skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disingenuous in a number of places. For example, it quotes the passage in the Wealth of Nations warning of collusion between merchants:

>>As he put it in The Wealth of Nations: ‘People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.’

It uses this as a data point to support the contention that:

>>It is an irony of history that Smith’s most famous idea is now usually invoked as a defence of unregulated markets in the face of state interference, so as to protect the interests of private capitalists. For this is roughly the opposite of Smith’s original intention, which was to advocate for restrictions on what groups of merchants could do.

Which is absolute nonsense. Sangar omits the context in which the collusion passage appears. Immediately following that paragraph, we find this:

>>It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. A regulation which obliges all those of the same trade in a particular town to enter their names and places of abode in a public register, facilitates such assemblies. . . . A regulation which enables those of the same trade to tax themselves in order to provide for their poor, their sick, their widows, and orphans, by giving them a common interest to manage, renders such assemblies necessary. An incorporation not only renders them necessary, but makes the act of the majority binding upon the whole.

So Smith very much endorses "unregulated markets in the face of state interference", which Sagar claims "is roughly the opposite of Smith’s original intention".
> Uber, at best, is just a middleman that provides billing services.

That's the bullshit they try to sell to the taxmen. It isn't how it works in reality, though.
How do you update software without updating it? I'm literally at a loss with how you would like them to resolve it if you don't want to install updates.
Basalt fibers are another interesting example of fibers actually made from stone.

http://basfiber.com/products
Spectre for 16.04 LTS only landed in -proposed on Jan 16th. It's still not available for general consumption.
There's a lot of third party command line clients :

https://github.com/evanyeung/terminal-slack

https://github.com/regisb/slack-cli

https://github.com/juanpabloaj/slacker-cli

etc.
Do you have stats to back that up? A lot of the recent polling I've seen implies the opposite, especially for younger generations.
Ballots can easily be voided

How? Voting secrecy requires that ballots (excluding provisional ballots) be separated from any individually identifying characteristics immediately.

election officials are usually present at the point where
the ballot is fed into the machine

Unless the voter votes directly into a machine, that essentially never happens to my knowledge. I can't imagine a scenario where ballot-tallying machinery would be replicated at each and every precinct.

What happens here in ultra-high-tech Silicon Valley is that ballots are large paper sheets which get dumped into cardboard boxes, then later sent en masse to the county Registrar for tabulation.

Please describe a scenario where a ballot can be voided by precinct workers. At best, if a voter is caught recording, they could be directed to vote over again with a new ballot. Precinct workers could neither deny that voter the franchise nor even confiscate the recording.
I want to know what it's supposed to amount to. Talking to people randomly on the street or on the bus?
It's kinda silly to reminisce about the 90s when it comes to computing performance.

I remember the 90s. A windows upgrade took 2-7 days to complete, a large file could take 10-30 seconds to save, opening and quitting apps was on the order of 10+ seconds optimistically. Everything crashed all the time. This was the default behavior of a brand new $3,000+ machine.

No, thanks. :-P
​Google officially moves to Debian for in-house Linux desktop
You have no right to free speech or right to assemble on Facebook.

My face is recognized, tagged, and stored in Facebook servers, shared with intelligence agencies, and cross-referenced with all other photo's. And I don't even have a Facebook account (leading some employers to distrust me -- "what do I have to hide?" -- and lower their "social credit score" of me).

In contrast, I am relatively safe against China's spying apparatus.
Gonna try that tonight (bathrobe edition :)
I would recommend the following books I have read last year and really liked the ideas behind:

"The Road Not Taken" is a short story by Harry Turtledove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor...

Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past

And this one is autobiographical by one of the smartest men of our time:
A Man For All Markets by Edward O. Thorp

http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/
>People seem to be willing to spend a lot of money to live closer to others with similar economic status

You could just say rich people don't want to live within walking distance of poor people.
Scraping is not a real concern for most people. Detecting advertising fraud is the much more pressing issue.
Two Bulgarian Guys Launch Apparel Company with No Experience
If you can borrow a computer with iTunes on it, you can replace the DRM files with MP3 versions. https://www.wikihow.com/Convert-Protected-Audio-Into-a-Plain...

Hope that helps.
Ton of discussion/debate on this topic and there are clear benefits to an inline style approach, but so far nothing (that I'm aware of) has proven to be scalable enough to completely take over (yet).

For me a combination of approaches makes the best sense at present. I think of Bootstrap (or Bulma, etc.) as an advanced "reset/normalize", with the addition of some useful global variables. A better starting place, if you will. From there I use the provided class names where it makes sense, and inline styles for everything else.

