skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emergence of warlords/partisan leaders
(Yes, for freedom, liberty, king & country, fascism - im sure, in somalia and afghanistan they have great causes too )

Soldiers of the leash.
War feeding the war.
Refugees pouring back and forth.

Source is mostly anecdata:

My late grandfather was a Nazi truck-driver in France, Italy, eastern Europe (Hungary, Greece) and the stories he and his war companions told - are really very similar to those you get to hear from African refugees.
My grandfather and his officer made a nice little extra by smuggling people and got sentenced into a "Straf-battalion" for taking advantage of the general lawlessness of the situation.

I know, i know- the popular Nazi image in TV presents a wicked law & order extremist, but where the war went - it really was quite different. There was a mixture of total lawlessness (as in "We dont care/expend resources on subhumans") and extreme military overreactions.

And before you claim that was just fascism at work, as if politics where just a program loaded into humans, no,the unraveling usually set on before the occupation got started.

In a ironic way, the Nazis and their homecoming war proofed that all humanity, disregarding of race, pushed beyond a certain breaking point - is equally wretched and desperate.

A zombie like animal, forgetting about tomorrow, trying to see the end of today at all costs. Not a beautiful sight, but one that offers a lot to understand and learn.

The good news is, once the stress is reduced - and the war has not gone on to long, preventing the education of the next generation- there is a way to recover.
My favourite example of this is Harold Pollack who got tonnes of media coverage for coming up with 9 rules for personal finance which fit on an index card. I listened to his interview on Freakonomics, and he's now selling a 256 page book called "The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicate". 256 pages, about his rules that fit on an index card.

As an aside I always hear podcast adverts for https://www.blinkist.com/ which does audio/text summaries of non-fiction books, I haven't tried it yet but it might be worth checking out.
> like these companies outsourced manufacturing to these lower cost countries against their will/interest

No, but they did it against the interests of their existing Western workers; and such workers in many cases accepted that as a price to pay for long-term peace and prosperity on the continent. Would I prefer a world where Western workers are better off but we still have a Cold War with bombs going off here and there, the constant threat of revolutions or dictatorships and so on? No, of course not. In this sense, the Ukrainian experience is a good example of what could have been for a lot of countries without the EU.

> protecting the interests of it's citizens. isn't that what the state is supposed to be doing

There are many ways of protecting the interests of its citizens; one of them is helping people in need in other countries, in order to foster peace and prosperity in the long run. The US turning a blind eye towards the plight of Jewish refugees in the 1930s would have "protected" the interest of its citizens already in the US, but it would have been bad in the long run. The same for Italians moving there around the same time. Helping poor nations getting better, by accepting migrants (who will send back a lot of the money they earn, and reduce demographic pressure), is a good move in the long run, or even in the short run in most cases (since they pay for retirement of older EU citizens, which would otherwise be unsustainable in most cases because of declining demographics).

> irrational (and somewhat suicidal manner)

Some things look irrational in the short term but eventually make sense. A lot of our current problems are due to humanity completely losing sight of anything that is not the next fiscal quarter.
Maybe you should visit a doctor
Other places[1] are referring to this as 'Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Plot', not HL3

[1] http://www.shacknews.com/article/101110/half-life-episode-3-...
Aerospace is the /absolute/ leader for driver assistance. They have decades of experience, especially in the field of ergonomics and brilliantly crafted semi-automated procedures[1].

But in the end, we all accept the risk of riding planes that we don't control because we entrust our lives to /trained pilots/ not because of such systems. As an illustration, the debate is still vigorous about whether or not a computer should be allowed to sit betwen the driver and the actuators [2]. It is also the case for cars, especially after the Toyota blunders [3] so I do believe all this body of experience is relevant and cannot be easily "disrupted".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
[2] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/149/what-are-th...
[3] http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
Babylonians did better trigonometry 3700 years ago by counting in base 60
Either that or I mixed up some terms. Happy to try and explain more.
> 1 New from $3,000.00

Uau! I should take care of my old books.
> This take very special techniques and if that could've been done using only vehicle sensors, it would have been adopted by us long ago

If human flight was possible, surely they would have done it hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Your argument disregards not only advancement in theoretical knowledge, but also advancement engineering in the form of computational power and sensor sensitivity.
How does being part of failed startup affect your inevitable application to BigCo?
Ha! I wrote an editor for fixed length files, it lets you map to a cobol copybook, or create the layout manually. I never released it. Anyone interested?
3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet shows Greeks did not first develop trigonometry
It's easy to snigger at the code generator used for that site yet the signal to noise ratio for the content itself (which, if we are completely honest, is the metric that really matters) is still better than half the sites that use trendy frontend frameworks and passes JS lint.
For comparison, integers in clisp:

[1]> (eq (expt 2 47) (expt 2 47))
T
[2]> (eq (expt 2 48) (expt 2 48))
NIL

Explanation here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node17.html
Greece needs more money, where do you think it comes from? Greece didn't get any more on the markets, that's why countries like Germany had to step in and rescue them.

