skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the GUI toolkit issue, I'd recommend combining gtk2hs (which is a thin wrapper around GTK) with Reactive Banana. GTK signals are isomorphic with Banana events and GTK attributes are isomorphic with Banana behaviors. So you can connect up a button press signal from GTK to an Event, transform that event with data from some other behavior, and hence generate a new behavior which is connected to the GTK attribute of the text displayed in a text box. Your application logic is then expressed as the plumbing that pipes data from event sources to event and behavior sinks. This works well because the event plumbing is composable in ways that callbacks and state variables of native GTK aren't.
The Vampire Problem: A Thought Experiment
It's based on profit.
I understand, but your situation is state emergency in which the very infrastructure is damaged, and not "the default" - you'll priorities will likely be different than ones people I'm targeting have and focused on recovering access to electricity/clean water, etc. ect. This will likely differ from people in so called rising markets too.
It would be valuable to us newcomers to this issue if you could provide us with some links to these stories. Also I'd be interested in seeing that these got banned on HN.
in the FAQ it seems they required full KYC details for the pre-registration for different funding levels: https://kin.kik.com/files/faq.pdf
"focus on power users, e.g. great configurability or well thought-out command line applications"

Yeah, because it's an UNIX-like.
> they have the rest of their lives to figure out when they can stop.

The answer is: never.

Only if they get into a program that guarantees they will be detoxified in 6 months(or so). This is rare unfortunately because it needs the addict's consent, which is rarely given. They usually choose the "open-ended" program because it's easier.

They only use methadone because it's a legal(but controlled) drug. It's not that much better than heroin.
"it turns out people aren't that scary"

This is wonderful to hear. People are just people. Normally they have weird quirks, and some of them sound odd to your ears and look different to the people you normally hang around with, but they are all human beings. They all have hopes, dreams and fears of their own.

I remember realising as a teenager that everyone was in the same boat as me, and it was life changing.
As much as I detest Apple products, having a neural engine on the phone is a step in right direction. Google is getting to big for it's britches and privacy aside, latency is a big plus. Now if only Apple was priced lower and were open source, I would buy their products
I guess adding the discovery year of monoids to a blog post is not associative.
Google's Material Design Awards 2017
It is but it's value with fittings is only ~300 billion isk (the eve currency) which isn't that much when we're talking isk at the alliance level.
The problem I've seen come out of test after is complete implementations with 0 tests. People will just forget to do it!

Especially if working on few different areas of the code at the same time. And it happens often enough for it to be dangerous.

Another issue I've seen pop up is the amount of spaghetti you see when someone said "Screw the tests can do it after". You could or couldn't do it after, cos sometimes things are so coupled it's impossible to test in a meaningful way. This varies between developers of course, more junior people will be coupling things more.

One approach that has worked for me whenever I'm not quite sure how I am going to implement something is something like this.

- First, prototype your feature, go in and go mad, write 0 tests and just try and find out how you're going to build it.
- Then, stash it all away, wipe your workspace clean and start with tests. I've found this works for me when I'm not quite sure how I'm going to piece something new together.
The big trouble with eve is the time/reward factor.

Ultimately you can spend a whole night trying to find fights in Eve and get 2 or 3 fights that last 20 seconds.

Or you can play 10 matches of overwatch or CS:Go or DOTA that last 30 minutes in the same time.

It still doesn't have a decent competitor though, elite dangerous is rubbish, still waiting on Star Citizen.
It's amusing, and also damning, the idea that American civil society, designed pre-electricity, is somehow incapable of retaining civility without electricity.

I say amusing in a very condescending sense. We think of ourselves as modern, advanced, and really seriously quite a bit better, than our ancestors of only 150 years ago. And yet if the prediction of our devolution into uncivilized primal behaviors is true, our assessment as advanced or better is absurd on the face of it.

