skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite is trying to trace the problems back to Larry/Sergey, which is why I wrote the essay. Worth mentioning that one of the hardest parts of writing it was tracing the history of things like Google Analytics.
This reads like CCP shill material and is logically absurd.

If it's not OK to attack a group of innocents (the murdered Han) in retaliation for actions committed by others (the government) which they did not participate in, then why is it OK for the government to persecute large swaths of innocent Uighurs for the crimes committed by the minority of Uighurs that attacked the Han?
> In Europe’s Schengen passport area, they have grown since more thorough checks were introduced last year owing to the migrant crisis.

For those not from Europe: You don't actually go through a passport check to travel between the Schengen countries (This is almost the whole EU minus the UK). Airlines - especially budget airlines - might sometimes check to make sure you haven't given your pass to someone else, and there will be a security check, but there is no border/passport check (also no e-gates).

Regarding the quote from the article above, that basically means that a lot (almost half) of the passengers are _not_ facing this problem because they are traveling between Schengen countries.

(off topic: great example of one of the benefits of the EU, in my opinion)
No, no, no. Terrorism is a problem, but a very small minority of Muslims are terrorists. If I lived in China, I would be at least as violent. Concentration camps are terrible. I've spoken with people who lived in them. Don't ever support them or call them a "solution" to the "problem" of an ethnicity, religion, or culture. That's what the nazis did.
If you mean private as in state, it's illegal via the Contract clause in the Constitution. Having 13 states making up monetary policy became enough of a clusterfuck during the revolutionary war that Congress had to explicitly forbid the issuing of any type of currency, so chances are good it would result in an even bigger clusterfuck if it was tried today.
>> And it turns out that a histogram plot of the distance between adjacent genetic variations, measured in DNA base pairs, looks like a double power law, with the crossover point between the two power laws happening at around 1,000 DNA base pairs [see graph, “Double Power Law”]. It’s an open question as to what evolutionary process created this distribution, but its existence could potentially enable improved compression.

My first thought was it's due to some issue/error/phenomena with the sequencing process and not inherent in the underlying data. Hopefully it's known not to be that, but it would be interesting.
NUCs are surprisingly well-built little machines. I have one in my car, and I give them my absolute seal of approval. I've heard of people running little VMware clusters on them too.
In the McMartin Preschool case the allegations were utterly fantastic. We had a bunch of Satan worshippers abusing children in a dungeon dug beneath the school that they would have had to have dug with spoons as people would have certainly noticed a backhoe and a bunch of construction workers digging the sex dungeon.

No actual crimes were committed and there were no victims. In this case the facts are entirely pedestrian and the victims real. It seems pretty clear that people were abused. The only real question is how guilty are the people running Backpage.

Since they were running a page selling people and seemed at best disinterested in not selling children I'd say very. If you sell produce you acquire along with customers money the obligation to ensure that the produce you sell is safe and doesn't cause your customers to die of food poisoning.

If you sell sex it seems people selling children for sex is a foreseeable risk that they did at best NOTHING to mitigate.

I'm not sure why some people seem apt to defend them.
I think it's actually because of tsunamis and storms more than just negligence.

An event like the Tōhoku tsunami creates massive amounts of garbage.
I made several comments without fully understanding the situation. I regret making those comments, but I don't regret my comments from being permanent now. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

I know someone who have had their life ruined by having their projects monetized out from beneath them by others; there is emotion behind those comments that shouldn't have been there. It happens to the best of us. I apologize for disappointing, and understand if I've lost your respect.
I ultimately moved on to Elite:Dangerous, which although is much more shallow gameplay-wise, has the killer feature for PvE players: Solo Play. You’re still in the full online game/universe, just minus the other human players. It’s pretty much a griefer off-switch.
The support for Chavez was immense, in particular amongst the poor Venezuelans.
I doubt it's trivial to add more capacity to ISPs. Also in places like California where there are water shortages some municipalities ARE have rates that increase dramatically as your usage goes up.
I strongly, strongly disagree that the layout doesn't matter.

I was experiencing pretty bad pain from typing on a qwerty layout. Qwerty has high percentage of combinations that require jumping rows or contorting your hand.

I switched to Colemak (which follows a similar philosophy as Workman) and my hands have significantly too less pain. I still get some from being a heavy typer, but I no longer experience the worst of the paint.

I know you can't prove anything with one word, but the word nice is a great example.

On qwerty, "n-i" forces an uncomfortable twist with the pointer and middle finger. "c-e" forces a jump of the home row.

