skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO your right to not have to fear needles, to feel safe in your neighboorhood and have an unobstructed sidewalk is trumped by the right of these people to survive. Even more important their right to live in dignity, which they are obviously not.

I consider the right to live in and be treated with dignity the utmost important one.
Well, for me this new Microsoft is even worse than Ballmer's Microsoft. Because their strategy and goals are the same, but they changed their PR to make people think otherwise.
To be fair, the military doesn't want to accept people who would disobey a direct order over something so petty. If they aren't mature enough to say "so help me God" and move on, they don't want them.
I dont understand how you would expect not to do incremental improvement. Build it perfectly the first time? That's not realistic.

Pretty much everything humans do is incremental improvement. I understand your point that we dont want to introduce weaknesses in 'upgrades' but this should be a discussion about how to create robust QA rather that stopping incremental improvement.
So China has redefined CEO to mean: "Chief Executable Officer" :)
If malware can modify /etc/hosts, then it shouldn't have any problems modifying Firefox executable or, even easier, it's configuration.
That’s the gist of it the blockchain offers most of the “services” provided by the central banking primarily correspondent banking (well sort off since you don’t have to manage correspondent accounts as you have a single ledger) and it also offers a consensus forum (most of them do at least) which acts as the board of directors of a central bank.
The big difference is that unlikely most fiat currencies there is no credit and interest system built into any (mainstream) crypto currency that I am aware off, hence there is also no fractional reserve (outside of what shady exchanges may or may not do).
They might not be working on the bits you care about, but they're definitely working on it. I agree, a few more resources should be invested by companies to fixing bugs and not just adding new features instead.
The user actually did. The website redirected.

imgur has figured out how and when it's safe to redirect PNG/JPG requests to a "JS blob" (of advertising), unfortunately. They tried to pull this a few months ago, completely bungled <img> embeds, and had to turn it off in a hurry. I think they've figured it out this time, sadly!

Time for a new image host... imgur has gone all high-level and "scale"-ey, it would seem (particularly with the new video with sound thing).

I was going to say something about toxicity, but this is sadly just a scaling problem. Now that sound - and competing with youtube - is the new "major consideration", just being a competent works-anywhere image host has been relegated to the region of rounding errors, so it doesn't matter in the same way if they get that right anymore.

:(
Excactly, Amazon could have been profitable
For me, the one thing keeping me using Github for most of my public projects have so far been discoverability. I use Gitlab for all of my private projects.

To the extent that I think really the only thing I'd want to see to not need Github any more would be some sort of federated social/discoverability/search layer similar to what you're describing.
It's a long article and I admit to not heaving read it in its entirety, but...

> There are overcapacities in the banking sector of some countries” in the Eurozone. Which country could he have been talking about? Germany boasts by far the largest number of banks – about ten times as many as the global centre of international finance, the UK.

Same here in Austria. Per capita, the people employed in the banking sector is significantly higher than in other countries.

I work in this sector, and the overcapacity is notable. To question this is basically a statement of ignorance.

> 80% of these banks in Germany are local, not-for-profit community banks, which do not pay bankers’ bonuses, and which serve ordinary people and small firms, creating a strong SME sector (the main employer in most countries).

Without knowing the German banking sector that well, this is almost certainly hyperbole.

I believe he is talking about Genossenschaftsbanken, Raiffeisen et al. There's a historical reason why these banks have most of the banking licenses issued (the 80% he alludes to), but that reason is no longer relevant. It's also misleading, since most of these banks are tiny, basically your typical savings & loan.

> Why is the ECB taking policies that are killing the majority of banks in the Eurozone – the beneficial not-for-profit community banks – while helping big banks with its asset purchases?

Because it's an anachronism. There was a time in Austria when we had the saying "A Raika (Raiffeisen Bank) and Post in every village", regardless of the village size. This is where the insane 80%-number comes from!

This is horribly inefficient. It might have been a valid approach at a time when everything was rural and a village was effectively a microcosm, but in today's world with online banking and such, it's horribly outdated.

Operating these banks costs money. These costs are passed on to the customers. Reducing the banking sector size is therefore in the interest of the customers.

> Central banks have proposed the abolition of cash

No, they haven't. Some guys employed there might have toyed with the idea as a thought experiment, but nobody even close to policy-making has proposed such nonsense, not that it would work anyway.

> Central banks have proposed the introduction of central bank cybercurrency

I'd trust a central bank far more than Coinbase or any other of the centralized controllers of currently-so-popular cybercurrencies.

I've spotted numerous other smells in the article, but the above were the easiest to point out.
Using an alternative DNS resolver like 8.8.8.8 (Google) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) could solve that already, and not only in Firefox.
Ask HN: What does your resume(CV) look like?
Mobile App Success Story: Baby and Child First Aid
Talk less, listen more.
Would you mind sharing a link to the vendor where you got the Chinese glasses?
> Most software eng can afford to rent places with at least shared laundry.

