skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same thing for Germany! http://www.ard-text.de/
Uk domain transfers are scary
... and these days tag checking seems to be almost for free on out-of-order processors (e.g. x86) because the check is only a couple of instructions with a predictable control dependency and no data dependency.
XML is really great for its intended problem domain. Try to represent XHTML or DOCBOOK or similar rich-document formats as JSON and it will be a disaster.

But for structured data you don't need the verbosity and extra baggage of XML, JSON is simply a cleaner solution.

Problem is, people are looking for one-size-fits-all solution, but no format will be optimal for all use cases.

XML is a passable all-round format though, even if it is not always optimal.
I had the impression you are the Reason creator, haha.

Are you more like a dev-advocat or something?
It has no readability issue when you know the basic syntax

* "external" is an FFI declaration

* "get_internal" is the local symbol name

* ":" introduces the type signature, so "get_internal" is a function from a "map 'a 'b" (aka Map<A, B> in more C-style generics) and an 'a to a Js.undefined 'b

* followed by the external symbol ("get")

* and the stuff between brackets is a compiler instruction (an "extension point": https://whitequark.org/blog/2014/04/16/a-guide-to-extension-...)
but people with families/children can't live in a room in a 5 bedroom house for 350/month

You can, and people do all the time. People live in slums with 7 kids in a corrugated sheet metal shack the size of a garden shed with sewage flowing past their front door.

So then, what is the difference with a country like England? People are not allowed to live in such conditions. This is not the same thing as can't. We set minimum standards of living because we don't like the idea of people living in squalor. We rarely give a thought to the adverse consequences of such policies. A family that might have been able to afford a tiny apartment is instead forced into the street to fend for themselves.
I still don't understand why it fell out of favor.
What if the status quo keeps moving in a direction that slowly makes things worse for a certain group of people?

You basically cannot get out of it unless you can convince most people that it's a good idea. With a 2-party system you can get someone who represents those people to rule for a while and maybe correct the course.

Also, with optional voting, we basically delegate decisions to those who really care about something. Having lived in a country with mandatory voting, I saw a few elections where people's views and the results of some elections were easily manipulated by false news close to the election day. People who are ambivalent I think are more likely to change their decision over such things.
If developing your idea in something else takes longer or is buggier, perhaps you'll never get to a stage where your company worth acquiring.
IOTA: CFB's Response to Neha Narula's Blogpost
I drove through this once, it was an absolute terror. I ended up cutting across it without even realizing.
I don't understand. This is just a landing page for the app and not an alternative web interface
What does this have to do with bitcoin?

The rich can:

1) Convert Yuan to Asics.

2) Mine bitcoin.

3) Convert bitcoin to Canadian dollars.

4) Convert Canadian dollars to property in Vancouver.

How can a poor person do this (unless he starts a "new" coin that happens to be successful). Please elaborate.
"Fairness alone does not guarantee a society where the outcome for the unwealthy is tolerable "

Why not?
It would be nice if there was a TLD for text-only, javascript free websites.
Same for the Netherlands. I read this every day rather than the big newspapers or news channels...

https://nos.nl/teletekst
>In the 1600s, Marie de' Medici shows up and, (allegedly) appalled by the local cuisine, sends for her Italian cook. Since her son was Louis XIII, that set the standard. Which makes it mystifying that Italian haute cuisine has been pretty much absent on the stage. It's not like you can't get a great meal there!

Caterina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de'_Medici

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de'_Medici#Culinary_...

And it was earlier, in the 1500's, but is largely a myth, the reality is that there was a continuous exchange between Italy and France in that period.
Making a profit?
"I can imagine how uncomfortable and challenging it must be to cross it, especially for drivers who are not familiar with it." (specially coming from continental Europe where we have right-side traffic)
Ask HN: Music artist/band portfolio sites?
Hey there,

I am finding myself more and more releasing new music through various channels (Youtube, Spotify, Google Play etc), while lacking a "hub" keeping it all together, alongside basic information regarding the music as such and integrations with social site such as Facebook etc. I envision something quite visually appealing and "themable", similar to sites presenting portfolios of graphical artists (e.g. 500px, smugmug...), but custom-made for artists. Bonus point for including a social aspect and a discovery/recommendation system to be able to find new listeners.

