skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK the settler-historical determinism is getting the dramatic overreach treatment here. Nearly 30% of Australia's contemporary population are migrants. Of those born here, only a minority (estimates vary) are descended from convicts. Of those convicts, many committed 'crimes' (such as cussing their master or stealing a cake) quite deliberately in order to be transported rather than rot their days away in Old Blighty's grinding poverty and injustice. And then there were large numbers of free settlers, during and after the convict period.

Obviously Australian culture has not come out of nowhere, but a simple line from its 'convict' past cannot be drawn as anything other than a very poor caricature.

Whereas there are of course historical/cultural contributors to Australia's sanity re arms (notably: a liking of order, and tolerance of authority where it can help maintain that order), there are many others more contemporary in origin. We don't have a large arms industry (our governments choose instead to be corrupted by fossil fuel corporations; arguably just as dangerous). We have had genuinely courageous leadership at pivotal moments. We are not burdened with an archaic constitution. We tend to dissimulate regarding our violent history rather than valorise it. All of these features have their negative contributions in some policy arenas, but have helped nudge us away from a strong gun culture (which has at moments had the potential to emerge).

This has very little to do with "us" having been "sent here".
> Price dumping to kill the competition is illegal

Is increasing production considered price dumping? I don't think so.
You mean that if there is no direct economic incentive people will stop contributing to a generally available pool of content/IP? That does explain why open source software died off when no one could figure out how to make money from it...
As I’ve pointed out before, there are a lot of quant firms out there. I doubt Rentech have the massive edge that people seem to think they do. I think it’s much more likely that many firms had a small edge, and we notice the luckiest among them.

That said, I don’t doubt that they’ve had an edge. Maybe they were doing trend following in the 90’s, or HFT in the 2000s. Most firms’ strategies eventually leak via lateral hires, but rentech is a small shop and no-one has managed to nab one of their employees. So there’s no way to know for sure.
According to Shazam Paper[1] (I can't find publication date), there were nothing fancy, just keypoints extraction on spectrogram. No deep learning with 100 layers or something like that which wouldn't be possible in 2000.

[1] https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
In my case, yes. I've been an antinatalist for a long time.
Now as a payback we should start video game streaming on sexy cam websites !
The 9% are on the income tax, e.g. 9% of 40% not on income.
BT have just this week installed fibre to my house. While most of the last mile is copper it is wrong to say "Everything is copper" particularly when you consider in a vast majority of cases now the cable from exchange to the cabinet is fibre.
All government revenue is fungible, so this doesn't matter in the slightest.
> ICO’s are an effective way to raise funds from a global pool of enthusiasts.

... and fools and frauds during an intense phase of greatest hype, FOMO (fear of missing out), pump and dump etc.
That is basically Go’s niche, the revival of Limbo, compiled instead of using the Dis VM.

Which took C’s place for user space applications on Inferno, the last Plan 9 iteration.
Ahh, I didn't realize it was a percentage of income tax. It was explained to me by Germans as tithing, according to the idea of donating 10% of your annual income to the church.

I'm not necessarily for or against it, and it does seem pragmatic for the government to automatically collect it on the church's behalf. The part that does seem strange to me is that you have to renounce your religion to opt out of the automatic deduction, but I understand it's a cultural difference. I'm more used to the idea of contributions as voluntary.

(I'm not German or religious, just an Australian who is a fan of Berlin & Germany and often considers moving there.)
Use our planets limited resources because you think your DNA needs to survive ? Of course it's selfish.

Give one reason to have children that doesn't include words like "I want".
So what? I live in a country that killed around 17 million people during WW2, particularly jewish. You think American legacy is bad? Other countries did much worse and still repent for that.

We had a situation in which the birth certificate of your grandmother could decide whether you die under most terrible conditions or live.

And please don't think that the whole "black skin = slave" is unique to america, the egyptians for example enslaved jewish people (as you might recall from some stories in some old, dusty book), some african countries warlords enslaved white people for their skin color, the british enslaved everyone who wasn't european. This is not unique to America.
I used to lust after the latest flagship phones, and while the Galaxy S8 my work has just equipped me with is extremely nice, it doesn't really do anything new that I actually need. VoLTE and WiFi Calling are nice, but hardly something that would make me swap out a perfectly functioning phone.

My 2 year old Moto X Play does everything I need (Firefox, Messenger and Spotify, 90% of the time), and I only bought it because my old phone broke and the X Play had the longest battery life of any reasonably priced smartphone at the time.

When it eventually breaks, I'm just going to get a budget model. If I could get a dumbphone/featurephone with a week-long battery life, that could do Firefox, Messenger and Spotify in any reasonable fashion, I would jump on it instantly.
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I'm still not sure which one is better: Signal or Telegram.
Note that I am a IS staff worker so my perspective is limited but I also have a recent grad from my school in my family with my oldest daughter.

