skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point here, no one is comparing the two as if a country's GDP represents something equivalent to the value of a company. They're just saying something along the lines of "Wow! 3,000,000 gallons of water?!? That's more than the amount of water that flows past my house on the river in a year!" (Obviously made up numbers)
Org is already 10 years old? It seems like yesterday that I was using Muse Mode. Then, seemingly overnight the muse discussion lists went very quiet because everyone switched to Org. I still have a bunch of notes in files that was created in Muse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/
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The main problem here is that weed is classified as a schedule 1 drug, meaning you'd have to declassify it.

No politician wants to be seen as being soft on crime or drugs.

Just like I think that living restriction distances for sex offenders (you can't live within 100 feet of schools) are bad, but nobody will come out in support.
I could easily see this being as widespread as add medication.
>If Comcast starts sucking, 5G and other competitors are going to eat their lunch.

That's the thing: T-Mobile already have "unlimited" streaming at reduced resolution (480p) for the major streaming providers. As someone who has no TV much less an HD one and only watches streaming on mobile devices anyway this could easily be a tipping point for me to ditch Comcast, switch back off of Project Fi for T-Mobile and call it a day.

All I see is $100+/mo savings between cancellation of Comcast and YouTube TV which is a bust anyway. OMG. So many commercials, so little interesting content. I remember why I cancelled cable TV in the first place: it's garbage.

Making the net non-neutral is going to similarly be revenue non-neutral but maybe not in the way these ISPs hope.

https://www.t-mobile.com/offer/binge-on-streaming-video.html

Actually you'd think Google, Amazon, et al would have skin in the game this time around too: I'm already reconsidering my purchase of Nest cameras my wife wants and frankly I'll be giving away the free Google minis as well if/when I cancel Comcast / Xfinity. There is zero reason to invest in IOT devices if you cancel the I.

There's just too much potential downside to the rent-seeking behavior of these ISPs to invest in IOT if I can't rely on an unfiltered, unmolested, unthrottled experience.
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This is great, thank you! It this a new service?
Agreed. Analogies are like trying to compare a metaphor with a simile.
I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of the articles have a similar tone.
Not a collision but I always find the "Whiskey on the Rocks" grounding amusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363
If you want a transaction that makes it possible to be untrackable back to yourself then bitcoin is the new cash.

16 dollars is a crazy amount in some cases and peanuts in others.
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I did do it by myself and I really appreciate you saying that. I used/modified a few icons and pictures that I found online though and their awesome creators (who released them under attribution licenses) are credited in the graphics credits section. I struggled a lot with the design and it was by far the most time consuming part of the app.
I suspect not. Building a network is a huge investment and there will only ever be a limited number of these access points and its likely they will be profit focused. Also we are seeing increased corporate consolidation so if anything the internet companies will hover up more access point for a greater oligopoly.

I suspect this will more be a limited window of profit taking until another election cycle (or several) where a new president/party brings back net neutrality. I cant see this being forgotten as an issue in our generations and its an easy piece to legislate on if the motivation is there.
> Apple feels like a hot mess right now

Because you spilled water on your keyboard?
Does Fog Computing a next big thing in computing world?
As much as I love the idea of locally building network infrastructure and making it a true commonly owned system... it doesn't work for rural areas. As soon as you hit the city limits, it's no longer the city's problem.

We gave hundreds of billions of dollars to AT&T/Verizon to build infrastructure for everyone, and they took that money and told their shareholders "look how well we scammed the US!"

What we should do is go back to those companies, tell them they've failed and owe us it back plus interest, and use that money at a federal level to build an internet backbone for every single US citizen, period - like the Federal Highway Administration, but for broadband.

But, alas, the GOP will start screaming "Socialism" and that will never happen...
$1 houses? What? I really don't understand what you're trying to say here.

When FunBux are deflating, people who have FunBux (or are owed FunBux) tend to avoid spending if when they can, because its predicted future value is greater. In essence, it gradually stops behaving like a currency and is more like a commodity that they are holding for speculative purposes.
I think there is really something to be said for the simple satisfaction of doing almost the same thing everyday and never having expectations change. You leave your job when you clock out.

Constant deadlines can and will wear on you over time. Pressure to meet those deadlines while solving problems in which the completion time has been guessed and the people setting the deadlines don’t seem to get that creates a lot of stress.

