skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be fascinating to watch the Clarke cut. The spartan ambiguity of Kubrick's cut almost certainly makes it the better film, but to see A Space Odyssey from such a different creative perspective would nonetheless be a revelation.

I wonder if prints of it still exist in a vault somewhere.
It also scrolls back to the top instantly if you try to search the text, like for the word "tears" so you can quickly look up the antidote to the clickbait headline. It also blocks copy-paste, so you can't share the relevant paragraph and save the rest of HN ten minutes of reading.
It is guaranteed to get worse if the Supreme Court doesn't step in. For eg - Aadhaar enabled payments are on their way, and there is a push from the government to get Aadhaar authenticated ATMs out (fingerprint based). Think of what happens when your Aadhaar is disabled? We've already had people die on hospital entrances because they couldn't find the patient's Aadhaar[0], now we're moving closer to a guaranteed civil death.

The state of Telangana, for eg is turning into a over-policed state with:

- The state police maintaining a copy of the Aadhaar Data[1]

- And using it to geo-tag each resident[2]

- And track petty crimes using aadhaar[3]

Our only hope at this point is that the Supreme Court gives a favorable verdict.

[0]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/hospital...

[1]: http://srdh.telangana.gov.in/tgsrdh/DataSeeding.html

[2]: https://twitter.com/digitaldutta/status/958251786803994624

[3]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/aadhaar-l...
Not that this is the definitive answer by any means, but simple measures like SO trends suggest that the community has moved on a bit[0].

Obviously I don't think that's definitive proof of Meteor being dead, but usually it seems like that's an indicator of declining new interest (which leads to extinction over time).

For another example, while I wouldn't say Backbone.js is completely dead[1], it's hard to pretend that it hasn't been largely supplanted by React and ES6, and Backbone probably doesn't have a bright future. There's undoubtedly a community around it still, but I would be shocked if that community doesn't get smaller each year.

I don't doubt that Meteor will continue to live for quite some time, but I think there's valid reasons to suggest the community will continue to shrink.

0: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=meteor

1: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=backbone.js
I sort of agree with the other reply (that's dead now), if not with the way they said it. Your response provides next to no information. Maybe you could list some of the reasons why you don't use Apple products? "Many reasons" provides no insight, which is especially annoying because the parent comment to yours was explicitly asking for you to explain your reasoning.
I wish Windows had allowed other web browsers early on. By the time Microsoft allowed native code, the few alpha projects of FireFox had been abandoned.

These phones do have UEFI+ARM. Has anyone unlocked the bootloader? I feel these would be an ideal open source OS mobile platform for something like Plasma.
I once left a Kindle in the the seat pocket and noticed promptly after deboarding, just late enough to not be able to go back.
Went to the retrieval company (it was not the lost&found office, at MUC there's a small office by one company that seems to exclusively handle this sort of stuff) and they phoned someone. The result was that the cleaning crew had just been in there and nothing was reported found. :/
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Martin, IIUC you are a student that suffered a class using bleeding edge features. I can understand why you are bitter, but you should not be so quick to disparage Mr Ducasse. Your faculty was his client, and it seems that circumstance was outside his control. From our mail list...

Stephane Ducasse wrote:

> I told them NOT to use github.

> I told them that Bloc was alpha. They got a large list of topics and could have picked another one.

> Now of course we should improve and they too.
Considering a large part of the story is about how he's not been able to get people interested or informed for decades, I think you dropped a useful bit of information.
well im certainly interested, sounds absolutely fascinating
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On iOS the only program that's allowed to send messages is Messages, so there are no third-party text message apps.
Yes, these have existed for quite some time. However, you could get one with varying different ID proofs earlier - Driving License, Ration Card, PAN (Tax) Card, Voter ID etc.

Now, we're all being forced to link _everything_ to a single 12-digit Aadhaar.
If you have 5 or fewer developers and you have less than 250 PCs and you have less than $1 million in revenue you can use the VS Community.

Also to be completely accurate, this would have been in 2012 when the free version was Visual Studio Express and that was free for commercial use.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f280e5b7-f17a...

In today's world -i.e. not for Windows Phone - I would probably not even bother with VS 2017 Professional for a two or three month project. I would just use JetBrains Rider (Macs/Windows/Linux) for $35 a month and use .Net Core and develop on the Mac.

If you really don't want to spend any money today, you could use Visual Studio Code on Macs, Windows, Linux.
I’m not educated on Venezuela’s situation, but the article claims that bitcoin is providing a way to circumvent Venezuela’s laws against trading currencies. If that’s correct, then the article seems to be correct: Bitcoin is providing a valuable albeit illegal way to exchange bolivar for USD.
Per the article, mortality rates in children with celiac were extremely high until alternative diets were discovered.
And of course, all patients read the long pamphlets extensively /s. We depend on our doctors to explain risks like this. And at the time I was discontinuing (not abruptly) the concept of “brain zaps” was met with great skepticism. I am fairly certain that some of the side effects you list (electric shock sensations) were added more recently. It took years of patients being ignored for the idea to be taken seriously.
App should not crash but return/log the database error, ideally translated to layman terms on the customer end.