On colemak, "n", "i", and "e" are all on the home row with the same hand. "c" is on the opposite hand in the lower row. There's no uncomfortable twisting.

You find these types of improvements across nearly all of the intentional layout designs like drovak, colemak, and workman. Regardless of "proper" posture, they do minimize a lot of difficult typing procedures.

Look at the stats on this comment alone: http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/load/1mwrX5bH
Starting today; get yours here: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/08/22/instanovels
What is it running in your car?
1. Muslims come to the US

2. Progressives embrace them

3. Muslims slowly acquire voting majority in specific regions

4. Muslims start implementing Sharia Law (aka religious law) in the US due to the number of voters and democratic voting principles of the US.

5. Progressives will complain about their slow loss of rights, but can't do anything about it.

6. The US becomes an Islam-controlled territory.

That's the problem.
My first instinct was to scream "just use a CMS", but there are obvious advantages to this technique, so here are my thoughts to make it less hacky if someone ever intends to run that in production.

- the most obvious one I don't see mentionned is that you should use a separate database than your main one for all the generated tables. Pretty sure it would save on operational headaches.

- it would probably be useful to generate all the Python code that could be used for making migrations, if only for debugging purposes

- understand early on which Fields you want to use with which options. I wonder if ForeignKeyField would be possible. That would be a great feature, but probably bring headaches.

- obviously, try to submit a PR to Django for the migrations loader hack, maintaining Monkey-patchs is troublesome

All in all, it's a pretty cool hack, but even with those modifications, I'd still be very wary to use that in production instead of battle-tested alternatives, unless you have a use-case that really warrants having full-blown SQL schema for your dynamic data.

Edit: on second thought, I can think of a use case where using that in a CMS would have saved me troubles (at least different tables for different Models). When you have a production site receiving Model A data (for example, your clients orders) AND you want to edit Model B data (for example, your site dynamic pages), you can't do that with EAV all in a single table, but with using dynamic models, you could just copy the Model B data, or even go with more complicated scripts.
Why do you have one in your car?
I like "Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures" [0] as a gentle introduction to the concepts. Same revelation as yours, but through a different vehicle.

[0] http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
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There's a difference between raw firepower and political, economic, social, etc. realities that complicate a military campaign.
Yeah. I have Global Entry and actually fly to London semi-regularly (a few times a year) which qualifies for the UK system but I don't travel enough for it to be worthwhile.
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> I trust the opinions of experts

You're welcome to do so, but these are basically the same experts that have been disastrously wrong in the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ79Pt2GNJo
Stop blaming engineers for stupid policies. Engineers usually have no say, this is almost always thought up by some manager or PM somewhere.
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Nexus for me was $50/5 years, while Precheck alone was $80/5 years, so it was a no-brainer. Prices may have changed since then, though, because I believe I signed up in 2016.

The only difficult part was setting an afternoon aside to go get scanned/interviewed (if you even want to call it an interview, as I believe I was asked only one question: Why do you want this?).
A myth about manufacturing jobs is that they all went overseas. Reality is that most of them were replaced by robots and automation.

Low skill, low knowledge, repetitive work is key target for automation.

Fast food workers wouldn't have large downstream effects. Automated truck driving would though. There are likely entire towns right off of highways that depend on humans passing through daily - restaurants, repair shops, etc. If automated trucks don't stop anymore, a town could literally be a ghost town.
Maybe the Cypriots just litter more. Cigarette butts and bottle caps seems locally generated...
I'm sure the argument goes somewhat like:

If they had a choice, airports and airlines wouldn't pay for passport control services, because they'd rather not have passport control, it adds confusion and delay to the travel process.

Since governments generally insist on having these services, they should be the ones to pay.
The whole debate on if automation is a good thing or not has always been pointless to me.

It's like trying to un-discover nuclear weapons, once it's out there you can't go back. Things are going to get more efficient, more automated, and those jobs will be lost. It's not a matter of "if", but "when".

What we need to do is to figure out ways to cope with the change. Find tasks that these workers can do that allows them to earn a living, experiment with universal income to maybe one day not need everyone to work, fund education programs so these people can learn to do something different, provide some safety nets so that these people have time to cope with the changes.

We need to adapt as society, not pretend that this technology doesn't exist.
Which cyberattacks would you say were more devastating?
Your overall system will be way more complex than a monolith with the same functionality would be.
> There wasn't room in the budget for comfort items like food on the plane, which back then was free. I can't go full grumpy old man mode cause I'm only 27, but damn does it feel like it will only get shittier and shittier to be poor in this country.

