skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad the proposal is useful to actual businesses.

However, it now seems WebSub was created to add a middle-man that will a) read all your activities and b) take a transaction fee on every update?
I was under the impression that browsers could be fingerprinted in other ways that didn't require JS.
I never played Ultima Online, but I remember many stressful corpse runs in EverQuest. My favorite part was that only necromancers could use the locate corpse spell. This made for some interesting stories of befriending or hiring a necro, and occasional betrayal.
I would wonder: is there any person with (enough of) experience with both Clojure and Kotlin to say how these two compare together as Java alternatives? Couple of years ago I was looking for "Java.next" and back then I chose Clojure. Needless to say I have been sooo happy with the language... Now for past year or so I have heard so much praise on Kotlin - it always came from Java devs and it seems like a great language with great support from IntelliJ and I am very enticed (but sadly have not enough time to play with it). So I'd wonder how this language is perceived by fellow people from Clojure community...
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I am wondering if anyone could check out my website https://teamup.zone and give me some feedback. Its a website for creating online groups and events such as pickup soccer. Thank you for your time.
USPS owes $3.5M in royalties for using the wrong Statue of Liberty
Sounds like tinfoil hattery to me. Simple greed and technological illiteracy seem much more straightforward and don't involve a conspiracy about "the real reasons why things occur" [creepy music in the background]. It's especially ridiculous since of late the internet seems to have been much more efficient at shoveling garbage to gullible people than enlightening the proletariat.

I've even seen some proponents of the bill lament that the lobbying by the "GAFA" (google, apple, facebook and amazon) won, so I'm sure some of them actually believe that they're fighting the good fight against the multinational behemoths who are trying to pillage European resources. It's relatively easy to justify the bill if you take it purely at face value without thinking about the consequences: the big players like Google make a ton of money by linking to other people's work without redistributing any of the profits to the creators, let's fix that. Of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions and clueless politicians.

That or it's the Illuminati, who knows.
Safari is so slow
Hi mike-selmo!

I should probably make it more obvious that the tools are supposed to be dragged unto the board! Sorry, that's my bad and I'll definitely add tool-tips and stuff soon. Thanks for the feedback!
Did the garbage collectors take them with the regular pickup, or did they stay until hazardous waste day?
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Apple is an overrated shithole of a "tech" company.
Yes. People need to understand that are whole teams of people whose full time jobs are to get this kind of thing passed. They don't care what's right or wrong. The Nuremberg defence is perfectly acceptable in business, unfortunately.
I agree - it took me until ~25 to focus on my health. I've felt myself get younger and more energetic over the past few years.

Observing my family, I have realized how much exercise impacts your quality of life as you age. I've seen family blame "just getting old" for many symptoms of poor health choices, such as problems walking up stairs or type II diabetes. If they focused on health, they might be able to improve their quality of life significantly!

As a specific example - various studies have correlated the ability to stand up (or, doing a squat) not only with how long your life is - but also how long you will live independently. Extrapolating this - not only does exercise have the potential to extend your life, but it also extends how long you can continue to do what you want in life - such as traveling, walking, living alone, etc. Being specific - I know one 60-year-old who ran a half marathon last year, and another who can barely walk up the stairs to his bedroom.

I wish I had learned better health and exercise routines as a teenager!
Kotlin is competing against Java, while F# is competing against C#.

F# is a great language, but so is C#. MS has done a really great job evolving C# away from a Java clone. C# keeps adding features inspired by functional languages, narrowing the gap to F#. Of course this makes it easier to switch, but on the other hand it also makes it less interesting.
Exactly how I feel about this book.
They're not that cheap. Russia spends about 230 billion USD annually, and spends about 10 billion on nuclear weapons. That's more than any country other than the USA.
> Whatever you say on this does not line up with reality.

This sounds like you refuse to consider that you could be wrong. Is there evidence that would convince you, or will you simply decide any evidence is wrong and find a new justification?

I could be wrong (feel free to prove me so! ;) ) and there is nothing wrong with being convicable-but-unconvinced (as I currently am about the superiority of the US healthcare system) but that is not the impression I have taken from your comment.
All of them? I have my doubts about the sentience of some of mine, although at first blush that appears uncorrelated with eating habits.
Sending an email gives an implicit copyright license, but that license is related to how emails are normally understood to be used. It's not a total license to do anything with.
Maxing out your CPU and networking. If you're there, you'll be running many hosts under load balancers. Be it cloud instances or physical machines. Here you have no need for containers. Web servers and backend apps are capable of multi threading.
For the presidential elections approval voting would be more appropriate, for local representatives proportional representation is the important part for which you don't really need STV (although I guess voting for political parties with proportional representation is somewhat similar to STV with a predetermined set of preferences).
Kotlin is bullshit.
> But the language itself never seemed “cool”

The author of "Joy, Inc." disagrees with you

https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Inc-Built-Workplace-People/dp/159...
Is it such a great thing to be born that we are doing something good for certain pigs by causing them to come into existence?
China VC has overtaken Silicon Valley, but do aggregates tell the whole story?
Yes, you faggot.
I never had any significant use of Google Chat or Hangouts among my circle of acquaintances.

