skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the main problems I still face is: Git's CLI is incomprehensible. It's a tangled mess of poorly named commands with even more poorly named options.

If there's a "create" command, it's "modify" counterpart is likely to be "create -b -u -t --modify", and it's "delete" counterpart is likely to not exist at all or be an arcane incantation of several non-related commands and a push.

Unfortunately, most GUI tools are just thin wrappers on top of all this mess (with the possible exception of GitUp whose abstractions are also paper-thing at times)
Here's a rough automated transcript in case anyone's interested https://scribie.com/transcript/1c42571af44d45aea69d600f9a5a7...
Nemesis will catch up with you – Bishop Nwokolo warns politicians
A good way to normalize it for comparison is tax income as a proportion of GDP[0]

The table on wikipedia[1] shows Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden at all over 50%. Germany at 44.5% while the UK is 34.4%, Australia at 34.3% and United States at 26%

[0] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=REV#

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
And it works, because OpenReach are heavily regulated by the government, in light of the fact that they have a monopoly when it comes to copper last mile infrastructure (ignoring KCOM for the sake of simplification, and they're only in Hull).

You do have LLU where internet companies put their own DSLAMs in an OpenReach exchange, once again, this is because of heavy regulation. That has become less common of late as more people move away from ADSL to VDSL, where once again OpenReach have a monopoly in the streetside DSLAMs.

The move to Fibre though is an interesting one, as we now have several options (Depending on where you live) such as GigaClear, Hyperoptic and some business only providers. There's also rural fibre in the case of B4RN and boutique wireless providers where OpenReach has failed to install a decent service.

There's also Virgin Media, who provide last mile triple play over cable, but they don't have 100% coverage.

Finally, the government has given out large block grants to local authorities to help pay for rollout of "Super" and "Ultra" fast broadband to places OpenReach initially deemed financially unviable.

The thing about competition, is it only works when any part of the equation that is a monopoly, or near monopoly, is regulated as a utility.
You could make a market out of tamper proof blockchained cameras?
As a German I'm so glad that I didn't have to learn German as a second language.

As a software developer I'm glad I was there when the web began and was allowed to code some bad Perl CGI and horrible HTML.
Here in Norway, advertising towards children is actually banned (at least for TV). Some channels get around this by broadcasting from other countries (ironically the ones that show the most cartoons), but at least there was a conscious effort made at one point.
That's exactly it: YouTube is 'sharing economy' - privatise the profits, socialise the expenses, in this case the costs of videos which are controversial.
If they’re “pre-mined” then surely there is already a preset limited amount of tokens?
why Hadamard of 1 is diffrent from Hadmard of 0?
Exactly!

When I first read the passage about libtool I thought it was a joke, and the illusion of order got a cold reality shower:

> the tests elaborately explore the functionality of the complex solution for a problem that should not exist in the first place. Even more maddening is that 31,085 of those lines are in a single unreadably ugly shell script called configure. The idea is that the configure script performs approximately 200 automated tests, so that the user is not burdened with configuring libtool manually. This is a horribly bad idea, already much criticized back in the 1980s when it appeared, as it allows source code to pretend to be portable behind the veneer of the configure script, rather than actually having the quality of portability to begin with.
Yes that's true. When I was at university we learned about the concept of composition but the reference language for this 'software engineering' course was C++. The whole composition idea felt contrived at that point.

Some time later I learned Lua for fun and almost instantly understood what this whole prototype based programming / composition was about :)

TLDR:
While I learned about composition at university, they failed to really show how it is used and what it is good for..
You can actually use Amazon Opener instead of purchasing the Soylent holder and turner. Plus Amazon Opener can open Soylent using your phone app. Very convenient in my book to get Amazon Opener on Prime, since they give 24 months to pay @ $17/month, and you still get free app updates.
Google: Southeast Asia’s online economy is growing faster than we predicted
Non-US engineer here. If you do find a way around visas drop me a line here, I'd love to work in SF
> Poorer people can't afford a high quality new thing, so they buy a cheaper one to replace its utility

I'm somewhat (but not entirely) skeptical about this, as price does not necessarily equates to build quality, but also to functionality; in addition to that, obsolence can be engineered also in high-end products (infamously, washing machines), therefore, in the full range.

> Is there a way to create the conditions of minimalism for everyone?

