skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) There's a practical limit to how many laws can be written up and passed through both houses in a year.

2) No one would praise a party for making laws to a problem that is otherwise fixed. Talk about feeding into the republican talking point of democrat bureaucrats.

In short: Don't spend effort fixing something that ain't broken.

This is on the GOP because they made something worse. It's not on the dems for "not making something even better". Make the GOP pay for it if you don't like it. Blaming dems for shit they didn't cause is in part why they lost the election.
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>They could use Javascript to query a test server, which responds with the correct headers.

As far as I know, Javascript doesn't have low-level access to connections, not enough to run even a stub TLS 1.3 implementation.
Why testosterone?

Asking as a female.
Given "the compiler is in development and some important features are still missing" (quote from the FAQ) it would surely qualify as new.
May I ask what model of television that was? Might be worth getting one myself.
Well that's exactly the point. It's statically typed, so of course types have to be known at compile-time, but it can use type inference rather than explicitly expressing type in declarations.

Static typing with type inference is still static typing.

Vaguely related: many people also confuse 'dynamically typed' and 'untyped', despite that they're not even close.
Thanks -- Is there some software (mostly free) where I can model these strategies and understand the payoffs, etc?
Not AFAIK, but maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime-in.
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PATH train anyone?
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The standard library has replaced much of lodash's array utilities but seeing as you can import lodash functions into your project piecemeal it's still useful for the odd utility function here and there.
The people behind tether need to be put in handcuffs
Where does it say the house district lines are changing?
It was first posted to HN in 2013.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6820474
How did you/they calculate that probability of being alone? Anybody who tries to slap some number on such things as the probability for life to emerge is dishonest at least.
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From the screenshots I have seen on reddit it appears they could be making a killing selling these orders. Market makers love doing options transactions with people who literally have no idea what they're buying. It's like hosting swimming lessons in a chummed up shark pool.
Which is another way of saying “within our light cone,” and anything outside it might as well not exist as far as we’re ckncerned.
Sounds like my previous employer, except replace "sneezing" with "suggesting process improvements and a reading list" and replace "not working" with "exploiting the current process to look busy without getting much actual work done". In that case, recognizing that I was a problem for office politics, the three seniors and the PM booted me off the project, and my employer then fired me in the next minute, for not being attached to a project.

There are employers out there that pull this crap. You don't have to work if you know the right people. You can't make waves if you don't.
Mark is tracking lots of user data
And this is news how? That Tether is a nothing has been painfully obvious to anyone paying attention. Of course, anyone paying attention has been avoiding comedy gold...
I distinctly remember a professor in college saying that he felt like the caliber of students enrolling every year declines. I was kind of offended, but hey maybe we was right.
Absolutely not - there's a ton of complexity in parsing certificates, checking Certificate Transparency signatures, contacting OCSP responders, chasing Authority Information Access references to intermediate certs (the latter two immediately require having a full HTTP client), parsing name constraints, etc. There are already too many ASN.1 decoders in my kernel and I don't want another one. And I can upgrade my userspace libraries much more easily than I can upgrade my kernel.

Importantly, the big reason for TLS to be at the endpoint and not use IPsec/tcpcrypt/etc. is because the important thing to verify in TLS is the hostname, not the IP address, and DNS resolution is in userspace everywhere (as far as I know). You could imagine a design which pushed both DNS resolution and TLS verification into the kernel, but it would be too monolithic of a kernel for even UNIX's tastes.

TCP is a relatively simple protocol (in the sense that it doesn't have too many moving parts, not in the sense that it's uninteresting) and fits fine in the kernel. But even for reliable transport, there are plenty of apps using their own thing over UDP (RTP, Mosh's SSP, QUIC, etc.) that are never going to get into a kernel. And even for TCP alone there's a bunch of potential complexity you can put into the kernel (DCTCP, New Reno, fq_codel, etc.) that have been hard to deploy precisely because they require a kernel patch.
> Oh, and JavaScript is single-threaded. It's impossible to share resources in a single process.

DBs, files, etc etc. in-process memory isn't the only resource you're sharing.
It's "papers" like this by people that are either clueless or malicious that make everyone pine for the pre-arxiv days.

Everyone considered this option. From the very first day the paradox was posed. We don't know the parameters well, it's within our margin of error that no one else is out there, so it's an option. This is such an absurd claim to take as your own that it's literally on the wikipedia page!

It's also extremely shortsighted in order to get media attention. This resolves nothing about the paradox. What about the universe prevents other intelligent species from existing nearby? Sure, it's within our margin of error, but where is this coming from? Too few planets, too little abiogenesis, etc? Many factors or a single one? Is our existence simply a consequence of the fact that we're here therefore the dice must have landed well for us? Or is there something fairly unique about our solar system / planet / species / etc.

