skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would conclude that you don't know how to argue, and that's why you prefer to take away your opponents' right to express themselves

And I would conclude that you believe actions have no consequences when it comes to whatever you like to do. That being free to say or do something means being free to get away with anything that comes out of that. The political position is relevant, this is a combination of character traits and education. Or lack of. You all google "free speech" and only bother to read the first line. Just like the other hicks who think democracy is the right to do whatever the heck they want. You're free to call for violence against others just as you're free to be punished for the consequences of that call.

Well guess what, freedom of speech also considers the harm principle. This is further down the page, too much for most of those people to absorb. [1] "Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else".

Speech is like a weapon. They're not prohibited, and you're free to use them any way you see fit but you have to bear the consequences of misuse.

But the further you go towards the extremes (left or right) you find that people are having a harder and harder time understanding this concept of consequences. It's in perfect correlation with the drop in education and usefulness to society. Low education, low income, spineless, always blaming someone else, and running from the consequences of their own actions.

You're here to "negotiate" something that is already law and principles already accepted by many for centuries. To give a nice shine to something every person with the least bit of decency and education knows is wrong. You even have a hard time understanding the difference between not having your actions censored and not suffering the consequences for those actions. You have no arguments, you have a keyboard and an internet connection, and you don't even take full and productive use of those.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_principle
There are indeed excellent facilities for elder care. But there are many horrific ones, and the difference between them can be hard for outsiders to determine (whether for families, or for yourself).

Case in point: My parents had one hell of a time finding good care for my grandfolk (incl. siblings of grandparents). In their state, there is an entire industry of corrupt nursing homes, which also have all sorts of "awards" for the excellence of their care. Just the tip of the iceberg: staff physicians who never, ever appear on site, yet who collects a paycheck by prescribing tranquilizing drugs for any resident at the facility's request, all sight unseen. The facility routinely dubs its residents as "troublesome" or "aggressive" to dope them up and 1) mean they have to provide no active care, because turnips in wheelchairs/beds don't do anything and 2) ensure a relatively quick decline in all residents, because total immobility is a great slow-acting poison, especially on the vulnerable elderly. Thus quick turnover and higher profits are ensured, all while labor costs are kept low. Eventually good facilities were found, the best of which was a wonderful VA program in a home with a live-in nurse, specializing in care for those with dementia. But not before the horror shows had taken their toll.
Most phone verifications that I've seen do work with a landline. They call you and a text-to-speech bot reads you a code.
why do you give this comment a negative score? Are you a newspaper site employee? :)
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thanks for your post. That would be funny if the cure is to drink the "Methylene Blue Kool Aid"
There really isn't any reason. This is similar to how Turbotax exists even though the IRS could file your taxes for you. I believe this product is even in development at the IRS based on an interview with the US Digital Service IRS team several years ago (although they were primarily targeting mortgage origination firms as customers of this data, think Quicken's Rocket Mortgage product).

TrueWork could move faster than the IRS can internally, but eventually the IRS' product would be canonical with organizations (while at the same time, salary data privacy laws continue to be enacted state by state prohibiting the release of salary data to perspective employers).
I like his proposals for space development. Build up in orbit. Space stations, factories, power stations. Build bases and mines on the moon. Then go outwards.
Oh come on. This task isn't hard of itself, the author just seems to lack experience with the web platform.
A responsive modal that goes full-screen on mobile isn't really complex. Just set vertical overflow on the main content element to hidden and auto on the modal container, so the user can only scroll that when its open.
Then, focus the first input in the modal if any, or listen to keyup if you really messed with the tabindex.
I've implemented this in a few projects, two of them with Vue.
That sort of stuff isn't magic, just frontend work.
I am a big fan of WSL. It is fast, and you can run many different Linux distros side-by-side. There were some quirks in the past, but it almost always just works. I see it as a serious alternative to using a Mac or Linux machine.

In all fairness to the points above:

- The Linux shell starts immediately without NVM. As mentioned, this isn't only a Windows issue. (Alternatively, you can only load NVM when needed.)

- The home directory can be permanently changed with just a few Linux commands. (I agree that the default should have been your Windows home directory.)

- Many excellent third-party Windows terminals exist. (Window's default terminal is not user-friendly.)
Your argument is pivoting on the definition of ownership of data, that the fourth amendment doesn't apply to metadata because it's not 'your' data.

