skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahahahaha. Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

> An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisdiction. Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number may be illegal as well.
Try this:

dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/classic-overrides/edge-tiling false
Interpretable Machine Learning with Python
What I meant to say is that the old one is a logo that (without any text or anything) practically screams "hospital"/"medical institution" to anyone looking at it for the first time, while the new one is rather ambiguous, especially if you have no context for it.
Being treated exactly the same as everyone else is concrete evidence of non-marginalisation, in my book - and what everyone claims to want
With sufficient reputation (2000), one can make changes to any post on Stack Overflow without review or reward - no longer does one get reputation from having an edit approved.

Those who subscribe to the "the information in this post should be available to everyone in the most readable way" will make changes to curate the material. Reading a post where the wrong 'their' or 'they're' or 'there' is used by someone can be very distracting and these edits serve to make that post more useful to more people as well as helping the OP become more proficient at English through correction.

Its not for the reputation (which they don't get) but rather the "this is good, but can be better" and trying to make Stack Overflow the best place it can be.
Global divergence followed by convergence – Economic history in one chart
Pullback Over? Bitcoin Retakes $9K, Eyes Further Gains
> Someone has to be in charge of a "single communication network".

This is false. Pen, paper, English and walking is a communication network.

If there are multiple competing implementations of a shared spec, in practice no one group can control it. (This is why it's important to have multiple competing web browser engines.)
>However, the idea of making the state responsible for reproduction and child-rearing is promising, considering how awful so many parents are, and the fact that economically comfortable people generally don't have enough kids to maintain the population.

I've seen some out-there political opinions on HN, but I never thought I'd see someone calling a totalitarian eugenics program "promising".

And that's not hyperbole. "Making the state responsible for reproduction" necessarily means them deciding who can and can't reproduce, which is literally eugenics.
The teams that have participated in migration have proven to have the skills and knowledge required, which they have significantly developed and honed during the course of this project. Banco Sabadell’s proposal to be an agent of change has become evident, with an advanced technological proposition, not only in the domestic market but also on an international scale. With this project Banco Sabadell has created a competitive and value-added platform for the TSB franchise.

Funny and poignant
Anecdotal example, when I was an intern at a small company my boss asked me to do this more or less basic script that would take an excel and do a bunch of stuff with its data.

It was not difficult, basically a few hours to get an MVP running, he was VERY happy.

A few days later, one of the girls working there explained to me that she was very scared for her job as she thinks the boss would like to automate it.

Needless to say I didn't go through with it.
18 U.S. Code § 1702 – Obstruction of correspondence
Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Right. This is important and it's pretty obvious that a lot of guys just put zero effort into presenting themselves in a positive way. I went through my entire twenties living like some kind of goblin. The rules are things that everyone knows, but they take a small amount of effort that some people aren't willing to expend, even for the sake of getting a date. Take a shower, brush those teeth, and wear deodorant! Interpersonal Skills 101: Be honest, be respectful, be yourself. Have some manners and open doors for other people wherever there are doors and other people. For crying out loud, chew with your mouth closed, you troll! Don't wear clothes with food stains on them. Go for a run and stop smoking. Just have some self-respect and try to be a more thoughtful individual. Now I'll be the first to admit that it took me many years to start checking the blocks on this list. But it costs essentially nothing, yet as always, people remain change-resistant.
If you really want to see something weird (from an American perspective) take a look at "matrimonial" websites such as shaadi.com , and Indian dating apps. The selection criteria for ethnic groups and religions! In the North American melting pot it's crude and racist to put blunt preferences in a dating ad, in India (and Pakistan, and Bangaldesh) apparently it's the norm.
That's an argument of no human rights.. whatever anyone does is now "free".

What about the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Countries have repeatedly pledged to uphold it.

Just a couple of recent examples:

In 2000, the Millennium Declaration says "We resolve therefore: To respect fully and uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." It was unanimously adopted by the UN.

NK wasn't there.. but they were at the World Summit a few years later... where a similar statement was again adopted unanimously:

We reaffirm the solemn commitment of our States to fulfil their obligations to
promote universal respect for and the observance and protection of all human rights
and fundamental freedoms for all in accordance with the Charter, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other instruments relating to human rights and
international law. The universal nature of these rights and freedoms is beyond
question.

There is a definition of freedom that everyone, including NK, agrees with.. It's defined in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
> Supposedly even the "embassies are foreign soil" thing is more of an urban legend than legal reality.

