skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the entire u.s. socio economic system us defined by usury cascades ( interest rate financing of publuc /private activities) that ultimately are paid off by long term

rises in cost of living ( via money printing) . the u.s. id also built on theft of labor ( payroll and EARNED income tax)

the tax system is designed to emcourage speculation as well as the over burdening of local labor upon the federal rather than state government munipial bonds are federally tax free.

the supreme court ruled in the 70s that states can block imported usurous loans from out of state to their local real estate markets.

the clintons eliminated glass steagal and unconstitutional deprived unsecured (educational) debt from being dischareable in bankruptcy. bushs 2005 bankruptcy act instituionalized further deterioration of bankruptcy rights.

empires are buult upon a sytem of human promises , that means human debt.

when the debt is abstracted by third partes for the purpose of making further profit via secodary mechanisms such as financialization and speculation for its own sake, the empire is eventually reduced to operating as a casino.

our empires business is legalizing white collar 'crime' and making it into a series of redistribution games run out of new york and washington dc.

its not posdible to fix' the system.

we need dictatorship, at least temporarily. democracy is broken.
Regardless of if comex's comment was fully accurate, I was mostly responding to "Most languages survived without that" which isn't productive.
Good catch. There's a little 'commentary' badge on the article, too.
If the platform gives space to lunatics, I want lunatics of all shapes, size and spectrum on there. This is a strength of NY times, not something to criticize.
So your storyboard just defines segues and types, then your view controllers call initWithNib?

That sounds very reasonable. I find IB to be excellent for creating layouts quickly, especially combined with @IBDesignable and @IBInspectable.

My problem with relying on storyboards has been when I need to reuse a layout in a separate workflows. What’s nice about your technique is that it allows separate storyboards but also layout reuse with nibs.
I saw -10x: they chose some crazy architecture for something then dug their heels in. The two people who historically got all the work done, both about 5x, decided to quit because of this. So now the work still needed to be done, in the crazy architecture, without the two best engineers, and on top of that time needed to be spent on hiring. Go forward a year and the progress the company made was probably less than it would have in a month before the fancy new architecture was introduced, and the loss of talent.

Additionally I've seen managers/HR demotivate a team of 5 so thoroughly that nobody got work done for 2 weeks. That is -5x from a single meeting.
Thanks!

Yeah, I am thinking that adding a similarly minimal compiler to this would be interesting as a next step.

There is a previous effort in the ”old-version” directory which had tagged integers and strings and an attempt at macros, but it was a bit too unfocused and I never finished it.

With this one the goal was to make it as small as possible but still be a complete implementation including GC, which made for a clearer end goal.
Ask HN: What happens if a Soyuz launch splashes down?
I was thinking about this following the recent launch failure. Launching to the same inclination as the International Space Station, the ground track of a Soyuz covers significant areas of ocean. In the event of a second stage failure, with the second stage not burning to near fuel exhaustion (engine failure other possible problems), if a Soyuz makes 1/2 to 3/4 of an orbit and then reenters, it's going into an ocean.

Obviously this has never happened before. I was wondering what, if any, contingency plans might be in place.
It would be nice if ISP's offered the option - and they certainly easily could - but you can do it yourself if you want:

https://pi-hole.net/

I just set one up on Friday. I bought the $75 Raspberry Pi Canakit (has everything you need except a USB mouse and keyboard that you need to temporarily plug into it while you set it up) and had it up and running in less than an hour for my entire house.

It makes a noticeable difference, notably on page load performance especially on my iPhone, which has always had a sorry adblocking situation.

Looking at the stats at http://pi.hole/admin (the internal URL admin page) it's blocked 5,151 requests out of 27,168 (~20%) in just two days.

Next step is to set one up in the cloud as a VPN/DNS server so I can route my outside-of-home traffic through one as well.
A scientific predication is not enough to make a decision in these kind of cases.

For example, consider the building of a wind farm...

* The site is on the migration path of a species of endangered goose. You can model the number likely to be killed.

* Climate change is a problem. You can model the effect on the atmosphere of CO2 emissions.

* The turbines will be visible from a beauty spot and could effect tourism. You can model where the turbines are visible.

* People think that turbines are really ugly. You can quantity this with a questionnaire.

Lots of scientific predication and analysis going on here. But none of that tells you what you should actually do about these issues. It doesn't tell you how many geese you are allowed to kill to reduce CO2 Any more than science can be tell you what flavor of ice cream to eat. It is a question of morality, geography, asthetics, sociology and politics. Why wouldn't you want to understand those things?
So, I implemented https://github.com/socketry/falcon - a HTTP/1, HTTP/2 web server, including client.

