skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm — fake analogy. Bridge fall down would be more on the scale of, a software install stopped all service permanently, self erased, and could never be restarted.

Real software quality issues are more like re paving, painting, new cables, scraping off rust, closing for inspection — and slow commute traffic over the bridge.

Argument by analogy is just sophistry, the real argument is to precisely account for the total economic cost of defects, and what the cost would be to correct them. But that is a lot more effort than I have ever seen in a blog post.
Note that Rust doesn't prevent race conditions. Race conditions are application specific. Rust prevents data races, which has a very specific technical definition: an unsynchronized read and write to the same location in memory.
Let's eat pork then! They love corn, even though it makes them fat (white meat)

For those complaining about subsisides: any country worth its salt needs to make sure farmers and heavy industry don't go caput. People need to eat and someone needs to make tanks and bullets during tough times.
It isn't very clear to me yet what this does. Is it like nginx for containers or is it more than that?
Analysing facts has nothing to do with it, and the EU only has europa.eu, not the entire Murdoch media franchise.

Regardless, there are simple facts that people seem to ignore in this debate so I can't take what you said as wholesome or objective.

For instance, the UK was the only member not to impose an easing period in regards to Poland joining the EU. As such we saw an influx of poles as those who wanted to emigrate had nowhere else to go. Purely self-inflicted. But politicians blame the EU for this.

Another instance is: "No way to inhibit EU freedom of movement for those who choose to move here! We have to give them all our benefit money!". Well, you have to afford EU citizens the same rights as UK citizens for 6 months, if they're not economically active they do not have the right to stay. The benefit law could easily be amended to be like Sweden/Denmark in that you get paid based on previous salaries, meaning you had to have held a job in the country before claiming income support.

Denmark is surprisingly hostile to immigrants even EU ones, we could have learned a lot from them if the argument is migration.

Particular instances of lying are: coercive wording "350M a week, lets spend it on the NHS instead" or, more explicit lies such as "Human rights prevented deportation of a criminal because he had a cat". The full reason he was not deported was because of his relationship, the cat was entered as evidence because he had bought it for his partner, it was an attempt by the defence to make the point that long-term relationships have some credence under the law in this age of declining marriage rates.
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What are other options that allow you to talk to cellular towers like a cellphone? I guess I'mnot as constrained in power consumption.

Can you burst with capacitors or no? (Not a hardware person)
Am I missing something or isn't the "+" unnecessary? i.e. a[i]+-~j = a[i]-~j
http://www.binomial.info - Basis appears to be a GPU agnostic texture compression product
Excellent article, but it will not be read by people being in charge of publishing houses, sadly.
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Is Deloitte a new poster child for bad security practices?
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> It's like the close door button in US elevators.

Some US elevators. The one at my office works fine, at least after the door has been open for a short time. I've done timing tests with a stopwatch to make sure I wasn't misjudging or misperceiving things. The door is open normally for N seconds and there is a threshold, T, such that if the button is pressed at time P, where P is in [T, N], the door starts closing immediately. I don't remember the details now, but T was around 2 or 3 seconds, and N was around 8 or so seconds.

There are a variety of reasons that many elevators do not work or appear to not work in the US.

• Some are programmed not to work during times that are normally high traffic to encourage fuller cars.

• Some have a delay. If the door was going to close in 5 seconds normally, and the close door button works but with a 3 second delay, it would only have an effect if you pushed it within the first 2 second after the door opened.

• Some are simply broken. A broken close door button does not put the elevator out of service so it can stay broken for a very long time.

• Some owners choose to have them disabled. Perhaps they have received complaints about too many obnoxious people closing the doors early. Perhaps they think that the law requires it (maybe local codes do in fact require it). Perhaps they think disabling it reduces wear on the doors (I've read somewhere that door problems are the most common cause of needing elevator repair).

I've seen quite a few articles that claim that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that close door buttons be disabled during normal operation.

I doubt this. None of the articles I've seen cited a specific section of the ADA, and I could not find any grepping through the text. Furthermore, the ADA was passed in 1990, but non-working close door buttons were widespread well before that. Here's a Straight Dope column on this from 1986, for example [1].

The most I found was something about there being a mandated minimum open time, during which the close door button would not be allowed to work.

[1] http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/595/do-close-door-b...
This was the last straw. After many years of seeing Alan Perlis's Oscar-Wilde-style epigrams about programming show up everywhere, I finally looked him up.

