skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did find a German news article from 2016 saying that Angela Merkel is an Estonian e-resident - presented to her by the Prime Minister of Estonia. So it seems plausible, but that it's something presented to them as a symbolic PR stunt.

"On Thursday, Prime Minister Roivas will present Merkel with an e-residency card - allowing the chancellor to become a digital resident and try out Estonia's digital solutions firsthand."

http://www.dw.com/en/in-estonia-merkel-and-roivas-talk-russi...

There's an Estonian story with photos about that here:

http://estonianworld.com/technology/angela-merkel-becomes-es...
I’m baffled as to why nihilism is equated with hopelessness or “asshole-ism” when I speak to others about it. I (almost jokingly) call myself a nihilist because I truly believe my life has no meaning. I am but one organism in a giant soup of beautiful organisms.

You're baffled because you're a happy nihilist, as opposed to a bitter, resentful one.
It seems like the revenue share may have pushed her over the edge.

Honest question: does the revenue share program do anything positive? It seems like it increases noise quite a bit to me.
CS50x (Introduction to Programming) [1]: Very well structured. Excellent and very Enthusiastic Teacher & staffs. It was the most fun MOOC I took

Learning How to learn [2]: Life changing. I wish I did it sooner.

ops-class (Operating Systems) [3]: This is by far the toughest MOOC I've taken. The Assignments are really tough. Although not impossible. Just the right amount of tough, I guess. I'm currently in the last few weeks and I've really enjoyed it every bit so far.

Interesting (Not Yet Completed):
Introduction to Quantum Physics (2013) [4]: My god, I just love the teacher's enthusiasm. After few lectures, I realised I need to first brush up on classical physics before moving further (which obviously was the requirement that I ignored).

[1]: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-computer-scien...

[2]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

[3]: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-computer-scien...

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61-9PEhRogn...
We're successfully using Braintree for about 4 years now and I know several other Estonian startups who do as well. https://www.braintreepayments.com
Ahhh sorry I didn't see this. I don't have a blank copy of it that I can find. Only one with a lot of private info in it. It was based on one I found by googling "excel budget templates", "excel financial planning templates" etc if that helps any.
You are actually programming in Groovy, with all the plus and minus it entails.

Regarding the execution speed, IDEs not able to autocomplete, no guarantees about the format that IDEs can easily parse, and it often breaks between releases.

Then to compensate for lack of speed, you need to have a running daemon and an in-memory build cache.
Pandemic Legion? I haven't looked at the articles yet but I swear I remember them doing that in their forums.

Edit: Good old PL.
Ask HN: What are the reasons behind Crypto Currency market slash?
YouTube shooter’s father says she was angry at company
By cloudfront and serverless, I mean that if you want S3 hosting + https you need a Clousfront distribution. If you use a custom domain name with your API GW there’s a Cloudfront distribution created behind the scenes. And I believe the same holds for Lambda@edge. In other words, if you’re not relying on VMs + ELB (or Elastic Beanstalk) to host your application, it seems that the only way to use an https certificate is through Cloudfront.
It is still not as good as Ant and Maven support, which allow two ways, and are even the project formats used by Netbeans.
Yes. If your balance at the end of the year isn't half of your starting capital, you need to tell estonian government officials how you are planning to recover from this horrible failure. I didn't know this on my first year and we just made a small investment at the end of the year that made the balance to drop at horrific 40% level which triggered alarms in the government. If you fail to satisfy them with your plan, (if I understood right estonian-only materials), they can declare your company bankrupt. I know it sounds ridiculous but welcome to Estonia I guess. Though I do doubt that the officials would close your business unless you actually go bankrupt but it's still a hassle and feels very controlling to explain your business to a government at this level.
Zero-width characters are invisible, `non-printing' characters that are
not displayed by the majority of applications. F*or exam*ple, I've
ins*erted 10 ze*ro-width spa*ces in*to thi*s sentence, c*an you tel**l?
(Hint: paste the sentence into Diff Checker to see the locations of the
characters!). These characters can be used to `fingerprint' text for
certain users.

Above is what paragraph looks like in text-only browser in VGA textmode.
Sure. Trust. But shell script at least gives easy means to have a glimpse what is it going to do.

As legitimate websites of software have been breached to serve infected packages (like CCleaner[1]) or otherwise fraudulent content (even kernel.org[2]), I always shudder a bit, when I see being asked to pipe something directly from curl to a (root) shell.

1. https://www.extremetech.com/internet/256238-ccleaner-infecti...