Logs sent high priority to dev team for fixing.
What happened with the petro?
There's a caveat at the bottom of the page:

> Despite his love for Windows Phone's design, Wozniak said he still uses his iPhone 4S as his primary phone. He says Windows Phones need a better app selection and utilities like Android's voice dictation and the iPhone's Siri.

It doesn't matter how good your execution is, if there's not a whole lot you can do with it.
Well usually IMF throws out some loans to keep the boat floating, but Venezuela would need to be open for that path first. Some people think that comes at the cost of sovereignty, but what can you do markets are markets for a reason.
Given the title and article is sensationalized, does anyone else see that the greater reliance organizations and govnts put on mass-production of homogeneous survellience technology, the easier it will be to abuse, and the harder it will be to be detected. A double-edge sword it is.
For a counter-point from another self-purported Venezuelan:

https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/60x8wv/freed...
Unless I'm reading your source wrong, it looks like it says that the top 10% pays 50% of taxes?

I feel like I should make it clear that my personal opinion is that top marginal tax rates should be much higher than they are, especially on capital gains, but I don't think it's fair to say that the working class is paying all the taxes, given the breakdown.
I think there are a lot more factors that just wealth involved in the number of children. Religion being one. Culture being another.

I didn't say anything about "forcing" people to have less kids. But I do think we should encourage them. It would cost very little to feed people in extreme poverty, could you offer them that as an incentive not to have children? Offer them enough food for a family of three. If they want to have 5 kids, its themselves who will suffer? (Thats just a suggestion that I haven't thought through in any depth, I am sure there will be plenty of flaws in it).

On a side note, China has been growing very rapidly in the last few decades, and they had a one child policy for much of that.
Locke and Molyneux had a hypothesis:
"Not. For, though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube affects his touch, yet he has not yet obtained the experience, that what affects his touch so or so, must affect his sight so or so; or that a protuberant angle in the cube, that pressed his hand unequally, shall appear to his eye as it does in the cube."

They didn't have an experiment that could test this hypothesis. When we were able to perform an experiment, their hypothesis turned out to be correct.

This isn't "dumb luck" any more than Einstein's theory of general relativity being confirmed by the precession of mercury.

And it doesn't have anything to do with neurology - it's about the structure of the mind and perception, rather than the anatomy of the brain, eye, and hands (software, rather than hardware).
Do you know what the people selling BTC for VEF are doing with that VEF? I'd guess that they're buying USD at bargain rates and then buying BTC with that USD to sell.
I must be missing something but the + and . feature both have the same problem for this "scam", right?
I can't remember the name, but there is a language with type-named parameters. It's an object-oriented language inspired by Java.

It doesn't use "the" -- it's clear from context whether something is a type name or reference, so you just use "Node". To handle multiple variables of the same type, you can use Node, Node', Node'', etc.

It also supports phrasal methods, where arguments can appear in the middle of the method name. For example, what would be divide(x, y) could be defined as divide(x)By(y) instead.
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Instead of blacklisting the +spam@gmail.com email, you could whitelist emails like +netflix@gmail.com. You can create a filter so that if it doesn't match the whitelist - including stripping the plus - then it will be automatically binned.

I describe this technique in my blog post[0]. I'll warn everyone now though, you'll probably want an email address for real people that you trust (like +friends@gmail.com). Also, you'll rarely have to email companies, but it is a pain if you need to do it from the +plus email.

[0]: http://iamqasimk.com/2016/10/16/absolutely-zero-email-spam/
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Right, but it's the functional uniqueness of Bitcoin that allows Venezuelans to acquire the USD. They aren't getting it directly.
This is exactly my story as well. My life changed dramatically after I stopped eating wheat. I figured it out myself, despite the fact that doctor said I should keep eating wheat and according to my symptoms I should moderately eat animals fat. Like bacon and butter. Suggested diet made it worse! I never thought that Internet is better place to find a cure than clinic, but one day I just simply googled it and do not want to go back! I've tried couple times to eat bread and pasta and after few days I can feel the difference.
Just think how different it could have been had this approach been feasible a decade or two ago. I believe it would have been, however, nobody had thought of it.

Had that route been taken then by now it would be a mature technology with most laptops having some bulge around the web camera to turn it from touch mode to web cam mode or to privacy mode.