My google-fu has failed me in finding this. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!
I know it won't happen because of the "amenities" clause but it would be so great to see a HQ dropped in a state like Ohio or Michigan. There are tech workers in those areas and it would draw in even more, while providing a boost to the economies that have been getting screwed up. But Denver makes sense, as does Austin, Chicago, or Toronto. Places like Houston or Atlanta have no chance. Nobody wants to live in car land. NYC and the like are too expensive. Denver university system is weak compared to a Columbus, Austin, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, type area. For Denver I'm also a little concerned because it is kind of far away from everything.
A lot of people have had a dog hump their leg.
I think that is the most likely outcome for those who don't own the robots.
I'm not sure that was the predominant reason. The search results were also a hell of a lot better than AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo and whatever else was around back then.
It is a web interface on desktop (and possibly some mobile platforms?)
In Firefox:

about:config

media.autoplay.enabled False
Once you are used to them roundabouts are for the most part pleasant to use, and safer than intersections. It's especially nice not to have to turn across incoming traffic.
Yes:

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https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/906655818950553600
We HAVE a set of laws and regulations mandating that SSN numbers be kept secret. It doesn't work. We have laws restricting the use of SSNs (it is illegal for most situations to demand an SSN, except for the situations where it is mandatory). They don't work either.

There is, however, one simple solution. Inform banks and others who need to verify identity that they may not use knowledge-of-someone's-SSN as a means of verifying identity. After a brief adjustment period for them to change their processes, publish a public list of every citizen's SSN. (Note: the Equifax breach already did half the job here... so that part isn't hard.)

There is no problem with having SSN numbers, and we MUST have something of the sort if the government intends to keep track of its citizens. There is no problem with SSN numbers being public, and history has demonstrated that it is impossible to design a system that successfully keeps them secret. The only problem lies in the fact that we treat knowledge of this number as some kind of proof of identity.
When the case reaches the jury it's already too late - accused student can be suspended and otherwise punished a long time before that. We've lowered the threshold of what triggers an investigation to such ridiculous level that we are getting a lot of false positives.

Why the universities even need special internal policies about sexual abuse? Why college students cannot be prosecuted according to the same criminal laws as the rest of the society? Why do we need this ideologically biased Title IX personnel, instead of relying on police and DA office to investigate? College students are at least 18 years old - let's treat them like adults, not like vulnerable, stray children.
24/7? Name me a single place in Tokyo with a Michelin star that is open after one a.m please.
"ignore" is a standard ocaml function: https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Pervasive...

val ignore : 'a -> unit

it just discards the value it is given.

"@@" is a low-binding application operator, similar to Haskell's "$", it's used to avoid parenthesising.
Does this even work?

I mean Reason seems to be part of BuckleScript which doesn't belong to FB
Some of the ideas in SPARC came from SOAR, described in David Ungar's thesis [1]. He suggests that the Rice University R2 was the first machine with tags though the R1 [2] seems to have used tags too.

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_design_and_evalua...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Institute_Computer
It's a bit frightening to see that concentration of communities which may be unable to evacuate right in the TB area, where the storm is coming.
Ah okay. tried it on my android device and just got a link to the play store.
One thing I've never really understood is that as well as an NI number we also have NHS numbers. Why aren't they the same thing?!
Is there really a mental tax for roundabouts over a regular 4 way junction. (Just regular roundabouts, not the magic variety)?

Traffic can only approach you from one direction and traffic on the roundabout has priority, to me it seems much simpler.
> Is your ISP actually doing that to you right now? Or is that just hypothetical?

