skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't have people waving swastika flags around like they do.

.. yet. We did have an MP shot by a member of a far-right organisation, and we do have an ongoing problem with fascist newspapers. "Crush the saboteurs" and all that. It has now become alarmingly routine to refer to the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition as a traitor.
I agree except "That means e.g. some type of single payer healthcare and paying off the student loan burden."

Those are not the only ways.
Considering that Intellectual Property is a faaaar bigger industry than any other industry in the USA, it makes sense...
How are they going to make money? Telegram users aren't like friends in the real world who send money to each other.
Your examples seem neither clear nor concise though.

If I had to try to understand what was happening there without any comments or any understanding what "fib" was, I'd probably have to stare at that and step through it in my head. Compare that to this:

https://imgur.com/a/80qlG

Or this:

https://imgur.com/a/yZNQr

Both are extremely easy to understand, and would remain understandable even for a new programmer.

So without clarity or conciseness, what's left? Why write code using higher order functions by default? There's no win.
Understood. My bad.
2018 is the year of the security token -- also known as another way for VC's to raise a fund. Good luck actually getting access to the broader market of startups.
Debian testing hardly breaks anything unless one does a blind dist-upgrade instead of upgrade. The normal "apt-get upgrade" attempts to install the latest software versions unless the process requires the removal of other software (except the older version of course) so that (newer versions bugs aside) it won't break the system. The "apt-get dist-upgrade" will attempt to install the latest version even though it could force the removal of other packages, which can completely bork the system in many ways (missing libraries, etc). When I use it I often do a normal upgrade followed by a dist-upgrade and check all packages it would uninstall before allowing it to proceed, if I do. I've burned myself multiple times before learning this:)

Ironically, the "dist-upgrade" must be explicitly called on the command line, but is the default setting in Synaptic (called "smart upgrade" there). Synaptic is a GUI package manager most newbies would probably use in place of the command line, so I would expect its default settings to be more on the safe side.
The upper middle class can often avoid the worst of the debt thanks to money from mommy and daddy.

Of the ~35% of Americans who get college degrees and the debt that goes with it, the ones who end up in the most debt will overwhelmingly be those whose parents didn't save up a college fund for them - i.e. kids who came from working and lower middle classes.
It's crypto, you just write some code and it runs itself /s
In the 1980s, Italy paid a Nigerian town $100 monthly to store toxic waste
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That depends on the company. Some companies (in my experience) do engineer-only scrums where programmers can talk about their blockers and ask for advice from seniors; others do mixed scrums where the engineers are basically reporting their progress to the product manager or someone, and where often technical questions are discouraged.

I'd tend to think the latter are "doing it wrong", but then again, who am I to say? I just know I much preferred working for the companies who did it the former way.
Chemists break record for longest C–C bond
I still use Geany for Ruby development, and I have used it for Perl, Java and even C++. The worst part of my first (and so far only) CS class wasn't that it was in C++, but (for me and pretty much all in the class) grokking what Microsoft Visual Studio (and huge IDEs in general) were all about, and how to use them. It was a huge, unnecessary hurdle.

All you really need in a CS class is to be able to write your code, compile and run it, and Geany does that very well for many languages. I've never been able to do that with JavaScript/Node -- that's one language that I haven't gotten working (as far as running it from within the editor).

One thing that didn't work so well for me was indentation/code formatting. When you first write it in Geany, it looks good, but once you star messing with the code, the indents can go haywire, and as far as I know there is no way to automatically re-format the code. That's where a "real" IDE comes in, I guess.
Here in Harford county, MD they have annoyed my household each year since 2010 or so. Especially mid fall til end of February.

I was just looking for them today via a scan of my room yet not seeing any... when in season I can just look up and around any room in my house and see one.

Overall they are most annoying and worthless creature on the planet. Maybe they provide a benefit to society yet due to being so annoying and gross any benefit goes out the window for me!
Maybe have javascript off by default? I have 70mbps and some media sites are still loading crap after 30 seconds.

Quick JavaScript Switcher for Chrome, or
Quick JS Switcher for Firefox
>In reality, a large swath of the incarcerated population is not motivated to pursue additional education, or really any program that might help them get their lives back on track.

Maybe your point is valid for some state prisons, but in my experience it is not that true.

During my state incarceration in Alaska, the education directors had me develop and teach computer classes. There were waiting lists of inmates who wanted to take them. I taught basic computer knowledge (hardware and operating systems), Office program usage (Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access), and VB.NET programming.

I tried to get the University of Alaska to allow me to take some courses by correspondence, but they were not interested. All I could do was get one of the math professors to send me a few dated textbooks.

