skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that eradication of religion and denouncing culture were properties of the soviet revolution, but I disagree that they were primary drivers of the slaughter.

After all, don't most revolutions involve a denouncement of the previous culture? For example, most Americans were British in culture, but they then shrugged off the trappings of that culture, choosing to rule themselves rather than to accept norms set by the rightful king and parliament.

Denouncement of religion isn't new either -- for how many countless centuries have religions (and sects of religions) been denouncing each other? Regarding tolerance, anti-religious secularists are the same as fundamentalists, except that they deny one additional religion. Probably even better morally, because they rarely call for killing those who disagree.
One way is that it was easy to find out how many GR users were subscribed to a given feed.

ISTR other features, too.
No. Phase 3 is where all the cost of clinical trials comes from, not phase 2. P2 usually involves fewer than 100 patients and lasts for only a few months; P3 often runs to thousands of patients and can last for years, and then can be followed by supplementary P3 and even P4 trials, multiplying costs further.

Phase 2 rises to a high fraction of clinical trial cost only in diseases with a very high mortality rate, like cancer. Then the drug may undergo a variant of P2/P3 trial where the general patient populace serves as early P3 trial participants, thereby reducing P3 trial cost normally paid entirely by the drug manufacturer. But even then, such a phase 3 trial will greatly outcost any phase 2, and will much more definitively answer the questions of drug safety and efficacy.

The rules of those kinds of clinical trials (mostly cancer) where the "right-to-try" law is applicable thus will depart considerably from standard drug safety standards for almost all other kinds of drugs. That's because safety concerns are strongly deemphasized when investigating new cancer treatments due to 1) the high toxicity of alternative cancer therapies (usu. chemo), 2) the low survival rate and lifetime typical of most cancers, and 3) the lack of better alternative treatments.

The lower standard for efficacy (and lower statistical power) inherent in phase 2 trials will certainly play a greater role in "right-to-try" than is usual for typical drugs. But this does NOT imply that taking the greater risks that will arise with these more speculative unproven therapies (like the Laetrile dud cancer therapy ca. 1975) are likely to return greater rewards. In all likelihood, by the time "right-to-try" comes into play for a patient, all hope will have been lost medically. Thus the fraction of cases where a patient will actually benefit from such a "hail Mary" therapy that's been facilitated via this law is essentially zero. Nor is the lack of methodical treatment regimen endemic to these still half-assed therapies likely to teach us much in the process of calling upon them just one second before midnight.

No, "right-to-try" seems mostly an invitation for charlatans to charge megabucks for nutty therapies that have shown no level of success. If they had, "right-to-try" wouldn't have been needed. The era of hoping for a magic elixir is over, except in Hollywood and Trump's Washington, that is.
Check out https://github.com/Polymer/pwa-starter-kit/wiki. It uses Redux and LitElement (https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element)
Crazy to think that just $210 billion can buy you 480 companies in the S&P 500. China could easily do that.
Thomas Sowell - Basic Economics

An early chapter addresses this exact issue.
How does one actually invest into these startups? Are there requirements? It doesn't look like google is much help here.
For non-speakers of American English: though "gig" is well known to mean "short-term/casual work", the use of "gigged" in the title is likely a pun: "gigging" or "to gig" is to hunt small game with a pronged spear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigging

A usage which sadly underlines the fate of most gig workers.
Vue, Vuetify & Mapbox refresh of TravelMap
Verizon begins testing their 5G tech outside of the lab
Oh yeh me too, even when you use a similar app with taxis the service is awful. At least half the time they call you and cancel as they've just picked someone up on the way to you.
Naturally, that feature already exists as a Firefox extension. Making it more visible would be awesome.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...
Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest (2015)
Completely off-topic, but seeing the Firefox logo in B&W makes me realize for the first time that you can sort of see an upside-down Godzilla in the negative space surrounded by the firefox. They should make it more intentionally lizard-like.
I also recommend the NoClip documentary on Id Software and on the back of that, virtually any interview with John Romeo -- the guy is awesome and so willing to share his thoughts, ideas, history, anything...
Uhhh...

> Question: What is the purpose of life?

