skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That they aren’t “starving” or the amount of revenue they generate is irrelevant. What wallstreet expects or not is also irrelevant.

If users refuse to pay for subscriptions and keep blocking ads for reasons that have nothing to do with privacy or security, pretty soon as-blockers will become illegal.

It happened before with DRM, it can always happen again. At which point people will cry out in support of privacy or security, but it will be too late, because the truth is the vast majority don’t care about privacy or security.

So yeah, keep sticking it to the man.
Also if something's illegal then the only way to get hold of it is through the black market, which doesn't do age checks. If it's legal, there's less likely to be a black market and so you have to go through the legitimate, age-checking vendors.
Just a sincere, one on one atta-boy goes a long way.

Reward: All it takes is for your manager to come by your desk or stop you in the hallway and softly tell you he (actually) noticed and appreciated the effort you put in to help ship something.

This doesn’t mean you can pay people less but it will probably help with employee retention.
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1. Stop believing in your own propaganda. There are nicer places to immigrate to than the US.

2. The only way to be granted asylum is if you're already in the US. The only way to enter the US legally is using an intentionally overloaded system that may require you to wait for months only to be denied entry -- which is not exactly an option if you're genuinely in need of asylum.

3. Corporations drive down wages. Corporations are exploiting illegal immigrants. Maybe the problem is your government isn't cracking down on illegal employment enough?

4a. I see you don't agree with the concept of asylum. That's okay, but it still makes you a terrible human being. Just saying.

4b. Show me a study that proves that immigration is a long-term net negative. There are cherry-picked samples showing short-term negatives, yes, but they're intentionally misleading.
I have personally seen prospects designed to combat negative stereotypes of veterans in American government office (employment office - don't recall exact name). The primary goal seemed to be to make employers more likely to hire them.
I was just wondering if he included himself in the "people" group.
>no laws

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/07/06/1...

>mandating this horror

Yes, instead when the parents are arrested for breaking our laws, the children should also be placed in jail.

Hey, if we have such horrors, maybe that would seem like a deterrent to illegal border crossing? IDK.

I think it’s pretty funny that some people want to die on this hill while talking about how wonderful other countries are like Canada who has sticker immigration laws.

But whatever, I know the people most “outraged” about this don’t actually care about Mexican children.
Basics of LEDs
The pharmacist can, and should, use their human judgement to refuse to dispense drugs even when prescribed. But they don't and shouldn't use their human judgement to dispense drugs that weren't prescribed; this is by design and for good reason. It's a two-person rule: you only get the drugs if both the pharmacist and the doctor formally agreed you should get them.
Why not? It’s arguably a way to make it slightly safer to run on Intel.
How things might have been different if the UK government had used the result as a warning shot to the EU, and a case for reform.
>I don't think it's too bad to have a failing function return a special value like `Nothing` to indicate that: `return Nothing` is no more difficult than `throw SomeException`, `exit 1`, etc.

Yes, it is a less bad alternative than many others, such as explicit error codes w/o wrapping or exceptions. (And all of these are obviously arguable...)

However, just not having to do anything is even better. And if you use a pipe/filter pattern (not just simulate it by threading functions along), then the current filter sends the result of its processing to the next filter. For example, assuming we have a filter object whose next filter is in the target instance variable:

target writeObject: inputString upperCaseString.

If it has nothing to send, it simply doesn't send anything. Done.

inputString isGood ifTrue: [ target writeObject: inputString upperCaseString ].

No need to return a Maybe that denotes "Maybe I have a value, maybe not". If you don't have a value, just don't send anything, and your happy path never has to deal with error cases.

Similar for multiple values. Just write multiple values to the next filter. No need to return collections and flatmap them.

target writeObject: inputString upperCaseString.
target writeObject: inputString lowerCaseString.
This Is Why Cars Use AC-Producing Alternators When They Run on DC Power
It is difficult question. For many people it is unfortunately one of the prominent ways how to relax and socialize (even more so in the internet age - most of dates = alcohol).

My experience (not scientific one) is that most of the people i know who have serious problems with alcohol nowdays are almost exclusively those who had very strict parents. Alcohol and drugs were heavily stigmatized in their families and once they are 18 (or out of parents homes) they just go nuts and can't handle it. People who gradually try alcohol tend to have much healthier approach to it.