Yes, so most software engineers wouldn't use a laundry service. But for those that do, I'm reasonably certain this is why.
Anyone with a brain in their head understands this is because people are either considering or already moving to gitlab.
Both my kids have been sure that they know how to swim when too young to have even tried. We signed them up for swimming lessons to make them respect water a bit more, and of course learn how to swim. They don't need to figure out that they can't swim when they're unsupervised, as that's a bit too dangerous.

My oldest started in a school that used very traditional methods (first learn legs then add arms, start by dry swimming on land and move to water, and so on), and she took the course over and over without progressing. For unrelated reasons, we switched schools, and the new school focused on just spending time in water, running in shallow water, floating, dipping your head under water as part of games, and so on.

They had something they called "playing dolphins" where they would stand in waist-deep water, jump forward, and glide as far as they could before standing up again. She only needed one round of that course before she could advance to swimming for real. I suggest spending time just getting them used to water, getting splashed in the face, or playing with floating or sinking toys in waist-deep water, to quickly get over any blocking fear of water. I liked how the new school didn't even attempt to introduce real strokes at the beginner level, but instead gave the kids confidence in their own abilities to move in water.
there's a pinch of humorous irony in this website url
Actually the only language I used autocomplete was Java, mainly because it's almost impossible to work in Java without a IDE. However sometimes I turned autocomplete off because those long menus are a pain to see. I don't use a real autocomplete in Emacs with Ruby, Python, Elixir, JavaScript. I use pabbrev which remembers the words I type. It's usually enough not to make typos and it helps to remember the methods/functions.
The interesting thing is (and without meaning to denigrate your point of view) I actually think that automated regression testing is not particularly valuable when you have unit testing. I actually want unit testing for the ability to help you reason about the code. One of the things that I would dearly like to discover is whether or not my view holds any water. It certainly feels that way from my perspective, but I'm biased ;-)

However, I think you are probably correct in that I think it is far more likely that Chrome has a good automated regression test suite than it has a good unit test suite.
Getting flashbacks to the "protests" about Facebook changing the UI to be centered around this new concept of a "feed," except this is even more ridiculous.
The Road to Live Programming: Insights from the Practice [pdf]
The short answer is: Yes. The long answer is, that central banks are in my opinion a way to regulate banking and money supply so that it is useful for the economy and the people. His point that deregulation, liberalisation, and privatisation are bad ideas which are likely to fail is something I can agree on. Also his point that central banks are usually not really accountable for they do and that banking consolidation wasn't a good idea to begin with. I'm still glad to live in a country where they are a lot of local banks, which can help SME much better than big banks, which have only a little branch in town. It matters where decisions are made.

The central bank's job is still important, it is lender of last resort and it is an important regulatory body for the banking and financial sector. It is something we need if we want to prevent those financial crisis like in 2008.
Nobody forced me to program for iOS.
> Lyrically: have you ever listened to what 2Pac or Biggie were saying? They were rhyming. There was an obvious lyrical flow. Now compare to Lil' Wayne who literally spouts gibberish. Lil wayne 'says words' to 'a beat' and that's it.

Firstly, a minor point: Wayne's dominant era is already a decade ago, and he is of the older generation of rappers now.

Wayne is not a "deep" rapper most times (although he has his moments, e.g. Tie My Hands and I Feel Like Dying). He's a punchline rapper - one who isn't trying to convey Meaning but just have fun on a beat. This tradition has a long history in hip-hop, going all the way back to the Sugarhill Gang and "Rapper's Delight".

His mixtape work is widely acclaimed as classic stuff - Da Drought 3, Dedication 2 and No Ceilings being the most prominent. His music has endless quotables, e.g. "real G's move in silence like lasagna"[0]. Rap heavyweights like Ice Cube, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Kendrick Lamar, Nas and Raekwon have high opinions of his work, with hip-hop pioneer KRS-One calling him the "greatest rapper of all time[1]." Post-Wayne rappers betray a huge influence, with e.g. Kendrick Lamar, Young Thug, A$AP Rocky, and most prominently Drake.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tOAGY59uQ

[1] https://www.lilwaynehq.com/compliments/
Increase in co2 equals increase in plant growth. A sealed greenhouse pumped with higher concentration of co2 than normal saw plants grow faster.

Point of view is that co2 may not be absorbed quickly enough or that there may be a limit to the amount that plants can take in:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/rising-co2-has-greened-worlds-pl...
The NYC article isn't really about a hypothetical. It's about foundem.com's battle with Google over maybe being lowered in Google's rankings because they are a rival search engine.

