skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the bigger problems is people conflate government debt with personal debt. If you loan money to build a house, you eat the interest costs. But if the government loans money to build a bridge, that money flows into the economy creating jobs. As long as the growth that loaned money creates outpaces interest, the government would he stupid not to loan. Not to mention the absolute safest governments to 'stash' your money (The Netherlands and Germany come to mind) actually pay negative interest rates on some of their bonds.
I would say that "expiation" is not a suitable word. Incarceration neither compensates those who are wronged, nor does it atone / redeem -- the incarcerated person is still typically regarded a criminal / felon upon release.
"Please explain to me how humans are immune to natural selection"

Why should he do that? He never claimed that -- it's a strawman of your own making.
The EU should force apple to open NFC to all. The only reason we have these stupid slow bluetooth adhoc payment systems here is because apple refuses to let anyone other than their own apple pay use NFC.

I can use my android phone to pay via NFC directly from my bank account (no android pay, no third party or extra fees.). Why can't apple?
They took place in the 1980s and early 1990s. They were rather silly at the time. Taking them seriously now, decades afterwards, is definitely silly.
It’s an idiom.
It works on so many other devices, though!

It's crazy how complicated design is since there are so many form factors to get right. Miss one, and you lose part of your audience.

I have so much respect for front end engineers and designers, because this stuff is not easy.
TL;DR: it's hard to retrain people into jobs that require different skill sets (e.g. from trucker to s/w engineer), and there may be not as many jobs offering equivalent salaries.

Interesting supporting info graphics, as well.
It's just like that mains socket on the wall that every electronic device uses. Would you prefer if each manufacturer had their own 110v/220v plug?
Sabine Fruhstuck, the professor interviewed, appears to be more than marginally informed:

http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/sabine-fruhstuc...

Her specialty area is listed as Modern Japanese Cultural Studies. She's researched and written on sexuality in Japan, Japanese military culture, Japanese leisure culture, men's issues, and more. I think a foreign researcher who had spent a career immersed in my culture (I live in the United States) could well have more insight into how pieces of it fit together than I would.
Not all the counties in the greater Chicago area are blue, though. Cook County is just huge and overpowers everyone else.

Chicago is going more blue while the rest of the state gets more red: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-illinois-presiden...

This story is playing out across America.
> Way too much government overreach. It’s ridiculous for government to intervene at this level of product development.

I'm very glad government demanded standards for power plugs. Not sure why that should not extend to mobile devices.
it's also funny how that researchers name is the german word for breakfast. I couldn't help imagining the journalist interviewing a bowl of cereals
Marginal speed gains (though Pi hole isn’t super resource-intensive so the speed up isn’t huge unless you’re piping through a ton of DNS traffic), and you don’t need a Pi at all :)
Thanks! I'm guessing I didn't explain the third point well enough, I've been thinking about this stuff for quite awhile, and it's hard to convey what I mean in one paragraph.

I wrote a post [1] once talking about this in more detail, but it's pretty old and my thoughts have changed a bit since then. I'll try to write an article explains it better once I have the time and energy.

[1] https://medium.com/@rayalez/comedy-theory-fd142076657e
Seriously, I don't know why this is such a hard problem for people.

"We're building tax software. Should we get a tax consultant to look it over and identify problems?"

"We're building a programming IDE. Should we get some programmers on our design team? Should we maybe eat our own dog food and have our programmers use it internally for development?"

"We're building a screen reader. Should our QA team have some blind testers on it?"

"We're building a product that we're marketing to women. Should women be involved in building it?"

Sure you can get around these issues by doing extra market research, but in basically every other area of development we understand that it is an asset to have your designers and builders be intimately familiar with the problems you're trying to solve. The cheapest, most efficient way to make your design team intimately familiar with problems that women face is to hire women.

It's no different than hiring security experts if you're building serverside software - you want some people on your team to be an early voice of reason; to be able to raise their hand early in a code review or a tech demo and say, "Hey, just so you know that's an XSS attack vector," or, "Hey, just so you know I've actually had periods that last longer than 10 days."
Apple already provide USB-Lightning cables and USB ported DC adapters, admittedly a greener configuration compared to hardwired options. It's the competition that must provide an Apple like option.
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That doesn't really solve the problem since I already have USB chargers lying around but not <insert format here>.

A better solution might be to apply a charge per nonstandard charger given out to customers. At this stage it would practically be an Apple tax.
Pretty good...Do you get less points if you take longer? I didnt really quite get how the points work. Maybe indicate that visually if that's the case.

