skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the message of being able to upload books, video's, files, and products free of charge and earn money doing so

Well there ya go. Add that sentence, almost exactly like that, right at the top of page. Something like

<h1>Content Creators: Upload books, video's, files, and products free of charge and earn money doing so!</h1>

would go a long way towards making the site's purpose more clear. You'll still have to sell people that you can deliver on that promise, but there's probably a segment of people out there, that if you can get them on the site, will say "Oh, I'd kinda like to do that".
As someone who spent a (wasted) decade in academia finding out a lot of published research was faked, keep your academic hands off of my business models. And keep your government hands off of my algorithms. FB stupidity and greed aside, I still trust the free market over its less-appealing alternatives.
I find these type of vulnerabilities very interesting.

I've also seen a sysop once using curl or wget in such a way that it would print out the response, while checking for an image file; it outputted all kinds of special characters.
Then, afer some magic character was printed, their terminal would start interpreting the rest of the output as commands. The commands were gibberish, nothing happened, but very dangerous nonetheless.
Thank you, you are right. I erroneously used the term Palestinians to refer to those who live in the West Bank, as those who live west of the Green Line identify more with Israel than with the PA or formally PLO. I've never had opportune to have a good discussion with Gaza residents, unfortunately.

You are right that the Christian and Muslim citizens of the West Bank (I'll just say Palestinians in interest of brevity) do _not_ enjoy the full benefits of citizenship, and are in fact treated poorly by the state compared to their Jewish neighbors. I'm one of their Jewish neighbors (I live in the West Bank) and we see it daily. However, these people (from what they tell me) do recognize that even with Israeli-imposed curfews e.g. on Yom Kippor, and restricted rights compared to Jews, they still live better than their brothers in Jordan and other Arab states. They drink cleaner water, have better job security, better health care, better education, better chances to improve the livelyhood of their children, and so many other advantages compared to Jordanian, Syrian, or Egyptians. This is coming from them, as I always take an opportunity to ask.

Of course, I would love to see them enjoy the same rights as I do. I don't see them as competition, rather I believe that we both flourish together when we cooperate. But even without all the benefits of a Western-style democracy that the government _could_ provide to them, they still prefer that government to the alternatives that they see right next door.
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Seasons:
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It makes sense if you think about it... let’s say that sand sells for $10 per cubic yard. If there’s a substantial area with sand down to 100ft you’re talking millions upon millions of dollars worth of sand!
Some of those examples trade development hell with debugging hell (e.g. list comprehensions). While working with Python's list comprehensions, I often find myself writing loops instead of super-complicated incomprehensible list comprehensions. So hijacking your statement, those ways work well for simple use cases, not so much for real-world ones.
Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion.

For the record my father grew up as a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. He immigrated to the US in his late 20's and at the age of 30 he nearly lost his hand in a factory accident in Brooklyn. So he took college courses at night and eventually became a top DB admin at various institutions in NYC. He had something to prove so he just worked harder than all his peers. He was a man of his word of high integrity so he was given ever increasing responsibility.

Maybe he'd do poorly in a quantum physics class. But one does not need to score well on an IQ test in order to have integrity and ambition or to be a valued citizen.

[1]https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...
Good article however can't say that for all the articles on Cosmos Magazine. Think many articles are highly speculative and border on Pseudo Science.
LIDAR sensors are expensive. I wouldn’t be surprised if Tesla stopped evaluating them right there and thought, looking at the price of regular camera sensors, “Well, humans have two RGB cameras in their head and seem to do just fine. We can replicate that!”.
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One of the interesting aspects about the recent Firefox Quantum launch, apart from the amazing product itself, is the marketing. It's been incredible to read the well written blog posts that appeal to a variety of audiences.
Though most are focused on the tech behind Firefox, a few, like the linked post, appeal to a wider audience. Anecdotal, but the blog posts leading up to the launch got me excited enough to download and use the beta version of Firefox for the first time and it lived up to the marketing. I've tried switching to Firefox multiple times over the past few years, but I always ended up switching back to Chrome for the speed. It might be different this time.

What happened to the controversial cliqz program that they were testing? Last I checked, Mozilla did not respond to the privacy concerns of the integration.
Not talking about cross-compilation, I'm talking about having a industry-grade, production ready language that I can ship stuff in like yesterday.

> various lisps have been doing it for decades

There's an insanely long road from having a prototype of a language to having a production ready thing. There isn't a lisp where I could achieve the same experience.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#performance

It might be biased since it's from µblock developer.
Without knowing where you are, I'd say "probably not"; the end of November is not the best time to show this service off (in the US).
"Suddenly they saw these mortgage-backed securities yielding 10% and immediately bought them up. They were greedy! But weren’t they just trying to find safe returns for their investors? "

Why did they think a 10% return was safe? Because the credit rating agencies stamped all the bonds AAA. And despite the massive failure of these agencies to do their one job, they're all still in business.

" Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) changed GAAP accounting rules so that you could no longer mark a mortgage-backed security according to your own statistical analysis. You had to start marking it down as soon as there were the slightest defaults and the paper started trading at lower values (this is called mark-to-market)."

The banks resisted the change from mark-to-model to mark-to-market as long as possible for one simple reason: Their solvency depended on maintaining the fiction that the sewage on their books had any value. Even Bernanke and Paulson got into the game, trying to convince Congress it was worth buying these bonds up because, someday, there would once again be lemon-soaked paper napkins.

"And what about the banks who bundled together these mortgage-backed securities? I don’t know, you and I asked for those securities through our 401(k) plans. So they were just responding to demand, right?"

They were, but also lying their asses off about what was in those bonds.
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> I just got uMatrix installed

Sometimes you need to reload the site without cache with Ctrl+Shift+R. uMatrix can be a bit finicky.
Did you read either comment? I was referring to removing the human element from driving (aka. Line of sight concerns)
The minor versions are interchangeable. An increase to the second number is a new (binary incompatible) major version occurring every 1-3 years.

It's unusual but not unique, see Python, Linux kernel, Postgres.
Just don't use them (or any linear function, for that matter) for cryptography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System#The_ci...
This reeks of patenting an existing idea. Prior art is surely in the actions of manual phone operators who encounter moody callers. Merely adding computers to a mechanism does not automatically make it a novel invention.
I switched to Firefox for Mac and iOS completely the moment Quantum came out of beta, and I really want it to succeed.

However, I experience severe speed problems loading Google apps (drive, sheets, slides, inbox) along with occasional freezes and CPU spikes.

Additionally, I experience a bug on iOS where certain pages will only render partially and turn completely blank when I scroll down. Refresh doesn't help, which makes me open Chrome again to load the page.

Firefox is still my default browser as I'm still trying to convert myself, but it turns out I'm typing this message in Chrome again.
> And after that; Silence. It's like you didn't even care to maintain it.

I'm not sure the overall comparison here holds, but this is overwhelmingly true. America has made a huge amount of funding available for new infrastructure, while constantly underbudgeting (and underspending) on maintenance. The result is a steadily growing liability that would render most suburbs and many cities insolvent if depreciation were honestly accounted for. [1]

The founder of Strong Towns was in fact a civil engineer who started the group in a fit of remorse over doing exactly that. [2] Hired to repair a suburban drainage system, he realized that the maintenance was too expensive for the town to pay, and federal grants were unavailable for small-scale maintenance. So instead he found a massive grant (9x the maintenance cost) to expand and modernize the system. It covered costs, but set up a needlessly large system with vastly more costs to cover down the road.

This is basically how all urban and transit infrastructure gets done here. Partly for cultural reasons, but largely for financial ones: you can't get emergency funding for new construction, but if you spend maintenance money on upgrades and expansions, then you can go begging for emergency repair funds on what you've built. [3]

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

[2] http://time.com/3031079/suburbs-will-die-sprawl/

[3] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/4/this-is-why-inf...
None of that infrasture is unique, impressive or better done than in Europe.

The point is that Europe did all that and more.

By the looks of it Europe just does public infrastructure better.
> Am I missing something? Is syntax the only reason that makes people excited about it?

That with combination of precise refactorings, unlike in case or ruby. And without unnecessary complexity of scala.
it won't need filling, it'll come in from the nile or mediterranean or make the mediterranean larger but shallower.
There is a huge difference between "Verified by volunteers" and "Verified by volunteers with vested interests"
If you care about privacy, you should not be on the internet.
What'd be safer and more effective is transforming bacteria (e.g. E. coli ), which is basically an exponential photocopier.

Bacteria can be frozen down in glycerol stocks for ages, and even if the bacteria themselves are not viable, the DNA is recoverable.

To generate an appreciable amount of the synthesised DNA, this is likely already an intermediary step.
Containers, cell phone networks, the Internet, internet banking etc is infrastructure that has been built and implemented in the rest of the Western World as well, many places to a higher degree or more advanced than in the US, while still maintaining and expanding roads, rails, electrical grid, subways and airports.

You are right that the US has lower population density than most of Europe, but Canada doesn't and it doesn't have the same lack of infrastructure maintenance as the US.
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And how do the two interact? Does Firefox's built-in tracking protection block content before uBlock Origin even has a chance to see it, and if so then is using the two in combination faster than just using uBlock Origin alone?
> This is unprecedented.