No, sorry Germany is also not responsible for the economic crisis in Italy. That's mostly homegrown. Germany is also not responsible for destabilizing the middle east and north africa. Libya was an Italian colony and in 2011 Italy took part in the military invention in Libya. Since then Libya is a failed state and many refugees/immigrants are coming via Libya. The big players were the US, Italy, France, the UK,... those did take part in the regime change, but failed to bring peace to the region. Actually the situation in Libya is worse than it was before.

Germany did not take part in these things and is not a big player in the middle east / north african politics and military interventions.
TMA-1. Erm, CMA-1.
It's still much better than depleting wild fish stocks AFAIK.
Arjun from HyperTrack here. We are building a developer tool that integrates with your in-house stack. Here's how some one can move away from HyperTrack.

- HyperTrack does not store any information about your end customers, or reach out to them. We empower you with information that can be sent to them. Eg, "your order is being delayed by x mins" is available as a webhook, which you can potentially use to fire a notification to your customers.

- In addition, all data that is collected and visualised is accessible via APIs. Developers can retrieve data, and store it in-house.

- The HyperTrack mobile SDKs will be open source, and it will be possible to hook it up with a different backend. This will allow you to utilise the robustness of the SDK without relying on our backend.

Does that answer your concerns?
> It sounds like you're saying "either be a colony, or get out".

Sorry, what I meant is that if they really are so bothered about a "feel", despite the overwhelming evidence surrounding them that the feel is misplaced, then they are free to leave, so that they will find out how wrong that "feel" was.

> Most migrants weren't even from Syria or affected areas.

And? I'm originally from Italy, where massive economic migrations have been observed for a long time (mostly in transient terms - people would use Italy as a port to Northern Europe). Syria or not Syria it was already a crisis for more than 20 years, it just became more visible. The causes are long-understood, we just kept refusing to deal with them or with the outcomes. Merkel did the right thing as far as I'm concerned - regardless of Syria.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6u72kt/cryp...
Australia has MyGov and I have to say it works really well https://my.gov.au.

Linking accounts is fairly painless and I assume it also functions as a pseudo MDM (Master Data Management) tool in that Government departments have a unique key to link people across different services.
>There's this weird assumption that information/education will lead people to share your viewpoint.

Is there? I don't think anyone thinks labelling is going to magically make people who don't care make different choices, they just think it will allow people who do care to actually make choices at all.
>> generally people have adapted more or less fine

I don't think that such adaptation is a "done deal". We're very much a work in progress as far as the latest social media stuff goes, meaning from about Facebook onwards. And without being all scaremongery, I really wonder if we _are_ fine.

There seems a growing number of studies and anecdotes to at least give the suggestion that ever heavier immersion in the virtual world correlates broadly with increased dissatisfaction and distress, especially for younger people. There were never any such indications for Walkmen, or pagers, so I do think already it's different.

Let's not chuck all our tech in the bin - but let's be cautious and observant about what's happening around us.
If that was the case, VCs would wait until they would have wired the money to you before they signed the contracts.
WTF: Firefox on macOS has a years-old memory leak, and I'm sick of it
Sorry, I don't have an ios device.
It's an investment because the coins are usable as a medium of exchange and as a store of value.

If you can have Amazon S3 type service hosted in IPFS and actually get paid for it instead of paying for it... what is the problem with this business proposition?
Direction the Gaming industry is going
Some screens have dynamic brightness/contrast adjustment which can cause this effect.
Disregarding sound quality Beats headphones have reputation (at least from what I have heard) of being well built, being rather nice, well packaged and so on. They are also quite minimalist. Apple version of LV bag would look nothing like something an LV customer would buy.
Yeah, it never would have lived up to the hype. Explained nothing.
Well why shouldn't it be released? As we now know it's unlikely to be delivered in a form of a game so it can be given its due another way.

.. Ha-ha, 2 downvotes and no explanation. Is this about so-called 'copy right' bullshit?
What is Nuitka – a Python compiler
What's clickbait about this?
Are you sure it isn't some auto-adjustment on your monitor? Tried on Arch and Windows with Chrome and Firefox and no dimming.
Well, a 128G version of iPhone 7 Plus costs 1080€ in France ($1270). So in Europe we already live in the future...
Hilarious, especially the board meeting.
Co-evolution.
> it never would have lived up to the hype.

