skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has parallels with the secret groundbreaking military technology that "60 Minutes"[1] was talking about in 2008. When you have unlimited capacity to store data and the processing power to tag objects (or people!) in real-time when you play it back, all kinds of new possibilities arise for software or surveillance (good and evil).

My assumption is that the revolutionary advance was military aerial camera systems (such as Angel Fire) that continuously record movement over an entire city in high resolution. When something happens, you can play it backwards to see who drove or walked where, who met whom, find all the connections between people, and trace events to the beginning.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/60minutes/main4415...
Depends on the amount of deception involved. There is outright lying on kickstarter because truthful claims of "smallest/first/only in the world" of some campaigns has been mindlessly cargoculted by those who are clearly not.

Presales by established companies would not do that. Next are expected product features that turn out to be impossible/too difficult to deliver on time or budget. Happens all the time, there are entire software development processes built around this uncertainty. For presales, this is really solved by precise language clearly differentiating between the definite and the possible. With zero effect on customer enthusiasm and disappointment, because we all ignore them every single time. Just be careful to not "not-promise" too much.

Then there is the pre-sales rebate. The least suspecting of all pre-sale perks. But many products get cheaper over time. How long does the announced "post-presale price" have to stay valid so that the pre-sale rebate is not deceptive? Clearly it would be ok to slash prices when when the successor model is announced two years later. Clearly, it would be absolutely outrageous of they only sold one unit to a guy hired by marketing at the announced full price on release day, to then immediately go below pre-sales price. At what point between those extremes does a pre-sales rebate become deceptive?
> Compilation to the LLVM is a huge advantage

Is it? Advantage over what?

> And CL seems quite stagnant

That's good then, since he can better catch up.

> Sadly, it's a one-man thing.

He can always reuse code from other implementations.
Though I agree that it is too much work for a single person to create a quality implementation of Common Lisp.

Problem seems to be that there is not enough interest in another implementation based on an un-explorered infrastructure (LLVM).

> CL progressed beyond its ANSI standard

It has. In implementations and libraries.
Visualizations for machine learning datasets
>No more than ordinary death is.

Yeah, I agree it's not more scary that what's considered the scariest thing in the world, upon the fear of which whole empires have been built...
Translation: wages are comparatively very low.
Coq 8.7+beta2
A built in web browser that’s newer than IE11?
In 2015, the European Commission published a report which included the following [1]:

> We believe that societies must protect, cherish and nurture humans’ attentional capabilities. This does not mean giving up searching for improvements: that shall always be useful. Rather, we assert that attentional capabilities are a finite, precious and rare asset. In the digital economy, attention is approached as a commodity to be exchanged on the market place, or to be channelled in work processes. But this instrumental approach to attention neglects the social and political dimensions of it, i.e., the fact that the ability and the right to focus our own attention is a critical and necessary condition for autonomy, responsibility, reflexivity, plurality, engaged presence, and a sense of meaning. To the same extent that organs should not be exchanged on the market place, our attentional capabilities deserve protective treatment. Respect for attention should be linked to fundamental rights such as privacy and bodily integrity, as attentional capability is an inherent element of the relational self for the role it plays in the development of language, empathy, and collaboration. We believe that, in addition to offering informed choices, the default settings and other designed aspects of our technologies should respect and protect attentional capabilities.

(The report was co-authored by Luciano Floridi, who is supervising James Williams' PhD at Oxford.)

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/sites/digital-age...
Years ago I wrote a blog post[1] talking about this at a higher level, essentially vetting my frustration about people being addicted to their phones all day rather than living their real lives.

Here we are, 4 years later, and while I think I saw a surface level societal change at that point, I completely missed the bigger picture of society being actively manipulated by companies, governments, etc. through tech for their own gain.

Crazy times we live in.

[1] https://www.stevegattuso.me/2013/11/30/a-society-of-phone-zo...
I can easily look at it that way, but it doesn't get better, at all.

Makes you think about RESTful apis, huh
That piece is from 1997. RMS 10 years before that had a much more down to earth concern about software. Like everyone he has evolved in his thinking.
AWT uses native widgets.
Hmmm, also he had some noteable achievements afterwards, such as transforming Apple into one of the most successful companies ever, again.
Michael Jackson would want a word with you.
In case you are wondering if this is real, Wikipedia page about this event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
MessagePack: an efficient binary serialization format
You've missed the conceptional shift in the article -- it's not that time doesn't exist at all as a phenomenon, it's that the phenomenon that we perceive as the direction of time is just that -- a perception.

