skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Animal Farm is not an anti-communist book. The first half captures communism working perfectly well under the rule of the Lenin-Trotsky analogue - the animals work hard, are well-fed, and organise themselves to create new industry - the windmill - with the goal of eventually eliminating the need for labour.

Everything goes to pot when the Stalin-analogue takes over, because the book is a reflection of Orwell's opinions of the Soviet Union and his experience fighting with the communes in Spain and the subsequent purges committed Stalinist factions against the Trotskyists. If you read the Ukranian prologue, which is included with most modern published editions, Orwell even outlines that Animal Farm is an attack on Stalinism, and he firmly believes in socialism.
If you've studied the history of how democracies devolve into empires- Germany, Rome - this should scare the piss out of you.
Anti-natalism is a belief that natural selection inevitably selects against, and thus a compassionate person who recognizes the truth of the utilitarian calculus of someone like Benatar would recognize a few things.

1) There is zero chance of convincing everyone to voluntarily cease reproduction

2) Those who you convince on the grounds of compassion to cease reproduction, are, by this very decision, proving themselves as among the best suited to be parents... thus the only goal that is achieved is that the quality of parents is diminished.

Given that, the true goals of anti-natalism could only be achieved through the involuntary destruction of the human race... supervillain territory.

Yet, given the likelihood that natural selection would end up restarting the process, even if destruction were achieved, it seems that perhaps a better approach for someone with this goal system would be to play the game of civilization, see how far our powers can take us, and how much of this universe or multiverse we can reorganize according to our values...

And one of those values could be the prevention of new cascades of natural selection leading to uncontrolled consciousness with the capacity for suffering.
Actually for data massaging and manipulation, R is absolutely superior to Python.
Chevy Cruze?
But one of the cases he makes is that everyone suffers - mild things, like being hungry, thirsty, having to use the bathroom, small pains which are pretty much constant once you've hit your 30s. Would you offer those an easy / painless way out? He's also not arguing about ending life once it exists - death is bad too. There's more of that in the article itself.
Am I the only one to think some people just have waaay to much time on their hands? I enjoy my life, I'd rather experience it for all its pros and cons than never to experience it at all.
Huh? Just set your limit to 105 or 200 or 10500. There's no reason to ever use a market order unless there's some other severe limitation on limit orders in a particular implementation.
How about Bitrex?

The Bitfinex fiascos, of which there is a chain of suspicious events, could be circumstantial or truly something to be concerned about.
mine retains the groups after restart
Same thing with padding and margin... 0%
Ash HN: JIRA and Confluence best tips and tricks
What are your best JIRA and Confluence tips and tricks that you use in a professional setting?

I use a custom specification template, and I have an email filter that marks all email from JIRA as read unless it explicitly mentions my name.
A splendid idea. Let's start with the 1% and their children.
List of websites and whether or not they support USB dongles
i believe there was an exploit by another team which used badiret. which is pretty hilarious because badiret has been patched ages ago but FreeBSD never told anyone they fixed it.
The level of emissions achieved by the "cheating" was perfectly legal only a few years ago, just for perspective.

And in the USA at least, there just aren't enough diesel cars to really make a difference. Almost all diesel vehicles here are heavy trucks and busses and they dwarf the emissions of the cars to the point of making them inconsequential.
>An “anti-natalist,” he [David Benatar] believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion.

Poor me, I had no idea it was that bad committing to veganism.[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/TheSpeciesBarrier35Antinatal
Exactly. Creating separate "deluxe" and "plebe" lanes only ensures that the quality of the latter degrades, because no-one with money and power sees any problems or is forced to care about them.

You see this same problem with public vs. private schools (public schools get ignored and degrade when everyone with means avoids them), the "projects" (in which quality of life is allowed to degrade as various factors lead to police disengagement), and many public transit systems (politicians can afford to drive/be driven and thus are blind to the issues faced by obligate transit users).

Arguments equating high-toll roads with "first-class airplane seating" or (I shit you not) "Bitcoin mining" (there's a candidate for @shit_hn_says) completely miss the mark by ignoring that these domains are market-driven (e.g. the quality of a SECOND-class airplane seat is still a function of the market). This is not true for freely-available (or subsidized) public anything (schools, housing, public transit, etc.)
getwd() returns the working directory, which can be set with setwd(), even from within RStudio. I'm still not sure what the problem is.
Is there a name for this technique/pattern of using an argument's type to figure out which parameter it is, rather than using its position or a keyword? I've just started doing the same recently and it's quite ergonomic.

