skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't what he said the natural consequence of technology being available to a wider and wider segment of the public, reaching ubiquity? This is to be expected when what was originally something only known in a small circle is now having to be used by essentially everybody then. One thing that can definitely help is to incorporate programming as mandatory into national/state school curricula as soon as possible. Programming literacy could become something like writing literacy, though of course we're not quite there, yet.

Everybody having a solid grasp on programming principles would also protect the democratic society in the sense that people would have an idea on how the software they're using daily actually work, what is being done to their data, etc. Leaving such a fundamental fabric of the society in the hands of few is self-evidently dangerous.
Sadly LibreOffice ignores user bug reports.
just wondering here, but what would stop them -or any other multinational big corp- from say redirecting any web connection from a country A where X is illegal to one of their servers in country B,C,D etc. where it is legal, do all number crunching there and send unrecognizable results back to A?
To be honest, I'm scared shitless of dying also. I don't know why that is a reason to abandon reason and embrace bad statistics. I would even say that losing my ability to think clearly and arrive at probably approximately almost not completely ridiculously wrong conclusions is at least as terrifying as dying (or at least as terrifying as dying young in a horrible manner).

Death is really scary shit and I get that someone with the money and connectionts of Kurzweil can convince himself that it won't happen to him, but we must all realise that, at this point, that's just a pipe dream.
If they have to buy data 1Mb at a time, which websites or apps do they use that load with the smallest download?
You mean, you do that? I don't get it otherwise.

http://www.npmtrends.com/react-native-vs-weex-toolkit

Native is hard, React needed years to get it even nearly right, and it did that with the community's backing. At this point RN features dozens of renderers outside of the mobile space, with some of them made by the very vendors that sell their platforms (for instance Microsofts react-native-windows).

A couple of them here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUF19IlXcAE2UC6.jpg:large

Can't imagine why anyone would willingly want to wait another 4-5 years until Weex is where RN is today.
I think the idea can work, however the execution is still far from perfect.

Just on the binary search for example, the "balance" representation is re-used to signify the concept of "comparison", however the tokens put in balance are both of the same size, with only an image to differentiate them. So the link is not implicitly made from their size, weight, and the intrinsic feature which makes the one searched token the right one. This would be confusing for anyone trying to understand the algorithm.

Then, you got a first depiction of the problem, with each object being ordered by size. So the initial assumption is that the choice element would be on their size. Afterward, the target token has a star on it, and the generic, incorrect one, a question mark.

That could work, however, they both have the exact same size.

This is only an example of how the concepts used to explain and signify things visually are only partially followed-through. This greatly impairs the impact of the explanation.

And this is only on the binary search, arguably the simplest algorithm depicted here.
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In Recital 43, the GDPR adds a presumption that consent is not freely given if there is “a clear imbalance between the data subject and the controller, in particular where the controller is a public authority.” Importantly, a controller may not make a service conditional upon consent, unless the processing is necessary for the service. Also, data subjects have the right to withdraw given consent.
Interesting. Do you have links to any studies I could read on the matter?
These trade agreements are used to project rules and circumvent laws decided by democracies.
May also be interested in the `jq` CLI, which on first glance appears to use a similar but not identical query language. https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
> People at Google might be the smartest under the sun, but they don’t understand email

Oh no, they understand email very well. They're just arseholes who want to force "regular joe" and small business to use their services. This isn't some kind of accidental incompetence. There's no "whoops, sorry your mail isn't getting delivered, our bad!"-type situation going on. This is a deliberate strategy of making it as hard as possible for people to run their own mail servers.

Of course they hide behind the excuse that you might be a spammer. But given Google's massive resources, there's no way in hell they can't tell ham from spam.
Is the number of PhDs per capita higher than the US? My point is that even if it’s 5x lower PhD per capita, just by virtue of having 5x the population, China will have the same absolute number of PhDs as the US.

Actually I was disappointed the article did not touch on education trends within China. Do you have any sources for analyses of educational trends?

I would be interested in the number of Chinese getting PhDs in the US, vs in China, and how that ratio has changed in the past two decades.

Might be even more interesting to compare the primary/secondary school systems across the two countries. Education is obviously valued more highly in the average Chinese family than it is in the average American family. This early emphasis on education could certainly explain the Chinese success in higher education.
The example on the front page seems equivalent to (and only marginally less verbose than):

locations
.filter(l => l.state === 'WA')
.map(l => l.name)
.sort()
.join(', ')
I started mine (Information Systems/ social science) when I was 38. Haven't really regretted it since. I think if anything it is beneficial to have some real life experience to put your theoretical knowledge in context. Also, at my university (London School of Economics) it turned out there were quite a few mature (30+ year old) PhD students.