HTTP/2 in my opinion is simply a better protocol. It's more robust, and it has a binary framing layer which implements connection semantics separately from request/response headers. What I mean by this, is `content-length` or `transfer-encoding` are no longer used to control how the protocol actually works (i.e. how many bytes of data are consumed). I think this is a great step forward because it removes ambiguity and simplifies the overall protocol, and it's clear how extra features can be added in the future without impacting existing clients/servers - something that HTTP/1 struggled with a bit.

I also think it impacts how we build web applications. I already wrote this as a blog post: https://www.codeotaku.com/journal/2018-10/http-2-for-ruby-we...
I felt the same way about Norvigs version which was one reason to do this. I feel like the recursive lisp interpreter-on-an-interpreter thing is not as clear when so much of the host language is relied on.

Oh, and I hear you about integers as strings. This choice was in part for compactness and in part inspired by the first LISP papers where there are only symbols and no other types.
People are already moving from high tax states to ones with no income tax. They won't stick around to simply die, so where will the taxes come from when the population is dwindling and there's no incentive to stay with rising tax rates?

There's a reason places with little to no taxation are flush with funds.
> To prove that the brain runs a single learning algorithm would actually be a bigger breakthrough

I don't think it's provable in this form, you'd also have to specify what "single algorithm" is. Because algorithms themselves are delineated by human categorizing; what you call a "single" algorithm can be subdivided into several simple(r) algorithms, and at the same time can be just one part of what someone else will call "a single algorithm".
C has clearly other issues than just a lack of features.
Berkeley has a somewhat unique model in that our systems lab partners with industry to discover their pain points. Our research hence often solves some issue faced by industry, making it more relevant for practitioners. The current iteration of this lab is the RISE lab
In the comments on Twitter someone said "This inspired Debian". What's that story about?
That's how you lose a war, whether it be a conventional one or a geopolitical one.
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It is ad-hoc in C++, templates weren't designed for general compile time meta-programming. It took several recent changes to the standard to make it a little more palatable with static expressions and general template improvements.
Yeah the TCO is not complete, it allocates a call frame for each call regardless which is why it ran out of memory. It doesn’t use up the C call stack though, so you could in theory increase the GC heap size to make it survive longer. Due to the primitive environment implementation it’ll get slower and slower as it goes.

Thanks for the note on Mac OS, I’ll fix that.
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Probably Debian's logo
> What if it's not "real" green?

It is as real as any approximation to the full spectrum of light can be. But it provides less information about said distribution to you than for trichromats. I can't really understand your feelings, because I will go for near-infrared sensitive cells in my retina when/if the procedure will be feasible and if/when four-color displays and cameras will appear.

> A lot of people with glasses seem to shrug it off and accept it.

Well, I wear glasses to correct shortcomings of my eyes' optical system. I'm not sure I understand why it's shrugging off or why it is so big a problem to wear them.
Here is a larger version that isn't a photo: https://i.imgur.com/iicvkdp.png
It is interesting to see that a successful startup is defined as being the top 1% of employment growth in its first 5 years. I wonder if Theranos would've also been included in this definition. In some culture, selling your own company or having no revenue are considered failures. Yet those "failures" are common theme in the valley.

In my own startup experiences, whatever founders goals may be, startups are successful (only?) when they exit their startup phase with goals achieved.
Well, typescript is nice. But. The amount of boilerplate I write with redux is downright annoying, add typescript to the mix and the interfaces, typedefinitions, enums, various scattered exports, actioncreators and typehelpers are just mind-boggling - I don't like it.

Heck, I already have huge livetemplates in my ide to generate most of these stuff, but it feels wrong. And while we have fun writing "enterprise quality code", routing falls apart, load indicators are missing, form validators are a mess, error handling is broken, etc.
I found this talk to be useful, despite the technical difficulties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv86zdWjJKQ

(I haven't watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogdv_6dbvVQ but it seems like a longer version of the same talk)
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The Debian logo is based on the idea of magic smoke, not this.
Yup. The RFC is literally full of phrases like "status code indicates that the target resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource ought to use one of the enclosed URIs. Clients with link-editing capabilities ought to automatically re-link references to the effective request URI to one or more of the new references sent by the server, where possible." (emphasis mine).
I think this is the spirit of the advice.
Another bizarre Spotify #wontfix is how you have (or at least had, this was two years ago) no recourse against someone with access to your account. e.g. Changing your password doesn't invalidate other sessions.

My friend had her password guessed (you can buy hundreds of hacked premium Spotify accounts online for <$1/each) and was powerless against the person who had been using her account. She had to basically listen to what they were listening to, it was a bit comical.

We emailed Spotify about this as it was happening and there was no way to lock this person out. Sorry! They advised her to create a new account and they would gift it with some duration of premium access.

