skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incredible that a speech from over 160 years ago can have such an emotional impact on a 2018 American reader. If you feel uncomfortable reading this speech just as I did, you understand the importance to reflect on our national moral compass.

> At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
We gave up on trying to buy in Cambridge and moved north to Stamford, its just over an hour on the train (one stop past Peterborough) and about the same by car (if you avoid the worst of the rush hour, will be 45 min with the new road in 2020). Lovely here, much nicer then a villages near Cambridge and about the same time to commute!
Apple reportedly launching new iPhones in blue, orange, and gold colors
> I just gave you a first hand account of it

From someone who describes themselves as being very bad at the job! Maybe this was what he was getting wrong?

> when an officer says "Jump" an enlisted man jumps rather than trying to argue

This is what people get wrong. When an officer says 'jump' the enlisted man actually responds 'tell me what you want me to achieve, sir, then it's my job to decide how I want to make it happen whether that's jumping or something else'.

A junior non-commissioned officer will tell you respectfully but firmly to back well off if you start telling them how to complete a task.
Thanks for the explanation.

I still don't see the plus value compared to a simple pull-news-from-URL model. RSS with GET is already session-less, and remains functional for months, AND also works when the clients cannot receive incoming connection (mobile devices)
Why Bitcoin may soon be worth nothing
(The client in the reddit post isn’t open source.)
Why would you chase people from Universities who have high salary expectations when you have the internet? It is beyond me. Developers storm remote positions, yet the industry is super slow with adoption.
My mind immediately went to stuff like tickets. Can't say how many times I've gotten stuck having my ticket checked at a concert or on a train simply because there's no connectivity and the page is no longer in cache on my phone. If all the data is in the URI then it could work as an option for entirely static data. I'd say this is useful for almost anything that fits in a one page PDF.
Well, from the point of view of UK's economy that would be the best solution but for the EU that could be bad in the long run. One good thing about the Brexit would have been that UK politicians could no longer blame the EU for everything. As it looks now, they will continue to find new, creative ways to make the EU the scapegoat for their mistakes.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/votes.html
They're hidden away and disposed of in secret. It got so bad in the recent referendum campaign in Ireland that even to show an ultrasound image of a normal in-utero fetus was regarded as hurtful and offensive.
Finding Musical Choruses with Python
Trump V. Hawaii, Dissent (Justice Sonia Sotomayor)
> I think HN is generally anti-Brexit

As best i can tell, you can draw clear EU sentiments based on age and education. Younger and better educated are largely pro-EU as they are in a position to seek employment within the euro-sphere virtually at will (and may had friends all over thanks to various EU education programs).

Others have watched local industry either moving their activities abroad, or simply running a skeleton crew between contracts. And when a contract hits, most of the people working there may not even speak a language the locals understand.

Yes that may sound like racism, and the extremists can score some cheap points on it, but for the most part the issue is one of livelihood.

Where as previous generations could count on their industrial or service job to carry them through setting up a home and starting a family, now they can't. And they see the EU as the reason why by eroding their access to jobs.
This person clearly has no understanding of history for why people left no europe, nor an understanding of the word socialism.

Frustrating to read such BS.
Lots of Successful Women Freez Their Eggs.But It May Not Be About Their Careers
> Didn't the British empire ban slaves and slavery on English soil at the start of the 19th century?

Depends on your meaning and what dates. The British did NOT ban slavery "at the start of the 19th century" (meaning 1800s). They banned only the buying of slaves using English vessels and even then it was nominally enforced. In 1833, the English compensated approximately 3000 slavers for "loss of business assets" (yes, that's right, they compensated the slavers, not the slaves) including the ancestors of David Cameron, the Bazalgettes and other wealthy families.

Almost instantly after the passing of the 1833 act, the British used indentured labour to replace slavery. Indentured labour was found to be equivalently cruel. The historical record shows death rates as high or higher than the slavery period for indentured labourers brought from South Asia to the West Indies and South East Asia. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/dec/12/thefor...
If FIFA are so uptight about copyright, why continue to support them by consuming and discussing their 'product'?

Go out and create your own content. Until that becomes predominant they have no reason to care. And frankly neither do I; it has never been easier to make videos, take photos, make podcasts and broadcast them.

This whole copyright-law furore has really highlighted the entitled attitude of most Internet users nowadays.
That's similar to EVE Online.
What problem is React/JSX solving in your App?
Big difference between opinion piece and someone pretending they know something about history.
Get the Flintstones license, make it look like it was carved in rock by a dinosaur inside the camera.
That's just the federal budget. US taxes & spending include local + state + federal.

