skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pattern is like McDonald's Golden Arches but with the arches pushed inwards so that they mostly overlap, and as you say you always throw inside the ball coming down.

Two helpful things while learning are a) doing it standing in front of a wall, so you don't have to worry about keeping throws from going forward away from your body (common while starting), and b) doing it in front of a ledge, so you don't have to bend over so far when you drop balls (even more common while starting). Combine both if you can, makes it much less frustrating!
So? I'm down to pay more taxes.
How much is egg, and how much is having carbs alongside that egg early in the morning? There are some health benefits to intermittent fasting by not eating in the morning.
The banks have been pushing for a cashless society for awhile now.

So once they achieve their goal of preventing me from paying someone else $10 without a 3rd party getting a 2-3% fee for the privilege of exchanging money between two private parties, it won't be them getting the 2-3%? Cry me a river.
> Copper Ethernet RJ45 is the best

Not to be That Guy, but RJ45 is a plug standard; normal ethernet cable is "cat5" or "cat6", and normal 10/100/1000 Ethernet is limited to just 100 meters. Which is completely useless given the average cabinet distances in the UK.
If you learned Elixir, it would not surprise me if you started to prefer Elixir for most backend projects.
I couldn't stand his right wing politics however his writing style was amazing, as an artist there was a lot to appreciate in terms of how he crafted his work.
The real story here is that WSJ posted a news article with an implicit bias against Amazon. This is interesting because Bezos owns WSJ.
Hey Silvestar, I just emailed you about possible work. Something tells me you'll have a good second year! :)
>It's too bad, too, because I remember how easy and quick developing in VB4/VB5 was, so Delphi sounds great on paper, and I would definitely use it to develop at least some applications if it weren't so expensive.

I have been having these thoughts for the past few weeks. After the watching DHH's RailsConf Keynote and thinking about Conceptual Compression, and current technology. Why have we made everything 10x more complicated over years. It is not just Web Sites, Apps as well. VB may be ugly, but it lower the entry barrier. ( VB.Net is an entirely different thing ). Delphi literally have everything done right for well over a decade and it's idea and philosophy aren't being copied anywhere.

Instead of making software easier for everybody to learn, easier to maintain and less prone to bug, making debugging easier, higher performant and less recourse hungry. We have managed to bloat the framework, the languages, the CPU and memory resources, trillion times more abstracted. Everything is a hack over another hack.
Interesting spin on Cisco getting caught yet again putting backdoors into their routers.
FB wants every detail about everything your life, and wants to only share rosy PR in return. That part isn't news.

What's worth repeating is how tone-deaf and stupid this is. Decision-makers inside FB are living in a bubble crazy and arrogant enough to make them think this is something to propose to the world.

It is a technical bandaid that could theoretically work if you ignore the real people inhabiting the real world who would be using it. Reminds me, in a different way, of folks talking about how printing PGP (then) hashes on business cards was a workable fix for the web-of-trust, only throw in nudie pics, even more nerd-arrogance and FB's brazen, repeated abuses of trust.

When FB offers to act as my agent, with a contract including teeth for improper disclosure of confidential information, they will be approaching Saul Goodman levels of trustability.
Logically speaking, it's either of:

1. These are unrelated

2. The cause is specific to the setup/operation of the US consulates themselves

3. Both Cubans (or Russians) and Chinese are using 3rd party spy tech that causes that

Anything else?
U.S. Government Can’t Get Rid of Kaspersky Labs Software
JetBrains IDEs can do almost this using the PlantUML plugin (see my comment above): you just have to write a little graphml code to show the PNG. It's not inline with the source code, but in a separate pane. But a documentation generator (such as Sphinx) could show the image inline, with a little plugin.
>> Has there been any recent discussion on this?

https://forum.dlang.org/search?q=benchmarks+game&scope=forum

https://forum.dlang.org/search?q=benchmarksgame&scope=forum
Just that. My own view is that regulations are antithetical to competition. Sometimes regulations are necessary but it's not true that they come without a cost.
>Western bankers and credit-card executives who travel to China keep returning with the same anxiety: Payments can happen cheaply and easily without them.

but there are plenty of "bank -> wallet -> merchant" services in US as well. most notably paypal: you deposit money to your paypal wallet, and spend that money at various online merchants, no credit cards involved.
Workplace by Facebook and Okta
It will. Copyright protections do the same - I wanted to see an US-based SNL skit and it's blocked in my country.

