skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not forcing no voters to marry same sex persons
Handling Impossible Interview Questions with a Kickass Formula
The growth of Julia seems a bit overstated. If I look at Google trends it's more on a plateaued even slightly downward trajectory.
When I posted it there was no separate story for the iPhone X yet.
I get the feeling that this is park of what guides the decisions from the board. One need only look at YikYak to see what happens when you mess too much with your winning recipe and how fast users will leave what they love. Snapchat's essence, the temporary nature of content and posts, is at odds with the financial aspect of it.

I'm going to guess that they want to try to find a way to capitalize on the spirit of Snapchat without compromising what actually brings people to the service. Maybe there's a way of doing this where popular posters are able to show metrics to advertisers, or maybe such a scenario is seen as detrimental to the spirit of the service, but I absolutely appreciate Snap Inc's caution about mucking up the formula too much here.
I'm using knex too, and enjoy the workflow. The built-in primitives for creating and modifying tables work nicely. It gets a little messy when you need to go off-script and `CREATE TRIGGER`s, etc, but I think that knex's approach is still predictable and reliable.
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Though this has been a feature of the vast majority of cryptocurrencies, it is not inherent. For example Monero has an inbuilt tail emission once the initial supply is exhausted that will continue indefinitely. See more here: https://getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/tail-emission.ht...
This book still provides one of the best introductions to both basic ML programming, structuring big project with modules, and mechanical theorem proving.

I wish it was updated to OCaml, Scala, and maybe even Haskell.
A few months back I created a tool [0], which deploys static content from GitHub to S3, with GitHub push events and AWS Lambda. This was more like a PoC but worked quite well for me. During development I was very happy with the usage of jgit, which allowed me to stay in the Java stack (even if it is not the perfect choice for Lambda imho).
There was and still is much on the ToDo list.
If you are interested in the sources, you can take a look at it.

[0] https://github.com/berlam/github-bucket
So what do you think of LBRY:

https://lbry.io/

"LBRY is a free, open, and community-run digital marketplace.

You own your data. You control the network. Indeed, you are the network.

Hollywood films, college lessons, amazing streamers and more are on the first media network ruled by you."
Old school system / kernel engineering valuing robustness, correctness, backward compatibility, observability and security versus people who didn't care about any of those things because they are web developers (and I'm really trying to restrain myself here from using the term n-gate uses): it was a collision of epic proportions.

Most importantly, I believe it was very instructive for Bryan Cantrill: when he used JavaScript to develop the front-end for the Fishworks storage appliance he thought JavaScript was the new cool, and after this, it certainly appears that he came around and realized all is not that well as it seemed in the world of web development and JavaScript. Glad to see a person I deeply admire being willing to reconsider or at least re-evaluate their position as shaped by the new experiences.

More to the point of the talk: this is why I will never accept Linux, and Bryan spells it out to me why that is the case: I do not want to, and will never share nor live by the values of the people in that community, whereas I live by the values that the illumos and SmartOS communities espouse.
What Are the Technology Requirements for a Central Bank Digital Currency?
This is such a common and contorted view of things, I feel it needs comment.

1. Imposing your 'view' on someone can mean to ask them to see your point of view or to force them to act in a certain way. These things are not equivalent..

2. The only world view being imposed on the fringe-right is the one that says it is not ok to impose their views on others. You are not a bigot if you are intolerant of bigots.
There are other cryptocurrencies aside from Bitcoin, even if Bitcoin is not able to be a true currency (e.g. fungibility issue). See Monero. It has a tail emission.
Off topic, but the words "just saying" fill me with rage to the point where I am curious about my own psychological reaction. I suppose it has to do with the fact that it feels like a "free" way of putting something down without truly standing by ones words. Interesting..
I was so happy when I discovered guided access.... until I realized you can still get it other apps by sharing :/
Nope, didn't work from you either. Still a shitty comment.
I'm not sure you have to hold it "directly in front of your face". It appears the the lens has a wide angle.
This seems like a recipe for disaster after a bad merge. If you have a team of more than one, this sounds like a silly thing to do.
Why You Need Code Signing Certificate for Your Android App?
All cryptocurrencies are inherently deflationary because one example of an attempt at a cryptocurrency (BTC) is inherently deflationary?
Looks good, this was annoying (worrying?) though: https://i.imgur.com/KlSBLYG.png
I find Cantor's diagonal argument unconvincing.

