skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not how it works, but you show an attitude that is clearly hobbyist/freelance, which is fine.

Enterprise and anything related to big money cares. Not like the EU is a small market.

You'll also be surprised how much the US and EU cooperate, legally and economically. MS, Google, FB,... endless legal resources and yet the EU hammer is inescapable.

The most interesting thing to me is how you don't see the opportunity that GDPR represents to MAKE money. We're all raking in contracts and work consulting clients and updating products - but hey, I guess you don't want to compete. Good luck!
Most people are using those roads to get to somewhere, be it a HoJo or a street address. So the geotagging ability is very, very important. I suspect a map system with vastly superior routing information (just roads and coordinates) and slightly inferior geotagging would still lose to one with the opposite balance.
> You can send a transaction via sms.

Any reason why the Venezuelan Government would continue to keep SMS BTC transactions live?

IIRC, Venezuelan Government owns all of the infrastructure: electricity, cell phone towers, and the like. They're a socialist nation IIRC, and would easily have the power to crush this option.
We are shooting ourselves in the feet by intentionally diminishing road traffic capacity before the alternative is ready. You are not serving the underprivileged by making it too expensive to drive, since middle and lower income people can only afford to live in the outlying areas in the first place.
Ah, I see where you're going with this. It would slow innovation down to a trickle, though. Anyone who wants to do something that's not yet standardized would have to stash their edits somewhere and wait for official approval. And that would likely take weeks or months at best. Currently, the best idea wins automatically because good ideas are used by both mapping applications and mappers.

Maybe something in the middle, like the current wiki system but with an enforcement rule of whatever is on the wiki. Anyone could freely edit it because it's a wiki (adding allowed options, and removing/changing any that have extremely few uses (zero, or perhaps a few which are then removed)), but at least there is a correct spec.

If people really had to adhere to a strict, slow-moving standard with pre-approval, the spec would also become extremely complex and very difficult to implement, because the spec-makers will want to think of every eventuality. See any other large specification ever, like HTML or something. I can't see that ending well. I think a hybrid system might be better than a strict one, given the choice between those two.

I like thinking about it though! Always good to have hear ideas.
It's for things like web forms or other GUI apps, for whom $VISUAL is not meaningful.
The broader point is that there's a structural issue here, as there's no ability to link data to addresses in a form that doesn't require literally knowing the location of a store within a building ahead of time.
Anecdotal, but still:
In Paris, new streets had been created in the 13th district. One was an important administrative destination for Parisians (building permits admin), allée Claude Levi-Strauss.

OSM had the street in its database from the start.

It took Google Maps more than a year (?) to catch up, and consequently in 2015 for example an Uber driver at the time would try and drive you to the opposite side of Paris where a museum had a garden of the same name… not good when you had an appointment with an official there :-)
I don't think the experienced engineers earlier referred to learned these things in a CS curriculum.
How about just creating money and giving the same amount to everyone?

It would have the effect that the value of each individual dollar would go down to a small extent, but everyone would have say 10,000 dollars extra. The effect would be negative for the rich, but positive for the poor.

Quantitative easing seemed similar, but the money was given to the banks who just kept asset prices high - not great for the poor but good for the rich.

Anyone want to "explain it like I am 5" to to why thats such a bad idea?
If you were interested in trends of males being at the top of the pyramid, why wouldn't you start with Asian American males?
It's definitely working - US political system is whipping itself into frenzy over "collusion" conspiracy theories while Putin comfortably arranges yet another rigged "election" for himself with no real opposition, suppresses dissent and imprisons anybody who dares to challenge him - and US can not even squeak a word about it since we're in the midst of declaring anybody from foreign country speaking about anything happening in another country to be a crime! If Putin indeed have foreseen it, and executed on this plan from a start, he's kinda genius. Or he's just lucky US politics happened to be insane in a way that benefits him.
Would you mind if I asked what type of application do you have that needs the kind of write performance? Also, are there any Rust drivers for Scylla?

This stack looks awesome in terms of pure perf.
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How is the darknet these days? I used SR when it was around. Is it still that easy?
Measurement, by Paul Lockhart, may be helpful to start with. It carefully and clearly derives mathematical principles from basic ideas, in a very approachable way.

Here's how it describes its content:

Part One: Size and Shape

In which we begin our investigation of abstract geometrical figures. Symmetrical tiling and angle measurement. Scaling and proportion. Length, area, and volume. The method of exhaustion and its consequences. Polygons and trigonometry. Conic sections and projective geometry. Mechanical curves.

