skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't based on the data. Nothing in the study suggested that opinion. It's simply the statement of a narrative. That's part of why I specifically mentioned "unsourced." The claim doesn't follow from anything the article meant to cover.
Since the Santa Rosa fires, I have been trying to figure out some combination of community broadband and/or mesh network that would provide service during and after emergencies.

Our fire chief lives in Santa Rosa (and lost his house) and his description of the incredible chaos caused by a lack of communications was heartbreaking. i.e. People were evacuated to hospitals that were in the process of being evacuated.

I wish there was a way to run a mesh network on a USB stick Pi Zero sort of thing. Just spread them around town and have a wifi network for when shit gets bad.
ahh, nice :)
Are you using Qualys? It seems they are having major issues with header checks starting around Oct 1st. Tenable however still passes sites without HPKP. Getting our vendors, like fortinet, to implement all the security headers Qualys now demands will be impossible so we are checking other ASV's to see how they respond to our sites. Just for jollies you should go check pci.qualys.com's security headers.
What about the value of the land?
Perhaps I should have clarified that to 'state senate districts', of which there are 35.

https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/maps/sldu/st08_co.html
Are you really excusing The Economist, the bastion of neoliberalism that it is, of not being sufficiently in favor of globalization?

Sure, globalization has lifted millions out of poverty, but it is also pretty uncontroversial to state that it also has disproportionately increased the wealth of the billionaire and millionaire class.
13th has a bit on ALEC, or here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buO1KubTfQo
For another (type-theory) perspective - a 'dynamic language' can be automatically considered weakly typed if it can return an runtime exception due a failure to perform a runtime type coercion, or because the typesystem is not expressive enough to include a proof of totality. That makes the whole dynamic/static versus strong/weak distinction kind of meaningless.

> The functional and imperative languages are weakly typed, i.e. the result of computing the value of an expression e of type T is one of the following: [...]

http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=ReferenceMa...

As a matter ordinary meaning, I also feel it makes sense to talk about more strongly typed languages, because they can express 'stronger' guarantees about behavior. Eg. a proof that the code cannot deadlock.
The only thing I like about it is the fact that it removes the need for the `fun` keyword. Otherwise it just adds noise in my opinion.
> Most people in Spain are not nationalists of any kind.

So, according to your point, the people who wants Catalans stay Spanish at any cost and tries to deny their right of a referendum are the "non nationalist". And the ones who are fed up of the BS of the Spanish government and just want to stop being Spanish are the Nationalist...
Aeons are commonly used for revolutionary stages of something. Not necessarily improvement, but definitely giant leaps of progress. It's not just a measure of raw time.
I don't know what to say... you have to write good code and good unit tests. I think talking how to do that is a bit outside of the scope here, but mocks for external apis & sensible function complexity metrics are good things.
I wonder how much the titanium niobium oxide anodes will add to materials costs.
> He discovered that some 16 languages spoken in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh have 200 words for snow alone

A know urban legend often applied to Inuits.

> Dr Devy, an untrained linguist

But we'll still call him doctor.

I'll guess he's a doctor in English? and they are there to entertain as he's done. (Obviously doctors in English can do other important things as well)

I don't know.... the BBC when they do these stories... intelligent people know they are not true buuuut then what does one think when they report on Syria.

Are stories like these symptoms and show we also should also take stories on Syria very very carefully or are they cancerous and encourage bad reporting and bad thinking? Are stories on Syria the same, just entertainment anyway and their accuracy for the masses is on equal importance?

I guess for me a source of truth is important and I would have though many on HN would want to seek the truth, but perhaps not so much.

[edit] There is also a interesting story here, I assume it's not a lie and the doctor believes what he's doing is true.... but I can't be sure from all the other inaccuracies.... but at face value he's done something really interesting that is BBC worthy. It just needs better framing.
These 'nice errors' are available on a forked version of the OCaml compiler. The hope is to merge them back into mainline OCaml, but it will be an uphill battle, I think, to convince the OCaml maintainers to merge them, because they're very conservative about changes (which can be good) and may not appreciate the value of friendly error messages (which is not so good).
Simplistically yes. I am not an engineer there so I don't know for sure, but my experience says its a bit more complicated since you can have a more complex bid that might be bidding CPM but uses LTV or CPA or some other metric (ie for us we are happy to pay $50 CPM to reach certain voter who donate to campaigns). Increasing impression load might work short term (or maybe even might work in majority of cases so my point might be moot) - until the end metric that ad buyers care about takes a hit (which in itself is a balance of quality/cost so again, it's complicated).