But more interesting, is why is this the case? Have we so much more trust in technology, and so much less trust in civil institutions over time? And in a moment where we need to shift from one to the other, we simply can't do it, and therefore civilization implodes? If so, that's embarrassing. Or it should be.
Well, I guess Myspace and Yahoo would still be a thing...or new players would take their palce...so don't worry about that.
Well Bjork is more well known but Eve is worth more, income-wise :)

IIRC Iceland's largest export is aluminum.
>I always wonder why politicians/dictators from developing countries who can also observe these differences ever wonder that the average people in a developed country are living a good life so why not just copy what the developed country is doing and apply the similar policies back home to improve the lives of their own citizens.

They very much do, but they almost always do it in a cargo-cult fashion, imitating the appearance of western progress while remaining ignorant of or uninterested in the underlying mechanics. Take for instance Julius Nyerere, well-intentioned as he was, driving his country into the ditch not once but twice by uncritically accepting foreign ideologies of communist collectivisation first and then unchecked capitalism second, apparently thinking either was some kind of white magic incantation that would bring about prosperity, completely ignoring the systemic factors at work with ordinary Tanzanians.
You might call it a network of social connections.
imperium.news and /r/eve

The metagame of Eve is such that you can't really find objective reporting, though. It extends far beyond the game.
Microsoft must hate the dual boot to Linux idea. Once you experience a modern Linux, you'll eventually look at that NTFS partition and decide it'd just be better used as free disk space.

For the times you need Windows, there's always VirtualBox.
Just in case any bright eyed hopeful person is reading this, please don't think "ah shucks" and go away. Some of the biggest things in the internet including the protocols the internet lives on were never envisioned as something that would change the life of billions of people. They were initially created to solve a problem for a small group and then grew into something much bigger over time. Please please don't back away from this problem just because some article says it's going to be challenging.

Solve it for yourself.

Post on your own blogs on your own servers.

Solve it for others.

Help others get set up with their own servers.

Create solutions for people

Make attempts at creating decentralized solutions. Even if a 1000 people use it, someday we might crack the code to getting people off the walled gardens.

Basically, if that article sounded like a demotivating blow to your hopes, please flip the bird at it, and keep working to solve this problem.
This assumes not only materialisation but also objectification of consciousness. It could be that it is a process that mediates physical phenomena without itself being physical. A hole is not physical but it's realised in the midst of physicality.
I have to appreciate the humour this shows. All in the name of progress, and it certainly made me laugh.

SpaceX has somehow managed to turn landing a booster from space into something almost mundane, but it bears remembering the failures that got them there.
imperium.news

As explained elsewhere, don't expect to find 100% objective reporting anywhere.
I wonder if the concepts in Steem could be applied to the real economy, to arrive at a more fair distribution of wealth.
Apple explains what exactly happened when Face ID ‘failed’ during iPhone X demo
Not true. Euegene attended a KGB sponsored college. Also, military service was mandatory, and his military service was not related to intelligence.
IIRC this is not because Iceland has particularly rich stores of aluminum ore, but rather because refining aluminum ore into usable aluminum metal is energy-intensive and Iceland has abundant geothermal energy resources. So they import ore and export metal.
This is an absurd generalisation. The only nation in your list that benefitted greatly from slave labour is the USA, and even that period is over a hundred and fifty years ago. Furthermore, the civil war that was waged to end slavery ultimately brought economic ruin to the southern States that had relied on slave labour.

In the post-WWII era, the countries that have prospered have done so because they have enjoyed stable government and long periods of peaceful relations with their neighbours. This allows for an educated populace, fruitful use of their natural resources and human ingenuity, and remunerative trade with other nations.
Raspberry Pi – Make a Project Your Self
What you are describing is exactly the issue with the current system, correct? That is, taxation based on physical presence only, and the arbitrary ways corporationsn can do intra-subsidiary transfers.

