skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about that combination of tooling, but I consider pollen to be useful as markdown + customization. Ofc its a full general-purpose language to work with, but I myself just wanted it to solve adding sidenotes, footnotes and simple references.

I also noted others using to handle blog publishing tasks like latest post pages and tags and such

I guess in total its a general html publishing framework, and at least partly notable for being built in a lisp, given htnl's usage of basically s-expressions
This is just a temporary ban saudia just allowed use of whatsapp calling as they were given access and allowed to monitor. China will also allow once it gets access.
It's an airship, so all that matters is shear. If it doesn't have to have zero groundspeed then it doesn't matter how fast the wind is blowing, just go that direction.
VT-d is a prerequisite for TXT, which has value to people who aren't using VMs or containers.

VT-d also enables device driver containment/isolation, again, which provides value to people not otherwise interested in VMs or containers.
I don't think that's crazy. The GDR economy was dismantled after the war by the soviets quite a bit more than in the west. Then it had a socialist style economy for several decades, then with the reunification, the economy collapsed. Lots of industry went away because it was not competitive and based on old technology or for various other reasons. East Germany is near to countries which are even poorer. The young people moved to the west to work there. This creates all kinds of structural disadvantages which will be hard to overcome in 50 years.
Not yet. Backup generators have lifespans in decades and cost less than $1000 per kW of power with energy only limited by fuel. What will the batteries be charged by when some huge storm makes it cloudy and rainy for days? Batteries as a backup power source sound great until you have to depend on them and they run out.

Batteries plus solar to run some led lights where there is no utility makes perfect sense though.
Uhm, changing published commits is not recommended in git, maybe except private repos or branches. Could you point to specific workflows that encourage this?
> Say what you want about modern C++

Ok, if you want. Then I will.

Modern C++ is one of my favorite programming languages I've ever used. Some years, I write it exclusively, others not so much. Depends on the work. But in my memory I have a particularly fond spot for those periods in which I was writing C++14.
I know people stick their DOB (and photo!) on their CVs in the Netherlands. As far as I'm aware that would be quite odd to see in the US. There are some differences here in what is comfortably or preemptively shared with employers between the US and the NL.
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There needs to be consent on both sides, for it to enter the realm of legitimacy.
By numbers there's enough to keep law enforcement busy. However, the percentage of global activity originating in the US would be insignificant.
Oh, not much to wonder I reckon. Thanks for the info.
I have 5 tables which have overrun the range of int in the id column. Happily they were defined bigint. A while ago one ran out of tinyints, but doing the schema change...was pretty terrible actually due to the foreign keys. The tinyint decision wasn't me, I want to make clear. New tables all get bigint. Either you don't have many rows, so you can spare the space, or you have a lot of rows and the thought of changing the type of your primary key gives you a queasy feeling in your belly.
Btw this is my first "Ask HN" post... not sure if I did it right since I don't see it on the "ask" tab and everything's greyed out :\. Happy for advice on that front too ;)
Hi, just thought I'd chime in with my experience.

The Call to action buttons link to a login page, but the buttons "Start building your ideal week today" seem to suggest this would take me either direct to the app or at least to a signup page. This confused me a little, and I'm sure it would confuse others.

The login page itself doesn't look great for converting people, the "create an account" button gets drowned out and it took me a second to find it.

I'd suggest linking directly to a signup page and having a seperate link on the homepage for existing users to login.

Hope this helps.
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Apple can just acquire DuckDuckGo.
Yawn... Wechat already dominates and is generally better.

Watching them try to ban bitcoin (another US invention) is more interesting.
Call me old-school but email works. Everyone has an email address. It's so simple, is a standard. They can even do a fancy portal to email, as a form. Email even sits there until you have time to deal with it.

I've been using email successfully, since the early 1980s. It's easy enough for us old people to understand. Well, some of us understand it. Some folks insist on doing it in emacs, but they are few and far between.
Haha ... irrational indeed!
Such as WebRTC.
We are saying the same thing, led lighting off grid is an appropriate use of solar and battery
>The office worker running VMWare Fusion to run an old Windows program or any Dropbox user with the Smart Sync feature are all semi-technical audiences that need kernel extensions for their programs to work.