Part Two: Time and Space

Containing some thoughts on mathematical motion. Coordinate systems and dimension. Motion as a numerical relationship. Vector representation and mechanical relativity. The measurement of velocity. The differential calculus and its myriad uses. Some final words of encouragement to the reader.
The Venezuelan government killed [1] 163 people who believed in scenario B.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests
I didn't realize until you had posted that a large fraction of the upvotes were probably because my post had a dismissive tone. And I was feeling good about the upvotes until you pointed that out D:
That's what showers are for. Water alone washes off odor.
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This is good! Why did you omit the analogy that code-manipulation-in-Lisp : code-manipualtion-in-C :: webpage-manipulation-via-the-DOM : webpage-manipulation-via-regex ?

I thought it was very effective.
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I think what he's saying is that the city has enabled unchecked population growth, and this has hurt quality of life for those already living here, who have put down roots, and been paying their taxes. This is plainly true - the ever increasing height limits in South Lake Union, rezoning of various neighborhoods, etc. has made it much harder to get around as density increases and shared resources (e.g. roads, parks, etc.) become vastly over-subscribed.
If I was going to use ketamine, I'd prefer to get it from a reputable source.
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Here in the UK we have the same problem.
I think those saying "but you're gonna stink if you don't use soap/deodorant!" in these threads should keep in mind that BO offensiveness is definitely something that varies from person to person based on genetic factors. So it's quite possible that some of these people saying they don't use deodorants or soaps do not offend those around them, and I'm willing to take them at their word.

Me, I can be one of the stinky ones, so I will continue to foul up the earth with my soap bar and deodorant stick for your sake as well as my own.
Hypothetically speaking, given the tremendous expense of accommodating cars and the necessary ridership needed to get public transit working well (e.g. the greater the bus ridership, the more routes & times), I could imagine this actually being a rational step in moving a population over to mass transit.
There's another option the author doesn't consider: Change programming, or create fundamentally different programming paradigms that entirely obviate some of the requirements we have now.

One idea that's a fairly natural progression from where we are now is Luna, a WYSIWYG data processing language: http://www.luna-lang.org

A loftier re-imagining is Dynamicland, co-founded by Alan Kay and Bret Victor: https://dynamicland.org
This came up a few days ago as well.

You can't just abide by these laws because it's so unclear what they mean and say. Notice how the findings are always that a firm didn't do "enough". What is enough? Where in law does it say what enough is?

The EU can chase American firms out of the EU. All it means is people will use the American websites without them having any corporate HQs in Europe, or simply be locked out entirely. The local competitors will probably suck - judging from the past attempts to compete.
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$400/month seems a very cheap price for getting your life back.
I have not seen any age-correlation in what you describe.
For sure there are "career" programmers who don't know much about computers beyond their narrow scope of expertise.

You're admittedly obsessed with computers, which presumably means you spend a lot of your free timing tinkering and learning.
You've picked up a lot of very useful knowledge, but surely there's room in a profession for those who are not obsessed with their field? The programmer who doesn't know anything about a BIOS perhaps spends their free time bike riding.
> It's not toxic, and simple to test on yourself, and you've probably already got a bottle of lemon juice in the refrigerator.

Lemon juice contains a vast array of different chemicals, some of which may be phototoxic. It also releases VOCs (e.g. terpenes). I don't know how much compared to your average deodorant, though.
> without a good scrub with some soap in all "enclosed hairy regions" you will most certainly have quite strong body odor.

This is not true in general. Maybe there are outliers.

The mechanism by which washing kills bacteria is by simply pushing them off your body down the drain. Soap's only purpose is to remove oil, which water does not rinse off by itself.

As a general rule, try rinsing first; if it still smells bad, then use soap. I exercise daily and sweat a lot pre-shower. A rinse eliminates all body odor.
That estimation may change in the coming decades. Self driving cars would allow for pooling and far greater car throughput on existing roads (no human latency/error, synchronized top speeds)
Indeed. There's no way I would've learned how to program at such an early age if the process had been any more complicated than "install Turbo Turtle." (And later, HyperCard, THINK Pascal, THINK C, and finally CodeWarrior.) It wasn't until I had basic command of a few different languages that I was thrust into the world of UNIX, emacs, Perl, CPAN, and so on. By that time I was able to handle it, but if that had been my first go of it, I'd have run for the hills and never looked back.
There are now similar drills ("armed intruder" drills) in french schools since the attacks of late 2015. I think it would have been unthinkable before.
I find it much more plausible that Ayoub, the bank agent, simply took the fall for a handful of other people who were also conned. The more elaborate explanations smack of mistaking ignorance for malice.
I'm always a bit suspicious of articles like this that plug for specifically bitcoin versus cryptocurrencies as a whole. Many cryptos can help to fill the needs of Venezuelan citizens. Are we not talking about them since they won't make the author rich?
Fiber optic lines.
Cars are not an acceptable answer, living hours from your place of work is not an acceptable answer, backwards counties attempting to benefit from civilization without being part of it is not an acceptable answer.
Ideally Boise, potentially Salt Lake City or Bozeman or Spokane or Denver. Mountain West.