A tax for megacorps based on revenue seems a lot simpler.
Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
Most interesting to me is that it's implemented in a language I'd never heard of, F* (https://www.fstar-lang.org/), which is an ML that compiles to OCaml, F#, or a subset of the language can compile to C. It's intended for just this sort of work ("verified effectful programming" is seemingly one of their taglines for the thing).

That's pretty neat. I like seeing exotic languages used in mainstream projects. It's just fun, ya know? Firefox is also shipping with some Rust code these days.
The inconvenient truth is, gaining capital means gaining power. That power is exercised by taking specific decisions from the relatively small management board of a company and these decisions can have far-reaching effects not only on the company itself, but on society as a whole.

We believe voting is essential to run a democracy, yet the management of companies is far from being democratic.
I can't really tell if this is criticism or just stating the obvious. Software companies want you to use their software. Yes, shocking, I know.
https://crossingzebras.com/ is a decent source
go and ask everyone you meet in person today if they've heard of mastodon
Direct link to video for fullscreen view:

https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/t50.2886-16/2173252...
HN doesn't ban stories friend.
Why don't you post a link?

Maybe Kaspersky is completely innocent, but the fact is they are based in a country which would have no problem in asking/coercing/outright forcing them to spy on other nations. That is a competitive disadvantage for a security company. If you think that's unfair then talk to Putin.
this is kind of dying though, or at least flat in terms of growth overall
Indeed, code generation was going to be my permanent solution, until this turned out fast enough not to bother!

Seems like I'm doing fine by xkcd, at least if you remove the time to make a simpler version for the blog post =) And the learning has some value too anyhow.
Hey there!
I'm one of the founders here at Deekit. I see you brought out the gap in our mobile homepage not having the short summary tagline on the top image. We're actually fixing it to match it with the site you see on the desktop. Totally agree that the twitter-length summary of what the product/service is about should be always the first thing you see quickly.

PS! A collaborative whiteboard in the cloud is exactly what we do - collaborate, draw and discuss ideas on any device and anywhere :)
How is the attitude/atmosphere internally at Microsoft towards people using a competing OS (Mac or Linux).

Does the group working on Windows OS feel alienated at all?
While AR would be a cool use-case for angioplasty the difference to current methods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interventional_radiology) probably isn't as big as you think.
There are ways if you're not too worried about using private compiler APIs: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/projects/Erni08b.pdf
Kaspersky Lab Antivirus Software Is Ordered Off U.S. Government Computers
Do you honestly think that without US companies, there will be no search engines and social networks? Here in the Netherlands we had Hyves[1] before we had Facebook, which was pretty big. If, for whatever reason, Facebook were to vanish tomorrow from the EU tomorrow, I have little doubt that we'd all be on a different social network by Christmas. Of course there would be a lot of complaining during the first two weeks. I would miss Google more than I would Facebook, but perhaps an influx of 500 million new users would give competing search engines the income to improve their results to equal those of Google (perhaps they're already of comparable quality and I just haven't noticed).

Google and Facebook are making a lot of money in the EU, and leaving the EU because they have to pay more taxes would be like cutting off the nose to spite the face. It just wouldn't make financial sense, and shareholders would (understandably) be furious.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyves
I have had a metric fuckton of fun, in my four year career. I've rarely dealt with politics, and only used a spreadsheet, once (so far). Mostly, I just get drunk on a Friday night, with buddies, and we go blow shit up.
Screenful is teaming up with Trello to revolutionize how IT projects are run
No, double the hourly rate plus zeros.

40 hours x 50 weeks = 2000 hours

So just 2x and thousands.
Have you tried PLAY ON LINUX ?? MS Office works great in ubuntu.

Writers in our company were not very fond of Libre Office.
I don't play EVE because there are already enough demands on my time, but damned if this commercial (entirely done with voice comms) hasn't come close to pushing me over the edge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0
They do. Their source is available for examination by any government.
I wonder if multi-sig contracts (not necessarily through blockchain) would preclude such incidents in the future. Concentrating so much power to a single person, inevitably makes for such "Little Finger" plays with devastating effects for everyone involved.

