skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of it's the size of the area in which the inhabitants consider themselves Midwestern, and the lack of unifying landforms (a mountain range, an ocean) to give them common experiences, I think.

For instance, it seems like when the Midwestern region comes up[0], people usual mean the upper midwest and especially the Lakes states, which is weird to me as someone who's lived in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa, because down here we don't really mean to include Lakes states when we say "Midwestern". I mean, there's stuff there. Outdoors stuff. That's worth doing/seeing. That you can reach in less than one entire day of travel by car. Doesn't seem too Midwestern to me, or to have much to do with my experience of Midwesterness (I gather they'd disagree, which is my point). The Lakes states, including Minnesota and Michigan and at least the northern 1/3 of Illinois (and certainly anything East of Illinois) are a Western extension of the East from our perspective.

[0, EDIT] by which I mean when the region comes up in articles, or on the Internet generally.
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"Even low and zero interest savings accounts are used by banks to back loans."

No. The loans are made out of nothing. Saving is the end of the loan process, not the beginning. That has been made clear by the Bank of England. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
Progression:

In Japan, people are nervous if a train departs early/late by 30 seconds.

In Switzerland, people are nervous when a train is 2 minutes late.

In Germany, people are nervous when a train is 10 minutes late (unless you are passing through Frankfurt, where you can expect 30 minutes)

In Italy, people are happy a train shows up (hello Naples).
Thanks, currently trying to figure that as well.
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An observation ... just the fact that many here treat the "midwest" as one place in their comments speaks of maybe misunderstanding/ignorance or even arrogance. As a person who has lived in Wisconsin (suburban and rural), Minnesota (urban and suburban), and Chicago, there is an absolutely astounding difference in people, attitude, and culture in all 3 areas. Granted none are really like the east or west coasts, but they are all vastly different places to live.
How do they work out around impossibility to perfectly synchronize clocks at a distance due to special relativity?
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- Fuzzers are (most of the time) a great bug finder,

- Random bugs that someone reported leading to something bigger,

- You already know the software well enough to dive inside,

- Luck ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Propably because the platform is not yet free or they can't yet get a route to the platform (because some other trains need to pass through first)?
Intercity rail in the US was destroyed by an Iron Triangle. At present the passenger rail infrastructure is pitiful, since it hasn't had significant investment since about the 1950s. For example, back in 1999 Amtrak tried to resume passenger service between Louisville and Indianapolis by running freight and passenger cars on the same train. But since the track was so old, the trains were limited to 30 mph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Cardinal

Try to imagine what the market is like for intercity transportation that is more expensive than driving or taking a Greyhound and yet more than twice as slow, and doesn't connect you to an effective intracity transportation network once you arrive. There weren't many passengers.

Rail transportation is very important in the US, but it's all for freight, which takes up a similar proportion of rail as passenger does in other countries.

Amtrak does run some profitable passenger rail lines in the US, including some places you wouldn't expect, like the Oklahoma City-Dallas line IIRC. There is an interstate connecting those cities, and the population density isn't exactly really high there so IDK.
I don't have do that for my 20 year old Perl code or 30 year old Scheme code. Is the bare-bones Python interpreter really that much more full of vulnerabilities?
I mentioned Philly and Baltimore because although they’re on the east coast, they are port cities that suffiered along with the decline of the rust belt and never recovered. Philly is one of the poorest large cities in the US, but used to be very rich.
Well I don't have any way to get in my Prius if I lose my keyless fob, but maybe that is only one exception
I see humility as having a proper understanding of your own ability without arrogance. If I am at Thanksgiving dinner and my mom tries to brag that I am the best programmer in the state it is humble to correct her in saying that even though I have a great job, there are a lot of things I still cannot do.
there’s a difference between true free speech and even what the us government considers free speech..
There is no limit to government expenditure in financial terms. The limits are real.

The problem is US politics, not the US dollar.

http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kelton-pony-for-...
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Good lord, that project is truly horrifying.

So many crap apps pumped into the store.

I guess at the bottom, the money is coming from ad revenue, so I guess somewhere there are people who actually use these apps?!? Or I guess maybe it is just a lot of people getting tricked.

Kudos, I guess, to the author, for coming clean. I never would have admitted to something like this publicly. (Then again, I never would have done this kind of thing in the first place. By the way, I don’t know if I have a price, but it sure as hell isn’t $6K/mo.)
Same in Ireland. You can't buy Dell Linux laptops anymore.
It's not defeatist to be realistic about who you are, to make the most of resources you can afford, we need much more of that if we're not going to implode with pressures from overpopulation. Do you know the tale of the Ant & the Grasshopper?

