skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the numbers, you do indeed have a point. It would be interesting to look at the taxes and charge sociales for different ranges of income but, for software startups who hire highly qualified people, taxes wouldn't be an obstacle compared to Malaysia.

And I very much doubt that availability of qualified hires is the obstacle either since the level of engineering Grandes Ecoles is quite good (I might be biased there)

So, I guess factors for why France is not doing that well re startups would be Employee Protection, Kafkaesque bureaucracy when dealing with creating the company and paying the said Charges Sociales and lack of capital.
Just out of curiosity, how does KDE compare to XFCE feature-wise? I am using XFCE for it being lightweight. However, I'd be willing to give KDE a shot if it has some nice features that can enhance my productivity while remaining lightweight.
Don't think it can be decided "objectively", but we usually assume the ordinary scenario is correct and require more evidence the more extraordinary the deviation from the norm (AKA Occam's razor).

Sometimes we explicitly agree on a position, as with the US's "innocent until proven guilty."
It'll be coming, and yes you will. On the bright side, nobody else without a root cert on your box can do it.
The drone strikes we're widely reported, everyone knew about them and the American right was completely in favor of them. They were also in favor of the deportations which we liberals are also well aware of. Fast and furious was widely reported. You've basically listed all the major disasters of Obama's presidency (the day to day bullshit listed on talk radio is just that) and there is simply no comparison to what is happening now and the things you refer to were also widely reported by the media.

It is of course a rote and entirely predictable exercise to take my statement that "this is a catastrophe", turn it around and say, "well Obama was a catastrophe for the right". I'm here to say that this is a false equivalency and the right has lost its mind. The conservative view of Obama is equivalent to the liberal view of Bush, that's a lot more reasonable. But the right has not has their "liberal Trump", and it is perfectly fine that they never will.
Sure. This wasn’t an advocacy for any tool. I suppose most tools use similar tricks and was wondering if it was anything like the one presented here.
> Is it really such a big deal to rewrite your function to use a loop? (After all TRE only addresses recursion that can easily be replaced by a loop. :-)

Sure. Recursion is iteration. But the beauty of recursion is that it lends itself to mathematical/algorithmic/etc thinking and is far more elegant and readable in many situations. Try writing something basic as fib as a recursive function and then in a loop. One is elegant and the other is kludgy.

Lots of things aren't a "big deal" but it's nice to have. It's why we have so much syntactic sugar in languages and it's also why so much of functional concepts are moving to OO space.
History of Lisp
Gave it a Google. Explains my other ranting post in this thread quite well. I apparently spend quite a lot of time in this state. Get lots of really good ideas (almost as many as when doodling on the condensation of a foggy shower window).
I work on a .NET application that runs multiple download HTTP requests at the same time. We recently added support for client-side certificates to authenticate to a customer controlled server.

When Windows is configured in a very high security manner, the user needs to manually give our application permission to use the certificate once during the lifetime of our process.

We hit a bug in .NET where, if we start multiple HTTP requests at the same time that use the same certificate, and the user needs to approve our use of the certificate, the user will get multiple request dialogues.

The fix is a very convoluted lock statement, because if the user says no, the other HTTP requests that would be started at the same time need to be aborted.

What makes the lock statement more complicated is that we essentially need to lock right before the HTTP request starts, but then unlock when we are reading the stream. This means that the first time we use a client-side certificate, we have to disable multi-threading until we know that the client site certificate is approved by the user.
What about my TV, my phone, my iPad? The way I see it the only workable solution to privacy against my ISP is to do it all at the gateway. And in that instance, I need ~50mbit which tor can’t provide.
The main reason that "playpen" is the way it is, is because the default news and politics subs went full Clinton, with moderator and admin approval. It's also an open secret that SRS and its friends brigade the rest of the site, and again, admins allow their rule violations to continue.

Reddit is not interested in being a neutral platform, and the constant scapegoating of the people they drive into containment subs as being the cause rather than the result is both tiresome and idiotic. If you don't want people to isolate themselves and radicalize, don't drive them away from mainstream channels.

One if my main gripes with the current American left is their inability to see themselves as agents who cause the things they hate.
"coming from someone who isn't very pro regulation"

This affects me so it should be regulated. If it doesn't affect me it shouldn't be regulated.
As a civ player I would love to the the mechanics mentions where you could overfish, overfarm, etc and mines and other production improvements had negative impacts on through pollution & other risks (eg offshore oil platform spills, etc). There could be techs & policies to mitagate these issues, but investing/adopting in them would be a trade-off on production & wealth.
Hi, very cool! If you care about privacy, you might want to use https://snips.ai (I'm a co-founder): we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which runs on the Raspberry Pi 3. You can use it from Python or from any language.

