skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I do find such features convenient, more importantly to me they draw people to a more secure and privacy conscious messaging platform than the ultra-popular alternatives all the while allowing to upgrade to E2E† on demand. Signal completely fails in that regard, as the number of contacts (actual or potential) on it is precisely zero for me.
This is complete bullshit. In many European countries you get screenings for most common tumors (bowel, for women uterus and breast) for free depending on your age. Cancer treatment and chronic disease treatment is top notch and you get it for free (you pay it with taxes), like everything else. There is no such thing as "not being covered because treatment is expensive"---I had to reread that sentence twice because I thought you were talking about the US.

Life expectancy is higher in most of Europe than in the US, which would be pretty hard to achieve if people died because of "death panels" and waiting lists to see a specialist. Plus prevention is actually a thing.

Elective surgery has a waiting list that can be weeks or months, but this doesn't translate to everything else. If it takes months to get an NMR, probably it was the patient that insisted to get a useless one. If your GP marks an exam as urgent you can get it within a few days.
I like the idea, I think eventually peer review should be done on a site like this. It might be helpful to think about why currently, this site would not be suitable for peer review, and work towards that it might be in the future.

Peer review as it currently works is not perfect, but it is the status quo, so needs to be taken into account. Obviously many things can be considered to be changed, for example I would enforce that anyone who comments is displayed with his/her real name.
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It's not either or. The Marines have much better trigger discipline that many cops that make the headlines lately.
I've been programming for 14 years now (if you can count HTML as an 11 year old :p). I've reached professional proficiency in Python, JavaScript. I have minor experience (at least one project) in C, C++, PHP, Prolog. I'm also proficient with bash, SQL, etc... Point is, learning a new language is not a problem for me.

That said, I have very little, basically no Java experience (used it 8 years ago in high school, and for a bit at an internship). I also have no Kotlin experience. So either way, I need to learn something if I want to develop natively for android (I'm interested in creating an app heavily dependent on system networking API's, so while I could use JS for the presentation layer, native code is a requirement at some point).

How would you recommend approaching this? Should I learn the basics of android programming with Java first, then move to Kotlin? Should I learn them simultaneously somehow? Any resources you can point me to?

Thanks for your time.
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Eyeballing that chart though it seems to have slowed down in the last half of the year. Also interesting the pattern of slowed down adoption in the beginning of each. I wonder what's up with that.
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That's why you need multiple layers of protection:

seller -> paypal -> card company -> real money
A replacable battery doesn't cost 150$. It's just one screw. The reason why headphones are much cheaper than hearing aids is mainly economies of scale.

I think the main reason why headphones often suck are cultural, not mechanical. If you make stuff in capitalism, it being cheap is always a great selling point, even if it craps out after a couple of weeks of use. So you get the whole market crowded with useless junk, and well-made stuff gets crowded out. Stuff that, from a technological perspective, is outdated, works better than new stuff because of this culture. It doesn't mean that the new technology isn't better. It just means that, with an attitude like ours, we could make crud using any technology.
Well the c++ code is pretty good... In any case it works much better than the signal app on android.
Er no. It's not. I'm not saying police conduct in Chicago isn't an issue. I'm saying that the issues of inner city Chicago are much larger than just police conduct. To properly understand the issue you need to consider all the angles.
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It's all we ever do. Clothes with symbols, as symbols. Computers doing nothing but manipulate symbols for us, all day long.
Prepaid MasterCards are, by in large, not accepted pretty much anywhere online, in my experience anyways.

They also have fees, PayPal is free for the buyer.
Many of the groups you're mentioning don't even self-identify as white in English-speaking countries. Not really sure what you're trying to get at any more.
This is great, I love John Edmark’s work. Reminds of a similar sculpture I saw in the SFMoMA: https://youtu.be/R1SWmfZLx3E

Interestingly, it seems both creations came into being some time around 2014. I wonder if there was a flow of inspiration in either direction.
I'm not saying this is going to lead to X-Men. But if you were going to engineer some X-Men, this would be a good place to start.
> cross-device message history sharing by default, which is not possible in case of e2e, without key transferring

iMessage does that† (is that what you mean by "key transferring"?). I wish it could display the device key fingerprints somewhere, allow for key pinning, as well as offline key exchange between parties though††.

† in fact history is not centrally shared: messages are encrypted and published once per receiving device by the sender.