Yes there are multiple instances where my isp was injecting stuff. More frequently at public wifi spots.
Proxies are definitely a nice catch, but won't allow full code instrumentation. Iroh doesn't use proxies but patches the submitted code to allow full code instrumentation including call tree recording and full ES5 code support.

If you're wondering what the patched code looks like:

Input:

function add(a, b) {
return a + b;
};
add(2, 4);

Output:

const $$STx1 = Iroh.stages["$$STx1"];
var $$frameValue = void 0;
$$STx1.$45(5)
function add(a, b) {
$$STx1.$4(6, this, add, arguments);
return $$STx1.$1(1, "add", $$STx1.$32(7, 1, a, b));
$$STx1.$5(6, this);
}
;
$$STx1.$44($$frameValue = $$STx1.$2(4, this, add, null, [$$STx1.$30(2, 2), $$STx1.$30(3, 4)]));
$$STx1.$46(5, $$frameValue)
My taxi driver at Hemel decided the inner circle was one giant American roundabout and ignored the other little ones.
You will care when you'll get hit with things like a massive tornado for example.
Honestly I believe modeling such thing in JS as an initial iteration would have drastically changed what ReactJS is today, and likely for the worse. No proof of that, aside from the fact that iterating it in SML gave the rather paradigm-shifting ReactJS we know today.

Can't speak for Jordan but I'm guessing that the answer is "it just felt right". So you can consider ReactJS as a manual program extraction from SML.

I'm not sure whether the original one was ever fully finished. I think there was a blocker from the React reconciler that SML couldn't solve in its type system? It needed GADT and existential, which is why he moved onto OCaml. Related: https://drup.github.io/2016/08/02/difflists/

So in a sense, we knew for a while now that ML would work out, somewhat demonstrated by the real-world usage of React. The technical merits are there; the social ones, definitely not. Thus Reason, which you can view as ReactJS finally going back to its root through ReasonReact, and with the social aspect properly being worked on.
Something non-US folks don't always get about the US -- in a lot of ways, the US is more analogous to the EU than it is to any one country of Europe. That is to say, the US Government is the national entity, but quite a lot of power is still held in the states. There is a 200+ year wariness of federal power here.

One of the ways this manifests itself is that identity is established and maintained largely by the states. Your driver's license is basically your national ID here, even though there are 50 different kinds of driver's licenses.

In the 1930s we had Great Depression, New Deal, etc. and Social Security. Once Social Security Numbers became a thing, they became wildly popular as a stand-in for a national identifier. And now they're crucial, and they get stolen all the time, and we have nothing better to replace them with.

National IDs are a nonstarter politically in the US. One side thinks it is undue encroachment on local rights, and the other side thinks requiring ID disenfranchises the poor and undocumented. That's the tl;dr version of course -- reality is more nuanced.
My keychain fob is a tourist special - the Magic Roundabout, Swindon.

A few things about the Magic Roundabout:

If you are a rail user then you will inevitably have rail replacement bus services that will inevitably give you a free tour of the Magic Roundabout. You can get on the top deck at the front and witness the awesomeness of the roundabout precariously but with a good view.

By bicycle the Magic Roundabout is a bit daunting but okay due to the low traffic speed and the expectation of other road users for you to be having no idea what you are doing.

What is not quite ever easy to come to terms with is that you are effectively driving on the right, not the left, as far as on-coming traffic is concerned. This is not normal for UK traffic situations, you always drive on the left in the UK and expect on-coming traffic to be to the right, not left.

Swindon is great, for a while I used to tell people I went there for my shopping because it was the largest town without a bookshop.
Disproving a scientific study with blog and newspaper links?.. Sorry, but you will have to do better than that.
For Europeans to come and work in USA, a West Coast city would be better - Washington, New York, Miami, boston ...
I really have difficulties understanding why e.g., utilities would want to have your SSN. What do they get that they otherwise won’t get?