I am a (relative) minimalist, but I think that paradoxically, minimalist is an unnatural human condition, as much as dieting is, as hoarding goods (both material and immaterial) is deeply rooted in human psyche.

Of course, this could be "tamed" the same way violence is, but there are many incentives to tame violence, and comparatively none (in real world; of course, ideally, there is plenty) to "tame consumption".
But sounds like the entire telegram network could be taken down if the locations of the servers were comprimised. Then the message app wouldn't function anymore, so it wouldn't provide any security.
Your girlfriend does not pay 70% tax. This is mathematically impossible if you actually look at all tax rates.
As important as it is to debunk the hype surrounding AI, it is also important to note that the recent advances in neural nets hinted that we're onto something regarding the functioning of the brain, and in my opinion, it would be equally foolish to dismiss the _possibility_ of a breakthrough that would get us much closer to general AI (for instance if someone came up with some kind of short-term / long-term memory mechanism that works well)

I personally think that the main reason why general AI may be very far away is because there is little incentive today for working on it. Specialized AI seemss good enough to drive cars. Specialized AI should be good enough to put objects in boxes, cut vegetables and flip burgers and so on, and the economical impact of building that is much greater than the economical impact of making a robot that barely passes the turing test and that's otherwise fairly dumb or ethically unbounded.
Using the "Howey Test" even CryptoKitties should be regulated by the SEC!
Our gp encourages children visits. When you look at return on healthcare investment for children in terms of years of life left, it makes sense. Plus kids don’t self report very well, you need a doctor to diagnose.
Competition in France is driven by:

- price and pricing structure

- coverage, most important for mobile and in low density areas

- mobile data

- speed but not so much, ISPs often offer you the fastest speed available, even for low tiers

- service level

And because most landlines are triple-play, VoIP and TV service are also a deciding factor.

Some ISP also provide bundles with additional service, like subscriptions, subsidized phones and other stuff. It is fine with net neutrality as long as there is no preferential treatment when it comes to internet service, though there may be issues with product tying laws.

To counter monopolies, large ISPs are required to rent their infrastructure to other players at a reasonable price.
Well said.

> Most people see version control as an obstacle standing in the way of accomplishing some other task. They just want to save their progress towards some goal. In other words, they want version control to be a save file feature in their workflow.

That was horrifying to me. We _religiously_ have a JIRA-XXX tag in our commits so that every commit has some kind of perspective in addition to the comment. This has been extremely useful in getting more context of why something was changed when dealing with a long lived project spanning multiple developers. Even if the commit message itself is weak or lazy we still have the user story in JIRA to get full context.
I’d counter that the security benefit may be so small as to underweigh the hassle and bug potential of those obscurities.

... and counter myself by reminding that all computer security is obscurity, just varying levels.

I think, in the end, we do need to measure things :)
Taxes is traditionally a heated subject.

I think it's unreasonable to express a simple (one-sided) argument within this subject and not expect a one-sided answer from someone.

It is truly a complex subject.

Now, I expect someone to disagree with that statement. :)
> There are groups that have that mindset to want less, to avoid the chase, like the Amish. (Not that they don't have other problems).

I do, and I educated myself to it. Interestingly, buying something (intended as adding) for me, is as painful as it is to lose something for other general people.
Former Gawker employees are crowdfunding an effort to buy Gawker.com
And yet we see web applications written in Python
You don’t have to “renounce” your religion or anything to that affect, it’s a checkbox on your income tax / wage form where you choose whether you wish to pay it or not. From what I remember it amount to taking ~1% or so off your salary.
What we talk about when we talk about fair AI Labs
I wish people could just say "this browser is broken, we don't support it. Get a fixed version."

Alas, people don't do that in business.
Christmas crackers: highlights from past years of The BMJ’s seasonal issue: http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6679
Learning programming sucks
For an intelligent person the good doctor seems to have missed the fact that this is a show aimed at very young children and does not necessarily reflect how adults in the families of Peppa Pig watchers would react.

More research into the course of inappropriate use of primary care resources beyond Peppa Pig is indicated, perhaps combined with a dose of common sense, which unlike over-use of antibiotics does not have any known side-effects.
Demystifying chaining in JavaScript
The author also makes a point that autotools releases are really infrequent.

