skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incident in Mexico City is, in my opinion, probably the clearest evidence of a conspiracy. If someone doesn't know much about the background of the case and wants to quickly ascertain the plausibility of a conspiracy, I think that this page does a great job of breaking this part down:

http://22november1963.org.uk/a-little-incident-in-mexico-cit...

> He went to Mexico City to try and get a visa to go to Cuba, which they denied, so he went to the Soviet Embassy to try and get them to convince the Cubans to let him in, since he had previously defected to the Soviet Union. They all saw him as a nut and basically laughed him out.

What is the evidence for this narrative?

What do you say to Silvia Odio, who says she was visited by several Cubans and Oswald ("Leon") during the time he was supposedly in Mexico City? Her doctor confirmed that she had confided in him about this visit before the assassination, naming and describing this "Leon" and the strange statements the Cubans made about him.

I think Odio's testimony is the one of the most daunting pieces of evidence for the "lone nut" theory to overcome.

Also, what do you think of the photographs of the man outside the embassy? I hope we can agree that, whatever mix-up happened, that's clearly not Oswald?
While the T610 - one of the first Sony-Ericsson devices - is not a smartphone there were many true smartphones before Apple finally joined the fray in 2007. Devices running Symbian S60 were smartphones and marketed as such in 2000 (Ericsson R380), those running Windows CE/Windows Mobile were smartphones, the Nokia Communicator (1996) was a smartphone, there were several smartphones running PalmOS (starting in 2002 with the Palm Treo), Blackberry sold smartphones, etc.
They aren't obsessed with customers, they are obsessed with costs.
Just another reason not to care about the cadt.
I assume you're talking about running multiple images concurrently, each one focussed on it's own specific role.

Sure, you can do that too with Vagrant. Vagrant isn't limited to running a single machine for a given Vagrantfile.
React Rocks
If you work interactively you can use tab completion which takes care of most typos. That's something you don't have in scripts.
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Ooh. I really thought a new anaconda movie is coming.!!!
All seems perfectly consistent with the OPs point to me.

Speculative real estate investment is a direct result of restrictive zoning. Consider for example an already developed area of a city that is zoned for single family residential. This makes it illegal for a developer to increase supply in this region by building, say a duplex. A developer is allowed to rebuild a house, but not increase supply.

So of course there is speculative investment! Owners have a legal guarantee of resource scarcity. It’s the reason governments everywhere try to avoid deflation; it causes everyone to hold onto their cash.

Now contrast the situation when a developer can turn a house into a duplex. Supply is elastic. There’s no legal guarantee of scarcity. Of course real estate is still an investment vehicle, but there is no longer the artificial constraint on supply.

I also think it’s weird to lump this in with environmental protection. Preserving natural areas is an unassailably important priority for any nation. What does that have to do with home owners that feel they have a legal right to not live next to a condo? I don’t think the parent (or really anyone here) is advocating we develop undeveloped land.

Finally, I wonder if this is all moot, because the issue at hand is a restriction of foreign ownwers. Won’t native NZ real estate companies be glad to step in to fill the void? Can’t these companies then just shell shares to international investors?
> the sun is gone many days by 4pm

Nowhere in Manhattan is that true (though perhaps I'll grant that a building might occlude the sun, but you're exaggerating). Conservatively, if we pick Albany, NY as the "northernmost extent of Manhattan", the earliest sunset is ~4:21pm.
That people believe the fake news that fake news is the realest news shows the dangerous power of fake news.
Reality isn't a democracy.

Most people are actually quite intelligent and generally rational. If a large number of people finding something unconvincing is very often an indication that it warrants further investigation. Sometimes it turns out that all those people are wrong, but also, sometimes it doesn't.
nope, not meant to imply race.

cultural factors may play a role, of course. quality of life is better when you have more things in common with your surroundings. this is about preferences, not perceived superiority though. at the very least you'd want your kids to have a common language with their classmates though.
Documents like README have a tendency of getting out of date really quickly — especially if you add dependencies between different content inside the file. I think anyone using Confluence (or similar wiki-style space) can agree.

Including table of contents in your README is pretty big overhead if you cannot generate it automatically. This template is meant to be a good starting point for any size of project, so it was a conscious decision to leave table of contents out of it.
Don't forget speech of children and the elderly, which are also ifficult. I had to laugh a little at Indian accent recognition being so low in humans. I like Indian people but I've always hated the accent because it's so difficult to understand.
"The CNEOS team plotted the object's current trajectory and even looked into its future. A/2017 U1 came from the direction of the constellation Lyra, cruising through interstellar space at a brisk clip of 15.8 miles (25.5 kilometers) per second."

So we have an origin. However they don't give the error margin so is probably not possible to pin point the exact origin without further calculations.
>The bar is high on shadertoy and there are some amazing shaders

Anyone willing to share? :)
Case Study: Scarcity Strategy with a Twist
> Good lord. Why integration tests?

