skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am exactly ten years older than the internet and here is what I would say:

1) Google (not Reddit) is the "front page" of the modern world wide web. Before Google, it was AOL (which was a closed network with access to the open internet) and Yahoo. The public internet existed some time before the world wide web, and that was an important distinction back in the mid 90s.

2) Definitely a lot less open and more controlled and regulated in 2018. There was no dark web back then, it was just one web. My first online purchase was a pre-order of Diablo II, tax free and it took forever to arrive :)

3) Yes, Google has been the heaviest and richest lobbying power representing Silicon Valley in Washington for years now, ever since hiring Eric Schmidt and before debuting their IPO. Whether this is a good thing or bad thing will be the measure of how open (or closed) you think Google and companies like Amazon have made the web with their lobbying efforts.
Its as if Snap is deliberately trying to turn off founders.
This is exactly right. This is real life!! And it hurts.
> asian companies seem to be ridiculously diverse (Mitsubishi makes cars, elevators, air conditioners, and is a bank. Yamaha makes pianos, electronics, and motorcycles)

This is because of political influence/leadership. Such companies would not have existed unless there was a political will to build large conglomerates like the zaibatsu in Japan (same thing in Korea with Samsung that does about everything). This is hardly free market at work.

Besides, this is not what you think it is. Mitsubishi is actually composed of hundred of sub-group companies that have basically nothing to do with each other, and simply share a larger umbrella brand, but in effect act as semi-autonomous entities.
Are you at all concerned about software patents in this space?
Is it suddenly not illegal if someone takes my TV instead of my cash?
A Medieval Emperor's Natural Language Experiment
I was referring specifically to rent controlled units, not rent stabilized units.
> Of course it is. Nearly every physicist knew this was quackery from day one.

Source of disproof?

From two years of atomic physics study at my university, I don't see any reason you can't generate thrust using EM emission from an anetenna attached to the object being propelled. No laws are violated.

First of all, before getting to conservation laws, the author's statement that an EM drive requires no fuel, right after stating the engine is powered by microwaves (generated by some stored energy source, a.k.a. fuel) is nonsensical.

So, about those conservation laws. EM drives absolutely fully conserve energy and momentum in the system. Anyone who studied physics at the university level should have a firm understanding that photons do not "launch" themselves off of the surface from which they are emitted, like a rocket from a platform. Instead, the energy and momentum change forms as they transfer from the source (e.g. an atom) to the photom (e.g. a microwave).

In atomic orbital decay (say spontaneous emission from an exciton), emitted photons recieve their energy and momentum from the atom's decaying orbital energy and angular momentum. That's it. See here (1) for a deeper breakdown of what's going on, but if you're generally trying to figure out where the energy and momentum are coming from, at the high level that's all there is to it - no quackery here.

If you need a mental image, just try to imagine throwing (imparting a force on) a photon emitted from a light bulb in your hand. You can't do it. A photon travels at the speed of light in a vacuum the instant it is created at the bulb's filament. Because you're hand and the lightbulb (both made of matter and traveling in the same direction as the photon) cannot travel at the speed of light, the photon will always be forward of your hand/light bulb and no energy can be transferred from your hand/light bulb to the photon, and vice versa. There is no "recoil" felt by your hand. That's exactly the same for the EM drive's antenna (or any antenna or emitter for that matter). However, that same photon can certainly interact with matter and transfer it's energy and 'linear' (angular) momentum to an incident piece of matter, for a kinetic reaction.

So, again, I don't see the problem.

1. http://www.eng.fsu.edu/~dommelen/quantum/style_a/consem.html
Depending on the magazine there was another issue to bury your head in arriving in a week to a month. Also there was more than one magazine around. Finish one and pick up the next.
> Crypto currencies are worthless unless they have an enormous amount of hashing power behind them.

I think this is only true if you assume that crypto-currencies must be based on proof-of-work algorithms.

