skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla Ignored Drug Trafficking, $37M Theft, Whistleblower Says
But if I give you food stamps, you could just sell them and buy crack. Is there any reason to believe food stamps help solve the problem you're describing?
My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
I think that’s close, but until a technical solution to this comes around, we’ve got to look elsewhere.

An easy target is saying the government is too powerful. That would be a mistake. If Facebook were more powerful than the government, we would no be in any better hands.

The problems with the US government are that it does not work for the people.

It would be painfully short-sighted to say this debacle goes to show the gov and private companies are not too involved with one another. This will be handled with some deal that will deepen the coupling and citizens will not have a say. That’s how most things in our lives get handles. Without regard for us, that is.

Private interests have eroded our state of civility. Citizens voices mean nothing and that is all that’s going on here.

We need our government back. Nothing else is going to solve this, unless of course we can actually address the technical issue that you raised. That would be nice.

A government that was our government would simply not step over this line. It’s possible; not easy, but possible.
Silicon Valley's attempts to self-police are anti-democratic
Crumbling infrastructure is a worldwide problem
How Spanish Women Were Allegedly Targeted in 'Stolen Babies' Cases for Decades
Ms word.
> Now what bother me is the look of repository , it looks completely rushed out.

> No logo , unclear description of the tech...

it's not a product, it's the code that accompanies a white paper.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/FASTER/
The Earth is Full
For a book I'd recomment ConTeXt. It's rougher around the edges but it's geared more towards "rich" presentation with sidebars, imaages, maybe even some color vs LaTeX which at it's core is optimized for things like journal articles with relatively little formatting.

If I was going to compare them to commerical software, ConTexT is closer to InDesign and LaTeX is closer to Word.
My requirements for Windows updates are relatively modest and still haven’t been met:

- Don’t forget where my windows were every time I undock a laptop (you know...in an OS named “WINDOWS”).

- Don’t use 1440 pixels to display a grand total of 2-1/2 checkboxes and a scroll bar.

- Actually find what I search for.

- Be able to update without spinning for literally weeks in Software Center, only to reboot at random while unceremoniously discarding unsaved work.

You’d think it were 1999.
A very arrogant name from a very arrogant company...

(Someone should make something faster than faster)
Show HN: ZeroCell – a simple, efficient Excel to POJO library for Java
I'm not sure I understand which miner pensions you mean, there were lots of miners' privileges, mostly relics from before 1989. But even giving you that - it's still one small program in 2 terms compared to 3 big programs in less than 1 term combined (PIS ruled for about 4 years as of now).

And you haven't answered all the deregulation and privatization SLD did compared to the central planning PIS does now :)

> You should check current political programs of SLD and Partia Razem. They are more economically socialist than PIS.

There's no indication SLD is going to be any more socialist this time around. They were promising similar things before and never delivered (thankfully). I'm labeling them basing on what they did, not what they promise (similarly - PO promised to be a liberal right-wing party, but is actually conservative center-right, they lost many voters over that).

> It's like saying that gay people do not exists because there is only couple of percentage of them in society.

I specified I mean mainstream parties in my original post. Razem is a typical protest-party, people don't vote them because they believe they will be in parliament and do what they promised, people vote them as a "fuck you" to the mainstream parties.

They are as relevant to Polish politics as the tee party is in USA :) We also have a pro-Russian party Zmiana in Poland, but they will also never get to the parliament, so who cares.

> conservative-socialist

I guess. But there are a few ways to be conservative (for example, in any normal country PO would be called conservative center-right, and PIS is much more conservative than them, to the point of being extremists. See how they rename every institution from "public" to "national" for one example, or how they focus their propaganda on nationalist interpretation of history, and nationalist conspiracy theories about leftists, Soros, refuges, Jews, cultural marxism, gender, etc.
My process is to use markdown [1] (very little style related formatting) and then convert to a desired format using pandoc [2]. Building multiple books that look the same, later revisions, etc - becomes really easy.

