skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People are really confusing a free speech issue with a first amendment issue.

No, people disagree on the meaning, scope, nature, and purpose of “free speech”, despite agreeing that “free speech” is a good thing.

It's true that the First Amendment (especially when combined with incorporation under the 14th) directly embodies a reasonably close approximation of one of the viewpoints of what free speech is all about, while simultaneously looking like a narrow special case of one of the other viewpoints.

But the nature of the disagreement here is not confusion between a principle and a legal embodiment of that principle, but a fundamental clash of beliefs about the nature of the named principle.
"Military testing calls for survivability of three hits from the round marked on the plate."
Love the idea! but was a confusing explanation. So a station is an hardware input to the poll? Can you vote online too?

A cool idea would be to have hardware as an output too. I can imagine a political campaign wanting an LED screen with a live poll count.
I've read a few security clearance appeal documents for dual citizenship from my country. This is what I managed to figure out.

Firstly, you need to have no ties (family or economic) with the other country. This addresses the case of the foreign government trying to blackmail you for information.

Secondly, you need to be prepared to renounce your citizenship, and at the very least you need to surrender your second passport. They want to be able to track when you enter and exit the US.

Finally, you should be able to demonstrate that you have ties to the US. For instance, you should have lived in the US for more than just a few years during your childhood.

I decided that it's just not worth the effort to go through this process. Besides, I don't see what the hassle of a clearance provides when compared to a respectable job in the tech industry.
They only added multicore support in the past year, and it contains no power management code beyond sleeping in the idle loop.
Agreed that that was definitely the big initial breakthrough.

We need this next one sooner or later for mass adoption.

As Musk says, show me him a battery with the breakthrough and the manufacturing process for it. If it's good, he'd switch it out to that battery. No one has succeeded yet at that challenge.
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I usually search by EUR/Wp if space is not an issue. Else, by efficiency (like for your van)
> Voting is meaningful if you are aware of the candidates stances on such policies.

That's necessary but not sufficient. It's also necessary, in a representative democracy, for a candidate to exist that has a compatible stance on enough (for some definition thereof) policies and few enough incompatible stances.

Arguably, such a candidate must also have a reasonable chance of being elected.
Binder allows for endpoints in kernel space.
Try to back up and restore a large ( a table with a million rows ) rethinkdb database and tell me about how much you love it.

Used rethinkdb for my start up. It is a curse.
Sounds like Apple programs macbooks to phone home with serial numbers?
Yes, though I do wish there was a better way to read HN in a focused manner.

Here's a little experiment: Set aside a scheduled chunk of time each day to specifically read HN. You'll find it's a lot harder to do this in a focused manner.
You have to be flexible somewhere - either on date or price.

Another option is traveling on a low-cost carrier who generally sell outbound and return segments separately.
Interesting. Latest Android (pie) lets you "lock down" your phone using a quick shortcut which basically locks the phone, hides all notifications and will require your PIN to unlock it not your fingerprint. Wonder if that's related to the law you mentioned.
ITT a bunch of Hacker News denizens discover the idea of privilege.
I don't want to embark on the millionth discussion of FAANG compensation, but there are enough known facts about FAANG engineers making millions of dollars on their RSUs over 4-5 years, especially at the more senior levels.

FAANGs are obviously not totally equitable, and you won't make a CEO's comp as an engineer, but you will make more than most other places.

Also, I completely disagree with the notion that promotions are the cure against "stagnation". Stagnation has to do with the nature of your work, not your fancy title, height on the corporate hierarchy tree, or for that matter - your pay.
Holographic Virtual Wife
Any suggestion of carriable BT device (like tag, keyfob, whatever) which can be paired to computer in a secure way? Secure means not known to be breakable today.

I know I can pair my phone with my laptop, I presume they both support reasonably new BT specs. But what about tiny, preferrably cheap off-the-shelf devices?
This 9to5mac article is a summary of a MacRumors article which is a summary of the original article from The Age.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-teen-h...
The book addresses some of those points. Individual volunteering may be up, for example, but not forms of volunteering that are more community based. Charitable donations require no cooperation with other members of the community, so it is irrelevant.
I would hardly say it shows the effectiveness of philanthropy - this is just one college and has very limited effects on the healthcare system as a whole. In Germany for instance higher education is free everywhere, I don't see how this could work with private fundraising.

As an European I always find the dichotomy "government vs people" strange. If the state pays for something, it's solidarity, not communism.
Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17684502
Little Big Adventure 2(?) started in a jail cell, but that's mid 90's I think.
Yes, but can this sort of lengthy, complicated comment be posted every time one of these pie in the sky technology articles comes out?