That's the real scientific question that keeps people up at night.
Maybe I was wrong. I thought OpenShift is a proprietary product, but they actually open source it.
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/

There's a table in the above link, as well as a few more details
'Nim in Action' from Manning is well written and solid, I found recently. Nim is surprisingly robust, I'd mention. The book has a chapter on using Jester for a web framework. This is adequate for some things. If anyone is at the point of using Nim as a server for React clients, doing something beyond a hello world (interacting with forms), I would love some pointers. I haven't yet thought through what may be done with Nim's capability to compile Nim code to javascript in situations like this.
Lets propose that pattern recognition is indeed something different than what most people would call intelligence. If this is so then there should be a statistically reliable way to measure pattern recognition in a way that does not also measure intelligence. However based on my understanding of how the IQ test is designed this is not the case.
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Actually, it'd be more effective on the presidential election.

Right now the electoral college votes in CA are basically guaranteed Democrat votes.

This would break that, affording at least 1/3rd of them to Republicans.

That's huge, and would likely ensure a Republican president for decades.
This test was done for people being examined for military service. It looks like Norway doesn't force military service, but does force people to be examined.

Perhaps people just take a mandatory military exam less seriously than they did during the cold war.

Also the culture of Norway is much less homogeneous than it was in the 70s and it's impossible to completely remove cultural biases from IQ tests--not to mention far more people who don't speak the language natively.
You make some interesting points about incentives. Robinhood obviously doesn’t make money off of transactions, so they have to make it somewhere else. There’s the premium memberships, and I believe others have mentioned that they make money off of the cash that sits in your account (not sure how that works or if it’s true). In the latter case, DRIP would be directly opposed to their business model, since the dividends that would otherwise sit in your account are being funneled into a share of some sort, instead.
They make money off of money sitting around doing nothing I hear.
Can you explain why PHP developers are so uniquely unable to accept honest criticism of their language? Like, whence all the butthurt, bro?

The original point was that PHP doesn't have a safe string eval built-in. Which is completely fucking true. Rage all you want.

Moreover, most PHP devs (probably rightfully) won't install runkit because of all the other clowny shit it enables, but that's an entirely other kettle of fish.
Could this also explain why Mensa's admission standards have been watered down in recent years? I mean, on paper, they are still the same, but in practice - not so much.
I wish there were a search engine that could figure out the groups the search results belong to. Sometimes when searching for swift programming language, a certain singer also makes an appearance. Or when searching for physics related things, I get that Olivia Newton John song. Like I was a search engine that displays some sort of Venn diagram (not quite but it's close) that let's me hone in on my results.

To be honest, I think that I would actually want an engine that scrapes fewer sites but good sites and tries to understand them better. Also regular expressions.
It has always seemed arrogant to think that aliens exist anywhere within our galaxy. Look at how many galaxies are out there. Now realize that the universe extends far beyond our Hubble sphere.

We can’t hope to colonize even a fraction of 1% of our galaxy, even with wildly futuristic technology.

There is one option, though: Become our own aliens. If we set up colonies separated by time and distance, we will culturally diverge within a century, and genetically within a few millennia-ish.
AFAIK, iOS can't fork(), so…

Edit: it obviously can, I mean AppStore Apps aren't allowed to.
Very silly; best not to alert the media or we'll soon see "AI can now generate memes" clickbait.

I thought it was funny though that Richard Socher, one of the authors of GLoVe and NLP researcher is pictured in the generated memes on p. 8. ("the face you make when")
I don't think they have given a helpful broader context though. How common were those more tolerant views in that era? If just a few extreme outliers or a significant minority would be relevant.

This is citizen of the Weimar Republic writing 3 years after the end of WW1. China had joined the allies in 1917, the same year as the US. Education of the era tended to encourage belief in the Empire first, civilising mission. Not to forget years of wartime propaganda. Belief in eugenics was rising and becoming popular. Including in the US and UK. It was a little later in the century those ideas would die out.

Certainly tolerance was famously prevalent in the theatre district of Berlin in the pre-Nazi early 30s. Elsewhere not so much. No doubt the historians I've read have also been biased or incomplete - that of course is far harder to judge.
Not wanting to put in the effort to learn the basics of SVG, CSS and the D3 API, and yet expecting hand-holding and everything to just be easy

Sadly, this problem has become endemic within the web development community in recent years. People are more concerned with learning the latest buzzword framework than the fundamentals.