Think of it in the same way that there's no green and red (the colors), just frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum, that we just perceive as green and red.
Ask HN: Is Agile that good?
Everytime someone is arguing that Agile sucks, the answer is always: your are doing Agile wrong.
So Agile is the only best methodology ?
If this is the "other" disaster, then what was the first one? You definitely don't mean Chornobyl, because it's not in Russia.
IntelliJ is what a Swing app might look like after more than a decade of work and shipping (at times) with a custom-built JRE. It's not an effort most can and should spend to get to 'decent'.
The very name "variable" implies changing value. When you define something that doesn't change you are defining a "constant".

I also don't think a mutable variable is bad or hard to use. Is this bad/hard to use?

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

Or is this bad....

int line_number = 0;
char *line;
while (read_line_from(stdin, &line))
{
// TODO handle line
line_number += 1;
}

I don't think so. I think much of this buzz about how bad variables are comes from Rust merely existing and no practical examples.

What inherently makes this

for (mut int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

better than our last example for loop?

If you're actually against mutability where it doesn't need to be you can create tooling that can warn you of where you can add const. I think that's much better.
So, like this comment? Which doesn't give any counter-argument at all...
If solidarity does give the best results, there isnt much to promote other than information. People will naturally act on their own behalf.
Here's how to "fix" the opioid crisis, through healthcare and rehabilitation not criminalization.

When a person gets hooked on opioids, never cut them off cold turkey. At the end of a surgery/injury/treatment with prescribed opioids for pain, our current system makes users go from regularly used/available to not at all, or once addiction is noticed then access ended immediately. This is the root cause of the problem, from there people go out and get street opioids, sometimes heroin and sometimes it is cheapened by fentanyl where you get a few specs of it and you OD. Basically, the cutting off of the user access to the drug from regularly available to none is the MAJOR problem here.

What we need to do is this, taper people off if possible, if not then why not let them continue to get them until they can ween themselves off through rehab. Basically all opioid patients can get them as long as they need but it switches from the doctor to a healthcare specialist in controlling addictions at the end of every opioid prescribed treatment. Some will not need this but for the ones that have been on them for a while due to pain/rehab, there would be no cold turkey stopping. At least if people are hooked, this prevents them from going out and getting heroin laced with fentanyl that could be deadly. We are basically setting people up to die this way in our current system.

Every solution I have seen is to be harsher on doctors expecting them to control it, or harsher on the amounts they give, all that is strong arm tactics and pushing liability on people that don't want it making the problem intensely worse. Instead we should put the liability of addiction on the patient themselves and give them options to help themselves with education and rehab, don't just cut them off and leave them on their own.

We need a health layer in our system that helps people with addictions and getting quality drugs that aren't going to kill them as some people will just do that and some need help, we can pay for it by ending the War on Drugs. Pharmaceuticals will go along with this plan because it allows people to keep getting pharma drugs as long as they need to get off of them, but users won't be doing it alone, nor trying to stop cold turkey. This type of policy will help a large portion of at least the opioid addicts that get hooked through regular medical channels.

Ending the War on Drugs while using that money for healthcare/rehab instead of incarceration, allowing other low level substances like cannabis, and providing people a path to take when they finish with their medical treatment if they find they have an addiction is better. Once the US stops treating drug usage and addictions as a crime and start viewing them as health issues or manageable issues with lower level substances, this will all be much, much better.
.. it also highlights the relative naivete - nay, ignorance - of many in the West for just how close we live to despotism, tyranny and corruption in our own sphere, and - more importantly - just how rapidly these failings can be exploited by institutions with nefarious intentions.

We in the West have got to stop it with the moral superiority/manifest destiny, and start taking a good look at what it is we're doing to make the future worse, not better. If Iran can point it out, we most certainly can see it for ourselves - but of course we have to get past the superiority hubris which disallows any honest discourse on the subject of how our 'superior' technological societies are actually enslaving us all, not making us better.

Case in point - so far in this thread, nobody has had the temerity to point out that Western hubris is the real enemy here.
There's definitely more to it. This problem will continue regardless of the number of jobs available.

“ ... as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers.” -Pynchon
Puma Suede Platform Strap
>During such a drunken conversation I'd simply say "so when a car hits me because I misjudged the right moment to cross over, the pain is only in my head and it doesn't exist?" and would laugh.

Repeating a tired millennia old argument that crudely stops any inquiring talk for anything that's not directly measurable (and/or doesn't translate into money or some direct benefit)...