The claim is that there are more real numbers in the range from zero to one than there are natural numbers. To see that this is false simply realize that you don't actually have to write a decimal point to specify the real numbers in this range. Without the decimal point these real numbers just become natural numbers. Can a rational person believe that there are infinite sequences of digits in the form of real numbers but not infinite sequences of digits in the form of natural numbers? The natural numbers are just an infinite sequence of finite numbers. If you believe n is a natural number then you must also believe that n*10 is a natural number. One more digit! There is always one more digit (that is what infinity implies). If there really are an infinite number of natural numbers then some of them must be of a transfinite number of digits or else you would be including numbers in the list more than once.

The problem with Cantor's argument comes down to the fact that the procedure he uses to find a number not in the set is essentially the same as the procedure he uses for creating the infinite set in the first place. The only difference is our understanding of randomness. His procedure for finding a number not in the set may not seem very random but it might be as random as any other. A truly random coin could theoretically come up heads every time. The important part of his argument is that the infinite list of real numbers has no repeats. The diagonalization procedure similarly ensures that there are no repeats. On the one hand he claims the infinite set of real numbers exists. On the other hand he argues that the diagonalization that yields a number not in the set has not already been done. He takes away infinity and then gives it back!

There is only one infinity. It means "repeat". It is simply the interplay of finite state with process. You can think of it as an "infinite loop" in programming. To say that one infinity is smaller than another is to deny that the smaller is infinite. Infinite means without bound.
Surprisingly little. Functional programming has become more mainstream, but most of the concepts have been well known and studied in academia for decades.
That's a nice fantasy I suppose. You're no doubt aware of how much West Africa's population has increased since WW2, such that they now have hundreds of millions of people. Most of those people - as in the West - can only exist due to increasingly advanced, connected economic and technological systems.

Nigeria's population as an example, has gone from 45 million to 186 million since 1960. That extreme population growth has equally big requirements that are necessary to keep all of those people from dying.

In a given year, the West is directly responsible for tens of millions of people being alive in Africa.

Routine food aid and supply, sometimes preventing famine and random general food scarcity. This has been a non-stop effort for decades and continues in many places across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Medication supply, preventing millions of deaths from everything from HIV/AIDS to TB to malaria to infection. That includes invention, manufacturing and delivery of drugs.

Outbreak intervention. The substantial response to the 2014-2016 ebola outbreak as an example, which stopped it from becoming a catastrophe.

A massive percentage of people - represented by typical extreme population growth curves of the last ~50 years - in low development nations would die in your scenario.

If you need a recent example of how fragile the lower development nations are (in part due to their commonly vast population expansions and weak supporting infrastructure), you need look no further than the global food riots from the commodity bubble of ten years ago, as it dramatically rocked the world's poorest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_world_food_pri...
We're talking about base64url, which is URL safe. Links are in the post you were replying to and its parent.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/games/gamestream/
Is "resilience" really the word for what's on your mind? As far as I understand, "resilience" is the ability to recover from loss. But if electricity is rare enough to be treated as a gift rather than a given, should it be considered a loss when it goes away?
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The Mac isn't receiving the call, the phone is. The Phone is just handing off the UI to the Mac across Bluetooth and Wifi. If the phones worked this way, if his wife walked out of the house with his phone, and let's be clear at that point there might not even be a way for her to tell she's doing it, it would drop off the local network and incoming and outgoing calls would become impossible.
DB design and implementation has always fascinated me. How can they build a concurrent index when ten of thousands of records are in and perhaps thousands are throwing out (although in seriousness deleting a row is always a bad idea).
$50 dollars a MONTH PER INSTANCE for a piece of software that wouldn't even start a few months ago because LetsEncrypt was down.

I get that software takes time and people need to eat, but holy shit on a stick.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot the part where it also doesn't handle FQDN's properly either.

Previous discussion, from when LE was down for a day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375022
> The iPhone X display is 19:9. You cannot display video without either cropping or letterboxing, i.e. black bars.

So it looks like they do, in fact, black bar it by default. If you double tab it will zoom in which causes the video to be clipped by the notch. https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/90778373980314828...

> And I don't know what you mean by apple doesn't approve of that

Nothing what you posted is relevant to what I was discussing. In fact it was completely differently.

What I was discussing was having games / apps fill in the rest of the bar so it looks like a flat bar (so it won't look odd with partial content above and below the notch). Many iOS developers have been chatting about this over twitter and other forums and the language being pointed out seems to prevent deliberate obscuring / hiding of the notch itself. https://twitter.com/cabel/status/907684825376595968

> But regardless of what apple says, feel free to be unhappy about this if that makes you happy.

I don't follow; I originally replied to offer a correction to a statement you initially made. I never even stated that I am unhappy with the notch. I'm not a fan right now but it would likely grow on me and I was thinking about getting a new phone later this year.