It’s honestly made me want to get into dev management just because I feel like I could to more to help dev teams run smoothly than I can as a single developer.
Because I don't care enough to pay attention.
My allergies are not really all that pertinent to the point I am making other than to emphasize that I have no plans to consume marijuana myself, so my position has no ulterior motive wrt me wanting access to marijuana personally. So I have to wonder why on earth that is getting questioned. I have concluded no good will come of me cooperating with answering intrusive personal questions that aren't really even pertinent to the discussion.
IBM has started to wise up to the necessity of what amounts to "hacker culture" in keeping products relevant, desirable to work on, and secure. I'm not sure what it would take to get that kind of openness where a hobbyist could run z/OS. There are a few ingredients to the success of z.. the hardware, the OSes, and the sheer backing and commitment of IBM. I don't think any of those things are orthogonal to opening up the platform a bit now days. In the past, "plug compatibles" where kind of a drag. If production customers used emulation to run workloads that would cause ecosystem issues. Other than that it is just hard product managment and leadership issue
I don't work at a startup currently, but I have in the past, so I'll answer it as if that company hadn't failed and I still worked there:

Because nobody has taken it upon themselves to start one, I suppose.
Interestingly, the guys who hacked the bank mainframes[1] in Europe used Hercules and bootleg copies of z/os to find the exploits they used.

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2034733/pirate-bay-cofounder...
Actually there is a mission achievement in the latest Hitman game which has you using just such an implant to wirelessly hack someone’s mood.
As long as we're discussing system-wide keycode tricks, I wrote a prefpane that allows you to hide the Mac's cursor at any time with a hotkey.

http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer-hide-your-cursor-at-will/

Useful for when full-screen web videos flake out on this, recording the iOS simulator, and a number of other situations.
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On what basis do you think a complex c++ app would be more immune to security issues as compared to one written in a higher level language? Witness all the security exploits with Microsoft Word over the years.
This. I get a bunch of robo calls that appear to be for no purpose - there is no way to get a human on the other end of the phone (they just disconnect when you express interest in what they are selling). It's almost like the call itself is a scam, but not on me - like the call centers that offer this service are getting paid to make the call and not the conversion, so they dial my number and play a recording but have no facility to do more than that. Super frustrating.
This is like Jupyter Notebooks for Mathematica.
...or it's saying you have limited resources and want to maximize what you do with them.
This is beautiful. Can you encourage me to get a good night's sleep somehow? Make my stars a special colour if they're made from plenty of sleep rather than just a bit of sleep?
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Yes, I'm not really interested in gaming as of such, but that C code looks amazing.
It's really, really easy for ISPs to just start making peer-to-peer connections of any kind slower than molasses while making white listed IPs from people who've paid the "High Speed Lane" tax travel at normal speeds.

That kills your "Hey use a VPN/Tor/Other-Alternative-Routing-Mechanism" ideas dead.

If you could manage to tunnel traffic through [Huge Internet Company], like if they started offering a VPN service, then maybe... but there's not a lot of incentive for any of them to host such a service. It'd almost be cheaper for them to build their own, second Internet altogether at that point - something I'm sure Google is kicking themselves over on the Google Fiber scaleback.
Depends on the product. But typically Adwords is the go to platform for ease, scalability and success.

There are better platforms where it suits product niches. E.g. B2B or ubiquitous consumer offers.
A business agreement to mutually not enter one another's competitive domains is a conspiracy against the consumer. Similar examples include price fixing, anti-employee "poaching" agreements.

Permissable business agreements include joint ventures, plans to supply one another when creating or entering a new marketplace, etc.
If you mean something like contribution guidelines, then they're everywhere. Here's one of mine as an example: https://github.com/benhowell/react-grid-gallery/blob/master/...
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Yeah, I personally prefer the fn+arrow key instead of having a dedicated key for these functions.
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I've found two frameworks supported websocket:

https://github.com/tomaka/rouille

https://github.com/actix/actix-web

Ref: https://github.com/flosse/rust-web-framework-comparison
If only you had a representative in the federal government. Someone whose full time job is to represent your interests...

oh shit.
For someone in her position I would be looking at a manager role or project manager.
But you can already get this service without a robot, for example with Cleanly. For dishes this is far less cost effective.
OP here. It answered the question for me: what would it take to break away from the chains of the ISP oligarchy? The answer: a lot, unfortunately, and is probably out of reach of most individuals. But it can be done with a small community of people.
It made me so that getting on time was easy as well! I love it!
The "client-side" should be "server-side" here:

>people would trust fly by night Bitcoin wallets that store the bitcoin client-side,
I don't think so. It should only work with this specific key.
When Elasticsearch rolled out a new half float type that I found to be very useful for something I was working on, I added it as a new type to the elasticsearch-dsl-py project.