Because they can find bugs and errors which unit tests cannot.
Monsanto is without doubt the most non-ethical, profiteering, corrupted, evil company on earth.
https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/pull/51
Really?!? No wonder that Android Studio is so sluggish when compared with the former Eclipse tooling.

In many parts of the world having access to a 8 GB and SSD drives is still considered a luxury.
What a great read. Thank you.
> On the strong form, certainly and provably not. Studies have been funded to find any correlation between the will of the populace and policy that is enacted. There is zero correlation.

This is not the strong form parent was talking about. Here is the strong form:

"Do American elections reflect the will of the populace?"

American elections are not the same as the policy changes made by the people elected; You are arguing against something like "Does American governance reflect the will of the populace?"

Can you link to some of those studies? I'm very interested in seeing the method they used in determining the will of the populace.
Although rather more narrow. Most particularly in a little town called......um... Let me think..... Auckland
Would be useful but not allowed (not legally safe) in Germany. You may record for private purposes but if you have an accident and you try to use the records you offend against data protection resulting in fees up to 300k €.
> "homestead exemption" that you take if you live in the property.

Exactly. But the idea is that it's very hard to check whether someone lives in a property, so you check for the next best thing: whether you have income in the country. So if you have income tax in the country then you can get exempt from one property tax.

Otherwise you end up having things like "self reporting" where you live, or local governments trying to check water/electricity use to see whether buildings are occupied etc, which are obviously both expensive and futile.
Those other increases in cost do not simultaneously open up supply, though. When there can be more landlords renting out their properties, prices will fall in response. I agree it is counter-intuitive.

"Because the supply of land is essentially fixed, land rents depend on what tenants are prepared to pay, rather than on landlord expenses, preventing landlords from passing LVT to tenants."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Efficiency
I mean, I agree that this rule applies to everything. But I'm more worried about the organizations that have a monopoly on force, not on social networks.
It's own environments mechanisms is even better: each environment can have it's own separate python version!

The "miniconda" installer variant is something I even use in production when on the same server I need to run microservices one written fro Python 2.4, another for Pythn 2.7+, another for Python 3.3, another for Python 3.6+ etc.

Really, anyone doing Python should embrace conda envs - they are awesome and allow skipping the entire "Python 2 or 3" useless discussion and replacing it with "just use whatever python you want", just specify it clearly... The whole "2 vs 3" incident would never even have existed if people people would've had something like Node's NVM or Ruby's RVM, and "conda envs" it's basically this, only that it combines support for its own special package formats with this.
I wish I had read the books before I watched the TV series. Doing it in the reverse order has made me fairly unmotivated to read, I'm a few chapters a in to the second book and not sure I'll continue.

Having said that, I've been fairly unmotivated to read anything recently due to working long hours and recently having rescued a dog.

Let Ne know how you go with it.
Didn't know about MLK blackmail. Reminds me of what happened to Hemingway. [1] Sometimes when you have paranoia it doesn't mean that you're crazy.

[1] - https://stevehuff.net/2015/07/02/ernest-hemingways-justified...
What your answer is missing is “upper management says”.

It’s not like they’re an impartial observer in this.
Indeed, we can use an expansive definition of "vision-impaired" that includes people looking at their phones and people without 360-degree panoramic X-ray vision.
availability is a psychologic factor in purchase decisions. The more in the soup pot, the more soup people will eat. Whereas the beloved low stock fear of missing out trigger might be too hectic for retail. The warehousing aspect is interesting too.
Big Brother by Undefined Variables – eMAG Hackathon 2017 Best Hack Award
The OWASP Top 10 is killing me
> It's also not meaningless 5 years into a project that was announced 7 years prior.

It's a once-in-100 years project to create infrastructure with a lifetime of the same order. It involved replacing nearly 100% of the country's telecommunications infrastructure. 5 years is not particularly long in that context, and trashing it because you can't wait 7 years or even 10 years instead of 5 in exchange for a vastly inferior outcome is just utter stupidity.

So yes, measuring rollout numbers 5 years in is meaningless.
Once in a while I decide I want to play with COBOL, so I install GNU COBOL, dig out my old test code and try to use it to do something interesting.

So, most recently I wanted to simply read a file, do some simple processing and then write an output file. Very basic, right?

Not so much with COBOL.

First you have to statically declare the files you want to use. Let's say you want to read from "foo.txt":

environment division.
input-output section.
file-control.
select foo0 assign to "foo.txt"
organization is sequential
access mode is sequential
file status is fs0.

You then need to declare (statically again, of course) the structure of the records in the file. You can think of this as global variables that gets filled in when reading from the file:

data division.
file section.
fd foo0.
01 foo0-rec.
02 foo-name pic x(40).
02 foo-value pic x(20).