What about proof of stake systems?
Sensor supplier could embed the crypto in the hardware as close to the imager as possible and issue signing keys for each device. OEM would write firmware to extract that from the camera bitstream and dump it into the metadata of the image (something along those lines anyway)

The image and signature could be added as authentication layers and then a third layer added to allow post-production (crop/levels/etc). Right click in your browser to 'see original image' with a little padlock in the corner. Ideally this would include GPS info to reduce likelihood that someone would just project a desired image on a screen and photograph that.
Newsblur for RSS feed reading.

NearlyFreeSpeech for web-site hosting.

VentraIP for my .id.au domain. This includes DNS and email forwarding. The email forwarding is awesome - no need for G-Suite just for personal email domain. I just use a regular Gmail account.

Cerberus for phone anti-theft on all family phones.

I use to pay for Lastpass and Xmarks, but they shut Xmarks down, and the free offering of Lastpass expanded to include the features I needed. (To be honest, I've been looking to move off Lastpass since LogMeIn bought them, but especially since they shuttered Xmarks. That really rankles.)
There is no biomarker for mild traumatic brain injury. It is diagnosed based purely on symptoms after a mild concussion. In this case there was no concussion, so the diagnosis seems a bit suspect.
I don't think so, at least not immediately - network Time Machine backups are supported on a wide array of third party NAS style devices, much the same as it worked on Apple's own Time Capsule device. I did a similar thing on my home made NAS server box to allow it to appear as a network Time Machine volume "natively" recently too. It's a pretty popular feature on the usual NAS players like Synology's products as well.

That said, the focus is clearly much more on iCloud these days, Time Machine feels like it hasn't seen development in years. I was lamenting its slow performance the other day.
Beautifully said. I imagine a unix that works out of the box like a general purpose macOS.
Yahoo's biggest asset was Alibaba
Well shit. Time to update our relations. O_O
> Select two

Skripal, Litvinenko, Gorbuntsov, Perepilichnyy and others. Not two.
As far as Ubuntu supporting window snapping, it’s worth noting that Linux has supported every conceivable window management feature for years, including some that have never come anywhere near Windows or Mac, like tiling window managers. making window management entirely modular.

Every WM or desktop combo in Linux has other features I find highly convenient which are strangely missing from Mac and Windows, such as a drag modifier key for windows, which allows you to move a window when the title bar is off screen. I prefer features like windowshading to minimization, too, and it is simple to configure Linux to do that, unlike Mac or Windows. I don’t use the feature, but would surprised if window-snap-to-borders wasn’t supported as far back as KDE 1.3 or WindowMaker .92.
How fucking fucking stupid do you have to be to not know this is Mass Hysteria?

The proof was just so obvious from day one.

NOOOOO proof of physical damage (Yes I've read the 100's or articles that talk about it, none of them say there is proof of physical damage, or sometimes they do and reference an article that says there isn't)

Noooo proof of other long term damage, same as above.

Just normal old sickness consistent with the stress of working away from home in a foreign country.

Fuck this is a huge joke.

If bored....... google fainting in Cambodia. It happens in Garment Factories a lot but also Schools. It's a known form of Mass Hysteria even thought the papers often report different.

All said, Mass Hysteria IS a medical condition, nothing to be ashamed of and can point to underlying issues. In the Cambodia school is was stress about exams.

Here it just points to the inability of the US departments to self correct and back down.
Even finding a single double spend attack that only double-spends 1 satoshi would be enough to destroy bitcoin.
Turns your entire house into an antenna that radiates across useful frequencies. Like whispering between two people while a tornado siren is going off 100 feet away.

"Unfortunately these devices tend to wipe out almost the entire HF spectrum for anyone listening nearby. As household powerline cables are not shielded for RF emissions they radiate in the HF spectrum quite heavily."

