skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was pretty sure it was going to be a joke, but like the Long Blockchain Company announcement[1], it's pretty apparent that its real. Good god.

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/21/investing/long-island-iced-t...
Not sure why the parent post is being downvoted: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21724810-country-save...

> Underlying Germany’s surplus is a decades-old accord between business and unions in favour of wage restraint to keep export industries competitive. Such moderation served Germany’s export-led economy well through its postwar recovery and beyond. It is an instinct that helps explain Germany’s transformation since the late 1990s from Europe’s sick man to today’s muscle-bound champion.
Is it manipulative to attempt to invoke emotion in music as well? If not, what would be the difference?
Digging into Clang's extra 4 byte stack allocation
Why did Vitalik created Ethereum and not upgrade Bitcoin blockchain?
The reason they want to leave is because they can’t afford to stay. The number of homes for sale is orders of magnitude lower than comparable areas.
where if statements only operate on Bool values

I mostly use Asm and C, and I have the exact opposite opinion: I hate languages like that. It makes simple problems like "determine if more than 1 of 3 integers are greater than 4" require ridiculously verbose solutions.
Mpc hc development has stopped
Sorry, I don't closely follow this whole "don't talk to the police ever" thing- is this the case even when you're just refusing to talk to the police on the street without an attorney? Was always under the impression the right to publicly provided legal counsel mostly centered on an actual trial.
They can just offer an decent clone of your product for free. Given the popularity of the "grow now, monetize later" approach, investors will likely not see a problem with that.
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Where did the pentagon confirmed this?
And that's just consumer banking. There's also commercial banking. Most businesses still take in lots of cash, and need to send an employee to their bank to deposit it on a daily basis, since having lots of cash in the store encourages robberies. (If you're a large store, you'll use an armored truck service to move cash, but a pizza shop probably doesn't.) This requires teller services, since depositing thousands of dollars in cash via an ATM would be cumbersome.

Thus, neighborhoods with lots of retail businesses also need enough bank branches to support these businesses.
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I know we're all experiencing blockchain fatigue, but for once, I actually know what the tokens will be used for (beyond the usual snake-oil that other ICOs sell). For reference:

Some of the target usages for the token holders, will include:

- voting rights: influence the Red roadmap, vote for features and issue tickets.

- tipping: useful chat posts, code contributions, learning materials providers, etc.

- intra-community cryptoeconomics (or rather tokenomics): selling/buying services from other community members (coding tasks, consulting, learning help, bug fixing, decentralized gaming, etc.)

- paid Dapps, or in-app purchases.

In addition to that, the foundation will hold a significant amount of RCT, which will be used for rewarding:

- code contributions

- Red-related online learning or presenting materials (blog, documentations, etc.)

- promotional actions (presenting Red at a conference)

- any other actions that will help spread Red and make the community grow up.

I'm not sure I personally agree with turning the org into a "dapp", unless language-design remains with the core designers of the language and doesn't become influenced by decentralized decisions. edit: It looks like "voting rights" may actually impact this

There is always an issue with OSS projects struggling for funding. Regardless of how flawed the idea may be, at least they are trying to find a model to sustain themselves. It certainly trumps the model of depending on big-tech-company-X giving you handouts for your SSL library.
You just say it. I guess the theory is that you trust anyone you invite into your house.
Putting a recommendation here for the "Extra History" cartoon video series, which has a couple new videos about the Christmas Truce:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlPNWDvk-c

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pey-HmXGfs

The artwork is fun and the creator treats the historical material with a decent amount of respect (which might be surprising considering the cartoon nature of it).
Not sure what to think of this. Smells like FOMO. I looked at their roadmap and they're planning to support so many different architectures. Adding EVM support seems like adding more complexity to the project just because blockchain.

I think something like this is needed for programming on blockchain, but I'd prefer to see a dedicated project instead.
“but after studying many other ICO, I am convinced now that this is not just a short-lived fad, but a real new model to fund projects, and especially open-source projects related to blockchains.”

There’s been quite a few of us suggesting people jump into blockchain just to get funding for more important stuff (e.g. language-level tooling or libraries) they’ll produce as part of the coin offering they sell to investors. Plus, with the focus on correctness, it’s easier than ever to get the private sector to invest in high-assurance tooling. Problem is they keep trying to clean-slate everything when there's piles of work to build on with better benefits in the long term. And this work is hard even when doing simple things if you want end result to be widely usable. So, you better have a good justification for trying to redo decades worth of hard work on your own with some VC funding.