Don't get me wrong, I like Kotlin, but Ceylon did the multi platform thing much better.

They have real platform modules, built into the language (not just a build tool trick), and a language specification that was written from the start with multiple platforms in mind.

But it never took off (yet), and Kotlin's support is good enough, so it will have to do I guess :).
Are you a dream hoarder?
But if SBT is at a point where a (more or less) complete rewrite is discussed, it is probably the time to think about Gradle a second time.

Even the new Kotlin DSL should look familiar to Scala devs.
What feels cumbersome to some may not feel cumbersome to others, or they may not care as much about this, because, for example, they can feel that concrete code is less important than design, and considering that a minor reduction (at best) in the time spent working with code translates to negligible (or even negative) overall contribution to the project, and may certainly not justify sacrificing the many other conveniences that come with using a hugely popular, familiar and well-tooled language.
I only looked at the gameplay. The graphics would only have entered into my decision if they were horrible. I'm a long-time incremental game fan and I've played a ton of them. Most of them have pretty bad graphics, and that's okay. The incremental portion, especially the choices you make (what to upgrade, when, etc) are the interesting parts.

So yeah, I expect a lot of incremental gamers will view it the same way.

And gamers that aren't fans of incrementals are going to be even harsher on the gameplay.
Quantum has been really good performance wise on most sites. It's most flagrant on the Stripe API docs, which are sluggish as hell on Chrome Linux and butter-smooth on Firefox: https://stripe.com/docs/api

However, I have two major tab-management issues with Firefox which make it near-unusable for me:

1. No support for "scroll wheel to switch tabs" (scroll on tabs to switch between them). This is a feature common to nearly all Linux software and Firefox removed it a few versions ago. Quantum killed "Tab Wheel Scroll" which reimplemented it.

2. No support for multi-select tab management, which Chrome is amazing with. If you didn't know, in Chrome, you can ctrl+click and shift+click tabs to select multiple at once and close, move or snap all of them at once like in a file manager. Super useful.
An ICO that aims to eliminate tipping in the service industry
You realize that there is a very wide spectrum between absolute privacy and no privacy at all?
Okay, so instead the money should go into general fund, and the money from general fund should pay for the ski resort? I don't see a practical difference.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15640598
>I'm talking about having a industry-grade, production ready language.

It isnt a mature enough language to be trusted so soon, no body has a sufficient enough industry grade experience with it. Especially with large code bases.
Interesting. Reading the headline, I expected it to be about dual n-back (which is, as far as I'm aware, the only brain training game that seems to have strong experimental evidence for having an affect on general cognition); instead, the game described is a rapid focus-switching task! (Not only that, but one that's similar to playing a first person shooter.)
>, I don't think that's a valid point about Perl's trajectory.

Again, the "Perl lost to Python/Ruby ... terseness" connection is your narrative, not mine. I feel you have my comments mixed up with someone else.

>'<' and '>' are not used as sigils in Perl.

I agree and I didn't say they were.

That's 3 cases of nitpicking something I actually didn't claim. I can only assume this over-interpretation of things I didn't write is a result of some underlying irritation that I caused. Let's just stop. Peace.
As a Python and Java programmer, Kotlin hits the sweet spot for me with the type safety of Java (+ ecosystem) together with a clean and modern syntax.

All whilst avoiding adding clever/stupid things (cf. Scala, Go, Rust).
Oh geez, that's nuts. That's like asking, "Why do I need to put my valuables in a safe if I have a lock on my front door?"
Weird. I have a 4k display as well and my experience is not what you describe. I'm running macos high Sierra and there's no issues for me.
The obvious path is educational tech. Has she explored that?
Yes but weren't they brought up on charges by the EU for monopolization?
I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Portable_Security
Does anyone remember Groovy this is just a fad Kotlin would be forgotten with time, i fail to see the real technical innovation in Kotlin.
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Exhibit A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa - technically decolonised since 1961, actually continued via apartheid until 1990.

Also - the Romans never actually left (gross simplification ahead): the empire has split into various smaller entities, all of them considering themselves heirs of the empire. This was mostly the case of "locals becoming Romans," far more than "Romans ruling over locals."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...
I bet you could do the same (with different syntax of course) with Gradle.
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May I ask where you invested your time in learning Scala (e.g. reading the red book, studying type theory, syntax + stdlib + collections, etc.)? I found I could read simple Kotlin in a couple afternoons, and after a couple weekends, I felt pretty comfortable with it. The only difficult concepts to wrap your head around, I'd say, are type safe builders [1] and coroutines [2], but you certainly don't need to know those to be productive in the language.