In the federal prison system, there were Vocational Training classes that were always full. I took the V.T. Drafting course in one and then tutored it. That class taught 4 months of board drafting and then 6 months of AutoCAD. It had about 45 students enrolled all the time. Sadly, I discovered on release that drafting is no longer a profession due to the new modelling packages that enable engineers to lay out their drawings nearly instantly. However, I can still read blueprints, and can whip one up in a jiffy when a customer needs one for a shed they want to buy from me.

There were no options for college classes in the federal system without having some wealth to pay for them.
I noticed this to that's why I scheduled Thursday and Friday off and do all my socializing and relaxation Thursday night through Sunday. Then Sunday, I would start work at night and finish around Monday around 5pm. With this schedule (working 20 hour shifts Sun-Mon, Mon-Tue, Tue-Wed, Thur) I was extremely productive.
Boring Company will focus on hyperloop and tunnels for pedestrians and cyclists
Conservative Activists Detained in UK because of planned free speech talk
Resist the temptation of applying this to other situations. Some caveats:

- The US didn't actually embark on anything resembling austerity in 2008-2016.

- The narrative that the current US Oresident was swept into office by economic complaints has not held up well. Among other things, it's become quite clear that Trump voters were not primarily those under economic threat. Race, education, and gender were far more meaningful predictors of voting (R)[0].

- Any such causality also fails if you compare economic conditions in 2016 to, for example 2012. Or, if you want to focus on economic anxiety and not headline numbers such as unemployment, 2008.

- Economic factors also fail to explain the decidedly different situations with similar outcomes we've seen in Britain, or Austria.

- Even the poster child for austerity in modern politics, Greece, has somehow managed to keep it together, somehow.

[0]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-pre...
No, the real use case for Bitcoin is getting money out of China despite China's exchange controls. That's much bigger than drugs.
>Do you want to be specific? I suppose one question is do they need to pull off everything they claim in the whitepaper in order to be successful?

Not OP but the whitepaper claims that it wants to produce a decentralised blockchain product with the same efficiency and scale of credit cards or similar payment methods.

Now I'm not terribly knowledgeable as far as crypto currency is concerned, but as far as I'm aware that's a yet unsolved problem because there's a payoff between security, performance, and decentralization.

The article mentions sharding but sharding usually reduces security, you can increase the block size but that will lead to centralisation, and so forth.

The scale / decentralisation trade-off is inherent to almost all complex systems. Overcoming it is a pretty big thing to promise.
That was a depressing read. As an engineer though I'm already imagining mechanical ways to try to mitigate their population. Given their attraction to warmth I could imagine a cylinder with vents that warms itself to invite in the bugs, then when full it seals itself and flushes with a solvent or incinerates with a gas flame. Once clean it re-opens for the next batch.

No doubt there is something wrong with that but it would be an interesting project to build and figure out if you could exterminate large quantities of these bugs with that technique.
Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac
Nearly 40% of Americans say they've lost faith in American democracy – Axios
I’m being swarmed by box elder bugs right now - thousands of them on the sunny walls of the house. I shop vac them up. Luckily they don’t stink.
That was incredible. Every combination hypothesized, then experimented with, ending with an intuitive explanation.
I found Duolingo OK for revising vocabulary but not much use for anything else.

If possible, play back audio at a reduced percentage. I find 90% makes everything a lot more comprehensible.

And, of course, constant practice & revision.
It literally doesn't load anything without javascript enabled
I imagine if any county in the US had an independence movement that lasted a month it would probably be starved and invaded... much like Bavaria was.

I don't think a month of political chaos and severed economic ties is really a long enough time to live up to any stereotype. It would be like judging the effectiveness of the German economic machine on the basis that Berlin was still a total mess 1 month after the war ended.
You'll be happy to know that, by and large, your wish is actually truth: Of the ten million or so refugees from Syria, 8+ million are in Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_W...
Everybody on every Linux that isn't Arch either uses the Arch Wiki already, or should.
> edit-001: ...

Are you planning very many edits?
Algorithmic in-real-time internet radio
I loved Privateer as a kid too. I made a massive chart of buying and selling prices for different goods to and where just about everywhere.

I need to see if it's on an abandonware site somewhere!
Pandoc supports org-mode, so you should be able to use it to convert to DocBook, which you can then use with XLST (pandoc also supports HTML directly, by the way).
The future of the TIFF format
Still too much.

It's like taking a bus to a race. Are they going to provide their own hardware? If yes go and improve the existing indicator system and then sell it back to FAA/airports. If not, I am going to get popcorn and watch as they kill our cell phone coverage.

