skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Sharp Sans Display No. 1 and Galaxie Copernicus.
If I hear "blockchain" one more time...
> My impression is that many areas where the culture is social/polite, brief interactions with strangers are usually pleasantries and small-talk.

We have pleasantries and small-talk as well as the occasional deeper interaction. It doesn't have to be either/or.
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On Types and Intent, Clojure and Haskell, Science and Engineering
I can't name any today, but I think if you read my comment above, you'll find the names of two reporters that I believe lived up to that standard.
Based on the photographs of screens that I have seen, this seems to be true image persistence, meaning that e.g. a blue subpixel being left on for a long time will not immediately turn completely off when instructed to. That’s the only explanation I can think of for photographs I’ve seen of color images remaining (with the same colors, just fainter) after the screen was instructed to switch to solid grey or black.

If my impression is correct, it must be a different phenomenon than the one you’re describing (which I’ve also always heard stttributed to OLEDs), where subpixels will output less light over their lifetimes (and perhaps the dimming-over-time curve is different for different colors).
People say that, and yet the yearly neo-Nazi street marches in Germany are bigger than anything that US has seen so far.
Google has a big office in NYC, so that could have something to do with it.
> Oh I’d love ti do that, but it would harm both my social and professional life in ways I can’t really afford.

That's what I thought until I did it. It's a big illusion in most cases. Start the process now, and you should be able to reach a point where it won't be as difficult, even if it takes a couple of years.

I suspect that many (most?) people who believe that leaving Facebook will hurt their professional lives actually hurt their professional lives more by spending so many hours on Facebook.

The average person apparently spends 50 minutes per day on Facebook. That is over 300 hours per year. Many people spend much more than 50 minutes per day on Facebook. 2.5 hours per day, 7 days per week, is almost equivalent to a part-time job. There are much more effective ways to improve social and professional life with 50+ minutes per day to work on them.

I recommend keeping track of time spent on Facebook (including reading links visited via Facebook). Compare what you learned there vs. what you would learn from spending the same amount of time reading books, taking an online course, working, or meeting people in-person instead. Or multiply that number of hours by your hourly rate...
And .NET.
My philosophy is always choose the right tool for the right job.

If you're productive in VB.NET and can ship your MVP with it, it doesn't matter what people think about your choice of framework/language.

I got it a lot when I decided to write my backend in Go. The meme is "Go is for shitty programmers, no generics, etc" but my system doesn't bottom out at 1K QPS. I feel like the people who get into heated debates about language choice should spend more time coding then arguing about which language is the best.
> But in your example it seems reasonable to me to just block the post where it is illegal.

From a technology perspective, that's a much harder problem than it sounds. To the degree it's even possible, it's a good way to make sure that social networking gets consolidated into the hands of a few companies and that never get challenged. Or that social networking breaks back up into country-specific sites, making the "world-wide" part of the WWW more of a technical possibility than a practical reality.
Exactly, do not even waste your time. Journalism is dead.
There are dozens of them !

There’s a number of good code editing app on the platform (which won’t be affected by this), and otherwise I think it happens to most of us to just open a text editor and type a snippet we send to someone or run in JS or on a terminal.
> No one would accuse Germany of being anything but an open liberal democracy.

I would disagree with it. It's a democracy, sure, but it's not particularly liberal. This depends on your definition of liberalism, of course, but I wouldn't consider any society that censors political speech to be fully liberal.
POSIX has zero support for GUI code or proper Unicode, of course it requires platform specific APIs, even if the target platform would be fully POSIX compliant.
Yes it's not bad but not great either. It would only help in certain situations (hello vs Ꮒello). It also becomes tricky if you permit Turkish, as you would have to allow mixing of ascii and the dotted vs dotless i.

There are also good reasons to mix language in a name. US state abbreviations might be used to distinguish (e.g.) a diaspora community in Texas from their equivalent in Alaska.
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Trump blatantly supports unconstitutional programs like domestic surveillance and gitmo--this should be enough to impeach him alone for supporting an undermining of the US constitution and American's rights.

See, statements like this are a part of the problem. Obama did these things too and noone cared. Given that why should anyone believe anything anyone says? And into that vacuum, a new kind of influence emerges, one that is not about policies but just about "my team winning".
> I don't think anything technical or special keeps YouTube number one other than first to market mindshare

It's the youtube content creators like PewDiPie, Casey Niestat, Kurzgesagt etc that makes Youtube special just like that community that makes Hacker news special.
I am happy about unicode, the benefits are well worth the few problems. Scammer will always be scammer. We have to outsmart them, that's all.
> human dignity aforefront

To me, human dignity includes the ability to form groups, state your political thoughts, and even state them to the government and voting public without becoming a criminal.