If this had been released as episode 3 a couple of years after episode 2? Sure it could
Valve's ownership of its IP surely didn't expire so this still seems pretty odd.
You don't have any hosting costs listed, are you hosting the site for free? If so, where?
The inexpensive wireless headphones I have have controls on the headphones which allow me to control my device my touching the headphones (which actually works really well - much easier to press the button on the headphones than get my phone out of a pocket or bag).
Should you store your form state in Redux?
We use a lot of @mourners node libs on backend
The S*n isn't worth linking to, sensationalist nonsense.

http://www.anfieldroad.com/dont-buy-the-sun/
With no official confirmation of either title, "HL3" has come to refer to whatever is next in the series. I've seen tons of comments across different sites that continue to "correct" this but I really don't think it is a distinction that needs to be made.
After a few projects and lots of trying out different ways of doing this, I think I agree with the article. It's not always easy to know in advance which of the points in the article's checklists are ticked though... requirements change, apps evolve, and I've found it can be painful to migrate things stored in React state to Redux after the fact.

Very interested to hear what others think about this.
Example to use RxJS with Socket.io
> In Java it's not confusing when you realize that == always compares values (i.e. things that can be stored in variables); it's just that for reference types, the values are references.

It's still confusing. Plenty of "reference types" behave like values in all obvious senses. Why should "foo" be a reference but 45L a value?
As a parent I should make whatever arbitrary rules I consider appropriate. Be that "no screens at the table" or "Don't eat with your mouth open" or "How can you have any pudd'n if you don't eat your meat?".

Whether they'll make your family happier or "more perfect " according to someone elses yardstick is irrelevant. You set the boundaries, and live with the environment that they create. So set the ones that make you happier and stick with them. They may be just what your parents did, or they may be the opposite.
We just signed up! It really solves our problems.
Shame, we'll let you know when we're on other platforms. Thanks for your help!
I think he means the signal is supposed to go the opposite direction. Just a funny mistake.
Thanks, I was totally confused as it's mentioned several times yet never explained in the first paragraphs.
The same way you trust your surgeon. How do you know he will make you better and not kill you in an elaborate way?
That's less true of the younger generation though.
The US Navy gets some IT work done by Information Systems Technicians. It's not clear from the job description, but they seem to be something between software developers and sysadmins. They have 24 weeks of training, which is comparable to a long civilian bootcamp. Anyone know if they're any good?

https://www.navy.com/careers/information-and-technology/info...
It's short, informative, and up to the point.
That sounds like it was written by Galvanize.
I agree - this is the story outline for HL2:EP3. If this is close to the truth of the projected story line, it's way too short. It wraps up HL2:EP1 and HL2:EP2 nicely but I'm going to be naive and say it's not the end of HL3.

Maybe the best move now is to just move on directly to HL3 and reference part of this released story line as flashbacks.

I can dream, right?
Go + Ruby -> Goby...

我总觉得哪里不对呢？？？
Really like the practical approach of explaining these concepts.
Whoa, I have two FireTV sticks and didn't know it had Kodi or Sonic 2 apps. Going to have to look at that when I get home
My website's down for now. I guess fanfic is popular, even a genderswapped snapshot of a dream I had many years ago.

https://twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/900960760481726464
May I suggest considering Forth as a substrate? Or will that get me voted straight into neckbeard land?

I've had a lot of fun hacking Forths, writing my own languages didn't really click until I finally had a serious look. Forth skips on most of the complexity of getting from bytes to semantics; even Lisp is complex in comparison; but is still powerful enough to do interesting things; and the best foundation for DSL's I've come across.

My latest rabbit hole is called Snabel:
https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...
Now make that a compile time thing that happens on imports and that doesn't generate temporary source files and whoop you have modules with generics. Oops, I forgot that there are some unsolvable obstacles to be resolved.
By default, nowadays the toolchain also supports generating dynamic libraries.
Indeed. As my friend said: "You can finally customize all the things you never wanted to customize".

(Thanks for the recommendation -- it's a huge improvement.)
> The idea is that variable is something you will rarely type

This, precisely. I feel Ceylon uses more sensible defaults all around, like also having non-public methods/properties by default unless explicitly declared public. I use Kotlin in some projects, but don't really like its default of public properties and methods unless explicitly declared private, nor their decision on final classes by default.

It's also so many other little things in Ceylon that really add up to make it a pleasure to use, like its simplification of numeric types to just the minimal meaningful set of Integer and Float[1] (no Double, Long, etc), its integer literals which use the metric suffix system, like 5k for 5000, 5M for 5 million, and even hex integer literals like #ffffff, etc.[2][3], its comparison operations which return one of the enumerated Comparison type of smaller, equal, or larger (and not -1, 0, 1) ...etc

[1] https://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/current/tour/language-...