Uh, surely these would be signed?
i haven't touched mysql in years but quite frankly, 99% of websites out there (blog/cms) will run fairly fine on a Mysql database. as for the other 1%, they would be big enough to pick the right db of their choice as the time comes. so there is no need to tell everyone you should be using this or that.

this is kind of like telling everyone that they should ALL be using emacs, when vim/nano is still sufficient for the job.
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Poor Bing, I never thought I'd find myself rooting for Microsoft, but here I am.
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And Yahoo, in turn, gets its results from Bing.
I think they covered that:

> On our perspective the diffusion of bogus content is someway related to the increasing mistrust of people with respect to institutions, to the increasing level of functional illiteracy -- i.e., the inability to understand information correctly -- affecting western countries, as well as the combined effect of confirmation bias at work on a enormous basin of information where the quality is poor.
Yahoo results aren't the same as Bing's; it is merely powered by it, Yahoo still has some control over results and how it uses Bing's service.
Agreed! Sadly it is difficult to fully emulate in Python without some form of delayed evaluation in the language.
> Apple doesn't care about it's users' privacy

Not sure where this idea came from, but this is so far from the truth it isn't even funny.

1) Focus on encryption everywhere.

2) Privacy controls built into iOS way sooner than Android ever had.

3) Fought (and won) against the FBI demanding a universal backdoor.

4) Developed on-device machine learning tech, even if it isn't as powerful as the collective, it protects users privacy.

5) Fully detailed white papers around iMessage security and encryption.

... and the list goes on. Saying things like that first sentence is just gross negligence to discussing and reporting on facts here on HN.
>A small town in Jammu doesn't represent the entire country you know

I never said it does and I never said that demonetization was successful. I was just replying with first hand experience that impact of demonetization was not too bad for the people from what I saw and that the google will show what you want it to show.

>It's insane that even educated people don't accept the truth and get carried away by emotional rhetoric

What made you think that I got carried away by emotional rhetoric?
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A clearer explanation is the lazy evaluation here: http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Functions.html#function-arguments

I can pass an argument but R won’t try to evaluate unless it needs it. This can be beneficial when only some of a function’s branches need the argument. You can pass a solver for the traveling salesman problem but R won’t waste CPU cycles until it reaches a point where it has to solve the TSP to get an answer. Maybe the first branch of the function is a feasibility check, and the TSP will be skipped for something else.

This is a little harder to explain for data frames, but you can create R functions that act a little like generators in python. This can help with memory management where instead of a gigantic matrix you have a function that generates the part of the matrix that you need.
What? No they aren't, I work with satellite imagery processing which is quite large in it raw data format, and after a decade we are not dealing with petabytes of active data, hundreds of gigs for a full earth coverage.

Before that I have held positions in finance, dealing with realtime transaction processing. We did not work in petabytes.

If you are working in petabytes you are storing crap in your production database, and 99% of that data is wasted.
> What is it that is serverless?

Your sysadmin.

https://serverless.zone/serverless-is-just-a-name-we-could-h...
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The French have their national Police and also 'Gendarmes' which are like police, but I think a branch of the Armed forces.

I'm not so sure of the history, but it's not so crazy that there are 'two' so long as roles are clear etc..

Nation states are funny things. They change slowly :)

One thing is for certain: there should be more control over who gets to be a 'cop' and the training and ultimate badge authority should be centralized at least at the state level.

This idea of 'Universities' hiring their own cops ... with authority to arrest ... who is in charge of them exactly?

I mean, in France they have 'two systems' but as far as I remember that covers everything and there are only 2 kinds of police uniforms that I ever saw. If there is one goofball cop/gendarme, his case will go pretty high up. Not to the 'dean' of the local college or whatever. Or to 'an elected guy' from some village.
Demonetization 101

- India is a cash based economy. Most people, apart from the few doctors, lawyers, engineers etcz, are paid in cash and in turn pay for everything in cash.

- Since many businesses operate entirely in cash, revenue figures and tax payments are entirely self reported. The govt sees less tax receipts than it thinks it should.

- in November 2016 the govt decided that all high value notes were no longer legal tender and had to be returned to banks. The idea at the time being that businessmen who had hoarded mountains of cash would be forced to let their wealth disappear or deposit it and explain their sources of income. Also, people indulging in illegal activities such as politicians accepting bribes would be forced to throw the money away

- That's not what happened.

- As I said, the economy is cash based. With everyone's cash invalidated and the ATMs requiring retooling before they could work with the new notes, the economy ground to a halt. People stopped making purchases they otherwise would have, both large and small. They bought fewer TVs and washing machines, and also fewer cigarettes, fewer meals at restaurants, fewer clothes, fewer vacations. Every single sector saw their revenues fall, and a lot of people, mostly rural, lost their jobs. Farmers at the time were selling their produce for less than a tenth of what they did previously because they were desperate for money. So yes, GDP took a hit. But it's cool because the govt fudged the figures and made it appear better than it actually was.

