skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "it is illegal to use the wrong pronoun" interpretation is only widely accepted by those who have trouble with the definition of the word "discrimination". If I use the wrong pronoun when referring to someone it might rise to the level of harassment if I do it deliberately and repeatedly. It can't be a violation of an anti-discrimination law because it isn't discrimination.
Italian oil and gas multinational Eni launches 18.6-Petaflop supercomputer
Again, it's optional. It does not have to talk to the internet, but the option is there for people that want features requiring it.
most sites have ads. those companies require it
I actually think that's not a "Python" or "Go" success story. It's a story of how both of them lack something significant: Python lacks speed and light memory usage, Go lacks dev speed and expresiveness. There is no reason why a single modern language can't combine them, and that would be much better than managing a codebase in two languages, so it's a success story of a useful compromise
Still, people who have the least money have it cheapest. An illegal immigrant will be probably treated for free in most countries immigrants flock to. If you use money as human worth, which is IMO questionable, you should see a conflict here.

Who gets really screwed here is lower middle class as usual.
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I think it might be due to the fact that after you accomplish something that you really wanted for quite a while and/or that you prepared a lot for, you can end up realizing that while it was a great achievement, you are still the same person with the same habits and issues, and that the achievement doesn't really change anything outside that part of your life, and sometimes there is also no reason to think you can replicate the achievement itself. And then you realize that you are objectively really lucky and can't even properly appreciate and enjoy it, and that brings you down even more.

Even people who never had any great achievements can experience it with sex: sometimes you are alone for a while, and think how amazing it would be to have sex with someone, thinking about all sorts of happy feelings you'd have and how you would be happier overall and so on. Then you have a one night stand, and it's good, but you realize it hasn't really changed anything, that a relationship might not necessarily work out, that you are not necessarily going to be able to repeat it, then think about how you got exactly what wanted and that many other people would have really wanted to have your experience, and yet you can't appreciate it like you think you should.

I think the solution is partly to accept it, and just let your expectations about the happiness related to those achievements go down, and also trying to focus on achievements that have lasting effects, mainly those that involve getting wealthier or healthier, and finally trying to have a more balanced life, relying less on high-impact random once-in-a-while experiences and more on habitual routine experiences, although it can be hard to find the motivation for that for some people.
You're barking at a wrong tree here. Absolute absolute majority of children in poverty and without access to education are born outside the USA. You solve nothing other than being explicitly mean to (I assume) your compatriots. See if it gets you anywhere in the long run.

Let me repeat it for you: you've got two arguments and they're in major conflict. You can't use both and neither one holds water sole.
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I am not sure to agree with you, specially considering that the mainstream algorithms now in use are generally suggested by intelligence agencies themselfs. And looking at the recent history is easy to see how much serious useless crap we have used for decades.
It’s like anything: if you do the same thing over and over, you’re going to get bored. If you’re a cookie cutter Java web developer then the way you’re feeling is understandable.

I get my enjoyment out of learning and applying what I’ve learnt to create something that others find useful. The true satisfaction comes from architectural design that is creative and inspirational. The more I learn about supporting technologies that I then apply to enhance the design of a system or tool, the more I love working with code.

For me, the key is in making a difference.
> I think people like him might very well help keep disgruntled young men away from the extreme right, by offering a more moderate alternative.

That's probably exactly right. People gather around ideologies that have advocates. They don't look at two extremes and say, "hm, they each have valid points, maybe I'm somewhere between these two", they say, "hm, this one thing side X says is something I really like so they must think most like me. Even though I don't particularly agree with a lot of the rest of what they say, and even if I disagree with side Y less overall, I belong in tribe X".

Moderation/centrism thus also needs advocates if we want a proper balance.
So, why don't you do if then? Which country has lower unemployment rate and higher birth rate than US where taxation is low ? Can you name one ? I love the downvotes. I make a factual statement that Spain, which is referenced in the article, has higher tax burden, a 17% unemployment rate and a lower birth rate than US and they freak out.
That was tradition at the first company I joined: every new hire assembles his own Ikea desk, with help from his new colleagues - it was fun !
Looking at the specialization of knowledge, is easy to see how much society and experts are more and more unable to make something new by themselfs and or study something they don't know at all, but most importantly blindly taking for granted the crap they use every day.

Look at the recent INTEL spectre failure, you can see how extremely complicated systems were flawed at their very bottom and few young enlighted minds were able to shake our world.
"Really, after every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression," Phelps said.