To make things worse, she was the one who started our family-plan, and their customer support was unable to simply migrate the plan to her new account. She registered a new account and added it to the plan. This intruder was basically able to free-ride on our plan and force her our of her own account.

When I later saw the price of hacked Spotify accounts, I thought it was a great value!
But we give zero training to new engineers in these issues

This isn't true, as anyone with an undergrad engineering degree will tell you!
Is "white paper" what the kids these days use to refer to some basic technical chit chat?

Thanks, cryptocurrencies/ICOs.
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As a developer having these three formats is a real pain. I wish we had a standard already.

The app I'm working on, Polar (https://getpolarized.io/) is a cross platform document repository. The Windows and MacOS builds are pretty straight forward.

But with Linux I now have Appimage, deb, rpm, snap, flatpak, and of course tar.gz (but maybe that doesn't count).
Ryanair wouldn't pay for the screens to show you ads ;)

They do, however, upsell you in person by making some hate-my-job contracted flight attendants go through the cabin no less than three times trying to sell various things to you.
> Farm subsidies are still important, they are what stabilizes our food supply so we don't pay 5x as much for bread when we have a bad year for wheat.

I am not a farmer, so just giving the example I know about: In Holland farmers get 9ct/kg for potatoes. Then in the supermarket this becomes $1.80! Talking normal year here (last year). No long supply lines or nothing. How is that fair or even reasonable? How can they build the reserves to survive a bad yield? So, yes, they need subsidies.
I don't buy the "one algorithm" idea. I think small changes from region to region can generate completely different dynamics - for example different types of neuron cells, different use of neurotransmitters, or different responses in time. It might look the same under a microscope but hyper-parameters differ between regions. In other words it is a parametrised family of algorithms, not just one.

What would interest me more than the one algorithm is to find out the loss functions that steer our brain into fast learning after birth. We have prior knowledge about the world encoded in the structure of the brain and our loss functions (what the brain optimises for). The brain has many such loss functions - it can't possibly do all it does with just one like neural networks, and they are genetically evolved. These priors could be readily transferred to AI models.
No, only "A Tesco store" in Cardiff

But still a thing in 2017 -

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/05/shoppers-wear-py...

It's a pointless discussion, stores have a right to dress codes, it's perhaps interesting that they think economically kicking out customers in PJ's is good PR, but nothing else to see here.

Hoodies, bathers, shoes, shirts, tattoos (Big in Japan), colors.... places of business have always done this.

Is this referencing some sort of current news?
Only works if your company sees you as a potential partner.

Which is why one of the strongest criteria I have now with a company, is whether or not they would consider doing a joint deal.

You are far more likely to be treated as a peon, or someone to rob, (or beat down with lawsuits) in todays corporate climate. Most of the executive staff, is straight up sociopathic bootlickers.

I cannot tell you how many times I correctly called, major market shifts (what would now be called "disruptive") only to have it fall on deaf ears and watch some competitor rise to new heights months to a year later (and eat their lunch).
I extensively use [pngpaste](https://github.com/jcsalterego/pngpaste)

Now I can copy any images from browsers/screenshot into any location in terminal I want
I remember the first URL shorteners I found; the primary purpose seemed to be to make life easier to each other when chatting on IMs, as long and crazy URLs (like Google's) tend to break in chat windows. But then someone added tracking clicks. Suddenly, people would send shortened URLs just to track how many people visited the resource. And then adtech took off and everything went to shit. I don't use link shorteners anymore.
It is true that Khashoggi likely was a much more complicated figure than just some sort of Western-oriented Saudi dissident and a journalist. He was a member of Muslim Brotherhood. He was likely a player with the Saudi intelligence. Here's a link to a widely quoted piece from John R. Bradley at The Spectator. And Bradley is someone who actually worked and knew Khashoggi very well. Judge for yourself: https://spectator.us/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi/
There are a lot of people who have racial or other prejudices. But the number of people that think "that I am a subhuman who does not deserve to live" is very small. Even in the deep US South in the age of slavery most people, while being racist in various measure (to be sure, most people at that epoch probably were racist to some measure) in majority did not think people of other race "do not deserve to live". Different rights and privileges - sure, many supported that, prejudices - sure, a whole lot, but denying people of other race basic right to live? Even then most would stop there. Certainly the vast majority would now, when being a racist is way out of fashion. It is a human nature to prefer people like you (in various way) to people unlike you. But it's not in human nature to deny other humans right to live. At least not in a modern human nature in the US. It needs a very strong ideological brainwashing to get there. And, fortunately, only small number of people damages their brains in this way.
I like the look of this. A couple of questions I can't see answers to on the landing page...
- Is it possible to change the schema after creation? Or is this a "get it right first time" deal?
- Is validation strictly not-null/range-check? Or can you add more complex validation rules?
I don't remember any prominent consulate killing during the cold war as a fan of John le Carré novels. Maybe they were covered by Soviets and the West?