†† And be cross-platform. But the optimist in me says it's to control the security experience while the cynical in me says it's about network effects (although mitigated by SMS integration) for commercial reasons.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274114
Does anyone know how this compares to Openshot? Which is also cross platform and open source.
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There are a few companies trying to to art and blockchain stuff. http://www.looklateral.io/
and https://www.artcoinfund.com/ are a couple.
Remember the earmouse? I suppose we're finally seeing practical, useful medical applications of what was developed.
So it's stumbleupon but only for phones
There is no historical consensus on Cleopatra's skin color. Plenty of people have their own favorite speculations about it, but there's no hard evidence.
> Plus the part about the lightning protocol makes no sense whatsoever.

Yes it does, unless the port has an analog audio channel

It's extra hardware that has to be on the dongle (at the expense of everything else) - for Audio I'm gessing it's USB https://www.chipworks.com/about-chipworks/overview/blog/syst...

> Try blind testing 10 songs or so and see if you can figure out which one is played from the adapter

Would be an interesting test, I would begin by checking the max volume allowed
How would exactly an library compiled for 32 bit big endian POWER interoperate with a program written for 64 bit little endian ARM?
Police in big cities get paid well to. Its the FOP union. Cops in my mid sized city make over $100K after 10 years. That's with full health and pension.
My thoughts and prayers to your wife, you, and your families.

My question is: if we boost the immune system, what are the side effects? Is an immune system that's compromised (e.g., loses battle with cancer) indicative of other problems? In other words, in a way, is cancer actually a symptom?

Good luck. And God's speed.
I don't know if Shotcut supports it, but in almost all cases it makes sense to edit with smaller proxies rather than massive full-size video files. Obviously this gets truer if your footage is 4k or more, but it's still true of 1080p.
Well-documented cases of cops murdering unarmed black men and not being convicted have occurred all over the United States. This isn't a Baltimore problem, it's a US problem.
Not really an answer, but I recently saw there's an effort to modernise the Moria source code: might be a fun way to play/help with a game that's loved by many:

https://github.com/dungeons-of-moria/umoria/blob/master/READ...
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someone above posted a link to the baltimore sun that just presents the evidence. Let me know what you think of it: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun...
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That's a good point. What I was trying to get at is that Rust macros don't let you manipulate ASTs in any straightforward way. So they are not best thought of as AST -> AST transforms.
Nope this is you guys. I'm pretty relaxed up here regarding our police.
But all of those things in the last paragraph happened, and I believe all of them were outside of Baltimore.

Cigarettes was NYC, shot in the back was SC I believe. I don't remember where the person was shot in front of his daughter. I think that was the school cafeteria worker who was shot in his car. None of the police were convicted except the SC one, and the whole incident was caught on video.
I don't think that is meant to be an ordered list. The text of number 18 says explicitly that it isn't.
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On Gentoo the font path is /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat2-Terminus16.psfu.gz

About the latency thing ... having recently switched back from OSX to Gentoo as my laptop's native desktop, Linux is great. Latency on all operations even in X11 are noticeably lower and more pleasant than even typing in iTerm2 on a top end Macbook Pro, and root on ZFS is awesome :)

Primary issues with console are UTF-8 support and irritations around mode setting, font resizing, and video chip (re-)initialization when booting and coming to/from X11, since my laptop (Dell XPS15 9560) has two graphics chips and they don't play perfectly nice together under many Linux kernel configurations. Angband latency, though, is awesome :)
In this particular case, it appears that some of the wrongdoing involved a lieutenant in Internal Affairs. So yes, they do have internal investigations departments.

See Day 2 of [0].

[0] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun...
I don’t think anything has been decided yet about the fate of Container Linux. I do think there is a strong desire to find a path that doesn’t leave users like yourself high and dry. Hopefully more specifics will be coming soon.
Thanks welder, wakatime is a great tool. That being said it is specific for the tech/development community. Hyperlogs is profession-agnostic. For instance, Hyperlogs could be used by a law firm, accounting firm, construction etc.

Thanks for your feedback!
Sounds like they are solving the exodus of brains to Industry by effectively creating Industry-funded departments located on campus. “You will be an MIT employee, fully funded by Google.”
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Bits flip, hence ECC
As to the side effects of immune activation, here's a long article on that:
https://healthcareinamerica.us/did-chinese-scientists-find-a...
A minority? I don't understand where that argument comes from. A minority generally doesn't hold power - police hold far reaching powers. Minorities normally do not choose to be part of a minority.

From wikipedia:

"A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder"

If there are a corrupt few breaking the law, the body of persons cannot be said to be performing its duty.

