skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quite agree with the comments about not spending so much on the military, but as a fraction of GDP, federal taxes have been pretty stable over the last 60 years https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/u-s-tax-rates-the-big-p... with increases and decreases in a constrained range.

This whole it or the defecit thing seems like a common talking point for progressives now that Republicans have shown their true colors, but if your goal is to actually govern a country, it does matter.

At the very least you should be able to see how increasing our debt increases the payments we need to make to service that debt. 7.4% of our latest budget was just paying for the debt we've already racked up. That's tens of billions of dollars that could have been spent on something worthwhile, but instead we're just paying for the past.
It's an interesting solution to server shutdowns. On the other hand there is not a lot of complexity to this game. You just fight, sleep, craft items (for gold) by pressing a single button. Especially the latter feels like pay to win to me.
No you wouldn’t be able to. Campaign finance contributions can be circumvented if political expression is not banned, making such political expression a perpetual target: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-myth...

> But in the course of the ­argument, Justice Samuel Alito interrupted Stewart and inquired: "What's your answer to [the] point that there isn't any constitutional difference between the distribution of this movie on video [on] demand and providing access on the internet, providing DVDs, either through a commercial service or maybe in a public library, [or] providing the same thing in a book? Would the Constitution permit the restriction of all of those as well?" Stewart, an experienced litigator who had represented the government in campaign-finance cases at the Supreme Court before, responded that the provisions of McCain-Feingold could in fact be constitutionally applied to limit all those forms of speech. The law, he ­contended, would even require banning a book that made the same points as the Citizens United video.

> There was an audible gasp in the courtroom. Then Justice Alito spoke, it seemed, for the entire audience: "That's pretty incredible."
Gotten is the past participle of to get in both standard American English and Scottish English (I won't say Scots because that is often regarded as almost a separate language from English). I wouldn't say it myself but then it isn't part of my south western English (North Wiltshire) dialect, my wife on the other hand used it all the time (she was from Orkney).
Depressing facts of evolution time.

Evolution will totally evolve systems where something is both necessary for the system to keep function and detrimental to the system. If you evolve in the context of "there are tons of viruses just all over the goddamn place", even if the viruses are constantly harming you, there is no reason your body shouldn't come to depend on them for some functions. Eg, the amino acids liberated from your immune system breaking them down could be a vital precursor to some protein or another, even as they continue to hurt you.

For a computer example, imagine writing programs to run on a computer that suffers frequent, intermittent power failures. You could very easily end up with a program with memory leaks that don't matter because the power failures happen too frequently for enough memory to leak for it to be a problem. The frequent power failures are bad, and you would prefer to eliminate them, but you can't because the program has evolved in the context of frequent power failures and can't run for long without them (hell, maybe the memory leaks will end up corrupting on-disk data if you fill up main memory and your hacky memory management system begins double-allocating).
Personally, it helps me relax if write I down everything that's on my mind at the end of the coding session.

I have found it frees me from thinking further about the project, and it also helps me achieve better productivity since I can pretty much recover my previous thought process when I start my next session.
seems getting that pdf on mobile is impossible?
Aversion to spiders more likely to save your life and allow you to pass on genes, makes sense.
Care to share any? I haven't yet seen indications of a general AI being achievable in any kind of short term, and I'm somewhat sceptical of it happening this century at all.
this will blow your mind but what if lobbying is the purpose of american democracy?
Tell me more about the limits on contributions?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-strike...

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=...
Some ideas:

- Developing/using an open source, privacy minded smart phone.
- Use cash or a vanilla debit card that doesn't track you. I was shocked that after I buy a very very particular and specific item at Walmart, I see ads all the time. I believe even Walmart is selling data to advertisers.
- Ask representatives to improve privacy laws.
>"Don't get fooled with 'democracy' thing. Election and democratic process are the way for the elites to decide matters between themselves without resorting to civil wars/violence, in an orderly, regulated manner. They were invented for that purpose in the middle ages England"

Democracy was most certainly not invented in the middle ages or in England. Neither of those statements is even remotely true. Democracy is a product of Ancient Greece around 300BC. And then the Romans after that. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
A disk will also survive some local data corruption or loss, even recover it and provide warnings sometimes. Catastrophic failure of a disk akin to total combustion of the book. Listen, can we stop this false analogy debate? It’s not advancing the discussion that much
I should have included above, but the wikipedia section on global effects shows how it varied by continent. Massive effects in Europe and South America, but with some evidence the Pacific wasn't as affected.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

The earlier intro section there lays out the discovery and some types of evidence that led to the conclusion, and a theory based on geology from China that these rapid changes tend to accompany deglaciation.

