skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly doing this is introducing technical challenges easily avoided. But it’s also a win for reading, typing, and remembering URLs. Don’t confuse back-end elegance with elegance in communication with humans.
Tell that to all my pesos.
While people often sneer at ICC for prosecuting African war criminals and leaving big fish from the developed world alone, with US and Russia withdrawing their signatures, ICC should be considered to be a deratization service for the countries that signed in. If some nations prefer to be infested with war criminals too bad for them. But those who remain can still reap the benefits.
I recently launched the landing page[1] for my startup and the designer gave us a crazy animated design.

All of my personal sites never required JS and have always worked just fine in Lynx. I didn't want any JS on the landing page (not even for analytics, we can do that server side), so decided to see what HTML + CSS can do these days.

I was pretty blown away with how easily I was able to have a half-dozen animations running in parallel with 3 videos playing and being transformed in a 3D space.

Even better, the page works perfectly fine in Lynx! I recognize that there are times with the modern web where JS is required, but I try my damnedest to minimize it. And modern web standards make it easier in ways that were impossible a decade ago (e.g. no more $.fadeIn()).

[1] https://banter.fm
I don't really want an unbiased platform. I want a news source that accepts the postulates I accept. I don't want to read an interview with the Google Manifesto guy. I do want to read more things about labor issues, without the habitual "some people think that unions are actually bad!" stuff. I don't need the both sides fallacy, especially given the current state of politics.

You wouldn't want to read a defense of homeopathy right? Why do I have to suffer through denial of climate change, defenses of trickle-down economics, or "increased economic growth will counterbalance the tax cuts!"?
I couldn't remember the specifics but I was going to say something a bit more charged i.e directly made it worse. I wasn't sure if it was a similar deal to the Indian famine but clearly was.
OCaml has pretty good and modern tools (opam, meriln, oasis) and basically all the libraries you would expect, compared to SML which has no editor support, a very minimal stdlib, no package manager, no build system, very few and hard to find libraries, etc.
To be fair Reagan is a capitalist only mostly just at face value. He increased government size and power more than Obama did. For example, not just did he increase spending but he also partnered with and strenthened the Deep State which has given us great benefits to American Liberty such as Iran Contra, subversion and lies leading to endless pointless wars, and even domestic surveillance.

>"Commercial banking firm’s continuing desire for greater powers received support when Ronald Reagan became President and appointed banking regulators who shared an “attitude towards deregulation of the financial industry.”[1]

His legacy of deregulation often decreased competitiveness and paved the way for the 2008 financial crisis. He even willfully used "left wing" Keynseian economics of tax+spend+cut taxes to get short-term gains at the expense of future generations.

As far as I can tell his consistency appears to be that of an authoritarian, which throws this whole analysis off the rails... In my opinion.

It's very hard to reign in all of these beasts he let loose.

1-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Glass–Steagal...
>I would say equality vote is very important it was missing in this country not long ago.

If you mean equality of vote; it's just another version of equality of chance. Everyone gets a chance to vote and be voted for, the outcome may not be equality.

The other option is equality of outcome, which is antithetical to equality of vote.

>Why is violence required for your argument?

It's not. I recognize that sometimes violence is an inevitable outcome but everyone should be looking for non-violent means that make the least amount of people unhappy.

I don't think I ever made violence necessary for my argument tbh...
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Spider queen is in action and ready to fight with dangerous criminals with the help of strange powers in Multi Spider vs Gangsters: Strange Survival. Spider queen wandering in city and fight with gangster to save the grand city from them. Spider queen is new character which is explore in the gaming world and blasts the games. Spider queen save the innocent civilians with the help of powerful attacks like web attacks and swords fighting methods.
That wasn't my experience, though we didn't cover the empire specifically. In fact, each term or so was based on a theme that covered a period e.g Tudors, Victorians, ancient Egypt, ancient Rome.

I also went to a Catholic faith school so I think there was already good reason to be honest with history. England was not very kind to Catholics either - apparently a BBC show demonstrates this quite well.

My learnings about the empire have been through personal curiosity. At first, the whole "largest empire in history" was a curiosity. The more I learned, however, the more disgusted I became.
The alleged goal was to make a smart contract that depended on something outside the blockchain by using TLS-N. The LIBOR scandal was an example of a bunch of data sources colluding to lie to manipulate LIBOR. The data sources in this TLS-N scheme could collude to deceive the smart contract.
Direct democracy is impractical in XXI century. Very often the good and the needed policies are complicated and counter-intuitive, and majority of citizen is simply not qualified enough to make a reasonable decision.