For inline styles I often use either styled components or glamorous. However my experience has been mixed as I also make heavy use of recompose and often don't have a clear idea which one I want to use to handle dynamic styles. I haven't done so yet but am interested to try Fela.
From the scant details provided, it looks to me that tgis could be out of context: "iOS operating system doesn't provide access to specific private APIs or other hardware that may affect the results."

My guess is he is trying to access non public apis.
Do any outsiders have access to radar itself? As a developer, when I log into radar.apple.com I'm redirected to bugreport.apple.com
VMs in all clouds are always tied to specific machines. If that machine fails unexpectedly then those VMs will restart. If it is a controlled reboot (e.g. host update) then they may not restart...
Self-driving in itself won't help, but it's much more feasible for a fully autonomous system of cars to be totally electric since you can plan for the charging logistics as part of the system's design.

A walkable, pro-self-driving-car city could also theoretically tax self-driving-car rides to offset environmental impact.
Because not all users use the same services in the same way, so that would actually lead to a mass breakdown in the services.

That's not how companies price services. Not by very, very, very far.

There are many pricing strategies designed to make heavy users pay more and light users pay less, or rich users pay more and poor users pay less.

Ideally, a company would charge a different price from every single user, and that price would be max(100% of the willingness to pay for that user, marginal cost of that user).
The wall I was constantly beating my head against with TIS-100 was the lack of bit-shift and bitwise boolean operations. It was maddening.

Also, I kept wishing for a loopback port instead of just the store/swap mechanism.
Thanks for providing the context. I can see how people in Philly would be lukewarm on the idea of paying to bring Amazon to town.
You can strip off the things you don't need using SASS.
The Problem with Courting Amazon – Cities Compete, Country Suffers
The largest of the dams supplying Cape Town (Theewaterskloof) has a massive surface area (around 5000 ha). Given that the area also tends to be very windy due to its altitude and the prevailing South Easter that blows right throughout summer, evaporation must be really high. Also desalination is energy intensive.

For political reasons I'm pretty sure this would be impossible, but I wonder how practical it would be to cover it with solar panels and use the energy for desalination.
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50,000 new non-McJobs as well as the follow on service jobs is no benefit to the local population? Tell that to all the non-silicon valley mini-tech hubs like Austin, Seattle, Miami, Dallas, etc. If amazons foothold is the seed for a new techhub to emerge, that's a true net boon for that city and its people / culture.
Sure it is.

Even on the Asus EEE 1215B that I bought with Linux pre-installed, I had issues with my wlan card.
Besides most conferences I see are in San Fran, San Jose, NYC, or Orlando. I've only seen large conferences in Las Vegas DefCon, CES, etc.
Hey with my crap browser I can't play the video (or even really have a clue where it would be on the link you gave); if the audio were linked separately I would have downloaded it and given a listen. Keep building!
Most of the criteria != all of the criteria though
i love bulma as Well. it is a no brainer css framework
Complex engineering and metal-work discovered beneath ancient Greek 'pyramid'
Depends on what we mean by crash.

If program gives up and exits on receipt of unexpected input, that can be perceived as a "crash" by the user but it's not exploitable.

If it's crashing because execution suddenly jumped somewhere it shouldn't be, and the OS killed it, that's more worriesome.
I look forward to a time when vehicles and pedestrians aren't interacting at all. Vehicles should be below where people walk and ride bikes. Either roads are designed to be underground or we one layer up from existing roads. And that's were storefronts will be.

Robotic construction is going to drive down construction costs dramatically, so I think it will be feasible. Vehicles will be totally electric a few decades from now, so pollution will be less of an issue. Cities will get quieter and we'll see a lot more vegetable gardens and open space where streets used to be.
I bet that 85 Toyota would be a lot heavier though.
“Under Japanese rule,” “at the time, North Korea was a part of Japan”...

Even during the lawful occupations of Japan and Germany, those countries are not referred to as “part of America” or “under British rule.”

Why the euphemism for Japan’s horrific and moreover unlawful occupation of Korea?
About 2-3 times my yearly salary (which was pretty comfortable as it was). I have a lot of room to slash my expenses. I'm just looking for some breathing room to get back to what I love about computer science.. I don't mind working again in a few years! :)
Just an aside, Trump supporters are NOT poor or the working class, this is a myth. The poor are non-voters and if they vote it's mostly Democrat by and large. Trump voters for the most part were middle class suburbanites or exburbanites.
The OP has clearly stated that their concerns are corporate welfare going to a company that most certainly doesn't need a handout and a further disruption to an existing housing problem.

And you have decided to reframe their concerns as being "against progress"?