2. https://lwn.net/Articles/457142/
Is usefully distinct from an un-ending universe for philosophic purposes... how?

Because the phase change boundaries may be utterly impassable and the other side incomprehensible to beings such as ourselves, but the universe itself goes on. So it's quite distinct from an un-ending universe.
Revenue sharing keeps creators from switching to another platform.

A significant number of people make their living off of Youtube
I'd assume just replace words with synonyms containing the appropriately weighted letter/s?

The hard part is going to be keeping the flow of the text, whilst brute forcing a thesaurus into it!
This site seems to have been created by a company specializing in giving security exploits their own branding:

"I want to brand my next vulnerability. Can you make a logo for me?

Great idea! Please contact our sales department."

It's definitely not associated with the person who discovered the beep vuln:

"Holey Beep is a community-maintained project for the bug otherwise known as CVE-2018-0492. It is not associated with the Linux Foundation, nor with the original discoverer of this vulnerability. If you would like to contribute go to GitHub."

Strange.
My story about how I landed a job at Twitter without an Ivy-league degree
It does seem tough to vary word usage to produce the right frequency of letters while keeping the meaning and not having it read awkwardly.
The easiest is again to do synonym/word/punctuation replacement but with the intent of altering the letter frequency instead of embedding information directly.

It's effectively a compression scheme built on-top of synonym replacement using "extra" available information to pack more bits in less words. This means even sentence long quotes in summary form are enough to compromise someone.
Sorry, E-residency documents. Edited the comment.
Early 2000s was just cranking frequency higher and higher with longer and longer pipelines. Initially this gave higher performance, but towards the end it mainly just gave higher frequencies. Intel finally gave up on the frequency wars (longer pipelines) and instead concentrated on wider datapath/pipelines. See: Netburst vs Core. I really feel like the changeover needs it's own act.
Yep, specially when you get to join NDK and Gradle builds.

It is not time for coffee, rather lunch.
Hmm, doesn't mention ARM once. A bit of an oversight, or a convenient omission when one is advertising a new RISC instruction set for "purpose-built processors"?
My comment does not break any guideline. Your comment, however, does.
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Because in the Java world no one really cares about Bazel.
It's not a matter of it being "hard". Nor is it a matter of "complexity" (how many parts something has).

A simulation is a model which picks out a tiny subset of regularities in the target to model. There is an infinite density of such regularities to pick upon, because we are imposing the structure on the target in order to model it.

The target of the model has no "model structure" it has causal structure. That is, when light interacts with the surface of a mirror its interaction isnt "abstract", ie., some description. It is an actual photon interacting with an actual electric field, etc.

To "model to infinite density", ie., to have every single test that can possibly be applied to a model come out identical to that test of the target, the model needs to be just another example of the target.

The only thing which can be investigated in any way to behave as light hitting a mirror, is light hitting a mirror.

A digital computer is just an electric field oscillating across a silicon surface. It cannot be programmed into being a mirror, nor into being light.

Programming gives the electric field a "model structure". Chalk gives a blackboard a "model structure". Lego gives a bridge a "model structure".

Programming cannot not -- it is impossible -- give silicon the causal structure of light interacting with a mirror.

Model structure is actually just an observer-relative isomorphism: when the user of the computer (chalkboard, lego,...) looks at it, the user, is able to inform himself of the target by use of the model. To do so the user identifies certain aspects of the model with the target. The model is not at all causally alike the target.

No amount of lego will make a lego brain. No amount of oscillation in an electric field will make a thought. Neurological activity, and indeed every causal mechanism of the universe, is only described by a model.
I think you could imagine building city-sized habitats with enough raw materials, so you could certainly have industrial equipment operating. But yeah, having a source for raw materials would be essential in the long term. For smaller science missions though it would be totally feasible to just bring all the heavy stuff with you, just like we're going to do for early Mars missions.
The Finns were overrepresented in Swedish prisons for decades. They weren't there for parking tickets.
> "Merit" is not a quantifiable characteristic.

It's not? What are SAT scores, school grades, entrance exams for the civil service, election results, income etc.?

I would say that these are all ways for society to quantify merit.

Did you mean perfectly accurately?

> literally every government that has ever existed would call itself a meritocracy.

Nope. Most governments used to call themselves monarchies and would have bristled at the idea that they'd have to somehow demonstrate merit to justify their power. Their power was justified by heredity, and in fact, I'd think that if you suggested that they needed to do demonstrate their merit, you might end up short a head.

> The book

Yep. Have to admit I didn't read it, but I did read what the author wrote:

"It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit."