So some of what I speak of is personal and up close.

I work at a liberal arts university and hear this from faculty: "We don't care about skills, we care about the ability to learn". The problem is that today's learners need to be super learners. They need the ability to do divergent thinking, then need to work collaboratively in teams. Working this way is a skill. They need to be able to solve a wide body of problems safely where failure does not impact grades.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_pa...

But they don't encourage this sort of learning. And don't even mention the "skill" word which is considered evil. I hear the 500 year old liberal arts model woks just fine.

While our business school quietly is working on these skills and the students are finding great jobs and starting businesses successfully and more all while the liberal arts side is ignoring the future.
> Telegram, which is open-sourced

The server-side code is not open.
> As a software dev there's very little keeping you from accepting a fat job offer from Facebook

Agreed with this. It's not only nothing keeping you from it, the society would probably push you towards accepting it. It's a big popular brand so not only would you get a high salary but it would most likely include a high social status. Friends and family would think you've gone insane not accepting a good offer from Facebook and it would most likely be good career choice as well. It must be easier to get other job offers after having worked at Facebook or somewhere similar.

Deep down I think everyone knows this, you will gain economically and socially in every way and the only thing you will need to suppress is the possibility of you feeling you contribute to something less good for society. Easy choice.
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> They're in a vulnerable position,

Making shitty videos for pre-teens and racking millions per year.

Yeah, please tell me more how vulnerable they are.
Is 80GHz normally in unlicensed band worldwide? What kind of distances were you able to transmit without losing edge on latency?
Several cheers for any mention of Jane Jacobs. One of the greats.
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I find it very strange that one of the criteria is if you would want to watch it in public.
There are many thing on regular TV I'd never watch in public.

I'm also baffled by the levels of fear naked skin seems to solicit in the US, how common is this?
Often you can have extremely violent games/movies with teen rating, but the moment you show a tit it's instantly adults only.
And this is where I'm confused: where does a dev learn the skill of figuring out how long a feature will take before figuring out the user flows and data structures.

I've never worked on a project where I was estimating something at a scale of 6 months. But if you ask me whether something will take 1 week or 4 weeks, before I've broken the task down, my intuition is going to scream "I don't know the answer to that."

If I told you "Somewhere around 1 week to 2.5 months", would you accept that answer? Or would you think I was trolling you and we should have a conversation about my performance and place at the company?

If I instead told you "2 weeks", how would that be anything other than a lie?
> 1. It is an investment of money
2. There is an expectation of profits from the investment
3. The investment of money is in a common enterprise
4. Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party

------------

Using the "Howey Test" on Bitcoin you find that Bitcoin and almost all other cryptocurrencies should be considered securities.

1. It is an investment of money

yes, electricity and hardware are equivalent to money

2. There is an expectation of profits from the investment

yes

3. The investment of money is in a common enterprise

yes

4. Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party.

yes, from Satoshi the original promoter and all subsequent miners.
It is (close to) free if you already pay the contributions we are discussing about here. Note how the post said you get free healthcare if you paid your contributions.

The contributions are not extortionately expensive. It may seem that way if you are healthy, high-earner, and young. But looking at the actual cost of providing healthcare it's pretty competitively priced. Over the lifetime of a person private health insurance is not that much cheaper. You can view the difference as a tax supporting the poor and chronically ill if you like.
Signal. Peer reviewed and open source crypto on both client and server.
Aren’t JVM language equally simple? Just a fat JAR.
The sequels are pretty bad, by the way - Clarke eventually just started "co-writing" books where the other less-good writer did all the work. One of them has a foreword just so Gentry Lee can apologize he wrote a chapter about his historical hologram waifu.
Okay, let's say I agree with your arguments:

1. Go "is still not as fast as Java can be" [1]

2. "Go lacks the most basic tools which any seasoned developer can expect from a language (like generics)"

3. "Go does not have a de facto build system and you can’t handle dependency management in an easy way" [2]

4. odd error handling

5. not a lot of libraries to choose from [3]

6. possibly more arguments that I missed when summarizing your post

The way you paint it, people would be stupid to use Go. However, thousands of very talented developers use Go everyday. How can you explain this disconnect?

[1] I like how you didn't say that Go "is not as fast as Java". That's a subtle, but important difference.

[2] `go install` is the build system and I have solved dependency management for myself with literally a small shell script [4], and an official solution is in the works [5].

[3] I never had trouble finding libraries for use-cases both common and obscure).

[4] https://github.com/holocm/golangvend

[5] https://github.com/golang/dep
In Switzerland, some cities have started to break this up, and it's wonderful: Responsibility is split between the local utility and telcos. The utilities are responsible for the last mile (just as they are for power and water), and provide a fiber connection from the customer to one of several points of presence per city. Telcos rent space in these PoPs. They get to skip the expensive last mile and focus on Internet connectivity.