If you 'make it' (produce something that brings great worth to society) first then you're welcome, IMO, to use a little more than your fair share of resources. You don't get to do it the other way around as the majority of Western society appears to be doing (other regions maybe are too, I don't have an informed view on them).
Nope.

http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kelton-pony-for-...
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This is like saying, "Draw go" isn't talking about MTG. It's shorthand for all of the steps that you'd need to complete. Just like someone playing an Eggs deck is going to say "Casting KCI + IW, draw 2, float 2" or "Here is the main loop. I'm going to do that until I hit banefire, then hit you for infinite damage."

What's interesting is actual MTG gameplay uses a HUGE amount of shortcuts on every play, because saying every single thing you and the opponent have to do during each step and phase would be incredibly time consuming.
Along with slower vetting, iOS has an annual fee of $99, while Android has a one-off fee of $25, which is probably enough to put people off.
It depends on how much you like VS.
Of course, it is likely that a shutdown will also happen too.
In the UK a train being approximately on time would merit a news item.
Why not? He's a good, self starting worker. I'd love to have him on a team.

Is the insinuation that, because someone worked in a dimly viewed industry, they won't be a good match for a more "upstanding" startup?

Let's be honest here. Most startups aren't saints either. They exist to make money and nothing else. Unless you incorporate as a California B-Corp, you are legally obligated to make money for your shareholders at the cost of everything else.

Or is the insinuation that, because someone worked a "dirty" job they might turn out to be a corrupt employee (doing "bad things" like stealing company money, manipulating co-workers for personal gain, etc)?

No, I don't believe there is any correlation between someone willing to work a dirty job and someone being a shitty person.
this example was originally made by a judge who locked up Jewish protestors to an American war for handing out anti war pamphlets...
Sinai South Dakota is pronounced "Sign Yi."
38.4% still think they are the target. If their dream is to be in the 1%, they may not want to add new penalties or rules for their potentially future selves.
I've always been fascinated by the Alto, and the people who designed and built it, and how many of them went on to help make the Macintosh successful. And by how much work it took to make the Mac actually work.

The Alto had to be one of the greatest design prototypes ever made. It wasn't ever made for sale, AFAIK, even though supposedly hundreds got shared with universities. But they built over a thousand and actually used them on an actual network. Every part of the system was continually developed in real world use.

Even so, the performance, cost, and other rough edged impediments were too far away to commercialize it. The Star and the Lisa were failures.

The Mac team had to hand code high performance graphic algorithms to get a GUI running in 128k, and a cheap one button mouse so they could make an affordable GUI computer for the masses. They had to come up with the Finder, the Desktop and Trashcan so that users never had to be exposed to a CLI. Even Bill Atkinsons invention of regions might have been key to making the Mac UI expressive enough to succeed with the general population.

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html
Quickselect has an O(n^2) worst case, unless you use a variant like Tarjan's median-of-medians algorithm for selecting the pivot. And that does have awful constant factors.
Dotted. Even better than graph paper if you draw a lot of diagrams/figures, in my opinion.

I use Fabriano dotted saddle-stitch as a cheaper and lighter alternative to the Leuchtturm1917, for instance when I'm traveling or at a conference. The paper holds up to any non-calligraphic fountain pen I use.
Hi this is Alex from GCA! Could you please run `dig +short @9.9.9.9 id.server TXT chaos` and post the results here? That will help us troubleshoot. Thanks!
I tried arch out in 2016. Over a period of two weeks, 3 separate updates broke one thing or another.

In my 4 years using mint / ubuntu, an update broke my machine once, and that was when the power went out during an update.

Arch apparently works great for a lot of people, but I'd urge caution.
This actually raises a good question. Are operating systems going to like, incorporate a "WebKit daemon" so that multiple instances of the browser backend aren't loaded individually in every app?
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I don't remember specifically, but I guess everything was slower than vim, even normal typing. Maybe it used more memory too. My computers are probably much older and weaker than yours, so I notice these things more than normal people.

In any case, the slowness in comparison with vim was very small, I guess I overestimated it in my previous comment.
> What evidence do we have that the US Government will do this?

They tend to be quite reactionary (to our detriment in many cases). I don't necessarily agree with Pai, but many of his ilk can point to preemptive restrictive regulations as bad.

If there is a side effect, it might just be that those clamoring for unrestricted internet access force their municipalities (and states) to publicly commoditize ISPs. But yes, you are more likely to see a "internet basic package" come through at a lower price at first.
Is having copyright a concern? Even Linux has a copyright. And all GNU software. Do you want all forms of copyright not to exist?
I've read your post, and I try to empathise, but at the same time I can't help but feel you were naive in thinking you could take on a web development job without having any of the skills required, even a very basic level of them.