It depends on what you mean by "foreign soil." Embassies are extraterritorial--as the name implies, it does not represent a claim on land, but the laws of the diplomat's country, not the host country, generally apply. This difference is sometimes crucial: being born in an embassy would not give you jus soli citizenship and GWB set up the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay to try to ensure that the Constitution wouldn't apply (since Guantanamo Bay isn't US soil, it's a base leased to the US by Cuba).
This peace agreement was largely due to Trump shaking things up, South Korea is already acknowledging this.

Trump is such a polarizing figure I'm not surprised people are reaching to discredit him. He's a wacko president but he's not wrong all the time.
Old rules, algorithmic traders add costs to U.S. share buybacks
Am I the only one who thinks this is happening mainly because of political shifts in South Korea? 2013-2017 the South Korean president was Park Geun-hye of the conservative Saenuri Party. They generally have a hostile attitude towards North Korea. In late 2016 she had a major scandal, was impeached, and Moon Jae-in of the more liberal Democratic Party won. They are generally more willing no talk to the North. He is the person meeting Kim today.
Monzo has a new 'pots' function on it.

Basically you can put money in your account into separately named isolated areas in your account that can't be spent using your card normally. In layman's terms as many saving accounts as you want with more flexibility.

You can still kind of use it as a prepaid card by just topping it up from your bank when you want. It's just better as you can now use Android Pay etc. and have proper banking functions like having an actual sort number/account number, direct debits, standing orders etc.
Trump imposed the sanctions, and essentially forced China to abide.
Everyone? I’m pretty sure most people (from both ethnic groups or religions or whatever you want to call them) were civilians...
> Ignoring practical issues with obtaining the sample

> As for whether it's a criminal act, I think that it might be a form of assault, maybe.

Are you suggesting that using their DNA without their consent is assault, or the taking of it from them? It'd be trivial to take it without contact with them, from e.g. a hair, or their toothbrush, particularly if you live with them.
Deploying an OpenFaaS API with Docker Swarm [video]
In praise of Factfulness
Common Cause
There is a lot more in this article but even this single chart (from the linked chapter 1) alone helps a lot when thinking about inequality, how it was and how it is developing.
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Except it's not "everything is allowed", and the "ban and regulate everything" mentality seems to be more harmful, useless, waste of time and money in reality.

Regarding responsibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933814
We pre-purchase the instance, and we also have one large instance, which is shared amongst about 9 different projects to save costs.
What is the purpose of Your Life?
(No need to answer here.)
> there is no meta review

There is. There are "audit" questions designed to test whether the reviewer is paying attention. If they improperly vote to close a "good" audit question or improperly vote to leave open a "bad" one, they get banned from reviewing for a while.
Don't Let Doubts About Blockchains Close Your Mind
Choosing a Library to Embed Static Assets in Go
i learned to program with python and flask and promptly started hammering out my project. flask was great for learning piece by piece what goes into a web app but eventually it grew to a point where i was relying on all these extensions that were no longer maintained and i was spending alot of time to configure and setup every last bit of functionality i needed and every extension was like a new DSL to learn.

The obvious move at the time was to move to django and I spent some time familiarizing myself with it's own DSL. But boy was i struggling all along the way to do things how I liked in Flask with django. The Django Templates were extremely limiting (no modules) and couldn't even do regular python things and I came to find that extensions for Django were in no better shape than flask's. There was no clear solution for rate limiting and various other things I was looking for.

I've followed rails from a distance for a long time but, coming from python, ruby seemed so abstract to me i could just never figure it out but towards the end of my django time, i was finding that rails did/had everything i wanted and it all worked just the way i wanted it to and it was calling to me really hard. i took a big leap and spent a couple months diving fully into ruby, doing all the tutorials, reading all the books. at this point i am officially converted and my project app with it is already further along than i ever got with flask or django. when they say "ruby/rails is built for programmer happiness", they really mean it. and i can really feel/appreciate it. it's extremely fun to use and to see real progress without having to rack my brain and figure out some internals before i can proceed every so many hours. i'm just getting shit done and things work just how you'd intuitively think they should. rails ftw
That reminds me of this, also an interesting idea:

https://www.mysinglefriend.com/
The was an article in The Atlantic a couple+ months back - which after 10 mins I still can't find - about some scientist and his alt view / theory on DNA. The gist, if I recall correctly, was (and forgive me if I fall short of capturing the significance of his idea):

How DNA functions is far more complicated than how current accepted science pictures it.

1 - Certainly seems like he might be onto something.

