skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a proper functioning free market, companies are replaceable and reasonably transparent, so people can arrive at decisions and 'vote' with their actions in a practical sense.

I think the key point here isn't the system, but 'proper functioning'. In the event that no system is ever properly functioning, what's causing the least damage?

I'm reminded of the many stories I've seen claiming that people given experience of both, preferred 'bread line' communism to free market capitalism.

These people were never the lottery winners of capitalism: they're always just worker bee types, and their observation was that communism sucked but was stable and consistent. Small dreams, small risks, reasonable safety for the worker bees.

When they experienced capitalism, they had no preparation to competitively attack their fellow workers and win, and as a result they didn't win, they became worker bees under capitalism, and dropped below their previous living standard. Granted, this provided an environment where more ambitious worker bees could prevail and get rich, and that's the system working as intended, but for the less motivated ones, their experience told 'em communism took better care of them… in spite of the litany of horror stories we've all heard over and over (I live in the USA, so I've been indoctrinated against communism all my adult life).

I think it's pretty important to examine how these systems work when they're NOT properly functioning. It seems like free market capitalism produces some pretty spectacular damage when it catastrophically fails, but it's more abstracted. When something like communism catastrophically fails, it's in the form of state genocide, with more intentionality.
For the first time, I'm also tempted by an iPhone.

But, it's still a proprietary system, and there are far fewer open source apps in the App Store compared to the Play store.

Maybe I'm better continuing as I do now -- Android, but with Firefox + blocking plugins installed.
Software development discipline reshapes infrastructure
> The rich title goes to Luxembourg or Switzerland; then to Norway.

Tax havens are special cases, and so is Norway. Sweden and the Netherlands are more useful examples of somewhat richer countries that aren't rich because of one of those factors.

In general, it's more interesting to study wealth at the regional level (notice in particular the pretty vast difference between the former West and East Germany [1]).

> Their median net wealth per adult is a mere $42,000 and has not improved in over a decade. It's lower than Spain (which has over 1/3 less GDP per capita), Taiwan and the US.

This is largely a result of the low home ownership rate, second only to Switzerland in Europe. Net wealth is not a useful source of comparison, especially when it comes to poverty (poor people are generally more interested in the cost of renting than buying).

> Their median income is near ~25% below that of the US.

And so are annual hours worked per employee. It's a different tradeoff, work-life balance vs. income. And no, this is not the result of underemployment. Underemployment in Germany is pretty much middle of the road [2].

> What does that all add up to? Record poverty problems:

Ugh, no. Have a look at the income curves [3]. The bottom quintile in Germany is actually doing okay, other than compared to the Nordics. Yes, relative poverty and inequlity has risen over the past 25 years, but if you want to look for reasons, I'd start with reunification and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Living standards still differ greatly between the former West and the former East Germany and wage competition from and outsourcing to Eastern Europe hasn't helped, either (though that was good for Eastern Europe, something that shouldn't be forgotten).

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

[2] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/08/15/this-...
I can only answer for myself: I have a decent amount of faith in Googles ability to effectively advertise to me in a non-obtrusive manner, while treating my data responsibly.

Taking it one level of abstraction up, I don't see a future where using your data for efficient targeting of advertising isn't happening (and I don't consider that an obviously bad thing), and I consider Google a net positive force in shaping a responsible way of doing that.
"You would rather be blasted with pet snake food, hemorrhoids cream and nail polish - over the laptop with a drop in price after you visited a website and added it to the cart."

Yes, I would, for two reasons. First, the more poorly targeted the advertising is, the less effective it is at manipulating my mental state. As much as we'd all like to pretend to be Ubermenschs unaffected by advertising, we are not, and even the effort of consciously countering the subconscious impacts is one I'd rather not have to take.

Second, such poorly targeted ads would be accompanied by not being worth much as an ad; ultimately the ad system is fed by actual purchases in some sort of vague reaction to the ads, so poorly targeted ads would starve the incoming funds to the whole system, and be much more likely to be simple destroyed by lack of effect.
Yes, technically this can be addressed by a class action suit. Which is better than nothing, I guess.

This has always struck me as an odd anti-regulatory argument, though. "Governments shouldn't use their power to distort the market. Therefore regulations are inherently bad. Instead we should distort the market using a different branch of the government, but in a much more capricious and unpredictable manner."
Importance of Animated Videos for Digital Marketing of Your Business
Do those mister's really work? I remember liking what I saw from the promo's but there seemed to be a lot of people claiming snake-oil.
But if you've already decided to make a trip, flying is the safest way to cover a given distance. It's pretty rare to choose between taking an average-length car ride vs an average-length plane ride.
SIMON and SPECK have received peer review:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=speck+cipher&btnG...
Got documentation for this?
Credit scores and credit reports are separate products. It would be possible to nationalize credit reporting while banning any government involvement in credit scoring. The government could license access to an arbitrary person's full credit report, requiring payment per person per access and compliance with a laundry list of consumer protection clauses, while notifying that person on at least an annual basis about who has been pulling their report. Perhaps more often, if you want to pay for the extra stamps or give permission for e-mail notifications.

