skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some counterpoints:

1) The Obamacare mandate is an income tax penalty. If you don't work there is no penalty. Working is a choice.

2) Of course, working isn't a _real_ choice if you value independence. Like you hinted at, unless you live in an urban environment with solid transit neither is owning a car.

3) Also, the limits of our society's moral and legal systems are already tested by the very idea of private property. If you don't own property there's no place in this entire country where you can reliably and _legally_ simply be physically present without paying for the privilege in some manner. And because of property taxes, that's the case even if you were gifted property.

All the griping about the healthcare mandate is simply a failure of people to accept the _reality_ of our modern system, and the privileges they take for granted but refuse to accept the burden of. In any event, we can't roll back the clock. At the end of the day, as long as you're free to leave the country the only thing that has changed is that freeloading becomes more difficult. Which reminds me of another point:

4) The reasons mandatory evacuations are legally enforceable is because society recognizes that people of good will--especially first responders--will always put themselves in harms way to help people in distress. And we don't want to have a system that, to disincentive abuse, discourages help by making it too risky to help others or by making it too costly to ask for help. This is a fundamental conflict between individual liberty and social welfare. Most of the time conflict between individual liberty and social welfare can be mediated by degrees; other times we're faced with a binary choice. Much like mandatory evacuations, Obamacare simply recognizes that in the 21st century, the conflict regarding healthcare has become a binary choice. When the conflict becomes a binary choice, for a civilization it's not really any choice at all.
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After all the NSA leaks, can we really say that the act of hacking is the controversial part of the story? All the press and news article focus on the "influence the election" part, with not that much outrage over the actually means in which the influence happened.

Would we not have the exact same situation and discussion if a insider administrator leaked the emails?
What can be known about you having only your DNA in text form?
I feel a little bit like, give me a break...

Google actually has some legit products which are actually the most relevant search results for some queries.

If those are the only things you see at the top you're not really looking for anything particularly interesting.
The sentence previous to the one you quoted suggests the political reasoning. Those in power see diversity as a threat to the status quo, and demonizing an enemy has long been a textbook way for demagogues to raise political capital.
I assume the OP means paper plates like you would use for a picnic
I really hope I don’t have to worry about it for another 10-20 years
IIRC Apple’s bitcode is implemented via extra slices inside a standard fat Mach-O binary so I doubt it’ll disappear. The ability to handle fat headers is definitely not a significant maintenance burden for anyone, Apple or otherwise.
Man, it's a strange article. Fraud of every kind is endemic in China. When I'm in China, it's reasonable to assume anyone who initiates conversation with me has some kind of scam in mind. Strangers are very wary of each other. It's common to receive scam texts from people saying they're your dad or your landlord and to send money to such and such a bank account. I think most Chinese people have never had the opportunity to use any computer other than perhaps an iPhone that has not been backdoored/rootkit'd/RAT'd in at least one way. What would data protection by Chinese companies even mean? They're already comprehensively cooperating with the CCP.
For lots of people in the dominant economic-political elite, it's probably not exactly a goal but an enjoyment in itself. Besides if you're WASP, why you'd want to acknowledge the needs of blacks, or even more, have them as business competitors?

At best, you want their sales and votes -- but even that, not if they vote for their interests and/or more progressively.

Besides the blacks, if not predominantly now, for a lot of time, were also among the poor and working class, which is an even bigger enemy if you want to keep your privileges.
I get it that it's a major use case for platforms allowing to issue tokens, but I would love not seeing stellar going too far down the ICO road.

Buying in ICOs still doesn't provide any kind of clear value (beside selling them) and issuing tokens could be used to do way cooler things (like issuing state branded cryptocurrencies, or temporary currencies for big events, etc). It's kind of sad that ethereum is mainly seen nowadays as "the cryptocurrency for ICOs", I wouldn't want to see that for stellar too.
Unless the feed only shows an excerpt of each post, as is unfortunately not uncommon.
I don't find this surprising.

I've consulted for things like hotel groups. Without fail, there are vendors selling this sort of thing, with instructions like "forward telnet port from the internet to our device".

You can try to push back, and sometimes you will be successful, but you can't blame a hotel manager for saying "well this is what they do for a living.. they would know best".
Thanks for pointing this out. It was a shortcut for some very early beta testers. We've since removed it from the docs.

We have a server-based webhooks to create orders which is how we do secure order creation. Bolt provides a webhook (Bolt server -> merchant server) and REST APIs (merchant server -> Bolt server) to exchange data (including transaction details) through a secure channel.