2 - If so, could the use of CRISPR be premature, if not dangerous?
Might be, but it is a tiny portion of Java's standard library, including networking, even when comparing against Java 1.4, let alone 10.
>It is legitimate and provably effective to legally limit the demand for some items, like ivory, for example

Whats the proof then? Last I checked, despite all laws, ivory animals are being poached into extinction. It might be more effective than doing something like paying poachers to poach even more animals, but that isn't proof it is an effective means to stopping the problem of poaching animals into extinction.
I can sense the skepticism in the comments, but this is amazing news!

All those people suffering from lack will have a chance to take part in our modern abundance.

I can only imagine what will happen when NK opens it's doors to SK fully. There will be a massive demand for good and services. Exciting times!
Big foot did exist
I was involved in a rewrite of a ~10 year old vb app to C#. A lot of it involved rewriting the code almost line for line in C# then adding unit tests and refactoring. It took a team of 4 about 6 months for most of the work. At the end we had a solid and now much easier to maintain app that was consistent with the rest of our application suite.

Highly successful project. Sometimes a rewrite is the right choice.
I believe that these comments exist when the other tools of moderation of that content have run out and the individuals are using the social moderation tools of comments (that are nearly unlimited) to do that moderation. I further believe that this rudeness could be reduced by improving the encoded moderation tools (votes, close, delete) so that such questionsget up front mentoring or guidance on how to search for the material before they are posted.

It should also be noted that the author of the post has a consulting service for improving diversity in the workplace (second paragraph) - there is a promotional aspect to this post. Stack Overflow, as a very central and large place that people perceive as being jerks is an easy and large target to push against.

It is also interesting that while this is being held up as an example (from the post):

> I used vivid imagery, sure, but you’ll notice that in all my criticism of Stack Overflow, I avoid name-calling, personal attacks, and profanity. For the record, I do not endorse any criticism of Stack Overflow that resorts to these tactics, though I do feel compassion for the pain that leads to this kind of response.

that posts on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936221 ) are not being held up to the same standard of avoiding name calling, personal attacks and profanity.
The move-in started late in 2017. It's almost a year to do all the preparations.
An American version of this would be an endless freeway interchange system. No parks, and hospitals too expensive to use, no actual housing as it’s so expensive that everyone just lives in their cars stuck in one giant traffic jam. Like this one, plenty of police.
You've got to keep scrolling. It'll take a while.

You're not missing that much, though, since there are quite literally (yes, I counted) fifteen words on the entire home page.
Transferwise Borderless Debit Card
Good rules. Any sources recommended for further rules?
6 strategies for fixing SaaS churn (from Buffer, Zapier, Close.io and more)
You can think of power consumption as a resource -- if you reduce power consumption of existing features you can put more new features. The actual size isn't really that important (other than the cost of silicon wafer).

To significantly reduce power consumption you need improved process and this is where smaller nodes are so important, because they are currently the only really viable way to significantly reduce power consumption.
Thank you for saying this. I have been looking for the correct verbage to say this for a while.
My faster (?, see [0]) strlen seems to compile (using MIT 68k syntax):

> cat > test.asm
strlen: movem.l %a0-%a1,-(%sp)
movl %a0, %a1 ;# copy a0 to a1
slenloop: tst.b (%a0)+
bne.b slenloop
addq.l #1, %a1
sub.l %a0, %a1
move.l %a1, %d0
movem.l (%sp)+,%a0-%a1
rts
^D

> m68k-linux-gnu-as test.asm && m68k-linux-gnu-objdump -d a.out
a.out: file format elf32-m68k

Disassembly of section .text:

00000000 <strlen>:
0:	48e7 00c0	moveml %a0-%a1,%sp@-
4:	2248	moveal %a0,%a1

00000006 <slenloop>:
6:	4a18	tstb %a0@+
8:	66fc	bnes 6 <slenloop>
a:	5289	addql #1,%a1
c:	93c8	subal %a0,%a1
e:	2009	movel %a1,%d0
10:	4cdf 0300	moveml %sp@+,%a0-%a1
14:	4e75	rts

I wonder whether it actually works... I think same idea should be translatable to PDP-11 as well.

[0]: It runs slower for short strings, though. Not sure where the break even point is.
I don't disagree that there may be a hardware upgrade. My point is that without running numbers increasing development, maintenance, and risk in order to "save RAM" is dogma not engineering. Rendering speed is just one consideration. That's why Slack.
The only significant thing to change was American policy. The admin put great on China to end smuggling goods across the border and ending the hijinks in the high seas, basically putting an end to doing an end around sanctions as well as the bluster.

The South Koreans indeed mention that the US played a major role in having this happen.