Even if we accept that premise, the fourth amendment still protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures". This means that the government needs to go through a meaningful review process to take possession of other people's property. This is unquestionable not the case with PRISM / FISA court approvals. Blank checks for the government to access whatever data it wants is unreasonable searches and seizures

The fact of the matter is that metadata is somebody's property and by forcing all third-parties to be unable to defend their data about their customers, the government denies enterprises the ability to compete in the marketplace on as many privacy features.
I don't understand why anyone would characterize C and go. C and Java makes much more sense. It's basically Java with a clean an minimal API. That does not make it C.
I agree, I thought the piece was very odd.

"If you're considering buy vs. build, the answer is simple: buy."

If you're not going to write or implement anything more advanced than "glue these two off-the-shelf systems we bought a year ago together", why are you so concerned about access to software developers?
I can only conclude the government should regulate the use of political logos to protect us.
One point I see, if your kid would go for an apprenticeship with the attention of going to a uni of applied sciences later, but then you decide to move to another country. But that's kind of something I can imagine, since your kid could also simply stay there and live as an adult.
Asimov was a well-regarded, in-demand public speaker. It's been a long time since I read his autobiography but I think talks and lectures were one of his major sources of income after writing. It's not surprising that he seems good at being interesting in-person, on-camera.
Yes and there are nothing wrong with that distribution. Death rate are lowered life expectancy are higher. Their working population, even though a decrease of 20% is still huge.
Rental Glut Sends Chill Through the Hottest U.S. Housing Markets
RabbitMQ at Tajawal
Sample size is pretty big:

> they recruited 2,400 people to join four custom-made social networks
Great answer, thanks for taking the time
Cool! I want to build this but I don’t have any spare parts. What do I need to buy?
Any chance you can share a link to a pen?
not exactly the same thing, but here you have a "Deep Neural Networks motivated by Partial Differential Equations", that may pique your interest

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04272
I don't like this example and solution, because while it doesn't leaks (the channel goes out of scope, and the goroutine ends) it still is 1. error prone you now have to have a buffered channel, 2. sort of wasteful, setting the buffer to 1 instead of 2, also wouldn't leak and 3. not clear.

If you don't care about the results of the goroutine (here you explicitly don't care about the return value of at least one of the routines), a WaitGroup is much better.

import "sync"
func doSomethingTwice() error {
// Issue occurs below
var wg sync.WaitGroup()
wg.Add(1)
go func() {
defer fmt.Println("done wth a")
wg.Done()
}()
wg.Add(1)
go func() {
defer fmt.Println("done with b")
wg.Done()
}()
wg.Wait()
return nil
}

The more advanced concept than this, which isn't in the stdlib is errgroup (https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/sync/errgroup#Group.Wait), where instead the accompayning `Wait()` function can also return an error.

In general I consider a code smell if you aren't reading every value off the channel.
> This is a description of the proper role of the church in civil society and a public library is a poor substitute.

It may well be a description of a role that a church should play for those who believe in its religion. But who plays that role for everyone else?
Only Windows was copied.
> This implies no suggestions algorithms and news feeds either.

Yep, it does.
Loneliness, when used for turning the search light inwards, can turn out to be a very rewarding experience. Most of the enlightened souls have spent a decade or more in solitude and looking inward. If the time of aloneness is used well, it can help find many answers. Eventually people do end up spending time with others, but those interactions turn out better when the time of being alone has been gainfully spent.
That might be "engineering work" but it isn't the type of work that legally requires a P.Eng (or P.Eng supervision). I can have my assistant to draft a memo, even interview a client, that doesn't make him a lawyer. And he certainly isn't allowed to hold himself out as such to the public.
If this is using React (it's not actually clear from the .md file, the only hint is the parent repo name), then this is very easily solved: replace the page with the modal.

The solutions seem to be trying to solve this for a normal HTML page without changing page, which is a harder problem.
When they write "bring along" they do not mean "Go 2 will be backwards compatible with Go 1". Pre-1.0, Go extensively used "go fix" to automatically upgrade older Go code to newer versions. (If they had never introduced incompatible changes as you seem to be claiming, this would not have been necessary.) They will most likely do the same thing for upgrading code from Go 1 to 2. Although that alone is likely to be insufficient as the failure of py2to3 demonstrates; they will probably need to also support using Go 2 packages from Go 1 or vice versa.

Julia has taken a similar albeit less automatic approach with deprecation warnings. When a breaking changes have been made, in one major release it continued to work but issued a warning telling you how to change your code. Only in the following major version did the code actually break. This allowed people to upgrade, run their tests (you have tests, right?), fix the warnings and be good to go.