Appreciate it again.
The title of the mailing list is "Kragen thinking out loud --- half-baked ideas." It does seem to just be some guy's random thoughts on a variety of subjects over a period of ~12 years. Check out the archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/mailli...
Yes, sorry cannot find the link, but they are going to get rid of it from what I read. There is no more tightly integrated solution in the pipelines, you'll have to roll out your own with Express or something (or, more likely, a third party will come up with a solution that will become the norm)
Great post Dave. Succinctly put. You're being generous with the email example.. what's worse (and probably more common) is when it's unrelated to work altogether: Instagram.
While I agree if the meeting is important - often one can’t help but be dragged to meetings that are run poorly.

Or situations where ones input is only valuable for a limited period of time or around a certain subject matter.

If it’s an hour long meeting and management or project managers have organised it - chances are I’ll have my laptop with me and I’ll be getting things done.

Of course I don’t turn up with my laptop open, not only would that be rude it would also be presumptuous as to the quality of the meeting.

However, if the content of that meeting turns out to be fluff - I’ll be working on being productive rather than watching slides of information that could have been emailed.
MAVRO Press Release
Found the grumpy old coder
More examples (C89/90 preprocessor compatible):

Function building using templates:

https://github.com/faragon/libsrt/blob/master/src/saux/ssort.c

Passing macros to macros (meta-templates):

https://github.com/faragon/libsrt/blob/master/src/saux/ssearch.c
For me the hardest part about Ansible was getting the ssh setup correct to connect to a remote machine. Having a quick browse of this tutorial I can't see much about that (maybe I missed it). That would be useful if you plan to update the tutorial.
Look for howl editor at github.
Others including: Kate, Gedit, Geany, Nodepad++
The curious case of Copper Sulphate
I wouldn't blame your reader; Medium only puts the RSS tag on the main blog page (https://medium.com/@steve.yegge) and not on each post, which is IMO not a good practice.
What kind of backwater place even allows this?
George Soros is a by far larger menace to society.
So they are basically creating that creepy life recording product from S01E03 of black mirror?
Rendering and shading in ADAM: Episode 3
>Two tons of steel, even at moderate 35mph speed, is a lot of damn momentum and can do some real damage, and most certainly should be insured.

That would be fine and dandy, if being without a car was accommodated for (not just in the parole requirements, but also in other aspects of US life, having a job, city structure, etc).

Else the car+insurance is just an additional penalty for poor people.
What would you consider an example of a monopoly being broken by the market rather than government intervention?
A video "walkthrough" of the Cortex Studio app that the article talks about: https://vimeo.com/252380546
Doesn't immutablejs do the deep copying itself?

Even better would be a language (could be plain JS) that enforces immutability. How about a new keyword in Typescript?
Boy did Apple skate to where the puck was headed or what? I remember reading all those hot takes years ago insisting it was a mistake and thinking how short sighted that was [1][2]. It was also weird because even before the Apple Watch was announced there was plenty of evidence of their health ambitions, so it obviously made sense to be strong on privacy and security. Since then multiple high profile hacks have happened (and are bound to keep happening), the FBI fought Apple and lost (at least in lower courts), GDPR is being implemented in the EU, and antitrust regulators are taking a look at internet business models [3].

[1] https://dcurt.is/privacy-vs-user-experience

[2] https://stratechery.com/2015/tim-cooks-unfair-and-unrealisti...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/9376eece-00e4-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c...
Google's main business is advertising, search is just one of the vehicles to deliver the ads. Google wants you to see, watch and click as many ads as possible. The top search results are all ads and look very similar - more than ever - to real search results. And than you have Youtube, a gorefest of ads and unfiltered comments, with creators begging for likes and subs.
Out of curiosity, do you have children?
I like how Ansible shows how sometimes technology can come full circle.

Ansible started as a more organized way to manage infrastructure beyond hacks and handmade scripts. As technology matured and infrastructure become more complex, the simplicity of Ansible fell short, and tools like Puppet and Chef came into scene.

But technology kept pushing forward, and these tools evolved to become increasingly complex until they become behemoths with towering ecosystems around them.

Enter containers and container orchestration. Suddenly many of the problems that configuration managers were trying to solve aren't there anymore. And suddenly Ansible simplicity, which became its weakness, has become its strength.
For example, if you look at the way PC power supply cables work, they're keyed so they only go in one way and only into the right component.
The Largest Early World Map Is Unveiled for the First Time
We are beyond the shoeshiner and taxi driver stage
Theresa May calls again for tech firms to act on encrypted messaging
Facebook and Google both have histories of actively shaping user behaviour and directing attention which are very problematic. I definitely agree with that. Particularly Facebook, which seems much more aggressive and tone deaf in that regard. It’s a problem that I think is a legitimate area for regulation or at least oversight combined with voluntary restraint, because users are being deceived. They should at least know how their attention is being directed and have some controls over it.

I don’t agree that treating them as utilities is going to foster innovation. Really? Utilities are examples of innovation? Both Google and Facebook are still highly innovative companies, that’s how they created and consolidated their positions. They key is that the future success of their innovations should be based on merit versus other innovative companies, rather than based on leveraging their current market strength in anticompetitive ways.