Are there any other examples of consular services being used to trap and punish opposition, except the Saudi Khashoggi case in Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate?
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I also didn't know about that, so thanks. But - how on Earth was I to know? How are all my non-tech friends to figure it out?
What is the rationale behind going for from-full-scratch instead of packaging a copy of ASIO with the library? Beating properly-used ASIO performance is going to be a massive uphill battle, especially in multithreaded scenarios.

On that note, benchmarks against a simple ASIO http server are a must if performance is your #1 stated goal.
I wonder what would be a good approach to scale support. It seems that the creator is currently handling all inqueries by himself.
@Takuya: How many support requests do you get per day?
And they are good in being intrusive, too...
In the deaf community there is a similar argument against cochlear implants. [1] Personally I'd always welcome enhanced senses and I'm pretty excited about research into interfacing technology with the nervous system.

[1] http://time.com/76154/deaf-culture-cochlear-implants/
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Fun fact: Google is shutting down their shortener.

https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-goog...
$100m not $100
According to a link from a Snopes article, yes.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/326976

In a not so rigorous way, others claim they are. For example:

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/what-like-see-a-hundred...

Apparently the theory is that a mutation on an X chromosome causes a wonky typically non-functional cone. A male, with one X chromosome gets 2 normal cones and 1 wonky one. A female, with two X chromosome can get 3 normal cones from one X and 2 normal cones and 1 wonky one from the other X, for a total of 4 types of cone. If the wonky one happens to be working they are a tetrachromate. Thus eliminating the gene that causes wonky cones eliminates colour blindness and tetrachromacity.

I wonder to what extent the wonky cone in a colour blind male typically functions? They wouldn't necessarily see fewer colours but different colours. The red-green colour blind people I know can still see the colours as different, just not as distinctly based on their saturation, background colour and whether they are doing a direct comparison. Presumably there is also the remote possibility of a colour blind female being a tetrachromate?

Additional edit: The world is greyer than something simply functioning or not. Assuming a solid definition of "functioning", something can be partially functioning. More generally, one first has to figure out what functioning means.
Canadian perspective: The Canadian federal government blocked the sale of AllStream (former AT&T Canada) to an Egyptian telecom for national security reasons, due to the number of federal government offices and facilities that use their services. It was instead sold several years later to Zayo, an American company that does a lot of business with the US feds and major US carriers.
TL;DR: clicking on their shortener can trigger just-in-time malware scan; they can retroactively block links already sent to people; they can strip away the Referer; they can inject their own analytics.
The single most awful thing about flying with Hawaiian Airlines is that they sold out years ago to advertisers. The flight attendants read commercials to the passengers during the safety brief. And lately, there have been some credit card companies advertising this way and so the flight attendants will literally walk up and down the aisles giving every passenger a credit card application. It is foul and atrocious. Just charge $10 more per seat, you goblins.
you mention that your iPhone has a poor adblock story - Mozilla's focus seems to do a great job for me (when enabled as a content filter for safari), and was one of the primary reasons I personally moved to using iOS.. did you give that a go?
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> wouldn't we all like to have better senses

If you watch too many Marvel movies, yes.

I think it is about functionality on a social level.
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One of the reasons I passed on the 2000's was the only things founded were quite destructive to society as a whole. Only to be eclipsed by the 2010's (which are objectively, much much worse).

I come back to it now, and the culture, is complete crap, and to be blunt, delusional.
Not directly at a consulate, that I can recall, but having consular officials on diplomatic status in an adversary nation who are actually intelligence agency operatives was, and is, a pretty commonplace practice.
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if you use the correct bottle for resuse, then yes - notice I said recycling, with is different from reuse - reuse requires a much heavier grade of bottle glass than is currently used.
When in India I was buying a drink and asked the shopkeeper if he could throw away my old can, he literally threw it out the window.
What about TLS 1.3?
No HDCP but there is an update on how the poster got around HDCP: http://hacks.esar.org.uk/hdmi-splitter-hack/#more-3279
Guided instruction doesn't have to mean students don't participate.
This is true of any non-profit as well. Salvation Army, goodwill... your point is not a point. Just a comment that everyone needs to eat.
Ambient levels of UV can damage your skin (think sunburns and skin cancer). There is no reason to assume it wouldn't damage your eyes. So wear sunglasses.

Off on a tangent: I always wear sunglasses outside. I don't deal well with light, especially when it's bright. Would love to have that particular vision problem corrected, but eh, probably not in my lifetime.
Imagine if he continues to grow he will have 5k users and would be making 250k.
what do you do mr. throwaway ?