20 degrees Fahrenheit shift within a decade, even if just for one continent... It's hard to fathom.
16 Ways Blockchain Is Changing the World
Reading Barcodes with Python and OpenMV
Appears to be integrated route planning and satellite view.
Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot
Nice contrast, i'm sure there's many applications not using logs when they should be.

Perhaps a brief explanation of gas in ethereum for the the uninitiated and rough USD cost at todays median gas settings from https://ethgasstation.info or similar.

If cryptokitties 2.0 comes along you may be waiting a long time to store this data without seriously increasing costs. Depending on the use case that might be a hard choice to live with.
10 Examples of Lsof Commands in Unix and Linux
Vanderbilt University – Harnessing Technology to Advance Learning
Personally I’ve always found it sickening that a government would just hand you a prefilled form and say This is what you owe!

Feels much better to do it all yourself and declare This is what I’m going to pay. It’s a careful distinction.
So now your decentralized solution requires a server running somewhere.

Why not just install GitLab or Bugzilla on that server?

This reminds me of something someone (forgot who) said, "If it can be built with JavaScript, for better or for worse, it will be."

I think the same thing applies blockchain and edge-computing.
For people interested in what meditation really "is," at least from a Buddhist perspective, Ven. Thanissaro is worth a look. Among his many excellent books is Right Mindfulness: Memory & Ardency on the Buddhist Path

> For the past several decades, a growing flood of books, articles, and teachings has advanced theories about the practice of mindfulness which are highly questionable and—for anyone hoping to realize the end of suffering—seriously misleading. The main aim of this book is to show that the practice of mindfulness is most fruitful when informed by the Buddha’s own definition of right mindfulness and his explanations of its role on the path.

https://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html#right_mindfulne...

His approach got me past some serious blockages in my practice.
If you consider $14/hr for factory work acceptable. I certainly don't, especially not when you consider Foxconn's history of working conditions.

I call it desperate people getting exploited.
Crystal looks really cool but if speed is what its after, i think it misses the target for most people.

because for most apps, you will be bottlenecked by the database server. it is the slowest hanging fruit on the tech stack, be it postgres , mysql, or mongo. so unless you are working on number crunching tasks that do not involve any db queries, i fail to see the benefit of a language like Crystal.

i wait for the day until the day Crystal becomes a 100% drop in replacement ready for Ruby apps.

until then, Sinatra is more than fast enough for most things.
Fight back. Start blacklisting companies that use such tactics and then boycott the shit out of them. You don't have to go after each and everyone, just the big ones to make a statement.

The thing is though that most people don't care. Or to be more precise, they don't know enough to care. Apart from the HN community I haven't seen anyone else bothered with all this FB/CA clusterfuck. I've even read journalists who think that it's ok for FB to track you since they give you their platform for free. So basically it's just us against everyone else and frankly I don't see this going further.
You can contribute better directions/addresses!
That doesn't change the fact that it's shit pay for factory work. Foxconn are exploiting desperate people.
Crypto+Exchanges+in+Chile+Left+out+in+the+Cold
Crystal is pretty neat and ticks off almost all of the boxes for me atm (For example the websockets server functionality in Kemal is super neat), but the lack of proper parallelism is kind of a killer. I know it's in the works, but afaict it has been so for almost a year now without much news...
I've been a fan of Ruby for about 5 years, but lately I've been leaning a lot more heavily towards statically typed languages. Which is why Crystal is at the top of my "want to learn" list. Ruby inspired syntax and statically typed? Yes please. The speed is just a bonus for me.
I live in AZ and that bill does nothing to stop outside spending. AFAIK, it also doesn’t cap what can be raised. If it does then most politicians here don’t access it.
This guy gets it - although i must admit- the mania sometimes is breath taking. You undertake endavours a rational person would not even attempt. And sometimes you even succeed.

But then comes the day of reckoning, where all beckoning - for "sweet,sweet mania, take me on your wings"- will not be heard- and all that remains, is you, a empty room full of half finnished projects and list of phone numbers that wont pick up.
How small is the lightest sinatra app though, when deployed in a container? We lately had some experience with dockerizing a moderately complex ruby app and it was pretty shocking how large they get compared to simple statically linked binaries.
Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Also, Hugo lacks support for plugins. If you want to do something with it, it better be baked-in out-of-the-box.
Why can't you do that when the project has a repository elsewhere?
From their privacy policy https://www.creditkarma.com/tax/privacy:

When We Share the Information We Collect

Affiliates: We may share certain information with our affiliated companies, such as Credit Karma, to help us provide our Services and manage your account.