The FICA folks could pull your report and reduce you to a number every time some creditor wants to check up on your creditworthiness. AirBnB could pull the same data and produce a houseguest score, so people can feel comfortable that you won't trash their place. A background check agency could pull the same data and try to figure out whether you are likely to hurt an employer's business.
Based, lurk moar.
This Company Is Offering 'Workations' by the Beach in Cape Town
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How front end unit testing turned from a fling to a real thing for me
No, they aren't. It feels vastly different knowing that if there is an accident while flying you are almost guaranteed to die, while a road accident is almost guaranteed not to kill you.
Now here is a perfect, legitimate use of libel law. If a company with whom you have no relationship is lying about you to people with whom you're attempting to do business, that sounds like libel to me.

Of course, that's preempted by a federal law that Equifax & friends carefully purchased. Perhaps all we need is for them to lose that protection to give them a reason to care.
"cat flap"
I noticed this is GPLv3, which means if you use this library, all your application will have to be open source, however IANAL.
Azure IoT Edge with Raspberry Pi
Which is why having choice of products to buy is a great thing. By all means buy platforms that give you a greater degree of customization if that's your preference. But understand that different people have different priorities and one path isn't inherently better than the other.
I am no expert into AI. The AR part we learned because we are busy in VR. It is a natural evolution in that case, as we can use the workflow we are used to in VR.

The AI part however is more complex, as it requires understanding of the concepts and methodologies behind it. We used Deep Learning methodologies for this project. This is an upcoming field in AI, which evolves very quickly. If you are interested in it, it's a great time to start learning the basics of it!
No but individuals, particularly women, working in AI might have a problem with objectification of women.
Yes just kick out the poor from the cities that are the center of their life: where they lived for their whole life, where friends and family live, where their job is, where they are active in clubs, where there are jobs and cultural offers.
Ok sure but all of your objections above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303289) can be applied to the other two agencies as well. They collect all your info also. I'm personally not super optimistic about their security.
At least all the minor iteration results in products that work rather than broken piles of unicorn shit.
Murex: $SHELL with man page parsing for auto-completion
9 Reasons why users still struggle with online security
> They should be liable for the damage

If they are are so liable, then to remain profitable they will find a way to pass on their cost to the customers. Those customers in turn, will pass it on to the consumer. So then you end up footing liability insurance bill for the privilege of being subject to a credit search.
Those sanitizers are present in gcc too[0].

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.h...
The progressive attitude of tech is an expression of cognitive dissonance. Sure, it'd be great if (eg:) Google hit their diversity goals, but that's not my point. Other than avoiding bad press and making money, what can convince huge bureaucracies to care so much about progressive bugbears?

I propose that it's a way to ignore how disgusting the software they've built is. Rather than address the monster in their basement of their own creation, they looked to the next-closest moral fight they could find and went full tilt on saving the world from that. The location of their headquarters per-determined the particular fights they would choose. Frantic activity as a defense against change.
The Pao Effect is what happens after Lean In
I wonder how many will consider switching to Kotlin instead of upgrading to Java 9. Kotlin is really just what Java should/could have been. It wouldn't surprise me if Kotlin has mostly replaced Java in 10 years.
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Indeed, thanks for the comment! Unreal Engine is a great engine to quickly build prototypes in. We are used to work with the included VR Template of Unreal, and it most of the times works great.

Also for more serious projects, Unreal did not let us down.
"China is a country with a huge store of domestic savings and a still tightly controlled capital account. China doesn’t rely on foreign funding."

'nuff said.
Note: I said I personally agree with property tax. I think it is vital to pay for the roads and other critical services homeowners get from the local municipality. I didn't take a stance on whether or not you actual own your real-estate.
People don't drive from the US to France. So, you can't assume mode of transit has zero impact on trip length.

Flying promotes more long trips making fatalities per mile meaningless.