- The real kicker however, is that the people with mountains of cash figured out ways to move that money into their accounts without raising any eyebrows. Brokers that did this merely took a 10-15% cut, rather than the 30-45% cut the govt hoped to take. 99% of notes were returned, hardly the success the govt hoped for.

- Later they changed the goalposts, claiming that the goal of this exercise was to promote digital payments, not catch the tax dodgers. Hogwash.

So to recap

1. Govt comes up with stupid scheme.

2. Implements it poorly when replacement notes are not available.

3. Scheme fails, innocent people are hurt, jobs are lost, growth grinds to a halt.

4. Govt shifts goalposts and claims victory.

Sources

1. The high economic costs of India's demonetization - https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2171384...

2. Growth remains sluggish a year later - http://m.economictimes.com/news/economy/indicators/most-accu...
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I interned at MSFT working on Word. Engineers and PMs in Office see a lot of opportunity in AI. PowerPoint Designer and the newer ML based proofing in Word are good examples of things that have already shipped. I never saw anything resembling a war.
>Just copy paste a little code snippet and we manage everything.

It's another Disqus.
Not sure that's an informative answer. Can't always trust what the MSM says. Not sure from where you got such a notion.
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FUD, what FUD?

I just don't find your arguments for separation tell the whole story. I support self-determination but ultimately the strongest argument for independence is that Catalonia has a population of greater than several EU states and could go it alone without federalism.

You mention oppression under Franco. He hated and executed a bunch of people, from anarchists, to PSOE under Largo Caballero, to hard core communists. Other language minorities were not allowed to spread their language either. That was 40 years ago. Do you really blame the rest of the country, today, for the 'sins' of their grandparents?

Old wounds and if your hatred is for "Madrid", they were Republicans - NOT bullfighting fascists.

Galegos and Basques would have equal claim to independence under linguistic autonomy. But I guess I see bilingualism as a blessing rather than a curse. And in that regard the Catalonian government's educational policies have been undoing the historical trauma of Spanish as the "High" language of diglossia. Yet Valencia isn't calling to become a separate country, despite Valenciano being a near-identical language.

I'm not condoning the actions of PP, Rajoy or the Guardia Civil by any means.
Apple's just worse than Google at building these kind of heavily data driven web applications, which they've chosen to paper over to the public with a strong stance on privacy. It's a smart business move.
Good idea!

Two things:

1. Please make sure you support all languages (utf-8).

2. Some public forums want anonymous posts that they can check and allow manually but still need to know who it came from (newspapers in Sweden does this a lot). Usually requires entering an email adress every time and a checkbox "I preffer to be anonymous".
I'm seriously wondering why we open up our markets to China, if they won't ever allow our companies to thrive there.

They shouldn't be allowed to take over companies too.
Their Text Analytics offering is still for some reason behind IBM Watson (and I don't even like Watson). Missing: named entity recognition, and multi-label classification (if they did a hierarchial multi-label classifier, the would be amazing).
> They had basically nothing at stake.

Except the human cost and resulting PR nightmare if a terrorist attack happened that they could have in principle prevented (e.g. if the terrorist had collaborators, and information on the phone helped find them).

> I don't think this was a particularly difficult thing to do.

Very easy to say when you're not the one responsible for that $800bn company ... if you're a decent human being, you're probably not worried about your own wealth in that situation, but the livelihoods of all your employees and other entities that rely on you. Every decision carries weight. The value of your company is not always empowering; the higher its value, the larger the consequences if you're wrong.
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They could probably make the new behavior opt-in in the application manifest.

Without a manifest, you'll see pre-XP common controls, and GetVersion will return an old version, so every modern application has it anyway.
The question is will the govt have money for all these projects?

The bullet train which is a loan from Japan for 50 years at 0.1% additionally permitting Japan in on Indians infra development.
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This was fun, a bit hard to figure out, but I did eventually manage to kill quite the number of enemy (?) ships and even travel through hyperspace!

I also tried to save some other players by killing the ships that were following them, but they never survived…
> SQL has never been a particularly elegant language

I hear that often. But SQL is close to a 1-to-1 mapping with sets of data. It's refreshing to use something as math like when programming. I find that elegant.
I don't get your argument really, nor am I trying to say I support what the Chinese government are doing.