Bruce Springsteen talks a lot about his depression in his memoir and it sounds like this, dropping off a cliff when returning home after tours. It is super helpful that celebrities speak out so people can relate, but I think performers whose lives are so intensively oriented to performances and then abruptly return to home life rhythms have special needs when it comes to mental health and making sense of their lives. Most of us don’t have such extreme highs.
I think my sibling comment's experiences are somewhat dated. Running one-time payments has been absolutely no problem with ChargeBee for us. It's obviously geared toward subscription businesses, but it has full support for one-time charges as well. No need for any hacks or weird work-arounds.

Regarding what pain is left: I'm approaching this from an end-to-end perspective, so answering the question "Even when using ChargeBee, what additional work do we have to do compared to a similar business based in the US?":

- You still have to code in UI-level support for multiple currencies. ChargeBee handles the backend.

- ChargeBee gives you a nice UI for keeping track of paid and unpaid invoices. Nonetheless, for payments via bank transfer [which your EU business customers will want to use], you still have to manually confirm in ChargeBee that you've received payment.

- You still have to supply quarterly MOSS tax returns to your local tax authorities (though ChargeBee does all it can to make that process quick).
A small self-promotion, given the relevant context: I was frustrated with the lack of support for the pipeline operator and came up with this: https://github.com/egeozcan/ppipe - I currently use it on a couple of projects and it really helped make my code more understandable.
Thankfully I have not. I currently work in a small team (<10 developers). We try not to change things just for the sake of changing them, but when there is a good reason to do so then we can. Our code base is far from perfect but I am content with our ability to fix issues that would make it painful to work with.

I don't think I would be happy in a job where I didn't have this freedom.
const x = (1, 2, 3) // 3
x === (1, 2, 3)

Javascript's tuples have some great compression!
unfortunately an average of two opposing lies is not always the truth
I'm just disappointed that the noise isn't hidden in the pattern on the giraffe.
It looks like these publications may have been a precursor of click-bait web sites. Look at the second sample page from Comfort - one column of content and three columns of advertising.
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Amazing idea. On Chrome Android the extended virtual keyboard seems to mess up the layout. You can test this in development in chrome desktop in the dev console's mobile view.

Also, clicking 'next step' doesn't seem to work for me. Good luck!
To be fair to hue, the REST JSON API to the local hub is well documented by Philips and you can disable it contacting its cloud infrastructure via this API (and many apps) if you wish - all without hacks.
Oldies - Music Time Radio (http://www.musictimeradio.com/oldies/) refers to the music from the 1950’s to early 1970’s.It’s a mixed music genre consisting of R&B, pop and rock music. It also refers to the radio format that specifically broadcast this particular genre.
I enjoy programming. I do not work on huge, complex systems though. Not directly, anyway. I mainly work to automate things and on integrations. But just yesterday for instance I wrote a small script that downloaded and organized several hundred files for our analysts and they were so happy. I guess I just like helping people even if it’s in small, seemingly trivial ways. And the little programs and scripts I write are my way of doing that.
>However, when emitting C you have to build that yourself and take care to always emit valid code. Not sure how much difference that actually makes though.

I'm kind of surprised that there's not a library for emitting C code, though maybe my Google-fu is failing.
Then the background cannot be zeros.
> Sorry if my reading is too harsh.

Nope, not harsh at all, and that's exactly what happened in China with their one-child policy (now a two child policy).

If you were rich, you could just have more kids and pay the requisite fine. If you were poor, well then, abortion for you.
When I was just a neophyte, I wondered whether JavaScript supported multidimensional arrays, so I wrote array[x, y] = something and it appeared to work (reading array[x, y] returned the written value, after all). It was only when I tried to store multiple values with the same y-coordinate that I realized my mistake.
Great insight. The most moving part of David Letterman’s new show was when Barack Obama asked Dave if he ever feels lucky (yes, the questions were supposed to go the other direction, generally). Dave immediately caught the meaning and ran with it with some emotion.
My project ran into a limitation that required only the use of FFmpeg libav without the command line tool. This is exactly what I needed. I'm eager to read the rest.
The author could certainly go further into detail and while sparse writing can be great writing here it feels like too much is left unsaid.
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Almost all other modern democracies (e.g OECD) have universal healthcare. Almost all have lower unemployment rates than Spain (if not all).

Taxation varies. Was my point. Those that have the healthcare as a public insurance on the side of taxes can have low taxes. Those with tax funded single payer obviously have higher taxes.

My example of choice of low-ish taxes, high birth rate and universal healthcare would be Ireland. There are others.
Yeah, he's a celeb on the derp-right because he goes hard on postmodernism and third/fourth wave feminism. That doesn't mean he agrees with the derp-right or the PUA contingent that have latched onto him.

