skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The javac compiler has a new option "--release" which can compile against previous Java releases 6, 7 and 8. So the new JDK bundles parts of the previous releases.
It boggles my mind that in such a connected age, getting accurate news should be such a hard problem. Never mind influencing the world - if I personally want to know what is really going on, I have no idea where to turn. Surely, surely, there must be a group out there that cares about accurate information and responsible research, to which I can subscribe? I am all for critical thinking, but having to become an expert in everything is wearying.
A problem that I usually have with Google Maps is that, when I am driving in (or next to) an elevated highway, the GPS usually does not know if I am in the highway or in the road beneath it.

Knowing the lane of the highway you are may be useful as well.
Would you please stop using HN for political battle?

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> Internet (or wide availability of catalog shopping combined with reasonable delivery options) concentrates things like retail or media distribution in the hands of the very few.

Which is crazy if you think about it, decentralization was supposed to allow others in but really the internet gave the bigger companies such an exponential advantage that they ate everything else. Combine that with wage stagnation since 2000 and the consumer economy dwindled and thus killed off many players compounded with the innovation and technology of the web + mobile.
Then I am curious about what makes RLS or the alike so hard to onboard? Common IDE features like reliable and responsive "jump to definition", "Find all references" and "Renaming symbols" are 90% of all I would ask for. Do Rust devs have less attention to the area?
Asking for evidence of the debt is hardly ignoring it.
I bought it partly because I like the offline tracker idea, other stuff seems to have some cloud backend. Also wanted to support development, it was on the front page a couple months ago.

Decent product, if you are looking for something like this.
London is about 'fintech', so Scala is in great demand.
SF Bay Area is about 'webscale' so Go is popular, as it established as The Cloud Automation language. And HN crowd is mostly leaning to SF. OTOH you wouldn't find a great demand for Oracle DBA or C# skills in The Valley, and that's not because they are not in great demand somewhere else - maybe even basically everywhere else like C#.

Places lean to some niche or other, and vice versa. Apple places its growing hardware teams in Texas despite new campus in The Valley and all that. Why? Because Austin is very much hardware place.
> The study’s conclusion: With the exception of recently released blockbusters, there is no evidence to support the idea that online copyright infringement displaces sales.

For the owners of the copyright on the blockbuster, that’s still going to bite.

Disappointing that this was put in a hole and had to come to light like this instead of being released as normal, but I’m not sure it equates to piracy having no real measurable impact on rights owners.
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To substitute variables in a localized error message template.
DDC is irrelevant here, DDC is an argument to not write the second compiler in C++ and write it in Rust too.

Having a Rust compiler in C++ is a mitigation to the trusting trust attack, period. You don't need DDC for this.

DDC is necessary when you have two self hosted compilers (e.g. GCC and clang). Here we have one self-hosted compiler (rustc), and one in another language (C++). To mitigate trusting trust in rustc, use mrustc to compile rustc, and then use that rustc to compile itself, and now you have a trusted binary (provided you trust your C++ compiler. you can fix this by DDCing the C++ compilers)
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Please keep religious flamewar off HN.
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I think it has value in the length of copyright being continuously extended. Far more than a patent, and even the lifetime of the creators of the work.
Apple limits uber's control over customer data
This sort of personal+ideological attack will get your account banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this again?
because of the multitude of positive effects it has on society that i live in. less depression, less poverty, less risky or criminal behavior, more economic activity, better educators, better medical care workers. this list can go on forever.
For those like me for whom "acre ft" means absolutely nothing, it's about 5,172Hhds[1]. Just kidding, it's 1,233 cubic metres, so 92 acre feet =~ 113,500m³.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead
A good reason why healthcare should be removed from employers hands. In fact we should only allow salary increases or money for benefits, not benefits such as healthcare for employees. "Real compensation" is not a good measure because it is so unique to situations, and in most cases benefits are not all that great, workers would always take more money and the consumer economy and individual/family insurance market would benefit from that as well.

Everyone needs to be in their own individual/family insurance, group everyone together across the nation and move it away from business/employers and selective grouping. Employers do not pay your auto, home, liability insurance of your personal property, why should they have anything to do with your health, that alone is an invasion of privacy and not secure for workers when they can't work due to health.

Allowing employers and insurance companies to fix prices in backrooms is part of the problem of wildly inflating healthcare costs due to bad insurance grouping. It also let's companies off from wage increases by saying it is all part of "real compensation" when in actuality the velocity of money is at an all time low[1] in a consumer economy, red alert...