Doubtful. :-)
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I've never been a hiring manager, but I would much rather work next to somebody that had broad experience in IT than one that happen to match the particular checklist of technologies that we happen to be using this month.
I use Google Apps Script and Twilio for something pretty similar.
Right, but Canada doesn't have a distinction between airside and landside transit. Although as a rule of thumb you should always check the rules for every country you are passing through.
Procrastination causes more discomfort in the long term, so without an explanation for why prioritize preventing discomfort now over discomfort later this explanation falls short. That is what GP is attempting to provide.
It is accounted for. PPP stands for Purchasing Power Parity.
What are some other alternatives? "Just quitting" EpiPens would be awesome if there were some known alternatives for those who need them to live.
I have been banned from:

Voat

Gab

16 Republican subreddits

Multiple GOP "news" sites

I can try to come up with a comprehensive list if it's really worth it?
I have found that many times when people are "talking past" each other it is because there is a belief in there somewhere that one holds one way and the other holds a different way. In this case you have illuminated it nicely, which (slightly edited) is this:

I ... assumed that there must be some way to automate and streamline almost everything, as long as the demand is there.

I have experienced many things over my life where this assumption was invalid. The most common reason I have seen that this assumption breaks down is that "demand" is expressly tied to "price." And more specifically when the price goes up, demand goes down (in the economic sense, the number of people willing to pay that price for a widget) and at some price the demand goes to zero. Thus "not possible" which is not literally true, it is only actually true.

Do a search on "Battery breakthrough" (Google Scholar will give you better results but the web search works too) and pick any one where the improvement is >= 50% improvement in any axis (cost, charging, capacity, weight, what ever). This works best for articles that are 5 or more years old (you have to allow some time for them to come up with a way to do it), and then try to find that breakthrough used in any battery today. Sometimes you will find a 'why we couldn't do it' article but mostly it will just not be there. Even though batteries that were 50% better on any axis would seem to have a market right? And then read through to find the 'hard bit' in the break through and go back to Google Scholar and see if you can find papers related to that bit. You will find "the rest of the story" as it is sometimes said where some thing prevents wider adoption than laboratory curiosity.

Here is a simpler technology, silicon anodes (announced in 2010) reviewed in 2018 [1], maybe hitting the market if they can go to production [2]. This is a simpler process and as it has matured its impact has gone down to 10 - 15%.

[1] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.07.023

[2] [BMW] plans to incorporate Sila Nano batteries into vehicles by 2023 to boost energy capacity by 10 to 15 percent. --https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/16/sila-nanotechnologies-rai...
Service Fabric and Kubernetes comparison, part 1
Possible Python rival? Programming language Julia is winning over developers
Even better "Researchers suddenly remember WiFi are microwave".
Chocolatey, manage packages on Windows with Linux terminal expirience
Same scanner issue here (will try your hack some time)

However
>There is no generic universally supported protocol that scanners could support that would future proof them.

There must be... because on Kubuntu it works Plug n Play with the bundled software...
I’ve been on both sides of the coin so to speak (contractor and Fed). I felt when I was working on site as a contractor, I was walking a delicate tight rope balancing allegiances between my contract company who paid me and the agency I actually did the work for. I only met my contract company supervisor twice for the entire year I supported that contract (1. Interview; 2. Dropping me off at my office) and technically Feds can’t fill that role so I was essentially my own boss. This sounds great but I didn’t have any support or advocate to help me progress in my career. As a Fed, I have opportunities to push my organization’s boundaries in ways I wouldn’t be able to do as a contractor because I can be frank and outspoken about issues. I am also not tied to a statement of work so I can pursue interests outside my daily tasks/assignments. The contract company I worked for was very stingy on training, but in my current position the government offers me a lot of training opportunities in my field. For me, being a Fed is a better fit at least for now.
Two DDoS Friendly Bugs Fixed in Linux Kernel
A lot of countries will waive this requirement if you have a visa from the US or another first-world country. Have transited through CDG,MXP,AMS,LHR using a US visa.
I can appreciate what you're saying, but please don't ignore the countless counter-examples.

Compare health outcomes of countries with socialized medicine to those without, for example.

How many regulations exist because private companies couldn't be trusted to do the right thing on their own?

The Civil Rights act.

Sure, you can point out that soviet russia failed economically, especially compared to the US, but there is nothing about that fact that contradicts the point that "freer" economic structures have also led to serious power imbalances between employers and employees, and that many of the rights employees have today in the US are only due to regulation imposed by governments.
Massive offtop, sorry about it. I've been noticing this a lot lately.