The article itself quotes this tweet early on:

The trouble with D3 is to build a visualization you must also have a deep understanding of SVG, DOM, JavaScript, geometry, color spaces, data structures, the standard model, and quantum physics — @seecmb

Well, yes. Designing and implementing good visualisations is a skill. It has many aspects, and they aren't trivial. If you want to draw a standard, no-frills, minimally-customised chart then there are many higher-level libraries that will draw one for you and you're not the target audience for D3. If you want to have more customised and creative visualisations and interactions, you have to customise and create. That requires understanding the tools available and knowing what you're trying to achieve with them, but if you are willing to put the work in to reach that point, D3 offers a useful and powerful toolbox.
Compare the JS talk here to how sanctimonious everyone gets when PHP comes up. Then it’s “right tool for the job”, “don’t hate on something just because you don’t prefer it”, et cetera. When JS is the topic, well, see for yourself. Amazing.
I used to do it a similar way, but often I ended up copying everything up to the final `}` character (or sometimes the input has single-quote characters rather than double-quotes), which causes the JSON to be invalid. NiceJSON takes the input (even if it's malformed), attempts to construct an abstract syntax tree using json-ast[0] and then serializes the output (which should be well-formed JSON).

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/json-ast
I get everything you said but the eternally damaged metabolism. Don't have the source handy on mobile but from what I have read the difference between a so-called fast and slow metabolism is < 10%.

Food is absolutely addictive and we have so much available. Combine that with a car based and sedentary lifestyle and it's a huge problem. The only thing that has worked for me is being a lifelong runner and cyclist. Burn an extra 500 to 800 calories a day and most weight loss goals are much more attainable. I am trying to help my mom lose weight and when you are very overweight adding huge amounts of activity is very hard.

She seemingly also has a 'slow' metabolism but in reality she moves as little as possible. Whereas I am always wandering around doing things at top speed. Activity begets activity because it begins to hurt less to move.

Anyways, best of luck in your efforts.
Soviets published many descriptions of the horrors of the Jim Crow US South for similar reasons.

Can you think of some that weren't, I dunno, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' or Huck Finn? The notion that a survivor's memoir like Shalamov's is some kind of Western plot was absurd in its time and plainly disgusting now.
Far from it. I frequently have issues even with search on Google or Amazon, who invested millions into that.
Dealing with people being imprecise in naming and spelling, different contexts and personalized results is still barely touched or non-existent, and definitely not solved.

Lucene provides building blocks, not a solution, and not even all of them.

Search on a small scale may seem working if you have phrases that are mostly unique, like recent movie titles or celebrity names. Go beyond that and its a mess.
So you're saying the Bitcoin Foundation should let anyone like Brock Pierce be the director, because the Blockchain globally and completely eliminates the need to trust anyone, and EOS shouldn't have parted ways with Brock Pierce, and should hire even more untrustworthy people, because the Blockchain makes it perfectly safe and wise to work with untrustworthy people?

Black is white! Good is bad! It's wonderful for scammers to be in charge! The Blockchain is the solution to everything! You can trust the Blockchain so much, that you don't need to trust people any more! Nothing could possibly go wrong! No snake oil! You're the snake oil! ;)
Relevant comment by Linus Torvalds on standards:
"I've said this before, and I'll say it again: a standards paper is
just so much toilet paper when it conflicts with reality. It has
absolutely _zero_ relevance. In fact, I'll take real toilet paper over
standards any day, because at least that way I won't have splinters
and ink up my arse."
http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/06/07/torvalds-on-aliasing/
Are you currently running a fleet of thousands of RaspPis? Would love to hear the use case / battle stories!
Source? Edit: Never mind; the later tweets confirm they are using Electron and React-Native. Madness!
Significant whitespace and case- and underscore insensitivity. That's pushing too many of my buttons for one language.

That being said, this is a very well written tutorial. Might be a nice format to use in other basic language tutorials.
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If your personal time is infinitely valuable to yourself, why do you sell for way below that?
Society is a large factor in one's upbringing. The vast majority of people attend public schools and consume the same entertainment (TV, movies & sports) as their peers.
Anyone here qualified to compare Nim to the D programming language?
Applying that logic to only California and not other states like Texas produces a partisan result.

If all red states were to be winner-take-all in the electoral college, and all blue states were to split their electors according to vote percentages, that would not be more "representative".
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I thought you were supposed to do "+ImportantWord LessImportantWord". Neither seems entirely reliable.
What I don't get about the theory that Tether was used to intentionally manipulate markets, is that if you have a money-printing machine, you don't need to manipulate markets as a business model. You can just print money, that's the business model.

Of course it's possible that that influx of capital will move a thin market. But Occam's razor seems to imply that that's a side effect rather than the intent.
Well that's disappointing. The simple ribbon in the new OneNote feels like such a step back from the ribbon UI in OneNote 2016.