One of the benefits is that you can convert a chapter to a webpage and gauge interest in the book itself.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

[2] http://pandoc.org/
I don't see why Latex shouldn't be used for that. Whether you write # (markdown) or \section (Latex) to start a new section doesn't really matter for you as a writer, but the latter already gives you a correctly formatted basic version "for free" (who would be insane enough to use Word for an entire textbook?).

If you get distracted by the formatting and looks during the writing process, then just limit yourself to the basic Latex commands (\section, \emph, etc.).
Funny. People wanted Musk for CEO of Apple, now Tim Cook as COO of Tesla.
AAPL + TSLA, Cook + Musk, quite an action:)
Since you seem to have the same quarrels with MATLAB as me, have you figured out a good way to run it in batch mode, without having to open the interactive console?
Check out Pollen: http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

The author of the package, Matthew Butterick, wrote several books with it, such as

- Practical Typography: https://practicaltypography.com/

- Beautiful Racket: https://beautifulracket.com/

Looking at the results, I can't help but be impressed. If I was writing a book, I would start here.

I think you can get it to output LaTeX which you can then use to generate your final PDF and ePub, if you like.

Previous HN discussion here with some other real-world users chiming in with their experiences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15335010
Of all the possible colors and shape, why would they pick something already used by a fraction of the population?
You're obviously going to get downvoted into oblivion for daring to say out loud unpleasant truths on HN, but you're nevertheless 100% correct.
Yeah, and I would never vote them because of that. But their policies since 1989 were economically very right-wing and free-market.

Also - they ruled 2 times after 1989, not only in 2001-2005 but also in 90s.
Another river that had a similar history is the Saraswati river in North Western India. Disappearance of this river seems to have been the cause for the Indus Valley / Harappa settlements to be abandoned. The same river has been mentioned in the Mahabharata. Satellite imagery & geological evidence has proven the existence of this river.

Another interesting side is that the word "Croatia" seems to have ancient roots in the word "Saraswati"
Too many commenters are thinking about the last steps (layout and pre-print) when the hard parts are everything up to that point. Go purchase a copy of Scrivener and if on Linux then maybe learn org mode really well or else run Scrivener in a VM.
My girl signed us up for the ugly fruit box, and I’ve done a couple shifts doing processing (sorting) at two food banks. Maybe this is different elsewhere but the two streams of food had very little in common.

What has shocked me is that I expected ugly food to get turned into processed food. You know, lopsided potatoes made into soup or Pringles. Weird looking apples into fruit juice.

What I get instead is oranges the size of grapefruit, grapefruit the size of oranges, and a reality check. The food I’m picturing is made on machines. Machines like to work with uniform inputs and usually can’t cut out bad bits. So maybe they’re turning all the apples that are between three and four standard deviations below normal size into applesauce, but they probably aren’t turning giant or scabby grapefruit into my breakfast beverage.

It does kind of make me wonder if there’s a market for making machines that can do that though. We have to be close to building that sort of tech at a competitive price.
A lot of software does not run with self-signed drivers in use.
> It’s a clever money making scheme, but it certainly doesn’t help small, local farmers or address the source of waste: overproduction by industrial farms as they produce the perfect produce sold in supermarkets.

No...that's literally exactly what they are addressing. They are creating demand for the imperfect produce. That was the problem in the first place, lack of demand for imperfect produce and the inseparability of imperfect produce production from perfect produce production.
If it helps clean up the npm ecosystem mess, would that really be a bad thing?
Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google
Use a word processor to write a book. Think about that other stuff after your book is written. You don't need to think about it yet. You need to write that book.
That's not exactly the us Mexico border.
The article mentions this fact:

> Poland had the szlachta, a broad citizen-warrior class that can be thought of as an upper middle class. This amounted to 10% of the population. That might sound like a very limited form of democracy, but it is the same percentage of the population as voted in the famous democracy of ancient Athens