There are some UX concerns that I think are legit to discuss. I don't see why that would make me someone who is happy to be unhappy.
The USPS isn't unregulated though, mail fraud can be prosecuted.
From the OED:

Literally (informal): Used for emphasis while not being literally true.
But you can't trust what the company says about its own product, so you really you're talking to someone who can negotiate a contract where you get your money back if it sucks.

If they get their money back, does the contract negotiator lose their commission again?
You can always back up to your password (at least, with TouchID).
Emacs has Tramp, which lets you edit files, manipulate directories (with dired), and do many other stuff you normally do on files seamlessly on remotes of all kinds, including ssh. If you're using emacs like vi where you start it up for each file and close when you save, you're extracting no value out of it, just use Zile.
It might not be the same person using their libraries, might be a different business unit or a company acquiring the other or whatever. Also if I can't sue Facebook this in turns means I grant FB rights to all my parents (not legally but practically)
(Note: IANAL and am just responding to the comment knowing to little about FB's preciseice licensing)
They matched the observation that were available at the time really well. Even pre-Gallilean models matched the observations of their time.
I like the way Germany has done it. They have one (as in exactly one) credit reporting agency. That way if there is bad data stored about you, there is only one place to correct it. They also have pretty clear ways of checking your info and correcting it.

What's more important, this one agency is not a for profit entity. Instead it's a type of coop, and it's shareholders are all the users of the data, i.e. the banks and other financial service providers. Seems to avoid some of the conflicts of interest we are seeing with the American credit agencies.
So if I understand you correctly, you find it unconvincing, and therefore generations of mathematicians who study these things must all be wrong.

Perhaps you simply don't understand the argument in detail, and are relying on your intuition. And perhaps your intuition is faulty.

Which seems more likely?

So let me try to provide a better insight for you. Consider the collection of natural numbers, including 0. Call it N. We all agree that N, also described as the set of non-negative integers, is infinite.

Now imagine flipping a coin at time t_0, t_1, t_2, etc. If you're worried that this will take infinite amounts of time, we can suppose that each flip - because we are practised - takes half the time of the previous flip, so all the flips can be done in finite time. However, we're in the realm of Pure Mathematics now, chasing the puzzle for its own sake, and not worrying about practicalities.

So what might the result be? Well, you might get all heads, you might get all tails, you might get alternating heads and tail, in practice, of course, you'll get something that looks random.

Let's think about all the possible results of flipping the coin. All possible results. Let's let F be the set of all possible results obtained from flipping the coin are each of t_0, t_1, t_2, and so on. We can think of F as functions from N to {H,T}.

So we have F and N. Let's wonder if it's possible to have a function from N to F that hits every element of F. Suppose we can.

So we have m:N -> F, and for every f in F, there is an n in N such that m(n)=f.

Do you think that's possible? Because hundreds of thousands of mathematicians say that it's not possible.
More hours would lead to more sold units.
But what's wrong with that? People don't mind being called a cognitive priming denier or whatever. Treating it like an insult adds power to its effect.
If only we had high resolution 3d printers or people who can carve lifelike portrait replicas out of stone! Oh, wait, we do. A bit more complicated, but if you think this is not way to simple to fool, you're out of luck.

Blood vessel scanner, or get out, see http://nsmartphone.com/fujitsu-lifebook-u745-review/
Yes, that is what deflation is, is it not? More goods for the same amount of currency?
I keep recommending it to my younger colleagues but they just make polite noises and forget it.

Some of Brooks' suggestions for the make up of a development team are interesting. In particular I have always liked the idea that there should be a toolmaker. Most of us are less efficient than we could be because we lack specific tools to do the job and we don't personally have time to make them. If we had someone who's only job was to make tools I think a lot of things could go faster. Of course this only applies to moderately large teams.
I'm more than happy to pay £1k for the iPhone X if it docks and I'm able to use it as a Mac Mini running MacOS. It should be powerful enough.
that the property is considered the offender

Did the court just have its head way up its ass?
Agreed, this is the correct framework for web comments.

I'd perhaps do most of my commenting in a private comment stream with 2 or 3 friends.
Darn, I really want to reply! But Mom also taught me not to feed Internet trolls.

BTW, Mom, thanks for being such a great parent when I was little!

:-)
They should stop having that right, in my humble opinion.

We regulate companies, trying to prevent them from doing things that we deem harmful to people or the society as a whole.