You also need to declare the "fs0" variable:

working-storage section.
01 fs0 pic 99.

Then, you need to open the file. That's not too hard:

open input foo0.

Then you want to read from it. You can do that using the command:

read foo0.

After the read, the variable "fs0" will be 0 when you've reached the end of the file, so you need a loop that, I presume (I never got this part to work right), would look something like:

perform with test before until fs0 = 0
read foo0
* foo-name and foo-value now contains data from the file
end-perform

After all of this, I decided I wanted to do something different. I wanted to call a web service to load some information over HTTP. I dropped that project really quickly once I realised that the only way to do that was to use libcurl and directly access it using FFI. The FFI that is provided by GNU COBOL isn't really easy to work with, as evidenced by this discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26367026/how-to-make-htt...

If you look at the code that is linked from that page, you'll rather quickly realise why COBOL is not such a great idea for general purpose computing.
>today a regular internet user just download a popular browser and is affected by that without knowing.

Well, it's not technically a problem of the internet (the protocol of networked-communication between arbitrary machines), but specifically having a turing-complete language in the browser. The browser sandboxes the language to an extent (so you can't load a webpage and it goes and deletes all files on your computer), but it can't offer protection against any arbitrary program without being able to understand the goal of the program, and whether or not you as a user actually want that goal (or any of its sub-goals).

The problem comes down to: Freedom to act well is also the freedom to act poorly. The browser can't delete all your files, but it also can't organize your files for you. It can track your mouse position across the screen for the sake of recording it... but it can also track your mouse position for the sake of a game.

So it's really a question of how much do you actually want from the browser? Another alternative is to not give it a proper language at all, such that it can only do a predefined subset of behaviors (ie Web 2.0), and thus users are kept safe from any malicious behavior, but of course, at the cost of being kept from any "innovative" behaviors as well. Just fyi, you can enforce this rule if you'd like, by something like the noscript extension, to kill javascript everywhere (and optionally disable it for sites you trust). Half your webpages will break because developers assume javascript, and you can't play any games or fancy websites without opening yourself up to recording, but you'll be safe.

So the choice is yours: Self-impose limitations, or accept the risk.

Most people choose risk (by market-selection), though they may not have realized they ever made a choice, or understood it if they did.
Hey, sorry for the late reply. HookTheory most definitely uses Roman Numeral notation. In the link I posted, change the "Key" pulldown to "Rel", and then you can choose each numeral in sequence.

Or, for example, to see all the songs HookTheory thinks use ii-IV-I-V, the link would be:

https://www.hooktheory.com/trends#node=2.4.1.5&key=rel

> HookTheory says that Fm Ab Eb Bb in the key of Eb is also like Closing Time - Semisonic. But vjmanzo's site correctly notes that it's shifted over 2 places: Closing Time is I-V-ii-IV instead of ii-IV-I-V.

I don't know what you're referring to here, but it sounds like HookTheory was just suggesting similarities. HT's actual entry for the song you're referring to is here, and has the same progression you mentioned.

https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/view/semisonic/closing-...

How this relates to your link I have no idea, it shows 404 for me.
* Tortoise

* its back

* its belly

* Leon

(in case the mistakes were not for comedic effect)
A bit of an overkill indeed...
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On a similar wavelength there's the rasberry pi phone: http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph... .
Yeah, it allows working with multiple Python versions fine, like not just 2 vs 3 like on modern Linuxes, but also having one virtualnenv use 2.4, another 2.7, another 3.6 etc.

Couple this with good support for Windows too, and it's basically the only usable cross platform Python version manager... kind of sad all this functionality is not baked into core CPython's package, it would make language adoption 10x easier since "multiple python madness" is what trips newbies, especially if they use Windows or a Linux they don't administer themselves...

Also nicely optimized precompiled stuff, again, for the benefit of new Windows users, for which anything that needs compiling anything has a 50% change of breaking.
The article isn't clear on the following; will this ban apply to all foreigners, including foreigners with permanent resident permits?
I was also forced to buy an SSD to make my life easier, but lets be honest, SSDs are still quite expensive on price per GB on first world countries, let alone the rest of the globe.

Same regarding RAM, I know of companies that a standard developer machine is 8 GB, while everyone else gets 4 GB.

Getting something like 16 GB is unthinkable unless that is a business related change request.

So basically making the life miserable for those developers.
Simple use of :visited has been closed off, yes, but that actually took multiple attempts. See this bug, for example:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557287

And about a year ago it was discovered that in Microsoft Edge the :visited hack was alive and well again.

And that's still very far from fixing the problem. There are still occasionally properties which pop up that are accessible and can reveal visited/unvisited state. There were a whole bunch of background-image tricks where observing what image was requested from the server side would tell you visited/unvisited. There have been timing attacks which could reveal recently-visited sites based on load times (faster when coming from browser cache).