I think Nazis are scumbags, but forming "dangerous" dissenting groups has been a healthy response to oppression in the past. The American founding fathers were engaged in illegal and dangerous speech, for example. They were doing literally illegal things when publishing their pamphlets and such.
I was an adult before most people were on the Internet. People don't need sites like Facebook to connect with their communities.

Strangers are only strangers until you start communicating with them. Most people I know these days were first met through the Internet.

I suspect that most people use webmail (HTTPS), and many people don't use Gmail. I can switch my number to another carrier and people can still reach me at the same number, so it isn't exactly a walled garden. I think it's a stretch to argue that Facebook is better than email from a privacy standpoint.
The Decline of the West
That's not Twitter's fault, that's Trump's fault. If the president accidentally declares war, he should be impeached
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yeah, as I ad-hoc-ly commented. It's all about compression.
Lenin? Stalin was the killer, and he departed from Lenin's philosophy in several very key ways that break the pedigree you suggest.
For anyone interested: Learn more on TD and RL in general from Sutton (inventor of TD-lambda) and Barto's book: http://www.incompleteideas.net/sutton/book/the-book.html

Sidenote: It used to be that simply googling "sutton barto book" would bring you to the right place with the first suggested link. Now this stuff is so popular all of a sudden, I needed to consult the link I had set on my own page in order to find it. It's curious how the growth of popularity of an idea will with time obscure it's own roots and primary sources. On the plus side, TIL that Sutton's working on a 2nd edition! =)
this to mefeels like an unpaid advertisement from freelance.com

reason being that the report feels bogus, and is posted were lots of skilled labor can be found
So content would be hosted and regulated in a freedom-oriented place (or at least in a place where free servers can be predictably maintained) and no oppressive or abusive government could control speech with legislation or force? Doesn't sound bad, actually.
To save an episode click the episode, then click the circle with 3 periods inside. In the menu look for it, its named “Save Episode “
I've heard from a few cyclists about people they cycled with who got into pretty violent fist fights with some people, some even had to call an ambulance after that.

My suggestion is to always apologize even if you're not in the wrong, because getting into fights, or even angry, for silly things like that is not worth it.
Ask HN: Hacker News client for iPhone X?
I'm using the iOS App from https://hn.premii.com since a long time.

The App isn't updated for the new iPhone X layout.

Is there an App you guys recommend ?
I'll accept that this may break site guidelines, and should be dinged. I don't feel too bad about posting it, though. I'm a left-center person calling out pretty standard far right nastiness that is definitely de rigeur for those types. I absolutely reject the idea that saying US rural culture is all sorts of fucked up is in any way a personal attack or flamebait. We accept all sorts of far left attacks against centrism as if they are reasonable, and while I don't agree, I don't complain.
> If you get to the particulars of how that is supposed to work, turns out the theory is pretty crappy too.

E.g. see "The free market efficiently matches demand with supply."
It has everything to do with Trump and the country. It is an attempted distraction, but the type of thing that happens around the world every year.

Sometimes macroeconomists model concepts in the framework of households. Here is an analogy to help express where I am coming from: let's say every month your homeowners association has an election. For as long as anyone can ever remember, George and Barry win every time. Over the years they have installed security cameras inside your house, created conflicts with neighboring towns which profit their businesses and kill some of our children, and they have not done a very good job of taking care of the neighborhood.

Along comes Don. There are lots of good reasons to hate Don, but George and Barry start a campaign to get him out which involves Ted, an adversary from an entirely different, trashy neighborhood, who passed fliers around with fake information in hopes that Barry wouldnt be elected again.

I'm sitting in HOA meeting wondering why no one has brought up the security cameras inside my house, the fact that my best friend died due to George and Barry, JP & Morgan--who don't even live here--are getting a lot of our money for some reason, Barry's team is rigging the election process, and our neighborhood's health and environment is deteriorating. This was just a small start to a long list of terrible problems.

But George and Barry are running the meeting and Ted is the focus.
I do agree with this sentiment very much but at the same time I do feel like no one has really given it a good shake.
Why not track the cumulative amount of R, G, and B activation for each pixel and then model a predicted burn-in mask based on the actual usage?
I think you're misinterpreting the parent who is saying that local minima are not a problem in high dimensions because there is always a dimension to move in that reduces the loss (unlike in lower dimensions where you can get stuck in a point across all dimensions that cannot be locally improved upon)
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Iirc «adb backup» is a command these days and it doesn’t rely on MTP.
Socialism is workers owning the means of production. Communism is a pretty serious departure from that, taking it to the government level.