I've done other small contributions to other projects, but always when it was an obvious enhancement or new feature and never a bespoke itch to be scratched.
"Choosing to experience negative emotion because someone does something is self-harm."

Hi :-) Fascinating comment. Do you really live that, or just it's something you read/heard and aspire to?

Trying to unpack that a little: Calling experiencing negative emotion (i.e. feeling bad) "choosing to experience negative emotion" seems psychobabble. Do you choose all your feelings? I doubt it. So, you will never feel bad because of anything anyone does, because why would you, and that would be self-harm. All that just strikes me as jargon out of a bad self-help book. It doesn't sound human, but like a robot, or maybe a guru. (e.g. Nisargadatta: 'In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.') I guess that's why gurus/monks/priests aren't supposed to have wives, girlfriends, careers, possessions etc. Because ordinary humans do get upset about stuff. And feel good about stuff. The way you call people "someone" and reduce most of life to "someone doing something" I find absolutely chilling.

That last bit about expectation sounds likes the ridiculous pessimism I thought made sense as a child. If you expect things to turn out for the worst, you will never be disappointed. That was before I realized that in life your attitude makes a huge difference to how things turn out. In the real/everyday world of someones doing somethings anyway.
Also http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06/15/frankenstein-the-ba... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11962839.
> If you work for telecoms who support a non-neutral internet, then quit. Go on strike. Work only for companies who support Net Neutrality.

...you'll probably starve to death, though. Even with the immense shortage of technicians, there's also an immense shortage of ISPs that give a damn about Net Neutrality and are willing and/or able to give people jobs. We've foolishly allowed all of the ISPs to merge to the point that most areas are served by one or two ISPs total. And if you're lucky enough to be in a market with two ISPs, one of them is usually not classifiable as "broadband".

Your next best bet would to organize and implement a slowdown rather than quitting. At least then you're not going to starve waiting for something that will never happen... but then again given the state of customer service at most ISPs, it's also not likely to have any kind of noticeable impact - ISPs are already stupendously slow at completing tasks.
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Only tangentially related, but "1816, the Year without a Summer" is one of my favorite Rasputina songs. It's legitimately just an explanation of 1816.
Is this a bot?
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That strike led to the rise of reality TV. Which led to some people becoming reality TV celebrities. Which led to one of them running for president of the U.S.
Do you have any ideas on how to adapt this to someone who doesn't have a "present" internal monologue?

If I concentrate, I can sense something akin to the typical "internal monologue", but it isn't present enough to be copied down, and even when it is it tends to move so fast that I only really get the conclusion.
I don't really know if spam ever left, for it to be 'back'.

Though I do want to make a comment on the advertising in this site - I really, really like it. They're big graphics for those Macallan Rare Cask ads, but they are designed nicely and aren't "in your face", even though they are extremely prominent.

I like this.
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This country is an enigma to me, I hear conflicting and convincing arguments as to its economic strength and weakness, that it is on the precipice of collapse or overtaking the United States. I tend to believe that they are weaker than they are strong, but this is based in bias rather than sound evidence.

The party leadership appears to be tightening their control over the party and the very wealthy. To me this feels like they are preparing for upheaval by eliminating their likely competitors before a catalytic event.
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That'd be great. I keep voting for the least awful ones (when there's an actual choice), but I keep getting wealthy anti-science technophobes.
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I think charging people to be removed from spam blacklists is a pretty clever way to combat spam. If you're not a spammer then, sure, it's an annoying fee but it's basically one-time. If you are a spammer then you either have to wait a week and be throttled or you can pay more than you are probably bringing in spamming.
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At what point, do the people who have high income get tired of being targeted and just decide to leave the state? How will the state then feel without that tax revenue at all? Ie: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer...
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The world is much richer overall and food production per capita is probably much higher. The world is much better connected, both in information (winter is coming!) and flow of goods. There would be far less hunger, although in a capitalist world people on the margin would still get squeezed.

Also, a few years of cooling might counteract global warming a little, although this would probably end up just giving more fuel to the "keep calm and burn coal" camp. Not much point in installing solar panels when the sky is dark.
You brought it up, it was literally the first thing you said in your post. Your somewhat out of nowhere defense of your allergies just make them seem more suspect.

These people are just trying to help you. Cannabis is a versatile plant in which many different compounds can be derived from. If you are allergic to one compound found in cannabis but another compound can be used to treat your condition, don't you think that is worth looking in to?
I completely forgot about the dashboard, I can't remember the last time I looked at it. It used to be such a big deal / selling point of OS X.
>>it will not only change the character of Saudi Arabia but the tone and tenor of Islam across the globe. Only a fool would predict its success — but only a fool would not root for it.