If a 20 year old applied for a job that involved writing SQL queries, and couldn't, I'd expect him to be rejected. There's a world of difference between low level C/C++ style programming, and working in Rails day to day, and if you think there isn't, then you should be able to prove it.
What's rough is that the system is a positive feedback loop. Corruption and lack of representation makes it even easier for bribery and corruption to occur in the future.

This kind of stuff is why I see America more as a corporate oligarchy than a democracy anymore. Gerrymandering, lobbying/bribery, and lack of contact with our government means it doesn't represent the people any longer.
I feel like this paper reads part like a paper on AI and like a marketing piece humble brag, “back in 2014 when we were doing X” which seems like its trying to say “we’ve been doing DNN image face before Google and Facebook made it popular”. But if you read papers from Google, FB, MS, et al on AI, they don’t have these kinds of humble brags and they contain far more citations of previous work in the field.
not to mention needing a thousand dollar laptop to develop on (and a thousand dollar phone to test on)
why is LSTM better for language modeling?
The easiest way to cheat is to just feel which side of the coin is which right after you catch it.
Funny, I couldn’t disagree more.

The overwhelming majority of software does not “change the world,” and a tinier fraction yet of impactful software makes a notably -positive- impact.

It seems to me that you let people’s self-serving bullshit into your head, and you’ve let it make you feel shitty for producing something people find valuable.

I thought your article illustrated someone with a great amount of work ethic and resourcefulness. Doing that with the work at hand and not just what you feel “passionate” about is what separates the real go-getters from over-idealistic kids. I have a lot of respect for your work ethic.
However, not getting a degree prevents you almost entirely you from making more than $100,000/year except in sales or you start your own business and make it successful (which is very hard without a degree), so you'll have to work until old ages and you'll never have the opportunity to get out of the hamster wheel.
I lived in the middle of Missouri from 1994 through 2014 and never once heard a voice say Missour-ah that wasn't coming from a candidate for office on TV.

(To be fair, there might have been some people in rural parts of the state who did talk like that. But usually it's coming from people who probably shouldn't.)
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Generally those that are elected to do so.

Assuming you're in favour of a modern democracy, rather than a technocracy, an epistocracy, or the wild west.
Imagine that the differences were magnified, say heads 90% of the time. Would the randomness of the catch erase that difference?
That's not what I get from parent's comment.

I think the parent was implying that large telco interests have a dubious track record when it comes to the balance between investing in capacity vs. rent-seeking.
True, seems I read over the recursive part. In which case it is definitely not easy to set up.

But even for a recursive DNS server that is only used by a single client aggregation for popular dains is not impossible.

There are better and definitely easier ways to have anonymous DNS lookups
That’s reversing a binary tree.
It's kind of funny to think that in the west we're only ever likely to match the punctuality of Japanese humans by replacing our humans with Japanese robots.
You're right. My comment doesn't make sense.
Even better would be unlimited aliases to your national id where only you and USPS know who the alias points to (unless, of course, you tell someone else yourself).
> will actually discriminate against the young 20-somethings for certain roles.

Uhh that's not age discrimination, that's creating a job role "Chief Internet Evanglist" and hiring the best person for the job, "Vint Cerf". Do you think anyone other than the creator of the TCPIP protocol could fill that role regardless of age?

Also, isn't there also an implicit age discrimination against younger people in any job spec when you say "X years experience"?
One of the design goals for LSP is that it is not in-process. Process isolation gives the text editor stability in the face of unstable plugins and allows multiple language servers to run concurrently without requiring the target language (which could be anything) to support threads and a C ABI - something which many languages have no need for.

Furthermore, many languages ship with a runtime which does not play nice with other runtimes. Try running a JVM, .NET VM, Golang runtime, and Erlang BEAM VM in the same process and see what happens. Better yet, try debugging it.
Logically correct; as a game of blackjack following basic strategy is less than 1% ;-)
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If I'm understanding the article correctly, as long as the guesser can't see the coin, and chooses randomly, it is a fair 50/50. I don't think you even need to flip the coin. The coin could just be sitting on a table in the next room. If the guesser is ignorant and chooses randomly I don't think you even need the coin. You could just write heads or tails on a piece of paper, cover it, and let them guess.
Would you define crap apps though ? I'm not sure we're on the same page here.

None of the apps made through the software contain malware or spam or anything "horrifying", they simply lack originality.
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In my part of the UK the system is that the guard closes every door except the one he's leaning out of, typically around 5 to 10 minutes after the scheduled departure time. Someone then looms in to view at the other end of the platform upon whom the guard takes pity but inexplicably refuses to open the other doors and the passenger is compelled to run the entire length of the train to board at the guard's door.
> Debian and GNOME both plan to migrate their communities and open source projects to GitLab

1st paragraph.
I wish companies saw it this way. My company is downsizing and I've been interviewing like crazy. 5 years ago when my tech stack was hot I had to fight off companies, now I feel they are just humoring me.