It's worth reading about police accountability:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_accountability

Generally the focus of reform is to hold the entire agency/force accountable.
What does https do that's different from verifying the cert chain and matching the cn to the hostname? Is this about the ill-conceived cert-pinning that pretends distributing keys for every domain is a scalable alternative to certificate authorities and on-line revocation lists?
I'm going to make the controversial claim that such research centres could only be so groundbreaking because they were, by conventional standards, extremely badly managed. Only by getting the right group of people together and letting them play with whatever they want, with a loose budget, do you get results like that. This lassitude is of course completely incompatible with hitting quarterly targets, or the painstaking work of taking a prototype to a product.

Neither was really subject to any kind of market pressure too.
He also has posted a DIY tutorial for doing it yourself on the following blogs
http://www.ifyoudontknownowyaknow.com/2017/01/genetic-design...
http://www.ifyoudontknownowyaknow.com/2017/01/genetic-design...
http://www.ifyoudontknownowyaknow.com/2017/02/how-to-genetic...
And what's your argument?
I think you meant to say teachers. Cops in my town get over $100K after 10 years with full health an pension. My neighbor cops down the street put their kids in private school. The FOP is a powerful union.

Hackers released a bunch of FOP/city contracts a few years ago across the country.
This is pretty accurate. I mean, I’m sure you remember the xww intranet prefix. Such odd quirks there
Hetzner is involved in many of the non-related entity transfers.
Yes, that’s one of the reasons. With PayPal you also pay for the brand
My favorite usage of the information schema stuff was with unit testing.

We have a VERY small ORM-ish library called PG-Promise that we use in a node.js application. It's basically just a nice interface to the database, but it does include some small functionality where you can define the database layout in javascript and it will auto-convert most of your data from JSON to the correct columns and in many cases types.

We wrote tests that use information schema to compare those objects and ensure that there aren't any missing or extra on either side, and to make sure that the javascript types match the database types.
Almost every time I ask this question (online or in person), the answer is mostly 'marketing'. I've come to interpret a lot of that as 'this founder can now say they've raised an $x round' and also now the founder's share of the company is with $y.

I just don't know why anyone would want to dilute their cap table so early on, before the product is even public, unless their intention is to exit before building a decent company.
Great read. If you enjoyed, you may also like Island of the Lost. https://www.audible.com/pd/History/Island-of-the-Lost-Audiob...

"Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death."
Unless they release the server code, no, you can't build your own "Telegram" yet. The original article's title was misleading, thankfully the HN submission title was amended to correct it. Still useful of course for anyone creating third-party clients, but an entirely different matter.
But I didn't replace "cops" with "black people", you did.

An ethnicity is a completely different thing to a law enforcement agency.

edit: If you want me to explain why, I can. A law enforcement agency is a group of people who have decided to perform a particular duty. An ethnicity is a group of people who are born that particular way.

A law enforcement agency has a strict set of rules governing behaviour, which when broken purposely constitute corruption. An ethnicity does not a have a particular set of rules, they follow the same rules as wider society. If they did have a specific set of rules, it would be considered an apartheid style society.

A member of a law enforcement agency has far reaching powers beyond a typical citizen. A member of an ethnicity is supposed to have the same powers as everyone else.

What's interesting is that by comparing the two you get a good idea of why police corruption is a terrible thing.
But engagement is what advertisers pay for, isn't it ? Clicks ! Clicks ! Clicks !

So I'm pretty sure that they are institutionally incapable of understanding why for a very good reason.
I shared Bulma with my team little under a year ago while Bootstrap 4 was still in development. Bulma doesn't have all the bells and whistles CSS-wise of Bootstrap, and it also doesn't require _jquery_ into the page, it lets us write our own components (which is a pro and con of its own).
Since the Freddie Gray case in 2015 and the subsequent riots, Baltimore and its police force have undergone significant reforms. The murder rate is up 50% since then for the third year in a row.

Dropping the hammer on police may sound like it would be satisfying, but if I lived in a place where the community suddenly decided to cast the whole police force as villains, I'd move my family out for fear of the spike in crime that will certainly result. I can't think of a city in the US that hasn't endured a murder wave once the vilification of police became fashionable.
Shotcut (on Linux at least) just doesn't work.

I've used pretty much all amateur video-making software for Windows and some for Mac, Screenflow, FinalCut Pro, etc.

The best by far is FinalCut Pro (Mac-only), because it automatically creates proxy files and allows you to edit everything in real time with no lag, even when adding complicated effects.

The situation on Linux is dismal. The only good one is https://kdenlive.org/. It's actually I'd say at par to FinalCut in terms of performance, although the UI could use some clean up. It's the one I use because the other ones would either keep crashing, or be impossibly slow.
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"I really don't think most users are worried" is the stark OPPOSITE of speaking for yourself.
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~10% to ~20% is closer to 100% gain than 10% gain. From 1 in 10 to 2 in 10 people is a doubling of people!