It could have co-existed alongside expensive touch much like how other hardware gets emulated in software if the full hardware is not present. By now the device could have slimmed down to use some magic piece of mylar film that folds flat when the lid is closed but magically springs out to capture the whole screen.

But this is a tech that is too late to the party, touchscreen is not going to have a lame cut down version that works off a webcam, however, had this idea come along and been viable two decades ago then things could have been different, it could have been a tech that lasts for a while before being superseded.

I do wonder at the PIN number stealing scam applications of this and if there is something we will all have to look out for in terms of really sneaky camera on ATM machines.
The text is saying that only secret chats offer end 2 end encryption. With e2e encryption the message can only be read by the original sender and the receiver specified by the sender.

The quality of the text is btw very questionable and dubious as e2e encryption has nothing todo with where the message is stored. See email where your gpg encrypted message is stored on a lot of systems on its way to reach its final destination. This text makes me distrust Telegram even more, thank you for sharing this!
I can't imagine how a hash-based encryption system could work and I wouldn't be surprised if one could prove it's impossible. But I'm not sure anyone has tried.
> Of course it is Microsoft's fault.

What? This makes no sense; why would Microsoft be at fault for supporting a platform that makes demonstrably poorer apps? Doing that would just be shooting themselves in the foot. Are Apple and Google at fault for not making Cordova work well on their mobile platforms?
>bitcoin has absolutely no use.

I would think that putting your savings into bitcoin would have use over holding a currency (Bolivar) with an annual inflation of ~6000%? It is your argument that using bitcoin as an inflation hedge isn't useful? or maybe that there are better inflation hedges?
Interesting. I'm quite passionate about this topic as I recovered from suicidal depression, bipolar and schizophrenia without pharma.

Gratitude practices have been tested and shown to be significant in reducing depression, many studies on this.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a7bb/972b39435b0c5481aef88b...

Time in nature is also shown to fight depression, as found by some Stanford Researchers:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/how-walki...

I wouldn't recommend trying psychedelics on your own, rather used in a specific therapeutic setting with a trained sitter / guide.

There are all sorts of studies on the effectiveness of psychedleic mushrooms on depression or MDMA for PTSD, etc.

Maps.org has ample info.

For me, I'm lucky that I didn't trust the mainstream Doctors who wanted to put me on antipsychotics or whatever else.

And I was blessed to find my way through medical research to find a path that worked. In no small part due to helping Peter Theil launch a startup in the private medical research space -- that experience showed my how very inefficient our medical system is at getting up to date information and practices to folks.
That's not so much a tale of "how Bitcoin is useful for normal people in Venezuela" as "here's why I, a cryptolibertarian, think Bitcoin is going to beat down fiat currency" where the cryptolibertarian happens to live in Venezuela.
How blockchain helps in decentralization here? Or is it just hype train riding?
There's not yet any caching around JITed programs,
which makes it completely unsuitable for OLTP.

Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying! You mentioned it was merged. Does this mean it'll land in stable soon? Will it be behind a flag, or does the planner just know when to use it?

I can't imagine them doing that.

RE: Redshift, That's very unfortunate :|. I suppose that's another downside of AWS forking vs. say Citus who moved to the extension model. Though, this would really be perfect for Redshift's use cases... so I guess we'll see.

--

This is a step in the right direction regardless, but I'm curious how many people are specifically using pure Postgres for large-scale OLAP models (not including occasionally running one-off queries on their OLTP data).
I've filed my tax returns with just my PAN card and without using a DSC. This might be different for a registered organization where CAs must handle DSCs I think, but you could file your Individual taxes without printing/using a DSC/Aadhaar by just creating a new account linked to your PAN.

The fact that they used OTP (and tout it as a security feature) is so disheartening.

I am not the SIM card in my phone. Switching legal consent to a mere 6 digit OTP is a terrible idea. Even more so because SMS is unencrypted and terrible way of sending secrets. There is no recourse in the law for someone stealing your phone and signing away your entire property once e-Sign comes in force everywhere.

I'm just tempted to take a large strength antennae and build a Aadhaar-OTP Wardriving tool.
So basically, same as any other country.
Just accept that people don't like your comment. What do you suspect? Russian bots?
Mining is really riskful. If the electricity spike is noticed they can search your house and jail you.

Only selected individuals can do it without consequences, mostly people from the government and military. For example, there is a rumor going around that they are restoring an entire floor of a public university with the front that they are going to "research" how to mine more effectively. It's not a coincidence that it's Vicerector was imposed just last year by the government[1].

I don't think Bitcoin will get more popular in Venezuela, there are other ways to exchange VEF:USD, in hard cash and wire transfers that generates more trust in most of the population.

[1] http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/educacion/vicerrector-ac...
The latest tor browser version is based on the latest ff esr version. As your claims are therefore incorrect I am starting to ask myself if you have any political agenda to speak out against the tor browser.
If people are hungry, give them food. Don't make them jump through hoops for it.