I mean it's harder to measure for brand advertising, but we track very closely lifetime value and persuasion through surveys, so the bid method doesn't matter as much to us - and FB is probably the best IMHO at letting us bring in whatever value data we want and optimizing for that.
This is selective accounting, there are many non-income Federal taxes that are ignored as well as who receives the benefits. Fortunately, the government has published data on total Federal taxes, not just income, as well as Federal transfers to households.[1] Among other things, it allows us to understand what percentage of the population pays net taxes to the Federal government, after all taxes paid and transfer income received is accounted for.

The data is somewhat surprising but I'll sum up: the top 20% of households are net tax producers, the next quintile pay their own way, and the bottom 60% are net tax consumers. In other words, the top 20% are subsidizing the bottom 60%, and 80% of the population effectively doesn't contribute to funding the government. Most of the middle class that thinks it pays Federal taxes doesn't, from a balance sheet perspective.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/60-percent-households-now-receive-...
Having 11.000 Spanish policemen in Catalonia, including the ones in the Lonely Tones ship, costs 33M EUR a day.
Try 45 years.
gentle/kind souls don't usually want to be CEOs/leaders and accept that stress and risk. People who are cutthroat and willing to step on other people to get ahead DO want to be CEOs.

such is life
So you can use this as an opportunity to educate everyone.
There used to be sane times where usernames were prefixed by a tilde in profile URLs...
We'll be here waiting
I worked with Scott on the HPKP components of that initial blog post (I'm sure he can confirm) and I won't blame him at all for what took place in hindsight. Google actually denied a bounty on disclosures surrounding RansomPKP, so there was nothing to suggest this was the path they would eventually follow.
And here I thought you were referring to Reason, the music production suite :/
The issue I observed was the both gen filled out very quickly so there was no chance for the minor to complete and just skip to major. But because the gens are consistently filled up, the JVM became "locked" doing full GC.
Well they already are doing something to fight it.. you want them to do more, but someone will always want more given they cannot solve the problem a 100% or even 50%. What they do will never be enough because the problem cannot be solved even close to 100%.

>1. The question of can is entirely separate from the question of should. Sometimes someone should, or even absolutely must, do something even if they currently can't, and the inability to do it does not make the demand that they do unjustified.

Wow... perhaps can/should are separate philosophically but frankly it makes no sense in the real world. We "should" all eat 200 calories a day so theres enough food to go around, we should all generate electricity out of thin air so theres less global warming, we should all be sure never to spread infectious diseases by force of willpower alone.. i mean what purpose does a demand that cannot be met serve? Thats insane.

BRB lemme go protest outside my barbershop demanding they solve the crisis in Chechnya.

Or maybe closer to home, I will be sure to demand that any software consultant I hire builds a system to handle 1M writes per second on an Arduino, and gets 1ms latencies across the world, real world be damned.
Oh, I'd hazard a guess that the media is well-educated, and handily equipped with an agenda similar to advertisers and marketers employing dark patterns and pervasive analytics.

And I never claimed I was good at anything. But I did intend to point out that with advanced persistent threats in the mix, and nation state actors operating with effectively unlimited resources, failing to notice the difference between two vaguely similar nonces (in a situation where it matters) is going to get you hanged, depending on what you're trying to fly below radar.
The pyramid isn't a law, it's just a heuristic that says to have more low level tests that are faster than high level tests that are slower. The unit/integration/system integration division tends to be correct, but isn't always. It just reminds us that there is time/compute scarcity, and to maximize those resources for optimal roi. And yes, a mobile app != a PaaS platform != system software and adapt the principles sensibly to the situation.

Seriously, though, I salute you on those integration test numbers. I assume containers are involved?
Invest in what though? The stock market? Who does buying an S&P 500 ETF benefit other than other people who own an S&P 500 ETF?
I'm super excited to dig into https://pragprog.com/book/wwgraphql/craft-graphql-apis-in-el... once I get through my current book queue!
Roads get shut down all the time in inclement weather, even interstate highways. There are also things like 'chain advisories' which prohibit traffic of vehicles unequipped with tire chains.

What this looks like is generally highway patrol blocking off the road and the news of the road closures or advisories is broadcast on the radio and television (and now the Internet, I suppose.)

Even down in sunny Austin Texas we have road closures when heavy rains inundate low-water crossings, though it seems every few years someone tries to make it through one and ends up drowning.
The ones I glanced at appear to test output without much mocking, which isn't as tightly coupled as unit tests commonly end up.
Again, I think this decision has nothing to do with Ransom HPKP and everything to do with how it's not a usable standard, and people who try to use it correctly fail.
It's just not the get-rich-quick schemes people of today prefer. For example, everything you can say about Bitcoin, you can say about land as well - it's scarce, but unlike Bitcoin, it has a real utility.
> For Rich's argument to resonate with me, I think I just need a good example of what he's talking about

Let me go through some work I just went through. Scrape web blog post, generate some semantic data about the post, send that data through some processing which perhaps infers some new facts, maybe discards some posts, then sends the data over the wire to be mapped and written to a searchable data repo. Which of course will be queried, read, and displayed in a web app.

