skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things are what they are, not what our arbitrary categories classify them. A knife is a tool and a weapon at the same time, and it can be a great number of other things, a cultural artifact, a piece of industrial design and a piece of junk, all at the same time. A thermonuclear warhead device can be a doomsday device and an essential tool for Mars terraformation.

So it's not the way you use it that makes a weapon, a weapon remains a weapon throughout it's non-violent uses; the oldest trick in war is to disguise weapons as tools before using them in an attack. See nuclear proliferation under the guise of atomic energy, the militarization of space, Hitler's powerful 'defensive' army.

It may sound like a pedantic distinction, but in practice, the fact that something IS a weapon, regardless of how it's being used, will drastically alter decisions. Imagine an unknown person coming at your family with a knife or ax in hand. Under the "not a weapon until used as such" doctrine, the burden is on you to prove the agresive intentions and you have no logical reason to be concerned until then.
Exactly. And fibonacci numbers also have a closed form which can be (in theory) evaluated in O(1):

http://austinrochford.com/posts/2013-11-01-generating-functi...
>have a solid track record

They do not. Telegram still does not encrypt chats.
For the record, most of Facebook’s app is not currently built in React Native so please don’t use it to judge RN. I could go into why FB app quality ends up low but don’t think it’s that relevant to this discussion.

And FWIW Facebook probably employs over a thousand iOS and Android developers. It’s not a “budget” thing for us.
Umm ... no, when you recompress music that was already compressed with a lossy algorithm, you will have lower quality than if you had just stuck with the original. You can’t save what isn’t there, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t lose even more!
That would mean 7 southern cyclones accounted for. This is still different from the 9 on the northern pole.
More significantly, "we're" all cool with US soldiers and anything they do to other countries. I don't understand the disconnect in "soldier good, army bad".
Likewise, no body has time for this when picking through resumes, it's annoying enough as is, no need to make me wait 20 flashes and 5 minutes before I find out whether you do JS. It's also terrible UI design, as in, none, at least a TOC or some way to move through faster.
MS-13 is ‘taking over the school,’ one teen warned before she was killed
How is this a hashtable implementation?
I have lost (left behind moving) all my CDs a decade ago already and I didn't have enough HDDs to use FLAC back in the days. Now I recode my 320 kbits MP3s to 128 kbits OPUS and can't tell the difference (although I am one of those rare people who can distinguish between high (128+ kbits) MP3 bitrates).
If you know enough to hate bitcoin then you've likely already heard all the standard pro-Bitcoin arguments. By now you'd expect a "this will change your mind" article on the topic to bring up some new angle. Not this one. It's just the usual suspects ("No fees! No government meddling! Financial power to the poor!") complete with the standard sprinkling of opinions stated as facts.

How does the author justify wasting bits on this in 2018? The righting of wrongs: "the result of all this low-quality Bitcoin journalism is that most newcomers never get to learn about all the new and exciting things made possible by Bitcoin’s core technology."
* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/429474/

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/428615/

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/428689/

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/428474/

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/427836/

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/427806/

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/427712/

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/427710/

That's just one WWW site, just the ones that I encountered (because I do not read them all), and just since the beginning of this month.
>Consider the government make-work programs during the Great Depression, which are now credited for dragging out that misery.

The thing that amuses me about this is that you've probably flown through LAX or LaGuardia and driven across the Triborough bridge.

But sure, "make work".

>Source: Two degrees in economics.

It seems to bear a striking resemblance to theology these days.
This should be fixed ASAP, I noticed it right away and it turned me off to seeing the rest of it.
> * Someone else can come along and outbid you for it auction-style.*

Maybe I misunderstand your model, but which entity would run the auction? And who gets to collect the winning bids?

In the previous post, I assumed the whole market was to be a thing between the airspace participants while the air traffic authority just keep track who has blocked which part of the airspace. Would the authority now also conduct the auctions?

> That way, anyone squatting will have to pay handsomely to do so.

I'm not an economist, but I don't see why the squatters couldn't have deep pockets.

Squatting for political/strategic reasons might be done by airlines themselves - who might have large enough war chests to play games. (If the goal is to keep certain competitors out, they might not even need to win the auctions - driving up the price enough so that continued bidding becomes unviable would be enough)

If squatting for profit is viable, there might appear speculators who use credit/investor money to stay in the aucton.

> While there is no shortage of airspace, most bids would probably be fractions of a cent anyway.

My suspicion is that, just like land on the ground, different areas of airspace would have vastly different value. For drone/airtaxi/etc participants, airspace above big cities would probably be very valuable - while long-distance flights need to choose the best route, while taking distance across the globe, jetstreams, weather, distance to nearest airports, etc into account.
tongue in cheek I'm hoping.
> the foundation for a radically new type of financial system

A radically terrible one. The financial system should not waste gigantic amounts of power on maintaining security under trustlessness. Unlike libertarians' ridiculous dreams, actual human society requires trust.