BBC stuff is likewise blocked.

I find region-based blocks all the time :( , mostly related to IP and copyright.
Thank you so much for mentioning that!
In that vein, I recommend this video about the Marvel Universe music and the general use of "temp music". It touches a lot of the points you mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, not the Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal.
Turn your money into time like this guy did.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
The largest tax burden is on the middle class. The upper-middle class has fixed social security taxation (it is growing up to a certain level) and large part of the capital is in different securities which are taxed differently (much lower than say income tax).

At the same time, you have no need to pay extra costs for security, healthcare, roads, etc. more than average income people.

Thus you enjoy overall good quality of life with no additional payments.

My own opinion is that you will have better life quality in Scandinavia than in US independently on which income group you belong to, but some people may disagree. And don't underestimate the harsh climate - depression and bad mood is not as uncommon during the dark months.
I have noticed that Bloomberg won't wall off their longform or graphic-design articles, I'm thinking because they're from Businessweek and not regular news you could get on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Meanwhile what's being done about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Nothing. It's being pushed around with the hope that everyone will forget about them until the next crisis.
I'm looking forward to the day my kids don't wake me up at 7, every day. (They are 5 and 2)
Bezos is a smart dude. Small jabs at Amazon doesn't have a significant effect on the business. It adds credibility to the paper.
> stop living off consumer data and start living off an actual service industry.

the apps in china boomed due to the fact that credit cards weren't popular nor available at the time, and the opportunity for the app (wechat) to become the payment method presented itself.

This can't happen in the western world, because credit cards are so ubiquitous, and displacing it is high neigh impossible.
"Finally we have Serverboards 18.04 ready! Serverboards is our* IT Infrastructure monitoring and management tool."
This.

Imagine removing street-side parking. Not all at once. First on some key streets, then every 5 or so streets, and so on. Eventually, perhaps a couple of decades from now, there could be no daytime street-side parking (autonomous vehicles "sleeping" in the erstwhile parking spots at night).

On many streets in NYC removing street-side parking will triple bandwidth. This could be piloted now, though without autonomous vehicles. And perhaps some such streets could be limited to access by buses, taxis, and limousines (uber, lyft, ...).

Of course, selling this to voters will be impossible for a while yet. Once we get autonomous cars though, this concept will become very tempting.
I'm pretty clueless here, but from a quick search on GitHub it looks like there's support for NT exception handling, and DWARF exception handling. (I realise this doesn't really answer your question, but it's a start.)

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/7a33233c/dm/src...
https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/7a33233c/dm/src...
Ok - found it... but now I'm confused.

This music Gnossienne No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUAF3abGY2M

is the same as the royalty free one called 'Turin'.

So is it that the Turin version is a royalty free 'recording' (dynamically created), rather than one by a specific performer?
I hate to get sucked into this sort of political bickering here, but I feel like you're being a bit disingenuous. Yes, democrats during the Obama years did hold out for comprehensive reform, but to their credit it looked like they were only a few votes short for several years so their strategy made some sense. Additionally, it was the strategy of the Republicans in the House and Senate at the time to float small one off reform bills on various topics in order to peel votes off of broader initiatives and then scrap the smaller bills once the broad reform was killed.

You do have some Republicans who have some interesting things to say on immigration like Justin Amosh, but he's an exception. The nativists in the Republican party have been increasing in power an influence since 2010, and they want less overall immigration even among high skilled immigrants, it's literally part of their platform.

