skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Both nationalism nor patriotism barely make sense any more. Time are changing.

People said the same thing in the late and early 20th century before ww1 and ww2. They were wrong.

> If you read it, you will realize that all of civilization is fundamentally based on global markets and the global shipping of crude oil and other resources.

Modern nations are dependent on oil for sure. That's what ww1 and ww2 was fought over.

> In the long run, all countries have to work together or modern society will fail.

That's fundamentally not true. Certain nations, like the US, don't have to work with anyone. We are one of the few nations who have enough resources ( including oil ) to keep our civilization running. If you expand the US to include the anglo-nations ( Canada, Australia, etc ), then we are more than able to keep our society running without the rest of the world.

> In a nutshell, we live in an essentially transnational society and this cannot change unless you're willing to give up almost all of modern technology.

What? Maybe if you are denmark or iceland, but that doesn't hold true for the US.

Also, your entire argument is about international trade, not transnationalism. You need nations to have international trade.

And as I said, your argument isn't new. It's been long debunked. The same argument was made in the midst of pax britannica before ww1 and ww2. People argued that nations were too dependent on each other for wars to break out. Hell, people argued that germany would never attack the soviet union since most of germany's oil/resources came from the soviet union.

The current international system will continue as long as nations deem it beneficial to themselves. If it ceases to be, then it will end.

There is nothing inherently good or bad about any system. And I highly doubt china, russia and much of the world will adhere to the US/European led international system for much longer.

Pax americana will come to an end like all "pax" in the past. Instead of clinging to silly utopian transnationalism, we should be preparing ourselves for a multipolar nationalistic world.

The post ww2 era is an anomaly in human history where one nation ruled the world. The only comparable situation in human history was the mongol empire where mongol's established direct or indirect control over pretty much all of eurasia. That system crumbled also.
True. But many many many problems can be solved without that hammer as well.
Choosing PHP in 2018
Isn't that illegal, at least in the EU and Canada?
Player of Games is probably the best entry point because of its linear narrative.
> despite efforts from Microsoft to move on to the more modern Edge.

Then allow me to use Edge as a Windows control a la MSHTML in a non-UWP app. It's like if Chrome were suddenly made close source and non-embeddable and then Google complaining about insecure Electron apps.
My experience is that submodules are useful and unproblematic. cd into the submodule and treat it as a normal git repo is the easiest way. Then when you’re done, cd .. and commit the new submodule commit hash.
For those of us who have written an embedded OS in C, the situation is no different. The white board questions are crap like "How is React different from other JS frameworks?" Whaaaaat?
> You set Wind Down when you’d like to go to bed, and Android P will shift into a gray-scale palette

Oh they should really make this red-scale (red on black, no white light), not grey-scale, red is the only color that does not disturb night vision, and grey contains blue so disturbs sleep.
Movies That Would Cause Outrage If the Genders Were Reversed
True :-) I just liked that about the expanse that everything else was really realistic. Achievable by humans within the next couple of hundred years
> Most engineers, managers, designers, ... in these companies are people who want to build useful stuff, rather than maximizing short term gains for share holders (additionally none of these companies are paying dividends, so if you maximize value for share holders, you should play mid to long game)

This sounds very nice but is a little hard to believe considering the behavior of the company.

> I don't believe that there sinister master-plan behind every feature they release

You don't need to have a sinister master plan - extreme greed, a lust for power, and a lack of ethics is more than sufficient.
>As a counter example, being a police officer would I imagine not be considered the safest of jobs.

It isn't particularly dangerous in the UK. There were no officers killed in the line of duty in 2016, 2014, 2011, 2010 and 2008. Police officers have a relatively high risk of being the victim of an assault, but they're far less likely to be killed or seriously injured at work than workers in agriculture, construction, civil engineering, motor vehicle repair or waste management.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm
The issue is with transmitting money in another country. That's what takes several days (from Germany to USA for example). They buy BTC in Germany for EUR, send them to the guy in USA who then sells those for USD. It probably takes less than 5 minutes the whole operation.
> The real genius is that it fits Apple's brand really well, way better than Google's

Agreed. Of course, Apple would hate to look like they’re late to the party, but it’s probably too late for this to be introduced st this years Apple Developers Conference, right? Or perhaps it doesn’t need to be introduced there and could just be rolled out on the next version of iOS this fall?

Regardless, I wonder what will be the fate of apps like mine (BeeLine Reader), whose entire purpose (making reading on-screen easier by using line-wrapping color gradients) would be thwarted by Wind Down. We’ve already seen implications from Night Shift, which is especially annoying for our users who use our app for accessibility reasons and have to toggle the mode just to use our app.

Of course, you wouldn’t want apps to be able to unilaterally exempt themselves from the greyscale mode. But if you let users choose which apps to exempt, then would they just end up whitelisting (“colorlisting”?) Facebook and other addictive apps — defeating the purpose?
There is nothing you have said that a business who can potentially be fined to death, rely upon.