As much as I lament the cattle-car nature of modern air travel, it's worth pointing out that the food was never "free", it was just rolled into the price of the ticket. On an inflation adjusted basis, the average flight costs about 30% less now than it did in 1995[0]. Some of that is surely more efficient planes and logistics, but some of that is the airlines charging only the people who want an $8 cheese and cracker pack, rather than giving everyone a salisbury steak. It's a sad fact, but a lot of people buy their tickets based on the list price rather than a holistic assessment of value, which means that the airlines cut corners on service to get the list price as low as possible.

[0] https://www.transtats.bts.gov/AIRFARES/
Right, some other documents I found indicated that there would be a research reactor scheduled for 2020. But the documents I found about it were from before 2018. I couldn't understand why this story was published in August 2018. There doesn't appear to be anything new happening right now. The next interesting development will be when the research reactor actually starts up, hopefully in 2020.
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yes, see CRAM format: http://www.internationalgenome.org/faq/what-are-cram-files/
> It would have to be an unambiguously wrong decision on the part of the FCC.

The court—in an APA challenge—is not addressing whether the decision is right or wrong, but whether the process by which it was arrived at was complied with the legally-mandated process. Whether the decision is wrong (ambiguously or not) is beside the point, though that might be relevant to a challenge on other bases.
Interesting. It does seem like there's a smattering of other national programs that work in part with Global Entry (many at an additional cost).

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
There's not one system/ideaology that's lasted throughout history. Capitalism is deemed to fail at some point, and it like it may well fairly soon.

Also, you can take Cuba out of your list as it's doing very well in fact.
> The Indian state doesn't discriminate against people based on their religion or color.

In theory that is correct. But states have the luxury of being economical with the effort they put in. The spurt in beef related lynching is a phenomenon of the current government and has been going on in a while.

> Investigations are on in these cases and people are being punished as per the law.

I assume that statement of yours is based on some knowledge. How many convictions so far ?

I can give examples where the accused got immediate bail layed out on a red carpet.
You're right - people should be tought how to cook better etc.

> I believe this is a problem limited to North America.

This problem is limited to the large scale meat industry (factory farms and such) - which are all over the world.

Where do you think your cheap Tesco chicken comes from or the meat from KFC, burger king etc comes from?

If you're buying direct from a butcher who gets their meat from grass fed free roaming animal farms, well then respect for not supporting the large scale meat industry. Unfortunately most people can't afford to buy meat from these places, as it's expensive.

You should check out these videos to understand where the meat comes from and how it's being produced

Meet your Meat (narrated by Alex Baldwin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RX88IGJ35g

Earthlings
https://vimeo.com/209647801

> Pea protein isolate - [...] but when was the last time you added 'pea protein isolate' to a salad?

I appreciate the word 'isolate' makes it sound unnatural, but really pea protein is consumed by fitness people etc. It's doesn't have a taste and can be added to salads if you want to, but usually you put it in your post workout shake. Check out the following how it's being made - pretty harmless. I'd rather have this than flesh from an animal.

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Pea-Protein-Powder

> [...] reasonable minimum standard of ethics

What do you think this would be? When it's not about your survival, how do you kill a sentient being that doesn't want to be killed and actively tries to avoid pain and suffering if it can?
> Who are those people that don't want to deal with a reciprocal license?

My theory is: the HN crowd that hates reciprocal licenses are developers who dislike that they can't easily use that code for work - that is, their employers makes it hard for them to do so vs. BSD-type code. They care more about developer freedom (to integrate various pieces they feel entitled to), more than user freedom (to modify the resulting software).
Here is the Free Redistribution section: "The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources."

Yiftech commented that the reason for making the switch was that "AGPL does not prevent cloud providers (such as AWS) from building managed services from these modules". The entire reason for making the switch to licensing the modules under the new license is that the Free Redistribution aspect of AGPL and other open source licenses allows cloud providers to use the software in a way that Redis labs doesn't like.
> For those not from Europe: You don't actually go through a passport check to travel between the Schengen countries

Not exactly true. France has reinstated border control since 2015 due to the "emergency". Germany is talking about reinstating border control in places like Bavaria, though it's unclear whether they will have a hard border control, or whether they will simply profile people at the border.
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When it comes to Chick-fil-A, there's also the regressive side in addition to the modern and traditional sides.

https://hornet.com/stories/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbtq-donations-...
Please, somebody fork redis.
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Microsoft used to be better then the worst (about 10 years ago)... Now they are just as bad because they learnt from the "best".
Until it wasn't, thus making it necessary to resort to fake elections.
My head spins about how schizophrenic the vast majority of the population is when it comes to meat consumption and love of animals.