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/showing-the-hf-interference-problem-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IW3FVhHR58
If EU citizens go to the Chinese to give up their rights they are probably giving their consent, but good luck providing any sort of service to EU citizens without actually having a legal presence inside the union.
just an fyi an option isnt a stock or a security.
it is a contract
To this day, you can't so much as search the text of reviews in their app and be directed to the review containing the string you searched for. You just get results for establishments that apparently contain your search string somewhere in the reviews, and have to ross your fingers hoping that text was "the tonkatsu is great!" and not "too bad they don't have tonkatsu!"
If you are using ML to make automated decisions for say insurance risk then you will have to say so explicitly. There is a pay-off for a customer to agree, and that is convenience. If all insurance companies are doing this then a customer will likely have to consent, or not get a fast insurance decision out of hours that they seem to want. I think the big difference under GDPR is that the user will be able to request that the decision is made by a human, but if this is the case they will not get to set up their insurance at 10PM for tomorrow morning like they can in the automated system. It is completely reasonable that a customer would have to wait a couple of days for this.

In practice I wonder if insurance companies (for instance) are actually doing a live ML evaluation on customers, or do they just use ML to develop some 'bandings' that they fit you in to? They could still do this of course, because they can use anonymous data to build a model.

I don't see where the competitive advantage you mention lies? Yes a company in the US could use ML on US citizens, but not EU ones. Presumably a company in France could set up a server in AWS US-West region and do ML on US citizens, but not EU citizens? Surely it is a matter of where the data-subject lives, not where the company is based?
My understanding is that the Japanese conglomerates are different from US conglomerates.

The US ones are largely siloed collections of companies across a spectrum of industries.

The Japanese ones are strongly vertically integrated. I was told when I was sponsored by Yamaha for international ski racing competition and at one of their testing camps: 'we mine the ore, make the metal, make the machines that make the tools, make the tools, and then use the tools to make the products'. It's about both controlling the quality all the way up and down the value chain, and also capturing the value-add all the way up the chain (not sure how much of each).

I was quite impressed by their quality and technology, which was the prime reason I went with them. At the time, they were one of only two companies worldwide that could make a pair of skiis that was actually indistinguishable left/right to racers at our level (the other was Fischer which dominated the Swiss, Austrian teams and we wouldn't get their best race stock), and Yamaha had amazing ability to tune the performance properties. I'm quite sure that they could do it because of their strong vertical engineering and QA integration.

(Always seemed like a superior model to me, but I'm not a big biz guy, so what do I know?)

Edit: typos,clarity
Well, you have to hand it to the EU (Brit here): privacy has been legislated for in a way that is absolutely breathtaking. The GDPR is the first decent effort to curb the dreadful abuse of privacy that many massive multi nationals see as their right (omm nom nom data).

I am extremely proud to be associated with the GDPR (I'm still a European for now). It is an absolute belter of a set of regulations. If you read it, it is actually pretty concise for a legal thingie. It is also very prescriptive which is pretty odd for a legal thingie. It is up there with the "quietly enjoy your own property" basic right that is sort of enshrined in English Law nowadays (IANAL but a search would tell you what I'm on about).

If complying with GDPR is considered a problem then good luck with monetising that weakness.
The author wrote a lot about nullable types, but didn't mention a very useful feature of the Kotlin compiler: it understands several (IIRC, more than a dozen) third-party Java nullability annotations. It treats Java types annotated with @NotNull or equivalent as T, types annotated with @Nullable as T?, and only types with neither are treated as T!.

And on the other direction, the bytecode generated by the Kotlin compiler also has these Java nullability annotations (it uses the org.jetbrains annotations package), so for instance Dagger2 can know that a type is nullable from the presence of the @Nullable annotation.

If your code already uses @NotNull/@Nullable everywhere, introducing Kotlin to your code base becomes easier. As a bonus, IDEs can sometimes use these to warn you of potential null pointer mistakes in your code.
> > I have my favorite set of JVM languages. Java in /main and Groovy in /test are the best-performing duo for me. [...] we decided to give Kotlin a try.