I suspect they need to unambiguously identify all customers/payments under anti money laundering regulations. Unintended consequences and all that.
I love this. Pure information without bloat. One of the reaons I love "Teletekst" "teletext"). It also looks very nice, despite the fact that is 30 years old. 101 is news. 818 is domestic football. It's actually still very popular in The Netherlands, and the app is one of the most used apps here.

https://nos.nl/teletekst#101
>a tapeworm species foreign to humans was found in a man’s brain in China, leading to seizures and inflammation of the brain.

A few more of those things vanishing is fine by me. Maybe they could DNA sequence them first.
3 Big Data Hurdles Every Omnichannel Marketer Must Face
This is truly a treat. thank you
> Roundabouts have an extra mental tax on drivers

So, just like the rest of driving?

Freeway on-ramps, stop lights, pedestrian crossings, bike lanes, one way street... Lots of things are harder mentally until you learn to get used to them.

Roundabouts force you to slow down, however, which is why I think they get such a big backlash at first. But in reality, when built in the right areas, they improve overall traffic flow.
> in a lot of ways, the US is more analogous to the EU than it is to any one country of Europe

Interestingly, this is because the EU was modelled after the USA, though things didn't quite go according to plan so we have the EU instead of the USE.

Regardless of political standing, I do recommend https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Deception-European-survive-Re... for an in-depth history of the EU.
As a high functioning non-normative, I have found kinship with many of those diagnosed with Asperger's. The full isolation of the Autistic have generally had little parity with the challenges I have faced.

The blithe dismissal by the writers of the DSM-V of an entire developmental process has led me to dismiss the entire psychological profession as self-serving.
I miss the HP-16C. It was an amazing thing to have something with hex. It was pretty useful when I was doing assembly.
Anything else that started as an sml project ? was react always a Fb project or was it a personal thing from Jordan that caught the eye of a Fb manager ?
Because the market value of just being average in what you can do could be below what we deem tolerable.

It does depend a lot on what's tolerable, admittedly. As long as we reason about it knowing that wether we like it or not, many of these people living in less than desirable circumstances will have kids and those kids have never done anything to effect wether or not their situation is tolerable.
a federal id smart card would be a great solution

No, it would be a terrible solution, have you seen their track record?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

http://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/aws-cloud-security-221169
I just bought a new HP 12C to replace the calculator app. I love the form factor, mainly the keyboard, but they could improve the product adding more memory for programming. It is odd they have an emulator in place to run the original ROM!

BTW I have also a HP 48GX but some buttons become unusable. What is the best shop to repair it?
> Now compare that to regulated intersections, which come at a price of potentially longer delays of course, but in return have much lower mental tax on drivers.

Regular intersections with or without traffic lamps have a measurably higher number of incidents and rate of mortal incidents.

Roundabouts have fewer collision points and force drivers into trajectories that lead to less dramatic impacts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Safety has a very illustrative diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roundabout_intersection_d... and some cited sources for that claim (claim that fits perfectly with my personal experience living near an urban intersection-turned-roundabout).
Society does rest on secrets, but also on another more nuanced thing, discretion: In areas of life where privacy is eroded and everything you do can be posted to instagram or largish whatsapp groups, people can become more reserved and start acting more conventionally and blandly. Before this kind of social media behaviour, there was gossip, but it was a noisy channel and people forwarding gossip would also stake something when forwarding gossip.
This is a common misconception that I stumbled upon a few months ago.

- The cathedral requirement was only to the 19th Century.

- Size does not matter. For example St Davids is a city with only 1,600 inhabitants

- A city in the UK is a place that has been granted city status by the monarch.

- You can loose city status for similar arbitrary reasons

- London is not even a fucking city in this system!

UK city definition is perhaps one of the dumbest concepts in the UK due to its disparity with the populations expectation of actual criteria.