I've seen a ton of people on here (not you; in general) argue that e.g. that Christian homophobe baker has to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, or that the Hobby Lobby company has to provide access to contraceptives under ACA.
So why can't we have legislation and regulations to force "social" networks (of a certain size, maybe) to host content that their operators don't like but is still lawful and legal?
It's a bad idea.

What will end up happening is that bigger advertisers will spam the hell out of everyone, so people will start ignoring/blocking all ads, including more benign sub-specific ones.

A much better option would be to give users an option of suppressing cross-sub ads. This will still show sub's ads when a user is on the sub, which is something that people may actually want.

Strict relevancy of the ads is the key here. This is what reddit ads have had going for them before this change and it was their biggest and unique strength.
Every cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin mechanics has the same problems as Bitcoin. That, as you rightly pointed out, does not discount other cryptocurrencies without these issues. I was aiming solely at Bitcoin (and similar cryptocurrencies).
> I think there is a lot to be said for knowing how to grow your own food, hunt your own meat, build your own shelter, etc.

That's true enough. The problem is the people with guns, who will take all that from you. Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a very depressing read. Its scenario is worse than grid collapse, in that nothing could be grown. But there wouldn't be much commercial agriculture without electricity.
I was mostly being tongue-in-cheek. Of course we wouldn't care about a job at that point...its also why I have the required amount of necessities ready to go in case it does.
Have you tried Typora[0]?
It features inline rendering (i.e. images, formatting...)

I have barely used my standard editor (Sublime) for Markdown since I discovered it.

[0]: https://typora.io/
Are businesses stockpiling Bitcoins in case of ransomware? If so, they shouldn’t
The target MU69 (fly-by on 1st Jan 2019) looks interesting. It's amazing that we can tell it might have a double-lobed shape from such a distance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69#Stellar_occ...
Have a copy myself somewhere. Larry Paulson was a well liked lecturer. Famous for his terrible jumpers!

Standard ML always seemed like a great teaching language, but it was never clear to me how it would work for general programming. So the title 'for the working programmer' always seemed unintentionally ironic.
> If that was it, we'd all be writing Perl. Seriously. The documentation is better, the backwards compatibility is second to none, it's well designed

but you can learn how to write PHP in junior high school while being drunk at 4 am.
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Yes, I'd really appreciate being able to hand my iPad to my daughter knowing she can only access her apps, and ideally for a set period of time. They seem to have this working reasonably well within macOS users.
The Nexus 5 was released less than 4 years ago.
It never did. A concurrent program has always meant a decomposition of a program into parts that can be executed out-of-order while maintaining the same output. Whether or not this is by some scheduler on a single-core cpu is irrelevant to the theory.

The words "concurrency", "multi-threaded", and "parallel" each have different meanings. You can have a program that is multi-threaded but which does not maintain concurrency ie. the output is dependent on race conditions. This is usually, but not always, a bug.

Your confusion stems from the fact that most people do not care about the distinction. You usually don't care about concurrency unless you plan to actually run things in a manner which is unordered. Thus when the theory says "concurrency" you think "parallel". Technically speaking you're wrong, practically speaking your mistake usually won't matter.

As a final example consider a single-core computer running Windows with multiple processes running a myriad of services and programs. At any one time only a single process can run on that single available core, but in practice they are running "at the same time", because the system is implementing a model of concurrency allowing it to schedule and execute the different processes out-of-order.
Someone is finally saying this.

Plus, there is a ton of things that json can't do or isn't supposed to do (things like defining a grammar, xpath, xquery, xslt and a lot more)
Julia Evan's blog is excellent - https://jvns.ca/

It's network-focussed but covers plenty of other topics. The information is presented well, in quite easy-to-digest chunks, with loads of illustrations for the more abstract points
Comic Book for Kids That Teaches about Numbers and Computers
For many games (shooters etc) making a smart AI is relatively easy. What's hard is making an AI that's provides a realistic and interesting challenge. These "AI"s don't use much in the way of machine learning however.

I feel like this isn't what you're getting at though. Perhaps there's a specific example you have in mind?
Yep. Two iPads for 3 family members here. It's enough, but you have to remember on which one you left your stuff. If it could seamlessly recognize who picked up the tablet and switch to their stuff, no matter what ipad it was originally on, that would be magic.

I wouldn't even mind having a sync server in the house (a desktop mac, maybe) to help with that.
Price of this phone wtf is this in my country cost 1200 euro this cheaper version :/
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Young generations that grew up with cloud storage for everything don't remember what it was like to hoard data. Therefore, younger generations people are at the most risk of having their history destroyed at the whim of Google - a company closely affiliated with the US State Department - or any other service provider for that matter.