> The opening lines set the tone for the article

He also wrote:

> we decided to stick with Groovy in /test (Spek isn’t as good as Spock).

If they were going to switch from the legacy language for /main code (i.e. from Java to Kotlin), why didn't they also switch from the legacy language for /test code too (i.e. from Apache Groovy to Kotlin) instead of dismissing it with "Spek isn't as good as Spock". And if they use Gradle, why not switch from Groovy to Kotlin for build scripts also.
Maybe if Apple kills their general purpose desktop enough designers will migrate to Linux and decide to improve the desktop UX there. It's perhaps unlikely but one can dream.
Unsurprisingly, being near a corner helps one's chance of survival, as you need to defend on fewer sides with the same amount of resources.
Snap’s core demo is just now graduating. They’ll have that sweet, sweet disposable income soon enough.
Depends on if you feel that the crypto would continue to have value in the long term. If you've amassed that much power (or are close to it), and you didn't feel the coin was going to hold value long term, why not?
>and you are now typing ":" over "extends" thousands upon thousands of times

That's blatant hyperbole, and also a worthless argument. How many times have you typed "int"? Should we replace it with a symbol? Maybe go back to space-cadet keyboards[1]?

J is a language built around symbols for maximum programming speed. It's not an esolang, it's real and usable, and recently updated. Here's a very simple J function:

result=: {&((65 97+/~i.2 13) |.@[} i.256)&.(a.&i.)

Very efficient, minimum keystrokes. Can you tell me what it does?

Fundamentally, programming languages are for people, not computers. Otherwise, we'd all be coding in assembly. Keystrokes are /not/ the expensive or dangerous part of programming, we shouldn't be optimising our languages to reduce them. Optimising languages to reduce miscomprehension is the future, that's where expensive developer time and business risk is concentrated.

Preferring to type a colon instead of the word "extends" is, bluntly, the sort of thing you solve with a custom autohotkeys file.

In any case, it's a minimal gain either way with the : operator, that kind of decision won't make or break any language. But this is the internet and if we're going to argue over something so trivial, I'm going to argue that on the most nitpicky level, "extends" is clearly a better choince than ":".

[1] Space-cadet keyboards are really cool
This was my first take on swift as an Obj-C dev back in 2014. I did an app extension in swift, basically just trying to write Obj-C code in swift (force cast and force unwrap all the things!). I didn't like it, I felt like it got in the way, and probably would've given a list of things like the author that are just lang differences.

Needless to say after my 2nd round with swift it clicked, and then clicked again and again in different ways as the months rolled on. Never looked back.
Your school board doesn't have to listen. They can put headphones on and hum loudly through your speech if they like. They just can't prevent you from talking to them.

Equivalently, the judge seems to have concluded that the President muting someone on Twitter is fine, but blocking them is not.
The code seems to pass the compiler now, I get an error in the link phase:

c:\dmc\dm\bin\link /de @scppn.lnk
OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.13
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010 All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
err.obj(err)
Error 42: Symbol Undefined _stdout
c:\dmc\dm\lib\NTSTUB.EXE
Warning 2: File Not Found c:\dmc\dm\lib\NTSTUB.EXE

Maybe you are using a more complete version of the C++ compiler (or some other utilities) than what is available for free on the Digital Mars website.

Another potential problem is that I don't have Visual Studio installed on this machine.

On a more positive note, I think I will give D a try after this experience.
Uh? A user replying to himself with congratulations? What's just happened here? :/
I must admit I don't entirely understand how your approach works, but it seems like it requires all the functions you want to use in transactions to live on MyTransaction (even if only as extension methods)? I want to be able to write normal functions including quite high-level ones that take some business objects and return MustHappenInTransaction[SomeOtherBusinessObject], and pass these return values through generic methods that don't know anything about transactions specifically.
If you start out early, you can contact your country's regulator for guidance.
The version I've heard is that small data fits on an average developer workstation, medium data fits on a commodity 2U server, and "big data" needs a bigger footprint than that single commodity server offers.