Also please point me to this formal definition of "economic progress" you are stating.
Thanks for the pointers, I will definitely check both of these out. In my last attempt I got to the "can compile 'Hello World' from the command line and even debug it in VSCode" stage but after that things quickly went off the rails IDE-wise. I even tried MonoDevelop (did some C# work with it long ago) but IIRC the Xamarin stuff was barfing on one or more asp.net dependencies. Hopefully one of your links will be to an "Idiot's guide to F# on Linux" and then I'll be in good shape. :-)
We're spinning our tires aiming to expatriate from the planet in lieu of a planetary scale disaster. We are better equipped to fix our own damn rock in space than to fuck up another one.
Isn't this pretty much true by definition, though? People who want density will tend to all go to the same relatively few places (that's how you get density), whereas people who want to avoid density will go to different places (because if they all went to the same place it would become dense).
Several things, usually for sysadmins. RPC daemon whose configuration is
procedures to expose. Log parsing daemon. A small toolbox for building
monitoring systems. RRD browser/plotter.
The proof that even XKCD can go out of date. Now (soon) we just call a google image API :).
"Ideas are just a multiplier of execution," https://sivers.org/multiply
Windows for ARM just recently debuted, with Win32 entirely running in an emulation layer.

Reading through the Insider blog posts shows a long thread of disconnecting Win32 from Windows as a part of the OneCore efforts.

Win32 may remain mostly performant (the word on the street is that the ARM emulation is very performant), but the days when it was the most "blessed" API set for Windows have passed.
Check out bulma, you wont regret.
One thing that really helps is to draw the interface. If you can protoype simple mockups, on paper or photoshop, it will give a lot of details about how the software will work. Then, programmers can figure how to do this.

I don't think that makes sense to force them use languages that you know just because you know.
I think (hope) North Carolina's history with the 'Bathroom Law' and the general lack of democracy at the state level makes Raleigh a hard sell.
Woah, it's finally out? We'd been using the alphas for so long!
Or they offer "exposure"
> crashes the tab in Chrome, and locks up FireFox

Both of which are WebKit wrappers on iOS.
> Claiming you're on windows while actually running on a Linux VM, your TCP fingerprint gives it away

This is interesting, I’d not heard of this approach. What’s the technique for generating such a fingerprint?
Twitter's Privacy Policy allows employees to read DMs
Datomic Forum
With far-right racist and anti-immigrant sentiment rising and taking power in the US, as a brown immigrant even if you can get a visa wouldn't you be concerned about moving your life here?
> You will never, ever, ever have a government that's too small to be worth bribing.

Sure, orchestrating a state that has 0 returns to bribery is likely not possible without complete anarchism. That being said, not every state is going to have ridiculous returns to bribery (or more generally, "bureaucracy hacking") that we see today.

Before he became public enemy #1 and his sketchy financial dealings were uncovered, what returns did Martin Shkreli get because of weird FDA rules about generics and clinical trials? There may be some aspects of the FDA that are beneficial such that the benefits outweigh the costs (although off the top of my head I can't think of any), but clearly a smaller FDA with less (arbitrary) rule-making and enforcement authority would not have allowed Shkreli to explode the price of Daraprim.

Shkreli is a single example, but this happens all the time. Environmental protection departments are reluctant to punish land developers because they depend on the various land developers' fees for their budget, but will go after individuals with exorbitant fines for relatively mundane infractions. And we could talk all day about the ridiculousness of zoning regulations and the various zoning commissars/bureaucrats who effectively make small-scale, grass-roots, spontaneous land development impossible, and essentially only allow large developers or corporations who can afford to navigate the legal minefield of zoning rules.

Ideally, I'd like to have the returns to bribery be zero, but if that's not possible, then somewhere less than one would be nice. I have seen no real estimates of the returns to bribery in the West today - I'm not even sure such research exists yet - but I would guess that the returns are significantly greater than 1.
I really sympathize with this view. At ZeroTier we try to support multiple distributions and versions of distributions going back quite a while and it is hell on wheels. It's so tempting to just build everything as a static binary and let the user figure out how to support the three different init systems that can each be configured in seven different ways.

Linux has far too many distributions. They really aren't that different, so I have a hard time understanding why they exist. The community as a whole would benefit hugely if e.g. Debian and CentOS/RedHat/Fedora merged, but I understand that's not going to happen for stupid political reasons.
They would also have a monopoly on CS grads in the LA area ([0] among the highest number of grads in the country) which is experiencing a serious brain drain of talent to the Bay Area, NYC, and Seattle.

[0] https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/24/is-southern-california...
"cannot write yourself with a free developer profile" --> THIS is complete disconnect with the potential end user, unless the app is for iPhone developers.