More recently FemtoCleaner [1] has been introduced, which automatically makes PRs to projects and upgrades them just like "go fix" does. When we release Julia 2, we'll use a similar approach, so if your happy with how Go is doing things, you should be happy with how Julia does them.

It's fairly straightforward to avoid the Python 2/3 debacle, they key is to always allow packages to support two "adjacent" major versions at the same time, so as to not cause "upgrade deadlock" [2].

[1] https://github.com/JuliaComputing/FemtoCleaner.jl

[2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-0-adoption-path/7922/39
People often don't know what's good and what's bad for them - ex. people have also enthusiastically adopted cigarettes.
It's fine that you are, but some of us are not. I'm fine seeing plain ads, just not traking ads. If the website owner doen't want to show plain ads then that's their choice.

(note, I don't use an ad blocker, just a tracking blocker)
Unless I am very badly misunderstanding TED, it provides none of the things that churches provide for their members. Some of these things are described succinctly but clearly in the post you are responding too. Could you expand on this?
Cool idea. For it to work well, it needs a very large proportion of the group to be sharing their free time. I can imagine four situations in which this would be the case:

1. Every member of the group sees it as extremely important that a time to meet is found, OR

2. It's super-easy to enter your free time manually, and you're prompted automatically and frequently to update your free time info, OR

3. Each person's free time is updated automatically from their primary calendar, OR

4. People only need to enter their free time for a very short period (under 2 weeks) and that period is coming up soon (within the next 4 weeks) so their is little uncertainty.

I'm curious to know how you think about the use cases and usability challenges.
Good website are harder, but it's people (with a lack of empathy for the actual users / visitors) that make it even harder; sometimes even impossible (i.e., project fails).
Textually, the two parts are linked—the 4A protects against unreasonable searches and seizures of your property. The data is of course the phone company’s or the web host’s property, and those entities can raise the 4A to oppose a search. However, my understanding is that the metadata collection was done with the cooperation of the data owners.
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I wish this full-screen modal feature would disappear. I've lost track on the number of times I pressed back to close a modal on mobile because I thought it was a new page.

Please make it clear that a dialog is a dialog.
it's easy enough to measure web page load speed. It's a lot harder to measure usability.

AMP isn't just about making pages fast, it's about making pages readable.
Copyrighted material is so old skool. CC licensed should be the new normal. But too many people and companies have not yet thought of the blockades that copyrights have on innovations and freedom. EU is so wrong with protective laws for industries that should have reinvented their businesses model long time ago.
Kotomi Asakura
The body produces testosterone. It's not allocated from some fixed global reserve.
Also the highest rate of sexual offending in the metropolitan police district.
The problem with the "AMP being the only reasonable alternative" argument is that web sites are bloated exactly because of the ads and trackers. Google wants to be seen as a white knight for something they themselves create in the first place.

AMP is a dead end, and you could as well give up altogether. For any self-respecting publisher, demonstrating such (economical, technical, and political) incompetence ruins any confidence in a minimum level of digital media competence, so what hope is there for a reader to find journalistic content worth reading?
Yes. But if I'm not mistaken the unit of measure was internet access. Yes, 1 in X might not be a single family house, but if there were enough units under a single 1 then in theory that could be more total ppl / accnts than single fam home.

Or have I somewhat forgotten what the OP + resulting thread was trying to unpack? Sorry?
Yeah, the one I grew up with (and worked at in 2005), I revisited around 2010 and it kinda hurt to see just how much they'd gotten rid of. Not only had a large number of shelves been removed for a new bank of computers, the remaining ones were relatively bare like you describe. Probably only had around half the number of books it used to, and this was after they'd built an annex and tripled in size in the late 90s.

Wasn't long after that I moved away and haven't had an urge to go back to any library.
> Interestingly, vector graphics like in Atari Asteroids did not hit the market until 1979.

Not true. The vector graphics game Space Wars was released by Cinematronics in 1977.

https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9691
The Sony rx100 (MK4) is small, easy to always carry wth me. I'm not impressed by the quality - all washed out, often dark. I can usually fix it with Lightroom, but it's too much work. I like my 10+yo photos made with a Canon g4 or some such better. Pixel 2 photos also look better, but I miss zoom. I'm tempted by the new mirrorless from Canon and Nikon (skipping Sony due to my experience with the rx100), but I'm sure I'll regret buying one.
What use case would this ever have?
The piano outro played in the last few seconds was the Close Encounters of the Third Kind note sequence[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4PYI6TzqYk
He wasn‘t able live off of 221 books, or did I miss something?
Any time I see APL code, I feel slightly stupid.
It's still a semantic argument if you repeat it.
Not really. On desktop there are different ways of controlling the zoom level, it re-flows if you adjust the font size or if you change the desktop resolution. Sure you can root around in the menus on your mobile phone to make the font size bigger but nobody does that. We just zoom without the re-flow.