I don't think prohibition works. Education does.
More at a management level, but I have joined small commercially successful companies who had utterly dysfunctional development processes (backups? revision control? sane deployment processes?....).
The columns switch sides. Seems pretty pointless.
>>Writing and reading an int atomic

>>BenchmarkAtomicInt64-8	5000	354907 ns/op

that ns/op looks too big to be only for an int64 ..
if you happen to be on the same network, airpaste is pretty neat too: https://github.com/mafintosh/airpaste
On a related note, I recently learnt that if you're on the same local network, there's a much faster way to transfer than the old tar|nc trick[0]: udpcast. You do

$ udp-sender --min-receivers 1 --full-duplex --pipe 'tar czvf - theDirectory'

on the sender and

$ udp-receiver --pipe 'tar xzp'

and at least on my home network it's 11x faster than tar|nc. There are some caveats[1] about udp not working well everywhere, and you may have to open ports 9000 and 9001 and of course it's not encrypted at all, but for copying large ISO's and such when you can't find your usb stick it's great. Just remember to compare checksums afterwards.

[0] http://www.spikelab.org/blog/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-t...

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/692294/why-is-udcast-is-many...
> Immigrant families are being separated primarily because the Trump administration in April began to prosecute as many border-crossing offenses as possible. This “zero-tolerance policy” applies to all adults, regardless of whether they cross alone or with their children.

> The Justice Department can’t prosecute children along with their parents, so the natural result of the zero-tolerance policy has been a sharp rise in family separations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/...

Stop spending so much effort trying to sound clever and put it towards actually understanding what you're talking about.
I'd give my left toe to learn to do this in a few lines of code in HTML/CSS3.

Desktop centric UI toolkits provide a set of widgets which lets me build up a UI in a predictable way that respects my sanity.

Windows Forms, WPF, Qt, vxWidgets, tkinter, Java AWT, SWT etc they all have warts but ALL of them feel faster than building UI for the web.

The problem with web is that there are no consistent set of widgets.

Let's take a stupid date picker. A year ago for a project I thought I'd use the HTML5 <input type="date"/> way no Javascript needed!

Sadly I couldn't figure out a way to keep the calendar in an always on state so had to resort to jQuery datepicker. So jQuery widgets was an attempt to do what desktop UI does but now that is no longer in vogue.

Today on the web there is no consistency, there is no agreed upon toolkit. How many different approaches to widgets does React have?

Ideally you would be able to import a web component into your project and use it without worrying about any abstractions leaking.
There's that recent news about Mindfulness Meditation influencing people in similar ways. I don't think we should mourn the 'loss' of your boring, comfortable friends. You Only Live Once
Are misdemeanors not crimes? The term misdemeanor simply means that it is a crime punishable by up to 364 days in prison. Further, illegal reentry is a felony, and in many of these cases, it’s reentry.
> Was it though?

Errr yes? That was the whole point. The general concept I had of it was along the lines of "Lets see what the general opinion is, so if there's a large majority one way or another we'll know if we need to look into it".

The non-binding bit was so they didn't have to _commit_ to actually doing anything, just in case.
Google’s Data Saving App: Displays Nearby Wifi Network and Sets Daily Limits
What should be the solution to this problem? If ICE is going to arrest parents then it seems like the only options open to ICE are keep the parents in custody with children, or keep parents in custody and put children in a separate custody. I assume ICE are putting parents and children in separate custody because they don't have suitable custody to hold both parents and children. Like if ICE are using regular jails to hold parents then it is not really possible to put children in there as well. If ICE come up with a solution to hold parents and children in custody that is suitably safe would people currently concerned about ICE find this an acceptable solution? I know other countries like Australia have special detention centers for 'illegal immigrants' that hold both parents and children.

I also understand that people might just see enforcement of immigration laws especially in regards to children as so distressful that we either should not enforce the laws or we should remove the laws. However, it seems in the past that lax enforcement has led to the situation where we have almost free immigration for people willing to work in jobs that would not require documentation (ie: unskilled jobs) and unfree immigration for people who want to work other jobs. Would people who want to see immigration laws not enforced also be willing to support completely removing immigration laws and any protectionist work policies that favour nativists so we have a better mix of immigration?
Go-deadlock: Online deadlock detection in Go
> Child concentration camps run a lot smoother on Office 365, now on Azure!

They should add crying children as a ring-tone in Skype!
Back from the Grave: The Story of Javelin
The FBI said I was my parents' stolen baby – but I found the truth
Maybe the line should be like they have over in Czechia - weed is illegal but police ignores it for single individuals as necessary evil addressing human weakness, but prosecutes sellers and manufacturers. So the "hard line" is given, i.e. legally the line is not pushed more towards hard drugs as next generation might argue "we have weed legal, why not heroin? It only affects some people!", pushing the line further, damaging more people because some can't or don't want to attain mastery of self-control and delayed satisfaction.