Are any (currently existing) type systems able to encode this sort of thing such that it can be statically checked? IIUC from here[1] the compiler allows any type to be passed in. Sum types catch the error of passing the wrong type in, but don't do anything about passing the same type in multiple times. It's unclear whether the Upspin solution of last-write-wins is simply an easy default that falls out of how they process the arguments, or whether they actually use that property somewhere. I've made the equivalent case an error in my code since it seems much more likely to be indicative of a logic error, I'd love to hear arguments for doing it the other way.

[1] https://upspin.googlesource.com/upspin/+/master/errors/error...
Unless you have your own organic garden this is a pipe dream.

A fruit or vegetable that have traveled thousand of miles before being delivered to you has almost no vitamins left in it and probably didn't have much to start with considering soil depletion.

I believe (emphasis on believe) that supplementation is necessary even if you "eat right".
> In this case, the financial penalties imposed on the companies themselves seem like a more effective tool.

Why do you say that? Depending on their size, financial penalties can be seen merely as "a cost of doing business."

The ultimate goal here is to hold car makers accountable for their systematic fraud and violation of emissions standards. Accountability will deter future violators.

There's no better way to convince "golden-parachute" executives to take these transgressions seriously than to put violators in jail.
It's worth metioning that this distribution system is decided by the UK government (or possibly Eng/Scot etc governements). The EU allocates subsidy to the member nations according to one system (not accounting for e.g. bigger hedges), which allocate subsidy to farmer/business according to their own system. It is entirely possible for the UK government, within the EU, to allocate money to farms as an insurance system against bad years, or to encourage profitability at all costs, or in another way.
Is Qt 5.10 still stuck in the time prior to C++11? Does it have clear pointer ownership and move semantics?
Click Help -> Troubleshooting information (or type about:support into the address bar) and it will show your current Profile Folder. It's in the chrome subfolder under that.
Between 400 and 500. That number is super-misleading though. I only have 3 or 4 videos that have earned me any countable money.

I have a "dear diary" type series that I do every weekday. I have uploaded 433 episodes on that series and it generates nearly no views. It's not the type of content people look for on YouTube.
Seems odd, considering cow milk contains virtually no vitamin D. It is often enriched with vitamin D, but that practice likely does not predate the evolution of lactose tolerance.
Have you ever heard of induced demand? More roads and bridges are not the answer, especially since the associated capital costs could go a long ways towards fixing Metro and thereby provide greater utility.

Northern Virginia has some of the absolute dumbest land use policies and traffic planning of anywhere in the nation. It's reaping what it's sown with traffic congestion. This is a big step in the right direction. (I live in DC, because I can't stand Virginia.)
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You probably don’t exist, you only think you do.
China abandoned communism with Deng Xiaoping's reforms. They are fiercely capitalist, with strong authoritarian political structure.
For a long time I thought that C++ was somehow a bad language (because that's the developer-talk-consensus, much like Java), but after I've written a decent amount (something like 100k loc or so as of now) in C++ I reversed my "opinion". C++ allows people to write code that requires intense study to understand (template magic etc.), but writing that code and getting it to work is very hard too, so there is actually very little of that around. Apart from that C++ is a good language which works well for developing applications (and Qt is a very good partner for it). And that's what really matters.

(Another thing that comes to mind is that there is a huge amount of software for testing, analysing, introspecting and debugging C++ applications - I would say that most other ecosystems are lagging behind in that aspect)
Can banks reasonably do this with current money laundering rules?

Is the margin of 2% sufficient to cover costs + risk?

Incidentally - when a bank account gets hack the bank compensates a single person worth of $. However every bitcoin system seems to revolve around keeping all of their eggs in a single basket for some reason. Surely the complexity cost is worth the additional security?
Not sure on Qt's features as I last used it in the KDE 3.5 days for basic basic apps, but I have used wxWidgets extensively. The Mac port has improved significantly recently, although there are still bugs.

It uses the native UI so fits in better with OSes, whereas Qt ones stand out to me (you can see the buttons aren't native). I did a lot of stuff that was "owner drawn" so reimplemented OnPaint to draw things myself for custom-look controls.

wxWidgets dropped its ODBC support a few years back so talking to databases likely needs another library. Also the ports/HTTP section of it isn't massively useful so I use libCurl instead.

Despite the bugs, it is quick to build and I found working with it enjoyable. Some controls (like the wxDataViewCtrl I think) were really slow so I wrote my own; the OpenGL wrapper works alright but I had to put some work into forcing it to resize; basically be prepared to put some work in - but it is rewarding. I like the layout mechanism - makes other systems like MFC look poor!

You can build wxWidgets and force it to use the STL for its container classes etc; Qt appears to implement everything again instead of just using the existing STL I think.