It is free to use for makers, and we will start open-sourcing the components a few weeks from now.
We are open-sourcing the platform, starting with NLU first!

We would love to tell more about what we are building if you have questions.

The whole platform runs on-device which makes it ideal for privacy, cost, and to allow it to run when there is no network

We are available in English, French, German, and soon Japanese and Korean and we are working on other European languages!

We would love to see what you build with our platform to feature it on our website

Take a look at what some people have built with it: https://github.com/snipsco/awesome-snips

and a few tutorials to get you started: https://medium.com/snips-ai/building-a-voice-controlled-home...
FWIW I share your point of view. The article is as political as the game itself, they just take opposite stances.

That said, there is a kernel of a judicious argument about Progress in Real Life (PRL) and 4X games, and that's that real-life progress is deliciously complex, full of accidents and unpredictable. Real life progress is a roller coaster that for the most part goes up (don't take my word, just lookup the data), but people step on it coked to the bone on that opiate called "the news", and boy they are going to throw up to the smallest lurch ... but I digress...

4X games on the other hand lack all the complex system amplifiers, which is to expect because well they need to run in far more modest hardware than PRL, and for most people the 4X game itself is a relatively mild psychotropic that they use to counteract the effects of daily boredom and of the nick drugs : the apocalyptic phantasmagoria of click-bait media.
Certainly, my keyboard still has those buttons and I still use them
During the 200 thousand years of human history, technological progress was pretty flat. Low hanging fruit like electricity and nuclear power took a long time to develop. Most of our dreams remain just that.

Recently, apart from CS and genetics, we are stagnant.

On top, progress is trickling down pretty badly. We are wasting lots of resources on conflicts, essentially to ensure that the one percenters keep their possessions, including means of production (so that capital can further concentrate).

We will probably lay the planet to waste, by wars and resource exploitation, much sooner than technology will advance enough to save us.

The ingeniuty of the human race is not its predominant feature.
I was just about to post the same thing.

Sometime over the last few years I started to notice I was moments away from falling asleep because my stream of consciousness would become nonsensical. I then discovered I could fall asleep faster by purposefully daydreaming nonsensical sceneries.
Do wonder how much of that was from code having adopted GNU-isms...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-sni-encryption-02 is the current state of the effort to encrypt SNI. It's a good overview of which obvious ideas can't work and why, plus some complicated ideas that might work, with two of them expanded to a state where it's reasonable to start developing opinions about them as engineers or cryptographers.

Ultimately the destination is that one of these two (or potentially some upset newcomer if it's written up and presented soon) becomes the agreed way to do SNI encryption, and perhaps in 2019-2020 we start seeing clients & servers that can really do it.

For the short term it remains unclear which of the following three things will happen, both generally and in particular environments:

1. (Bad) Organisations bite the bullet and MitM Proxy everything, expenditure on MitM proxies sky-rockets, lawyers spend lots of time & money in court arguing that they _had_ to MitM proxy everything even though it violated employees legal rights.

2. (Good) Organisations suck it up and get rid of MitM proxies almost everywhere, preferring edge solutions that actually still work with TLS 1.3 without needing to spend loads of cash on MitM proxies for everything.

3. (Meh) Organisations refuse to use TLS 1.3, insisting on downgrading everything to TLS 1.2 and crossing their fingers that never becomes obsolete or insecure (see also Windows XP)
I suspect the patterns are there because it forces the driver to be aware there's a cyclist, rather than yet another Red light.
While I don't recognise the music/art part, I have this happening pretty regularly:

> If I don't get hypnogogia, I'll start imagining odd scenarios. Sometimes I'll recognise that it's a sign I'm about to drift off and then bang I'm awake.

Almost like lucid dreaming, but when I'm only half-asleep, and becoming lucid wakes me up.
Well, there are algorithms... but I guess everyone's different :)

Maybe there's a kind of thinking you like to do that's 'routine' and irrelevant to daily stresses?
The Story behind DokuWiki’s new Template (2012)
If you do business in America, ie take money from Americans for them to use your service, you’re still on the hook.
Yeah I use Complice in tandem with either Basecamp or Asana, whichever one I'm not switching away from. Helpful that way.
I had a piece of legacy, proprietary software that communicated to another machine by wvdial over an SSH TTY (?!). It inexplicably stopped working when migrated to a newer machine, but.... worked just fine while running under strace. It appeared to be some kind of timing/race condition brought on by the new machine being faster to bring up a connection. strace slowed it down JUST enough to work.

So naturally, it now runs strace >/dev/null in production, probably to this day.
They will use that technology as an excuse with regulators to further increase brightness on the high setting and then everybody who doesn't get detected will get their eyes completely toasted. Still beats getting run over by an Uber, but it will make life hell for everybody who isn't sitting in a car.