I am watching the video of it all now here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdXie85VX8
You try and fail. And try and fail. And try and fail. And then one day you have learned enough to try and succeed.

Learning how to NOT land it is learning how to land it.
I briefly tried Web Audio to implement a Karplus-Strong synthesizer (about the simplest thing in audio synthesis I guess?).

Without using ScriptProcessorNode, there was no way of tuning the synthesizer because of the limitation that any loop in the audio graph has a 128 samples delay at least.

Maybe a more "compilation-oriented" handling of the audio graphs (at the user's choice) could help overcome this?
You are right - after reading this article, it just seemed to confirm my opinion the decentralized networks don't work but we ought not to give up.
Setting Up a WebRTC Soft-Phone in QueueMetrics on FreePBX
Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdXie85VX8
I don't think anyone that is well versed and highly accurate in the crypto realm calls these currencies. In fact, the proper term is token or appcoin. Not much except Bitcoin and similar forks/spinoffs (Monero, Dogecoin, Litecoin etc) are currencies.
People generally are willing to forgo the cost/benefit analysis of a machine learning solution. There is an abiding faith in future improvements in cost although I am not so sure anymore.
After a quick search I didn't find those stories (although I remember reading something about that, too, many months ago, and I also remember seeing Kaspersky blog posts deconstructing US-made malware like Stuxnet and whatnot), but I did find this interesting article, specifically these paragraphs are interesting:

> Officials tell CyberScoop they believe the FBI has engaged in deliberate media leaks and overblown classified congressional briefings to build the case around Kaspersky.

> The FBI has briefed private sector companies across several industries, urging them to cut ties with Kaspersky on security grounds

> Officials from the NSA, CIA and DIA have spent the last year privately criticizing what they perceive as the bureau’s escalatory strategy, which they say is often based on lackluster intelligence work.

> No evidence of a relationship between Kaspersky and the Kremlin has been made public, which has fueled a public debate about Washington’s tactics against the private company.

> “There is little doubt that the U.S. government’s handling of their Kaspersky claims will cause trouble for U.S. companies,” Jake Williams, a former NSA employee and founder of Rendition Infosec, told CyberScoop. “The data released so far against Kaspersky is weak and inconclusive and applies to many U.S. information security companies. Making claims without substance to back those claims will just lead to speculation that U.S. companies are involved in similar activities. Rebuking these claims is made difficult since the burden of ‘proof’ established by the U.S. is so low.”

https://www.cyberscoop.com/kaspersky-fbi-investigation-nsa-c...
There is a lot of proof markets do work very well when you get close to perfect (and I'd add, fair) competition. Outside of that, things begin to break down quickly.
More like people don't like when people from far away try to enforce seemingly stupid laws. Having a vote that actually matters is awesome.

The other question is how those tiny kingdoms organise into bigger structures to have economy-of-scale, while still retaining their sovereignty on internal matters.
I find it always a PITA to set up WebRTC in Asterisk. Not sure if it is just me.
I always wonder if there is any substance to such claims other than that it is made by a russian company.

In which case one might as well claim "ties" between Symantec and US intelligence or Checkpoint and Israel.
Really? I actually liked that solution, I think it's both readable and clever. The rule priority is defined by the order of your list of tuples ('fizzbuzz' vs. 'buzzfizz'), so easy to change. That's superior to the solution above with sorted(outputs.keys()).
What would a modern Neanderthal look like?
>social security numbers aren't a good identifier because they can be spoofed

agreed

>biometrics are a good identifier because gov't employees id themselves like this

sooooo um what happens when that database is hacked, like OPM was?

here's an idea. security questions with answers that aren't very guessable.

why?

I call my bank and they say, "tell me the x words that you selected as your security combo, in order"

And I say "zebra john henry alligator cheetah mosquito cardshark"

And they say "great, now sign in to the website to see a verification code we've sent to you"

"ok it's 15467"

"ok how can i help you today?"