In places where FTTH is available, a wonderful ecosystem of mini-ISPs has sprung up, serving different niches. Some focus on integrated multi-play (Internet/TV/Phone/etc.) setups, others offer affordable quick connections without the bullshit. Choice and competition are alive and well, despite (or because?) part of the infrastructure is publicly funded.
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As mentioned, it's the solution that works but everyone regrets working.

Lying about the VH is violating standards and should be handled as such. An electrician does not think "but what if the customer suddenly changes their house voltage from 210V to 123V" but rather "anybody doing that is insane and I'm not going to be responsible if they do that".

The fact that we have to do this is a testament to how bad the standards situation has been in the past and still is.

The proper way would be to have one function that every browser supports and which you can ask about such specifics. Writing browser.is-doing("vh-lying") instead of having to work around the idiocracy of the browser in other ways is inarguably better.
In cloud time performance is simply a matter of cost saving. No matter what your needs are, if you're able to serve more request per cpu cycle or Mo of memory, then you'll save on server costs.
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This sounds so backwards to me. Usually us third worlders have markedly worse infrastructure than abroad, but I use a prepaid plan for ~$9 (not adjusted for PPP) which gives me 2.5 GiB 4G per day for 30 days. Limited monthly plans seem like a thing from the past.

Is there a lack of competition in the mobile service provider market? Bad regulation?
I don't know, both figures seem entirely reasonable to me.

However, looking at the OECD figures for Germany of yearly tax revenue (all
types of taxation) per capita (15 kUSD) and yearly average wages (45 kUSD), you'd think 30% was the average tax pressure. It then makes sense that you'd pay slightly more taxes, given that you probably earn more.

What the other person may have referred to is some combination involving the tax wedge (the ratio between labour taxes and labour cost not counting taxes), which is 50% in Germany currently, and was near 55% a few years ago. But that number is not relevant to this discussion...
For context, see https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/9/16629788/youtube-kids-dis...
One can but wonder what criteria were used when deciding what to redact and not.

Out of curiosity, I searched for a number of phrases relating to my native Norway, and amongst other things found a document describing the reaction to the assassination of Norwegian PM at the time, Einar Gerhardsen.

The document (144-10001-10349.pdf, page 2) quoted a speech he had made on TV on the evening of the assassination, redacting out a couple of words -

'Premier GERHARDSEN, in a speech during these programs, said that the death of KENNEDY was a great loss not only for Norway but for the whole world. He said "When he <redacted> we ourselves <redacted> feel secure."

The legal basis for the redactions is 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D)b(iii), but I haven't gotten around to searching for the relevant paragraph to try to guess what may have triggered the redactions.

Should be relatively easy to find the transcript of Gerhardsen's speech, though. Consider my curiosity piqued.
No, in that case they should do their damnest to arrest the person risking their lives if need be. If you're not prepared to do that then do not sign up for the police. As a police officer you definitely did not sign up to be judge, jury and executioner at the same time, 'Judge Dredd' is fiction, not an instruction manual.
Do you really not know why? Or is the obvious answer just too offensive?
>and slowly catch up.

I don't want to be anti-apple because I like most of their stuff but iTunes is complete garbage compared to Spotify.

With the stuff they have now they will never catch up.
Ornamental use of Gold is the primary diver for its prices. Ask women.

Art has its uses. Because we haven't yet automated creativity.
Perhaps it's characteristic of all language discussions, but Go articles seem to generate an extremely polarized set of comments. My other favored languages (Common Lisp, Nim, Rust, Smalltalk) tend to do the same thing, but in Go's case the passion seems so... misguided.

In my opinion, Go is just such a bland-in-a-good-way language. And I enjoy writing it, for the record. Came back to it after a while not writing it and discovered warts I had missed before, but it's still pleasant. Can't help but think people just need to relax a bit when it comes to Go. Listen to Rob Pike speak about it compared to Rich speaking about Clojure: Go's not the language to get worked up about.

(Please put generics in Go 2!)
Casual Collective with their robot battle games from 10 years ago. Though they did have more configuration, you could just add your name, pick a bot and play.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/CasualCollective/minions

http://everybodyedits.com was one of the first MMOs I played with no config (except a name and a map to join). In addition all of the maps were editable. So it was unique in that every map was completely user created.
> I used to lust after the latest flagship phones, and while the Galaxy S8 my work has just equipped me with is extremely nice, it doesn't really do anything new that I actually need. VoLTE and WiFi Calling are nice, but hardly something that would make me swap out a perfectly functioning phone.