The fact that every response to the criticism of GDPR being too ambiguous, is ambiguous, only proves critics right. EU lawmakers picked worst combination: huge fine + huge ambiguity. This all could have been done with more certainity. So sad.
Therapy is not a badge of shame to be sure.

When I was at a low in my life I too found working on my health improved my self-esteem. And when I started to feel better about myself ... well, people can sense that.
Remember that Britain at the time was a nation in transition. Essentially bankrupted by the war, still impacted by WW1, an empire in moral and financial collapse, and a legacy social order falling apart.

The Soviets appeared to be an answer to those problems, as they had replaced the most reactionary of legacy states with a new thing. Also, comintern was a thing that invested a lot of resources into influencing western thinking.
The biggest issue is that it is only part of the problem, the other side is that it also infects HR requirements and now everyone needs to be a highly skilled motived engineered with 5+ years experience and several deployed applications to go through the HR filter and interviews driven by those junior engineers.
My own migration of a 7+ years C# codebase to F# (in 2013) began when I decided, belatedly, that I'm just not smart enough to pair a deep OO hierarchy with multicore parallelism without having my vacations spoiled with troubleshooting. The first thing I did was take a tiny part of the code, read the C# data into F# records and used F#'s Array.Parallel.map for the multicore crunching. Like magic, the intermittent threading bugs I had with that small part disappeared, so I kept going. I hadn't planned to rewrite everything in F#, but I had so much fun with it, and grew to love the language so much, that 18 months later, that's what had happened.

I'd recommend starting by nibbling around the edges: find small pain points where F#'s union types, immutability, pattern-matching, option types, active patterns, etc, make some small part of the software easier to understand and maintain. And then if you like how that goes, don't stop.
Mostly my feelings/intuition, but here's the argument:

Name one other thing recently on air that's realistic about space while also being interesting to general audience.

Closest thing that comes to mind would be NatGeo's Mars series, but that's half documentary, half speculative concept art, and definitely very niche. Beyond that, there's nothing. Before that, we had the trio of Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian, the former two being sorta-hardish if you squint hard enough. And before we had 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that's it.

It's difficult to make a space show that's both true to physics and fun/engaging at the same time. Most authors don't bother with "true to physics" part. The Expanse succeeded at both, because an excellent team took great source-material and expanded on it, instead of butchering it like usually happens. The result was a show that was interesting to non-space geeks, that still gave accurate picture of how space works. If someone asked you, "I wonder why they're doing X", or "I wonder why they didn't do Y", your answer would likely contain some explanation of real-world physics. This is how you give regular people intuition about concepts they're not encountering daily.

So yeah, losing the only show about near-future space exploration that's both engaging and highly realistic - I think it's a bad day for both science outreach and science fiction.
this says nothing about the company values; a person made the wrong decision. you’re blowing it up in a fantastical way, like the author of the editorial.

i don’t make purposeful email addresses; i don’t have time for that.
> The OP is clearly NOT suggesting "blind opposition" to industrial progress

Yes they are.

> "Every time the jury is out on a topic where one side has a vested interest and a billion dollar budget to protect it, you can be reasonably sure what the outcome will be."

OP is literally saying that from the moment the waters become slightly murky you can reasonably assume that the big vested interest is in the wrong. FUD stirring past this threshold is inevitable, so this amounts to blind opposition to >billion dollar vested interests, which are a reasonable proxy for industrial progress.

As for the inevitably of FUD-stirring, I'll again hold up Greenpeace as my example. Monsanto does many evil things, but instead of focusing on those, Greenpeace decided to engage in Fox-news level truth wrangling so that they could milk the juicy "terminator gene" soundbite. They did it again as the Seralini scandal developed -- but since I had my own "ground truth" opinion (which agrees with the scientific consensus supporting retraction) I saw their claims of suppression/censorship in a very different light. From that day forward I stopped assuming good intentions from environmental groups and adopted a "read both sides" policy. It was eye-opening.

> You've skilfully managed to turn the argument away from the facts

Right back atcha.

> So, what exactly is your intention here?

Self-styled environmentalists turned back the clock on clean energy by fifty years when they sank nuclear power. I don't want them to do the same to my food supply, but they're half way there. I don't want them to do the same to my cell phone, but I hear war drums beating in the distance.
> UTC+2:00 is actually something else than CEST

I presume you’re referring to the fact that CEST is +0200, but +0200 is not necessarily CEST?
Moving to silicon valley at 30?
Has anyone moved when they were a bit older? How did you find it?

I'm from Australia and have always wanted to work in silicon valley, I have a few companies willing to sponsor me.