Given what we now know about how these companies operate track and consolidate information about users and collaborate with the US Government [1] why would a rival super power trust these companies to operate within their borders?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
I usually use pandas as exploratory data tool and then rewrite code using numpy because pandas needs much more memory and is lot slower.
I picked the names in the parent comment carefully.

I'm not advocating no-platforming as a blanket policy for anybody I disagree with. I'm just saying if you have a death toll attached to your name, maybe you don't deserve the same respect afforded to somebody who simply has an unpopular opinion.
This does not mean that ads are the only possible model, of course.
> the view of the starry night sky (which I have not seen in decades, since moving to a metropolitan area)

One reason why I will never live in a city again.
Sorry if this isn't super constructive, but I read your comment twice and don't have the foggiest idea of what you're trying to say. It feels like you're just being contrarian and ranting against, sort of everything?
So, how'd it turn out? Did you ship any games?
Not an alternative at all. It's what's happening and it's no good. The benefactors are the Chinese me-too tech industry and the government. The ultimate loser is the Chinese consumer.

If China banned coca-cola and bragged about its burgeoning soft-drink industry we'd all be laughing at it.
Except that maybe it's precisely because it was meant as an OO database that you can now enjoy jsonb or geography datatype that are pretty complex.

Also a lot of OO mechanisms become really useful without being clearly identified. For instance every table automatically generate an object definition (aka composite type aka rowtype) that you can use anywhere to ensure that a return type conforms to this definition. You can also check and validate single row well ahead of an insert attempts filter out and store unmatching data structure in an generic human readable rowtype while accepting correctly formated entries.

PS: I don't now if my examples were good or understandable but heck I tried, feel free to correct me if needed ;)
He was quite right, this is what attracted me to C++ after Turbo Pascal, in spite of disliking C.

I could have the type safety of Turbo Pascal, its scope of language features and spend less time writing my own FFI wrappers to the OS APIs, that were adopting C as their new systems language.

Of course to achieve that safety like level, I still had to write my own wrapper classes, but it was less effort than full blown FFI code in languages that have completely difference concepts.

EDIT: Typo, was -> as
Many of our companies do thrive in china, and the rich people in the USA make lots of money off the arrangement. Don't think for a second that the relationship is one sided.

Still, china could be a bit more fair and symmetrical in our trading relationship.
Ah, but fixing that would stop Google from being able to slap their branding on everybody else's content...

Tough call for them.
It is essentially the same result when the underlying engine is Bing, even though Yahoo can choose how to use the engine.
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Putting citizens in the strict climate that China has created almost certainly causes a chilling effect for some ideas. But what if the ideas that it chills are ones that generally detract from the goal of China becoming a world power?

I'm not ready to rule out the idea that China has become a global power because of, and not in spite if, the way that it controls citizens.
>I think the bigger issue is that you can use an RDBMS to do NoSQL-like things, such as key-value stores, with the flexibility to structure your data if you need that later. So why not start with a relational database?

I've tried that in the past and failed miserably.

1) values in a key-value table will endup needing to hold nested data structures, such as a JS object/hash. Ie. mykey={...}

2) turning values to JSON (or some other serialization) makes it impossible to concurrently update or search subkeys.

3) so you convert your complex (sets, hashes) key-value data into several rows that hold one subkey per row, so now you have updatable rows but still no indexable solution and a serious performance problem.

4) so you create a multi column type-segregated table (one column for each DB type) for indexing your key-values and making them searcheable. That also requires a metadata table to go with it so that you know in which column your key or subkey is indexed.

5) say you successfully implemented your key-value store with your RDBMS. You still don't have usable joins (you don't have relational data) or a real migration path out of your key-values.

Trust me, don't just put keys and values in a relational DB. Start with the right tool for the job, either make your schema relational from the beginning or use a proper KV or document store.
Is it actually illegal for the actual Russian government to buy advertising on Facebook/Google linking to influential material? Not being condescending but actually asking this. Facebook can easily terminate the ads but does the US gov’t have this as illegal?
Bing/Yahoo/Yandex but the point that Apple is in the position DDG is in to protect user's privacy if they choose to with Siri/Spotlight etc. They can take the search from the phone, strip it of identifying information and forward it to Google then return the results they get back.

You can test that they are doing that by searching for something directly on Google, and then searching for it on Siri. If the results page differ, there is a chance that Siri is not passing along state information to Google.