What he objects to is the following:

"It is the opposite [of good] when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others."

So merit-based selection: good. Ossified class system: bad. I think Trump, May and Johnson are ample evidence that we leave plenty of room for the incompetent to get a chance at the reins, even if we generally try to organize ourselves by merit.

And so exactly the fact that we can't quantify merit with perfect accuracy, and have multiple domains, helps us avoid the problems Young mentions, though here as elsewhere we aren't at all perfect.
For me, it comes down to the meaning that I experience in my life personally, and in the small amount of meaning carried by my actions as they ripple outwards gently towards the distant future -- perhaps touching many people in a small way.

If someone, a million years from now, experiences slightly more beauty and understanding in part because of my actions, I find that to be incredibly fulfilling. Even better if they are in another star system!
I recommend anyone interested in this to come and try midnightsun2.org with the amazing MUD client from mudlet.org.

Funny, I made my char on the 30th of March, 2001. I've put in 40700 hours since then :-)
This would be an interesting approach to plagiarism detection; I could see how it would be used for a couple of online courses that I use with my students. Of course its just part of the arms race, though.
Vegan activism, which is a very small, but very vocal minority.
I read the article.
I wish they would first translate all the necessary documents to run a business in Estonia to english, and after succeeding in that, then jump into creating new financial instrument for the new brave digital world.
I don't think that it's too difficult. Just check every tag's text for forbidden characters and replace them with something. I'm not sure about performance.
JQuery still has a huge legacy footprint, and likely will for years to come.

It's not without some degree of irony it has eventually become the IE11 of JS libs.
> What exactly about his argument that nihilism is "the easy way out" is problematic?

The fact that it is a polemical characterization and not any kind of argument at all would be the main problem I've seen in his attacks on what he calls “nihilism”.

Another problem is that he seems to use the term “nihilist” about as loosely as the average modern North American right-wing propagandist uses the term “Marxist”, so that it becomes very hard to be clear what he is arguing against specifically, which is a real problem because “nihilist” is already a heavily overloaded term that refers to a lot of different and often conflicting belief systems and affiliations.

Another problem is that to the extent that one can frame his stream of polemic as an argument at all, it's mostly one which implicitly relies on existential or moral nihilism (by presenting meaning or morality as something which is not intrinsic, but where is preferred morality is merely an idea that arose at a particular historical time and place that has certain utility to the holder to both hold and to have others around them hold) to argue against whatever it is that Peterson is calling “nihilism”. In this respect, it seems a poor, sloppy, and less honest echo of Nietzsche, who overtly embraced nihilism, but rejected passive nihilism for a more active and, in his view, productive for the individual form of nihilism.
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> I don't hear people writing Groovy for fun and pleasure.

It was common at local JUGs almost 10 years ago, when there was lot of hype around Groovy and Grails.

Even at JSF Days 2007 there were some talks about adding Groovy support to JEE as a means to write session and entity beans.

Nowadays Gradle is the only thing keeping Groovy from completely fading away.

That and Grails maintenance projects.
On the flip side, JG is an awesome hire for any company
Nah, it doesn't count. Unless you are a buzzword person.

AI is data science but not all data science is AI.
They aren't. Marketing makes them AI though, but they aren't.

Just the same way folks think they have 'big data'.
Because I have 100+ playlist I've spent years making. Some of which have emotional value (playlist are date stamped)
As are all large cloud providers [0][1][2], because obviously.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/gdpr-center/

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Privacy/gdpr/def...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/security/gdpr/
I've never been a member, but I know they have a shadow profile of everyone. I blocked facebook and other tracking at the router some time ago, but am thinking of "showing up" from a European VPN in hopes they get spooked enough to delete my data.
Yeah, time travel to JUG meetings 10 years ago.

Nowadays all of that is a synonym to Grails maintenance projects.
$30B value company needs to get their shit together. So many major albums have the wrong release date.
I don't think you can deem mbedTLS too risky on one hand, and then on the other recommend Noise, with it's slew of unfinished and largely unverified libraries. Outside of the WireGuard RHUL effort for a specific 'pattern' AFAIK the Noise core hasn't really seen any formal analysis either. Commoditizing the DH operation means you can build an enormous amount of AKEs, and even people like Trevor Perrin can make mistakes there.

Noise is potentially very interesting, particularly for the embedded space, but it'll be a while before it's safe to use.
Here[1] is the screen.