I am not sure cell towers can take the extra load. I know I am rushing, but wait till instead of Fedex running around you see 1 drone per package, zipping through cells.

P.S. I think all these companies only care to get the FAA to sign off and allow package delivery (or spying, I mean "data collection" -- who knows). I feel they will come up with a clunky system that people are going to hate for years.

P.S.2: Didn't say anything about security or fairness considerations. I can easily see Amazon blocking a wide path for their drones and be like, we paid for it we get to use it bugger off.
It's the equivalent to a startup saying "If we only get 1% of [very large market] we'll be worth billions."
If you murder 'people' or murder a person? What about manslaughter? Is that full stop too?
It is cool to see someone experimenting with Opal, since Volt framework which was pretty cool, there were no attempts, that I know of, of using Opal well.

I think at this point, it is not quite clear where the whole thing will go and benefits would be more obvious later when there is more development.
It's not about pessimists vs. optimists, but about the fact that 1. Pinker has obviously not read many of the works he criticises, and 2. he displays no ability at self-skepticism or any other quality that makes for interesting intellectual writing. His texts are thinly veiled propaganda (in his talks the veil is completely gone; they are long rants against intellectuals he clearly has not read) of the most boooooring kind. It's OK to have an opinion; it's not OK not to seriously study what it is that you're writing about (say, the Enlightenment), and it's not OK to write boring propaganda yet present yourself as a profound intellectual. He is shallow, unoriginal, boring and almost criminally unknowledgable.
Hah, I remember fiddling for ages with autoexec.bat and config.ini for ages trying to free enough memory for WC to run with sound!
> Britain chose not to exercise this right in the first place, so it seems fallacious to suggest that the government would exercise further restrictions if it could.

It's not fallacious and the UK did do that [0] for 7 years after they realised that the A8 migration estimates were incredibly wrong.

> In the UK, despite all of this immigration we have rather low rates of unemployment, marginally lower than before the 2004 expansion of the EU

First of all, no one here said immigration is causing unemployment, just wage stagnation for certain industries.

Second of all, it's not "counterintuitive", immigrants tend to move to areas with low unemployment so I would expect the above to be the case anyway. Most immigrants wouldn't come if there were no jobs.

> This soon hits the point in the modern globalised world that the industry just becomes uncompetetive and closes down, outsources, invests in labour reducing machinery, or moves

But that's not what's happening here, as you said, the jobs are still here (low unemployment). They're not automated or outsourced, they're done manually for minimum wage (or lower) by hard working immigrants from poorer countries.

I have to say, you kind of changed the topic. We were discussing about the existence of limitations for low skilled workforce, not whether or not Brexit was a good idea.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25565302
Yeah my bad, I misinterpreted your post
All of the above, and more. If you read the discussions for a few months, you'll find out quite a bit about people's backgrounds and interests, which are very diverse. (As for myself, I'm an engineer who has no connection to startups.)
OP did not say he hoped to see 'biologically equivalent' behavior, I don't think that't the argument of very many people. We're talking about replicating (useful) aspects of intelligence and we use humans (or housecats) as our baselines, because that's where intelligence came from. And indeed, all forms of AI, including your latest NIPS conference showroom DL/ RL models are very brittle in replicating intelligence. As Ng said I think a year ago, the limit of AI right now is any mental task that a human can do in less than 1 second. Agents that reason about things are still in the realm of science fiction.
To answer myself, yes, SSO plans can enforce display name uniqueness.
It's trivially obvious that some people get more from reading than from watching, and vice versa. If you think a study disproves something trivially obvious, odds are that either the study is flawed or you've misunderstood it.

I'm guessing the latter, as mjw1007 points out.
Thanks Nate, I have to consider my position and how people perceive my intentions when discussing it, so I can't be as harsh as I think the situation necessitates to change opinions. And even with ban the box laws like CA has recently passed, with public record scraping services stored in private databases,the info is not going away even w expungment(not sure that it should). We need to change perception if for no other reason than: IT COST A FUCK TON OF MONEY to support people who don't participate in the economy, lifelong barriers/stigma very much alienate people from reintegration.
Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother
I don't mind that Debian will patch upstream packages to make them fit better with the overall Debian system. If I wanted a no frills system, with minimal integration, that strictly followed upstream for everything, then I'd move back to Slackware.

Their policy on language specific package management is also pretty reasonable. There's no point duplicating effort packaging things in both Pip and the Debian repos when those package managers work fine under Debian. It lets Python devs use the same tools as every other Python developer on other systems, and avoids Debian specific instructions for package installation. It also completely side steps the problem of following upstream for all of those packages.