now, it seems fine for Credit Karma Tax to share information with Credit Karma. what exactly counts as an "affiliate" though? I mean, "affiliate marketing" is a common term, and that's pretty darn broad. I read it in the broadest terms possible, which would be "everyone we have a business relationship with", necessarily including TransUnion and probably other CRAs.
> Maybe people who have a more sedentary lifestyle also tend to come from a lower social background

My favorite confound is when Pauling convinced many reasonably educated higher SES people that vitamins were a miracle cure-all. Suddenly multivitamins did correlate with higher health outcomes! (Until later studies untangled this and found little broad effect, aside from specific vitamins during pregnancy or specific deficiencies.)

Sort of a pop science self fulfilling prophecy. Or when we do things we think are smart, sometimes we pollute the evidence.
Reading for Programmers (2017)
I don't believe everything is shared like this. Anything smaller than 64 bytes is copied around to different process stacks.

https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%... Is a great post
I'm usually onboard with "I don't want a big clunky server" but if you look at the XU4 with disks laying flat on a shelf.. it's really not less space than my MicroServer (ok, maybe 15cm² smaller..) so I think your size argument falls flat.
Found this email thread that gives you the official story about PySide2:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyside-dev/pqwzngAGL...
One additional thing I would add to the article is that large companies have a harder time leveraging someone with multifaceted strengths, which the entrepreneurial route can better leverage. Large companies are about specialization and efficiency at scale for employees; their structure inherently has a harder time to get the most out of the the multiple strengths an entrepreneurial person likely possesses. Conversely, someone who is amazing at only one thing, eg software engineering, but lacks in leadership, sales, marketing, design, etc could have an amazing career in a large company but might have a harder time starting a company where there aren't already teams of people to compensate for his/her weaknesses.
"Unless I go full tin-foil hat, you’ve basically left me with one option. To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to join Facebook"

Or just wait until May 25th and send them a GDPR Subject Access Request. Seriously, Facebook's GDPR team must be having kittens.
The WaPo article addresses a ban on aggregate contributions to multiple candidates, not a single candidate.

OpenSecrets very misleadingly attributes all contributions from a company’s employees to the company itself. It’s propaganda.
I mean... yeah? "there must be an actual benefit to do something that costs me development time = money". XHTML did not offer this.
I really like this blog post on Erlang's garbage collection and memory structure.

https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%...
The idea is to build a power structure that resists turning into an absolutist pyramid. The classic liberal three branches of power is such a scheme, for instance. But it can be decentralized even more, see Switzerland.
I really enjoyed the EmberConf talk about movie studios using it for movie promo sites because they needed to be able to get them up quickly. I think if you took that concept and maybe a blog post about doing an Ember PWA (https://madhatted.com/2017/6/16/building-a-progressive-web-a... for example) then maybe the large part doesn't matter so much...
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im not sure what you are asking for in terms of lightness but its incredibly light in both concept and execution.

i mean it doesnt get any lighter than this.

require ‘sinatra’

get ‘/‘ do

“hello”

end

you should check out https://github.com/jaequery/jasis

its a dockerized Sinatra app with all the bells and whistles and see how light it is yourself.
It's all about having a layered approach. No single thing will completely protect you, and especially if you are being specifically targeted then you're basically screwed, but it's similar to putting bigger and better locks on your doors. If a trained and experienced burglar wants to get in your house, they still will. But the hope is you make it difficult enough that they don't bother trying.

This site is far from perfect, but check out privacytools.io if you're looking for additional layered options for every service and app you use.

I don't think it's mentioned on there but I would recommend setting up a pihole for good overall protection for your entire home network. Again, it isn't going to stop the government or someone else from really monitoring you. And it's just an additional layer. But it's a really easy way to block advertiser tracking for every device on your network.
Backpage is Closed Down
AWS Pwn – A Collection of AWS Penetration Testing Junk
Digital colonialism: how Facebook's free internet service fails its users (2017)
> i fail to see the benefit of a language like Crystal.