My understanding was that this was the previous system. Government run warehouses with quotas, and shops that handed it out. You had to present a ration cards, as there has to be some system to stop you collecting 10 times a day & running a shop. (This would otherwise be more profitable than many people's jobs.)

And it didn't work. I forget, but maybe 80% of the wheat went missing? (Officially "eaten by rats" but really sold by officials on the side.) And this food subsidy was quite a large part of the national budget. So that's the scale of the problem which this hoped to solve. If every citizen has a number and a bank account, and you just wire them the money, then you won't lose 80%.

The American debate about ID laws is just a much smaller issue. Surely some people cheat, but the current system basically works.
Regarding "Dark Mode" for Android on OLED devices as discussed in the article, while Google/AOSP may not ever plan to have that there are a lot of steps that you can take to get closer to it. Launcher changes (backgrounds, entirely new launchers, icon packs like TwoPixel[0]), browser changes (Firefox addons like Dark Background and Light Text [1][2]) possibly manufacturer-specific changes (doesn't Samsung tweak a lot of stuff for AMOLED display?) and even replacement firmware.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mowmo.twop...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou...

[2] https://github.com/m-khvoinitsky/dark-background-light-text-...
Well, that's because Android was, until recently, a poor and laggy experience even on flagship hardware.
Was wondering the same. I've been using csvkit a lot lately. This looks like a subset of functionality using more or less the same approach. Csvsql uses sqlite under neath and you can do some nice things with this like joins, using sql functions, etc. There is also stuff like amazon athena that allows you to do similar things in s3 at scale.

Csvkit is great with pipes and you can also easily convert between csv tsv and even stuff like json.
Who are "we"?
Sure, it's common, but I work with devices all the time that have no access to the internet. Cameras, robots, and scientific instruments. Many, like the raspberry pi, can't even keep time when they are turned off. I also go on expeditions where I have no internet access for weeks. A time - based filesystem would be useless in all of these cases.
Https://www.playosmo.com/en/shopping

Osmo iPad reflector, fits well on Mac circa 2017.
The amount of consideration I'm willing to extend to a person who either doesn't know their own email address or is trying to scam me isn't that great.

Sometimes I'll text the person and complement them on their choice of purchases- yesterday it was a stunningly large Domino's pizza order.
People just become poorer every day. Only few who rely on remittances can mantain their lifestyle

Services, fuel and basic groceries have regulated prices so at least as a regular venezuelan you can survive but you can't afford to improve your life (buying new things, traveling, housing, etc) you couldn't even afford health care (please don't even mention public/free healthcare in venezuela, it's a complete joke)

This is why everyone is leaving the country. From my highschool class (we were 75 people) only 5 are still in the country, fromy my university class of about 45 only 4 are in the country, the young "educated" population pretty much dissapeared.
Only from those providers that explicitly disclose this fact; I provide API-driven phone numbers (from a carrier partner) and those show up as the carrier's numbers on every lookup tool, with no way to distinguish them from numbers allocated to SIMs directly. I actually really like this fact and will make sure it stays that way.
Well, at least with plant medicines we have thousands of years of safe human use.

Mushrooms appear to be one of the safest mind altering substances known to man, and if used responsibly, can be healing.

Of course, they do show you what's inside, and for many people, they is going to terrify them. That is sort of the point though, to stare down the parts you've long ignored.
> EEV Blog

low signal to noise ratio. The video log has 400 hour long parts in the series now, it's hard to pull valuable information quickly. It's not structured at all. "all over the shop", to use Dave's words.

> Afrotechmods

Nice introductions, but not very deep. "It's not the Volts that kill you, it's the Amps".
I find it perplexing how Amazon is churning out new products so quickly. How do they do it?

AWS is radical in this way too! New products are launching constantly.
That is absolute rubbish and you know it. There are thousands, if not millions of cases where people have had side effects.

The bias isn't undue, most of the time it's factual and comes from anecdotal experience. You sound like you haven't ever been on antidepressants, and are instead regurgitating soundbites from a medical journal.
Mention of demonetisation explains your 'disturbance'.

Aadhar predates this government and it had 80% enrollment before their entry to power. So no need to make it political.
The only real use for Bitcoin in Venezuela that I’ve seen is sending money to people there.

I did that for a friend a while back, and he was able to exchange for Bolivares and buy food and essentials. He also reported that the exchange was illegal and carried substantial risk, but that the exchange rate was so good $100 was basically a life-changing amount of money and worth the risk.
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Not really, it could also serve as an inflation hedging store of value. To which you might respond that Bitcoin is highly volatile, and you'd be correct. But it's substantially less volatile than the Bolivar.