Here, the time isn't based on an alarm (none is set), but on when the charger was disconnected the previous morning.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/1EywDA0.png
No, I specifically mean that within the premise you lay out, you don't present any advantage in predicting the future grand scheme meaning, compared to the nihilists.

I can't predict. However, I can hope. I think that's worth a lot.
> That said, it's not a perfect response in that it's a logical elaboration of presumably non-literal rhetoric.

You might view it as a pointed way of seeking clarification of the argument really being made behind that presumably hyperbolic rhetoric.
> I'm not quite clear on why people are choosing spotify over google play music

Simple answer: I'm a tech literate person (I read HN and a dozen other sites) and I hadn't even heard of "google play music" until now.

So that's one reason.

The other is likely that Spotify is pretty aggressive with marketing here (Sweden). E.g. get a phone contract and you get a year of spotify etc.
But the most important reason is probably that after manty years on a product you get some lock-in. Now I wouldn't switch if the product was 10% better or if the price was 10% lower unless many of my friends switched and I could also port all playlists etc.
Meteor being more popular than Express is interesting though.

Is it actually used as widely as Express?
> the designer and I get along with him just fine

> 4 non-technical employees have logged complaints that my full-stack developer is curt/cold/condescending

This is really bad news actually. Find a replacement for this guy and fire him.
I’ve lurked here (HN) a long time waiting for a MUD related post! I remember making great friendships and developing my communication skills and personality through MUDs (pHANTASM and then Rifts) in the mid-nineties. Neither game ever developed a huge player base, but man was it fun! The imagination that was unlocked through text-based games, at least for me, was immensely fun. I got great book recommendations from the older players, and felt accepted being a gamer/MtG player/general nerd at a time when it was emphatically NOT considered cool. Times have sure changed.

I remember staying up until all hours of the morning, reconnecting repeatedly over my dial-up connection, just to goof-off on Rifts. Even though I never met him, the first friend I knew that died who I felt close to was from that game - we were in a clan together and spent countless hours gaming and chatting about being teens. I had forgotten about that until just now. Life moves quickly.
Just going to give a shout out to the openness of the Supreme Court oral arguments. You can find them directly from the Supreme Court (https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2...) or in Podcast form (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/u-s-supreme-court-oral-a...).

First Mondays (http://www.firstmondays.fm) did an interview with Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer about the Supreme Court case and the CLOUD Act.

The combination of these sources made both the CLOUD Act and this call for dismissal somewhat unsurprising. It was pretty clear that the Supreme Court wanted congress to clarify the now antiquated Stored Communications Act.
What exactly is the criteria here? If you go by star count, the most popular JS project on GitHub is freeCodeCamp, not React.

https://github.com/topics/javascript?o=desc&s=stars

And a number of other popular JS projects have also been excluded from this list?
My unprofessional, based on nothing guess is that no one will be prosecuted for that kind of technicality, as there will be much bigger fish to fry of large companies totally flaunting major pieces of the law.
Except for when they create logical paradoxes.
Well it sort of depends on what exactly you mean.

Ease of use? Godot is probably the best in class for that in my opinion, but if you prefer text interfaces over GUIs then Love2D is very good. As far as frameworks go it is extremely simple to get going, well documented, and has plenty (not an over-abundance, but certainly enough) of libraries to make simple or complex games with.

Godot gives you a lot more to work with as far as built in functionality as well. For instance if you don't want to use the Love physics library (it is very heavy for most tasks) you're going to have to write your own collision detection or use a 3rd party library (I recommend Bump).

Performance? I recall seeing a forum post to do with the bunnymark test where Love edged out Godot by a reasonable margin in naive tests. Once Love was optimised then it was impressively fast in comparison, but from what I remember no one tried optimising the Godot implementation.

That is just rendering. I don't know of any comparisons as far as processing speed goes. GDScript has been called slow but it's plenty fast for most use cases. Love2D uses LuaJIT which is probably the fastest dynamic interpreted language there is.

Honestly for 2D I sincerely doubt you're going to hit the limits of either engine, and they're both fantastic.
Then how would you indicate that a space or newline is intended? Or how would I indicate that a length of text is to be displayed from right to left when I post Hebrew text to an English-expecting text field?
If I remember correctly, a similar outage in the UK was due to increased flight volumes. The system had a hardcoded limit somewhere which caused issues as flight volume increased. The software was old enough that they weren't aware of that issue beforehand.
I could imagine something similar happening here.

It definitely shows how well software can work with the right practices. Only one outage in 20 years and that one only caused a reduction of 10% in capacity. Don't think many companies can match that.
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