To answer your specific question, however, if you're doing Android development it's worth it :) otherwise, it's up to you/your specific situation.

[1]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/type-safe-builders.htm...

[2]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines.html
Here's the Github repo if you'd like to suggest changes: https://github.com/jashmenn/cryptocurrencies-in-four-words

This guide is intended to provide orientation for someone who knows very little about cryptocurrencies. Many are quite different in scope (and legitimacy).

I hope no one makes investment decisions on just four words. It's just a taste to help you find what you might be interested in pursuing further.

By the way, if you're interested in learning the hard-core technical details of programming cryptocurrency, you find more of my in-depth material here: https://www.newline.co/
When the shit really hits the fan, bullets and cigarettes are the only currencies.
Could someone tell me if Kotlin and TypeScript are similar solutions? I put both on my "next reads" list.
Don't understand why people don't like nested for-loops. I love list comprehensions, but I honestly would not consider one and abstraction, generalization, or improvement of the other.
As a counterpoint, I personally have had a few notable sensor failures, culminating in an incident when I was 17 that convinced me that I was not safe to operate motor vehicles. No injuries or damage, but I still don't own a car, and my decision is reaffirmed every time I catch a ride from someone and try to follow along to see how it goes.

You may have experienced fewer sensor failures than you've seen Teslas having in the news. But... you're exactly one person, and you're hearing the news about every "sensor failure" that Tesla has had in the entire world. And beyond that, a sensor failure is defined as an event that you don't experience. How many times have you only avoided death by pure chance? Tesla's "notable sensor failures" are literally an every-day occurrence for the mark-one eyeball. The semi crash you're talking about? Humans do exactly that with such regularity that the EU mandates guard rails under the beds of semi trailers.

The difference is that, for Tesla's "sensor failures", obviously things improve with time. You think that humans do the same? Our cars are better, signage and visibility technology are better, but I guarantee you that today's drivers are, in aggregate, the same dumb-ass teenagers that they have been for the last hundred years. And that's why I support Tesla. We can argue forever about whether they're safer than humans today, because driving is such a personal thing that nobody is willing to disentangle their anecdotes from data, but it is obvious that automated vehicles will be safer than humans in the near future. Possibly the very near future.
This is quite ungood considering how many devices (read: routers, IoT) have busybox (or some zombie-like corpse of it) installed on them.
Are you versioning your api? I assume the clients are communicating with the server via some sort of api. Document the api in machine-readable form (like, say, Swagger), and have separate test suites for both client and server, to specific api versions. Since both are working against the same (complete and consistent!) spec, they should be able to talk to each other, and integration testing can be pretty minimal.

For REST apis, use semantic versioning, and you can embed specific versions in the request headers. The server should be able to respond correctly to a range of different versions (an api call to say what range of versions the server speaks isn't a bad idea). Coarse-grained api revisions can be embedded in the url (the ever popular /v1 and /v2, etc).
There are faster 'cheats' such as pre-fetching. I'd have thought that bandwidth management would be the hottest area for improvement/features for mobile users. In the UK, mobile tariffs have about 1GB per month included (and these aren't cheap), and as a regular web user, you could so easily loose track of your use and exceed that. Default blocking of animation, and other media controls could help here. I do like speed improvements though. I had to ditch Firefox for a long period of time because it was too great a resource hog. Wayward and ill considered programming from page authors doesn't help. I still have to dial back to a no-js browser to view many sites.
Honda thought t was a good idea to replace volume knobs with capacitive touch strips.

People hated it so much they’ve had to add the knobs back.

A car maker ‘thinking about something’ doesn’t mean the solution will be good. There are tons of infotainment systems to serve as counterexamples.

And let’s not forget GM’s ‘easier’ gear shift that caused people to get run over because you couldn’t tell if it was in park.
This is an undervalued point, I'm glad it was added here.

I agree with the parent poster that infrastructure like roads, drainage systems, and passenger trains are built with minimal planning for maintenance and support, but it is worth remembering that those systems aren't the end of the story.

Train usage in particular is a misleading complaint. It's true that the US has worse passenger train support than many nations, but that largely comes down to a sensible cost-benefit choice. The US isn't especially well-suited to train travel - lots of obstacles, diffuse populations that require branching tracks or non-train final steps, long distance travel that requires sleeper cars. So instead, we have an exceptionally large amount of freightage on trains. It's a vastly more natural use - scheduled, hub-to-hub transit, bulky products, no need for food/sleep provisioning - but it's less visible so it disappears from the conversation.
The furniture you make yourself is a) unique and b) not artificially scarce.
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What are the numbers whose powers don't satisfy the law? 0 of course and any power of 10 will have only leading 1's. Any product of just 2's and 5's, probably?