Sources:

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13841482

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom
If the issue isn't fairness, how do you differentiate this view from an embrace of punitive envy politics?
On the subject of machine code as data, there was an interesting text file released at this year's SIGBOVIK: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/abc/paper.txt (you'll need to resize your browser window to read it properly -- for an easier reading experience you can also check out the PDF and video at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/abc/).
Denver is not going to make the cut. Housing prices are already growing at 10% yoy. Add an Amazon to that and you're going to be Seattle in about 18 months.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/troymcmullen/2017/05/03/denver-...
Swindon is a big town, but is arguably in a rural location.

However, cities do /not/ need a Cathedral - just a Royal Charter. Look at e.g. Cambridge.
Yeah I'd put them as about the 2nd least taxing junction. Slip lanes are probably easiest, then regular roundabouts then stop lights then normal cross roads/intersections.
No. The major motivation not to use it was _FORTIFY_SOURCE with it's compile checks for compile-time known buffer sizes and it's accompanying _chk functions.
This leaves out all dynamic buffers.

You cannot mix PTR + LONG args without serious compile-time errors
Building resilience instead of preventing a catastrophe sounds like a false dichotomy.

A mark of a resilient society could be the ability and will to (1) predict the development of events and sense probable future catastrophes long in advance, and to (2) invest into preventive measures that would show effectiveness many lifetimes later.

Concrete actions might range from cooling down volcanoes like per TFA, to colonizing other worlds, to systematic construction and maintenance of contingency infrastructure, to deliberate collective mindset shifts.

Perhaps what we both can agree on is that it’s this long-term consciousness that we (as humanity) may be lacking.
Google, Apple, Facebook and the telcos would have a good idea as to who has actually evacuated and where to. It would be very interesting to see that data, on a map, anonymised to a heat map. It is not clear where people are supposed to evacuate to, the reality would be most interesting, maybe it would just reflect a general heatmap of where people lived.

I am sure the NSA could pull up this information too but I don't imagine that town planning times and disaster emergency planners have access to accurate information. How do you find out who lives somewhere and where they are now? The Googles of this world know this information.
If you're enjoying that, you'll find even more connections with Forth, also a very cool programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
On Conveying Doubt
Btw Bloomberg kindly donated the BuckleScript project. It's now under its own independent organization on Github.
It seems like the minimum is £6 for a single site actually, and yeah it does seem potentially useful at some scales.
Not sure I get your example. I've never seen anyone stepping out of a Starbucks, passing a homeless person while hiding their coffee so it can't be seen. Or they were hiding it so well I also didn't see it ;)
> London is not even a city in this system!

Well, there is the City of London aka the Square Mile, as well as the City of Westminster.
Tesla Remotely Extended the Range of Florida Cars to Assist Hurricane Evacuation
The video claims roundabouts reduce accidents but according to the experience here: http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/gettingAround/Roundabout-S... collisions involving injury or fatalities did decrease by 51% at intersections that were replaced by roundabouts; however, overall collisions at those intersections increased by 35%.
> GPL forces people to change behaviour, if they do not wish to open source their software

GPL forces people to respect the wishes of whatever software they depend on, they're free to not use it.
Parts of Mexico could end up satisfying that if Congress does not act on DACA. It would be interesting if a company opened facilities in Mexico with the specific purpose of recruiting from deported DACA beneficiaries.
How does it compare to GNU.social?
It seems such a meaningless metric; of the three roundabouts around my town (one of which is very large, has no lanes and is surprisingly fast) there has been no fatal accidents as long as I recall (~8 years).

There has, however, been plenty of prangs.

My family use to live near Swindon - that roundabout is terrible for accidents when people get in the wrong lane and cut across. It's just that they tend to be slighter bumps due to the low speed.
Because when you're treating React as a templating language, it's easier to let it run on the client side during development and add server rendering later.
Unearthed near Hadrian’s Wall: lost secrets of first Roman soldiers
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