well-architected "VB6-ish code behind" app with Visual Studio RAD tools, you can knock it out in about the time it would have taken you in VB6.
> And that’s why C is still the best language for systems programming

I think the only reason C is very popular for systems programming is that it allows you to do most of what you could do in assembler, but in an easier-to-work way. So basically C is an "acceptable, easier-to-use assembler", but far from ideal, because of the reasons you point out.

Honestly, the popularity of C itself is due to the success of UNIX, not due to any particular quality. On the other hand, the K&R "The C Programming Language" book is a classic, a well written book which surely does a great job of introducing the language.

But back then in the late 1960s, a new language called ALGOL-68 was specified, back then a very advanced language which had powerful features even for 2017. The problem is that nobody dared to implement the full language. CPL was a stripped down implementation of Algol-68, this was then stripped down even more to BCPL; then it was extremely stripped down to B (only one datatype), then Dennis Ritchie kept most of the syntax and added other data types and C was born. C was never designed from the ground up to be the best systems programming language possible; only to be able to work for Dennis Ritchie & friends' "toy" operating system, UNIX, a very stripped-down MULTICS.

I think the "UNIX-Haters Handbook" has a section devoted to C criticism.
You'd lose the bet - it's already happening. https://qz.com/666871/german-viewers-of-immigrant-hating-you...
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I'm not sure they are, they're just not nearly as public. Kim Dotcom is / was notoriously boastful about his actions, and all the money he made off those actions. I've never heard similar things about the founders of any other file hosting service founder/owner that is well known for piracy. Makes him an incredibly appealing target I think.
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Think of it like copying twitter's database then launching a competitor. All tweets, users, etc. on both sites are the same up until the day the database is copied. Then the tweets, users etc. can be different depending on which site folks use.

You get all your tweets on the new site for free.

Same with BCC. They copied the Bitcoin database at block 478558. So if you have a coin in a BTC account before block 478558, you now have the same coin on the BTC chain, and a copy of that coin on the copied BCC chain.

To use it, you just need to use a BCC wallet, the same way you'd use a BTC wallet to use BTC.

But if you don't know your private key (usually because your coin was on an exchange) then you are out of luck. Google if your exchange will credit you BCC.
I felt the author saw that the software hadn't been properly stewarded by the various software houses that inherited it. However, I felt that it was a novelty product in the first place plus the then 'evil' Microsoft took away their Mac market by dominating the marketplace with Windows and then building a fairly reasonable screen saver into the operating system.

This is a bit like studying a battle and not mentioning the enemy or the terrain, blaming the marketing department of Lockheed Martin for it going wrong.
I found it hard. I have been learning Elm for a few weeks. I have a background in Ruby and in JavaScript. I have a repo where I am trying difference cases. https://github.com/bigbinary/road-to-elm
Haha, interesting.

I always assumed abstraction was only a special case of in direction. Indirection on a meta level.

Like loops are abstractions for jumps, but this means that you "indirectly" use jumps when using loops.
(Un)Fortunately they have the tools that others want to use, so other agencies request info & access. Very similar to how the FBI manages a database of faces for facial recognition [1] and your local LEO can query w/o a warrant or probable cause [2].

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/smile-youre-in-t...
2. ...I'll try to find the link but recently watched a YouTube video of a government hearing on this where the senator or congressman was very unhappy about this situation.
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Thanks. Didn't know that it was required for blogs. Added a WP plugin for that (inspected, no tracking code in the plugin).
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I estimated using GCPs egress pricing since I was thinking if how much it would cost SoundCloud.

Still, it's quite impressive to be able to manage that much data.
> If it was possible to build C++ classes in C or assembly

You would be surprised, but Object-oriented programming has been done in C many times... and even before C++ existed.
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It uses a machine-specific identifier (MAC address), making it traceable across the public IPs sending data. With some resolution due to the hourly pings. That could be valuable in the right/wrong scenarios, although there are tons of other things recording data like that of course (websites).
You would think then that all this bcash is basically locked up and can't be spent then. If bcash does become valuable, you'd think that this would become a potential class-action lawsuit then?
Except that a cache is disposable, and disposed often in practice.
I had the same question earlier, and I found the following statement by the maintainers of the Electrum wallet very englightning:

https://electrum.org/bcc.txt

In particular this section:

> How to redeem my BCC?

> BCC wallets will require you to import your seed or your private keys, which can be exported from Electrum. Doing so will expose all your Bitcoin funds associated with that seed to the BCC wallet you decide to use.

> Therefore, after the BCC fork, but before you enter a seed or private key in a BCC wallet, you should move all your funds to a new Electrum wallet, with a new seed. You will still be able to use the old seed or private key with BCC, because BCC has replay protection. Wait until your funds are confirmed in your new Bitcoin wallet, before you enter the old private key in a BCC wallet. This will protect your BTC funds from rogue/untrusted software.
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FWIW I moved ~80 BTC out of Coinbase almost instantly yesterday.

It's not unreasonable to expect some delays accessing their cold storage (which is key split across geographically disparate safe deposit boxes, last I heard)

That said, I was around during Mt. Gox's failure (fortunately didn't lose anything then) so I get a little skittish when I hear about a wallet/exchange experiencing withdrawal delays...