Those that left ICQ and Yahoo moved into MSN messenger, followed by Skype.

And now there is an uniform distribution across Whatsapp, Skype and Viber.

However this is anecdote data.
STL tried hard to abstract pointer manipulation semantic of low-level C and apply it everywhere whether it fit or not. This pointer heritage inevitably lead to misfeatures like invalidation of iterators under container mutations or the need to have access both to the iterator and its container to implement things like vector::erase().

Other languages and runtimes use the notion of an iterator or cursor that is alone enough to perform all looping-like operations on the container including efficient erase() and can cheaply (so it is ok to have that in production) or even with good optimizing compiler at zero cost provide protection against container mutations.
I'm pretty fond of D and Nim.
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There are also Germany, Italy, other states which have nukes through NATO. If the US is serious about withdrawing from NATO then the nuclear capability of these states would end up being completely independent from the US, and EU has the tech and money to scale their nuclear capacity up to any necessary level.

You're right they're not Germany's, my bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

They're the US' nukes but this is all predicated on NATO which was previously assumed. If US withdraws from NATO then they won't get to keep nukes in Germany, so they either lease them or withdraw them.

I think the two important points are that 1. Europe has the capacity to build and sustain a massive nuclear arsenal 2. They already have enough to usher in the apocalypse for anyone who invaded them including Russia. 500 vs 3000 is kind of irrelevant when you could already kill millions upon millions. 3. Some of the seeming reliance of Europe on America for nukes is by choice and a consequence of the previously rock-solid alliance. In the event of the breakup of that alliance the independent capacity of Europe to summon the apocalypse would be a lot more obvious
> Eventually at Google US you get 5 weeks PTO, which is the same as in Google London.
Ah but you're cherry picking an example from one company, I am also not sure how long or what role you'd need to accrue that much PTO. In Europe most (all?) countries have a legal minimum of 3-4 weeks PTO in addition to public holidays, regardless of your job or time working.

> Plus Google has four more holidays in the US than in the UK.
I'm not sure what the definition of federal holidays is vs. public holidays in Europe, but a quick Google suggests US has 10 while the UK has 8 public holidays.
I'm somewhat familiar with Kotlin, but not really with Clojure.

My impression is though that Kotlin really just tries to make a less painful Java, whereas Clojure is a better/nicer JVM language.
I feel back in time. I remember Apple before Steve Jobs came back. Same as today: dongles everywhere, massive product line nobody understood, pro segment frustrated, no more innovation, etc. As the messiah is dead, I did not wait for a miracle, I went to Windows (impressive) with a lenovo x1 carbon (hardware updated every years). Still using an iphone because overall better, but the software is a terrible closed mess... :( So sad... Steve prophetised Apple faith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM
I would encourage you to use Cython instead of Nim if you're looking for Python-like syntax combined with C performance.
Ahh this is such a great idea for a website!! Hope it takes off, it would be so great to see correspondences between professors or politicians.
This is a great response, normally I don't complain about downvotes, but I honestly don't understand what could be wrong with your response to me.

I made a simple statement, that was at least partially wrong, you replied with a ton of information so I could see another side to the issue. Your comment should be what Hacker News is about.
>why would anyone in their right mind use OS/2 to browse the web, given that it misses more than two decades in development

From the Arca Noae web site: "Firefox 38.8ESR is included by default, and 45.5ESR will be available soon as an update. Full HTML5 support is included. Visit YouTube and play what you like."

And that was more than a year ago. I expect it's been updated since then.
1. You may have different apps, owned by different owners, running as containers on same underlying host machine.

2. Not running docker means you can lock your httpd by chroot, FreeBSD jail or OpenBSD pledge.
You're misinformed. Neither Germany nor Italy has nuclear weapons.
Sometimes I wonder if all of these leftist meme groups popping up (or leftist memes in other groups) are propaganda put on by bad actors. If so, it seems to be working...
> We were talking about wait times for insured people, which is 88% of Americans.

No, we're talking about wait times for people in the respective countries. If you think wait times of six months are excessive, you should be incensed about "forever".