I'd suggest reading the article if you haven't already. It doesn't argue or force a definition of 'liberal' or 'democratic' but describes the period of Polish history apparently poorly highlighted in the curriculum of US schools.
The key is to not fight it or keep forcing your body to move. The best move is to relax, go back to sleep, then attempt waking up at some other point. I have experienced headaches after forcing my body to move during that paralysis phase.
I've been reading you on here for a while and I respect your experience and deep thoughtfulness on these issues so I'm really interested in your opinion on this: what about the other half of the problem? How can we navigate the balance of providing mental health services vs. forced incarceration? I want this to be government funded, but our government has a track record on mental health that literally includes long periods in which "put them on an island" was the official policy for "treating" wide varieties of mentally ill people. What things could we do that would actually make a difference here? Is there any meaningful way to make progress without reducing the freedom of the mentally ill?
Surprisingly (to me) it seems this is approximately true [1]:

> San Francisco reportedly is set to spend nearly $280 million in its next budget fighting homelessness – an average of $37,300 for each of the city’s estimated 7,499 homeless residents

I live in a place where I don't see homeless people even on a monthly basis. Maybe a fuew time's per year when I've ventured an hour or more from home. So I'm sure there is a lot of nuance to the problem of homelessness that I don't understand. Still, considering these facts naively, I fail to see how such a large amount of spending can fail to address the issue:

1. $30k per year is more than enough to enable a person to be not-homeless. Rent them an apartment, buy them groceries and medical care, etc.

2. If they refuse to live in that apartment because they have itchy feet, schizophrenia, or just don't like the wallpaper, then perhaps we should suppose that they don't consider their homelessness to be much of a problem.

3. If any of those folks who don't take the city up on the free apartment do something illegal, like defecating in public, they can probably be incarcerated or institutionalized for $30k per year.

4. Some of the people from #2 might not be eliminated in step #3, because they don't break any laws. Being that that's the case, even if we consider them to be a nuisance, shouldn't we just get over it and ignore them?

[1]: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/19/san-francisco-continues...
Never wrapped my head around Julia. I like it, and I've used it for a couple things, but I've never had a use case compelling enough to keep at it.
M4 is of historical interest, but nowadays it seem just using a templating system would be much better in almost all cases, no? Modern systems like Jinja2 or T4 are IMO actually more powerful, easier to to use, maintain and debug, and just plain nicer. Am I missing something?
Lexical scoping is a function of space (lexical context) and dynamic scoping is a function of time. Consider:

(let ((x 'lexical))
(let ((f (lambda () x)))
(let ((x 'dynamic))
(f))))

In a lexically scoped system, X is bound to LEXICAL and then F is bound to a function returning X in the lexical context where X=LEXICAL. Then (another) X is bound to DYNAMIC and finally F is applied. The value that F returns is the value that X had in the lexical/spatial context of the definition of F.

In a dynamically scoped system, F is bound to a function that returns the value that X is currently bound to. Before the function is defined, X is bound to LEXICAL and later the same X is bound to a different value, DYNAMIC. The value returned by F is the value that X has at the time of the function application.

To try this in a dynamically scoped LISP, use may have to use

(funcall f)

instead of (f) in the last line of the example.
Looks like you should use pandoc (or asciidoc) from within your favorite text editor (e.g Visual Studio Code, Atom, ...)
Using raw LaTeX is wasted effort IMHO, only commit to it, if you really need it.
If you want to sell later as E-Book, i recommended to get the technical details right now. This might give you an edge over authors who are only able to deliver a converted pdf.
Is there something wrong with doing it that way? I'm a solo developer so don't have the benefit of learning from corporate best practices.
> This is only true under the perfect information about future utilities assumption

No, perfect information is not necessary.
The common contributing factors I know are heavy meals before sleep, prolonged lack of sleep, inconsistent sleeping patterns and stress. But its true, the paralysis always happens when sleeping on the back.
I don't think they're motivated to learn.
I have a pet theory that procrastination is mostly caused by fear of failure and having two sets of valuations. One overt, reasonable that makes us create plans and one internal, emotional, that makes us not following them because the thing we won't to achieve is worth barely anything in that system.
You should give Leanpub [0] a shot which is a platform for self-publishers. You not only get full-control over the process, but you can also use various input sources and formats (GitHub/Bitbucket, Dropbox, PDF, ...) and output formats (PDF, EPUB, MOBI).