If you or someone you know is hiring College Graduates in these areas, drop me a line.
Windows Trajan emperor edition has a really good firewall up there (sorry for bad joke, had to make it).
I suspect that both the willingness to attribute shootings to "evil" and the reluctance to address mental health both stem from the religious belief that still pervades American society to a much greater extent than it does other western countries. I have actually had a person tell me that this is a "sin-sick country" as his explanation for the recent event.

Perhaps things will improve gradually as the population becomes less religious.
I totally support this, assuming your body odor and oil type accommodates it. For me, I find hot water hair rinses with less frequent shampooing is much better. By the same token god help anyone around me if I didn’t soap my armpits that day. I see a huge difference between finding what works for you, and absolutist approaches to hygiene.
How is this supposed to work? I'm assuming not many chemical reactions are happening around that stainless steel. So is this any different than using a sponge, your hand or whatever solid object?
To add to this, one other way programming is getting harder is that there is no incremental path to becoming a developer. In the past, you could easily become a programmer by accident. You wanted to edit your MySpace page, google around, learn some HTML and do it. You wanted to mod a game, you started messing around with the game, download other mods, and change them.

I think this incrementally is gone in two ways. One is that programming is so abstracted away from how we use computers that it's almost in a different world. But even if you figured out what programming is, when you actually attempt to do it, the sophistication of our tools make it a lot harder to get started. Everything that makes us programmers more productive: compilers, build systems, package managers, etc make programming less accessible. There is a lack of coherence between all these tools, no one person designed them, they're the product of bottom-up innovation (the bazaar) which has the problem of making things messier.

I think open-source/bottom-up innovation is great, but eschewing "the cathedral" for a wholly bazaar-based approach is making it a lot harder to learn to program.

What I'm working on now (I'm the founder of Repl.it) is taking a lot of these awesome tools and putting a nicely designed experience on top of them. We want to bring back the welcoming cursor that invites you to program the computer and bring back incrementality to programming, you start from a repl, and from there you can move on to web-dev or what have you. You'd be surprised how fun it is for kids to build CLI programs before moving on to build other things. We put together a page where kids can post about what they're building with Repl.it and it's really inspiring to see: https://repl.it/ibuiltthis

I've written more about what I call a "Holistic development service" here: http://repl.it/site/blog/holistic
And also here I describe how we went wrong with "Disintegrated Development Environments — How Did We Get Here?": https://amasad.me/disintegrated
I am curious of the distance of the sample distribution and society's was when that question was asked. To clarify, assuming jurors were picked randomly and people did not try to actively defer (or maybe use a different trick) to land on that case, how many of them strived really hard to stay as jurors that were gun owners etc.

P.S. The gun culture surprises a part of me every day recently. Another part of me responds as "yeah, I kinda saw that coming a mile away. Want some refreshing tea?"

P.S.2 25/30 might be a lot or acceptable depending on the country or region. The reasoning for gun ownership and lack of training and common misconceptions about weapon usage in general are things that terrify me. (E.g. Canadians and Swiss have a higher gun ownership probability, yet...) The notion that arming schools is even suggested by some people, even if they are emotionally affected (victims), shows extreme and dangerous ignorance about gun usage and handling. Really U.S. should be the last country to even joke about that (e.g. kid went to school with a clock and got arrested due to fear it might have been a bomb, guy shoots pedestrian, swat team responds to a fake call during the night and kills the occupant)

P.S.3 Prediction: If we continue like this, the public shootings will increase to the point of becoming a normal news report on a Tuesday night.
Presented with data that youth today are falling behind in traditional markers for success, and you're response is mockery?

These are young adults who are not accomplishing anything with their time and will have little to show for their time when older. This is a serious social illness worthy of study.
Which is great only if you have all the right tags. A grain bin is not a silo - to a farmer this is an important distinction - the rest of the world cannot tell the difference, both are round towers.
My SF knowledge is quite dated. I've read little in the last 20 years, and SF has changed yet again during that time. Moreover, I've changed, and realized that too much of the SF I read was white male nerd escapism.

(As a Heinlein fan, I really enjoyed Varley's "Red Thunder", written as an homage to Heinlein's juvenile series. There's a scene where the disgraced former astronaut is talking with the family of one of the teens, to convince them that it's okay for him to be on the experimental rocket. The teen's mother is a single parent, and the grandmother is was a Cuban refugee who crossed the Florida Straight in a makeshift boat. It's the grandmother who used her history to convince the mother that it was okay.

This scene mirrors one from Heinlein's "Rocketship Galileo", where the esteemed nuclear physicist visits the mother and father of one of the teens, and the mother draws on the family history where her great-grandparents as teenagers crossed the country on a Conestoga wagon.