We need to fix representative democracy instead, and indeed there are tools for that. We need to be able to delegate the decision making in different fields to different people (for example, on civil rights to a liberal, on military to a conservative and on environmental policy to a green). Or, better, we could delegate our votes to an expert we trust. We should be able to re-cast our votes any time we lost our confidence in our representative and, in general, the system needs to be much more flexible, so that the influence of voters would be really visible.
The different chinese languages don't seem to be dialects in any objective sense. I have no idea how it started being called that in english (bad translation of 語/話 maybe?), but Hokkien and Mandarin seem about as different from each other as English and French, maybe more. No mutual intelligibility. What's the case with Arabic dialects? I am completely ignorant there.

And that's the thing, they use characters when they have to write it, but even then native speakers struggle to read it because there's no commonly used standard way to do it. In practice, they just write in mandarin.
I don't think it's that. It's a fundamental misreading of the problem snow causes. The part where a few snowflakes go past the camera is relatively simple to deal with. But it's not why snowy conditions are difficult.
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"The glass within the infusion globe and carafe are hand blown by a glass artisan, one at a time."

Oh, please.

A product specifically made for dummies with too much money is the Carver Silver Seven amplifier.[1] Bob Carver, who was a very good amplifier designer, offered a challenge in 1987. He would build a low-cost amplifier to exactly match the transfer function of some High End amplifier. The outputs matched; this was tested by running both amplifiers in parallel, hooked up to cancel out. It worked. In blind listening tests, nobody could reliably tell the difference. High End reviewers hated this.

So, partly as a joke. Carver designed the Carver Silver Seven. "Each hand-rubbed, black lacquered chassis rests on four rubbery Simms Vibration Dampers, which in turn rest on polished granite anti-vibration bases." Each amplifier has 19 tubes. Per channel. The power supply is on a separate chassis. Each chassis is almost half a meter deep. There's a four minute delay on power up for careful tube warming.

Audiophiles bought it.

Carver's successors then came out with the Silver Seven 700. This has twenty tubes, weighs 100 pounds, and costs $35,000. Per channel. Presumably someone is buying that.

[1] https://hometheaterreview.com/carver-silver-seven-mono-vacuu...
[2] http://www.bobcarvercorp.com/silverseven700
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To be clear, Reason is just a lexer for OCaml. Any actual language features would happen in OCaml.
A correction, it is kannada not kannad :-)
It's about ten or twenty years too early to establish the success of the Emirates Air Line. In London it's necessary to build infrastructure well before the demand appears because otherwise it's too late to thread it through high density development.

At the south end, there's an enormous new housing development being built next to the cable car stop. The southern station is also next to the terminus for the increasingly-popular river boat service. The boat service has taken at least 20 years (and several operator bankruptcies) to get (re)established and what was once a tourist-only route is now picking up more commuters as the frequency improves.

At the northern end, the stop is close to the Excel and Custom House station, where there will be a link to Crossrail.

As you mention there are existing tube and rail stations in the area but they are heavily overloaded. The DLR is packed when there's a show at the Excel, and the Jubilee line is so full at rush hour you often have to wait for several trains.

The cable car also adds a little bit more resilience to the network, allowing options when one of few eastern rail river crossings is running badly. I've taken the cable car plus the boat to get back to Westminster from the Excel when the DLR was closed by an accident.

Once the sponsorship runs out (more than half the cost was paid for by Emirates) and it becomes fully in TfL's control - we might see if it becomes a useful, practical, transport link rather than just an occasionally useful tourist attraction.
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Last stable version of Reason by Propellerheads came out two days ago. It's not dead!
> Could developers have wants that are unique to developers?

There seems to be a sizable portion of this, and far from limited to the web world.

That said, some of it may also come from the managerial level. This thanks to cargo culting akin to the offshoring fever a decade or two back.

meaning that management is pushing for something to be done in a certain way because they read about some big name corp doing the same, and wanting the company to appear "aggressive" to investors...
Seems reasonable to remove HPKP.

In my experience the use case that HPKP addresses the best is winning arguments with people who like ssh and think WebPKI and browsers are wrong. HPKP can be used to establish TOFU trust in the leaf key (but you need to pin your future key, too).