Leaving off the other $3.x trillion in taxation & spending, nearly an entire other federal government, paints a very incomplete picture.

The military is 10% of all government spending in the US. Total government spending is around $7.2 trillion for 2018.
They prefer to screenshot and summarise other media.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers
Microsoft has been in Cambridge for decades.
Micron Technology Releases Statement on Fujian Province Patent Litigation
I was using Qutebrowser since some months because I had some problems with how Firefox causing data loss, but I had to go back to Firefox recently because Qutebrowser is too slow and memory-consuming w/ many tabs open, even if suspended (i.e. >= 10 or 15 tabs for me). Firefox 61 now consumes way less memory and no idle CPU at all thanks to a strict Ublock Origin policy (basically no JS or >=1Mb images if you're not a snowflake; I had similar blocking in Qutebrowser too). Is this something you experience too, or maybe caused by my setup?
My personal counter is that I just couldn't morally accept contributing taxes to a nation which:

- Exploits the poor and non-citizens
- Overthrows governments and bullies smaller countries
- Has only the most rudimentary social security system
- Does not really have a concept of healthy work/life balance. With little time off and none at all for people with newborns.
- Takes near-zero environmental responsibility
- Literally spies on the entire population of the rest of the world
...
Zediva. $1.8M in fines.

There's a few others that skirted around similar laws as well, like Aereo which was shut down for rebroadcasting OTA signals using customer rented antennas.
How does that solve the no connectivity problem? You’d still need the site (with rendering scripts) cached.
If somebody is looking to streamline their Anki/Mnemosyne card creation, I created this vim plugin a while back:

https://github.com/tbabej/knowledge

It takes a plain text note file and converts it to a set of cards. Syncs the updates if the notes change, and also supports things like images.

I don't have as much time as I used to for open source development, and could certainly use some help (especially on the Anki side, as I am a Mnemosyne user now).

Note that this allows you to not only have a set of flash cards, but also a nice collection of notes grouped by topic, if you want to have an overall look at the section of your domain knowledge (say, linear algebra) in context. This is a bit hard to do with a set of cards already entered in a flash-card application.
Crawling may be cheap, but you also want to save that data and make it queryable without waiting minutes for the response to a query. That makes it way more expensive.
Making Sense of Big Data
Curious, why do you say “old programmers would do much worse”? That hasn’t been my experience.
A Complete Guide on How to Build a Social Media App
Remember when Instant Messaging protocols used to be open? When there was a multitude of clients for any given service to chose from?

Now IM has left its early adopter stage and became an integral part of everybody's life, but in doing so we became stuck with 100% proprietary WhatsApp. Not undeserved, it works very well with billions of users, and is probably the most usable IM service ever made.

But it became so big and "essential", that it doesn't seem right that a large part of human communication is bound exclusively through their apps.

I think in the long run there would be a real benefit to opening up their protocol.
>And if you're making $142k in salary in the US, your healthcare is entirely paid for.

Surely there's still copay?
Whose plan? Cameron's plan for sure, but it's not all that far fetched to believe he was ill advised and manipulated by his party (a lot of Eurosceptics in the Tory party). Ever watched Yes Minister? I know it's satire, but it's more than believable.
Robot that teaches kids to code is crowned Europe's best startup
It is a dry subject, but make no mistake, this is not just a pet subject of individual MPs/MEPs.

The "value gap" argument used to justify the EU copyright directive is right there in the 2017 Labour manifesto: https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/labour-mani...

The conservatives have used similar but more general language as well.
Yeah, certainly "A LOT" of people were actually pleasantly surprised.

From my point of view in Philadelphia, however, virtually everyone was disappointed modulo a few crazies or people who had been hiding under a rock or some closeted college republicans.

This just goes to show how bifurcated America has become, people on opposite sides view the other side as incomprehensibly batshit-crazy and/or evil.
NASA Invites Media to View Launch of Mission to “Touch” Sun – NASA
Like I said, I really dislike current copyright law as it exists in most countries, so you wont find me arguing in favour of extending copyright powers at all.

But article 13 does not seem to represent an extension of copyright powers since it looks weaker than any of the existing national laws.

> Google has the infrastructure and resources to do so with YouTube, going out of its way to detect copyright infringement and to react automatically to take down notices. Smaller players don't have Google's resources.

I've read this argument and it doesn't really convince me. Google and the rest run sophisticated copyright infringement detection not because they CAN or have the resources, they do it because they are obliged by US copyright law. The same US law applies to smaller players and it doesn't seem to have broken the internet in America. Try launching an app that allows streaming video torrents for example - even a teenager
working from a bedroom has to comply if they are going to offer such a service.
> Christians will return to historical norms.