Another thing is sometimes the clips start in a breakdown and unless you're familiar with the track it's sometimes difficult to know the genre until the drop.

oh i think i found a track that was mislabeled, but unfortunately i didnt catch the name sorry :( .. it was a track marked "Post-Dubstep" but sounded like a house track of some kind.
Apple already has it on their Macbooks, so I'd not be surprised if their long term plan ("plan B?") is to go with USB-C for their iOS devices too.
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Went down this rabbit hole a couple months back, like blockchain I’m sure there are a couple use cases, but most identify is inherently centralized as it is formed through relationships.
Like this one:

https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2016/07/12/googles-s...

AI/ML inherits the bias from it's trainers - this is pretty well accepted.
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How could the opposite ever be true, most incarcerated are not there for life and when they get out they get shit on by the rest of us. Post incarceration opportunities that lead to yearly incomes above the poverty line are reduced 10x probably more. I'm not saying we shouldn't jail people but jail should be like forced education unless your jail term is for life.
There is no where for CEOs to go.
You mean https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc?
Made a script to download public SnapChat stories
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i think it's your rng seed cause i've seen some 4's.
Alexa, buy toilet paper.

Yeah, you're not going to buy a computer via Alexa but for everyday items, it is fine.
Especially since the newer devices start to draw more significant amounts of power - that calls for safety, one reason governments got involved in standardizing power plugs.
Mitch Hedberg is much more similar to programmer/hacker humor IMO. Puns, jargon, word play, grammatical structure, lots of modification to simple statements for comedy. That creates a different kind of overarching structural complexity. I find that much more funny than traditional comedy, because it's my flavor of clever. Many elements of Shakespeare minus the explicit narrative.
My point still stands. Most corner cutting (is it even corner cutting if the safety requirement isn't there in the first place?) will turn out fine unless you cut the same corner every day of your life or cut a ton of corners at once. If that weren't the case every electrician that ever tagged out a breaker with a piece of tape and a note saying to check to make sure X isn't still being worked on would be dead.
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Legible News!

It's simple to read, and provide links to wherever necessary. No ads, just clean text.

https://legiblenews.com/
>If you were to convert all shares to cash, you could make every single purchase that was made within that country in a year.

But if that actually happened, the price would collapse.

Im back to the

"They are not comparable" camp.
It is also hurting the adoption of proper 2FA in the form of FIDO U2F/WebAuthn. With Apple phones and tablets there is no normal USB port (A or the newer C), and forcing vendors to include a Bluetooth option in their security keys drives up the cost.

It's downright silly to deny the owners of the hardware to use it.
It's actually €34 per German and €237 per Greek. Different countries, different people.

The German contribiution to the EU is not guaranteed to make it's way back into the Greek economy. And Germans could perhaps use an unpaved country road to travel and move goods to and from Greece instead of a highway that passes through 5 different states, of which two are not even in the EU but have received money from the EU exactly for this kind of infrastructure.

https://europa.rs/eu-assistance-to-serbia/?lang=en

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/ipa/fyrom/
Children are being euthanized in Belgium
The author has made every effort to make it about men vs women, rather than just her vs Fitbit.

I've "known" a great many women but had no idea a period could last a month. Even if it was built entirely by virgin men who really are clueless there is no reason for the tone in the article. If I don't know something, just tell me. Don't write a passive aggressive piece because I don't know about that period you had 2016.
... using tech that doesn't exist yet, which means the actual cost is infinite.
Just got one a month ago. Doesn’t work for YouTube ads, which was my primary use case. In Canada, we don’t have YouTube Red, and thus there’s no way to buy out of the ads.

Also I loaded all block lists marked as safe. Yet many sites are broken.

Now I’m contemplating as to how best to repurpose the Pi.
I’m reading the three Wikipedia pages “Ice Age”, “Geologic Temperature Record”, and “Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s Atmosphere”. They are imo not tendentious at this time and give a fascinating introduction to the extremely complex geologic climate. For example, it’s remarked that the high temperatures in the Cretaceous were likely mostly due to the formation of Pangea and the resulting change in ocean circulation.
My friend said he used this service to buy daily necessities when he was in hospital.
He also said it was pretty useful.
(I and he are both Japanese.)
Do yourself a favor and visit this link. The transitions are so good.
Honestly, there's a lot of stuff I'm skeptical about what will happen in the next 100 years. I don't think that fossil fuels will be a thing in 100 years though. I think we'll have something smarter figured out. Think about how much time has passed since 1918 and what we achieved in that time frame.
How could one possibly not neglect one's kid while in jail?