The bloodshed from totalitarianism is well-documented and really didn't have much to do with Communism at all anyway.

Let's be wary of any equivocation between "destroy the people who can singlehandedly ruin lives by manipulating markets" (you will note this is a tiny minority of bad actors) and "destroy anyone who hurts my ego while I'm in power" (i.e., pretty much everyone).
You can export from org to pdf (type C-c C-e l p in emacs). For some fine tuning you can export to tex and then use pdflatex.
Buying Apple products is not something a lot of us would do if the decision was purely rational.
> No one runs Linux desktop

roughly 3% of the world internet users. Sure, 3% is not much, but it's still multiple hundred of millions of people
There’s one example of autocorrect in use :)
It does a appear to be a fundamental problem with OLED displays. AFAIK, every OLED screen ever made has burn-in issues, and every manufacturer of OLED screens takes care to explicitly exclude display burn-in from the warranty terms.

I made the mistake of buying an OLED TV to use as a computer monitor last year, and today there are multiple areas of the screen where burn-in marks are visible from things like the taskbar, window title bars, window separators from tiled arrangement, etc.

It's a real shame because OLED has otherwise terrific properties as a display technology, and looks downright mind-blowing in a dark room where the infinite contrast from the lack of a backlight shines through. But because of the burn-in issues I've experienced, I can't in good faith recommend it as a long-term investment for use cases where you're likely to have static images on the screen for prolonged periods of time (smartphone and computer displays).

Anyone aware of other promising display technologies that can achieve the same levels of contrast without the downsides of the burn-in risks associated with OLED?
What do you mean by that? A few langs support UTF-{8,16LE,16BE,32LE,32BE} + normalization out of the box: rust, c++, python, go, they all require library for that.
March 14, 2017

Saudi deputy crown prince, Trump meeting a 'turning point': Saudi adviser

https://archive.is/nAC1H

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia hailed a “historical turning point” in U.S.-Saudi relations after a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlighted the two leaders’ shared view that Iran posed a regional security threat.

The meeting on Tuesday appeared to signal a meeting of the minds on many issues between Trump and Prince Mohammed, in a marked difference from Riyadh’s often fraught relationship with the Obama administration, especially in the wake of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

“This meeting is considered a historical turning point in relations between both countries and which had passed through a period of divergence of views on many issues,” a senior adviser to Prince Mohammed said in a statement.

“But the meeting today restored issues to their right path and form a big change in relations between both countries in political, military, security and economic issues,” the adviser said.
An Amazon Web Services data center in Frankfurt, Germany, specially dedicated to CERN.

I believe this is actually the CERN computer center itself and totally unrelated with Amazon.

http://cds.cern.ch/record/1103476
Scaling in 2017 means "scales like f(x) = ax+b" with a=0, b=0
IBM advertised directly to the GAP(Nazi party) product designed to architect genocide

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1...

CEO even got a medal for "service to the Reich", from Hitler himself, while visiting Berlin ...

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-cal...
also this review of Galaxie Copernicus is pretty cool.
Sure, it’s probably impossible to have this block 100% effective. However, this is a bad excuse for giving up trying at all. Even the simplest technical measures will stop most people.

Also, the discussed German law (which I'm not particularly fond of) addresses the problem you raised: it only applies to the largest companies giving startups enough time before needing to solve these issues.
This is a legitimate claim. You might wanna take a look at this[0]. I've blocked out the project title and the buyer's name, becasue i don't want my real name associate with my HN handle.

Dark Red: Buyer's Name

Turquoise: Project Title

[0]https://i.imgur.com/LpTYbse.jpg

P.S.

Not sure how you got the "unpaid advertisement" idea from my original comment. That is a complete opposite of an advertisement. However, it advertises the fact that you can get work done for free. Maybe that's what you are trying to say :)
Could you elaborate? As it stands there's no connection between the two concepts.
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Don't use plastic bags.

It's forbidden by law in Europe simply because it will prevent the spores to drop.