But while the grandparent started with "As a physicist", as if this conveys the consensus among physicists, they forgot to mention that many physicists (including celebrated physicists) are indeed very interested in the meaning and the philosophy behind physics concepts, and there have been excellent forays into such matter, without going into BS Chopra territory.
Mostly it's poor rural whites, most of whom arent all that deserving of much sympathy for other reasons, so most people even in New Hampshire aren't all that cranked up about it. What's mildly concerning to me is why so many have switched from the time-honored traditions of drinking and smoking away the depression of sad, broken hillbilly life and started bumping fentanyl.
To be fair, if you only look at the kickstarter model of crowdfunding, where campaigns can claim anything they want no matter how factually wrong and the only guarantee given is that your card won't be charged unless the funding goal is met, then charity is the closest analogy. It works best as a money collection tool for community projects were trust is already established off-site.
ipv6 clients cant talk with ipv4 servers. so they need a packet translation, which increases the latency.

there shouldn't be any benefits in this particular case though, because endusers would never actually talk with the application servers.

the loadbalancers are probably the only public facing servers, which probably (didn't check) support both.

so communication is like this

_client_ <== ipv6 ==> _loadbalancer_ <== ipv4 ==> _application server_

vs.

_client_ <== ipv6 ==> _loadbalancer_ <== ipv6 ==> _application server_

the situation the GP was talking about is this:

_client_ <== ipv6 ==> _ipv6 to ipv4 translation proxy_ <== ipv4 ==> _loadbalancer_ <== ipv4 ==> _application server_

you could theoretically reduce minor latency by just addressing application servers directly

_client_ <== ipv6 ==> _application server_

but thats a terrible idea from both reliability and security perspectives
Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms
Fact: Asking Whether We Live in a Simulation Is Not a Scientific Question
Poor people don't even try to invest money or to get richer. That's probably mostly why they're poor in the first place. They spend money on gambling where the expected profit is negative but not on real life "gambling" with positive expected profit. The minimum investment amount isn't really that strong a barrier. There are online brokerages that let you buy shares cheaply. I think it's more that they lack the skills or motivation, not lack the money. Why weren't the world's poor flocking to bitcoin when it started? No minimum investment at all! It's because they weren't interested in investing and didn't do the research.
>>> Or why to pay let alone the license for services and software that is enterprise ready and for free in Free Software Land

Roughly speaking, all software are free.

The bulk of the money goes to pay the developers and the sysadmins around the software, not the software itself.
Part of the equation is also the size of the roof.
I concur with your point, which I think is this: we've always had despotism and tyranny at the door - its just that pre-Web, the door had a small group of guards that would grant entrance only on condition of servitude. Now, we have many doors - but they all lead to the same place as before: servitude. The tyranny of choice.
Would you give them a 30%-40% raise? That's what people are often getting when they switch jobs.

Another point is some might feel if they have to ask for a raise, the company has failed them already, they work should have been noticed by then.
> JavaFX uses custom XML which make no sense to be honest when you want to do nice design.

I don't see why the custom XML should be a problem. Definitely you are not supposed to edit the .fxml files by hand, especially when you have apps like Scene Builder that allow you to design everything from a GUI.

> And it requires custom CSS too.

That's true only for a few JavaFX-specific properties. The CSS syntax doesn't change very much. Also, it's not a surprising feature: QT, the C++ GUI framework, also uses custom CSS.
> one of the most prominent sites in the world of free and open software

Eh ? Its a Q and A site, a great one.

I've never associated it with open source.
Or the story of Electron.
If opioids could be sold for recreational use, I think they would be sold with a naloxone in one package, reducing the number of deaths from overdose.
When Orange Isn't The New Black
Oh yes, there's no such thing as race, because you can't look into DNA and
say this man was black. Though you can look at his skeleton and say he was
black; ask any anatomopatholog or orthopedics doctor about that. What was
about those races, again?
Easier than avoiding triggers -- and almost as effective -- is just to delay the response. Let yourself check your phone, but only 10 minutes after you feel the urge to do so.

This is much easier than complete abstinence, but breaks down the habit-forming link between trigger and instant gratification.

And just as you say, it's something I started doing after reading about training [1] and inverting the priciples

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31052.Don_t_Shoot_the_Do...
> If nobody bought the stocks from there on out, the original sale would have no value

That is wrong. The value would be the NPV of all future income from those stocks. Being able to sell them easily increases the value a bit because of the increased flexibility, but the major source of the value of an investment is the stream of future income.