On a dark night road, you can already get dangerously blinded even from an overtaking car with the high beam on (please don't do that, always use the low beam when approaching humans, from any side), without ever having a direct sight line to the lights. The technology you are referring to could be awesome if used with caution, but it will inevitably be used for dazzling regulators into allowing even brighter headlights, and as an excuse to recklessly running the high beam all the time.
Well I mean Google seems to be a lot less eager to give detailed behavioral profiles and social graphs to random people who ask nicely.
The funny thing about this was that the truly incompetent wouldn't have been able to do something like that.

Sounds more like some BS requirement from a clueless middle manager or a boss and a dose of malicious compliance.
Isn't it what black magic is all about?

Unorthodox technique, that you can explain if you try hard enough (in a sense, everything that reliably work could be explained and someone has to came up with in the first place), used by people who don't really understand it.

What do you think is a better example?
There is an important heuristic to make it much more pleasant though: do the things you like and celebrate the successes. Looking back at some of the things I learned, yeah it was tedious and downright frustrating sometimes. But doing these things now I also feel the reward. Pick the things you think are fun and enjoyable, there is no greater frustration than learning something that ultimately doesn't pique your interest. In my case, especially in high school, I disliked learning foreign languages (apart from English, of course), but I enjoyed chemistry and philosophy. Obviously I put more time into the latter, and worked through all the hurdles and headaches, but it was fun getting to know that stuff. I still only speak two languages. If figuring out T-shirt math isn't your cup of tea, then just don't.

I often feel that people see hardship as a virtue. You /must/ feel shitty, otherwise you're not worthy. And, I don't think that's even remotely true in the long run.

Really my only advice to anyone who wants to learn a new skill: if you start to feel reluctant; just stop. Really. Only do the things you ultimately enjoy. Why put yourself through tedious things in your adulthood. The world is a big place, I'm sure there is something you like doing. Just do that. Don't beat yourself up over it. I've never learned to play an instrument, and suck at countless things; and that's fine. You'll notice that you will quickly become better at the things you enjoy, compared to the tedious ones.
Bookmarked in case I ever have trouble sleeping.

I have the opposite problem, I can just fall asleep pretty much anywhere and in any position. Just had a triple espresso or four cold brews, no problem.

I frequently take “desk naps” throughout the day. I’ll set a timer for 15 minutes and lay my head down on my wrist rest. I fall asleep in less than a minute.

Does anyone know if there is a name for that? I generally refer to it as controllable narcolepsy or “luck”.
Glad to see confirmation of using a rubber band to fix an IBM mainframe. Been there done that, but the story is so loony I wondered if anyone would believe me. http://laughtonelectronics.com/oldsite/comm_mfg/commercial_i...
> For those who don’t crave recognition, it induces a digital life that’s more localized to closer friends and family — a state that’s more congruent with our fundamental human instincts.

It's a noble goal.

To achieve it, the author suggests that people buy a domain name, spend $4 a month on web hosting, and manually install Wordpress. The author leaves out ssl, so I assume either the person is going to pay some more for a cert or spend time learning about LetsEncrypt and installing CertBot.

Add to that Wordpress maintenance time and time installing plugins.

Subtract from that the ability to write polemics on any of these topics:

* geopolitics wrt Ukraine

* diversity in tech/gaming

* China's policy on Tibet

* probably others that I'm missing.

Because if rile up anyone with even slight hacking skills (or anyone who could pay such a person) your $5 a month website is toast.

And we're apparently replacing the attention economy with "directly checking your site," RSS, and email newsletters.

If we're going to entertain technical-user fantasies like this make-the-internet-great-again piece does, can't we as technologist at least imagine a less boring future?

* it should cost $0 to publish

* the more popular/polemical one's writing, the faster it it should be to retrieve the document. You know, technology that has existed for close to two decades now

* it should be as easy to use the software of our fantasies as it is to use the awful social media networks we're decrying. Drudgery shouldn't be a badge of ethics.

* it should also probably be able to deliver publicly-funded scientific journal articles at $0 cost to the user.

Actually that last one is key. If someone thinks they've got a Facebook-killer, don't describe the technical underpinnings to me. Just give me a search bar to find publicly-funded scientific journal articles on your system. If I can discover them and read them and they haven't disappeared after a month, I'll then consider using your system to express myself.
In a lot of SEA and EMEA markets road signs, signals, traffic lights, etc. are often non-existent, wrong or broken. Intersections may have 10-20 signs all oriented in a non-standard position.

Throw in motorists and bicyclists that are constantly swerving between lanes and inches from cars. Seeing current videos of how self-driving cars react, it would constantly be jerking in different directions.