I would personally be in favor of scrapping the current system totally and setting a single cap per year. I would also give special consideration to refugees and skilled/in demand workers. I think increasing the number of temporary work visas is probably good as well. Now we have a cap per country, which is ridiculous.
Programming Community Curated Resources for Learning Emacs
Is there any evidence these chat based payment apps (venmo, apple pay, facebook messenger, snapchat...?) are replacing credit card transactions in the US? They seem to replace person to person cash transactions instead.
This is old: nowadays, to create revenge porn, someone can just grab your face photos and use deepfakes.

i.e. facebook doesn't need naked photos to stop revenge porn, just use photos of your face, which they already have

i.e. photo of your face appears on fb/instagram/etc in an unlikely place? auto-crop it to just that body and ask you if you approve. even better, offer a page listing "your photos that appear on other people's feeds and profiles". The algorithm would need to be conservative (i.e. err on the side of not-matching) to avoid leaking other peoples' naked pics to you. To thwart uploading previously-recorded photos/video, use the same tech as Face ID.

This would also be an excellent positive-PR partnership opportunity between Facebook, Google, Tinder, and the other top social media and dating sites.
A referral code is required to sign up. Agreed with other commenters this doesn't seem above board and likely violates the publications terms.

I would love to see a service like this. I used Google contributor for a while and have look into others. Blendle is one that sells articles vs full access I occasionally use now.
I first read that as "bloat" car ;)
As long as banks get the FDIC guarantee while American WeChat-type competitors don't, they'll be fine.
Intel AI VP Gadi Singer on One Song to the Tune of Another
You are paying for that ISP-supplied router, either explicitly as an item in your bill or implicitly factored into the overall cost. People will either go with the cheapest option if there are any options at all or the ISP will simply save costs to do the minimum necessary to provide internet access.

And of course those routers are crap and only do the bare minimum.

For example they often have comically bad firewalls/NATs that can overflow their state tables when you do any P2P, run your own DNS resolver or run a home server through dynamic DNS.

And then there's buffer bloat.

A custom router with OpenWRT and enough RAM will cope with those use-cases and will offer all the nice linux traffic shaping plugins like fq_codel and cake.
Now, how to explain this to my 3 year old...

Man, I wish sleeping in was still an option.
From looking at their submission history, it seems this is the first "hit" they had, so content marketing probably hasn't helped much... until now.

FWIW my own pipeline of consulting clients relies solely on introductions and blogging ("content marketing" but much less formal). I continue to encourage new freelancers/consultants to write and share their knowledge more often.
+1 for the Stormlight Archives I would add the rest of Brandon Sanderson Cosmere books:

Mistborn Trilogies
Warbreaker
Elantris
etc.
What substance did your comment have? You simply named some examples of actions that Apple has taken which doesn’t prove anything at all to your point since the very definition of security theater is taking actions that make it look like you care about security.

The reason I think that they are theater is the same reason that any corporation does things like that. It’s just like Googles bullshit “do no evil” motto. Apple has a long history of doing dramatic things for attention. Do you deny that?

So, what’s your reason? Do you take everything that any corporation does at face value, or just Apple?
The article called Roth "one of the last great white males". I had to read that five times to make sure that phrase was actually used. wtf. How is this okay on any level?
So do I... they are 5 and 6...
Make sure you're doing mobility drills, a la Kelly Starrett or the Limber Eleven or any number of mobility/stretching plans. I lifted in the past without doing so and got some seriously annoying back injuries. If you aren't prepared posture/mobility wise, doing lifts can cause more pain than they solve.
Cory Doctorow on the fight for a configurable and free internet
Goodness gracious. What a miserable error to start the day with. More coffee I guess.
"This site can’t be reached"
4 Reasons for Bitcoin’s Price Volatility
NYC's system has a lot of lines that basically run two lines on shared track, split them off, and then join other lines in complex reverse branching scenarios. This absolutely kills the ability to run high TPH (the Washington, D.C. metro also suffers this problem). The Victoria line has no revenue branches nor line sharing--it is much easier to get high TPH on those kinds of lines. Moscow Metro, in a similar situation, can pull 40TPH.
I was on that Pyramid too. uxa.cso.uiuc.edu for life, yo.