It does say users will be able to enable the full ribbon UI still, so I suppose I will have to do that. Hopefully they don't deprecate that feature.
We were tasked with upgrading a stripe integration for a client with really old PHP. On Friday, none of their transactions worked. We called stripe and they said, "Oh, we decided to upgrade some people early"... uhh.. yea. Eventually they rolled us back, and we finished the upgrade on Monday, but it was still really troubling.
They're called image macros, not memes.
I've been using a similar approach for the last year, and I find that most problems are much easier to deal with because of less crud in the build flow. There is currently a W3C proposal for template instantiation that showcase some conveniences to deal with templates in components, could be good, could be bad.
https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals...

Most communication I solve by custom event dispatching or attribute callbacks, but there are the odd cases, especially regarding more advanced drag/drop, that still requires state at some level. Do you have any concrete example of inter-component communication to look at?
This language barrier is partially what motivated the development of the Raven progressive matrices test. The test was used by the UK military to judge recruits without creating a bias based off of the recruits language.
What if we are the aliens though?
Oh no you don't!

We split at Bakersfield as is custom, and the South gets to keep it.

;)
I find it hard to believe they will ever duplicate all the edge cases. I mean in some cases it's literally impossible because IIRC VBA can actually hook into Win32 functions (I mean I guess you might argue that feature is a bad idea)
Does it?

In Firefox you can grant the permissions once (for the current page only) or grant them forever, your choice. If your browser doesn't offer that choice, that's a problem with your browser.

[Disclaimer: I work on Firefox.]
You might be right. I've taken an IQ test at the beginning and at the end of my highschool and my scores dropped from 136 to 132 in four years (Wechsler scale if I recall correctly), which can be attributed both to organized education and increasing reliance on technology. Moreover, as the average 100 IQ has gone down in absolute terms, the change is even more drastic in my case :P

However, and despite me being prone to tell this as a funny anecdote, this might be a case of sample bias or other statistical imprecision.
You can't deeply learn programming in a language like assembly or even C. You don't have enough expressiveness to tackle large-scale problems (like office suites or DBs!) within the scope of what one person can work on in one semester; you'd be spending your time thinking about how to implement a hash table instead of how to use one.

One of the nice things about so-called scripting languages is the breadth of library support. If you want to put together a GUI that displays some word-wrapped text, you can do that within the first hour of using the language, if you have some homework instructions you're following. At that point you can think about the interesting parts of writing a word processor, and not just how to put a window on screen (which tends to be more about docs and APIs and not about actual computer science). Also, importantly, at that point you've successfully done something, which is pretty important for the learning process.
What about it seems like a hack? Why do you think Flutter will become dominant?
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Nim is definitively niche but it's not really new, Wikipedia tells me that it's 10 years old (older than Rust [2010] or Go [2009] for instance). It just never got enough traction to really find its place in the ecosystem.
This is hardly interesting. A lot of websites have been doing this for a while. Just open your network console while you are browsing and you'll see all the things they are tracking
That's a pretty simplistic conclusion that ignores one of the biggest technological and cultural life-altering inventions in human history: the automobile.
Books. This is definitely an area where book study is important. You must learn the “Greeks” as most of the different strategies are tradeoffs among those variables. It isn’t hard if you remember your multivariate calculus.

The biggest issue I had back when I played is commission. If this is commission free, that’s a whole new ballgame.
Which of those three states has the water resources?
As a 5-generation Californian, I will address this in my native language:

"Dude, this is totally lame."
Hopefully I can explain your downvotes a bit. The JavaScript ecosystem is in an entirely different place now. ES6 has made it feasible to write cleaner, more concise code, and Webpack has allowed library consumers to "naively" import a whole library but the algorithm known as 'tree-shaking' will remove any unused code, which can be especially valuable when a library has a few purposes which are somewhat orthogonal, and each requires has its own large codebase, aka Moment.
Hmm, can we say this is the modern version of taxi drivers giving out stock tips and the market is near the top?
You really don't have a solid understanding of how computers work, do you?
You have no idea what you're talking about. The thing that makes psychedelics so good at curing depression is that they are able to consistently induce a new perspective in people that is much healthier than the one that results from all our modern "knowledge." It has nothing to do with random destabilization at all.
Couldn't have anything to do with all the extra carbon dioxide in the air could it?
Yes, both are useful, but more importantly, neither can prevent murder. So while it's true that "lots of things can override empathy", it's also true lots of things can override religious beliefs (not to mention when those beliefs are used to justify the murder).

Having empathy for others is not the same as doing "whatever you feel like", by the way.
Panspermia?
How and where to put pop culture references in your Ruby code