I think he gets postmodernism wrong and frankly, so do a lot of postmodernists. I see postmodernism as "Defense Against the Dark Arts". The postmodernist's tool kit -- the silly word games, denial of reality, and so forth -- are all borrowed from the right, and from capitalist society (in particular advertising and PR). And they play silly word games, talk in circles, and deny reality because they're preparing their students for a world in which the enemy have made that the norm for discourse. So when the postmodernist says "there is no reality" what they're really saying is the reality you know, and the rules for perceiving and inferring that reality, have been compromised. When Foucault says there's really no such thing as science, what he means is that science itself has been compromised, and you can't use science against the enemy because the enemy already controls it and will turn around and use it against you.

But I like Peterson's style -- bombastic without being antagonistic, and highly principled -- and about the psychology bits he has some really interesting things to say.
Awesome! much thx!
Glad to see that Elixir's pipe operator is beginning to spread to other languages!
Isn't this promoting bad charging practices since modern lithium ion batteries function best when charged early and often? My understanding is that the extremely low charge of the battery reduces the longevity of a battery's health. The confusing part is the older battery technology nickel-cadmium had the exact opposite recommendation of charging only after the battery was completely discharged.
I used to be a Walrus subscriber, but that's basically their whole shtick - well-written half articles.
Thanks, I'll take a look at it!

Edit: Next step works now
I see. So If I insist that my pronoun is "his majesty" and others don't use it, that would be harassment?

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29230/

For those of us who think that objective reality is more important than what someone's feelings may or may not be, this imposition of a speech code is clearly harassment.
> Building upon an existing, well-documented, and relatively sane serialization format

The problem with that is that whatever format seems well-documented and relatively sane today might become an obscure, unknown protocol 10 years down the road.
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I'm american. This time last year I had a minor bone break in my hand (not emergency, no severe pain).

I have a preferred doctor who doesnt have an xray machine. Obviously getting an xray image is the first step before even talking to the doctor. An xray of your hand is a _very_ basic procedure. My plan was to get my own image from a conveniently close facility of my choice and bring it to the doctor.

This is an open commercial market right? I decided to play a quick game with this and ask all my in-network local providers what their charge would be for just an x-ray of my left hand.

A car mechanic should be able to quickly give you an up-front estimate for common procedures, why not an imaging facility?

If youve read this far youre probably not surprised I called 4 different facilities, followed up with a series of requests over multiple days and failed to receive even one straight answer except "come in and we will see what we can do".

It makes me realize how soul-crushing the experience can be in this so-called "open market" to find the best possible treatment when you have a more complicated problem. The amount of leg-work, scheduling, waiting for doctors and getting opinions all while in pain would break the spirit of most anyone.

Is it really that much simpler in other countries to connect with the proper provider? I was under the impression countries like canada handle simple problems like mine much more gracefully but serious issues remain problematic.
> specially considering that the mainstream algorithms now in use are generally suggested by intelligence agencies themselfs.

Some algorithms are recommended by government agencies, yes, but they mostly are not made by them, but are choosen from publicly suggested and studied algorithms. And the newer algorithms or variants considered state-of-the-art generally not government recommendations, since those processes are slower than public research - when researchers find new variants or find weaknesses in old ones software and open standards adjust far quicker than e.g. NIST recommendations.
9. Removing features from your product may result in users not being able to achieve some goals

Ie removing the leading zero breaks some sorting (Eg .mp3 files on an album where you know the number of tracks and hence how many leading 0s you need)
Just a reminder of how fucked we all are any time a social engineering attacker wants to target us.

I once thought I was safer since I don't even have an American address anymore and have been living abroad for years.

Nah, Amazon customer support answered an attacker's "so where was my last item shipped to" question after they authenticated by giving the support rep an address I used as a shipping address for one item almost 10 years ago.

The poor kid in TFA was doing some free social engineering pen testing.
Thanks, I appreciate your elaboration.
A system-wide linux performance analyzer
its a great tool!
let's check it!

https://www.tecmint.com/guider-a-system-wide-linux-performance-analyzer

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/PeaceLee1/guider-a-systemwide-performance-analyzer
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IMO it seems unwise to use features like these which you wouldn't expect other people to know on a shared codebase. C also has the comma operator and, while I find it can be used to write things elegantly, I've yet to find a place where it's easier for another person to understand at first scan than using more common idioms.
And then eventually your country ceases to be first-world.