I guess it comes down to what yo really want to do with your life. Are you reasonably sure you want to work in academia/ research? Then go for it. Otherwise, maybe not. Do go and visit some seminars/ workshops etc. for PhDs to get an impression of whether the lifestyle appeals to you.
To me it feels like American freedom is more and more about the freedom of doing business for big companies without any limitations and not much else. The regular citizen is just there to consume what these "job creators" provide.
The costs of the US justice system are already exorbitant, with plea deals being the norm. Public defense offices are overworked and understaffed, judge calendars are overbooked, quality representation costs millions... I forgot which justice said it, but basically the justice system relies on plea deals as it stands. I don't know what kind of sweeping reform would be required to change that.

Edit: "That is what plea bargaining is. It is not some adjunct to the criminal justice system; it is the criminal justice system." Scott & Stuntz, Plea Bargaining as Contract, 101 Yale L. J. 1909, 1912 (1992). "
Quoted in Missouri v Frye before the Supreme Court(https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=169296831339244...)
The relevant laws generally don't care about server locations, or only in a negative sense (data processing in jurisdictions with weaker protections requires additional steps to be acceptable)

Since in general evidence for these things is not collected by grabbing local servers and searching them, this doesn't really give them any benefit.
Well, you could compare the number of satoshis with the number of atoms of gold, or grams of gold, or even tons of gold.

Satoshis are still more rare.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090614042422A...
why choose this over jsonpath (like xmlpath) or jq?
The International Court of Justice does not have compulsory jurisdiction, cases can only be referred to it by agreement between state parties, whether such agreement is expressed before or after the dispute. I'm unfamiliar with the Berne convention but I think it sets a minimum standard for copyright. States are free to go above the minimum. States are definitely free to decide whether a crime is civil or criminal and how it is to be prosecuted and punished.

There're a series of excellent EdX courses on International Law by the Université Catholique de Louvain if you're interested.

https://www.edx.org/micromasters/louvainx-international-law

Don't use endonyms like Den Haag or Torino for The Hague or Turin for developed countries. Use the traditional exonyms.
I don’t know what buzz is, so I don’t think so. But damnit, I thought I finally found a handle (almost) no one else was using - it’s available on most sites. Bah!
Researchers spotted a new #malware in the wild, the #Saturn #Ransomware
> It may be the result of the competitiveness of the education system. Everything is more competitive. As I understand things, CS is the hottest undergraduate major right now.

Hardly. Looking at the Swedish admissions statistics[1] from this year (because that's what I'm familiar with):

- Of the top 5 programmes, 3 were for physicians (doctors), with the required GPA ranging 22.09-22.29

- The hardest engineering programme to get into was no. 8, technical physics, requiring 21.98

- The hardest computer-related programme to get into was no. 56, software engineering, requiring 20.73

That said, it was above 20.0 (straight As), so the requirements do seem to have increased in the last few years

[1]: https://statistik.uhr.se/uhr.html, to see applications to programmes based on high school GPAs you'll want to pick "Bara program", "Urval 1", and then set "Visa urvalsgrupp" to "BI". You'll want to sort by "Antagningspoäng".
That's exactly what I mean. Forks of bitcoin are not bitcoin. Though some of them are valued too.

The miners can't change bitcoin, unless the community agrees with them. They can only really join or leave with their hashing power.

I don't think bitcoin will even exist by the time it's scheduled to be mined completely (100+ years).
> forums

Every single forum I frequented "back in the days" (ca. 2004, vBulletin-style) is gone. These were forums that hosted intense/focused technical discussions, in a way that just doesn't seem to exist anymore, with very few exceptions. At least I cannot find anything comparable. Today, there is just Reddit/HN and everything else is mostly commercialized and/or dumbed-down content. Don't even get me started on "educational" youtube videos.
Arguably, that milestone hasn't been reached for rideshare apps in general, even ones that use real drivers!
Once is blooming your expensive Picasso is now two or four expensive Picassos, and in the next year you'll have maybe 20 picasso or so. And as everybody wants to have it in their houses you could easily sold 10 and keep the other.

In the tulipmania some people lost money. The few buyers that knew their stuff, with the expertise to know how to multiply, take good care of them and keep it clean of diseases just get rich. If the unique and rare tulip weren't diseased their owner would became extremely rich and famous. Buying it was the logic choice. The same clone of turkish bulb has been sold each year for entire generations of the same european families. Thousands of years after, is still sought for buyers.
Creating a Go API Using an ORM – Tutorial
I think it should be a no-brainer e.g. Aster for Windows 7 and 10. It is plug and play with a simple GUI configuration step. The instructions you have mentioned are more than three years old.