It turns out he published all those epigrams together in a single document in 1982: http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
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I wish I was a fly on the wall at Apple's discussions with the Chinese government. Is Apple really allowed to encrypt everything and whatnot in China, or has it reached some sort of "partnership" with Chinese companies where the data goes through them first in China, like many other American companies have done.

Otherwise, how is Apple "getting away" with protecting Chinese users' privacy at a time when the Chinese government is cracking down on all such things?
IBM has more employees in India than in the US
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Can you expand on that "limit the steady-state static draw"

Don't you need to keep draining power produced by solar panels? What about the heat problem and decreasing efficiency of solar panels?
suitable as a visual aid

Especially the somewhat related silicon droplet videos on youtube, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ
Unasked for advice, but maybe use fewer commas in your future writing.
As a british citizen, I had heard nothing about the EU outside of what british media told me. Had I not left the UK and actually seen the EU I would only have their opinion and that opinion is mostly controlled by one person.
Android is not FLOSS obviously but the point is that you can 't do more than having blind trust for the manufacturer. Having the best argument is not the same as as actually offering the best privacy.

You could try jolla or fairphone or even a blackphone (or one of the governmental only privacy oriented smartphones not available to the general public).

But this is somewhat irrelevant as having a smartphone with a GSM chip is a severe privacy issue in itself whatever the hardware/OS. Even a simple mobile phone is a privacy liability unless you take some precautionary measures.

To get some privacy one has to accept to have less comfort and ease of use, privacy and security are a tradeoff. something only a few actually do.
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I don't know enough about Brexit to form an opinion, which is good. It enables to to seriously ask this question.

Have you actually considered that your opinion on Brexit could be wrong? Have you really given that any consideration?

I don't have a nickel invested, so your answer doesn't matter to me. It may matter to you, however.
It's mainly meant for communication between your microservices.

Envoy is a self contained process that is designed to run alongside every application server. All of the Envoys form a transparent communication mesh in which each application sends and receives messages to and from localhost and is unaware of the network topology.

and

Although Envoy is primarily designed as a service to service communication system, there is benefit in using the same software at the edge (observability, management, identical service discovery and load balancing algorithms, etc.). Envoy includes enough features to make it usable as an edge proxy for most modern web application use cases.

both from https://envoyproxy.github.io/envoy/intro/what_is_envoy.html
You wouldn't want to live in a society where everything acted on their emotions only.
Fun! I'd like to see this for other natural languages, and for programming languages.
Ask HN: Funding websites with CPU-based cryptocurrency mining?
Reading reports about Pirate Bay and Showtime "forcing visitors to mine cryptocurrency for them",[0] I was initially shocked. But upon reflection, I believe that CPU-based cryptocurrency mining could be a viable alternative to tracking and ads for website funding.

From a privacy perspective, CPU load is clearly better than tracking. From a usability perspective, sluggishness from CPU load is arguably better than distraction from ads. There would also be less network load, which would especially benefit low-bandwidth users. And by the way, this would not involve persistent malware, and mining would end when users left websites.

Many have proposed micropayments as an alternative funding source for websites. I've often suggested cryptocurrency-based micropayments, with provisions for anonymity. With CPU-based mining, there's no added privacy loss. And it's a lot simpler, in that users don't need to buy tokens, manage accounts, etc.

It'd also be better from an equity perspective, I think. Even if micropayments for website use were low, they'd be a greater burden on people with less money. But everyone browsing has a requisite device. However, devices with weaker CPUs would need to work harder, and requisite mining might take longer, so there is some inequity.

What am I missing? Could this actually be a viable alternative to ads?

0) https://www.rt.com/news/404820-piratebay-showtime-cryptocurrency-mining/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302675 ...
Wait till 2019 when the UK is no in the EU anymore /s.
Missing out on things you think you know, for whatever reason, is a thing. So we sometimes end up surprised even when traveling through well trodden paths.
That would be awesome!
Not during the Great Depression
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Does sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars into education make people who studied arts / humanities deserve a proportionately higher salary as well?
"Incomplete" in what sense?

In the sense that our description of the world always seems to fall short of what it's trying describe? Or in the Gödelian sense of some theorems not being provable in finitely many steps in some particular language? Because as far as I know, the latter isn't really an issue.
Yes hacks still happen. See pharrington's response.
I don't think it's easy to create a secure system.
I'm in favor of making software more difficult to hack.
I think the Heartbleed example speaks for itself.
Even if it actually is, there is no way to know if a closed and proprietary is respectful of your privacy. It is a matter of blind trust.