Anyone wanting a shortcut should build your language on top of capabilities of the SPARK Ada language [1] with this book [2]. Your smart contracts get all the benefits it currently offers plus whatever extra you build plus whatever they build with the influx of money for Pro edition. Recent projects already add some pointer [3] and floating-point [4] safety to what they already mostly automate with that tooling. This is also a mature tool whose development and commercial use goes back decades [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07047

[4] http://lists.forge.open-do.org/pipermail/spark2014-discuss/2...

[5] http://www.spark-2014.org/uploads/itp_2014_r610.pdf
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I get your point, but how many of these tech companies will actually authorize their employees who know what they're talking about to speak freely with tech reporters about how their system works? I would figure most would redirect you to a PR flunky to feed meaningless corporate-speak to any reporters, and then it's all "Netflix uses the latest internet technology to ensure the best possible viewing experience for all viewers around the world. Unfortunately, the specifics of our system are proprietary and we are unable to discuss that."
One thing that helps me is knowing that these people are Quality Time (according to the Five Love Languages book). Don't confuse Quality Conversation with Time. The best way to stop them is to identify the time that has gone by. I don't have perfect method yet.
GBA ran at 59.97fps with input applied next-frame. That's 16.6ms latency - much less than what OP "measured"
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Agreed. Blockchains have yet to power anything of practical value. They're arguably technically interesting, and may be useful in the long term, but the hype is pathetic and embarrassing.
> It is a pity that they are so expensive.

Some of these books are over 40hrs long I listen to. My current book, Oathbringer, is 55hrs. I find the length and professional voice acting to provide more than enough value for the $15/month audible charges (hope I don't sound like a shill).

Certainly better than 2 movies a month, imo :)

edit: I do wish you got a free kindle version with audible purchase...
> We have produced a whitepaper earlier this year in October (co-authored by Tamas Herman and myself), to describe with more details and context what we are building. We will release it publicly in a few days.

Why not release them simultaneously?
I've been writing Ruby for 4 years, and I had never heard of POODR before.

I've also never come across any particular dogma in the Ruby community -- there are established best practices for formatting code, but individual projects vary widely style and design decisions. Most Ruby codebases I've worked on come with a custom `.rubocop.yml`, and that's it.
People who buy into the ICO can influence the roadmap?

Isn't that design by committee? (Generally considered a bad idea.)
(Original poster here.) If you are interested in this sort of thinking, I recommend checking out the page I found it on: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/vsipage.html , including the last link on the page that delves a bit into the philosophy behind mathematics and its implications.

That page in turn was found at the end of the author's book 'Mathematics: a Very Short Introduction', which is pretty good exploration of what goes into mathematical definitions and how modern mathematical thinking works, addressed towards the layman but without excessive watering down of the subject.
Sorry to hear about your ongoing problems with Microsoft.
Why write anything?
Yeah I noticed the pets too, no doubt the FBI agents picked up her concern for it and used the situation to their advantage. Imagine if it was kids, friends or relatives.

"Sure don't have to talk to us, but keep in mind we can arrest you, and we don't want to do it, who knows what weirdos your kids might end up with..." "-Yeah sure let's talk..."
<humor>There's plenty of opportunities for former members (e.g. USA) to re-apply to join in the post-Brexit world. One of the many benefits could be access to the BBC iPlayer !</humor>
Isn't that means-tested?
It's both, of course.
>Mary Shelley’s original three-volume novel was published quietly and anonymously by Lackington and Co., Finsbury Square, London, in March 1818 and to little acclaim.

In fact it was an immediate hit and sold out quickly.
But many voters believe what we should preserve is the single-family home, built environment

Do you believe this is an honest characterization of their core goal? Is the opposition's number one goal simply to oppose multifamily property? Like, "God ordained that no two families should live in a single structure"? Or is it about property valuation changes, or building height, or street parking, or land use, or decreasing number of (semi-permanent) owners and increasing number of (temporary) renters, or...?
> “Sometimes, watching him, I thought of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, a simulacrum of the human that entirely failed to express any true humanity.” But that of course is a remark inspired by film images rather than the novel. For the debatable nature of “true humanity”—and whether Victor Frankenstein (never Doctor in the novel) or his Creature can best express it—is precisely the dilemma of Mary’s original fiction.

Being alive but somehow, stomach-churningly inhuman in appearance and expression is precisely what's so awful about the monster in the novel. Inhumanity (again, of appearance and affect). The difficulty of expressing this visually is probably part of why the Monster in film is simply cadaverish and covered in scars and bolts and such.

Its exact appearance—dimensions and general Lovecraftianly-left-to-your-imagination inhumanity aside—and the details of the process of its creation, get little page space in the book. There are (framing) story reasons for the latter to be lightly treated, in fact.