> This transaction was transmitted and processed instantly, for $0 in fees

No way it's been $0. And it's even worse now. Confirmations are slow, miner fees are large, exchanges have fees, you can quickly lose on exchange rate…

(Mining rewards are mentioned later in the article… but not where they come from)

> As the number of independent mining groups increases and becomes more geographically dispersed

Still a few large pools dominate the network https://blockchain.info/pools

> [cash] also means that they could be robbed of their entire life savings on any given day

There's a whole subreddit, /r/Buttcoin, full of stories of bitcoiners losing their life savings on any given day. Scams, hacks, bugs, private key losses, scams, scams, and even more scams.
How about you ask the people that US soldiers protect, like the people liberated from living under the dictatorship of Saddam, whether they're cool with US soldiers?

It's so funny to see people ignore all the tremendous amount of good that US soldiers and the military have done in the modern era for different peoples and nations and obsessively focus on the relatively few individual bad actors and examples of clear military wrongdoing. It's naive.
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I have much less than that. I use 4G mobile for my internet access. Right now a speed test shows I'm getting 2.8Mbps down and 3.3Mbps up. I'm kinda out in the country, so my speed is slower than it could be in a city, but I don't think it's ever reliably over 10Mbps; sometimes I might see 12 or 13, but it is not reliably that fast anywhere I can recall.

I don't love my network being this slow, but I'm able to do most things without pain, including streaming Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/YouTube, though I often get the lower resolution versions of those streams. Latency is much more of an issue, for me...when it climbs, I find working difficult. I do a lot of my development on servers a few hundred miles away, because I can't realistically download a bunch of VM images or OS install ISOs and that's the kind of work I do, so having ssh be responsive is really important.

But, sure, faster is better. I don't like that our telcos in the US lag the rest of the modern world by at least a generation of tech. Average broadband speed to price ratio in the US is something like 14th in the world; embarrassing for the nation that did most of the innovation of the early internet. Likewise, we're way behind on mobile broadband accessibility, price, and performance.
Look up the history of media and its role intersecting with the rise of Fascism and Nazism, the various earlier revolutions in Europe (particularly "The Year of Revolutions", 1840, in which there were fifty revolutions throughought Europe and South America), the not-quite-a-revolution Chartist movement in England, the French Revolution, the American Revolution, large aspects of the Reformation / Counter-Reformation (including the 30 Years War), the de Witt brothers' lynching in the Netherlands, the history and background of the Catholic Inquisition (dating from ~850 AD to the 1960s), and the experience of the Romans and Greeks with demagoguery (literally "a man of the people", but which rapidly acquired the connotation of "rabble rouser"), and the tradition of Socrates / Plato / Aristotle vs. the Sophists (from which: sophistry, sophomore, and sophisticated).

It's almost as if there's some fundamental social-system dynamic by which information, information mediation, cognitive capabilities (particularly at the population level), and other information-theoretic and psychological dynamics are deeply rooted in human, and arguably all systems function.

A good capsule summary of this is H.L. Mencken's brief "Brayard vs. Lionheart", written of the 1926 U.S. presidential election, from which the infamous line about an idiot someday being elected to the office is found, but whose real value is in clearly describing the dynamic. And also, IMO, tying it to Gresham's Law.
Since we live in a democracy, you really should take it one step further and deeply examine yourself, the voter, as well.
> That he thinks his unhinged writing style might be persuasive to anyone is baffling to me.

This is what got me. "humming"! It's classic crank writing; who could possibly imagine that anyone could take this seriously?
I am VDR Taq positive and from what I gathered as long as you check your vitamin D levels from time to time and supplement accordingly it shouldn't be an issue. Also there are co-factors for sulfation of vitamin D like zinc, B6, DAO, lysine so you need to check those too. It becomes more complex when, like me, you also have mutations that makes B6 and zinc less abundant.
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These scummy corps do it all the time. A critical illness insurance co. tried to not pay my mom because they had their own technical definition of a heart attack. She sold herself the policy, and didn't even know this. In fact, it was subsequently ruled illegal and new policies couldn't use this definition. But they flew in lawyers to her small town, so she had to go to small claims court while recovering from a heart attack. All to try and avoid paying about 20k. She settled for most of it, in the end.
Yes I want cheap money transfer internationally and yes, I want a system capable to undermine authoritarian censorship.
But I think that blockchain is extremely crude and unreliable technology to implement them. It is immutable, number of nodes (i.e. backups) is unpredictable, its hardware footprint is insane and will only increase in the future and bitcoin is going to be essentially centralized, with decisions concentrated in those lightning hubs and exchanges in offshore locations. I don't believe in the underlying technology, I think it may succeed but be very limited and not because some 3rd party will demolish it, but just because it is not a magical tech they claim it is. (and altcoins are mostly even worse in technology department)

Maybe I'm wrong and don't see some really long term perspective, well then I'll admit it. For now I don't use any of them.
Prediction is the one thing a AI excels at at this point. I wonder if someone could devise an apparatus to assist with such a disability.
I don't think I've ever closed a browser tab so fast. Do you really think a recruiter is going to sit through this clunky thing for 5 minutes?
TLDR: Ofc No.
"Things have changed".