I write all my books with Markdown and Git/GitHub [1] and release them eventually on Leanpub [2]. Even if you don't want to release the book on their platform, you can take away the output files and publish them somewhere else (e.g. own platform, Amazon).

- [0] https://leanpub.com

- [1] https://github.com/the-road-to-learn-react/the-road-to-learn...

- [2] https://leanpub.com/the-road-to-learn-react
> the microeconomics 101 “free trades have mutual benefit or they wouldn't happen” idea is generally wrong

You have provided zero evidence to support your claim that this is “generally wrong”.
I think the problem is more complex than you're bothering to give it credit.

For example, food stamps may go to a family, where they are dealt with responsibly, in a way that money, which is very easy to grab and walk out to buy cigarettes with when things go badly, is not.

Obviously, it's not a full solution, and a cynical recipient could sell them, true... but we're not talking about individuals acting in isolation for purely selfish reasons; that's a contrived subset of the problem.

What's the alternative you're proposing?

Just hand out cash?

The research shows that people suffer severe difficulty in managing fiscal matters when under financial stress. It's the old 'why do people who are poor buy so many lottery tickets?'?

Money isn't the correct solution; and maybe food stamps aren't either... but they're a better solution, and don't think that's even in doubt.

...but if you have a different one, I'm happy to hear it.
Mithril is probably my favorite widget framework. I will still use React for larger applications because of the breadth of third-party modules. That said, Mithril and Preact start to make me question React. I'm sure a React developer would say that 10k LOC and 70MB worth of repository is completely necessary for the functioning of React, but part of me thinks there are too many cooks and only one pot. React is elegant, but I don't think its abstractions are simple enough.
I wrote a perl book using pod (the perl doc format). The process was baroque: pod to latex,latex to rtf. Which then gave me an msword interchange format - important for the publisher.

I also wrote a PhD thesis. I started with various msword compatible formats (for process reasons). I curated the documents into markdown and was hoping to use markdown/citeproc to produce a thesis via either msword or latex. However that was going to be a pain in the bum, so I finished it up with latex/hyperref/bibtex.

So, tl;dr I think if your book is not citation or maths heavy and you are in control of the process I would recommend markdown to latex via pandoc. If it’s citation heavy,then I’d probably recommend cutting out the pandoc middleman and going straight to latex/bibtex. If it’s maths heavy then markdown to latex might work. If it’s someone else’s process, I recommend jury rigging something that will get them an MVP.
What is the difference between a macro language and a templating system? I do some m4 from time to time and it is actually very easy to use and really nice.
Have British Spies Been Hacking the EU?
"The best" is something that does not exist, you have to know what your requirements are. Having said that, I would suggest ASCIIDOC, reStructuredText, or the good old LibreOffice.
How Does Convertible Debt Work? (2012)
I have yet to "invest" in a terminal editor, so but I feel like it is impossible to choose.

They all have a steep learning curve and it seems like you need to climb pretty far up that curve before you can even judge if it is worth it to begin with.
The dangers of illiberal liberalism
3D graphics can certainly look extremely impressive, I still find impressive views in GTA V, and the new RDR 2 trailer is absolutely gorgeous.

But these 2D graphics are like paintings, in some cases rather impressionistic, which is something else entirely.