Whether one can pin the Rushdie quote's inspiration to the film depiction depends on how one takes "express". It could, and was perhaps intended to, cover film and book alike.
Because you will be afraid that if you don't comply they will treat you badly and maybe even take you to jail. You can see in the interview of RW that the FBI agents make it seem like they are just there to find out what happened and they say several times that they think she just made a mistake. They are doing that in order to get her to see them as allies in the search for the truth and to minimize the gravity of the situation. So, in a case like this she would probably be sitting there thinking "yeah it was a mistake I didn't want to do that at all I can't believe I made a mistake like that" which makes it all but impossible for her to halt the interview and request an attorney. In order to have asked for legal representation she would have had to see the gravity of the situation, which the FBI agents downplayed over and over as a trick.
Some people are naturally and unconsciously charming, and others, through a confluence of nature and experience, aren’t, and might not even realize it.

Is it fair for the less charming people to be at a permanent disadvantage? Or does being conscious of what is for others unconscious make one automatically manipulative? What if after a few months or years of intential charm, it became automatic?

Compare it to being a poor driver that is unknowingly causing stress and danger to fellow drivers. They take a course in defensive driving and consciously learn a few techniques like counting the distance between them the vehicle in front, not passing in the right lane, anticipating red lights, etc. After a couple of years of consciously driving like this these habits become automatic and traffic around them functions more smoothly. Practicing social skills is more like this than you probably think.

Learning how to write clearly and persuasively is another example that one could dismiss as manipulative at their own peril.
Pretty sure the protection of whales (and other sea life) was being negotiated as part of TPP to at least be stronger than the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
> The few reports of a football match between forces have endured for a century, but what has contributed to the focus on this part of the story?

Because it's passed down through generations, told in schools, appeared in the video for Paul McCartney's hit song Pipes of Peace and is a remarkable example of humanity and unlikely camaraderie in an otherwise monstrous 4-year slaughter.

Very modest of the BBC to suggest it's because of a BBC comedy series from 1989, though, which I don't remember even depicting a football game.
Same here; this one works great.
Minor typo

> reduce(lambda b, b: ab, 1, positives)

Should be

> reduce(lambda a, b: ab, 1, positives)
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Literally everything except “voting rights” is better served by a more popular existing cryptocurrency, and program language design doesn’t need a fancy voting system.
Surprising to learn that KFC had a Japanese CEO from 1984 to 2002.
The benefits section of Red is a pretty amazing list most languages can't say:

http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

Its Red/System DSL [1] is also something that could be easily used or improved by folks like you that build OS's on calculators and such. More talent can only help. ;) I've been eyeballing it for a concept of high-level systems programming that extracts to multiple targets to leverage their static/dynamic analysis, testing, and compilers. Keep feeding any improvements detected by each into original code until result is pretty solid. Additionally, a language with features close to C that's easy to macro can by itself be advantageous as a C replacement. Double true if the initial interpreter for that language is easy to implement in C or assembly.

So, try it out. Just ignore the blockchain BS if you don't like that. Worst case in event you really like Red, but not what's on the submission, is that you fork or partly clone the prior work to leverage its benefits minus the bullshit. :)

Note: This is true for any great language or other tooling that's malleable. Easier to escape lock-in to specific paths the maintainers take. Not necessarily easy but easier.

[1] http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs.html
One-on-one meetings have minimum possible number of people required for information exchange (2 participants).

1) Discussions are very valuable for team coordination, so having meetings is very important for efficient teamworks.

2) In order to contribute, every person, participating in the meeting, must understand the discussion.

3) The more people are in the meeting - the more dumbed down the discussion must be in order to allow everyone to follow the discussion. That makes meetings with larger number of people - less efficient. Which makes meetings with 2 people (one-on-one) - the most efficient.
Better public education (especially for adults) would reduce supply/demand discrepancies, giving the average American employee more bargaining power.

Higher wages may also support more smaller/domestically owned businesses, which tend to treat their employees more humanely than huge corporations.
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For items shipped from Amazon warehouses you basically need a brand only available through Amazon - AmazonBasics, Anker, etc. because there's really no room for counterfeiting there, though I think Anker products are now showing up elsewhere which may now mean they get hit with counterfeits from third party "FBA" as well.