The Heinlein one draws on standard American patriotism. I read the Varley version as a commentary that that courage isn't limited to the (primarily white European) people who colonized the American west.)

Okay, that long parenthetical note aside, perhaps you would like David Brin's Uplift Saga series. I didn't like Sundiver that much, but "Startide Rising" and "The Uplift War" have elements which feel like Dune and the Foundation series.

For more modern SF, you may be interested in Ian M. Banks' Culture series. That isn't much like Dune or Foundation, but it is well-written, complex, thoughtful, and full of interesting ideas. (Edit: I see cde-v mentioned Banks an hour ago.)
Maybe it depends on the route, but I've taken the buses numerous times (mostly to/from the eastside) and they were always clean and safe and calm.
I don't understand what you are asking.
Where did I mention getting rid of all cops?

If we went this route, I'd probably rather have the military (though I know that comes with even more 'concerns' for our 'freedom') - more tightly controlled rules of engagement, more experience with and training with respect to returning fire, compared to law enforcement, who only do active shooter exercises themselves a couple of times a year, if that.

Active shooter scenarios are terrifying, to state the obvious. I've been involved in training at a school here in Washington where even as a medic, we go in while the shooter is still active, covered by a SWAT team, for pulling victims out of the hot zone, and it is loud, it is confusing.

I appreciate that you're trying to be realistic to the culture here, and I agree that 'yes, there would most likely be civil uprising if we attempted to claw back firearm ownership', so then the only alternative is an escalating arms race.

Which the NRA, which long ago ceased to be a sportsman's club and is now "by with and for" the gun manufacture industry, can't fail to be happy about.
Great concept for the ever increasing food demand the United States has for beef and proteins. Not sure how it will stack up to totally transparent farm to fork proteins like Meat The Butchers offers. https://latechnews.org/meat-the-butchers/
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The only way this ends now is the people of Venezuela fight a revolution, kill 80-85% of the current government stooges, then rebuild the nation on some kind of sound legal footing while repudiating all debts. Build back up around some form of capitalism. Best of luck.
These mass shootings are mostly in rich white suburbs.. The shooters are largely white males. Good luck getting metal detectors in these communities. Even if you turn schools into a prison you will have large groups of kids lined up to get to class in morning, at sporting events, activities and the other functions. So a motivated shooter will get to people anyway. So even though high school can feel like it is a literal prison, actually making it so solves very little. The only reasonable and logical action to take is gun control. You can't ask teachers to make threat assessments, determine mental state or act be law enforcement. Teachers are there to teach.
There can be an argument that Uber's expensive policy-mongering is enabling the competition. Lyft doesn't have to do any lobbying, it just has to lie in its wake while Uber does everything for it pretending to be the nicer company. As long as Uber is out there wreaking regulation havoc, Lyft is happy to sit back and let Uber do that. Perhaps Lyft doesn't want Uber to die, since they're basically the ones spending money to make Lyft viable at all.
I like it so far. The instant first email match is great, but it happens while I'm setting my info, so it leaves introductions to be a little.. barren?
There's an outstanding PR that does precisely that - https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere/pull/52
UK also. We had a bomb scare at school in the IRA days, a few years before the big Manchester attach. It was a hoax call.

Schools are just starting to have "terrorist drills" which are similar, from all I've heard, to USA active shooter drills. They're not everywhere but they're not uncommon either.
Do you serve React frontend directly from Django or from a dedicated Node.js or other server?
The scents they use in air fresheners, candles, whatever, are just plain 100% pure evil. I've had more migraines and asthma attacks in the months they put in new air fresheners at work than the entire decade before. There should be laws against it.
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Well this is a pleasant coincidence, in the last episode of my podcast (http://generalintellectunit.net) we discuss Red Plenty, and at one point we talk about the notion of Amazon being a planned economy very much in line with what the Soviet Cyberneticians wanted to build.

Oh, and Red Plenty is a great read, highly recommended.
Sic doesn't mean "incorrect", it means "as written". You use it anytime a reader might be confused to show that you haven't made a mistake while quoting someone which could potentially change the meaning or context of the quote.
If you didn't start doing it younger, it's a tough habit to get into. I just started exercising twice a week (started in December). It's very hard starting off.
Not to mention the shit

> “In vacant lots, horse manure was piled as high as sixty feet. It lined city streets like banks of snow. In the summer time, it stank to the heavens; when the rains came, a soupy stream of horse manure flooded the crosswalks and seeped into people’s basements. Today, when you admire old New York brownstones and their elegant stoops, rising from street level to the second-storey parlour, keep in mind that this was a design necessity, allowing a homeowner to rise above the sea of horse manure."

http://gothamist.com/2013/07/19/why_we_have_stoops.php