This is all really hard to do. There is just as much threat that clumsy regulation will stifle innovation, fossilize market positions and increase costs as there is that lack of regulation will lead to abuses by these companies. It’s good that this issue is being debated, but I don’t think anyone has good answers yet.
I deleted my FB cookies on my main browser and only ever login to FB on a different browser to try to minimize this. Although, I guess I could have done incognito mode.
If you aren’t aligned with a human need, you’re just going to build a very powerful system to address a very small — or perhaps nonexistent — problem

The problem is we're primarily aligning with the need of the shareholder, not the customer / user. I can't think of a user who requested 24/7 surveillance of their actions in order to receive more targeted ads.
As Cape Town water crisis deepens, scientists prepare for ‘Day Zero’
I hope this is a turning point in Chinese conscious of human rights
If you want to make this argument, you should explain why that is and how it’s even relevant in the context of his statement about tech companies’ monopolistic power.

Otherwise it just comes across as a useless knee-jerk reaction to the name of Soros: “Hurr hurr reptilian Jews new world order something something globalists.”
That would be a highly preferable option.

The last time someone gave me an old empty 320GB HDD they weren't using, one of my own disks started clicking about a week later and I was able to save everything on it. I still shake my head at that perfect timing.

Of course, this meant I lost all the additional free space, haha. One step forward, two steps back...
Who first calculated the distance between the sun and earth and when?
How did they calculate it?
What if the people I'm familiar with is the entire population of the country?
PhD Student Wins 1 Bitcoin for Cracking DNA Code Challenge
Not arguing about the politics, but there is no viable economic and/or technological strategy to compete against Facebook/Google from below. People have been trying for more than a decade already.
This only happened because the corrupt Wall Street crims are manipulating the price of Bitcoin down buy flooding the markets with 'SELL' orders.

Read the Full Story here: https://coingape.com/first-cme-bitcoin-futures-contracts-exp...
"Why bother going to the live show when I can sit at home watching a Youtube video instead?" is something I don't think many people think. The video doesn't replace the experience.
This only happened because the corrupt Wall Street crimes are manipulating the price of Bitcoin down by flooding the markets with 'SELL' orders.

Read the Full Story here: https://coingape.com/first-cme-bitcoin-futures-contracts-exp...
Background: I used to be an physicist (PhD) and graduated as an engineer (applied physics). I also actively promote science with children. I am interested in the interpretation of numbers and quantities for many years.

I do not like this article because it fails to

- show that we do not "feel" numbers larger than a few

- and that we have a tendency to think in orders of magnitude (5, a few, lots, plenty of many).

To start with: "many treated 980 million and 2 billion as nearly identical". They were right, 980 million (0.98 billion) is nearly identical to 2 billion when you look at orders of magnitude.

Missing this fact is one of the big problems we have at school, namely the incapacity to estimate. We fetish exact numbers (3.14) instead of telling that pi is 3, pi squared is 10 and g is 10. This way, children can understand orders of magnitude and we do not end with (real case when I was teaching) a skydiver who lands at 573.426625432423 km/h. I cannot deny that the answer is precise to the upth-st digit.

Quantities such as "a million" do not make sense outside of the context. In context they just become a number, not a quantity.
For instance what is the size of a hair multiplied by a million? Or a glass? I have no idea. Sure, I can estimate that a glass is 5 cm = 5 x 10^-2 m, which makes it 5 x 10^-2 x 10^6 = 5 x 10^4 m. 50 km. But I had no idea before because I don't know what "a million times" means outside of the numbers.

We are good at estimating small orders of magnitude (from experience, not more than 3) and that's all. The rest is calculus and this is easy. But also detached from reality, a scientist does not ponder on 10^9. This is jst 10^9, a number.
I suspect the CPU in this satellite is a BAE Systems RAD6000, commonly used in NASA spacecrafts. It’s extremely expensive and also brittle due to the materials used. Very hard to get due to export regulations. I tried to source one of these CPU’s outside US once.
> Someone calls a meeting and 5 people show up, each carrying a laptop

So ban laptops from meetings (aside from the person taking the minutes).

If a meeting requires my undivided attention, my laptop is going to be useless anyway. If it does not require my undivided attention, I shouldn't be in that meeting in the first place.
Assuming they're currently pure git, binding to libgit2 would require using cgo, which could have far-ranging (negative) consequences.
Something like this, without any kind of error checking being done.