As an example, Warren Buffet has no intention of ever selling his stake in Coca-Cola, yet he is getting more than his original investment in dividends each year. Are you going to argue that his investment would be worthless if he weren't able to share his shares (which wouldn't change anything for him, because he never intends to sell them)?
ha! that site looks like a scam. on second thought, that's exactly what people who don't run the other direction when they see something like this need.

in a similar vein, what could use somebody's web skills is a ICO fraud site that looks as impressive and overengineered as ICO marketing sites (case in point: IOTA https://iota.org/. not commenting on the merits of the project, just the site). although these sites probably already exist.
I enjoyed this very much. Any more of this ? I like highscalability.com but this is more hands on. Anyone have something like this ?
your wording is a bit odd to me.

If you strive to 'provide exceptional value', but want to be compensated highly, then the you are not providing exceptional value. Perhaps it should be 'commensurate value'
Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012)
I gather because you linked to FactoryGirl, that you are using it, so you might want to take a look at FactoryGirl#attributes_for. This should tidy up the large post body text, and also help the Law Of Demeter issues with variables like @mms_price.
Good intentions with bad implementation. Some UX guy could probably use it for his own "five minute guide to better UX", about spacing, blinking elements etc. And dear author, not everyone uses Apple PCs these days. Sincerely, Windows user.
A clickbar with bad keming. But seriously, it’s any clickbar that is bad for the UX
Incorrect. If the net present value of the future dividends exceeds the asking price by a sufficient margin of safety, I'll be happy to buy that share.
Thanks for sharing that. Interesting what constitutes a military breakthrough these days. A real nation-state with a military-industrial complex would just shoot that thing down.
Yep, but not just coping. I think reframing is a way of conceptual refactoring to improve any thought process. It’s not always successful though..

I’ve also wondered if some elements of brainstorming could be automated, such as reframing a situation in random ways and see what the result is like..
The MS stack is better than a lot of people give it credit for. Back in the old days of ASP.NET webforms I'd agree that it sucked, but things have changed a lot since then.

There's a web framework similar to RoR. C# is fast out of the box, strongly typed, and easy to work with. Also it's similar to JS so working with the two simultaneously isn't jarring. Visual Studio is arguably the best in class IDE. IIS is fast and can do everything you'd expect. Most tools have a GUI default, which really helped when I was learning.

Windows licensing costs are minimal compared to the total cost of a server (like an extra $20/month). I ran a db-driven site with 1,000-2,000 concurrent users, 30-50 reqs/s, and 40mil pageviews/month with a single $100/month Rackspace VM. SQL Server can get expensive when you start scaling up, but it's easy to switch over to Postgres when that happens.

Also I kinda like how steady it is. I got into development to build products, not to be constantly on the edge learning about the latest libraries or paradigm shifts. That's what frontend JS is for.
Objects and Companion objects in Scala
Traditionally the way to cull surplus population has been war. This is not possible anymore with two children per family on average, you just can't maintain popular support for that in a democracy.

With ever bigger numbers of unemployed people's life going nowhere, that could change.
Flutter for JavaScript Developers
Please see vidio and answer that quation
He was an actor! He did well to surround himself with "experts" and then listen to them. Unfortunately his experts were wrong.
Graylist?
Blade Runner 2049 bombs in box office
The Americans beat them to it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_co...
Programmers have a deep Stockholm Syndrome for infinitely customizable software. They’ll disparage IDEa while installing enough plugins to turn vim into an incredibly poor one. Also, there’s the typical Real Programmer BS that asserts dev tools peaked in the 70s.
True there is a financial education problem but many poor/middle level people just don't have as much money for investment, typically they are in needs based spending mode.

Investment is the most important thing to growing wealth but also we can't just have an economy of only investment, someone needs to actually buy things in the economy.

Typically the lower/middle end spending keep the consumer economy afloat with larger spending on consumer products that make those investments worth it because there is demand. You have to have people buying for demand, to then invest in supply, demand always comes first or else wealth doesn't invest.

Further, wealth simply cannot buy enough to keep the whole economy afloat and wealthy people invest to retain more wealth not necessarily return it to the economy, whereas poor/middle range players spend to survive. When there is a market crash, wealth stops investing, poor/middle keeps on buying which is key. When there is inequality and only investment, downturns get harsher and harsher eradicating demand and thus eradicating investment opportunities.
> brandless packaging

I stayed in Yanggakdo International Hotel on Yanggak Island in the river Taedong in Pyongyang on a tour, and there were two restaurants, and they were called "Restaurant 1" and "Restaurant 2". I found that quite refreshing.
You're describing present day America, as well as all developed countries. They protect their "enclaves" from the masses of poor outside their borders using their armies.