This is pretty standard-fare programming in industry/web world.

I wrote this in Java, but here's my take: the easiest way to both implement and maintain this code is to model the web page data as a simple Map of facts -- properties with clear semantics ("author", "title", "content", etc.) and their values. The very minute that my scraper needs to introduce a new fact it does literally nothing from a code declaration point of view. It simply puts a new fact (say, "publication-date") into the Map. Absolutely no downstream code needs to be touched in order for me to do this. I just produce the fact/knowledge. That was just one use case.

Now to do this same thing with an ADT/class/record, I have to at minimum go declare that property in the ADT. But usually I also have to go update the ADT serialization code to make sure that it is writing this new property into the serial format -- the JSON, or what-have-you. Furthermore, on the other side of the wire, I have to make sure that guy is either using my ADT or map to his ADT, whatever.

Oh my gosh, this is just one use case and the non-ADT scenario asked me to do literally nothing to introduce some knowledge, some simple little fact, and the ADT scenario has me jumping through hoops to get my release out.

Mind you, this data-process-to-web-display architecture is very common in industry programming. And it is very common to find this jumping-through-hoops.

And we haven't even started talking about the webapp/display side of things.

Now I wrote this in Java, the whole way dodging ADTs and types where I didn't need them (ie, lean on Strings when in doubt), and using simple Maps. But even then the syntactic negotiation was quite large. Clojure embraces this map-centered/fact-centered view of the world at its core and this program would have been much much less lines of code and much much less cognitive overhead written in Clojure.

Now I know a static typer person is going to say, okay fine, but jumping through those hoops I've saved you a bunch of bugs. But I say no you haven't. Unless you go all the way with your types and have a Content type and a Title type ... because my bugs were to do with payload sizes and things like that. Things that even static typers will end up checking via some dynamic logic in their code.
BTW w your username I can't tell if I should be watching for a con!
EV is part of a narrative. Which has some value, even if weak.
Ambiguous language. I thank what was being implied is that it was the first occurrence of that type of article on HN, not that the article was the first ever about memristers and was posted to HN.
Served with a side of mealworms, or crickets, if you prefer.

Interestingly, allrecipes lives up to the name on its tin: http://allrecipes.com/search/results/?ingIncl=frog&sort=re
Because it's not their money.

That's pretty counter to how America operates. The gov't operates at the behest of the citizens of the US. Any income you make is yours, thus the gov't has an obligations to spend it in a responsible manner. I think that's why so many Americans complain about taxes. If it was spent wisely and people felt they got good value for their tax dollars I'm sure the complaining wouldn't be as loud.
> how could this ever compete with AR?

"How could the written word ever compete with pictograms?" It's a different medium with real benefits and tradeoffs. Right now for you it's all theoretical, but one day hopefully you'll be able to see for yourself if the medium has the time to grow, breathe, expand, and develop. Funding Dynamicland means that we as a species have the option of seeing how that medium might work if it was allowed to flourish.
I love it when people use examples like education, road, the legal system to justify taxes. Most of the tax burden is entitlement payments. Educations, road, the legal system is a small fraction of the total tax burden.
Title makes it sounds like you're stuck with Google-of-whatever-country-you're-in. You're not: you just have to select the country you want from settings instead of typing in its TLD now.

From the article:

>If for some reason you don't see the right country when you're browsing, you can still go into settings and select the correct country service you want to receive. Typing the relevant ccTLD in your browser will no longer bring you to the various country services—this preference should be managed directly in settings.
Oh, Louisiana. That is where I met a crazy swamp beast that scared the hell out of me. It turns out, it was a Nutria and similar to this frog deal. They were supposed to be a profitable critter to raise but they aren't. No, the one I met crawled out of a swamp, covered in slime, and ate a rotten fish - while staring me down.

It did not look even remotely tasty or like I might want to wear its fur. I can't imagine what people were thinking, kind of like these frogs. Frogs are handy for catching food, however. I am not sure if even gators eat the nutria. They are now an invasive pest species. They look worse when they are covered in swamp slime.
I assume Bret just didn't want the work to be shown without context yet.
What do you think bans on duplexes, apartment buildings, and row houses do in a city?
Commands to check equipment data on Linux
This has always seemed like a really silly argument. You're already trusting the US government, VeriSign, and a multitude of other organizations that control CAs, so DANE doesn't make this worse.

It's kind of a moot point, though, since DNSSEC is garbage for other reasons. Certificate transparency logs are the current best effort in this area.
That sucks. One workaround you could use would be to have one browser profile for American searches and one for Czech searches, and flip between the two, even though it's a solution to make things suck just a little bit less.
They may not have understood their market, either. Most people who go out of their way to get good whole leaf tea enjoy the process, the tea ware, etc. It’s like people who enjoy guns and accessories for guns? This is trying to sell them a gun at 10x markup, without any details on the quality of the shooting, and promising they’ll never have to buy any accessories for it.