This is why percentage is a bad measure when it can represent two things (percentage or percentage-points).

I like log-odds as a scale to use to represent adoption, going from negative infinity with no adoption through zero (at 50%) to positive infinity at full adoption, but with a typical range of -2 (~1%) to +2 (~99%) when using base e. (Although you can use any base).

By that scale it went from -0.95 to -0.65.
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Example:

> The "food" from that restaurant was awful

Incorrect. No matter what you thought of the food, the fact is that it is food (ie, something that can be digested as a source of nutrition). This usage betrays a lack of sophistication and should be avoided.

> The food from that "restaurant" was awful

Correct usage. You are (humorously, snarkily) questioning if the establishment you visited qualifies as a restaurant.
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NZ was the Fuji Xerox partnership. Fuji ran that from all accounts. I worked in the Developing Markets Org at Xerox (proper), Asia Pacific was its own silo and they did their own thing. It’s one of the areas I didn’t work with, others were Western Europe, Russia, and Canada. Pretty much everything else, I knew all the marketing people for the countries.
Yes, but Chicago seems to be a fairly unique place. Also, most of the police shooting incidents don't come out of Chicago. What are you trying to say by pointing out that gang violence is bad in Chicago?
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I had never heard of this until I saw it at the end of this article. That picture made me so uncomfortable. Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy came to mind.

However, this technology seems like a really great step forward.
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> If you have a suspicious mole, or a woman reports pain in the uterus, in Europe you might wait one or two years before a doctor sees you. And then you might get just an "everything looks fine" or a mild painkiller, and start again to look for another specialists or just go to the private health. It's known, but somewhat silenced, that a significant number of heart/liver/kidney patients just die before they get to see the specialist because the system is overloaded. This payment-by-queue drives costs down, but is obviously a bad thing.

Sorry but that's wrong. I've only used the health systems in the UK and Germany but in both countries, you can get an appointment either directly (if you're flexible with time) or within a few weeks. In urgent cases, all hospitals have specialised staff and will see you immediately.
Jess is one of the smartest people I've met in the space.
Could you be more specific? Sure Finland has a lot of great things, despite its small size, but it seems odd that you'd say "lately".
>> I was a programmer on Diablo 2 and used the Diablo 1 source code

> Don't leave us hanging,

Yes, don't leave us hanging!

Did you ever work on the problems of item duping on Closed Battle.Net?

I never understood why some games were "bugged": Certain characters would leave a game and find that their inventory would not save. This meant they could go back in the game, drop all their items, leave the game, and repeat this while the characters that did save could pick it up, creating copies of good items. The mule character could even join another game where it would save, stock up on good items and drop those.

I also never understood what would trigger a bugged game. We used IRC for announcing whenever a "run" turned out to be buggy for a single player. And I wrote an IRC bot for keeping track of item trades for some dudes who gave me several accounts full of characters full of really good items. I gave it to my brother who eventually made thousands selling those items.

> is there a hidden cow level in the Diablo 1 source?!

Diablo I has a ton of lost treasure hidden in diabdat.mpq. I recall that they shipped the game prematurely and simply dropped a large chunk of the storyline; full characters, dialogues, items, plot triggers. Some of that storyline ended up in Diablo II. I can't find a good archaeological overview online - perhaps this isn't as well-documented as I assumed.

If anyone feels nostalgic, there's a really good Diablo I mod called The Hell out there. I believe mods are written by disassembling the original game, extending this with your own, custom assembler code, and reassembling it. What a beautiful consequence of the simplicity of writing games in C.
I'm not so sure about the claim "I’ve long thought it the ideal candidate to build low-cost cloud and cluster computing solutions for research and education."

Well, you thoguht wrong--a better solution would be any typical rack mount computer running a bunch of VMs or just buy cloud services from AWS, Google, or Cloud Foundry and call it a day.

I am more of the mind that these articles are to sell more product and that big RPi clusters aren't remotely powerful enough to do anything really real because they lack RAM and processing horsepower but have all the same issues as every other big cluster of computers you have to maintain.

It's clear that cloud services have not gone in the "tinier is better" direction for a multitude of reasons and that virtualization (e.g. a lot of compute nodes running as VMs or containers like CoreOS on better underlying hardware) is a far better solution overall.

RPi has a coolness factor, but every time I think I want to buy one I realize my needs are better served some other way. I'm sure one day I'll find a killer reason to buy one.