I like that better than bringing racks into it, because once you have multiple machines in a rack you've got distributed systems problems, and there's a significant overlap between "big data" and the problems that a distributed system introduces.
Let's not use HN as a place to enumerate cryptocoin variables? You can find plenty of that discussion elsewhere.
Given the decline of the desktop software market, I'm not sure a radical redesign makes sense for Apple. Looking at Apple's lineup, what's driving sales seems to be the end user market, and it's not clear to me Apple wants to be in the Pro market anymore. In any case, the Pro market is about delivering workhorses for running (Adobe et al) software, so a radical redesign will probably result in Adobe et al stopping to produce Mac OS software alltogether.

The maturity of the desktop software "market" is also evident in Linux. Ubuntu has recently choosen the venerable X.org rather than wayland for its LTS release over compatibility and stability concerns. I'd say that's a reasonable choice; after all, you're using Linux for apps that have been in the making for over 20 years, such as Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Blender, etc.

I'm also not sure what Docker and sandboxing brings to the table (except for developers). Desktop workflows are organized around open file formats and clipboard cut/paste.

So I agree future Apple products will focus on iOS. There's simply so much more money to be made there.
The scrutiny increases in a manner beyond direct proportion to the size of your influence on the world, economically and militarily.

The US is subject to endless bashing, scrutiny, paranoia, unfair reporting, you name it. If the US does a thing, it's evil or wrong policy; if Germany, Denmark, Canada or France do the same thing, it's perfectly acceptable (see: immigration or corporate tax rates or trade barriers). That has particularly been true for the last ~40 years, since it became the sole superpower.

Now consider, the US is a liberal Democracy, not dissimilar from Western Europe. How much worse should the scrutiny be for an illiberal Communist dictatorship, that has few human rights?

China scrutiny is going to be dramatically beyond what the US has endured, as they rise to have the largest economy and a comparable military to the US.
That's a novel claim, usually security experts are always complaining that people just click "accept" and ignore all the warnings of broken crypto and all that. How foolish they will feel when they realize that all that was missing was putting "GDPR" in the popup and people will automatically stop ignoring warnings!
When your project is finished, the dream is dead and the reality is born. The death of a dream is like the death of a friend. It's probably been with you for a long time -- longer even than the length of the project. A dream is the manifestation of what's possible. When it is over, the possible diminishes very quickly and you are left with what actually is. Will people respond well to your project -- in the dream stage it is possible; everything is possible. In the reality stage, it will only be what it is.

So while it's common to think of a release as a birth of something new, realise that you also have a significant loss. You will mourn that loss. Give yourself some emotional space to deal with the mourning.
The policy is 2 years old. It's hardly new; there was lots of time to ask questions and come into compliance.
Context: The Open Watcom license has been a problem for years.
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How are you getting this information?
I took Hydrocodone recreationally once, as I had some leftovers from my ribcage injury. Aside from enhanced dreams and occasional hypnogogia, I still didn’t really see the appeal. You can achieve the same euphoria with THC (IIRC, OPRM1 gene expression is altered upon consumption of THC).

OPRM1 is an interesting gene, though. Habitual use of morphine (and other substances like alcohol, OPRM1 expression is implicated in risk-taking behavior) would create reinforcement effects and increased gene expression of OPRM1. That would lead you down the dark path of addiction.
I'm just saying heck I wish I could take my own advice.

I am empathizing with the OP about how hard this point of a project is.

Perhaps I'm being too dry.
To finally put an end to flash trading by limiting the total transaction throughput to one trade every ten minutes.
You could however look at the MO of the agencies themselves. They have existed for a long time and have not attempted to overreach. In fact the opposite is true.