Presumably someone or some institution stepped in, probably the family. How much was the jailing necessary for the kid to get this help?
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That's limited to NFC tags. You can't do proper card emulation for payment terminals with that.
There are some online services like 7cups in which people talk with strangers about their problems just to vent, allowing them to talk freely without being judged. For example, many teenagers don't want to talk to their parents because they feel they won't be taken seriously or they will be dismissed with a simple "that's because you are young". Another example could be when people don't want to worry their close ones (a thing that many depressed people do, to avoid being a burden).
Primarily for safety reasons.
to be frank that corenfc has limitations which i think the threadstarter is complaining about. Namely it doesnt work if the app is not in foreground. Only Apple Pay can use corenfc when phone screen is off or the app is not running in foreground.
If you bury it deep, millions of years easily.
Because market cap is

Number of outstanding shares * current market price.

If Apple sold 90% of their shares in a day, the price would be close to 0.
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Apple Pay is secure, does not expose your details and is integrated with the banks in the bank end.

The last thing you want is to have a plethora of insecure adhock hacked together contactless payment systems.
If you insulin pump has alway-on GPS tracking, then yes.

If you work in a secure facility consider the "insulin only" model.
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Is the standard fixed yet and is everyone following it? There was a bunch of incompatibility issues for a while.
Do you plan to release a Web version ?
Isn't Apple's charger already standard USB?
What good is forcing someone to get an "education" when corporations refuse to give decent paying jobs with benefits to ex-cons?
Ask HN: Best way to introduce programming to a 5 year old?
I'm trying to figure out the best way to start programming with a 5 year old. I guess it would be nice to have some visual language and output.
Most web design has been corrupted by mobile-friendly concepts. It's nice to finally see a site that isn't made crap by giant buttons, whitespace, and thin vertical scroll.
> Are you suggesting guys like him weren't famous, wealthy, and had popular speaking tours across the country?

Yes. I'm suggesting that far fewer of them had access to the potential to be heard. Every nut job and his brother now has a blog, website, YouTube channel, etc.

> The internet has given individuals a wider platform,

Yes. What I said above. A much wider platform. Instead of an obscure book hidden away on a bookshelf, these guys have a potential audience of the much of the globe. With cheap mobile that reach even extends to very poor countries with little access to education or even books.

> but it hasn't changed the amount of individuals (ie, audience size) willing to consume this stuff...

I'm not convinced that's true and to be convinced I'd have to see some actual numbers. There are LOADS of people these days willing to participate in confirmation bias and the internet makes that far easier. The very few conspiracy theorists I knew 30 years ago had to work hard at their research and I kind of respected the dedication. These days if you want to believe in chem trails it's just a simple search term, click, and copypasta away. We've automated the production of conspiracy theorists.

> We can't ban our way out of this problem.

We aren't. Alex Jones still has a website with 10 million monthly visitors. He has a radio show and publishes books. I'm assuming that if Facebook, YouTube, or even I wanted to publish something on Alex Jones' website, he would "censor" us.

I'm not even suggesting that we should try to "solve" the problem of conspiracy theorists. I'm suggesting that companies should have the right to free speech. If YouTube doesn't want to host the garbage ideas of Alex Jones, they should go right ahead and ban him. If Alex Jones' doesn't want to host Facebook's content or my content on his website, he should feel free to ban us. Where is the actual problem?
The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes
During the DOS 5.0 days I discovered EDIT.COM and the split windows blew my mind. I would view function prototypes or structs while writing code in the window below. And I could do it in 80x43 instead of 80x25!
An attacker in the building could just keep geolocation on on their regular device. That's not the point of this exercise
Affluence has its privileges, what's your point? I experienced many of the same things, quite frankly. I have been through the criminal "justice" system as a juvenile many years ago. One of my associates did get locked up, but it was kind of his choice versus years of probation. The fines were steep as well.

Locking people up doesn't happen often enough because the system is overwhelmed and far too liberal. For example: A repeat offender (think: 20+ offenses) crashed a borrowed car through my neighbor's fence and nearly hit their house. He drives drunk/under the influence of drugs constantly. Nobody had insurance, not him, not the actual owner of the car. At the end of the day, Joe Repeat Offender got off scott-free and never even had to pay restitution.
Joe will eventually kill someone and then get a light jail sentence for it. It's only a matter of time because his behavior is never corrected or ended.