The have been some non-photorealistic 3D games like that, LoZ: Wind Waker springs to mind. Absolutely beautiful game, very cartoony and abstract.
> The act of trading stocks offers no utility to the world

Try to think a little about what you’re saying. Suppose you were to shut down all stock markets worldwide. What do you think would happen? Do you not realize you’ve made the world a poorer place by forbidding people from trading equity?
I was very surprised to see pretty much the entire implementation inside a file called faster.h rather than in a .cc file. Maybe that's all the rage in C++ libraries, I don't work with many of them.
Wasn't aware of the mentioned "webview" wrapper[1], considering to use it for a side project.

Reminds me of the time I created an improved version of the "8-puzzle"[1] game in Go to learn about "channels" and "goroutines". Especially, the use of "select" statement for listening on multiple channels for the main event loop.

[1] https://github.com/zserge/webview

[2] https://github.com/pravj/puzzl
> You didn't at all consider the reason why food stamps might exist in the first place. I don't know anything about them, but I'd assume it has something to do with a correlation between homelessness and life problems that make financial discipline extra hard (eg addictions).

I wouldn't assume that, since food stamps aren't particularly focussed on the homeless.

In fact, the original purpose of the food stamp program was clearing agricultural surpluses (hence why the program was created in the Department of Agriculture and not the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare where you would have expected it to be if it were a welfare program and not an ag industry support program); you originally had to purchase food stamps, and for every dollar you got $1 of unrestricted (but still only for food) stamps, and $0.50 of restrictes-to-items-deemed-to-be-in-surplus stamps.

The exact restrictions and mechanisms changed over time in subsequent iterations of the program (and it's hard to find a clear purpose for many changes because lots were compromises between competing visions with fundamentally opposed goals.)
You don’t own a home or have depreciated a business property have you? You can depreciate the value of a building over time but not the property itself.

Land value is still land value and will never be “depreciated”.

What happens is that folks like Disney in Anaheim as well as it seems, Apple owned the land for a long time. So Disney’s real estate tax bill is near nothing for Disneyland.

That’s the pain of prop 13. Should have been modified for sure!
If rolled out on a large scale this would in the end be able to identify your brain twin? Assuming this is not your mum or dad, it would be interesting to meet the person who might think the most like you in the entire world. Would we feel less lonely?
WHY THE WEST NILE VIRUS IS a BIOLOGICAL WEAPON
OPUS ICO – decentralized platform for sharing music|tokenmez
Many European countries, including the Netherlands, don't recognize scientology as a religion. Some have it as a charity, others as a commercial entity. In France we classify it as a cult and treat it as such.
That's the problem. I haven't found any of his statements, that would be only half-true. I even discovered a conference held in Lithuania in 2017, where one of the speakers was presented as the head of B2B sales at Tesonet, working on Oxylabs[1]. It is very unlikely, that ProtonMail was not aware of who it was partnering with on a free VPN service.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170909183904/https://salesclub...
GPL 3.0 for a few obvious lines seems to be really an unfitting license.

Non-licensed English language version, containing the same information:

Once per second, read /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail and if the resulting number is more than 1500 perform a read of 1000 bytes from /dev/random.
I read more about the spider - it only exists in this one location in Sweden, Kungsträdgårdens subway station. Curious it did not spread to the next stop on the same line...
Article is terrible. At the last part

>A Case of Sour Grapes?

I thought there was going to be something interesting but no, that's only a header no content afterwards to answer that rhetorical question.

Also I am kinda bothered by the repetitive use of small farmers of color. This also surprisingly seems to be mentioned nowhere else on their pages. Why not just Precarious ? local? Engaged for affordable quality or whatever? Is really color the most accurate and essential way to describe the farmers in this project?

I already have no sympathy for this organization after reading what should be an unfair case that could help to bring traction about them.
Taking Away John Brennan's Clearance Threatens National Security
I don't know man. Have used docopt, but click just feels right to me.

I never have to think about the "CLI" when using click, everything "just works"...

http://click.pocoo.org/5/why/#why-not-docopt-etc