For me it's a Ruby like language with static typing. For my typical use cases I don't really need the extra performance, but those two things are enough to make me interested.
The Handbook was interesting in that it was one of the few sites that actually went with the XML + XSLT = XHTML route. Of course, nobody knows XSLT, and everyone hates XML, so it was dumped in favor of MediaWiki, which everyone still hates, but at least now mostly understands how to use. (although the same people that insisted we use XML+XSLT also insisted we use SMW, which is even worse... I gave up then, but I hear they're trying to undo SMW now.)
I should clarify: I don't mind "unfocused" writing like this. I can definitely appreciate a creative take on exposition. But I think the introduction of an article is not the most appropriate place to do it. An upfront paragraph - even a few sentences - explaining what is happening would basically resolve this for me.
مباراة ملقا وريال مدريد بث مباشر: هنا رابط البث المباشر ومشاهدة ملخص المباراة
Ha and theres this: http://dalybulge.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/cyberpunk-sabpk.html
Asprin, paracetamol, glucose, adrenaline (epinephrine) auto-injectors, salbutamol, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), methoxyflurane, ondansetron, cophenylcaine (lidocaine + phenylephrine) - that's our volunteer drugs in WA. We're hoping that eventually ketamine will be added. I don't see tPA ever being on that list.
Thanks for this excellent clarification!
CISC in a nutshell
Sure but no useful app can be described by this "Hello HTTP" example. I've seen the same as parent: Ruby services require a lot more memory in their steady state than say, their Go service counterpart, for a same complexity.
Reminded me of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chairs

I love that that's an article, and the ridiculous geekiness it takes to appreciate it. I think we're overdue for someone to write a brief history of chairs, like has been done for salt, longitude, and light sources.
If you want to learn Morse it is a lot easier if you don't try to learn it in alphabetical order. Instead you should learn it in order of the lengths of the signals, which corresponds roughly to the frequency order of the letters in English, i.e. learn the one-beep-long letters first (E, T), then the two-beep-long letters (A, N, I. M), then the three-beep-long letters, etc.

E . T -

I .. A .- N -. M --

S ... U ..- R .-. D -..

H .... B -... L .-.. F ..-. V ...-

W .-- K -.- G --. O ---

Z --.. C -.-. X -..- P .--.

J .--- Y -.-- Q --.-
I'm really hoping VR headsets can provide a workspace where people can lay down or stand. The keyboard replacement in those positions might be hard to figure out.
Some of the scripts loaded by Wired when you access this article:

> http://ads.rubiconproject.com/header/11644.js

"Rubicon Project, the digital advertising infrastructure company, is on a mission to automate buying and selling for the global online advertising industry"

> https://tags.bkrtx.com/js/bk-coretag.js

"BlueKai is a cloud-based big data platform that enables companies to personalize online, offline, and mobile marketing campaigns"

> https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js

"Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic."

> http://b.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js

"Through our global research efforts, ScorecardResearch collects data that assists companies around the world in providing products and services that better meet the needs of consumers"

And of course:

> http://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js

"Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc"

> http://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js

It's Facebook.
Isn’t Grover Norquist and his tribe also against this stuff? I think that was the issue with California’s readyReturn system.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
Really well done. It's a bummer that source code are rarely released for demos.

For me one of the best of all times is Second Life [1], by Future Crew. Developed in 1993 nonetheless, it was a big breakthrough at the time, with almost 10 minutes of animation, and in early x86 hardware. Source code available [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA

[2] http://fabiensanglard.net/second_reality/index.php
As Mongolia melts from climate change looters close in
Deep learning project template using PyTorch
These convoluted forms of passive voice do make it harder to parse. It’s almost like the polar opposite of Hemingway’s journalistic style.
Could you briefly explain what spirituality without religion is?
How is it different from psychology?
Hmm what about setting up 3 VPN servers in the cloud for your devices and have your router randomly connect traffic to them? Ie individual sessions stay on one VPN but new sssions are assigned randomly chosen vpns.

This would probably do nothing to the invisible pixels and other stuff though.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9669166 (3 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10014178 (3 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803635 (2.5 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15574714 (5 months ago)
“Saccharomyces cerevisiae originated in China circa 12,000BCE”
I don't know if my brain has "thinned" but I do know that after sitting for years coding I started experiencing a pinched nerve in my back, and that ain't no fun.

I thought I was having a stroke the first time it happened about six months ago. I realized it was a pinched nerve after looking into it but it took several months to figure out exactly what stretches I needed to do to relieve and prevent them.
I second this. Learn to fly.

I'm never happier than when I'm flying. I can see how a similar effect happens to sky divers.
10 New Venture Survival Lessons from Early Explorers
Neither of your links counter what rayiner said. The first specifically says the per-candidate, per-election limits were left in place. The second is just a sum total of all the contributions to Paul Ryan over his federal political career (which has nothing to do with the limits on individual contributors). Neither says that lobbyists have any different limits than I do.
Pointing to teachers’ education levels is highly misleading. Teachers overwhelmingly have post-secondary have degrees that have little value in the market (often even negative value). That’s not a reason to pay them more.