Also, not even remotely new with the S8; it was supported at least back to the Note 5 / S6 generation, possibly earlier.
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Has anyone tried to hire non-US engineers to work in SF? I know visa is tricky. Does anyone have any workarounds (besides L1 or H1B lottery)?
You can't just add the percentages for income tax and VAT. If you were to combine a 40% income tax and a 19% VAT, you'd end up with 49.6% effective tax. (1-(1-0.40)/1.19)

(I'm not arguing that this naive computation makes sense, you pay different VAT rates or no VAT at all, depending on what you buy. I don't think you have to pay VAT on rent, which is a significant part of the income for many people and reduced VAT on most groceries)
Economies of scale do not really happen for ISPs when there's strong regulation allowing for virtual operators. If you grow very large, you are expected to provide more user support, public relations, advertising, and other similar functions that just cost extra. Small virtual ISPs can operate close to the actual costs.

It's basically a two-tier market: a few expensive name brands, and lots of low-cost, low-support brands.
I'll have to accept your statement at face value because you don't provide a credible reference, but I'll remain skeptic.
Before this case I would have told you that as long as you were like me (white, male, relatively well-off) it's a fine place. This year I'm not so certain.
What company is paying for MS?
Funnily enough, even then there was likely a more powerful general purpose microcontroller inside the drive.
ABC was designed as a teaching language. Guido van Rossum was an implementer (but not designer) of the ABC language. When he started Python, he included ideas in it which came from ABC.
Mill Computing talks about threading in their CPU
Could this be a way to train a demonetization AI model?

Given it's Google behind it, I don't think they are expecting to keep a work force to flag videos for the foreseeable future.

I think they are probably doing this in parallel with AI and most of the false positives are on that end, which means they hire more people to make a bigger training data set, rinse and repeat.
I did as well. I specifically found an ex-demo vehicle, so it only was 3 months old but it knocked off 20% off the original price. Effectively, the dealership took the initial depreciation hit, not me.
You're forgetting Java.
Many people were taught OOP the UML and Java way†, to which the concept of prototype-based inheritance is completely alien, while composition is not even on their radar.

† Although they have their fair share of issues, this is not a jab at UML nor Java themselves, but the way things have been taught, terribly, for so many.
Not op, but I'd prefer 7
I enjoy going to the shooting range myself. But here if you want to have the right to hold something else than a 9mm in a secured and monitored location you have to work a lot for it, and prove you are not going to go booling for columbine.

A country where sometimes kids can have a hold on an automatic doesn't feel right to me.
I like go for most things more than all of those, though F# would be promising if I felt better about .net stuff and Linux.
In our solar system, most small stuff has been rounded by billions of years of collisions. This may be a primeval shard from a high-energy collision in another solar system - unaffected because it was flung out of that system at high speed. Cosmic pointy shrapnel. :)

(Big stuff self-rounds per gravity, of course, but this ain't that big)
Indeed, I too had difficulty finding exact information on this new change. I then stumbled upon the PwC tax alerts where it was very transparently explained. Personally I wouldn't mind if they would take a bit longer to implement changes like this, so everyone can be accurately informed and optimise in time.
Did you not sign a purchase contract when you paid your deposit? I know I did when I ordered my car - it stipulated that the car will be ready for collection up to 30 days after delivery to dealership, and the dealership can't sell it in that time.
Most Americans would disagree with you. Most people don't walk around with guns and don't see other people walking around with guns. The fact that it is theoretically possible for a drunk guy to have a gun in his pants is not an elephant in the room because he is in America. The expectation of the officer that the guy is packing has more to do with the militarized police force the the Second Amendment imo.
Point being that something which could be easily slipped-in with a more dynamic language triggers a total re-wrap in Go, or punting to an outside system like your example.

Not hating on it though. I like Go for network-y things.

edit: And in your example, is it a clear win to centralize compression at the proxy?
That's interesting! I heard this from some CakeML people, who told me they decided to go with a full proof because it wasn't much more work for them. Maybe Compcert has a fancier register allocator architecture that benefits more from translation validation?
I guess you can only do this for some kind of companies? I've got a Belgian company and it's mostly just me doing consulting work. I live in Belgium and most of my clients are other Belgian companies. So I guess Belgian taxes wouldn't allow me to invoice from my Estonian company?
And also - in my car(Merc) if you order the Premium HK speaker system the spare tyre is replaced with a subwoofer + tyre repair kit.
> A country where sometimes kids can have a hold on an automatic

Citation needed? That isn't a likely situation outside a carefully monitored range with waivers, etc. signed.
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In a human language analogy, I think Algol is Latin while Smalltalk is Greek.
Back when DSL was regulated that way, it was pretty much the reverse; the big name brands wrode on being the obvious default choice with horrible user support, while the independent resellers often had stellar support (less slick advertising, but probably higher advertising cost per user, because of economies of scale.)