BTW, when you look at the beginning of communism in Russia, they tried these kinds of experiments and it fell like house of cards in ~20 years, leading them to be even more repressive than what their conservatives would be. Our estimates of what is harmful are too often incorrect. I am not saying that the algorithm in law we have now is perfect, but it's definitely organic and a result of many optimization procedures. It could be local optima, there could be much better optimas, but it's hard to predict if a given step leads to another optima or wrecks the whole civilization like the Chinese population addiction during Opium wars.
My childhood best friend has been a heroin addict for perhaps a decade.

I’ve tried to help her over the years.

She tried going to an Ibogain clinic in Mexico and was sexually assaulted by a nurse while there. I paid for her to give it a second try for her and her boyfriend (also an addict) but after a few days clean they went back to their old life and relationships and couldn’t stay clean.

Her underlying trauma was sexual abuse as a teenager.

She’s spent most of her adult life living with her parents, using heroin, and committing petty crimes or doing sex work to stay high.

She told me that every time she’s OD’d, she knew she was going to and a part of her kind of took over and did more heroin than she knew she should but she just didn’t care.

She’s been brought back to life several times.

She’s still alive, so that gives me hope she might have some insight or be able to try Iboga again with a better supportive context for integration.

Her 10 year old son is going to have a lot of work to do as an adult to heal from this.

EDIT: as stated above, I belive in drug legalization with tax revenue going to Support free access to trauma healing centers for everyone along with an educational program that helps people understand the link between trauma and addiction.
That's bad, but if software was physical, I suppose this is what it would look like all the time.
You need a lesson in economy.
By using an ad-blocker and not paying for a subscription you’re telling them that they should be continuing to serve ads and track users, while at the same time you’re not encouraging their competition, which ensures their continued monopoly on the market.

Out of all possibilities, not paying for a subscription while at the same time blocking their ads, is the worst path you can take.
Personally I've been using magic wormhole lately.
It's p2p and very easy to use.

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
The continued decline of standards at a major manufacturer of automobiles, that's pretty interesting to me.

Poor design happens, but when given opportunity to resolve this they attempted to resolve it with zip ties. That's embarrassingly cowboy, especially in the wake of the emissions scandal. It's kind of impressive that the regulatory body permitted it too.
How is that relevant in any way? If you're using those two you're already doing something wrong.

State is local props, props are from parent. How can that concept be "complex" to someone is beyond me.
Wouldnt it make more sense then to develop _not_ on the easycase but the hard ones?
>And the explanation here is often the aftermath of war, soldiers who've learned to kill coming home.

If this is true, then why was the end of the largest war in human history associated with a period of historically low violence in the US?
I reckon if someone make Java a first class citizen on FreeBSD, it may actually get a larger amount of usage.
Currently known as a different species since 2011, desert crocodyle (Crocodylus suchus) a smaller and less vicious species than C. niloticus. There is a lot to discover still about african species of big animals. Many cryptic species that are being discovered just now. Two different african elephants. Several species of ostriches, etc.

Desert crocodyles live in small relict ponds and springs of water disconnected from the big rivers. Any specimen harming any human in such small and "nowhere to hide" ponds will find a lot of problems quickly.
Now Facebook is putting autoplay video ads inside Messenger
haha. seriously?
It's not really much to do with what gets paged in, more to do with instruction cache locality and all sorts of tiny micro-optimisations, especially relating to branches. If re-ordering code or adding branch-expected markers causes the branch predictor to guess correctly more often, it can have a huge benefit.
> I am not. The US is still the top destination for migrants.

Is it? Most numbers seem to compare individual countries, which disproportionally overrepresents the US due to its sheer size.

However by comparison, in 2016 [0][1]:

* 1.49 million immigrants moved to the US

* 2 million immigrants moved to the EU

* 753,060 immigrants were naturalized in the US

* 1 million immigrants were granted citizenship in the EU

So I guess that's another category in which the US has been superseded by the EU (like e.g. GDP, exports and tourism).

[0]: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested...

[1]: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

EDIT: If you think this is an unfair comparison, remember that EU citizenship grants you the right to live and work in any EU country. Citizenship in any one member country is effectively for most intents and purposes citizenship in all of the EU.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_of_the_European_Un...
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Instagram long-form videos reportedly launching today, with celebrity-led push
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Ask HN: Is there a service for cross-checking genetic match?
While reading this article [1] (HN at [2]) I realised that there might be a space for a service (startup?) which would accept genetic material from its users, and then run genetic match searches comparing it to other users. E.g. if both Paul and someone from his actual family (from the article) were users, the service could alert them of the match. Any ideas if something like that already exists?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44242626
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17354337
Social security numbers are not unique, but combine them with a birthday and name, and it gets pretty close.
TFA has updates after this and this update turned out to be misinterpretation.
Sounds like what Brecht once wrote about the luddites, something along the lines of: "you appear to be dominated by machines only because there are men hiding behind those machines" (can't retrieve the actual quote now, was on a treatise on theater)
If that was the case it would have been called a plebiscite rather than a referendum.