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
Well actually I think people should first try getting off social media - and not just that - getting off Internet.
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existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305476 (229 points, 14 hours ago, 50 comments)
Against non-agreeing parties? So in the end it's just an elected government?
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The proper headline would be "EU commission goes to great lengths to hide the report that online piracy does not affect sales"
N.Y. Company Accused of Running Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
You are probably right, it just didn't register in my head. I've edited my comment.
I sometimes think DMV should require a coordination, or some kind of computer driving simulation test. I don't think a quick spin around the block weeds out the people who shouldn't be driving.

If you fail more than three times; you don't get a driver's license. Or, need to wait a few years, and reapply.
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Swift as a low-level programming language?
Citing reddit comments:

> Steam, spotify, and netflix completely ended my torrenting as soon as I got a job.

> When you're a teenager with no job and you can't afford shit, you just steal because it's so easy. But $20 a month is completely worth it for Spotify and Netflix when you're an adult for the convenience and lack of viruses.

> Poor people and kids won't be buying the games anyway so there's no loss of sale, but if they pirate it they're more likely to buy it later when they can afford it because they know they like it already!
First a note, godep is a different tool then the one you mean [1], that does the same.

> dep still has nasty bugs, but in general these are comparable or fewer to other tools out there.

(From the Github readme)

I started a project about two months ago and wanted to use Dep, however there were a few show stopping issues for that. Most prominently Go has issues with upppercase/lowercase repositories, meaning if one of your dependencies imports github.com/Sirupsen/logrus, and you or another dependency imports github.com/sirupsen/logrus your code won't compile, no matter if you are on a case sensitive system or a case-insensitive system. [2] The aforementioned logger made a switch in the naming which caused problems while most were migrating the import. The docker distribution in its latest stable version still uses uppercase, while others use the lowercase.

Dep follows the Go specifications and at the moment just throws an error, before, they didn't handle it at all.

So I had to resort to a different dependency management for now, which did some linking to fix the situation.

[1]https://github.com/tools/godep
[2]https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/1010
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I don't disagree, I think that certain ideas from the post-Keynesian and modern monetary theory are probably the closest to actual evidence based Economics at the moment.
a) Anyone who keeps tabs on the news doesn't need a peer-reviewed article to understand that bottling-companies-gone-wild is indeed an issue. These stories are fairly common.

b) Wrote "sole source of drinking water", not "primary source of water". They're not bathing in Nestle... yet.

c) Literally everyone I know goes through a case of the stuff every week. Anecdotal, I know. Sue me.
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I built a minor one - FocusList (http://focuslist.co) and it makes ramen income.

Here's an article about Timing: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/timing

I think he's doing much better now since he's released the new version. It's a great app too, worth the money.

I don't use it to actually track my time, but I use it to track my internet time - how much time I spent browsing.

If you're looking for something simpler for that purpose there's also this: http://focuslist.co/escape2/
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The guide told us they were using castor oil lamps.
Huh, is the whole thing a myth then? I'd definitely read that GR is necessary, but now that I'm searching I see mentions of it being a myth.
Very interesting, thanks!

I carried out two rounds of thermite "experiments", both times using oxides of iron, manganese, and copper. I witnessed two "explosions" (I now presume deflagrations) and they occurred with the copper oxide. I've occasionally wondered if that was a coincidence that it was the same metal that "exploded" both times. Mystery solved: apparently not!
I don't know about "good," but it's always money well spent to get a test kit from the home store (Home Depot and Lowes both sell them for $20-$30). Sometimes you can have an issue caused by your home that has nothing to do with the public supply.

Knew one person who found out his sewage pipes were somehow mingling with his fresh water ones this way. How that even happens, I do not know...
Yeah, I doubt I'll be investing in them. I can afford to park money in the long-term and take some risks but this one just seems stagnant.

Most of my assets are managed by a financial manager, but I do like to dabble with a smaller fund that I can risk losing entirely. I've actually had pretty good results, considering I'm not really skilled at this.

One of my methods is to simply read comments at sites like HN, Slashdot, Fark, and maybe even Reddit. I look for companies who are getting free publicity and are being reviewed by people who know more about the tech/business than I do.

I then go watch the trading volume and look for fluctuations. I'll read everything I can find about the company, including things like comments from employees at sites where employees anonymously rate their employer.