Unless it is easily available, it is not going to be used. As soon as you get into desktop terminals, there is dependency on an outside vendor which then becomes a vendor lock.
YouTube Red is having an identity crisis
If you're using MongoDB already, then sure use MongoDB's query tools. But if you are just working with raw JSON from a potential variety of sources, or in a streaming context, then you need something more in-place and general-purpose, which this appears to be.
How come this is no longer present on the main index, pages 1 - 5?
How to fix nvm slowing down terminal initialisation
I'm not the developer but my post, LOL.

Jokes aside. This will be really helpful for me when I am building my Gatsby powered Blog. Thanks for that. Also, what is the difference between CheckBot & LightHouse?
I worded that poorly. I was not suggesting to make a change, only that my particular situation made me curious about your thoughts. Valve's recent change to ignore key activations is actually super frustrating when first starting out.

I wasn't even really thinking of a dynamic widget. Just some simple image that could be linked to your site. However, it would be better if there were permanent historical pages. I'm not sure how to categorize it (maybe every week or month), but the link would make more sense then... you can't guarantee you'll still be on the rolling page. Just an idea.
Mirai is one of the first production HFC vehicles, well below what's feasible. Total solar energy is not really a constraint, refueling time and amount of stored energy are.
By default, products fail to appeal to users, in the same sense that, by default, ten-digit integers are not perfect squares.

Is this something you and your friends eagerly want and constantly use? I.e. that you and your friends would use if you weren't working on this startup, and had merely come across it as potential users? If so, you should be able to get users from among your friends and their friends. And if not, it's a made-up idea (http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) that you can't expect to fix by tweaking it.

My guess is it's the latter. This sounds like a made-up idea to me.
They are doing some really interesting work
People are mentioning letting people die faster and earlier should reduce costs. But that's too simple. It would reduce costs for the initial payers but the costs (capital and labor) would remain the same for the short term meaning costs for services would have to rise for the providers to pay their fixed capital financing costs and to not have to lay off any labor. It's like inflation. How your buying per is affected depends on when/if you get the new money.

Until labor costs go down and we don't have a push for an "MRI on every block" costs won't go down. There seems to be more support jobs today particularly for coding and billing and dealing with insurances which is why single payer is thought to be a way to reduce costs by reducing overhead. It ought to work but then we better be prepared to help those workers who get displaced... Which just shifts the cost(s) somewhere else (sometime needs to pay to retrain displaced workers whose skills and knowledge are no longer needed or possibly even pay unemployment or even welfare to jobless individuals).
The Belgian public neither knowd nor cares. The press should have made a fuss but didn't. I remember a couple of very short articles about it, which kind of sort of maybe said the British might have potentially but not likely been involved.

Belgium was designed to be a toothless and spineless state by the UK, France & Germany, and it's playing its part wonderfully.
I'm guessing the point is to be a common type of query language that can be used from any number of other languages: http://jmespath.org/libraries.html

In at least some languages if these queries can be used without deserializing into a native data structure and then serialized back into a string, this could be a major win.
Your example however will not support dynamic or user-configurable paths without eval(). Alternatively, instead of eval you could run expressions through a JS parser, but it'll be more code than your example. The library we're discussing also defines a grammar for the query language.
I hadn’t heard about that. But jfc, even with collateral circulation, I can only imagine the number of perfs you’d see! I mean, h. Pylori already destroys local microvasc - embolism the LGA and you’re begging for some tragic endings.

Or such is my arm chair hypothesis, at least.
I was in Singapore for a week of the Haze. I was kind of amazed it was allowed to happen, but the local take (as told to me anyway) was that Indonesia was way too powerful for Singapore to force them to do anything they didn't want to do, and the corruption was such that even fighting the fires effectively wasn't something they particularly wanted to do... and forget about stopping the planters from burning recklessly in the first place.

Not sure if that's accurate but that's what local folks told me.
The US withdrew from the ICJ's "compulsory jurisdiction" following Nicaragua v. United States and accept the court's jurisdiction "on a case by case basis" (not to mention enforcement of ICJ rulings are performed by the UN Security Council on which the US have veto rights).

The court mostly deals with disputes between states — which is not the case here as a USian was imprisoned by the US following US interpretation of treaty rules — and the US would have to allow its jurisdiction for this case which I wouldn't see happen normally, and even less so under the current jingoistic administration.
Both true, but since I'm always editing something, I have it open in server mode so I can send a file to it for editing from the terminal.
The computers of engineers are great targets for hacking. Dozens of package managers across languages and operating systems, as well as GitHub, provide easy vectors for getting complex code to execute on computer of the dev. Devs are used to running code from the terminal, and typically have many interesting files in their file systems that could assist with lateral movement or even lead to compromising of the build system (!!)