Which does not mean that open source is synonymous of privacy either, only that one can go further than blind trust to the manufacturer.
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Sounds like you should have gone to the CEO and got there before the sales guy did....
The 'an' rule for 'historic' is related to historical pronunciation trends. Particularly in Britain, but even in the US if you go back a bit further, it used to be common in certain dialects to not pronounce the 'h'. The choice of 'a' vs 'an' reflected that trend:

http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w005.html
> Actually pretty good but it still falls into the trap of thinking that there are rules, and that some people follow them and some people break them.

I recommend _The Linguistics of Punctuation_, by Geoffrey Nunberg. It's a linguistically-informed descriptive (rather than prescriptive) analysis of English punctuation.
Why would it not have prevented this?
If my browser only ran approved Javascripts, it wouldn't be mining coins.
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> any straight cis male would live like Hefner if they could.

Not even vaguely accurate. I can think of a handful of people even in just my small circle of acquaintances that wouldn't (including me.)
I think the generalizable point here is that, at least for me, but I think this is for everyone, it should be considered an important part of the "UX" that users understand the "state" of an application. In particular, what data has been sent and received.

For example, this is imho one of the most important features of WhatsApp, the little checkmarks that tell you, in one tiny little graphic, whether your message has been sent, received, or viewed. This is just so important to the user experience. I feel that app developers that ignore that users need to know what the app is doing, what state it is in, are just ignorant of human psychology and how we interact with machines. We don't want "magic", we don't want to "trust", we want to be informed and to know what is happening. Doing this is a streamlined way, little unobtrusive checkmarks for example, is UX gold.
Why did the author publish with Springer, at such a high price, and not some more mainstream, and cheaper, publisher ?

Also, it seems Bricmont has an upcoming title, still with Springer, but at a more reasonable price, and probably more mainstream (judging only by the cover):

https://www.amazon.fr/Quantum-Sense-Nonsense-Jean-Bricmont/d...
I know it, I can read :-), and is not so easy as you thing.

Animals in animal factory farming can be feeded with things that neither humans nor plants can/would accept directly.

Animal factory farming by-products also are needed to support agriculture. Using human faeces at large scale to fertilize the spoil is not so good idea as using horse, goat, cow or pig faeces (Because human faeces carry more types of human transmisible parasites and more often than faeces in non-human animals).

Agriculture without using fertilizers will not provide the same harvests.

We have only one planet and the only land available yet to put all this cattle (that is apt to breed cattle and not used yet) are the last sanctuaries of biodiversity. We will need to burn the forests if we want to scalate our solution of "freedom for all cows and pigs".

Therefore we must be aware that our shiny plan of liberating resources to feed humans could backfire easily in several parts.

There is not a morally-magic solution for our current problems (and we have big problems). Meat generated in lab will need also resources to grow. We talk about chemical resources, lots of water, sterilization material and lots of energy. And currently is just a very expensive way with the main purpose to provide vegans with a exit way to lie to themselves and eat meat that "is not meat, just a nerveless animal tissue thin as a paper".
"a software developer who worked as a lead at Microsoft on Visual Studio, an IDE that costs $1,199 a year and is used by nearly a third of all professional programmers."

It's tangential to the article, but is that really true?
Cool thing! I hope it's gonna be out soon
> But even some people (idiots) break that rule for the weirdly specific case of 'historic'.

Perhaps P is confused about the distinctions between "dialect", "idiolect", and "idiot". Or perhaps "idiot" means "dialect", in P's idiolect.
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>Which one seems like an universal truth vs an opinion to you?

Ok so let's take :

"I've never used Uber in my life because I'm not lazy and dispendious"

VS

"I've never used Uber in my life because it's for lazy and dispendious people"

Which one seems like a personal opinion vs an universal truth to you ?
Great read. They do direct sales with each contract individually negotiated and high prices. More common approach for small companies is to avoid such negotiations and sell packaged software at fixed and lower prices but aim for higher volume.
cython (previously pyrex)

Ive never used either outside of a toy implementation, but Cython is based on Pyrex. They are different projects.
I once worked in an older office where the 'open door' button worked as a 'close' button, as using it apparently canceled the 'hold door open' timer. It also had a traditional do-nothing 'close door' button.
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What is the state of contentblocking on Apple devices? Do they come with adblockers by default?
Not the OP, but the point is that the car you buy today has much more value than a car that was sold 20 years ago at a similar price. So, even if the average price paid for a new car didn't go down, the price for the same car has effectively decreased, thanks to automation.
Agreed. It's something like acquiring dimension in thinking.
>As a british citizen, I had heard nothing about the EU outside of what british media told me.