That it was in actual fact a plebiscite to those who actually understand this nuance isn't relevant to the "Brexit means Brexit" hordes who don't. Or to your friends and neighbours looking on aghast ...
That seems to be a pretty weak link? Literally every VR game involves some amount of navigating 3D spaces.
The block chain contains a hash of the transaction, not the content of the transaction, right?
Shared, not stirred: GCHQ chief says Europe needs British spies
Speeding is an infraction (that’s a legal term). Misdemeanors are crimes punishable by up to 364 days in prison. These two things are not remotely close to one another.
Incorrect in multiple points.

- families presenting themselves at the border are being separated

- the vast majority of families being separated under this policy are first time arrivals, because what Trump has done is order prosecution of ALL arrivals

- international law says you can claim asylum after having arrived without a visa, it does not make you a criminal to do so

- under Obama, families doing so were actually released into community detention and almost universally did show up to their immigration court dates. Trump ended this program, in favor of jailing them all separately. That, just like instructing ICE to arrest and charge first time arrivals, is a policy decision and requires no change in the law for them to go back to the previous system.

Citations for all these:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-right...
In many EU countries a contract does not actually end if you continue to show up to do work in mutual (implicit) agreement with the managers at the company you work for. It would constitute an implicit extension of the contract, effectively renewing it under the same terms for the same duration (with a maximum of 1 year IIRC).
And the world did end- not
Kenya's first Bitcoin ATM
> Sure: maybe the first read happening concurrently with the write won't read true yet but surely the next one or the one after must?

You are expecting the read operation to be done either before or after the write, which would be the case if atomicity was guaranteed.
There might be ugly intermediate states, or maybe there aren't, but don't know because there are no guarantees.

See also: http://preshing.com/20130618/atomic-vs-non-atomic-operations...
So I'm glad this is being done, but the "attack surface" that's being resolved sounds like a bit of a joke...

"Alice, a system administrator who contributes to a Linux distribution, is building her binaries on servers that, unknown to her, have been compromised"

This is a bit of weird scenario.. so they're assuming the only build being compromised is the one that ends up in the repo and no one can confirm that easily. So just have two (or more) identical servers in separate locations under different people's control so they aren't both compromised? No need to fuzz the dates and paths and stuff. Or if you really want, you make a special Debian version (super-stable) with fixed clocks, file paths, etc. where things are easy to reproduce.

"Bob, a privacy-oriented developer, makes a privacy-preserving browser, but is being blackmailed into secretly including vulnerabilities in the binaries he provides. Carol is a free-software user whose laptop is being attacked by an evil maid called Eve, the third developer of the title; each time Carol shares free software with her friends, it is pre-compromised by Eve"

Do Debian contributors just upload a binary blob to the Debian servers and that's it? I though they were saying they have build servers for every package and the source from which it's built is available

How about even easier - a bribed/black-mailed Debian maintainer slips in a patch to some of the tens of thousands of packages they tweak, no one notices and it gets distributed to everyone. I'm not expert, but it seems the smarter solution would be to have a much smaller reproducible core/base system (with Debian patches when necessary). Something that can realistically get enough eyeballs on it. And then everything else is built by project maintainers into something like flatpaks/snaps with no patching.
What makes PeerTube superior to BitChute?
Are you referring to the Facebook-Cambridge Analytics controversy?
with opportunity for employees to pick their own lunches.
Awesome that you're running two companies!

I was just pointing out there is a difference between an actual clinical addiction vs. a really bad habit.

I know the feeling about gaming and have been in similar shoes. I actually stop myself and check if I am doing something out of habit or because I want to... and have found I want to do other hobbies more, its just the inertia to get over the habitual actions that is the problem sometimes.
Confinement in the VM (or, How Boundaries Can Liberate) [pdf]
Jim Kunstler's podcast is good when he doesn't veer off into peak oil civilizational collapse speculation http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/

Granola Shotgun
https://granolashotgun.com/

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/

I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler
Comprehensive guide for programmers to be a successful web developer
How to Build Some Headroom into Your Day
Hetzner Outage, May 2018
Hell, most humane countries do it like that way already. My pharmacist parents in Norway wouldn’t have a problem with this, based on anecdotes over the years.