That unless you think the secret is first-world dust on the street. Hint: it's not, it's upbringing.
> Looking at the specialization of knowledge, is easy to see how much society and experts are more and more unable to make something new by themselfs and or study something they don't know at all, but most importantly blindly taking for granted the crap they use every day.

Do you really think if there were no widespread recommendations of crypto systems considered good people would suddenly start becoming expert cryptographers (and companies would suddenly pay for them doing that)? History suggests that they'd rather grab something random of GitHub/Stack Overflow or make up their own without understanding it properly. Every security conference is providing you with tons of examples of people getting it horribly wrong despite there being good free resources available providing them with the tools to avoid their failures.
I don't see why that would work. If the last digit is 0 then the number is not prime. Even if you make the bottom right corner a 1, it is not clear to me that any image will give a prime for sufficiently large canvas. The reason the original method works is that the density of primes around n is roughly 1/log n, so there are lots of primes around. If your image has k pixels the density is approx 1/k, so you'd only have to change the last log k pixels on average.
Early preview of 100M T/s blockchain
Insurance through employer is not a “no cost to us”. Employer is taking a significant chunk out of your income and giving it to insurance company. Government has already made insurance “self-funded” through HSA as well. So first few thousands dollars are coming directly out of your pocket.
Any log base is just a multiple of the natural log. When you talk about asymptotic growth, those factors are irrelevant.
Any corporation can break any union simply by refusing to negotiate only for union members. So say the union is fighting for a $1 raise and more pto. The corporation just says "okay, everyone, including non union members, gets a $1 raise and more pto." At that point why would you pay union dues? You can just freeride. To think that corporations won't behave this way is naive, they want to maximize free-riding benefit so that the union crumbles.
Yes sorry for too-late-to-edit confusing typo: german Hindi French are all L-R , all big-endian (least significant digit on right) all have numbers which, when spoken, aren’t said in strict digit order.
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I can enter “pricing” and “contact” and get to at least the next step. I haven’t tried actually registering them. You should probably ban such things, maybe some others you’d like to reserve too.

I haven’t tried circumventing the client-side restrictions on which characters are allowed at all, but the content shown at pages like https://eagledial.com/robots.txt makes me wonder. I don’t imagine it lets me put just anything into the page, so it’s probably not an attack vector (e.g. being able to register .well-known/acme-challenge things and get a TLS certificate for the domain, or convincing Google that you own the site via a site verification page at /google*.html), but something to think about and be careful of.

All of your “Follow Us” links have an empty href.

Angular favicon.ico.
Widely accepted by who? Not lawyers. Try actually reading the bill: http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/royal-as...
It's easier initially. But dealing with the resulting social issues that may result certainly is not easy. Accounting for everything, I'd say immigration is the harder route.
Why don't insurance companies lead the change towards transparent pricing?
I wholeheartedly agree with you. This is something which I've been struggling with the last 6 months telling a colleague. He always want to use things that are completely new and sometimes just weird. He always believe this new way of coding is better. When the rest of us have to make changes in his code, we have to dig through the MDN documentation to figure out how that code works. We are trying to solve business problems here, we are not interested in unnecessary coding challenges.
The same thing could be said for any new open CPU. It would be slow and expensive. Unlike a normal CPU though your FPGA-system could be programmed to run your main CPU, PCIe Bus, USB Bus, video card, etc and it could be updated to add features and run faster.
Cool! Small nitpicks: the link that's shown to you after you create a link doesn't work; it refers to eaglelink.com instead of eagledial.com. Also, perhaps you could make the error messages (e.g. "That link is already registered") red? I didn't notice them at first.
Yes, that's good feedback, thank you. As you noted we don't ban any names. It sounds like a good idea to block "special names".
How Uber almost killed me
Mostly I agree with you, but wealth has the same problem as well :)

I mean Michael got it all when he won. I'm not sure about his health, but he got everything else.
Except for 3 hospitals. 2 of which my wife works at regularly. Only a little annoying...
You can get kangaroo meat at most major supermarkets here in Australia. It's not exactly an exotic foodstuff.

Kangaroo meat tastes tough and gamey. Not a fan personally.
This has already been posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192018
My son had cord wrapped around neck and SO glad I was around people who knew what they were doing with medical support.

It might be only a few % different but if its your few % you might come to feel differently in the end.

I suspect homebirth statistics in the west suffer heavily from selection bias since sensible antenatal care will direct complicated births to hospitals. They do mention this in the intro to the study you linked - homebirths in western countries tend to be experienced mothers from advantaged backgrounds having second or further children.
What do these administrators do (i.e. what's their value)? Are they like physicians with a leading/management role?