Winning that argument isn't worth the risks of HPKP, though.
As a receiver of email why would I want to receive a responsive email? What does it mean for me? And how will it look in Thunderbird, etc., when received from someone not on my trusted list?
Which exchange do you work for?
Serverless applications

Computerless computing!
The cars certainly don’t measure the traction, not even once per second. You need wheel slip to do that, and constant wheel slip is not a good driving mode. Not to mention the difference between static and dynamic friction.
At most cars can collect the lower bound of friction coefficient when braking/accelerating and lower/upper bounds when wheels are slipping. If you have a straight stretch of road, and no cars tried to brake/accelerate on that, the only friction data you would have is ‘no wheel slip at .02g acceleration/deceleration’. It doesn’t help the AI predict its braking distance for an emergency braking maneuver when driving that stretch of road, so a conservative AI would be forced to keep a much larger headway than a typical (or even cautious) human.
https://common.net/ is a startup delivering this kind of service.
Anyone thinking on betting on Ember, or Glimmer.

Word of advice / wisdom from having built multiple platforms / sites with it:

Don't.
I think the assumption of the author is that the folks who run Apple will be seduced by profits generated by the financial arm and start emphasizing that more. Which if anyone knows anyone who works at Apple is ridiculous in the extreme. Alternatively, they take on more balance sheet risk and then the whole company is jeopardized by a financial volatility event, e.g., a big jump in interest rates.

Tim Cook and others do seem to be playing a game of chicken with congress. How long can the US division continue to borrow to find the dividend while those enormous piles of cash remain offshore?
Oh, this is great: https://github.com/purescript/psc-package

Any word of when this will be supported/promoted officially? Just got this response from one of my former JS colleagues: https://twitter.com/keirasaid/status/924169973878046721 - it's pretty hard to convince JS developers to use something that is still recommends using Bower for package management. :/
What about cross-platform toolkits like Qt written in C++?
There certainly is a fundamental difference between what programmers refer to as compile-time and runtime. Naming is probably problematic; but mathematically you cannot prove all the properties of a program just by looking at its syntax, in general. Because this implies a solution to the halting problem. In other words, there is no program, given your program, that can verify it; whereas, there exists a program, given an input and your program, that can verify that your program outputs the correct thing (as long as the language can be emulated by a Turing machine). When it comes to programming languages, the distinction can be trickier, since you can technically get a python program and statically analyze it. So, "compile" time and "run"time are not necessarily perfect words but they belong to the programming terminology. The more crucial thing is, there is a mathematical difference between those two.
I don't see capital gains on that chart. Is it part of income? I think most rich people grow their wealth with capital gains that are only taxed when realized and even then are taxed at a lower rate than regular income.
I'll bet you the price of one of your machines that you won't be able to blind-taste the difference between how I brew a cuppa and your machine.

I don't know maybe you're just terrible at making tea the usual way but it doesn't have to be that way.
Very insightful post. Thanks for that.

I skimmed the paper and enjoyed the illustrations, and the photos at the end :).

So Memristors are about reversible gates instead of non-reversible NAND gates?
Also I'm not sure it makes sense to say the program spends X% time with memory and (100-X)% time with computation. Really a CPU will overlap memory access with compute.
Some of the generated celebrity images seem pretty much indistinguishable from reality. Does reality exist any more? In the future, it may get harder and harder to know.
I dunno, it is done in China to monitor everything. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/china-installs-20-mi...
Not GP but could be Guile
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
Best practices are to do as little as possible in my experience
They can only charge $6.66/month until a competitor comes along that creates a better and/or cheaper product. Unlike Facebook, which has a lot of inertia because all your friends may be on it and you can't get them to switch, a company can easily switch all its employees to a different corporate chat app: the CEO orders it, and it's done.

Also, that $5B valuation is based on significant expectations of future growth. Their customers up to now are probably the low-hanging fruit of the market - tech companies whose culture embraces tools like Slack. To grow beyond that (e.g., to Fortune 500 companies), they may need to offer a significantly different product that's sold in a very different way. Or, those companies may not want such a product at all.
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Which had one of the best ROIs of the things US spent money on. Space access and space-related tech is responsible for so many advances we enjoy today that's hard to even try and list them (some of them you can read about here, though: http://wtfnasa.com). So you kind of prove my point - that a government can literally mandate progress if they back it up with funding :).
If you don't allow for failures, you won't get successes either. That's the problem of today - research is increasingly being done in market-driven style, which strongly favors short-term work that the sales department can turn into perceived miracle over long-term, uncertain but possibly high-impact projects.
apropos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor
"… the insight that everything we can describe can be represented by the recursive composition of a single kind of behavioral building block that hides its combination of state and process inside itself and can be dealt with only through the exchange of messages." - Alan Kay, The Early History of Smalltalk
And apparently, neither do several downvoters here.
I won't be switching to Reason, it's a small greenfield project :) The security model of Mirage will really suit this small app and Reason has piqued my interest for being a little more productive with dev tools and stuff. Also being able to build a frontend in the same language is appealing.