Abortion is condemned in the Didache (late 1st century/early 2nd century CE). There were already rigorously set penalties under canon law for abortion in the 1st millennium. It may be that American Evangelical Christians will return to the moderate views about the issue that they held several decades ago, but it is entire possible that the "historical norms" that any Christian community might return to are the ones even further back in time.
And if you do contemplate them, you'll be accused of participating in project fear.
tl;dr. Excellent first few chapters (which deserve the high praise and possibly are the cause of all the hype), gets less and less interesting. At some point, I dreaded returning to it and gave up.
Only Windows with Edge can play 4k. Chrome is 720p.
kWh is for energy stored in this example, the "size of the tank". kWh is analogous to toe (tonne of oil equivalent) or gallons of gas.
kW is for power, that is the flow of energy (energy/s), another non SI unit is horsepower. The SI unit for energy is Joule (J), the SI unit for power is J/s. 1 Watt is 1 Joule per second.
You are required to help people in need, but not at the expense of your own safety. Calling 112 is enough.

Abortion is not about killing, it's about not having a being in your body, potentially wrecking it and killing you. In the same vein, you can stop supporting dependent adults, as an individual (doing that as a society is a different matter). You can just stop. It won't kill them in that case, but that is not what this is about.

If pregnancy was nothing for your body, no stress at all, then carrying to term and giving it up for adoption would be a lot more common. This dimension is often overlooked by people, especially men, I feel. Pregnancy can be insanely hard and dangerous.
Thanks for the input!
I haven't lived in London for long, but I found I had much more disposable income in SF, even compared to living in a non-London uk city.

Talking to people from around the US, it's just generally cheaper in other places in the US. Gas is cheaper, insurance, (non-SF)rent etc.
I find it interesting that many web apps are so keen on getting users to download their very similar local app counterpart.

Let’s brainstorm a bit on why this is the case.

Does it just come down to ad blockers not being available for local apps? At least on iOS, access to e.g. notifications, address books, pictures etc. is optional. But maybe most users just answer “yes” when asked, and the reason local apps are preferred is because access to this stuff isn’t possible via web apps?
When a fetus gives a rousing speech in front of a room of major political figures I for one will certainly take notice.
>The worst paratrooper they ever had, per their own admission.

Because he wasn't suited to military style leadership. So he became a software dev instead, and he enjoyed that much more.

Still, this is a fair point.

>The US does not train the same way Israel does. Which does not train the same way China does, or Germany does, and so on.

The IDF is, as I said above, famous for its individualism and relatively lax standards of discipline by Western military standards. I suppose having fought several huge wars of national survival within living memory makes you throw all the superfluous authoritarianism out the window and retain only those parts of it which are essential to function.

So if even they are still very heavy on authority and instant obedience, the US isn't going to be any better. Nor, especially, would China who follow the Russian school of top-down control compared to the Western emphasis on bottom up (aka mission-style tactics the other fellow linked to).
I'm made out of the same sort of universal stuff that the camera is, just twisted into a drastically different orientation. We're both built of these particles of experience. In a way, there is a little man inside the camera. He's just a camera-shaped little man, and the camera itself IS the little man.
White Americans progressively pushed the American Indians off of their land, and in reaction, there were many cases where the American Indians responded by slaughtering the families of white American settlers -- not just the men but non-combatant women and children. So one can see why many white Americans did regard the American Indians as "merciless savages", and also what caused the American Indians to behave as they did.
Polluters exposed by new eye in the sky satellite
The employment rights in the UK are minor compared to most of the rest of Europe, and while you cant fire at will, it is easy to get get people out if you want to.
IF you have good insurance the co-pay is trivial. I broke a bone, total of $80 in copay.

Someone with worse insurance is looking at a bill in the $1000's or even $10,000
I've used common crawl http://commoncrawl.org/.. also referenced in the article. This is great work and I would love if they could get a daily crawl going.
Can’t laws that are equivalent but opposite be formulated? Laws that specify what is legal and should not be considered infringing. Similar to US constitutional formulations “congress shall pass no law..”?
Ironically laws like the GDPR actually even the scales for European companies targeting the European market. Previously American companies got away with a blatant disregard for local privacy laws whereas European companies had to do their homework.

Now everybody is affected equally and in fact European companies may have a first mover advantage because the GDPR closely matches the privacy laws several European countries had already implemented previously (whereas US companies in some cases may need to start over from scratch if they want to ensure their compliance).
Not to mention that marginal tax in the UK is 40% income tax for 45k+ (45% over 150k) + 2% national insurance which is actually more marginal tax than SF, the highest taxed state in the US. Of course UK has the NHS fee healthcare, but if you're pulling $200k+ in SF you probably have medical benefits too.
This. There's plenty of space to overmold a chip embedded in the USB-C connector itself, and such a device would naturally open-circuit the data pins when powered off (defeating the multimeter test).