#include <stdlib.h>

// assume some hash table library, exercise for the reader
typedef struct{} *hashtable_t;
extern hashtable_t hashtable_init(void);
extern void hashtable_put(hashtable_t hashtable, const char* key, const char* value);
extern void hashtable_dump(hashtable_t hashtable);

typedef struct {
hashtable_t table;
} data_t;

void foo(data_t* a)
{
hashtable_put(a->table, "otherKey", "b");
}

int main(void)
{
// let a = {key: 'a'};
data_t* a = (data_t*) malloc(sizeof(data_t));
a->table = hashtable_init();
hashtable_put(a->table, "key", "a");

foo(a);

// console.log( a );
hashtable_dump(a->table);
return 0;
}

The function foo() gets the numeric value of the a pointer, thus a parameter inside foo() points to the same memory location.

If C had pass-by-reference, it would be possible to give (implicitly) the memory location of the local variable a in main() instead. For example, like in Pascal (var) or C++ (& in function declaration).
This list should be made a 'Best Practices' document. Good Work!
Packs, most likely. On my main $work local repo, I have 27 refs and 22240 packed refs.
Does anyone actually use it?

It has more than one million five star reviews, so yes.

By the way, while I'd say Google has been definitively abusing its control of the market with Android, I don't think Duo is a good example; I expect a phone to come with a way to make calls, and nowadays I'd include video calls too. Rather than preventing Duo from being preinstalled, the EU should force the industry to come up with a decent open video call protocol.
> As technology matured and infrastructure become more complex, the simplicity of Ansible fell short, and tools like Puppet and Chef came into scene.

Wait what? I'm pretty sure Ansible came after Puppet and Chef, not the other way around.
Assange to ask London court to drop UK arrest warrant
Children are tech addicts – and schools are the pushers
Look at the Manchester Arena bombing last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing

Thousands of unaccompanied teenagers subjected to a bomb attack. Without access to their phones, this could've been so much worse.
He's a pal of the World Bank and IMF people, wants everything regulated by the government and governments regulated by suprastatal institutions such as the EU's, the WTO, the IMF. Soros is a sponsor of the Obama OfA, the anti-Trump campaign and other leftist causes. Hence the "Facebook can influence elections". Here's a more complete list of why:

http://humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soro...

I don't like Facebook, never had an account and have mixed feelings concerning Soros. He invested a lot of money in Eastern Europe that ultimately created a civil society (good) but also sparked leftist sentiment (no so good). I feel that over regulation and too powerful governments are ultimately bad for society. This isn't an open society, it's quite the opposite. The civil society and the ONG's are too fragmented and too dependent on outside financing to create the checks and balances required to keep governments and politicians from abusing power.
There's a table on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit#History "1 AU" is roughly defined as the distance earth-sun.
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Meanwhile, in February 2000, at the Intel Developer's Forum, Intel demonstrates an upcoming 32-bit processor, code-named Willamette, running at 1.5 GHz.

That was the Pentium 4 not yet in existence so there is no chance of there being an x86 able to be 'Meltdowned' in space. However you are most definitely thinking along the right lines, but I am sure the NASA boffins would have tried all the hacks they could back in 2007. Or maybe the management made sure this was not possible, much like how the Voyager missions were not supposed to go beyond Saturn yet behind the backs on management everyone made sure those spacecraft could get past the edge of the heliosphere.
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i feel like Augmented Reality could help this situation.
This isn't the first time amateur astronomers are helping NASA: in 2014 a group of amateur astronomers rebooted a long-lost satellite from the 1970s (ISEE-3). They even managed to fire the thrusters for the first time since 1987 but sadly, contact was lost again later that year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explore...
Pot, meet kettle...
JavaScript 2018- What to Learn?
Hetzner South Africa Opens Offices in Canada
The World's Smallest Phone
In that last case, apply the law of two feet and just leave - and make it so that anyone can do that if the meeting is just someone trying to be relevant and showing off powerpoint-fu.
Also, there's AMP.
That actually does sound like fun... but I don't personally have the resources to get into a hobby like that :(
Didi is using its new AI Brain to crack the toughest puzzle–our cities
Sogou doubles down on AI with real-time translation and transcription devices
Google Is Testing a New App That Would Let Anyone Publish a Local News Story
Isn't the Chromebook-like space covered by Windows 10S?
Why your business should be on WeChat
Regarding the interaction of AI and user experience, I like to use the spell checker as example.

Think what it means that a black-box process looks over every one of your actions, sometimes deciding to "correct" some of them, more or less silently. Now think what it would be like if you couldn't see the list of alternatives that the AI is considering, and that you couldn't fix the mistakes made by the corrector.

Until we get person-like "hard" Artificial Intelligence, the desired model for AI is having a way to inspect all the possible alternate decisions that could be taken, and most important, having the possibility that a human overrides any one of those automated decisions (to the point of safely disabling the whole system in extreme cases).
> performance difference [..] (read: the gap is large)

Hmm...can you quantify that? I found that while these performance difference you mention exist, they are not actually that large and completely dwarfed by actions later in the chain, particularly if you have generic intermediate representations.