Thanks for the answer; the other comment alluding to support being recent and the lack of information had me a bit worried. I guess the lack of information is because it just works ;)
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I remember the ladder scene. And even more so the bloopers reel where at one point the ladder closed on him mid-stunt. Ouch!
> Anyone with a credit card these days can rent a server in any country anyway

Including North Korea? :)
How long? At least as long as the pile of cash overseas grows faster than the debt.
He did popularly name what others (Nygaard and Dahl) invented, and for which they won ACM Turing Awards.

To quote Alan Kay:- "I don't think I invented 'Object-oriented' but more or less 'noticed' what was really powerful about just making everything from complete computers communicating with non-command messages. This was all chronicled in the HOPL II chapter I wrote 'The Early History of Smalltalk'."
This+VR = porn industry dream (also propaganda industry dream)
You can not just ignore the right of 2M people to self-determination, and that is exactly what Spain has been doing for many years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_referendu...

The "Yes" side won, with 2,044,038 (92.01%) voting for independence and 177,547 (7.99%) voting against, on a turnout of 43.03%

Calls for dialogue and negotiation, which lasted until the very last minute, failed.
None of these people are earning money in Panama. They're moving their money there and not declaring it. There's nothing US specific about that being illegal.
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IIRC the plan was to force users to manually install a root certificate (controlled by the government) on their devices. Local roots are exempt from any CT enforcement. Naturally, you can just not install the root certificate, but if all traffic is intercepted, I'd expect most users to do so to get around the warnings.
NodeJS people will tell you their solution is better.

Which I don't believe. Throwing away thread and managing it yourself and playing the game of will this code block the event loop is ludicrous.
I think more importantly they make for great private home servers for the distributed web so we can get away from centralized web services.
I do not live in the USA. What I am told by my colleagues who do, is that the post bell regional breakup created monopolies by location in order to prevent national dominance but give each region a reliable income in a time of voice call logistics. Fast forward to the emergence of fiber as a viable technology: either you live in a location serviced by a telco who is willing to re-engineer to fiber or you don't. Verizon exemplifies the quandary, it's a huge cost, they have to carve out special data models for cable companies to stop them refusing to drop coax, it's impossible to charge sanely, their shares tank. I am sure there are happy customers but there is no clear equality of service. It's a patchwork minefield.
The word "reality" has no place in this sentence, and "educate" is on shaky ground: However, the reality of our business is that it would take a lot more financing and time to educate the market ...
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> What about all of the information that was already in the submitted form?

Of course the form gets returned from server validation will all user input prefilled? At least with Django that's the default behaviour.
Which clients are supported? Can't find any information.
"A complaint might be he left out what aspects of Lisp provided that combinatorial boost".

He said it right there:
“unlimited programming in an eyeful” (the bottom half of page 13 in the Lisp 1.5 manual)
Ralph Johnson (one of the GOF) stated there are three views of OOP: the Scandinavian view; the Mystical view; and the Software Engineering view.

> "The Scandinavian view is that an OO system is one whose creators realize that programming is modeling. The mystical view is that an OO system is one that is built out of objects that communicate by sending messages to each other, and computation is the messages flying from object to object. The software engineering view is that an OO system is one that supports data abstraction, polymorphism by late-binding of function calls, and inheritance."

Most today (sadly) know only variations of the Software Engineering viewpoint.
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A neural network is fed hundreds of thousands of images of celebrity faces. From this it learns the typical characteristics of human faces, and can then be used to draw new faces with random combinations of those characteristics.

This work is interesting because it is the first one that has been this successful at high resolution, so the output images are large and detailed rather than postage stamp sized.
> $100 and cheap packets this would fly

Only if strapped to winged pigs, I'm afraid.
Did you actually read the article you linked to? It doesn't expose any kind of hoax. Rather, it poses those questions (as though posed by a disbeliever) and then provides the answers, concluding that the story absolutely makes sense, and that there's plenty of hard evidence.

Just that photo of him, standing in his shorts, should be sufficient. His hands are decidedly not pudgy, and his ankles are completely swollen.
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Ok so a few years ago I bought the most ridiculous tea maker ever, it does everything put the tea in and the water, and it takes the tea out when it’s done and will keep it warm too. It cost $200 and I thought it was kind of over priced but my wife loves tea so i got it for her for Xmas.

Even does this thing where it dips the tea in and out ask it brews / infuses / whatever tea lingo is

$1000 to make tea and I have to buy the tea from the company? No way Jose.