It would be cosmically ironic if peace is achieved in this instance given the prev admin winning the peace Nobel while achieving no peace at all.
Most property owned by private people before the GDR was founded was repatriated to the former owners, which was a messy process and as can be seen in Berlin, took up to now (goes for houses, gardens, fields, small shops etc.) This was further complicated because Jewish property also needed to be repatriated - with most owners murdered - as it wasn't given back by the GDR after the Nazis confiscated it.

Public land in the GDR is now owned by the German state.

"some profitable companies"

Most companies were transfered to an institution ("Treuhandanstalt") founded by the GDR. Most of these folded, because people in the GDR stopped buying former-GDR products and bought from West companies as soon as the Mark was introduced with a stupid 1:1 exchange rate instead of the real 1:7 (but it got the chancellor reelected). Additionally all export markets in Eastern Europe broke down. Imagine a company losing ALL it's customers and in the need to find new ones while still having thousands of employees. I'm not sure many companies today would survive this.

With an 1:1 exchange rate no company was profitable, most due to not enough machines working and too many people (many machines were run down in the 80s and couldn't be repaired). Funny story from former left-terrorist (RAF) members who fled to the GDR and when working in companies there (VEB) thought "this never works" because the whole company owned one xerox.

I don't think NK has a lot of functional companies though, with most people being farmers, so this should be mood.
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A lot of negativity in this thread is probably because they're saving the "wrong kind" of infants
I don't understand. Are you implying this paper is a "major finding"?

Many things that happen in biology occur without any real meaning or utility.
Why should they trust us to keep our end of the bargain?
> I suggest two things, 1) start doing competitive coding exercises, there are lots of problem sets available, search for "online judge" [0] and 2) practice interviewing under real conditions, use pramp [1].

Leetcode, SPOJ, and others are how I landed my current job. What was most helpful for me was actually going back and reimplementing all of the fundamental datastructures and algorithms. E.g. binary search tree, skip lists, BFS, DFS, different sorting algorithms, etc. From then, it was also helpful to remember where these were being used in the real systems I interact with.

Solving the interview problems is typically not my problem. In every round of my Google and Facebook interviews, I knew the optimal solution--confirmed by looking up the solutions after the interview. However, I happened to choke under the interview pressure and turned into a fool. Test anxiety--interview anxiety in this case--is a real thing.

What I am going to do in the next round of interviews is apply for dozens of companies I just don't care about, fail a bunch of interviews to get used to the pressure again, and then re-apply to the companies I actually care about.
> How is it possible that a government can forbid information?

By having enough capacity for organised violence to make their will stick. And if they lose that, they are no longer a government.
I sometimes wonder if a big reason why monogamous marriage exists as a concept in human society is as a strategy for mitigating violent upheaval. By using cultural pressure to force single-partner relationships (at least on the surface), you no longer had a large group of sexually frustrated men with nothing to lose looking around and wondering how to get a piece of what the elite have that they don't.
Emojis were a mistake.
>In the North American melting pot it's crude and racist to put blunt preferences in a dating ad,

Is that really true? I've never heard of the common phrase "swf looking for swm"[1] -- being called out in mainstream circles as racist.

Unlike employment or assigning bus seats in Alabama, the domain of romance was given the latitude for racial preferences without being demonized as "racism".

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="swf+looking+for+swm"
Well, he's making a great showing at these peace talks and—wait, what's that? Apparently, I've been misinformed, and he's not at them at all.

Huh.
Perhaps you should reevaluate things. It appears your strong, anti-Trump feelings may be clouding your judgment. Trump is a terrible President. He is an emotionally insecure person. He is consumed with a fear of narcissistic injury. He lies constantly. He is a terrible human being. But he is not always wrong.

There have been benefits due to his presidency.
One could make superficial comparisons between just about any career, from law and medicine to tradesman. Every job requires domain specific knowledge, how things interact, etc.

The application of that knowledge is how and why things are different. I actually asked a friend of mine, programmer-turned-lawyer, how similar the two were based off your premise. To him, there are completely unrelated skill sets that differentiate the two.

I'm sure some subset of lawyers overlaps with what some subset of software engineers do, generically speaking, but a practicing lawyer winning cases and a software engineer actually writing code are very different beasts.
For someone staring at death and one face of the absolute evil, this is not acceptable.
How to improve your outbound ABM performance with the Reveal Loop
Wasn't thinking when I wrote that Lisp example; obviously you don't use OPEN alongside WITH-OPEN-FILE, it just takes the filename.
When my dad & I built a house together. We outsourced the drywall and indoor paint job. Drywall is serious detail work, takes too long to get it right if you haven't done it a bunch.
Serious question - are you comfortable with Monzo being on-line only?

If it fails because of a failed upgrade, hacker attack, AWS not being available, etc... what is your plan B ?