Then there are the the techniques which use animation APIs and still work today. The core of the trick there is to 1) get a link in the page which you know will use unvisited style, 2) register a callback for the next repaint with requestAnimationFrame(), 3) change the link to point at the URL you want to test, and 4) see if your callback executes (which indicates the link was repainted to a different style due to now pointing at a visited URL).

The ability to do visited/unvisited styles differently, along with the style-inspection and timing APIs, while useful, are basically always going to provide ways to do this. If you poke around you'll find that aside from the most basic variants there's a tendency for these reports to end up closed out or just left in limbo forever because there's no practical way to close off the privacy leaks they create.
Escrow.com API
Assuming they got similar adoption, I'm wondering why I should use Upspin rather than Keybase? It seems like Keybase's users and groups are more sophisticated, and its private git support is immediately useful.
> Sheryl Sandberg: “The responsibility for an open platform is to let people express themselves. We don’t check the information people put on Facebook before they run it, and I don’t think anyone should want us to do that.”

What a bunch of lies. Try posting a nude pic on Facebook and see what happens.

If they can check for nudity why wouldn't they check for "fake news"? Non-porn nudity is free speech, more than fake news. But fake news are viral and efficient at engaging people, while nudity scares advertisers away.

Everything Facebook does is business-oriented -- which is fine, maybe, and probably inevitable. But them lecturing us about morals makes me incredibly angry.
Wow, that’s quite a bit, right?
I see. 2 MB flash and 200k ram are max. But no_std would probably be a requisite.

Nghttp2 does no I/O itself so is very portable and efficient, was hoping for something similar.
The fariest comparison is all 3: ruled by China, British colony, autonomy. Clearly they'd prefer to not be in China.
You certainly don't need caching for an interview test. And if you want to add tests, how many do you think such an app needs? One to check that data goes in and second that urls come out should be enough to know it works.
Anything besides ads that actually make them money ? I am honestly curious if they still cannot find a way how to make money with anything else besides ads
Its not an identical scenario. Companies don't pay pensions in most countries. These largely get paid through Pension funds, which by and large investment money in Government backed securities.

These are debt obligations at the level of a country. On 'your' investments.

This is totally different than saying a person should be given a job, even if they don't work.
I knew the title sounded familiar. Thanks for reminding me of where it came from!
You can do that with virtualenvs, too. `mkvirtualenv -p python3.6` for example. When you activate that virtualenv, it uses that interpreter version.
This is true. Areas where I have full unit test coverage tend not to have any bugs. What a waste of time to have written all these tests!
Sounds like Tableau in Seattle.
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Yes, exactly this is the case.
Depends on the area but expect 10 Mbps or less. NBN has not really moved into capital cities yet. I am looking forward to them rolling out FTTN connections on copper laid 50 years ago and insulated using newspaper. Even if you get an area with NBN keep in mind they are not obligated to provide more than 12 Mbps during co existence and 25 Mbps after. With 5 dropouts a day considered acceptable service.

If you can find a unit with TPG FTTN go with that. It will be cheaper and uncongested.
Meh, the thread is dead so I just wanted to say thanks. I am kinda passionate about certain things like liberty. I'm actually pretty moderate, just verbose.

I'm not scared. They don't scare me. They put on a tough face. I've been in places like Somalia. I've stomped all across South America. I've been all across Latin America. I've done South Africa, most of the Middle East, much of Asia, etc...

American White Nationalists marching in parades scare me exactly none. 14 year old American children copying their older brothers on Voat saddens me, not scares me. It doesn't make me very angry. Not anymore. I'm pretty desensitized to it. It mostly just makes me sad.

Seriously...

Think about it... Put yourself in a White Nationalist shoes. You don't even have any real good movies to watch. Even documentaries end with Hitler always getting his ass kicked. In every movie, you're pretty much the asshole. You're, at best, redeemed before dying or going to prison for life.

Man, a White Nationalist can't even really enjoy American History X.

I make fun of them for reading Mein Kampf. "Oh, you expect it to somehow turn out different this time?" I point out the horrible flaws in their race war logic, about how they are horrible out numbered, unpopular, and simply lack the technical expertise or the logistics to achieve even a remote victory in any meaningful numbers.

I make fun of their horrible use of statistics, inaccurate understanding of science and history, and teach them to speak better English. After all, if you're going to convert people to you're side, you're going to have to speak better English. They really aren't very crafty and it's actually kind of amusing that people think they are a serious threat to the fabric of the country.

But, I digress... I just wanted to let you know that there's no bravery. I'm not scared because there's no reason to be scared. I've really invited a few of them to my home. They have my address and a standing invitation. I'd let them visit but not like hold a Nazi rally at my house. The few I have invited are a few that I believe are able to change.

I wasn't doing anything better with my time.
Yes, thanks for missing the joke.