Whether Google should be punished for that, assuming it's true, or left to rank things as they like is more the debate.
Even forgetting about cryptocurrency: if each country had a constitutional amendment requiring that its currency be backed 100% with gold reserves (no bi-metalism; no fixed gold pricing), domestic custodianship, annual audits, and the elimination of fractional reserve banking, I suspect the world would be much better off.
The Second Edition of “Refactoring”
But that cuts both ways. The pro-EU press gives a misleading impression as well, usually by refusing to report on any story that makes the EU look bad, or by putting a spin on events that blames member states instead of the institutions.

After all, by your argument influential people go read the Financial Times because they think it suits their station in life, or because they want financial news, and end up being exposed to a constant litany of pro-EU stories, resulting in them voting that way in the referendum (and not only voting but being quoted by other campaigners and news outlets as 'experts', a perk accorded to the sorts of people who read the Economist but not the Daily Mail).

After all, the FT literally flies the EU flag above its headquarters. Not exactly a neutral source, is it.
Isn't hypotheticals the entire basis of civil asset forfeiture?
Civil forfeiture as practiced in the United States is based entirely on the supposition that all property is subject to seizure without any burden of proof on law enforcement and that the owner has to prove they bought the property with legal means. Hypothetically everything someone owns was bought illicitly. Any law enforcement agency can just claim it, though it's in practice they like to take cash because there's a low chance of a paper trail and dispute resolution in favor of owners with that. Property is always assumed guilty in 42 states and federal court.
https://www.splcenter.org/20180116/civil-asset-forfeiture-fo...
Hiper
This looks nice, but one can only attend in person, am I right? Or are there any online materials available?
Ada has RAII via controlled types and allows for memory pools.

Also Ada allows for compiler assisted runtime allocation. For example, you can declare a datastructure with the size you want, and if it fits the stack it will be allocated, otherwise you get an exception.

Deallocation C style requires the Uncheked_Deallocation package.

Ada 95 removed GC from the standard, as no compiler ever bothered to implement it.

Here is an overview presented at FOSDEM 2016.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/ada_memory/

With SPARK and Ada 2012, Ada allows for better security constraints than Rust.

"Real-Time Critical Systems: HRM Prototype & Ada Integration"

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Critical-Systems-Prototype-...
You need to reach a critical mass of users. In contrast to Github, neither Codeplex nor Windows phone did that.
Just run local dnscrypt-proxy (it supports DoH) on your machine/router and everything would be fine.
CSS clicked with me right away. As for semantic CSS (not really css, class names are HTML) it made sense, especially when I sawy .green10px being neither green nor 10px.
GitHub declines offer from Microsoft, gets acquired by Oracle
The cultural heroes of the US are not mathematicians, computer scientists or programmers, but rather billionaires and celebrities.

To put it bluntly, there are more people trying to become Steve Jobs than Steve Wozniak.

Russia has a rich history of scientific and engineering that is a source of national pride. They put the first satellite in space, the first man in space, and they pushed frontiers of science in many regards. They are avid Chess practitioners and avid readers. Finally, being intellectual is a source of respect not social shame like in the US.
It's probably on a todo list somewhere.

The difficulty there, I believe, is that /etc/hosts is commonly parsed by your libc, so firefox will have to reimplement /etc/host parsing on top of their libc if it does not expose /etc/host entries in some way (glibc and muslc both don't to my knowledge)
> Accounting numbers are quite artificial.

At least three of these accounting numbers are very real: revenue, expenses and assets. When the dust from handwaving settles, they ultimately describe the health of a company any given fiscal quarter. Observing their first derivative values would typically show the direction the business is heading. It's this information that the crude corporate PID controllers (aka board meetings) use to steer the enterprise.

Look at the immense scepticism Tesla is met with based on operational stats, despite having actual, in-demand market product. Talk is cheap and accounting has been a great performance predictor many times over.
D is the language I really like, and always intend to use for my next project, and have been saying this for the last 5 years. Every time there is something that makes me decide to use C or C++ just one more time. I don't even think it's mostly valid reasons.

Well I'm just about to restart an opengl project so I think I'll go wholeheartedly into D this time
Slightly off-topic, but I just love the fact that GitLab has a publicly-accessible Grafana dashboard. Really speaks to the openness of the company.
Unless it would build a wealth fund large enough to sustain them.
Sci-Hub.love: The latest Sci-Hub working domain
I'd think a happy medium would be using an open source CI system and testing new versions on a test server before deploying them to prod.

Then again, I come from a largely non-web background where external dependencies aren't just accepted as inescapable. I guess if your entire business is producing an add-on for some other company's web service (not saying yours is but many out there seem to be) then what's one more on the pile?
People from the north and south of England can often be told apart by how they look and sound, and north/south bias is a thing - does that make them different "ethnicities"?