The key was having some kind of terminal and modem back at the dorm so you could log into the system after the labs were closed. You literally had the entire machine to yourself all night long. =)
I think any JS can listen for the navigate-away event or changes to the URL without doing anything special - then just grab ‘window.href/window.location’ or something like that
> Rust is better suited as universal language than Scala for me as I am writing also music applications, which really hate the garbage collector needed in Java/Scala, things that run on the JVM.

That's the conventional wisdom about GC, but I'm not sure how true it is these days - prototyping a video streaming program in a previous job we were surprised to discover that Haskell performed significantly better than C++ in that role. The JVM GC is quite tuneable and if you're willing to sacrifice throughput for latency you can get it quite low.

(Rust has a lot of good points but I won't be interested until it gets HKT).

> I never really needed recursive types, but that's also something limiting on the JVM.

What do you mean? Recursive types in the sense I'm used to work fine on the JVM; there is even e.g. a recursion-schemes like library for Scala (matryoshka).
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The only common ground to those cases are americans in US consulates. So logical conclusion is it is case of self-shooting in the foot - Us spy equipment malfunctioning etc
oh wow, that is nice. I've been looking for something like dark night mode for a while now, glad you pointed it out
Only among those well-enough versed in history and consequence.
Yep, just had that call yesterday: <0.1% of customers? Drop EU users off our email list and blacklist the EU until we want to actually target the market. Ended up not worth it to even check if we're compliant than to just lose the business, at least for the short term.
The Forth Dimension
That as well as the Welfare Trap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
It's not obvious who is behind the site, there's no "this is how we make money" statement, there's nothing at all indicating that they have any partnerships with any of the publications listed.

So it seems pretty likely they're violating these publications' terms of service.

Also- and this is petty- it's hosted on Wix. So there's that.
Hygiene hypothesis – Being too hygiene is not healthy
Wow, that would be super surprising. I wouldn't think I'm giving Facebook my next destination when I type it manually into the URL bar! Can someone confirm?
9 and 6 here. I'm at a point that I can feed them and get them placated (electronics, cartoons, whatever) and go back to sleep for another hour or two on the weekends. So I guess that's a mild improvement.

School days they, of course, refuse to get out of bed.
Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health
It doesn’t matter if your audience doesn’t know what a gadrooned platter is. Often people are flattered to have an unusual word thrust upon them. They say, Well, that author thinks I know what he’s talking about!

This is one of those rare sentences that changes the way my mind works. When I read a weird word in a magazine piece, I usually think the author is being pretentious or needlessly flowery - perhaps even a secret handshake inside a literary class where I don't belong. It never occurred to me to think this was showing respect to the reader.
I wish people would stop with this. Human-powered transportation for mass transit is slow, does not work over long distances, requires effort that most people are not willing to provide, and is a poor choice in the rain or snow or cold.
So it's less popular than football, but probably about as popular as tennis or badminton.
WeWork, the Coming Disruption of Architecture
Look at their footer

> Silvestar is a fearless web developer and consultant, JAMstack enthusiast and Wordpress coder currently available for hire.

This person may have accidentally reinvented content marketing but they aren’t implementing a known good strategy. They are a web developer, a coder, available for hire. They say they’re a consultant, which is nice but they don’t understand the difference between a consultant and a contractor. A consultant is way more expensive. If this person has a marketing position or a niche I don’t know what it is. I’m completely convinced they’re a good web developer but they don’t have a market position more differentiated than “I build websites”.
Walking for Stress Relief
Well, in my case, I use a Edgerouter-X with an SFP module that connects directly to my fiber line. Remember, a fibre lines does not even require a modem. I don't have experience with DSL equipment.
The equipment my ISP send me (it's still in the box) came with a 'fiber modem', which is a fiber-to-ethernet converter, and a no-name brand router with build-in wifi. The firmware on it is a custom branded build of 3 years old, and I don't expect they ever released a security update for it (KRACK attack, anyone?).