Actually css-tricks did investigate how many people adjust font size on mobile and it wasn't quite 'nobody' but it was rounding error. When it comes to desktop an anecdotal walk around the office will give you the answer - lots of people change their desktop resolution to make it legible.

With a full screen mobile modal you just want to get an interaction from the user of the yes/no variety, if keyboard needed then that will be for a simple code or name that is possibly auto-filled. There is no more to it than that - it is a modal.

On the desktop the 'correct' tool for this job is actually the 'alert box' but these got abused and 'designers' complained that they could not 'style' the things. Hence we now have frontend developers load loads of useless libraries and spend however long styling these things so that people can subscribe to newsletters they will never read.

Hence, for the use case of 'modal dialog boxes' the rules of regular content do not apply. You aren't going to get extra doodads that distract the user away from the task in hand. It is just not needed.

What next, vending machines where, prior to buying your snack item you can choose fonts and colours of the 'insert coin' display?
I like the robustness of this type of solutions, so here's a bunch of questions:

Do you also use a folder hierarchy for separate topics, and-or a file naming scheme?

And have you scripted the pdf generation to an extent, or is everything done by hand? (I suppose manual saving and pdf naming might work as a fairly nice "bullshit filter", at least for some period.)

How much time does it usually take for you to store a link that way?
Atiku takes on Buhari on Nigeria's restructuring ahead of 2019 polls
If what the article says is true, it's great that executives are starting to understand the opportunity cost of technical debt.

Too many companies see software development as a menial "cost center" while hypocritically relying on it on a fundamental level for operations.

While I see where they're coming from - the ROI from software developers can be rather opaque for many industries - these companies are often hellbent on hiring as cheaply as possible (in-house junior developers with no experience) and cutting as many corners as they can get away with, all the while accruing massive amounts of technical debt.
Infectious etiology is not the same as being contagious. We know HPV causes increased cancer risk, but we don't treat folks with those cancers as contagious. They're not. But their malignancies do have an infectious cause - infection earlier in life. That's the relationship being proposed here with Alzheimer's. Understanding the nature of a disease is a prerequisite for developing better treatments. We should not the imaginary social fears of the uninformed get in the way of that exploration.
I wasn't that sudden, other than that yes
Go into your FF profile, open SiteSecurityServiceState.txt - it will show every HSTS entry separated into firstparty domains.

Similar, in the storage folder in your FF profile you can see that every firstparty website has it's own folder and third party cookies are places inside that folder and can not share data with other folders.
"When a tack was well balanced and given a fast spin, it would often just stand there, as if balanced right on the tip, motionless."

I've never tried this, and I'm going to buy some thumb tacks soon just so I can!

"A finger snap type motion"

You've just reminded me that when I was a kid and playing games that involved spinning coins, all the other kids would spin a coin by keeping it vertical between the table and one finger, and then flicking it with another. But my habit was to hold the coin between two fingers (either with the bottom of the coin on the table, or with my palm facing up, a foot above the table), and do a finger snap motion before releasing the coin.
Brachistochrone Curve (Does this have relevance to perpetual motion machines?)
My favorite part is Isaac's answer to David's observation that the technology is getting more and more complex to use:

https://youtu.be/365kJOsFd3w?t=5m58s
I think the major thing Asimov misses in some of his writing is are the 2nd and 3rd order effects of technology. Not always - Solaria from The Naked Sun comes to mind as a society heavily distorted by their tech - but often. And this led him to not anticipate tech such as the Internet.

For example, early on he mentioned having predicted pocket-sized computers in the early 1950s - which is true (I don't remember whether it was an Empire, Foundation or Robots story). But the other stuff, and society around the pocket-sized computers remained unchanged. Pocket-sized computing didn't apparently make an impression on people other than scientists and engineers. The freer availability of information didn't change society's behavior in any way.

It's something that you often see in sci-fi - the authors don't foresee all the follow-on effects or possibilities of the things they introduce. I loved Star Wars as a kid, but now I can't help but wonder why they didn't have a Galactic Internet to transmit the stolen Death Star plans in Episode 4.