I have a pet theory than the reason people procrastinate, is because they don't concretely identify their future selves, as being the "same person" as their present self.

What is the purpose of the two commas in this sentence?
We can probably spend the next decade trying to theoretically engineer our way to a method for secure and tamperproof electronic voting.

But how does that ensure that “normal” people (who doesn’t have a solid grasp of blockchains and cryptography) can verify that the voting machines themselves actually are running the correct software without having to break out a chemistry set and a microscope to analyse the ICs?

Can the integrity of every machine ever be verified, and even if the system discards votes from machines not running the correct software, now people are having their votes discarded because they used a hacked machine.

With paper ballots it allows pretty much anyone to watch the ballots from being put in the box to when they are being counted and then they can confirm that the ballots haven’t been tampered with.
Technology can already more or less deal with this.

Encryption plus a hidden volume (the existence of which cannot be proven) provides the ability for someone to 'unlock' the phone but still not provide access to the real data.

It would be quite difficult to ban encryption without causing a ton of other problems.
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I use this as my default connectivity check as well!
While this is in the broader scope but after five years of graduation, the college you attended is irrelevant. The prestigious name is meaningless.
If you can prove to yourself, you can prove to others. They just ask for your key in exchange for the kickback.
> but I do believe that there are things worth preserving. Another important question to answer is, why are those things valuable to us? Is it because they titillate our neurons in just the right way? Or is there something more there?

The article discusses the fact that there are things beyond happiness that are important to humanity/humans. The author mentions self-determinism ("...a dystopian nightmare wherein humans are reduced to automatons") as well as seredipity and randomness ("...value of searching, browsing, being bored, being lost, failing, missing out, daydreaming, being surprised, going off script...")

My own opinion is that a liberal mindset of the form Wallace discusses in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water is important.

If we leave human rights in-tact and preserve the 40 hour work week (or less), there's no shortage of personal freedom, serendipity, randomness, and wonder to be found in this world. But if these things do not happen naturally, then we'll need to teach them.
Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study
Very interesting . One of my favourite security features with my bank is configurable deposit/withdrawal notifications. Is that a (planned) feature?

This has basic utility from a security audit logging perspective as well. Arguably that data can be pulled from the chain on demand anyway, but integration is always a pain.
Yeah, that is truly unfortunate. Thankfully that has never happened to me.
OP is probably referring to your racial/ethnic appearance
Google Edits Help Page After Location-Tracking Revelation
Brazil has a visa reciprocity policy.
>So what you don't see in this comparison is that in return for their higher taxes, they for example get free or cheap higher education and healthcare.

Household disposable income is net including those social benefits, so the complaint is incorrect. Here's the definition used in these datasets:

https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm
Sad to see the media no longer reporting Syrian news or seeing it as a headline, whats happening there is very tragic.
I always get amazed that people want to "push the button" to deploy. So many times BA's and AE's wanted to hit the Release button on our iOS App.
I downloaded Sage, and Sage uses it. I was getting into solving mathematical problems by setting them in the appropriate number system - like finding the perfect data structure for a problem, so the answer drops out. Then realized Cython is a zillion times faster (took a while to learn how to get it to run at full speed) and now use that for everything.
If you build your own software that needs to be secure, it is hard and risky(for your career).

Maybe the blockchain is a way to outsource that responsibility, rightfully, because of the large community and money invested in making sure it's safe ? Which manager won't like that ?

And also great, manager have heard of it - because bitcoin is famous.

In addition, blockchain offers a new funding mechanism. Which founder wouldn't like that ?

And VC's seem to like all those virtual coins.
JuliaLang/julia: The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing
So you then define your function to return the type DBError instead of a generic err type. That makes sense to me but for some reason some of the stuff I've suggests that just returning err is more go-like.
I agree those are horrible people, but I just ignore them. I'd rather be the one to make that choice for myself than let people at Twitter, Google, FB, etc... who have a monetary invested interest make the choice.
I'm left looking for a spec, like a real spec-flavored specification with all the gritty details, written like you would want if you were writing a parser. It doesn't seem like there is one, yet.
A system that doesn’t collect certain kinds of data also doesn’t need to protect (i.e. secure) it.

(Of course it’s impossible to tell that a system hasn’t been manipulated if it’s insecure and that makes the argument bollocks.)
Oh great. Another thing to look forward to after Brexit.

As a Brit I'm really hoping Jacob Rees Mogg has a few disastrous holiday visa experiences in his near future.
Carts were copyable, it was just a bit harder to do so (and a bit harder to run the resulting binary on the platform without an additional device).
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I actually wrote a whole article making a very similar point[0]. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this!