But I'm a bit concerned I'm too old now, and given that I don't know anyone in silicon valley I'd have to start my social life up again. I'm single with no dependants if that matters.
> I was told that I could not opt out and that the sample becomes the property of the State and there is nothing I could do about it.

That is so disgusting. For all the talk about individuality and liberalism, it's amazing how liberal societies are so authoritarian and controlling.

If you don't own your DNA, then what do you own? But I guess big brother knows what's best for us.
The issue raised in this article is extremely tenuous.

The "Linux Programmer's Manual" man page from the Linux documentation project has it as:

%G The ISO 8601 week-based year (see NOTES) with century as a deci‐
mal number. The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week num‐
ber (see %V). This has the same format and value as %Y, except
that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next
year, that year is used instead. (TZ)

This clearly says "%G is some ISO nonsense you don't want to be using".

But the "week-based year" alone should alert you that something is wrong. Because, like, the year that you know is not week-based! There aren't exactly 52 weeks in a year: 365 isn't divisible by 7, and if it were, then 366 wouldn't be.

A (see NOTES) is also alarming. Why do you have to see some notes about planting the year part of the date into a simple date string?

The glibc manual has it here:https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Formattin... It also makes it perfectly clear that this is something weird:

"This has the same format and value as %y, except that if the ISO week number (see %V) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. This format was first standardized by ISO C99 and by POSIX.1-2001."

Three warning labels here: ISO, C99 and POSIX 2001!

C99 itself gives it like this.

%G is replaced by the week-based year (see below) as a decimal number (e.g., 1997). [tm_year, tm_wday, tm_yday]

If you don't "see below", that is your problem, just like ignoring "(see NOTES)". The "see below" paragraph has this:

%g, %G, and %V give values according to the ISO 8601 week-based year. In this system,
weeks begin on a Monday and week 1 of the year is the week that includes January 4th,
which is also the week that includes the first Thursday of the year, and is also the first
week that contains at least four days in the year. [... more explanation]
I make that argument myself fairly often, but IE should go away. Microsoft would prefer users use Edge, and are not updating IE except for security patches. So while I will join you in railing against people who say everyone should adopt [browser of choice here], I don't have a problem saying Microsoft IE needs to go away.
Clearly a suboptimal solution. That pipe isn't free. /s

sort -u foo
As I understand it, it was a 0-day exploit when it was discovered in "late April". (That is, it was exploing a then-unknown bug.)
Software development processes
You are right in that the Expanse is far far from Hard SciFi, but it's probably in the top 1% since people really don't get FTL is just a plan nut job level idea.

Protomolcule does go nutty (FTL, disrespecting inertia, gravity and stuff)but I didn't mind personally, I also like magic shows.

But the human stuff is not bad, which is why a lot of people love it. There's a huge section of it that kinda has some respect for science.

But it's not Paranormal IMO because everyone can see it happening, hence it's normal (In this universe)

I would not say a movie where ghosts are everywhere in society and everyone sees them a paranormal movie.
1. Can I ask, what are your goals & vision? What motivated you to build an embedded comments system?

2. You wrote elsewhere:"My example now costs $0.014 instead". — I'm wondering if people think it doesn't matter if they pay $1 or $0.014 per month. Or rather ... they'll feel worried that when you charge "too little", you risk running out of money and disappear. Any thoughts about that? if it's OK that I ask. ... I've been thinking, me too, about pricing the embedded comments service I provide in the way you do now ... and mostly didn't do that.

3. If someone is to pay say $0.1 for a month ... Or $1 for a year ... Then, I'm thinking there's a minimum transaction fee, and that maybe the credit card company (or something), will get most of the money the customer pays. Any thoughts about that, and how to deal with that?

4. Would be interesting with screenshots that shows the moderation interface.

5. And yes the tech stack wold be interesting :-) (& if you have any questions to me (I'm doing a bit the same as you) feel free to ask)
If you look at their reviews they seem quite bad https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.bitbond.com

however I don't think they have a stock/coin/token to pump or dump.
Yup. Stargate was perfect. I don't like series with fully self-contained episodes, because those tend to not have any overarching plot. But I also don't like the new trend of running as many plot points as you can in parallel, which don't get resolved for half a season. I think StarGate got the right balance (and I miss the show very much).
That's a strawman. Your question is ridiculous. Features of a certain language/framework/etc != languages/frameworks/etc
If you're using gnu coreutils: sort -u foo.
Quicker google leads me to believe they suggest using ddb instead of gdb. I’ve seen variations on the following thread a few times. I,don’t,know,whether this answers your question or not.

http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/on-line-kernel-deb...
The GDPR is perfectly straightforward to interpret and apply.

How can anything with 11 chapters and 99 sections be "straightforward to interpret and apply"?

https://gdpr-info.eu/
Tor Style Onion Routing for the Lightning Network
I think it would be useful if such declarations followed up with an alternative suggestion.