That's being a bit liberal. Sure, [AV]R is going to be important in the next few years, but it certainly won't be mandatory. People will still be using flat monoscopic (not stereoscopic) displays.

The work Mozilla has put into Servo is clearly very useful right now. There is still a lot of work to be done on Servo, and on Rust itself. Are you really that surprised that some of us are wary of splitting that team's priorities to work on something like [AV]R?
Author here, thanks for all the responses.

Gapless playback is high on my personal wishlist as well.

Same goes for additional audio formats. I was actually surprised that the latest macOS had built-in support for FLAC but there are a few others I'd like to add.

Both of these features will require a more custom audio solution, which may take some time to figure out... but it's on the roadmap!
Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories
Hey this reminds me of Bahamut which I made for similar reasons: https://github.com/sdegutis/Bahamut/blob/master/README.md
I cannot believe you're serious with that condesending example.

Putting people from Cambridge and Oxford on the pedestal is yet another example of what's wrong with Britain.

This also shows in the way they work: people from Europe get the work done and move on to the next task. People from Cambridge and Oxford try hard to be smart and come up with solutions so complex that, when they work at all, have the net effect of slowing everyone down.
eBay for parts. If you want to sell as a whole unit, do it locally.
Are you using stock magit? I think a few of the GitHub integration plugins for example have performance issues, so it may not be Magit's fault but some of the other extension you're using.
> "Excitement is a feeling, which nobody has to justify. Hype is a behavior, and people can and should be held responsible for their behaviors."

Depends who's doing the hyping. If it's a potential consumer, then hype is derived from excitement, and the same rules that apply to the justification of excitement would apply to the justification for hype. On the other hand, if it's a company hyping their products, then they may not be led by their feelings, but I don't see the harm in it either. What do you lose out on if a company is hyping their products?
I've had real world applications where the full program's performance increased by a factor of 10 when switching to khash over std::unordered_map. I've seen papers which have them performing rather comparably, but whenever I've compared the two, khash has always soared over std::unordered_map. I use std::unordered_map for typical, average use cases (where speed doesn't matter as much and I'm feeling lazy), but khash for inner loops/core functionality.

I wonder if part of the reason is that, by nature of the standard, std::unordered_map has to resolve its collisions by linear chaining, while khash is able to use quadratic probing.
Show HN: A web API to query HN posts(stories only) in a customized way
> ... and asked for my details.

If you weren't before, you're definitely on some lists now.
As a new user to HN I was curious about all the context I can gain from earlier posts and the native search engine isn't flexible enough(not enough customization).

Made a spring web API over the weekend to query HN stories in a better customized way. I am still to put a front end onto it(shelving it as I am not very good with JS).

It does take significantly longer to query as it scans over like 2.2 million stories and I haven't had enough time to optimize queries(any suggestion will be awesome). However it does get the work done.

Anything that I need to improve?

Any suggestion(s) will be more than welcomed.
What makes you say current train systems can't mix high and low density vehicles?
People are looking to solve some of those issues with other currencies. Not sure if any of the current iterations are good enough, but one example is Nano https://nano.org/en/faq
Defense contractor 2.0. Just what we needed.
That's correct. I might switch to a 3rd party decoder later.
It sounds to me like a desperate attempt to explain away religious experience.
https://www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com
I have to admit I love kate. It is my favourite graphical text editor on linux. As a part of KDE, it is simple to install under any distribution and highly customizable out of the box without installing any extensions by hand (a feature common to KDE programs).

Kate has a number of tools you expect from an advanced text editor, such as block editing or the capability to open and edit very large (GB) text files (which otherwise I can edit only with vim).

For me, Kate is on linux what Notepad++ is on Windows.

For those who like Kate and lack certain IDE features, try out KDevelop. It uses the Kate editor and enriches it with a number of typcial IDE features such as code browsing, autocompletion, context-sensitive syntax highlighting, etc. http://kfunk.org/2017/01/10/using-kate-for-hacking-on-c-why-...
not to be discourage you but i liked it artistically but functionality wise its quite low. You are fighting with users attention span and you go to present your best work asap on the web page. I hope i make sense.
Depending on your background, and what you're trying to do, something like Xamarin might make you happier.