> Aristo's Answer: To know, to love, and to serve God

> Confidence: 60.00%
You can click ‘web’ next to the submission link to see the article without a paywall.
Configuring memory for Postgres
By being a partner at an established venture capital firm.
Show HN: RequestWatch – Inspect HTTP Requests
I tried out the Bird scooters, liked them, and then bought my own. I use it to speed up the Caltrain commute from San Mateo to FiDi in San Francisco. The trip is: 0.6 mile scoot to Caltrain -> 2.0 mile scoot to FiDi -> 2.0 mile scoot to Caltrain -> 0.6 mile scoot home. If I were to use Bird, and Bird were available in San Mateo, it would cost about $12 a day for Bird, plus I would have to fire up the app and hunt down a scooter four times a day. The scooter cost $300, folds up in seconds, is easy to take on the Caltrain, and takes up very little space at home or at work.
I was going to say Apogee probably still owns it, but Wolf3D is up there. It’s possible id got the Wolf3D source but not Keen, I suppose.

It would be fun to see Keen source code if it’s out there!
Hang on a very very large second here.

I thought you couldn't edit post titles on reddit, and especially not 3 years ago.

Please please clarify.

Context:

From Title ID Date
github.io "[strcat]" 2u1dme Thu Jan 29 02:39:34 2015 UTC
reddit "Daniel Micay" 2u1dme Thu Jan 29 02:39:34 2015 UTC

It's exactly the same post.

EDIT: This is now at 0 points. If I have missed something or misunderstand I welcome clarification. Thanks very much!
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There are so many interesting tidbits tucked away in the code, things the devs had to consider that have never crossed my mind whilst playing.

For instance, the idclev cheat handling in st_stuff.c has to check if the game is shareware and restrict level changes beyond a certain range.
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It would be an impressive achievement indeed to sell 90,000 originals without anyone noticing.
The published asymmetric macaroon constructions were pretty gross last time I looked. We were missing a practical asymmetrically verifiable append only signature. This deficiency rules macaroons out of numerous use cases (namely where the relying party is separate from and untrusted by the issuing party).
I read a ~400 page abridged version, but I do feel I missed out.
But scooters are _much_ smaller than bikes, and Americans are _much_ less likely to ride scooters or bikes than the Chinese are. I haven't seen anything close to those Chinese scenes in San Francisco while they had scooters. In fact, I haven't really seen anything that looked like much of a problem, in terms of parking.

Anyway, cities could make parking rules and require the scooter companies to help with enforcement. E.g., to lock the scooter you have to park it properly and take a picture with the app. The city's parking enforcement gets access to the pictures and can fine people without even having to get off their chairs.

The real problem with scooters, from what I've heard, is that boomers hate them because they're new and because some people ride them on the sidewalks. But the dock solution does not help at all with that.
We built a remote (and encrypted) data sync spec for graphs, it can be used for both traditional table (relational) and document storage as well as key/value data ( https://github.com/amark/gun). It has push built in and is fully decentralized and running in production today (terabytes of traffic), and handles concurrency and offline conflicts out of the box.

There are some half baked GraphQL query engines for it as well as some SQL query prototypes on top, but not quite ready yet. What were you wanting to build?
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Allow me to rephrase, no cheap way to evaluate arbitrary strings without spinning up another vm.
Yes - to make it much less risky for business to engage in those endeavours. That only proves my point though.
The problem is usually stated in that the ETFs have a lot more liquidity than the underlying constituent bonds. This causes questions about what will happen if the market freezes up even more -- you might find wild deviations of ETF prices from NAV.
From Wikipedia's ISP article: "Internet services typically provided by ISPs include Internet access, Internet transit, domain name registration, web hosting, Usenet service, and colocation." [1]

HN is just a web site. I can't use HN to connect to the internet. I can't use it to host a domain. I can't use it to host a web site.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider
It was not the revolution that killed 60m people. At most, the shooting part of civil war took less than a million people.

People who ran Soviet Union had very little to do with leading people on the streets. They did had few squabbles with loyalists after they began their purge campaigns, but their extend is also exaggerated.

Ones who were the true loosers were the people who hid under the bed and thought that things will sort out (no civil war ever "sorted out" - one side loses, another wins.) And even bigger ones were those spend the civil war wailing and moaning for moderation and trying to dissuade others from even thinking who is right and who is wrong. Bolsheviks repaid those types with a lot of gratitude, those fools were first to walk in front of firing squads after a token expression of gratitude.
Imec Extends the IC Roadmap
To my untrained eye that looks like css had a baby with js and the baby is an svg.
Perhaps if your app is just a series of request-response style CRUD forms, at which point why bother using a front-end framework in favor of server-side templates / forms. Toss in jQuery if you want some AJAX.