Indeed, the latest release of libtool is 2.4.6, from February 2015 (more than two years ago).
The highest amount of income tax you pay (Reichensteuer) is 47,48% (45% plus Soli). This number is a bit misleading though since the tax rate is a curve that starts at 14% for incomes above 8656 EUR and reaches a plateau of 42% at a yearly income of roundabout 53000 EUR. The highest tax rate only applies to the part of the income that exceeds about 250000 EUR. So the first 8k are tax free, for every EUR above that you pay a tax rate according to the curve and only the part of the income that exceed 250000 EUR pays the full 45%. So if you have a yearly income of 250001 EUR, the 45% get only levied on 1 EUR. It's obvious that the effective tax rate is far lower than 45% for any income that does not massively exceed 250k.

The blue curve in that graph is the nominal tax rate (Grenzsteuersatz) and the green curve the effective rate: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einkommensteuer_(Deutschland)#...
Apparently SVN has something like that now.
Thanks! My brain kinda failed me there :)
I've been seeing nothing but negative, dismissive comments about data science on HN lately, which is really disappointing. There's definitely a lot of hype right now about DL, but almost all of my job does not deal with Big Data or Deep Learning, 'just' machine learning + stats + calc + scripting + data cleaning + deploying models.

But, all those things people did in the '90's or even earlier. It was called "data warehousing" or "decision support" back then. The fundamental techniques - linear regression, logistic regression, k-mean clustering - go back even earlier, to the OR community post-WW2. Banks have been doing credit scoring with these techniques for a loooong time. The manufacturing industry has been using these techniques for even longer. Engineering for even longer than that.

So you can see why people are quite cynical about the way old, established techniques are being presented as the hot new thing - and you can see why people who have been doing this stuff for 20+ years might be annoyed at 20-somethings who claim to have invented this new thing. What's wrong with someone calling themselves a "statistician" or an "applied mathematician"?

But this is by no means purely a DS thing, seems noone is a programmer anymore either, they're all "senior certified enterprise solution architects" or some grandiose thing.
...competition between providers which drives prices down and quality up?

Does it necessarily? Corporations are looking for profit growth, and the customer will pay for that.

Imagine a service where a public provider is replaced with three private corporations. Superficially there's competition and freedom of choice... But what if the three companies all operate at 80% margin, are constantly squeezing on quality to drive the margin even higher, and they are owned by multinationals that spend enormous amounts on lobbying to prevent new entrants in the market? It's easy to see how both price and quality can be worse in this case than it was with the single public provider.
Is it time to dump the “Lean Startup” Approach?
Because Typescript (or Javascript) has more quality libraries than Haskell?
Although it seems the intention of the author is partially to make a humorous article for other GPs, I think that popular culture case studies are useful in medicine and science for finding strong causal links to certain behaviors.

For example, I believe that many cases of Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) can be attributed to the game Animal Crossing from 2001 to present, due to the weed-picking game mechanic, paired with existing OCD behavior.
"...having a hard time moving the family fully in that direction..."

Hehehe.

Dad: Hey, I'm run ragged with stress and work and my life sucks. I think this simplify thing might help. Let's start by getting rid of the flatscreen TV and the couch.

Kids (much wailing and gnashing of teeth): No, no, nooooo!

Wife: You are sleeping in the spare room tonight asshat.

This scenario probably plays out a thousand times up and down the country.

This is like a solved problem (see any number of resources such as Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez, Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin, blogs by The Minimalists, Mr. Money Moustache, Early Retirement Extreme, ad infinitum...).

My advice, you can start by simplifying your own life. This frees up more time, money, you will be less stressed.

New scenario: You and your wife take a day off on the kids INSET day, go to the park, share a lovely picnic, chat together, take photos and take a walk around the lake...

Kids: Dad, this is the best day EVER! Can we do this more often?

Dad: I think I might know a way...

Wife: You are definitely NOT sleeping in the spare room tonight bigboy...
as someone that lived out of a suitcase for 3 years I disagree. Closets full of tools and supplies let you create. Shelves of parts let you hack. Cabinets of kitchen equipment let you cook. Dinning rooms and living rooms full of furniture let you entertain and throw parties. all of those things are much harder when you reduce your belongings to one suitcase. Even simple things line winter clothes vs summer clothes become problematic. Shoes for everyday, rain, hiking, snow, beach end up being disposable. And that dosen't include dress shoes if you find the need.

so no you are not free to do anything without things
LinkedIn data shows which jobs and skills are on the rise and which are fading
A simple dropdown saying "citizenship" and then turning red with an error message saying "United States is not allowed. Did you mean United Kingdom instead?" will encourage most people to put something else.