If you're not a JS person at all, getting thrown into the full-bore insanity of modern web development typically embraced by those who tout React and React Native as the silver bullet, you're gonna have a bad time.
How long have you held these jingoistic opinions? The death toll from the American war in Iraq is somewhere between 150,000 to 460,000. Your views are very extreme. You might be radicalized and in need of an intervention
Couldn't they just open a subsidiary in a country that doesn't have very strict communications regulations?
Shit HN says.
I agree that the wording should be changed for professionalism + clarity. The "I got deep knowledge about" should definitely be more like "I have deep knowledge about".
I used to teach jiu-jitsu to an Iraqi Kurd asylum seeker in London. Despite his own people being gassed, he preferred Saddam. If you kept on the right side of the powers-that-be, you could run businesses and have a life. This is in contrast to the anarchy that ensued after the West's invasion.
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Very cool. Somewhat off-topic question. Looking through the source I see a lot of vendor specific {vendor}-transform css rules. And I see that on lots of other sites too.

From https://caniuse.com/#search=transform it looks like non-vendor transform is supported pretty much everywhere including IE.

Why do I keep on seeing vendor specific transform prefixes?
I really like this.

Except the way the button grows vertically and pushes down the rest of the page.
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I don't think a recruiter is the target audience for something like this.
Hypothes.is supports open and public annotations of arbitrary URLs, including tags and comments, but the intent is that all tags and annotations are public.

It does have an API, and can work via bookmarklets, or by linking to pages by prepending https://via.hypothes.is/
I sincerely hope this is a minority opinion
Streaming 4k basically.

It's definitely optional. But if you look at what most bandwidth goes to, it's streaming video.

For games, latency now matters more. Bandwidth has just outstripped most use cases. Streaming HD music is trivial. Applications maybe, but how many days do you download something new? Eventually you have your setup.

I was hoping the hacker homes in gigabit areas would come up with some way to exploit the pipe, maybe Jevon's paradox would kick in. I'm not sure that's happening.

The upshot is it means fiber's speed advantage might not matter long term, and we can close the gap with 5g and have the last mile problem solved, increasing competition, quality and availability for broadband, while all our connections become portable.
This article puts a pretty hard spin on what actually happened: Dan Abramov did not announce a "replacement for Redux", nor is he developing a "Future Fetcher" library. The React team is working on a feature that defers state updates until an asynchronous operation is finished, but we don't know how it'll fit into existing state management solutions.

Here's the official blog entry and talk where these features were announced: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/01/sneak-peek-beyond-react-...
I’m curious what about the state flow you find cumbersome? Are you talking about using just pure React with prop passing everywhere or something like Redux that lets you subscribe components to specific state changes?
Claiming it is not a necessary part of the fallacy. Basing one's argument on only those two is.

The Uselessd Guy has some rather sharp comments, such as "you’ve been living under a rock for years", for that sort of thing. Even the Debian Hoo-Hah involved analysis of four systems.

"The politics" that you critique include failures to look around and learn from (and indeed about) what already exists and has been done. Don't make the same mistake.
Ah, thank you for that correction. Guess the video was accidentally misleading (they technically didn't say anything about other ML approaches, but overgeneralising like I did isn't that big of a leap)
There needs to be a compiled version of these songs, I think.
Did you know your cat videos may bring you some sweet profit?
thats still relevant. Every developer should take low bandwidth in mind.
when you go to save, you can change the name. This is sufficient, I believe.
TL;DR: Ofc get the dude's details then say no
Neat!

The only major issue is that some UI breaks as soon as a new measure begins.

It would also be really neat to use scales other than pentatonic.
What I find irritating is this constant portrayal of them as this “secret, data mining, all-knowing” technology company that can predict anything. even though everyone saying they don’t know how Palantir works under the hood.

So yeah I definitely believe they are just a well-marketed, hip IBM.
Fixing issues like this is clearly less important than implementing browser-side VR support, I don't see what Palant is on about. As a Firefox user, trading the security of any and all accounts I store passwords for in the browser is something I'd gladly exchange for ... anyway, VR is cool, right?

Guess I should dump the password store and go all-in on the 1Password extension.
I know, but you need to reconcile that with the universe we observe where looking at the system will find it in a definite state and not in a superposition. What is the multiverse response precisely? How is "branching magic" an improvement over "collapsing magic"?
so 50mbps and 100 mbps are really overkill for home purposes
Very similar story here: About 10 years ago I used it for a few years, eventually I switched (with a new project) to Kdevelop, next to Eclipse (because of Java) and finally to Vim.

But after all that time I still remember Geany very positively as a decent Editor/IDE, not too fancy but as a tool to get the job done. Nice to the see the project still alive.