People shed tears over pets, yet pay others to abuse animals (factory farming) just to enjoy a meal that's equivalently tasty to easily available options. People will condemn the Japanese for eating whales or dolphins, the Chinese for eating dogs, meanwhile they themselves cause the suffering of significantly more animals.

I hope in very near future, the mocumentary Carnage begins to resemble reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_(2017_film)
> where developers cannot use AGPL in large enterprises

developers who cannot use AGPL in large enterprises are probably forbidden to use non-open-source software distributed under a shared-source license that allows no commercial use.

A non-charitable reading would be "we want mindshare and adoption from developers in large enterprises who will then buy or software rather than admit that they were unable to understand our terms and assumed our software was liberal open source".

To make things more concrete - while GPL allows unrestricted internal use, the horror scenario would be the contractor who is brought in to work on software including GPLd code and who may have right to receiving the source of everything (as a "derived work"). How is CommonsClause-licensed shared source dealing with large enterprises employing contractors for working with their software? Is the contractor in breach of CommonsClause but the large enterprise isn't?
It's happened before. Think of all the Fanta those settlers in the Reichskommissariat Moskau are going to drink!
You could possibly see this in a super crowded environment. A nightclub, rock concert, or even a sporting event in the stands. A replacement for the cocktail waiter or beer vendor at a ball game.
tldr; adding bureaucracy makes people give up on everything.........even eating
Social Democracy != Socialism. Socialism moves to take full ownership of the means of production, and Social Democracy only places regulations on business that are often demolished years down the line and workers get screwed at the benefit of the few.

Every system has failed throughout history, so there's no reason a Capitalistic system cannot fail as well, and we see the global collapse of Capitalism happening right now in front of us.
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Many people think marriage ceremonies are magical, I think.
But changing the head is not sufficient to change the system.
... on one synthetic benchmark.
For a startup - all this may feel OK like you're cheating the system and beating others to the punch - but damn, if you actually make it - good luck scaling that up.

Why is that a problem? I am speaking in C# terms...

Phase 1 Monolith: all of your code is one solution, with separate domain specific projects (assemblies) with separate namespaces with a logical use of access modifiers exposed as an interface. All of the other code uses interfaces as dependencies defined with a DI framework.

Phase 2: We need scale now. Bring up a lot more VMs at the click of a button behind a load balancer and you get scale quickly.

Phase 3: Take your project that you need to scale independently out of the monolithic solution, expose it as API, put that one API behind a load balancer. Then have a proxy class in your client and use your DI to map your interface to your proxy. If you integrate something like Swagger into your API, it can create the proxy class for you.

If you can deal with eventual consistency, use a queueing mechanism.

Rinse and repeat and keep taking projects out of the monolith as needed.

There will be some shared code you don’t want to run out of process. For that, create Nugget packages and you won’t have to change your client code at all.
> For what it's worth, Django models and doing good relational design solve a huge number of problems.

I agree, but the main demand for something like this is going to be a client who wants to create their own forms on demand without touching Model code.

It is very much a hack-- the technical debt of it just gets kicked down the road for someone else to correct, the first of which is the unfortunate analyst who used to churn out weekly reports with a handful of SQL statements but now has to run an entire ETL pipeline/data science marathon to correct all the inconsistencies.
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> What we need to do is to figure out ways to cope with the change. Find tasks that these workers can do that allows them to earn a living, experiment with universal income to maybe one day not need everyone to work, fund education programs so these people can learn to do something different, provide some safety nets so that these people have time to cope with the changes

yes to this.
> [0] International flights connecting in Heathrow have to go through security again, even though they've already gone through security at their original point of departure.

That's not terribly uncommon, or particularly unreasonable -- security standards and implementation vary significantly in different countries, and in as much as security screening is useful, you'd want to redo the screening with the local standards, unless you have separate facilities for international flights arriving from countries you know do a good job and other countries, but the customs/passport control section is probably shared among all international arrivals.
I also think that the whole profitable business model could be built that is entirely based on presenting clear and transparent view on amazon sellers and products.

Amazon is clearly capable yet unwilling to eliminate fraudulent sellers and fake reviews from it's platform and third party solution is long overdue.
Where are the responses from Muslim countries?
>There are still many holes

As somebody who licenses software as AGPL, could you please list those?