Further, highway miles while sober have very different safety numbers. Making the short vs long trip comparison even more different.
Right place, right time for Newport's old wafer fab?
> Acrivastine doesn't really have any sedative effect at all

no, but benadryl does. which is exactly what the op said, and op doesn't live in your country. in fact, most people don't live in your country.
There are diminishing returns on investments like these. If they can get the job done using this much money, why would they spend more to accomplish the same thing?
How much money will Arcelor earn from this piece of Software? You just implemented it for free!
That is a hard lesson to learn; I'm still working on it decades in!
Will Bitcoin ever hit $10,000?
Tic-Tac-Toe: A dev.to community challenge
> I have seen no one doing as much as Apple for privacy along with a good user experience

Uh... Mozilla.
I would guess RF = radio frequency, so a lab dealing with cellular chips
Wow, I was at a hack night and saw a demo by someone who had made exactly this type of app on his computer using its webcam. He built a neural network and trained it, and it could even handle angles that weren't straight on. I don't think he's the same guy, but yeah, it's a clever idea.
Back in 2009 I worked part-time at the early morning shift loading UPS's brown delivery trucks. I made above minimum wage with no option of overtime yielding ~12k/year. They had an education credit of 1.5k/semester provided you were a full-time student (12+ credits/semester). I don't remember about the health insurance because I was under my parents'. At that time there was a 10 year wait queue for full-time employment because it's primarily seniority based. And the Teamsters union initiation dues suck your first month of pay.

Oh, make sure to properly pad your fragile packages because they may or may not be pushed, shoved, flipped, thrown, or dropped depending on how busy it is.
Now do you understand why the Chinese government is attempting to ban Bitcoin? Chinese people are scared of their currency and want an easy way to convert theirs into a non-traceable one in case the country descends into a depression.
The UK's national lottery android (and maybe Apple?) app already does the second one.

It's just done with a QR code.

Unfortunately... there was a bug and it told people they hadn't won: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/national-lott...
> Although they call themselves bureaus, there is nothing governmental about what these private companies do.

That is a naive statement, perhaps based on an idealized version of a few cherry-picked governments.
Me either! That's absolutely a valid point. And I am terrified that this breach will ultimately result in the end of the credit system as we know it, but right now taking such a position is still scare-mongering. (Very reasonable scare mongering, mind you, but maybe cart before the horse.)

We can't just unplug all three agencies and shut down the credit industry, but why can't we shut down Equifax? Take the drivers' license and the car keys away from the drunk driver.

They are the ones that let the cat out of the bag, they should no longer be allowed to collect our personal information. There is no reasonable argument that can be made that Equifax in particular, should be allowed to go on making money off of our personal data with the negligent failure that they have created for us and admitted to, after what all has happened.

Edit:
When Sonny Vleisides plead guilty to Felony Mail Fraud in 2007, he was forbidden to engage in loan programs, gambling or gaming activities, telemarketing activities, investment programs or any other business involving the solicitation of funds. He went on to found the company called Butterfly Labs in 2010, a company that took pre-orders for Bitcoin mining equipment (in many cases soliciting funds for hardware that didn't exist, until it did).

Many people argued that this model was a direct violation of the terms of his supervised release. He stood in front of a judge in 2014 that said there was a "strong smell" of fraud with respect to his company.

Equifax it seems gets to skip the whole "plead guilty" thing and just announced their negligent failure directly to the world. When does Equifax get their 14 months in jail followed by a supervised release? Never, apparently, they just go on about their business and no charges are filed. It's absolutely ridiculous in my humble opinion. Maybe I'm the one who is being unreasonable, expecting that the wheels of justice can turn more rapidly than one can reasonably expect.

It's not exactly parallel, I'm stretching to draw parallels obviously, but there should be some parallels in the arena of legal action here. Has anyone argued that Equifax wasn't negligent in the circumstances leading up to the breach? What about in their actions since then? How much further does it have to go before we can get the FTC or US Marshals involved and shut the place down?
> It is a way for Arcelor to think out-of-the-box, and get input from people that are not directly linked to their business.

And there's nothing wrong with that, so much so, that we created a title for these people: Consultant.

They're highly paid, and available to bring years of domain experience to a business.

How much value did ArcellorMittal get in exchange for 8.5k and some pizza? How much would <leading AR firm> charge, in comparison?

(Man, programmers desperately need someone to tell them that no, not everyone just "gets" programming. You have a skill, charge for it!)
You can live in the city that is the center of your life as long as you want, provided you can pay rent.

Once you can't pay your rent and apply for subsidies, naturally we should see where the compromise is.

Otherwise you will not help yourself landing in the situation where X can fit in a city comfortably, but 10*X people consider the particular city the center of their life. What do we do?
I don't think Google cares about tablets anymore.