> Have you ever seen an article about people going to Canada for superior medical care?

I would suspect the citizenship/residency requirements make this difficult in practice, as does their legal ban on a parallel private system.

Meanwhile, if going overseas for care is a bad sign, as you allege, the US sees the same thing:

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/americans-fle...

"Lots of people are pointing out that this isn’t really true, but I want to point out something different: Americans flee the US in pretty similar numbers to Canadians fleeing Canada. The best numbers we have suggest that about 45,000 Canadians left the country for medical care in 2015. (That’s all destinations, not just the US.) Meanwhile, about 250,000 Americans left the US for medical care abroad. And these numbers don’t even count the number of Americans who get their prescription drugs from overseas."
I don't think this will kill news aggregation, and I don't see how it will strengthen newspapers - the biggest aggregators will just strike a deal with publishers to not pay them anything in exchange for not delisting them. The smaller aggregators cannot afford to license snippets and aren't big enough to matter to the publishers so they will just stop publishing snippets. There is no case where publishers (and even less so investigative journalists) win from this. We've seen this in Germany and Spain where this was implemented in national law.

However, the actual victims of this are another group. The law specifies "commercial users" as ones that have to comply with this but does not define what "commercial use" is. In Germany, courts have ruled "commercial use" to be very broadly interpreted, and it would cover things like forums that collect user donations to cover server costs, or have advertising for the same reason. They are clearly not making money from news aggregation, but the way the law is written any kind of commercial use is the same and has to comply. So now they have to police all their users just to make sure they don't post a news snippet, and there is no minimal size for news snippets. So in the worst case you can no longer discuss news on a forum without making the forum operator liable for license fees to whoever published the news. As a forum operator, how am I supposed to know whether something is news or not? Do I have to screen every post and compare against a list? The law doesn't say. The committee proposed an exemption for user-submitted content but the proposer of the law shot it down. So now here we are. Forum operators have to police their users against unclear criteria or face legal liability. I think that's a chilling effect, and it has no upside.

If you want to strengthen investigative journalism, do exactly that - put more money into EU-wide funds to fund investigations, for example, or make it safer for them to report by implementing EU-wide protections for journalists (to prevent what happened in Poland from happening elsewhere for example). Or regulate ownership of mass media to prevent concentration of power. There's lots of things you can do on an European level to strengthen journalism and democracy. This is definitely not it.
Kotlin is a nice language but being tied to jetbrains with no useable ide/editor around but jetbrain's own idea it won't rise that high. A working lsp language server would help.
Philadelphia's transit authority SEPTA has been rolling out a cashless fare system using RFID/NFC. It was supposed to be released in 2013 and still isn't complete. It cost $300 Million for Xerox to build which was twice as much as the initial budget. The kicker is their website used isn't even functional on mobile - it _literally_ uses nested tables for layout. A more efficient way to do this would be to use your phone for everything (using built in NFC) and an app to manage your fares.

NFC still isn't 100% available on all smartphones and really wasn't whenever the system was designed. Particularly the cheaper smartphones used by lower income people are more likely to not have NFC even today. Back in 2010 when the system was first conceived (assuming based on 2013 release date) NFC was even rarer.
All of the hardware files are SolidWorks. Last time I checked SolidWorks still had a pretty bummery access model for hobbyist users. Anyone know if that has changed?
There are trains actually running to King's Cross now? ducks

But seriously, if you want to know what the housing market in Cambridge is driven by, look at the new things they're building. The "affordable" housing is far beyond anyone doing a "normal" job who just wants to live locally, say a school teacher or a nurse at one of the hospitals. Even those of us lucky enough to work in the relatively well-paid tech sector mostly couldn't afford one of the new luxury flats or town houses that keep springing up near the railway station, some of which have seven-figure asking prices.

For those reading this in the US who might be used to SV wages in tech, earning enough over here to get a seven figure place almost certainly means that either you had a very successful exit already or you have an unusually well-paid gig probably down in London. No-one on anything close to normal salary or freelance rates in tech sectors can get that kind of mortgage, so otherwise if you didn't already own a place that you can trade up from, you're totally locked out of that high-end market. And yet people keep building whole estates of properties like that, and then trickling them onto the market over the next year or two to keep the prices high.