The developers are helpful and the forum is useful, at least for basic problems.
I enjoy(ed) using it anyway.
Yes, i felt cheated when i read it was about training 1/10th of ImageNet on a SVM. I guess IBM are desparate not to be left behind in the race for distributed deep learning platforms.
just invest what you can in the top 10.
cash out only what you need when you need it and simply watch the rest rise over time to heights most mortals would never dream of.
As much as browser tabs are a broken band-aid,[1] TST is a vital and tremendous improvement over flat horizontal tabs, and absolute clobbers Chrome for productivity. With the performance improvements of Firefox 57, there's absolutely no question which browser is superior.

The wonderful thing about TST is that they create an inherent structure to ones tabs: those opened from the same root create a subtree, can be expanded or collapsed collectively, or moved, or deleted, as a group.

The power and flexibility this gives over Chrome's abysmal tab management is simply staggering. For whatever the reasons, Google has been pursuing the minimum viable user,[2] with highly predictable results: advanced users are crippled through a brutally insufficient interface. My experience on numerous bugs and issues filed against Chrome confirms that Google have no interest in addressing this.[3]

That said: I'd really like to see a description of the "Container Tab" concept, as I can't make heads or tails of what this is supposed to be, do, or be used for.

Otherwise, congrats to the Firefox team. I'm enjoying the new features and capabilities, and the mainstreaming of TST.

________________________________

Notes:

1. A view I apparently share with Adam Stiles who invented the things, though his comments on same were on such a clickbait-laden site I never bothered linking it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/256lxu/tabbed_...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

3. I've launched a Denial of Feedback attack on Google for its various products. I no longer file bugs or report issues. I encourage others to join in this attack.
At different levels, right? There's still a party; they still run things. So at the local level its capitalist, but not at the city or federal planning level?
More regulation is not always better. If there are too many regulations, only companies that can afford an army of lawyers survive. Too little regulation is also bad.
Even for the honest ones, I would wager you'll find that most people fit into one of three categories:

1. The ones that won't pay at any cost for whatever reason.

2. The ones who will pay only if it's an emergency or they're in a rush and it's the difference between being on-time or late.

3. The ones who will pay just so they don't have to sit in traffic. Either the money is meaningless to them or they'd rather be happy than rich.

I'm reasonably frugal, generally speaking, but I'm still category 3. My sanity is worth more to me than the $40. Even if it costs me some percentage of my daily pay. I'd rather spend all my money on things that remove friction from my life so I have more time for fun than spend my time dealing with one frustration after another. My happiness is worth way more to me than money. I would say that a fair portion of my time and pay cheque every month is spent on removing friction from my life.

What would be interesting is if (as I predict) the majority of people fall into categories 1 and 2. If too many fall into category 3, I'm going to need to rethink my strategy.
That's configurable. Your tabs are restored if you recover from history.
Tree Style Tabs are nice but what I _really_ need is multi-row tabs with some of the features from the old Tab Mix Plus extension.

There are some ways to do multi-row tabs with userChrome.css but it is just not the same.
“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men...” Borges
Given the use of slave child labor on cocoa plants, blood diamonds and the chopping off of hands, abuses in the pursuit of rubber in Africa, the willful dumping of toxic chemicals that cause birth defects, etc. that occur in the pursuit of profit by capitalists I’m not sure one can conclude that the worst thing about capitalism is much better than for communism.

Perhaps you could say that capitalism does a better job of dispersing the benefits but it’s worst aspects are quite bad. Overall, the thing to fear is concentrated power in too few hands and unregulated markets.
Fascinatingly, you are probably suffering thus due to very specific genetics, not bad hygiene, personal variation in earwax, or an inherent quality of earwax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwax#Physiology
"Better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all."

I'd say it is better to be alive and sometimes suffer than never to have life at all. Life comes with joys and happiness as well as the downs
I know two projects (fairly simple implementation) of sequential SVM. I believe vowpal wabbit can also do max-margin optimization.

http://leon.bottou.org/projects/lasvm

http://leon.bottou.org/projects/sgd
You charge the customers sufficiently so that you can (and do) hire a customer service person for each X new customers.
It's organized / part of vuejs amsterdam, so they do have a bit of an agenda. Of course, this conference in turn (after looking up some about stuff) is organized by http://frontenddevelopermeetups.com/, which looks like it's a professional conference organizer. They organize generic front-end, angular, and vuejs conferences. TBF I don't think they have a specific preference, they just throw around names to try and attract a specific subgroup to their conferences. Marketing company.
Show HN: Crowdsourced geographic visualisation of digital product makers
Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms Over Graphs
Hi HN! I’m the maker. I created this because I was deeply inspired by Pieter Levels (he made Nomad List) when I saw him talk at a nomad conference in 2015. Since I don’t know a lot of tech solopreneurs / nomadic product makers, I wanted to create a crowdsrouced map to meet some people and ship my first MVP. If I can help more product makers like myself connect with each other, so much the better. Hope that helps.