The advice I've always followed is to always use the language specific package management unless I'm specifically building a package for Debian.
The complete infeasibility of the Boring Company
I can see them pulling something off. It probably won't be earth shattering from a technical perspective, it will have some compromises that the crypto space will dislike, their storage service will suck, and "TON Services" will be a slightly nicer interface for an Etherium clone. But that doesn't matter, as long as the payment part works and scales, the interface is good and the marketing is right.

Large adoption can smooth over a lot of flaws, and Telegram has the right tools and vision for achieving that.
They are getting into an area of soft real time systems with a "donkey", in my opinion. Either they are not thinking ahead or are being too optimistic or they are going to use a bunch of hardware to make this work. My thoughts. What do you think?
Why is it so hard for some to understand that eventually people get tired of the "same old same old", especially when they start thinking that things are getting worse in their day to day lives?

Of course people will be looking for some change. And if none of the established parties comes out with that real change, or no other "rational" party comes out promising that change, then that leaves the extremists/authoritarians, so they'll go for those.

Sometimes I'm amazed at just how blind some people can be at this, and think that people should (or will) always vote for the lesser evil (in the downward spiral). No, eventually people will get fed up with that, whether you like it or not. So it's important to have a real, but also rational, alternative to the slow-moving political establishment.

It would be best if the main political parties would pre-empt this by actually addressing people's latest concerns and being in tune with what those concerns are, but often they get too comfortable with the power and the relationships they have at the top, so it almost comes natural to them not to do that.
To be fair, the 'very high tax rate' it's been put up to is still less than income tax levels, so it's still being incentivised.

I used to be a self-employed consultant. The number of my peers who set up one-man companies, stayed (or claimed to stay) just a whisker outside IR35 and paid themselves in dividends was astonishing.

I see no reason why dividends from a company with no fucking capital should be seen as anything other than regular taxable income.
To be fair the local history function in Jetbains IDEs do that better / more elegantly and can also restore deleted files or even entire folders.
Obligatory reference to the list of platforms Debian has been ported to and the "blends" it can be customized to.
https://www.debian.org/ports/index.en.html
https://www.debian.org/blends/

BTW, many moons ago I used Red Hat on Alphas, so I know it's not the only one. Still it's impressive.
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If it's not working, why isn't it addressed in the retrospective? If you have a proper retrospective, you can change anything, even going from scrum to kanban.
Bringing Waymo self-driving technology to trucks
It is possible to define an android application without defining a single XML file. There's a reason Android provides XML based definition for layout definition. The alternative is VERY tedious and bloats the code. Which is what this seems to be going towards.

This has the added disadvantage of not making it clear in one place what the structure of things is. You have to hold it in your head or on paper what the defined structure is.
The question is how centralized does a network like this need to be?

Not sure if I am reading the white paper correctly but I think Telegram appear to be going with a masternode type solution initially for their proof of stake solution

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake:

“Another form of staking is running a masternode,[9] a form of decentralized server. The main disadvantage of operating a masternode is the relatively high barrier to entry as opposed to staking alone. In order to secure the network, those willing to run a masternode are required to purchase a certain number of coins as collateral at current market price.”

Will a solution like this, which is more centralized than something like btc be good enough? Will people be happy with this level of centralization or refuse to use the service on principle? I don’t know. I do think that at least the earlier parts of their roadmap seem plausible (2018). The 2019 section however does seems rather ambitious and ambiguous.
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You've broken the request above to keep political rhetoric out of the thread. Independently of whether your point is correct or not, this has a reliably degrading effect on discussion.

By no means is it a coincidence that the flamebait bit of your comment is precisely the one other users respond to. Flames start fires. Please don't start them on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Most immigrants wouldn't come if there were no jobs.

That's fallacious. Perception of a market does not always match actual figures about that market.
Oh god, why?
You need the connection anyway. If you start considering large-scale drone applications it's hard to do anything without the internet connection. If you are operating on a scale that allows for swapping sd cards, you don't really need programmatic air traffic control.

What's more, connectivity around drones gets better - e.g. I recall even special "for drones" mobile plan by Verizon: https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/6/13193616/verizon-selling-... .
I heard they are quite tasty, though. Seriously!
I was asking this question to myself lately and started working on some flow:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yasinaydin/yasinaydin.gith...
Cost of SF-LA train rising 20% to $77B, delayed 4 years to 2033 [pdf]
The general rule I tend to think of is that upward mobility in the wealth distribution is taxed, but position in the wealth distribution isn't.

For example, take employee options, typically EMI in the UK. The tax advantages only exist for 10 years from option grant, and only while you continue to work for the company that granted them - the employee needs to maximize their value to the owners of capital. People with lots of capital already, OTOH, get tax incentives to invest.