[0] https://sdegutis.com/blog/2017-08-23-passion-in-your-field-i...
Dayjs/README.md at master – iamkun/dayjs
What do you mean by privilege here?
I mean, okay, Julia is cool, but why post this? We know already.
For me, it's mostly realizing that whatever I am doing is pretty pointless. As I am in my 10th hour of writing an article on, let's say, prototypal inheritance in javascript, I realize it's totally unnecessary and no one cares, so I might as well be relaxing.
Apologies for confusing you with the other person. I don't know if reading between the lines is the same as changing the story—maybe it's "cultural" but I would never push a server about a food preference to such a strong degree that there need to be multiple conversations about it. I tend to be more deferential in cases like this. I'm sure you're right that I shouldn't assume the person was agitated. I think I'm reading too much into the fixation on demonstrating a capacity for spicy foods. There's something deeper bound up in that, but it's not my place to speculate about something I don't have first hand experience with.

You can buy it or not, but my broader point is that people who have not been servers probably shouldn't express confident opinions about what it's like to be a server. The fact that a wide variety of cultures treat white people ordering spicy food the same way, and that this happens with so much reliability and to such a strong degree, makes it very unlikely that a kind of mass anti-white hysteria is forcing many thousands of people who otherwise have little in common with each other to behave starkly against their own interests, over and over again, day in and day out.
Supposedly accurate to within a degree Fahrenheit (which I think is .6 to .7 Celsius). With the more reliable snowy tree crickets, it might just approach .1 Celsius accuracy. It could be interesting to read more about this, but there doesn't seem to be a plethora of scientific research that I can find easily.
Microservices Architecture Primer for Building Microservices with JHipster
That does not follow at all: there are deniable encryption schemes that can decrypt to one or another message depending on which key is used.

There are zero-knowledge proof systems that can convince exactly one person of a claim but not others (because the one person chose random challenges that others' can't trust not to have been revealed in advance)

Be careful what assumptions you're depending on!
That has been my strategy lately, but it keeps getting more annoying because of all those cookie banners that now can’t remember to not show up – quite absurd and probably not intended by regulators.
In my experience, people from India (and I'm guessing other third-world countries) often move to a foreign country without ever visiting first given the expense of travel and their limited savings. In a way immigrating is more accessible to them than visiting as a tourist.

But generally, yes I agree with your point.
Intro to Reactive Functional Programming
Indeed, you say friction, I'd say contrast, we need frustration to be able to enjoy the ease, discomfort to enjoy comfort, and it goes on for all emotions. Too long in one state, and we're back to the dissatisfaction state.
We’ve already implemented highly configurable alerts for monitored addresses. Examples are transaction amount thresholds, whitelisted incoming and outgoing addresses, and low balance thresholds.
It was decent, given the ROM size limitation and development crunch that Tod Frye was placed under.
Maybe you're flying third world->third world and have not been able to obtain the first world visa, though.
Build your own Twitter. Nothing is stopping you.

But if you succeed and it becomes a bastion of racism, insanity, and violent speech, I'll vote to stop you.
> how on Earth did the hype get this far?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16900754

:)
Let's be clear here, it's not that they don't want content on their platform: it's that content blatantly violates their rules.

Encouraging the harassment of families of school shooting victims is pretty heinous, and not something I'd want affiliated with my brand. I also wouldn't want my brand to become a platform for someone who perpetuates conspiracy theories that cause true believes to pick up weapons and become terrorists, simply because that's how he makes a buck.

After all, both Google and Twitter have spent close to a decade silencing religious extremists on their platforms. Where were the free speech advocates when fundamentalist Muslims were silenced on Twitter and couldn't use the platform to spread their message?
> It helped scratch an itch-- problems are solved with 100% certainty

You didn't get deep into software development if you say that. No offence ;)
One: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/..., so Colorado is wrong.

Two: Using a figure of speech is not “encouraging armed violence”.
Systemic unearned advantages. An easier difficulty mode for life, if you will.
It's kind of super interesting how people are trying to "self-condition trough code", the socio-psychological aspects of this, especially in the context of the "attention economy" are also kinda scary.

A bit like biological weapon researchers trying to immunize themselves against their own weapons.

Sorry for the crass example, it's not meant as negative as it sounds, but overall it's a pretty good comparison.
When I hear "Red book," I think of the OpenGL programming guide.
Like "toople" by analogy with quadruple, quintuple, scruple, duplex, or duplicate.
Which is ironic, given the largely imperative approach taken by TAoCP.
I'm not so sure, IIRC Polish and Romanian citizens need a visa for visiting the US even though they are both EU members and US citizens are allowed to visit both visa-free.