Then the company can fairly legitimately say "The customer lied to us about their citizenship. We took all reasonable measures to determine their citizenship, because there isn't a freely available database of which people have which citizenships"
They have opted for user convinience on this matter. Fully searchable history of all communication synced on all your devices. A nightmare for a dissident attacked by state, but convinience 90% of the population should not be stripped of.
That's news precisely because it's rare.
I don't need to prove anything, simple watching a few episodes is sufficient evidence. Or try reading any of these to see I am not alone in this view: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=peppa+pig+sexist&t=hf&ia=web
> if people were held accountable indefinitely for the externalities caused by the work they conduct

Yes, it would change peoples priorities: If this was the case (and the definition of "externalities" was broad enough to encompass "No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth") literally nothing of consequence would ever happen.

The those tropes in computer engineering about suits never getting fired for buying IBM, about legal departments wrapping everything in red tape, about bosses insisting on processes, reports and cover sheets? They are on the hook for vague 'externalities', so they cover their asses. Only when we collectively accept a certain degree of risk can progress happen.

Running for the nearest torch and pitchfork shed is not how an open, liberal society deals with adversity.
You actually have go through a formal renunciation process (which is done at a state authority but your church will get notified and will not be pleased). That checkbox doesn't actually do anything, it is just your declaration of the official religion status. Lying on tax forms is, well, not the best idea.
Even considering that I haven't touched my DSLite for over 2 years now, I prefer it over mobile phone games. I got an amazing amount of fun out of it that I have yet to find in __any__ mobile game on the market, stuff like the Super Mario Bros for DS or Harvest Moon. I have sunk weeks of playing time into those.
What "constant drum beat"?
I.e., can you give some examples which illustrate your point?
Five Outcomes of the Autonomous Revolution
> Now it may be that in the end everyone is OK with the word WebAssembly being more of a statement of intent than a precise claim, just like we muddle through with the word HTML5. And in reality we all know that only Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and maybe Apple will implement wasm or at least only these companies will have implementations anyone cares about. They will probably comply with whatever test suite is produced without needing legal/trademark incentives. Maybe.

There are already projects to implement WASM in other contexts beside the web--some even in production. The specification, which has been entirely mechanized with an implementation of a provably-correct interpreter in Isabelle, is designed to be implemented easily. We welcome other implementations of the core execution spec of WASM and other embeddings. I can only speak for myself as a co-founder, but I believe most people involved in the W3C groups hope the scenario laid out in this comment does not happen in reality.
I think this recent paper [1] sheds quite a bit of light on this.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00810v3
And mobile app repos are not updated regularly, too.
What the author tried to convey by "old languages still have great value" is that:

"Old languages shouldn't be discarded as valueless just because they're old. Some old languages have great value".

And not:

"Any old language still has great value".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
So... Like any other cloud infrastructure?
As far as I know this is only true for code written in Go. As soon as you try using C libraries you're going to have a non-trivial time statically linking everything. Isn't that the case?
> Palihapitiya currently runs his own VC firm, Social Capital, which focuses on funding companies in sectors like healthcare and education.

Oh, it's good that he at least doesn't have a direct, personal financial interest in saying the things he does to the audience he's addressing.
Why a single binary is the right thing for NeoPG
On a different YouTube note if they want to continue being a powerhouse they need to also get rid of all those robot voiced bot created videos. Also those videos that are clickbait and play only an image of a website to go to.

Youtube for me is being plagued by the above videos.
Ah, yes sorry--I thought you meant computing power to record 1 transaction in the ledger.
>Got a source for the first claim?

Here:

https://medium.com/@anton.rozenberg/pavel-durov-sued-senior-...
But as an amateur classicist, although both Latin and (ancient) Greek were once common teaching languages (and having a reading knowledge of them was often s requirement to go to university as late as the 19th century), they have quite fiddly grammars with lots of declensions which most modern Western languages have streamlined away. Neither Smalltalk nor Algol have very complicated grammars.
Depends on yours needs. If you need top level security - you use Signal. If speed and stability and features are of more importance - use telegram.
Stop accusing men of overreacting – 'man flu' really does exist, doctor claims
Have you looked into Nim?
It's opt out, which is pretty evil. You can absolutely blame the state for that.

https://www.settle-in-berlin.com/stop-paying-german-church-t...