It's not foolproof, but it proves ownership of the account and access to a very long piece of data that the bank and I agree to use as a human readable private key, that we can change at any time together if compromised.

They can also text or email me when a sign in to my account occurs.

This way, unless my account has been hacked and I am completely unaware of it, any bad shit that might happen will be caught quickly.

I can't imagine this is worse than the current scenario.
I'd like to add one remark to this: everything doesn't have to be huge. We don't have to deal always in millions and billions. Small groups. Even individuals. What they do is meaningful. What we do is not pointless just because it doesn't create some massive impact.
It's very popular in Japan because of the "lolicon" phenomenon (cultural sexy drawings of youth people), which is not accepted by Twitter because of the occidental culture in which this is a taboo.
So, do they use that officer's unpaid vacation time that he cashed in during his last year when calculating his pension?

The article seems to imply that, but does not say it directly.
Britain releases the new £10 note
> ...they are based in a country which would have no problem in asking/coercing/outright forcing them to spy on other nations.

As a non-US citizen, I laughed at this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/business/us-snooping-on-c...
https://qz.com/105490/how-the-us-government-uses-information...
and so on
Exactly right

My point is that especially if you are not from US, a service from a private company in a foregin country, cannot be considered a public utility.

If such a service don't want to support nazi propaganda is their right to shut it down.

I see no risk for everyone's freedom.
So, we should give alcoholics naloxone?

Okay, so now we've established that alcohol and opiates do different things in the brain.

So, at this point, I'm going to ask you: "Why should you assume similarity rather than assuming difference?"

Just because viruses and bacteria are both harmful does not mean we should use antibiotics for both.
It's nice to see treachery is alive and well in EVE.

I started playing EVE just prior to the Trinity expansion release in 2008, and played up until 2013. During that time I was fortunate to watch the game evolve in so many fantastic ways (walking in stations aside). I owe an unbelievable amount of fond memories to the game, most of which involved treachery (albiet on a somewhat smaller scale).

That said, many of the changes in recent years have left a bad taste in my mouth. For example: Aurum, an in-game currency used to purchase items from the "New Eden Store", such as ship skins and clothing. Radical changes to character progression in the form of skill injectors. Radical changes to the PLEX system, as well as F2P. Innumerable changes to core game mechanics.

Not all of these changes are necessarily bad, but they do tend to foster almost a weird sense of alienation among long-time players, especially inactives. Nobody I know really plays anymore, and it's not because they lack the time. There's this mutual feeling that the game kind of lost its way some years back, and that the golden age is over. That its soul is gone, or at least waning.

I don't know how true that sentiment is, but it certainly feels that way. Of course, it's always possible we're just a bunch of really biased bittervets.

It is true that CCP has had an incredible amount of missteps in the past (walking in stations, Dust 514, vampire game), and that they've inevitably had a lot of turnover in their core talent. Despite all that, EVE is still alive, which in and of itself is impressive.

From a technology and art standpoint, the game is arguably better than ever right now. I just can't shake the feeling that it's stuck in an evolutionary treadmill of sorts, where things are changed just for the sake of change, and not pursuant to a strong overarching ideal or vision that was present in the earlier days of CCP.

On the bright side, at least Star Citizen has no hope of killing EVE. Things such as lifetime insurance are wholly antithetical to the ideal that EVE represents. Namely: you don't get an adrenaline rush flying something expensive if you know there's zero risk involved.

Elite: Dangerous (in my opinion) had the opportunity to kill both games, and failed only due to its unfortunate choice of core gameplay mechanics and P2P networking model. Four years ago it had the most advanced UI/UX of any game in existence, and arguably it still does today. Incredible artistic and technical production values unfortunately can't save a game if it has no soul.
I use Diaspora* as a blogging platform. The social interactions are a plus. It works well