I make it clear in my cover letter that I am capable of picking up new technologies and languages with ease, which if you look at my resume and my personal projects on github is pretty plain and obvious -- I have 15+ years of professional experience in multiple languages and using all kinds of technologies. But they look at my current job/tech stack and say "hey, you don't match ours. sorry".

I even applied to dozens of jobs in the HN Who's Hiring, got a couple phone interviews, and nothing past that.

I finally got a job at a place that was using my stack and wants to convert it to something more modern.

This has definitely been a strange interviewing experience for me. I'm nearing 40 and have to wonder if ageism is becoming an issue for me.
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Actually it is somewhere. After the portfolio adjustments are made somebody ends up with cash in a vault somewhere (or more likely bank money).

Very often on the asset side of a foreign central bank which they then use to discount into their own currency (hi China)
We don't have a tax on wealth in the US at the moment. Implement a tax on wealth with a 100% take over say 1 million? This would just be basically the nationalization of most of the companies and much of the real estate in the US. We could try communism/socialism at this scale, but it has not worked out well in other places it was tried.
Thanks man, this really means a lot.
Feature parity is something that our Windows team will be working towards. But you have to keep in mind that our Mac and iOS versions have existed for around 10 years. We last rewrote both of them for version 4 of each. 1Password for 4 iOS came out in late 2012, and 1Password 4 for Mac came out in late 2013.

Also keep in mind that both our Mac and iOS applications have a fair bit of shared code. The entirety of their backend, cryptography, local database, and plenty of other utility classes. This means we write something for one and the other can often use it immediately. They're also by far our most popular clients so we have the most people working on them.

Our Windows team has to try to keep up with that. So, as you can imagine they have a lot of work to do. I would not say they will be feature parity complete, more or less, ever. It's an uphill battle.

However, I think it's safer to say that with 1Password 7 they will have the basics done that will allow them to start implementing more user facing features to try to narrow that gap. There will always be a gap, but it can certainly be a smaller gap.

We don't delete any threads on our forum unless they are extremely egregious, so my guess is that the thread still exists unless you got out of line (or others maybe did). But we have always acknowledged that our Windows apps have had work to do.

With 1Password 6 for Windows we rewrote the entire client from scratch. It used to be written in Delphi. The new client is written in C# and built on more modern Windows APIs. We wanted to build for the future this time but we also knew that it was going to set us back to square one.

So about two years ago is when we started work on 1Password 6. It has come a long way, and with version 7 we'll see the return of standalone vaults and standalone licensing for those that want to remain on that path.

Hope that helps some, I just want to set expectations accordingly. Our Mac and iOS apps haven't stopped iterating, and our Windows application was already behind by several years because of the rewrite, it also has nothing that it can share code with, so it's at a disadvantage. We want feature parity and we will likely reach that for the most common features but there will always be a gap. As long as you understand the above, we're happy to field requests for what you believe needs to be there that isn't already there (in version 6).

Kyle

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Some (all?) states already have a use tax that people are supposed to pay. So, that takes care of the second *. Personally, I lean towards that's enough.
And then go back in time and call it in the air?
IMHO, the minimum expected from a man page is to be complete. For example, this link does not give enough information to understand why "tar cfz x.tgz x" works, but not "tar -tfz x.tgz"
A lot of what has changed is more development happening. Pavement doesn't absorb water all that well. When the flood mitigation talked about in this article was put in place the area they chose to flood to handle overflow was undeveloped and so was all of the surrounding area.
I find it weird that scientists get crap from other scientists for speaking publicly. Simple jealousy doesn't explain the vehemence.

As for the politics of the issue, mutual assured destruction has been the working theory since Eisenhower. Those who think strategic nuclear war is winnable, as well as the SDI nutters, are threats to that stability.
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Shouldn't this be (2012)?
Oh, yes. Definitely. The trains are extremely reliable in Japan, so people know exactly when they have to leave to catch the train they want. People also use smart phone apps that tell them the train schedules, so they'll often arrive right before the train leaves. Why would you arrive five minutes early and just stand around when you know the train is going to leave at exactly 7:32?
You can ban advertising of alcohol (since 1975) and tobacco (and tobacco replacements) as well as drugs. Where I live (Norway) you can't advertise any of those things and it seems that most people are quite happy with that.
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Not sure if this was your implication - but this is not capable of identifying people in terms of putting a name to a face. Just identifying where there is a face.
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