That's for sure. Murdering millions of their fellow muslims in Yemen. What's not to root for?
Patent troll?
It'd be nice if this was a bit readable. Thin fonts and light grey is impossible for old eyes.
I've never heard that before. i will have to search for it!
Close, a fucking idiot troll.
I don't have a leg in this debate. I just found it funny that you're both accusing each other of the same thing, and neither of you provided adequate sourcing so it's impossible for a layman/concerned bystander such as me to figure out who to believe.
Wow c3534l,
This is also one of my favorite Rasputina songs.
No revolution, written by a man, talking about another man before he even really started his reforms, a good chance that most of the "reforms" the Prince is planning are more on the marketing side than on the implementation side.
My bad, I think I read this as let val = if .... by accident. Oops
Yeah; I misread the original code
As long as planned obsolescence is not engineered into them
It's not the complication that bugs me: it's the runtime inefficiency! Used carelessly, C++ templates produce massive code bloat from repetitive instantiations.
People who are genuinely making a good faith effort to be helpful don't promptly call people trolls (or bots or other names). Name-calling is never evidence of genuine desire to do a person a good turn.
Really cool idea.
On the website...is there a reason an iPhone template is used to show off an app that is Android-only?
As an aside, I've always wanted to read a this book on the cultural origins of Frankenstein. The shift in climate, advances in medicine and science, the decline in alchemy, treatment of women, etc. I've read a lot of different works but I've never seen it all in one place.

Can anyone recommend a title?
Off topic:

> (Small groups of programmers and engineers routinely revolutionize sectors of technology, without being especially fanatical.)

In my opinion, that's because of the current state of software as a field. In the future, as the field grows and the distance between subfields grows, it's going to be more and more difficult to get stuff done.

You could argue that abstraction will offset this difference, but I doubt that, as you generally need people who are invested in those layers of abstraction to fix bugs. Occasional bugs will be fixable by the small team, but already we're outsourcing Big Bugs to other, more specialized teams, even if we don't realize that it is so (Usage of libraries is just outsourcing work to other 'research teams'). But then I guess the question is that if a bug fix for team X utilizes seven different teams that are unconnected to the project worked on by team X, then does it still count as a 'small group', at what point do you account for the critical-yet-unconnected effort of other teams?
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Why is this on the front page...?

EDIT: I'm not complaining, I'm literally asking what there is that people find interesting about this link, since I feel like I must have missed it. Though feel free to keep downvoting through the floor.
So when I was a kid I noticed that countries that name "People's" or "Democratic" in their full names tended to be brutal dictatorships (eg GDR (East Germany), PRC (China)). Those that had both were brutal dictatorships on steroids (ie DPRK aka North Korea).

I found this interesting because it was an early lesson in how people will coopt words to hide the true nature of things, something that happens all the time. For example, if the US government enacts a new piece of legislation and it has the name "patriot" or "freedom" in it, you can bet your last dollar it's going to take away your rights.

Another version of this is the now conflated term of "free trade". Free trade in its purest form is freedom of goods and services to cross borders without quotas, tariffs or other artificial barriers to entry. We largely have that now yet countries like the US want to impose a legislative agenda on the rest of the world through large multilateral treaties like the TPP and TIPP all under the guise of "free trade".

Now either economists and politicians have forgotten what free trade actually means or they're wailfully ignoring it for their own idealogical agendas. I find this [1] a good account of the conflation of "free trade" and the "free movement of capital". Back in high school economics I learned about the foreign debt trap where instead of trade outflows from your trading partner, the money came back as capital to buy assets and the means of production. Have such basic principles really fallen out of favour in the blind devotion to the free movement of capital?

So the developed world clamored for China to join the WTO, probably sensing a giant opportunity to sell goods to a new market of a billion Chinese.

Thing is, despite claims to play fair, China has basically cheated at every step along the way. For example:

- Not opening their markets to foreign companies;

- Blatant IP infringement;

- Theft of military and scientific knowledge;

- Pegging their currency to the US dollar rather than letting it float so they could accumulate giant hard currency reserves; and (more recently)

- Restricting capital outflows.

I'm really surprised (even concerned) that the West (in particular) doesn't demand the same access to China that China gets to the rest of the world.

And we could go further into China's many other transgressions: no freedom of the press, the annexation of Tibet, Tiannemen Square, human rights violations, labour camps, material support to North Korea and so on.

[1] http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/