Use a wooden basket instead.
interesting

the volume of an n-ball peaks at n=4 dimensions and quickly drops to zero around n=20. cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995930

The comment refers to lebesgue measure (I don't even what), but I'd intuitively and ignorantly assume we count all faces of all n-1 balls (recursively) whereas the Volumes overlap and so the total (in lebesgue ...space?) is less than the sum of it's parts (in euclidean space) - how far off am I? (will delete if too far)
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Would just like to point out that your description of the Linux development sounds like syndicalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism

You still get the choice between A and B but there is a much stronger emphasis on people getting out exactly what they put in.
Which means a whole pile of other entities will have scraped your data in that window.
What bias? I’ve seen Wikipedia editors working round the clock to prevent bias and vandalism from appearing on pages about controversial people such as Martin Shkreli
Simple rule: want to remain friends/in touch/family with me? No pictures posted on FB.
nice to know ;)
Slovenia's love affair with a salamander (2016)
I am not familiar enough with Scala, but the C++ example certainly does not seem like dependent types.

Which function in there do you consider to have a return type that depends on the value of the input?
waiting is good advice
Also note this is a long know virus and not considered an immediate threat, though it is high on the watchlist via concern it could mutate.
It is call monopoly - one form of violence.

People simply do not have choice. And if they find some alternatives then these companies appeal to the state or even military force. For example, some largest military invasions of the US into Iraq and many other countries can be explained very simply: people did not want to use Facebook and Google.
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You're spot on.

And if someone thinks regular people would be "too scared" of CLI to pipe curl into sudo sh, remember that people are "too scared" of developer tools in browsers too, and yet Facebook and others have to implement self-XSS protection measures in there, because it turns out there's nothing too complicated in computing when it stands between a person and fulfilling their desire (as promised by a scammer).
Check out the field of general game playing:

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

http://www.ggp.org

http://logic.stanford.edu/ggp/readings/retrospective.html
I was trying to also make that implicitly clear, but failed to do so. I think if you read my comments below you will see this idea.
Oh so you’re an internet idiot, who shits on other people’s hard work even if completely clueless about it —- what’s it like over there?
Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode
Maybe for Google.

Scaling well means "costs / effort scale like f(x) = ax^p +b " with p < 1. Not scaling well means having p > 1.
Such apps require redesigning the interface for OLED. Specifically, black background and auto-hide for everything that's not important. If there are visible static parts, they should be low-contrast and moved around from time to time.
Wow, what a comprehensive page! Truly a labor of love... or hate of time issues.
I wonder if that might have been due to Windows market share? Windows was everywhere on the desktop, and those Windows desktops provide a good intermediary vector for attacking instances of IIS on Windows Servers.

Also, thinking back to the bad old days and the script-kiddie-eseque of many viruses of the early 2000s (iloveyou, et al), I suspect it may come down to attacking what you know: Windows was more prevalent and better understood so that's what people tried to break.

Not my field though, so all just speculation.
> It isn't facebook that needs fixing. It is germany.

Definitely, Facebook, Google and other monopolies are the main obstacle to free speech. First of all because of their strong restrictions of the kind of ideas that can be expressed. Of course, it is not about a single post about my dog - it is about activities which can significantly influence what is important for various powers and hence for these corps themselves.

But probably Facebook, Google etc. cannot be fixed without fixing the US because there is an opinion that it is one and the same...
It is both a currency and a means of investment, all currencies are, even inflationary fiat currencies, the people who get in first when interest rates are high can earn a lot of interest before the currency is eventually devalued by the controllers.

In theory, when bitcoin reaches a saturation point of adoption, the value of bitcoin won't increase anymore (it can't if there is no more demand). At this stage deflation would technically have stopped and the currency is matured.

This should lead to a much more stable economy than we have now, where people aren't encouraged through the use of cheap credit to make emotional purchases for things they don't need, sure the economy might not "grow" at the same rate but the growth would be a more precise representation of what people truly needed (instead of just being a big party). Maybe people would even lead more stable responsible lives.
I agree. People high up decided that it was not cool to have a marine corps general under arrest.

I have a few questions:
1. How is it legal to tap the communications of an attorney and his clients ?
2. Is such evidence admissible in American courts ?
3. How can it be that the general can be held accountable for 'allowing the resignation of defense counsel(s)' Is such permission required ?

This is very strange.
Did you mean DMCA?
Apparently, according to all the discussion following James Damore being fired, even USA have problems accepting the ideal of free speech fully. I am not sure that Germany is any more illiberal in this respect
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> similar to app stores, but human beings look over each application that's included

I'm sure that's not true for all Linux repositories. But humans certainly do look at all apps going to the App Store.
Fengari gzipped and minified is about 75kb