So far, it has been pretty successful. I made some pretty good money on Yahoo! at one point. I also bought ~$20,000 worth of Tesla when it was priced at $24. I still own those, I've not sold them. There have been a few others and they've done well enough.

I am absolutely not skilled at this. I mostly just buy and hold and plan on selling when it reaches a certain price. I don't have any of it automated, or anything like that. I've never tried to short or do put options. I'm not even entirely sure what the last one is.

It is just me playing around and learning as I go. I never spend anything that I can't afford to lose. I tend to go really slow and do a lot of reading before buying anything.

I've also had some luck with a slightly modified method. When I go to the grocery store, I'll look and see what brands are most frequently in carts and what isn't fully stocked on the shelf. I'll then look up the parent company and make a note of it. If I see that brand continually in shopping carts (I peek, I don't ogle or take pictures) then I'll do more reading and buy some shars in their parent companies. I notice that they seem to have continual but slower growth than the tech companies.

It's more or less just a game. I'd absolutely not take investment advice from me and I'm pretty sure my methods are unsound and probably unorthodox. I am absolutely open to advice, however.

So, with that, I thank you immensely. I'll continue to keep an eye on Twilio but I won't jump in just yet. I may never jump in at all. It's just on my, 'mentioned positively a lot list.'
For a view of what it's like to be a survivor, I'd suggest reading this excerpt from Hiroshima Diary (1945) by Michihiko Hachiya

https://ay12-14.moodle.wisc.edu/prod/pluginfile.php/204528/m...
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"ACID" isn't a term that used to describe distributed systems— that's physically impossible— only systems on a single machine. To say PostgreSQL isn't ACID is incorrect and disingenuous.
Sounds less like a ding on defense spending than a ding on labor market demand. Imagine just how many industries and entire localities would lose their base income sources if defense spending were 0.

I wonder how it would change if the “make work” government institution were NASA. I imagine their projects would employ more people across more diverse fields.
What's really interesting is that there are some commercial receivers out there that will use P(Y) Code even though they can't decrypt it. IIRC the weakness was something along the lines of the lower rate W code made it so that while you couldn't decrypt it you could still use it as a reference to increase the accuracy of the C/A code.

E.G.

P code 1001011010010110101010100010101

W code 00001111000000001111111100001111

And since it's modulated with the W code this would leak information. Not really sure how off base that part is, that's just a rough explanation I was told many years back.
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Ask HN: Advise on employment contract terms – UK
I have been offered a job at a place that I have really wanted to work for a few years, there are a lot of interesting people there and I was really excited about getting started. That is until I read the employment contract.

The section on intellectual property worries me a lot as I have created software in the past that currently sells a few copies a month and I will likely create more software in my free time that I intend to sell. The type of software I make is not related to what the company does but the wording in the contract makes it sound like if they wanted to, they could just claim ownership.

Here's the terms from the contract:

1: The Employee shall give the Company full written details of all Inventions and of all works embodying Intellectual Property Rights made wholly or partially by him at any time during the course of the Appointment which relate to, or are reasonably capable of being used in, the business of any Group Company. The Employee acknowledges that all Intellectual Property Rights subsisting (or which may in the future subsist) in all such Inventions and works shall automatically, on creation, vest in the Company absolutely. To the extent that they do not vest automatically, the Employee holds them on trust for the Company. The Employee agrees promptly to execute all documents and do all acts as may, in the opinion of the Company, be necessary to give effect to this clause 1.

2: The Employee hereby irrevocably waives all moral rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (and all similar rights in other jurisdictions) which he has or will have in any or future works referred to in clause 1

Would you sign something like this? I asked them for clarity and they basically just said this section in the contract makes it clear.
Start here https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

Then look here for patterns http://microservices.io/patterns/microservices.html

This guide is great https://www.nginx.com/blog/introduction-to-microservices/

Finally plugging my own tooling https://micro.mu/

Join http://slack.micro.mu if you want to discuss microservices
Yes that's true :-)

There are a lot of interesting intellectual discussion on the far-left here. A good amount of crackpots and conspiracy theorists too, but historically France has always been a crucible for leftist ideologies. On the other hand, there is a certain anti-technologism, a brand of eco-conservatism that seem to be less common in the US.