This "analysis" is so superficial that I thought it was a joke at first. At the very least the device should be completely disassembled and/or X-rayed.
Adult bears definitely can climb trees. [0] So can adult humans, obviously.

[0] http://www.bearsmart.com/about-bears/dispelling-myths/
> It’s First Past The Post that forces the two party system. Get rid of that

Why? Two party system is a feature, not a bug.
It's the unexpected things that get you, though. I had to have a few emergency room visits for rabies shots, and ended up paying about $1500. I don't really know how to measure how "good" my insurance was, but I was working at a university in MA, so I expect the policy was at least decent.

(The rabies vaccine is very expensive. The theoretical cost of the treatment, which the insurance company theoretically paid, was about $30,000.)
page 7 of this has the details of who voted what. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f...
Curious: were you born in China and still eligible for the lottery? I thought Nanotech was a much coveted field to be in

This is exactly why merit based legal immigration would push US back into the pole position, if it was done right. Lottery green card is basically a new way of excluding people from China and India from immigration, in the name of diversity.

Current situation for high skilled immigrants from India in US, is basically to cross the border to Canada, with it's amazing Express Entry scheme, which treats all immigrants the same, and evaluates each one based on the same scale (of education qualifications and work experience). Unlike the US, Canadian high skilled immigration rules don't discriminate based on country of birth!

My guess: In 10 years, Canada will be giving the US a tough competition for global VC spend

Skate to where the puck is going to be...... :)
I'd owned this book for many years and had a similar experience to OP. But one day someone gave me `I am a Strange Loop`, which I started reading and enjoyed way more. After getting in a little bit Hofstadter makes some apologies for GEB saying it was the sum of work of a very young person. I think he was 24? I think it's pretty incredible considering his age. The things that lead him to thinking critically about consciousness because of his disabled sister I found to be something that changed not only how I interacted with people that were differently abled, but also changed how I saw my own disabilities. Sure it's more than a bit full of itself, but I can't for the life of me think how I would edit it any differently. It's honest from the place he was standing. With a lot of thought, a desire to share, and a perspective that no one else could just stumble on. IMO, it really does kind of have to be what it is.

So, I decided to put down IAASL and try to really get through GEB first.. like for real this time... and found an Open Courseware[0] on the book to follow hoping that would help me really cut through it. It did! The trick that did it for me was the prof's suggestion that you just skip the first 300 or so pages and he picked up from there.

I'd thumbed through it and much like op had "looked" at every page, but once I skipped the first 300 and followed along with the course, it was like butter. There is something funny about all the intro dialogs that can fatigue by the time you get to the meat.

That said, I really enjoyed his reflection on GEB in IAASL and enjoyed the read of IAASL a lot more. Regardless of what you think about what Hofstadter proposes, I think his contribution to critical exploration of the consciousness is artful and invaluable. I think it's fun, compassionate, and beautiful, and it really changed how I see myself and my environment.

It sticks with me and I think about it a lot and it makes me happy to share it with people.

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/humanities-and-social-scienc...
I used to feel very much the same way about no sympathy for violent groups, but then I realise that some people feel (rightly or wrongly, is up for you to decide) that the democratic process does not or even cannot accomodate the kind of change they want to see - not because they see democracy as unable to acheive emancipatory goals, but because they see democracy as having been brought under the rule of capital and media rather than by an informed and active demos.

As my favourite social critic Marcuse wrote, when the democratic process is blocked, apparently undemocratic means may be required to unblock it.
> Remember when Instant Messaging protocols used to be open? When there was a multitude of clients for any given service to chose from?

I remember the unofficial clients not being able to support the latest features, and being completely locked out as soon as a new major version of the mainline client being released.
Why can't we create copyright abolition proposal to do the same the other way?
yowsup and Android emulators
I had much the same reaction to GEB as this author: it seems like I really should have liked it, but never have. To me, it always just seemed too clever by a half (or, perhaps, I am just too dull witted by some other fraction ...)
There are ~40 hits for "youtube-dl" in Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=youtube-dl&c=apps

But I agree that people might have mixed feelings on pointing to the ones that work better.

I made another search, through DuckDuckGo, and got a hit that's not among those ~40 and looks good: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviddapp.o...

Am I hurting them by linking, or any of you for adding feedback?
Because that's not what most people want.
Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions [pdf]