I have no alternative suggestion, because Ubuntu is still what I would recommend to new users even if it's not what I personally use anymore, because they have the track record for getting new Linux users on board and helping them out (via the prominent search results for common problems people come across, etc). On the whole, I also think their design has been consistently decent (including Unity).
I think a google glass type product will be back eventually
> not accepting myself and a lack of self-love

And you're aware of it! That's a very good first step towards fixing that!
It doesn’t seem you’re very familiar with either this area of ethics or with statistics, so I don’t think this can be a productive discussion.

I’ll just note that you’re seriously comparing someone posting “go to Asia because it’s easier to have sex there” with a black person walking into a store. It sounds to me like you are just disproportionately sensitive about this because you feel like in this case you are the one being profiled.

On top of that you’re equating harassing a shopper to not even accusing someone of being a sex tourist, just pointing out that sex tourism is a thing.

You need to step back and look at this in perspective. That’s it from me.
I suppose there's some semantic clarification needed here. I don't see why identifying with one's ancestors [1] (patriotism) or nation (nationalism) precludes free trade, multiculturalism, human decency, etc.

On the contrary, if we want people to think long-term, it's important to get them to associate personal motivations (love of their grandchildren, love of their neighborhoods) with the sacrifices needed to keep civilization healthy (taxes, public service, military service, compliance with environmental regulations, etc.).

I guess it's possible you see "patriotism" and "nationalism" as requiring negative isolationism, xenophobia, etc. If that's true, is there a word for "thinking locally, acting globally" that allows for appreciating your homeland, ancestors, neighbors, etc.?
Compositionality: a new open-access journal for the mathematics of composition
Well, there's Edge, that has decent standards support and timely updates. As for Internet Explorer - it's time for it to retire.
Hi, I had a sleep on it. I thought about something. So, a few things about your responses made it clear you're not a native speaker of English - which is fine. I think I didn't consider the possibility that you're just using a word wrong. Based on your more detailed response, I don't think you consider Apple's service options "a joke". Here is an online definition of a joke (in this sense):

>informal

>a person or thing that is ridiculously inadequate.

>"public transport is a joke"

Perhaps I am wrong and you find it "ridiculously" inadequate, but from your comments it sounds more like you consider it sub-par or not competitive.

Let me think about if I can think of something Apple has done that's a joke. (I just Googled one.) So, the Apple III had no fan even though it needed one (engineers had miscalculated its heat profile) and as a result had a 100% failure rate. Its chips would melt out of their sockets.[1] One official solution to reseat the chips was to lift the machine 3 inches and drop it, to reseat the chips. This was in official company support documents.

That's a joke. (The story we're commenting under about failing keyboards might also qualify - but the support option itself doesn't seem to match this definition.)

Basically I think you're just using too harsh of a word for the options we're discussing - better words might be: lacking, inadequate, sub-par, etc.

[1]
https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/11-worst-apple-prod...
Well, it has some other means of abusing spacetime beyond FTL communications, but your description is mostly accurate. It's a sophisticated piece of nanotech built by someone with much better grasp of (in-universe) physics than humans have.
> If you are a registered user of a Yubico website and have supplied your email address, Yubico may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Yubico and our products.

If they made the author a "registered user" when he submitted his address to the replacement program, they should make it clear that's what is happening. Or they need to expand their TOS language a bit...
Is Maternal Instinct Only for Moms?
80% across top 10, 10% into medium caps and 10% into small caps.
I love The Expanse it's a great story and decent acting, but Firefly had more entertainment value and appeals to a larger audience.
> So what's going on? Is it me just not paying attention?

A bit of regionalism and a bit of not paying attention. They were getting going doing some local stuff (in Japan) in the early 90s when I lived there - much like ASCII was. And Sega, a bit, I guess, as they were trying to re-re-invent themselves.

They came to America (SV) about the time I got back to America - they invested in yahoo.com, and Rob Glaser's real.com, and about 100 others. Not huge amounts or huge stakes by today's standards - but still significant. They never seemed to be quite as discriminating as some of the big-name VCs that you probably know, but 1995 (or so) through 1998 (or so) was a reasonably reasonable time to be spreading your bets across the entire table.
Well, don't you think there is a vested interest among certain parties to make any and all attempts to legitimize this crypto-trash? There's billions of dollars at stake.

I have this former colleague whom I email occasionally for shits and giggles. He believes he's an Ethereum millionaire and never hesitates to bring it up every time we trade messages. It's goddamn infuriating the way these people carry on. Yeah, MAYBE he's a millionaire, and maybe next week the whole thing implodes, too.
I agree. I'm very happy I picked the books up only after watching S1 - that way, my mental image of Avasarala was sourced from the books, and all the lovely lines of that character were read with Shohreh's voice in my head.