I use "far-left" to describe FI concisely but I am of the opinion that this is a misnomer. For me, far-left means communist and means collectivization of the means of productions. Only Force Ouvrière and the NPA propose that in France (and together they make 3%) Mélenchon is a more classic left-wing, just a bit more radical than Hollande but maybe less than Mitterand.

Yes, Obama would be considered centrist or right-wing moderate but French politics, like US politics, did shift right in the last decade. Many people compare Macron to Obama. People like me, who are pretty on the left, consider both to be center or right-center but many media put Macron on the left here.

It is muddied by the fact that he (like Obama actually) was vague enough on his campaign promises to not know who he will side with on issues that oppose employees and employers.

> These ideas will not easily translate into a US political context :)

It would be interesting to try though. Here the speaker talks to someone who does not mind leftist ideas but it would be doable to say the same things using a more libertarian mindset. After all, people like Alex Jones would probably be empowered by these too. If you have a leftist audience, focus on the independence from shareholders, if you have a right-wing audience, focus on the independence from government. If you have a conspiracy alt-right audience, wink implying that you get independence from the jews/reptilians/globalists that control the big media companies.

Semantic-field translation is a very useful exercise that the left must master :-)
I thought the article was quite good. It only mentions their product once, in an appropriate place, and aloud lists alternatives (along with a clear message this is their product).
> They are working on it.

The've been working on it for several years now. The result? Nothing is really happening.

Let's take AR as an example. Google had Tango ~1.5 years before Apple announced their AR. Tango had rationalisation and platform requirements for Android devices.

End result?

- Tango was moving nowhere. There were ~0 devices supporting it.

- Apple announces AR. It will be immediately available on ~200 million devices within a few months of iOS 11's release

- Google scrambles to remove some of the requirements from Tango and launch it ... for the two top devices on the market only. Running Nougat and up. That is, ~14% of ~10% of the Android market.

And the same goes for any other initiative that Google may have in the Android space.
As a far left thinker myself, I too hate this obsession with taxing income. If we are going to tax the rich, we should tax equity not income. Tax the land the rich own, tax the resources they extract, tax the patents and intellectual property rights they hold. Tax only that. How free would we all be, if there was no tax on economic activity?

I like to use the analogy of two boys in a playing field kicking a ball back and forth. Lets value the ball at $10. Each time they pass the ball from one to the other, they "create" $10 worth of economic activity, and under a simplified version of current logic, they should pay the state $2 for each pass. But what should really be taxed is the ball itself, and the land upon which they play. Not the number of times the ball changes hands.
Could you please keep programming language flamewars off HN? We're trying to avoid the destruction that befalls places that host these.
For businesses it all comes down to deductibility. Company cars were deductible back in the days, so everyone and their brother drove a company car. Then the tax reform removed that deduction, and all of a sudden company cars were no more.

Making insurance deductible is also advantageous to large caps over small businesses - Amazon will likely negotiate a better insurance package than Joe's E-Commerce Emporium, and all else being equal rational employees will choose Amazon for their amazing benefits. Which then negatively impacts new business creation, small business employment, entrepreneurship rates, geographic mobility, etc.
I am sure of nothing except that there was a sudden big flash and boom :)

From the clarifying comments below it seems likely it was a deflagration but I confess I've been using the words "explosion", "detonation" rather sloppily to mean "flash and boom" till now.

Thanks again for a marvelous article.
There's no such thing as US parmesan. Parmesan has PDO/DOP status and can only be made by wizened old men who've never travelled further than 12 miles from their picturesque place of birth in italy.

You can make "parmesan style hard cheese" but it's not the same. Grana padano is not parmesan, and that's PDO/DOP too
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Do you think 30 million gallons is truly worth $524?
Copenhagen Suborbitals has a blog-post about those limits:

By default all GPS units have some built-in limits (so-called COCOM
limits) that prevents them from providing any data if the velocity
exceeds 515 m/s at altitudes above 18 km. These artificial limits are
built into GPS receivers to prevent bad guys from using them in
missiles and other nasty stuff.

... and proceed to figure out a way around ...

https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/gps-without-limits/
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I do agree with that, but that is exactly why I always mention the "C with C++ compiler" idiom, which is usually followed by your remark.
People are scared that AI will take us out, but in actuality it will probably be a company that has a monopoly that gets too boisterous and does us all in. That might be combined with AI sentient beings, but ultimately they will be doing it just for that monopolistic corporation's mission statement to eliminate all competitive threats.