I have no plan to monetize this, it’s basically just a thank you to Levels and the maker community. For more info, see https://mckn.co/first-mvp
Can you go into more detail on your concerns? I feel like fears over AI are greatly exaggerated. In the real world I feel like we've managed to create some pretty impressive suffering and I'm not sure AI would have that big of an impact (it could even reduce it). Everyone who is concerned about AI seems to be trying to predict the post-singularity world, my guess is that in the near term it will just allow those with power and money to have even more power and money (which is already happening).

What is your idea of virtual hell exactly? By the way, googling virtual hell brought me to this delightful fossil: http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=spooky;id=56;url=http%3A%2F...
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WHO WE ARE:
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WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
Potential. Expect you to have some professional experience with web applications, a substantial academic project, or open-source contributions, but more interested in what you can learn quickly than what you already know.

You do need to be authorized to work in the Netherlands already; for this position we don't have the time to go through the (onerous) process of applying for a work visa on your behalf.

TO APPLY:
The deadline for application is January 1st, 2018. For more info and application instructions, see http://jobs.bedatadriven.com/junior-software-engineer/en
You would need 1) the sun to actually be shining, 2) no cloud cover and 3) probably be naked. Most of us won't get enough vitamin D from being outside for an hour.
By threatening to send people who trade Bitcoin to jail:
https://www.coindesk.com/bangladesh-outlaw-bitcoin-jail/
Turns out, not true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24006751
My favorite part:

[2001] Bill Gates note: see data base for add'l entries
[2007] Gerald Ford note: See Rolodex Card

Maybe they tried using a CRM but Rockefeller wasn't it to it.
Because reasons.

See Herb Sutter's talk at CppCon 2015. At a given moment he asks the audience if they use any kind of static analysis tools.

About 1% of the audience said they were using one.

Which is why everything that requires external tooling, instead of being part of the language is easily ignored.
That the toll is significantly higher than a Metro fare is a feature, not a bug.
Take my money: Why you're paying for free media willingly
Traction for something like this is not going to come from broad marketing to everyone. It will come (if it comes) by talking to specific people who will look at it and see that it solves their problem.

Keep in mind that Facebook started as a service for people in a dorm on a small campus. It expanded by adding other Ivy League campuses. Then other universities. It was several years before it became something for people's grandparents...when those former students started having babies. Facebook grew with its members. Now those early users have older kids. Facebook is adding Messenger for kids.

The other people who are most likely to have problems similar to the one you had that led you to build this are unsurprisingly people like you. So target it at members of the military, maybe only on one base. Making it work well for a few people means that other people they trust have to be using it too. Otherwise, Craigslist is better because it is broader.

Good luck.
> Personally I'd have a quick reminisce then all slam it.

What the heck? You'd destroy our entire species to "spare" those that don't have it good?
It's murky because they call themselves communist, but it's in name only. If anything I'd call it state capitalism, where the government is the biggest player in the market, but it's a market nonetheless.
I enjoy using QML together with Python 3 for the logic, with the PyOtherSide plugin: https://thp.io/2011/pyotherside/
>This would be akin to a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it builds a Ferrari.

No, not even close. First, AlphaZero started with the rules of chess, chess pieces, and a chess board. Second, the possible moves are several orders of magnitude fewer than the steps needed to build a working car out of parts.

Closer would be: Here's a car. Here are all the tuneable parameters. Make it as fast or as efficient as possible. But that would still be inordinately more complex then groking chess.
First one to view source and see content wins a free ticket!
Counter argument to antinatalism.
Benatar allows that once alive, death is horrible and to be avoided.

Failing to reproduce results in the death of all in the limit.

Therefore I propose that anti-natalism's ship has sailed once there is someone to think of it.
Sweden and Denmark are often described as socialist countries because they have major political parties with historical ties to classical socialism but the reality is that classical socialism and social democracy (what Sweden and Denmark currently practice) are really different. Socialism involves the state control over the entire economy whereas social democracy is basically a market system with an especially large welfare state. If your goal in the United States is just to increase the size of the welfare state then there is a good change that it won't end up in dictatorship, but if your trying to completely suppress the market system, you'll have a more difficult time of it, I think.