It’s priced for very high income tea enthusiasts, with features that strike against everything a normal tea enthusiast enjoys.

For $100 and cheap packets this would fly, targeting people who currently don’t care about that (tea bag users.) But then, the margins would be shit and you’re trying to compete against an already simple and cheap tech.

What demographic were they hallucinating?
PS - Here's a scatter plot (rtt vs km) of all HMA servers, using ping probes in Vancouver:

https://keybase.pub/mirimir/HMA-Vancouver.png

Anything below the blue line is physically impossible. Notable is the horizontal banding.
the overall program also included a 3D terrain browser built on top of .geo that pre-dated Google Earth by 4 or 5 years.

http://www.ai.sri.com/digital-earth/

those were great times... sadly, the Principal Investigator passed away, one of the lead devs left the company for greener (for-profit) pastures, and the program was de-funded when DARPA priorities shifted post-9/11 and it all just kinda evaporated.

re: the moon - I honestly forget how that part was supposed to work....
..."hyped as"...
The stories behind some of these plots are amazing. Here’s part of #4, Stan Kroenke: http://www.landreport.com/2016/07/land-report-deal-of-the-ce...
>> people in these villages liked the music from the radio

It could also be because

(a) the low cost and availability of music on the radio (portable, on demand etc) was much higher than the availability of their native music which had to be played live by an artist.

(b) the novelty of the 'outside' music or its sophistication due to the electronic instruments used etc could have temporarily make the local people to like the outside music long enough to stop making their own.
Permanent residency is available for investors and people employed there. You’re right, it’s not unconditional. Property rights, in practice, are generally respected as in western countries, although there are some notable counter examples.

I think pollution in China will likely be a non issue in 10-20 years or so. Pittsburg used to be like Beijing, but as the National economy shifted away from industries causing pollution, it disappeared entirely. China is in the midst of this process.
I thought that labster was referring to recent North Korean threats to perform their next thermonuclear test in the atmosphere:

http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1204233/guest-post-co...

Which would be a disturbing development, but not nearly as disturbing as actual nuclear war.
I mean, you can use either the of the morphdom or setdom libraries to do the diffing if you don't want to replace all the HTML, but the concept remains the same.

I'm not convinced by arguments such as "when you're a large team it's necessary". Scaling teams has more to do with project structure than what rendering library you use.

Likewise, it's much easier to tweak performance when you aren't depending on a monolith like React or Angular.
Same, it really should be referenced as ReasonML. Reason is a major piece of software that's been around for a very long time.
That was my thinking exactly, and the reason I clicked on the link. Even the initial landing page the link took me to didn't clearly explain what it was I was looking at.

Perhaps a small tagline in addition to the one (or two) word article heading to indicate what the article is talking about may assist in future...
" some regions with experience inflationary monetary policies while others would experience deflationary ones. "

Housing - and capital inflows/outflows - are primary drivers of inflation! (FYI I know housing is generally not included in inflation targets, but it really should be because it's where inflation can effectively be hidden).

Ergo - strongly related to the issue at hand.

Put simpler: those who come from countries with a different currency should not be able to buy residential property. :)
I made this release, and I also don't understand, and I do mean this _very honestly_. Aside from familiarity that is.

But the thing to realize is that this syntax change isn't for folks and you and me. We'll be fine with either.
Isn't this what companies were doing back during the dot-com boom?
That's fine but it is a very conservative approach. I also can't talk for other people, however I personally get excited about new things without a working proof yet and where the advantages aren't clear. It makes for a lot of disappointment and isn't for the faint of heart. I'd rather see the future as it happens, false starts and all.

So the bleeding edge is where I want to be.
Also it gets difficult to google things very quickly while trying to get up to speed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/reasonml/comments/6v2olv/new_syntax...

https://github.com/facebook/reason/pull/1299#issuecomment-32...
It comes down to domain knowledge. I am a musician, and whenever anyone mentions 'Reason', I instantly think of the DAW software by that name.

I have been a programmer for as long as I have been a musician, but strangely, never heard of ReasonML until now!
I think the article makes some valid points, but it's important to remember that PWAs are just getting going. The existing SPA frameworks are still a little crude at the moment, but there is definite progress. For my own app (https://usebx.com), I eventually ended up writing my own front end framework, as existing frameworks at the time felt rather bloated. Now, however, things are starting to look better with the likes of Vue.js etc coming on the scene. I also feel that PWA development will explode once Apple ships service workers with Safari, and that will bring along with it even more motivation to innovate in this space.
I haven't tried Reason but Merlin (whom the creator also built) looks really nice: https://github.com/ocaml/merlin