There are also lots of local habits that self-driving cars would need to be trained to do, eg in Nepal when in a two lane and you spot an oncoming car, you turn on your right blinker to signal you see each other and can pass safely.
bash/X11 equivalent:

function mouse_around {
while true; do
sleep "$1"
xdotool mousemove_relative 1 1
xdotool mousemove_relative -- -1 -1
done
}

mouse_around 60
You commit suicide
Show HN: Find3 – An indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops
Sen. Warner: Facebook has not been fully forthcoming with Congress
It sound interesting, but I never have heard it before and I can't find it in the link or in Google. Is it in the book? Is there other source? (Creativity advisors are sometime too creative.)
I've got chrome tabs taking more RAM+CPUA than kde. As for startup time, for <1 sec I don't care. If I'm using a graphical app, it's because the command line equivalent is slower to use (e.g. multiple file selection where regexs don't help) so the additional functionality is worth it.
Yes, it is derivable, but it takes a certain amount of (reckless) genius to put all together

In the world where FizzBuzz is hard, applying the Newton Method is a rare thing.
I recently upgraded from an Aura to an Aura ONE, and the backlight is much better. It can be amazingly dim, and at night it uses a hue that has almost no blue light.
I remember in the first Civ that there was a notion of pollution that started kicking in once you had built factories. The only way to clean it up was to dedicated Settler units to go around and clean it up.
This video is a beautiful reminder to look up at the Moon
I get a sense of deja vu with this deal, and previously the Didi deal in China. It's very reminiscent of how Yahoo ended up holding a large chunk of Alibaba stocks.
This is equivalent to thinking "Well I'll keep making more money forever and I could win the lottery so I don't need to save for retirement."
It's not a terribly precise term, to be sure. The physical jerk and anxiety aspect are often lumped together.
In the expansions of Civ 3 (or 4?) in the late game you can lose tiles to effects of climate change and desertification. Though it was never a huge issue for my cities, a little production lost here, a little food there. I'm wondering why they took that out and what other set-backs they can add to Civ to prevent this perpetual growth gameplay. The article touches on the challenges of this, that with these balances the game still has to be fun. Civ 5 balanced (some might say over-balanced) perpetual expansion of civilizations by making new cities a pretty heavy resource sink until they were of a certain size. I'm not as big of a fan of that iteration because of that mechanic.
That could be many things, to be honest.

I wonder, though, since you particularly mentioned "desk naps": Does focussing on your work exhaust you to the point of sleepiness?
Death of farm animals would mean that the total available food supply goes up, not down. Depending on exactly how you count, it takes between 2 and 20 pounds of corn to produce one pound of beef.

In terms of total global food production, meat production is a net drain, that basically consumes food to produce a luxury.
This helps ensure database consistency, but might not actually avoid errors. In this scenario, the period of time between the app code being deployed and the post-deploy migration running there could potentially be application level errors because the app is now ignoring the deleted field and the database expects unique values (or non-null, or whatever constraints you have).

You can solve these issues with some creative migration paths both at the app level and at the database level, but those changes aren't always trivial, and may not necessarily fit in the pre-deploy post-deploy migration strategy.

This may also not be an issue for you. You may be willing to accept a brief period of time where an error is unlikely, but technically possible. Personally, most of the time this is acceptable to me, but I always find it important to think about these scenarios in case something does happen.
Waiting to see how well will Plasma mobile be on the librem phone
So, two points:

First of all, clickbaity title as he says it might be "pointless".

Secondly he is talking about topology. I find it to be a very hard subject. If you pick up most topology books you will find an area of math that most people have never really been prepared for and the books themselves start with some concepts that are very abstract. Now depending on what you are interested in, Topology can provide many insights into the shapes and constructions of spaces. Things like metric topology tie into how vector spaces are constructed. Things like n-dimensional manifolds can be related to aspects of machine learning.

I recommend The Teaching Company’s Shape of Nature videos for learning some general ideas about topology.

Just a disclaimer, I am not a mathematician, so I might be off on some my perceptions. Also no pun intended on pointless.
I used to hear the voices if I was very tired and in a silent room and just listened, not thinking. Since I got tinnitus I've never heard them. I think for me silence was essential, felt like my brain was trying to auto gain select, and if there was no signal crank up the gain until some feedback creeps in.
The file manager, dolphin, is nice. Open up a shell in the window for that directory. Second best for manager I've ever used after Mac+default folder x
Yeah this guy mentions stellaris then dismisses it when actually it solves most of these problems. More than what he mentioned can happen to your society to set it back.
Engine Failure: The Problems of Platform Capitalism
This is one example of many about how german law is ridiculous.
If we consume too little, there will never be the required return on investment required to attract the capital required to make it off the planet.
> Grab allowed paying by cash.

So how does that work? Do drivers get a statement at the end of the month on how much they owe Grab? Is it itemized by ride, or juts aggregated?