But I would love to see an updated nexus 7!
Shouldn’t that be “Fortunately...” ?
Or you could just do what other countries do, regulate it and make it a government function.
The road to electric car paradise is paved with handouts
Spiceworks has a network management app that runs on a rails server on your network and uses sqlite to store everything and run the multi-tenant help desk. I was always surprised how well it worked.
> Hard to pitch a peer to peer electronic cash system that costs $5.

Eh, maybe it means the p2p electronic cash doesn't need pitching. It is already there and successful.

People talk about bitcoin like it needs to be cheap, solve a problem, be non-volatile. The truth is, the crypto market is $100bn+ big and doesn't seem to care much.
Just to add there are many non-profit and religious based support networks. Including things like “soup kitchens”, food drives, and shelters that are not government run.
The problem isn't that they're allowed to go bankrupt, it's that they're allowed to make bets with huge downside risk knowing that if they lose the bet they don't bare the cost.
All sanitizers are also available in GCC, so no.
>We should keep in sight what's the goal of targeted advertising - is to deliver relevant a message to the right users.

No, the goal is to make more money. Relevant is a sometimes side effect. The "right users" might also be the ones that are drunk, or emotionally vulnerable, or just got paid, or won at blackjack, or etc.
Yeah, if your linter/build tool can't handle Javascript that doesn't have semicolons, it should be considered fundamentally broken and/or incomplete.

So the question to me becomes, if the build tool doesn't correctly parse the JS that's lacking semicolons, should you really trust that build tool with the rest of your code? You already know at that point that it doesn't handle your otherwise-valid semicolonless JS correctly.
Impressive; I didn't take a look since the 3.x series, so I am totally stunned by the amount of "love" that LLVM has received lately (4, which was released just a few months ago, and up to the coming version 6, that is under development still).
Yes, and it is also important to remember that "tiny", when referring to an Apple product line, means "if it were a freestanding company, it would be in the F500".
Glad I could help. Thank you for writing it!
> if UBI is X/month, then monthly rent for anything will grow to at least X/month because why wouldn't it?

Because there's plenty of real estate offered cheap once you don't have to hang out near a big economic center?

Real estate is commodity in many places, why won't it be? People will just move there.
What the hell is 'this'?
Great questions.

- OSGi: offers run-time modularization (based on classloaders), with a more dynamic model (bundles can start/stop/load/unload). Often derided for its complexity, which Jigsaw has tried to reduce (in part by offering a less dynamic model)

- Forced modularization: fortunately, Java 9 has many migration features to allow incremental modularization. Most notable are automatic modules, which allow you to treat non-modularized JARs as modules, and interoperation between automatic modules and the classpath

Hope this helps.
Is it only me or this looks like a Macron-effect? I mean, President Macron did show to the world it was possible for a young fellow to hijack the elections, even in a (relatively) stable democracy. Actually, if you think about it, it seems not that hard to be (or look) much less repugnant than the old comical zombies and rotten clowns we get proposed.
> Pointless abstraction is one of my pet peeves in this industry. This looks like it has gone from a fairly straightforward, if kludgy, piece of code to something far more complex. Why not just: [code]

Your example code works just fine for promises of course, but not all monads support a coalescing operation like Promise.all.

So even though this article only discusses folding over Promises, the core idea here can be generalised to any monad type (such as Promise, Result, Option, or anything else)
> I mean, as I understand it, it hasn't been publicly released yet.

Not sure what you mean by this. iOS 11 was released on 09-19-2017, so not sure what you're saying is still awaiting a public release?

Regarding your second point, definitely agreed. However, to me this seems almost beyond the scope of Least Surprise and more akin to the Windows 10 fiasco where clicking the red X close button actually accepted the update and installed Windows 10. [1]

Bottom line: there are certain established UI conventions (i.e., an on/off button turns things on and off) that you really can't change without causing a lot of issues and user frustration. And if you do change them, please alert your users. Otherwise, it seems shady and is definitely a UX faux pas.

[1] http://bgr.com/2016/05/25/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-trick...
I would hope the sharply better security of Wire or WhatsApp would be a good reason to use them instead of Telegram.
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All that is clear here that the Scientific 7 Minute Workout produces 1980's michael-j-fox hair.
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Why has Google bought HTC's smartphone tech business? UK
>There are some studies, however, that show even relatively mild levels of hypoxia (deficiency in oxygen) can alter our ability to think clearly.

I do CO2 and O2 training tables for training longer breath holds. [1] I sometimes do these while playing Overwatch. I have noticed that I play like an absolute idiot while I am on a breath hold. I just end up making really tiny mistakes that I wouldn't normally, or running into situations that I shouldn't have.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gix.apneatrain...
You mean it's Nytol then.
That really depends on how you feel about the disclosure requirement.