Tossing in Redux (or whatever Flux-like flavor of the day) is a low-effort, high-value add on top of React and obviates the possibility of some bat-shit data-passing situation that would make an OO inheritance junkie blush.

If you're the sensitive to boilerplate type, there are some simple libraries to solve that issue. Unless you're tossing together a three component TODO list demo, not using Redux will just bite you in the ass a year down the line in maintenance costs as your application grows.

This is really starting to remind me of the "Don't worry about the data model, just toss it in Mongo!" all over again.
Wrong Time Warner. This is the entertainment part, not the internet service.
That workaround no longer works for modern paywalls.
My understanding is that there are markets where bonds can be bought and sold. An ETF of bonds is just a large fund holding a set of bonds and trying to keep track of their current value.

Since you know what the return on the bond is, at what price, interest rate and time, you can very easily assess the current value of a bond, especially compared to what you might make if you just bought GICs at the current rate. An interest rate hike today lowers the sell price of bonds purchased at yesterday's rate.
> the human brain didn't have special purpose hardware for accomplishing those things.

How about a head mounted on a ball joint ? Would that count ? (since obviously it would introduce small spatial variations VERY often).

You can make a similar argument for being mounted on a mobile robot (like the human or any other animal body).
(1) At a high level, yes, they look at it. There is a very strong relation between winning and team pay in soccer. There is a reason why Real Madrid has won 4 out of the last 5 champions leagues. Similarly, PSG and Munich are by some distance the best paid teams in their leagues and win their respective leagues pretty much every year. This market today is quite efficient, sure there are always going to be some undervalued middling players here and there, but the very best players do not go unnoticed and so they are paid well and bought by the richest teams.

(2) the discussion is naturally about how much they earn for their clubs presently. National teams pay no salary and many top players do not, and in some cases, have never played in their birth country's own league.
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And what are you basing your belief on?

And don't forget this is the entertainment time warner, not the internet service. So I'm curious what intentional timing you found, and how it relates to net neutrality.
i wonder what this means for our privacy. could this somehow be a step toward national surveillance?
It might be tendentious, but only because the dominant narrative in mainstream media & University campuses is extremely left-leaning. I've spent five or so minutes reading your twitter and it's quite left leaning as well. I don't think there is anything particularly volatile or hostile about my post. To be honest, it's hard to read TFA without realizing that the exact same things are happening here, and it's not about starting a flame war of any sort, it's just the fact that it is happening here, and Soviet Russia was an absolute disaster, so maybe we want to perk our ears up.
ok jordan
That was truncated from “baby don’t hurt me”
Anyone have any good articles/books on why Greece has never reached greatness or similar status to other EU powers since the middle ages? Especially given their influence on the enlightenment, mathematics, philosophy, and Roman culture itself - which spread throughout the western world.

I've always been curious why they have stagnated so much since and been so... mediocre.

I guess you could say the same about Macedonia and maybe some middle eastern areas if we're looking purely at past greatness, but those two seem to be easier to explain. Greece's impact was more wider, longer, and stronger.
Because people rely on reviews and ratings to buy stuff? And stricter guidelines will mean lot of real reviews will be deleted along with fake ones? In which case some of the genuine items will be deprioritized because they have less reviews/rating?
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Out of curiosity, what would you use for "just send my data to a bar chart?"
The 12.9-inch iPad Pro took me by surprise and replaced my laptop
I don't understand the condemnation of JWTs, this article doesn't seem to explain the condemnation other than saying that "It is extraordinarily easy to screw up JWT." and not to use them.

We use JWTs to provide SSO authentication functionality to partners who wish to take on the responsibility for authenticating their users. I still feel like JWT was the correct choice but I'd really like to know what alluded potential pit falls are.

They provide us with the public key of a asymmetric key pair and we provide them with a key ID to use to identify this key a pair. On our side we associate their key ID(s) with the users they are allowed to authenticate.

When they wish to authenticate a user, they generate a JWT with a user identifier, the client IP address, the Key ID , and the "issued at time". This is then signed using their private key associated with the Key ID. They then provide this to to user's client who then send it us.