These days I'll absolutely check elsewhere before making a purchase, and I'll pay a bit of a premium to either buy from a different store or to get items shipped from the seller instead of from Amazon.
Likely because i pegged the euro issue on Germany rather than the PIIGS.
Previous discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919789
Honestly it did work that way in certain states until recent legislation.
I wonder how many generations of "cooking (for) dolphins" you'd need in order for a drastic brain evolution to occur. Probably not enough to provide them with cooked meals, you'd probably also have to progressively increase the mental difficulty of obtaining the food.
I think I had someone try this on me- I just recall thinking they were a patronizing ass.
I think that today c# and java aren't that far apart. But Scala was created in 2004, c# got lambdas in 2007,and java got them in 2014. So there were a lot of years when the c# java gap was pretty large, which gave Scala lots of time to grow to a critical mass.

I think you're right another factor is that there are more Python and Ruby devs looking to write Python and Ruby on the JVM then the clr.
Ask HN: Which technology wasn't as big of a deal as you thought it would be?
Not according to Google :). They actually support and encourage distributed transactions across boundaries.

Imagine all the data Google stores with your user profile across their hundreds of application boundaries. To keep things consistent you would either need to store all profile data in one massive service or support distributed transactions.

The Netflix model is fault tolerance, with every service supporting various failed profile update scenarios. Google just decided to add distributed transactions support to spare all that overhead.
I hope most people care about understanding something more than they do distinguishing themselves in your view. For many people, concrete examples can help them understand an abstract idea. Even if someone doesn't grasp the full abstract idea, at least they might have a concrete example that exemplifies the idea.

I'm not familiar with your examples, but it is true that complex nuggets of math have evolved to be simpler, more elegant and sometimes more powerful. I try not to pride myself to much for understanding something complicated and abstract, because it would be even better if I had a way to conceptualize of it that made it simple and obvious.

Finally, most _things_ breakdown. Doesn't mean that they aren't useful in a limited context.
LUKS2 on-disk format specification:

https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/raw/v2.0.0/docs/LUK...
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Elm sounds exactly what you want. Compiles to JavaScript, functional programming, designed for webapps, makes sense to use Haskell on the backend with Elm on the frontend.
ICOs increase the emotional connection to a project by catering to the "in-group" tribal mentality no matter the original intent (i.e. greed). It can be debated how (or whether) this is fallacious, but the empirical evidence thus far indicates this model generally raising funds more quickly and in larger quantities than mere donations.
I'm pretty sure this JSON is not parsed by kernel.
I'd boil it down to two statements.

* Avoid magic, be idiomatic.

* If you create something even slightly non-trivial, explain it in documentation.
Reddit is constantly out presenting, talking, and even writing about architecture, culture, and our unique challenges.

Netflix seems to be similar. Their open source record speaks for itself, and their technical blog and presence at conferences and meetups is outstanding.

Source: though these opinions are my own, I work on Infrastructure at Reddit.
Marx's writings around the working day are built on the assumption that wages will be set at the level necessary for the worker to survive long enough to turn up to work the following day rather than according to the perceived value of their labour time by the highest bidder, and that because of this near-universal day rate for undifferentiated "labour power", employers' main route to improving profitability would be extending the working day, with no meaningful proportion of the workforce having the ability to change this arrangement, not because they might dislike the status impacts of having to choose a different position, industry, location or smaller house/car/pension but because no capitalist will be willing to pay them enough to eat for a shorter working day. He even devotes a footnote to ridiculing "vulgar economists" for suggesting that labour rates could be set by supply and demand. In this respect, he's far more wrong about future developed economies than Keynes' (later) wrong assumption of a tendency towards a 15 hour week.

Marx's microeconomic theory is even more wobbly than many of his more capitalistic contemporaries at the best of times, but his writings on the lengthening of working days at mills is particularly irrelevant to modern service-based Western societies and even wealthy programmers and lawyers still working more hours a week than they would prefer. There's a kernel of truth in the idea that employers will tend to profit from people working longer than they're contracted to work, but you don't need to read Kapital to understand people like getting more than they originally asked for.
For example, there’s no truth to the idea that
the brain is half android and half artist, with
a left hemisphere dedicated to logic and analytical
thinking and a right hemisphere for intuition and
creativity.

But! Each hemisphere does tend to sequester different specialties, as is evidenced by stroke victims, no?
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_NI_Odess... has quite a bit more info (and I would think it is accurate, insofar as one can say that about such ‘less than optimally’ documented subjects, 70+ years after the fact)
AdNauseum is one of the most harmful things you can do against ads.

Perhaps, but someone is still getting paid; it doesn’t matter if a human actually sees the ad or not. As long as someone gets paid, it incentives more ads and the violation of users’ privacy.

I think a better approach is to disrupt the whole online ad market as it currently exists, which is what Brendan Eich with the Basic Attention Token and the Brave browser intend to do.

Brave: https://brave.com

Basic Attention Token: https://basicattentiontoken.org

Video: https://vimeo.com/209336437