I find it quite depressing that having been entrepreneurial and even modestly successful by any normal standard, we would probably still have made more money if we'd just invested in buy-to-let property in Cambridge instead of starting our first business and then reinvested in growing the property portfolio since. The UK housing market (and our incentives for taking a risk and starting out on your own in business) are messed up.
from where do you get that F# is sitting on the sidelines?

i see more books and open source projects for F# than kotlin, which for a while made me skeptical about the truth of kotlin popularity
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To be frank, GEB gave an impression of magical thinking meets intellectual masturbation. I couldn't see the value in dilettantishly lionizing "beautiful ideas" while bounding from one topic to another.
How is Rust simpler than C++?
You and caf are right, the compiler can indeed remove the remove_me() call. It is permitted to assume the absence of undefined behavior, so it can 'reason' as you describe.

Of course, the compiler can have the code do anything at all, as it's undefined behaviour. In practice, the resulting behaviour can be deeply counterintuitive ('impossible looking' results).

> C's definition of "observable"

Indeed, which essentially changes meaning when we introduce multithreading. The perceived order of our writes isn't assured to match up to our source-code. The horror-show continues!

> And this would be a case that can really take programmers by surprise when debugging

Or worse: only in release builds. Not impossible, if you do all your debugging on unoptimised builds, but release optimised builds.
> Makers would prefer that and so would consumers

Unfortunately makers aren't the ones controlling the content. You forgot about the Studio Oligarchy that wishes to control exactly how and when you consume their content. They can negotiate higher royalties out of the likes of Netflix and Amazon through exclusivity.

Another tactic employed by studios is artificial scarcity. Disney is a pioneer in this technique and routinely locks movies in the vault until demand peaks then releases them at $25 a pop which is a premium over all but new releases. When was the last time you saw Alice In Wonderland for $9 at Best Buy? Never.

The studios are even starting to roll their own streaming services to compete with Netflix and Amazon. This is why Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and now even Apple are becoming their own studios. Because the streaming business itself is dying and you either need to be the content provider or the service provider to survive.

Eventually studios and ISPs are going to start merging into one proprietary pipe.
In what context? Consulting or employment?

It would be very weird for someone employed full time in Poland to disappear for weeks.
What's the difference to benchmarks like https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with...? The results seem vastly different.
I was in the same boat, I was floating via a single big client and the situation was no good. I don't have the health issues you have, so maybe it was easier, but I hit the job application process hard and found something. The interview process was extremely stressful and difficult and I really wanted to give up, but things turned out well in the end. It sounds like you've got skills to offer and there's allegedly a shortage of good developers out there. Maybe you could job search in a lower competition area?
You should definitely speak to an attorney. You may well be able to find one who will take the case on contingency since there are statutory damages but unfortunately you probably won't have the carrot of statutory attorney fees to dangle unless you registered the copyrights prior to the infringement.
I have both books. I read the books using the exact the same approach you suggested. I often skipped parts when I don't want to read.

GEB is not a book for consume only once. I came back again and again. The profound meaning of the book and Godel theorem goes beyond many people can imaging. GEB itself is a metaphor.
> GDPR is good

GDPR is bad. See what I did?
I have nothing against Kotlin, but we should be much more ambitious for the Next Generation of programmers. There's so much more progress to be made in (mainstream) programming languages than the tiny step from Java to Kotlin.

As it has always been in the history of programming, what it takes for this potential to come true is for the current generation of programmers to retire, leaving room for fresh paradigms.

Imagine if all the industry got one generation after Assembly language was "hey, we've made the instruction codes shorter and an IDE that can navigate to line numbers".
Babbage 41 (Babbage machine), John Backus 30 (Fortran), Tim Berners-Lee 34 (World Wide Web), Fred Brooks 30 (IBM S/360), George Bool 32 (Symbolic Logic), Vannevar Bush 55 (memex, forerunner to hypertext), Vint Cerf 29 (TCP/IP), Alonzo Church 36 (Entscheidungsproblem) and so on.
I used to work in Cambridge, a tech job of sorts. It was swell, the quality of life is great, London really close as well.

There were only two downsides. One, pretty bad public transport and driving was often not an option. Two, very few flats, so you’d mostly share with others in houses.

Last but not least, there is a great divide between the students, the so-called professionals (meaning tech, medical research, aeronautics etc.) and town people. The frictions were commonplace.
Seems less like an answer to "How do I change the world?" than a rough description of what almost any intelligent person does in an idyllic environment.

It's very common for successful people to over-analyze their specific behavior rather than acknowledge the harsh reality of what actually separates them from others. A description of reality is both less flattering and seemingly less useful. But it does have the virtue of at least being real.

IMHO there are three major factors in changing the world:

#1 High general intelligence and ambition (genetics)

#2 Highly educated well-off parents (environment)

#3 Support of powerful people (opportunity)

You probably can't do much without at least one of these factors. Most people that do big things have all three.
What are the best resources for learning more about the implications of SGX and how to work with it?