We then verify the recency of the JWT, that the JWT is indeed signed by the private key associated with the key id provided, that the IP address matches the client and that the key ID is valid for authenticating the user associated with the user identifier. If all this checks out, we can create a session for the client (using the standard cookie bearer token model).

The reasons we picked JWT are:

1) We aren't responsible for securing their secret(s) (since we never know them) and they can easily send our their public keys to us via less secure channels. If we get a correctly signed JWT, this proves that either the partner approves the authentication or that they have lost control of their private key (in either case, the responsibility is theirs since we have no ability to generate a JWT signed by their private key). This seems like a big improvement over using a shared secret.

2) There are existing libraries for most languages to generate and sign a JWT when provided with a few parameters, this decreases the likely hood that our partners will try to roll their own buggy authentication implementation.

Aside from the issue of trusting our partners not to expose their private key, I'm not sure what the foot-guns are here? (although I am admittedly not an expert)
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"we want the cca deal stopped now! we want the cca deal stopped now!"

meanwhile, didn't trump make a campaign promise to prevent this exact merger? interesting timing.
> I think the point was that only in the West do we see these denunciations of [Rreligion] as a great tyrannical patriarchy.

What? What of the revolutions in China, Cambodia, Laos et al not to mention the forced but successful reduction+ of shinto?

+ I wanted to use the term "degradation" but that has acquired a non-technical connotation -- I really do mean its diminution in status
> It's also the equivalent of the English simple past; whether "Greece captured her conquerors" or "Greece has captured her conquerors" is the right translation depends on whether Horace was writing about the past or the present (that is, his past or his present), not on the form of the Latin verb.

Yes, you're right. I still prefer the "has conquered" translation, though, because I think Horace was talking about a condition that was still there in his present, not just what had happened in his past.
John Romero for anyone looking him up.
Elon Musk recently said profit isn't what drives his company, which isn't much different than what the CRO was saying here.
I can second that—it's an excellent book. It put a clear image in my mind of the sort of environment I'd like to develop software in: primarily just a group of friends who have a shared idea of something cool they want to build together. I've been disillusioned that that will happen at a Silicon Valley type startup (not that it's impossible—but far more likely that the founders will segregate themselves from employees in such a way that everyone involved can't feel the same passion, commitment, interest, etc.—or even just the knowledge that they're going through the same struggle at the same time. Also the big stakes and investor pressure etc. are almost certainly gonna drain the fun.), but I'm still hopeful I can find or create similar circumstances elsewhere.
Could you point me towards any discussion that’s been had about using those numbers to shape economic/monetary policy?
>The cost of the energy to do so would not be worth the bitcoins mined. Maybe some alternative crypto-currencies would break even, but it wouldn't be easy.

Source?
I had forgotten of this until I read this article on the Atlantic, but there is an organization dedicated to breaking up the new form of monopolies like AT&T+Time Warner, Google, Amazon, Facebook, originally funded by Google, the Open Markets Institute

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/lina-kh...
How's that aspirin working out for you?
I believe that they lost the source long ago
(sorry for the late reply, I didn't see this)

The magic that's happening in the ocaml compiler isn't dependent typing - it's a purely syntactic transformation, something like GHC turning "hello" into ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'] into 'h':'e':'l':'l':'o':[]. ocaml notices that you have a string literal in a place where a format string is expected and swaps it out - that's all. It's magic, but it's unrelated to the type system - the type system comes in later.

What does it replace it with? A value of type ('a, 'b, 'c, 'd, 'e', f) fmt. fmt is a GADT [1], fully defined within ocaml [2] - and I promise, ocaml does not have full dependent types.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_algebraic_data_typ...

[2] https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Camlinter...
For sure it's a great book!
Is this the real reason for Brexit: that it was intolerable to have "Bretaigne" and "Great Britain" next to each other in the EU?
> The Google Reader source code was made available to the public.

It was? Where to find it? Please don't tell me it got lost when Google Code shut down.
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> Recently the FAA instituted a new regulation mandating that all aircraft be equipped with Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) systems by January 1, 2020.

The FAA has not mandated that on “all aircraft”, only on those aircraft seeking to use airspace where transponders are currently required. A lot of aircraft will choose not to equip and remain perfectly legal to fly.
Apple Tries to Stop Developers Sharing Data on Users' Friends