The people at the bottom rung of society give zero shits about anything because nothing can be taken from them that they haven't already lost and so they, in their minds, are free to do anything they please. And that right there is the difference between how your and my cohort was treated and how the dregs of society are treated. If they can't be civilized, we will civilize them.

I laugh at anyone who hasn't been around these types of people: They destroy their lives and the lives of everyone around them and it's a good day when one of them gets put away or dies because it relieves a whole bunch of people of a massive burden.
Thanks for the details! The question about channels stems from the fact that in pi-calculus it's possible to have different processes read from the same channel - making it unsuitable for distribution. Your implementation of channels seems to be extremely similar to what I did! Keep calling it channels ;)

One thing I didn't like with the approach of storing channel messages in the mailbox is that if you use the regular receive statement you might receive a message ment for the channel. In my work I had to be very careful and use selective receive all the time. My preferred solution is to give each actor multiple inboxes so that unrelated messages don't get conflated. I haven't had time to explore this yet but if you're interested in implementing it in Inko I'll be glad to help.
There was a talk about this on the Decentralized Web Summit. Unfortunately the (livestreaming) version uploaded to Youtube is (still) borked, but they have reuploaded the videos to the IA directly: https://archive.org/details/decentralizedwebsummitmedia-2018... (from 12m00s on).

Would anyone know how they plan to represent Idemix (or U-Prove) keys and proofs, for example for Hyperledger Indy / Sovrin? There doesn't seem to be anything in the w3id.org JSON-LD schemes, and while wading through the mountains of code of Hyperledger Indy I haven't been able to find any interface to DID documents.
Europe's heatwave is forcing nuclear power plants to shut down
Isn't that what the Store review process is supposed to prevent?
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Yes, I was agreeing with you... just adding the name to this phenomena.
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> i wouldn't blame the technical team for lack of "social diversity" if a stock trading app lacked an important feature.

I would. If you're building a stock trading app, why on earth shouldn't you hire at least one or two people on your design/development team that actually trade stocks and have experience with the current market?

It's not even a question of social diversity; it's just that you'll catch so many problems if you do - I can't count the number of times at my last job we ran into technical decisions about performance and algorithms where we didn't know what the right decision was because our dev team wasn't familiar with how the software would be used.

You can't user-test architecture, at least not without very long, very costly development cycles and refactors. It's valuable to be able to catch problems early. Even at a purely technical level, having a dev team that's unfamiliar with what you're building is a recipe for disaster.
My personal worst example is my Rabbit Air HEPA filter. This device is very likely to be used in a bedroom at night, especially in spring - and yet it has an always-on display of bright green and blue LEDs. I've had to completely cover the display with electrical tape.
Interesting View point.. But not reality. the Reality is the concept of the Euro is being attacked rather than the currency which is surviving fine. (Minus US cowboy capitalism Economoy wrecking great depressions)
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thats not the problem here. Developers like me dont want to access apple pay but NFC.

Lets say you distribute nfc stickers to local store, and when someone swipes their iphone on it, it should wake up my app and fetch the production information. Such ideas wont work with apples NFC limitation. They require you to first open the app, then swipe.

Many innovation ideas are hampered by Apples behaviour. Its not about security, its about Apple pays rollout and adoption
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And this is also part of why transport method diversity on technical teams matters.
That can be an issue too when they use that knowledge to brush off the trouble as not a big deal.
It's not really all that different from borrowing to improve your personal money flow. Borrow for a house to decrease the amount you spend on rent, borrow for a car to commute to your job and earn more money, take a student loan to get a higher paying job in the future. Of course, both governments and individuals can make bad decisions or get unlucky, and the government has more negotiating power if it has trouble repaying the loan. But on some level you can be "stupid" not to borrow money if the return to your personal finances outpaces the interest.
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well, the lower/middle classes still haven't learned that the wealthy have the money to hire a private military if things ever get that bad.

..and with the push to make it harder and harder to get a gun to defend yourself, you will have no chance at winning.
My Asus tablets and Moto phones also came with a separated charger + cable. Is hardwiring common?
Remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015

A "no" vote was seen as a "leave from the Euro zone" vote by the average citizen. It was the Greek government that ignored the referendum, not the Greeks.
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This is the kind of humour that we should be able to enjoy here. Accept the patch allowing unlimited period lengths and laugh at this joke. Why does everything have to be so serious and flagged/downvoted etc.?