For wireless connectivity I use a Unify AC pro, which has proved highly reliable. See [0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/review-ubiquiti-unif...
So what is your app? If it's gone from the app store, can you post the description?
Primary care physicians are often switchboard operators - they hook you up with potential resources or referrals that may lead to a solution. The chances that any given PCP is going to know a lot about RSI is pretty small, they have literally the entire spectrum of human health to consider, not to mention the looming issues of obesity, heart disease, cancer, and other more damaging syndromes.

Personally, I found wrist pain to be of multifactorial origin: too much typing, driving, playing piano, not enough cardio, strength training, and relaxation vs. stress.
Forget their intentional use, what about the unintentional use?

"We're terribly sorry this database of photos submitted to prevent revenge porn was accidentally made public. We have fixed the security hole which made this possible, but still intend to keep and expand the database which was exposed. Thank you for your understanding and participation."

Or, imagine a new advertising filter popping up some new advertisements for you: "Have genital warts? Use our cream to make them go away!"
Don't worry, pretty soon you will be trying to wake them up every morning.
He went to an in-network emergency room. He still ended up with a $7,924 bill
The CPUs were microprogrammable. It's no surprise that they had a strcpy() opcode. VAXes too had crazy complicated instructions, including list traversal instructions and arbitrary precision BCD instructions (IIRC anyways).
Kind of a weird title. The SNES CD was the Playstation ancestor. The CD-i was a device made independently that Nintendo partnered with after they dumped Sony.

Spurned by Nintendo, Sony took their SNES CD tech and created the Playstation from it.
Probably wouldn't want to work there if they couldn't take the joke!
Exactly. The problem with Delphi is that it tries to be too many things, for example we don't need another language ecosystem, but we do need great cross-platform UI toolkits/development workflows. Delphi excels at that, but if the library I want to use isn't available for the language, I'm out of luck.

If we could keep the great dev tooling and UI toolkit, but use a language with a larger ecosystem, that would be much more impactful. Maybe Python + Qt can be the answer to that.
Hi Walter, great work as always.

I'm a fan of D as a language, but how do you respond to the question of "We should just go with C# or C++, why go with a middle-ground language like D that few programmers know?"

Given that D --> C++ migrations have happened in the past, this strikes me as D's big challenge: finding its place.

I'm thinking in particular of OpenMW: https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=2189
He learned it from Marcel Marceau.
This. BT didn't ignore FTTH because they thought it was a bad technology. BT invented _alot_ of technology that makes fibre deployments world wide cheap enough to be feasible, including fibre jetting.

They didn't role it out because first of all they were barred from selling TV over fibre in the late 80s early 90s in favour of foreign cable companies. Those cable companies eventually merged to form Virgin Media.

Later BT opted for cheaper VDSL technology because it wasn't clear they would be allow to profit (due to wholesale price regulation) from FTTH investment. The expensive bit of deploying FTTH is in "holes and poles". i.e. digging up roads.

None of the other UK players want to invest in FTTH outside of major cities and only BT is legally compelled to provide any form of broadband nationally at all. Firms like CityFibre just want to cream off the most profitable areas of the country and kill off cross-subsidising the rest.
Nothing. IIRC, they had 5 years in which to charge him if they wanted to, and the 5-year mark just recently passed witb, obviously, no action taken.
It's not that I wouldn't recommend it, I would just think twice recommending it for very small ops teams for certain use cases. It's not so hard to manage, but having it be managed by Confluent is a great option.