[2] https://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/current/reference/lite...

[3] https://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/current/tour/language-...
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What's also important is to have a simple, neat API, ideally C API. If you do have it, then writing wrappers for any language, even manually, without SWIG (which is great, but does add complexity to your project's build process), is simple.
> Jeff Bezos

And Walmart, and literally every other business else that does high volume low margins sales.
Reading the thread, my impression is that no one thinks that tech is a Frankenstein. Most are calling for a more balanced use, especially for children. There is strong research showing how getting "sucked" into the internet can have detrimental effects on social skills and child development.
If you just specify that a < INT_MAX/2 and b < INT_MAX/2, you are fine.

If not (and you are providing a general purpose addition), then you need a big number library.
Your assuming this is some kind special lunch. For all you know it could be a work lunch, trying to fire off some emails.
it infuriates me when third-party stuff in other languages throws exceptions and you end up needing to check everything anyway.

exceptions are a curse.
Well "Half Life 2: Episode 3" (what this post is really about) seems to be.
> OF COURSE they ask you to pay

I had no idea this was going to be their business model. When Coursera started I thought it was this great scheme like Wikipedia is, free education for everyone. That's why I'm disappointed, the amount of money might be little for some, but it will be a barrier to others.
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Has any entry in the Half Life series really explained anything? We get little glimpses into certain events, some from different perspectives (like the Black Mesa incident). We never get the whole picture and what we, as the player, know is told to us by other characters or shown through events we experience.
> We have to be fully identified in Europe to vote

Not true in the UK - last General Election, I walked into the Polling Station, handed over a polling card, confirmed the address WRITTEN ON THE CARD, and then voted as me.

I could have picked up anyone's card from the block of flats I live in. Hell, I could probably have voted more than once if I'd been careful and timed multiple visits to avoid hitting the same checking people.

And this is without even getting to the "you don't need a polling card to vote" bit.
> they do it because it makes business sense

That's far from being the point, and it doesn't answer anything at all.

I mean, I assume this "environmental nightmare" happened on a fish farming business located in Washington. After a brief googling, it appears that Aquaculture companies in Washington are required to apply for a commercial license.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/licensing/commercial/misc_additional_perm...

Why on earth would a commercial license be granted to a business that involves introducing invasive species on a protected ecosystem?
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> She definitely excelled at keeping tech out of her daily life.

I'm curious -- what was she managing? Did she excel in her role?
That's actually pretty typical; every Bluetooth earbud I've tried has tended to cut out when I move so that my body's blocking the signal path. Low-power, high-frequency signals like these really don't penetrate human tissue well, so when there's a large cross-section between the transmitter and receiver, not enough signal gets through for the decoder to produce audio. And the earbud form factor imposes a significant additional challenge, in that the antenna is already mostly surrounded by insulation.

I mostly solve this by carrying my phone in a side rather than a back pocket. But it still cuts out if I turn my head far enough to the side, as when checking traffic in a road I'm about to cross. Them's the breaks - if you want to wear a radio receiver in your ear and carry the transmitter in your pocket, there's some physics you pretty much just have to deal with.

Don't get me wrong - I totally get being upset with $150 earbuds that don't work reliably, especially when they're sold startup-style as the best thing since sliced bread and the cure for all the world's mobile-audio-related ills. But if that's your budget and solid signal in all circumstances is your major criterion, you might be better served by something that goes beyond the pure earbud form factor, like Apple's ones that have the antenna in an extension that puts it outside the pinna.
The writer is claiming it's fanfic, and all the names have been changed.

I also suspect that if no game is going to be released, Valve will not bother with legal action; they look bad as it is already.
That's really not the point of his comment, at all.

He is not saying that CEE is backward. He is saying that the economic life in CEE is almost outside the control of local populations, because everything it's already controlled by western corporations.
That's why when I read literature on how to hook users more, I always get very cynical by the usual footnote on ethics. Please don't pretend, the principle of addiction itself is an extremely grey area and for more vulnerable audiences such as children, it's plain unethical.
Going from the UK to the US was like stepping back in time when it came to banking. I remember complaining about some aspects of UK banking - it's going to take a day for my transfer to complete!?! Now we have faster payments in the UK which complete in hours at most.

Meanwhile in the US I still had to pay my rent with a physical check because that was easier than figuring out the weird 'pay anyone' implementation my bank had.
One can do an overflow analysis of a whole program. This however takes time and would prevent frequent Hacker News comments.

Do people who write such programs comment here? I don't think so.
Cows need to live a long time, which costs a lot of energy. Chickens are much closer to fish, but eggs are even better in terms of grain calories to protein conversion.

PS: Salmon on the other hand are horrible as predators they cost more protean than they produce.