I mean, the whole idea that the UK is a massively racist country is so silly nobody has tried to defend it, have they? As defined in a normal way - people of very different skin colours and origins getting along next to each other - the UK does very well.
Wordperfect was written in assembly.
We vacationed in Berlin last summer with two kids, and that place is famous for its fantastic playgrounds. It was rare to see the same designs repeated over and over as you do in other cities, and each playground was more or less unique.

As you say, stuff where you balance quite high up, but usually with a softer material on the ground than asphalt so that a fall isn't lethal. I never saw kids fall and hurt themselves, so I don't know what would happen if they fell from the maximum height, but they wouldn't die.
> Such a defense of the original claim makes sense in an academic context but doesn't touch on why the marshmallow study made it into pop culture in the first place.

The Marshmallow Test is something the lay person can understand, and comes with a great real-world demonstration, accurate or not. Other measures require more field-specific knowledge or statistics education to understand.
What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
I’m working in proximate space. Every research paper about nutrition in general and gut bacteria specifically should be assumed shit science.
This sounds like what Amiga people were doing with Arexx from 1987
You mean like fish?
There's no fundamental reason why Bitcoin shouldn't also have fractional reserve. I mean, cash also has a fixed supply! (from the Bank's POV) It's not like Chase Bank (or whatever non-central bank) can just print more dollars.

If you just sit on your Bitcoin it collects 0% Bitcoin-denominated interest. Maybe you'd prefer to make a loan to a bank and have them pay you interest. For the term of the loan that money isn't sitting in an address you control, it's been given to the bank and they're consequently free to lend it out to other people. Viola, Bitcoin have been created, just not on-chain.

EDIT: I was referring to physical dollars. As in, dollar bills and actual coins. I'm aware that Chase creates money, but it cannot literally print money.
What about Windows 10?
Note: I created https://whereisscihub.now.sh a while ago [0], which lists working domains based on what's listed at WikiData. Although I'm not sure who runs sci-hub.love and whether it's affliated with Sci-Hub, it does seem to automatically check which domains are working, which makes it more reliable.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16591962
Eh... it's mostly fine. It's just that when something doesn't work, you're screwed if you're not technically confident enough. Emphasis confident - you have to trust your instincts when digging through internet fora for a solution. Something that I can never see my mother doing, for one.
Xcode is the successor to Project Builder, the development environment for NeXT. It is written in Objective-C and AppKit.

Xcode was designed for writing Mac apps, why would anyone want to write Mac apps on a PC, when they'd need a Mac to test them anyway?

It's only after the iPhone that the question of a port to other platforms has arisen. But that would be a huge task equivalent to a full rewrite. Even Apple doesn't have the resources to pull that off smoothly.
Many co-op banks are merging into bigger ones these days, they are still local banks which are owned by members of the co-op which are usually people from the region. There are also several bigger co-op banks or rather supra-regional banks. But even small and medium sized banks need regulations and that is what the central bank can really do.
In most Linux setups the resolver is the libc which means each application does have it's own resolver (though commonly dnsmasq or systemd-resolved is used as a local resolver/proxy for DNS). Libc also implements all the stuff around /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts.
> Your confused if you think just because one benefits from charitable actions that somehow invalidates them.

I think you're being overly charitable to think these tech corporations had charitable intentions when they contributed resources to tech projects that happened to improve their tech business prospects.

> And IBM's contribution was, frankly, marketing. It does not compare to the volumes of high quality technology that the companies I mentioned have simply given away for free.

Bizarre you didn't mention that up front when you named 'the big five contributors'.

On what do you base your bold claim that IBM's contribution was marketing, and the other corporations weren't?

> Many on HN and others are perhaps too close to it but I think people will look back upon this extraordinary corporate charity as a decisive event of the century.

IBM announced their first billion spend last century.
Well, every crypto currency has it's own characteristics. And therefore different USPs. I don't expect currencies that involve blockchains to be the dominant payment channels of the future. For payments, I expect simpler constructs. Lightning Network already handles most transactions without blockchain interaction. And Iota is a completely blockchainless currency that got traction already.

I think there will be many more approaches before one becomes the 'everyday' crypto currency.
They do. The unstated statement by the GP is that what's good for an individual is not always good for society at large. Competition is good for society; monopoly is usually only good for the monopoly and those few who can threaten the monopoly but are happy to roll over for money.
If anything Adacore has helped Ada a lot.

It is the only Ada compiler available for free, fully updated to Ada 2012, with all the remaining ones are still on their 90's style prices.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/objectada

https://www.ghs.com/products/ada_optimizing_compilers.html

https://www.ddci.com/products_score/ (frozen in Ada 95)

Thanks to them Ada has become a regular presence at FOSDEM and is being teached at quite a few European university.
I don't think Microsoft even uses the same deck of cards as FOSS people.
TL;DR: should, probably. must, definitely no.