The world is comprised of 99.9999999999999999999% non iOS developers
.... Which is a benefit of high density cities, correct?
Right up until it gets declared a requirement at your job, or some such. I don't have much of a problem with Slack personally, but if my whole team is using it as their sole IM method, then it's hard to say that I "have the freedom to choose" whether or not to use it.
You can pick and choose the parts of Bootstrap you want to use, but you'll need to compile the SCSS code (very easy).

Assuming NPM install, look at node_modules/bootstrap/scss/bootstrap.scss for a list of files that are included and pick the ones you need and include them manually in your project's SCSS file.

Here's a bit from my Makefile (because I love me some Make):

SASS = ./node_modules/.bin/node-sass

%.min.css: %.scss
$(SASS) \
--output-style compressed \
--source-map true \
--source-map-contents true \
$< $@
Given the tone of so many of these reviews, I can't tell if the first reviewer ("Obi Wan") is being serious/delusional or if s/he's using the pagination of the text to subtly(?) mock the other reviewers. https://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates...
No, Firefox is a security sensitive project so Flathub wants Mozilla to be the official maintainer of it.
I find it unexpectedly hilarious that we now have issues that cannot be fully described without running the risk of crashing our machines. Its as if there are certain unholy words that could cause us to faint if we were to utter them.
Dear SaaS vendors
Why Nil channels in Go?
The author's navigator.webdriver fix is easily detected, though of course it is fixable with changes to Chrome. This cat and mouse game probably isn't worth pursuing against dedicated adversaries.

if (navigator.webdriver || Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(navigator, 'webdriver')) {
// navigator.webdriver exists or was redefined
}
> let lose the lawyers.

I agree with you there.

Also relevant: Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119686)
I don't see anything wrong with it, I am just impressed the approach.
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f3/
I'm glad to hear that, I will definitely try again. F# looks pretty sweet and I have a couple of half-baked Scala side-projects that might port nicely to F# and Suave.
Just trying to help. I'm not an English major or anything myself, but here is one issue I noticed.

Don't overuse commas. After you get a complete idea out there, just end and start a new sentence.
For example: "Please let me know how I can improve my phrasing and what mistakes I made. I am not a native speaker, so I am aware I can build my phrases in a weird way."
Completely agree. As I said, Venezuela is in a much worse situation. They first need to figure out a government.
I love Wine, but I have some rather obscure apps that I'd like to run that just refuse to run in any version of it (mainline, Crossover, Winebottler, manually extracted copies of Cider from macOS-ported games...) As-is, I have to run these in a Windows VM to get them to work at all.

It's a lot of hassle, especially because the least-working Windows programs are also some of the tiniest little utilities where they display maybe one GUI screen, but also take command-line parameters. So I usually have to copy files for them to interact with into the VM, open cmd.exe to run the utility on the files, interact with the utility GUI, then copy the files back out. Wine would make this workflow a lot better!

What I'm wondering is: if I don't care about being a Wine "purist", and I have a legitimate copy of Windows laying around, is there any way to dissect that copy of Windows for its files (drivers, helper executables, etc.) and wrap them around a Windows EXE, such that Wine will be using as few Wine implementations of DLLs as possible, rather than just the minimum required to get the individual EXE vaguely working? Is there a way to start off a Wine install with "maximum compatibility" like this?

I really do wish there was some equivalent of Windows' WSL: a kernel-side ABI shim for Linux/macOS that can run a complete copy of Windows (minus the kernel) inside it, including services like GDI—which you could then use an RDP client to connect to—but where the entrypoint is running an individual EXE, and those services are only started when clients attempt to connect to/use them. If I can make Wine like that, that'd be a dream.

Alternatively, Linux+macOS support for running Windows Docker applications, plus support for containerizing graphical Windows applications, would largely obviate my need for Wine.
Basscss[0] + some add-ons[1], everything you need in ~5Kb.

[0]: http://basscss.com/
[1]: https://github.com/basscss/addons
My money is on one of Nashville, Indianapolis or Columbus with Pittsburgh as a dark horse.

Amazon is going to be looking to build a major campus (say 5-10 big buildings) right in the center of town (as they've done here in Seattle) and that's just not feasible in expensive cities like LA, Boston, NYC, Chicago or DC. Denver is too far west, Miami, Atlanta and Raleigh too far southeast. Newark and Philadelphia don't have a sufficiently developed tech scene and as satellites of NYC have a price premium. There's no way Seattle and Dallas are going to form a family, Austin looks great on paper but I doubt they're hungry enough to offer sufficient incentives. Don't know why Montgomery County or Northern Virginia are even on this list.
> but you'll know it's approximately 0.333, definitely more than 6/20 but definitely less than 7/20, for instance

What strikes me as odd is that in my intro course to numerical methods taught how to calculate floating point error bounds when introducing the concept of floating point numbers, including how errors propagated with each flop.