Despite this, devs are still generally very cavalier about running code from the internet on their machines. Often times they have no choice of security mitigations because their package manager is compromised by flaws in its design.
Right, something like "email_lc", and "username_lc". This would be your unique index.
Usually general fasting with only water consumed. Many practitioners will allow unadulterated coffee or tea. I haven't seen much evidence to indicate that dry fasting provides additional health benefits over water fasting.
I haven't lived in quite that many different countries, but also find having been born in the US and emigrated to Europe that I find Europe to feel more "free".

In fact, I actually moved because I wanted to do unpaid programming work for my company to prove I was ready for a software engineering role. The US office said it would be illegal, but the European office said it would be legal there, so I got a transfer (and shortly after, the promotion I was after).
I has never been easy...
> php,ruby, python or modern javascript

But do you really understand those? Do you have a complete mental model of how they work down to the fundamentals?

For C and even C++, I can confidently say YES.
Actually, want to use multi-cores which are so prevalent today - you can run Netbeans IDE for Java / PHP / JavaScript on them with good memory which I don't thinks SoCs can handle. I need much more CPU than SoCs but will be happy with a single / two core(s). Four to six developers would then be able to use a single machine with decent RAM with dramatically reduced maintenance.
Workplaces ban online streaming of the Olympic Games
This is going to be an interesting fiasco, chewing ever more on the shaky public trust. The layman still getting in on this stuff makes it so private investors can liquidate their worthless investment at a premium, the former won't learn before the later does.
jq exists, is fast, and works well. Is this compatible?
yet another reason to trust dr. bronner...

... on "evidence-based" (cf. CDC) v heuristic reasoning: certain aftershaves and similar make me gag.

knowing it's because of petrol is just the evidence i need to become self-righteous about it :D
> Even in the EU, local courts might not always reach the same decision due to differences in local law.

Same as in the US, but ultimately the EJC is Europe's Supreme Court, if it decides to take a case and rule, its rulings supersede local decisions.
The reinvention of XML in JSON is almost complete - JMESPath vs XPath, JSON Schema vs XML Schema etc. If you need semi structured data to that level, consider using XML instead - you can validate it, there's plenty of tools, it's very stable and mature etc
I used to say that for a long time too, and its still technically correct, but so much in the prison system is part of a business (like phone calls and "work" and other necessities).

A small introduction: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-uni...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_coder (and an arbitrary large number of other explanations that you can find with a search)

In a nutshell, both encoding and deciding side hold a dictionary that maps long sequences of data to still-unique short ones and vice versa (ie. a bijective mapping). Encoder uses it to compress, decoder reverses it.

There are obviously many interesting practical questions such as how the dictionary is synchronized, how the mappings are determined, how to keep it a bijective function, etc.
Any ideas how can I influence the development. I know at least a dozen IT and school people who want this and I might be able to mobilize even more.

People who want to see Linux on the desktop may be more interested to see this happen.
Tesla is working on self-charging, but a simpler option is to contract the gas stations and have the workers there fill up the tank
> Does it seem like Youtube is overrun by millions (must be millions overall, for all kinds of movies) of fake "movies"

This is done intentionally by studios and fully sanctioned by Google, the intention is to pollute search results of known titles so that users ultimately become frustrated enough to simply purchase the movie.
So HN has devolved to the point where people are defending the actions of people in the textbook case of a speculative bubble. Yikes....
(1) that’s not a meaningful support of any kind of argument. It’s borderline vacuous.

(2) I’ve never heard a bari surgeon Not recommend lifestyle change. Most will ask you to do your best pre-op, to make the surgery as safe as possible. They will counsel you on the same post-op. Many have in-house dietitians to assist.

(3) Your argument implies the following: Bari surgeons pretend and contend diet doesn’t work, to keep the supply of customers coming. Fact check: diet was failing for decades, and only the resultant epidemic made something as extreme as cutting out pieces of a non-diseased GI tract not entirely insane. Go read another hundred diet books of the week; proclaim their findings from the rooftops. I’m pretty sure the bari surgeons aren’t going to run out of willing customers.
>> You can't use the NLRA to organize in opposition to federal employment law. Wa-waa.

I know I should really not be focusing on that one silly little detail out of your comment (which I agree with in general) but can you please explain that "Wa-Waa"? Do you mean it as in the "wa-waa-waa-waaaa" sound from old movies, like in the video below?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xt1kUK71lc

And sorry for derailing the conversation.
Usually, when you compress, it's with, say, gzip, rather than something custom for the data. The compression dictionary is kinda implicitly built and encoded along with the data.

If you have, like, some standard data (handwave), you can build a dictionary of frequently-used terms and refer to it when you compress and decompress, and you can get better compression for being able to point at that pre-built dictionary.

I might be totally offbase here, as I think database normalization would remove much of the redundancy that a dictionary would target.