A lot of the journalists in those media where wined and dined courtesy of Brussels, and there are several EU and state sponsored campaigns to promote EU across member states.

This is just an example: "The spending is part of a near €3 million war chest this year funding 84 projects across Britain and the EU with the aim to “channel criticism into a useful, constructive and positive driver for European integration in the long run”." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eus-3m-war-chest-to-fund-...

"Ten out of 84 programmes the European Commission is funding around the bloc this year to "challenge euroscepticism" directly involve Britain, according to research".
To quote again:

> It's a pretty horrible way to share information, in all but a few situations.

Those few situations are probably 80% of internet traffic :)

> That's what communication is. Even a movie is sharing information. Even a music video is sharing information. The whole Internet is sharing information. Some of it has less value than the rest, but it is still information.

Technically true, practically meaningless. If I want to see Star Wars I probably want a nice 4k video, not the ASCII 80x20 version of it.
Any idea what the duration of these GW events is, are we single blips talking microseconds or milliseconds, or a series of blips with distinctive patterns over several seconds/minutes? or something else?
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If reading the daily mail offends you, there was a long column in the FT last week end about this phenomenon [1] but you will find references in various newspapers [2] [3] (and dozens others if you google it).

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/902581a0-99ff-11e7-b83c-9588e5148...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/education/edlife/internet...

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/student-protestors-and-t...
> the new language syntax features that are available through nuget packages only, etc.

Which features?
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Deloitte is a very, very large company. They offer lots of professional services aside from accounting services (their core competency).
I can see how this theoretically might be the case, but I am unpersuaded that lifting a billion people out of abject poverty in east asia was actually bad for them because a bunch of westerners got relatively richer in the transaction as well.

I suppose this is a matter of judgement though and not an objective fact so to each their own.
> But some are boring

That's what you are thinking.

But you know what HN users think? They think +24.
You are assuming Brexit is unwise.
The other use case is manufactured hardware with their time set for the unix epoch and depend on it for updating.
They never show the back panel with all the connectors, but on this blurry image https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/2194981... it looks like the device is powered by an external power brick, which is a no go for me. Using external PSU for a stationary device is just lazy engineering.
Human minimizers are the best.
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This is a post about self funded startups. One bullet point explicitly calls out not getting involved with investors.
I remain open-minded to the idea that category theory could help me make better computer programs, but I have yet to see anything that suggests to me that it really would.

FWIW, I understand how monads work in Haskell & co, and I definitely see their value. But I don't consider myself to know any category theory at all.
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this is super easy to use for pages who respond directly with results: http://lxml.de/parsing.html (simple scrapers)

for more complicated parsings and sites phantomjs is awsome
http://phantomjs.org/. (can be used from python.. dont worry!)

problem i find with a lot of scrapers is that they are incapable of dom / ajax and such data scrapings, so phantomjs is awsome for that.

These 2 are ofc not scrapers by design, but really, few lines of code and you're all set :)
Marketing was a strong business back when newspaper and billboards dominated the industry. Sure personal information is useful for targeting. Should it be removed, it makes little difference to the industry or myself. Mainly there would be less relevant ads, ad stock going to less relevant eyeballs and some channel realignment. Your statement I am making this statement for my work is completely incorrect.
It's a cellphone prototype. You don't need to do 100% of the functionality to demonstrate functionality.

But you may have missed this part "or ambient light collected by a solar cell the size of a grain of rice". So, yes they built a cellphone, even if they can't gain power from arbitrary sources.
That’s one of the amusing but unconvincing anecdotes that I referred to above. It doesn’t explain old family names like 青葉 or 青森.
The data I’ve seen there is correct.
That's quite sad. If people believe their government is broken beyond repair what future does the US have?
You never take your laptop away from your desk? Why not just use a desktop computer, then?

And as a programmer, what the heck would you use a touch screen for?
Value tuples. If you want to use them you need to add a nuget package to the solution. I am not saying it's not doable, but it's a bad UX. Think of the experience of a newcomer to the language.
Never mind. The site loads now. I was a bit confused about the site. As in what kind of mentoring are the listed people providing. The HN link at the bottom helped getting a better picture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148619