skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if I use a unique strong password, if the chat service stores it in plain text, a hacker can get the pass from the database and login with my identity and cause who know how many problems, having a strong password and unique did not helps me if the service stores it in plain text or some bad hash.
What is the purpose of making a flight reservation without payment?
> Sometimes, the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function. - John Carmack

This mirrors a discussion I've had with my boss a number of times. Most of our products are written in C++, and we complain about how often developers (usually coming from Java) think that everything needs to be inside a class hierarchy. The procedural parts are still there for a reason: the CPU is procedural. A procedure or function is a closer mapping to what the CPU is actually going to do when the code runs.

On the other hand, I've never done serious work with a pure functional language like OCaml. I would welcome the chance, though I wonder if one finds the same kind of dogmatism as in the OOP world...("it must be a pure function!")
Yes you're right. I thought Javascript had become the most popular language out there, but TIOBE claims otherwise.
I'm pretty sure there are. I hadn't considered that option. Have you tried it?
If reputation were worth more than money, why is fraud still so prevalent after millennia of money-based transactions?
Anybody who didn't get to ride the knowledge scalability wave that came from Gutenberg's printing press is now way behind.

That's basically every body apart from the west.
What is the space to the immediate right of the right RAM slot for? (https://static.rptorcs.com/BK1B01/images/boardlarge.png) The white connector almost looks like an M.2 connector.
The range of prices is £95.83 to £129.16, not including shipping or the door kit. Higher than DIY, but seems reasonable to me.
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Any time a decision is made, it's up to the whims of somebody. What you're saying wouldn't make sense even if we had technical means to deterministically decide everything.
You don't need bitcoin to operate an escrow service.
For a very specific definition of "worse".
Google offers a similar service, but doesn't look to implement any official spec [0].

I recently had a need to resolve DNS with http only and this came in handy.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over...
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I do make people laugh sometimes, though I tend to be more literal and stick to meaning than absurdness in conversation.
I grew up on an orchard that used Roundup for weed control. The chemical was applied directly to the ground beneath the trees, and to the trunks. The concentration was calculated to kill weeds, but not the trees, which were much more robust. Roundup certainly could have been absorbed into the trees and fruit however. Young trees had aluminum shields put around their trunks to protect them.
Didn't China gravitate towards mobile payment due to counterfeit money?

And also the centralized mobile payment system makes Chinese government to track every purchases that are made in the country.
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> Humans have been learning language as children the same way

But you can't disregard the fact that an adult's brain is different from a child's brain. An adult's brain has a lot of prior knowledge that a child doesn't possess. Concepts such as freedom, money, market are easily grasped by an adult whereas a child has to focus on the meaning rather than the words (the representations).

I think adults can take advantage of their prior knowledge to speed up language acquisition.
So the answer is: "still not sure"?
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> Americans distrust their government but trust corporations and the free market

I don't think that's true; that's a common European misinterpretation. I think, in general, Americans trust their government less than they trust corporations, but they are generally distrustful of any entity that wields or appears to wield significant power over them. Exceptions are made for entities that "agree" with a particular person (and these exceptions are not entirely rational).
> I would welcome the chance, though I wonder if one finds the same kind of dogmatism as in the OOP world...("it must be a pure function!")

Nah, OCaml is a very practical functional language, that's why it features mutable state. You just have to opt-in, so it just encourages [im]mutability as a default, as it should.

Edit: fixed typo!
I'd argue that competition is mandatory in market economy. Having an easy way to get a basic level of customer trust lowers the entry barrier. Which is good to prevent monopolies and ensure market is functioning properly.

One of the most important values one can provide is trust. A known bad option is many times better than the unknown nothing. An upstart would have to provide much much more value to make up for that.
But presumably you realise that you can "tunnel through" regulatory barriers precisely because hardly anyone is using it? If Bitcoin started to get big in retail, the regulators would be all over it for all the same reasons.

Also, if the intermediated FX was less expensive than the direct cross, I would expect that the e-wallet provider would just centralise the Bitcoin transaction. Why get the punters involved?

Realistically, Bitcoin would only have value as a currency if there's a substantial economy denominated in Bitcoin. Like there has been on the dark web.
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Many airlines require you to have an onward flight out of a country before they will let you fly into it. This allows you to fulfill the technical requirement without having to pay for a plane ticket you aren't planning to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circu...
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from the page:

> Expected to ship late Q1 2019
I agree, compared to x86, it is not that bad. I think the problem is, most people would have to buy this instead of their primary PC instead of a secondary machine to play with. That's a really big commitment for a lot of people.

I genuinely hope this takes off, I would love to replace my primary desktop with a power system. And any way you slice it, this is just _AWESOME_.
They had:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18533056
They are far less likely to be, so even though it's not discriminatory on its face, disparate impact analysis applies. Note, however, that disparate impact analysis for age discrimination is on a weaker standard (“reasonable factors other than age” rather than “business necessity”) than most other workplace disparate impact discrimination analyses.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/adea_rfoa_qa_final_rul...
Wikipedia seems to handle this just fine, as does most markdowns. Manual word wrapping seems like more of an issue for code than plaintext. I don't manually wrap readme's anymore, that's what window-width-aware editors are for.
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China supports Pakistan, a local rival to India. But then USA supports a lot of countries that are scared of China's rise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...

USA can help India catch up at least when it comes to military and fill in any gaps with allies /US firepower should a war happen meanwhile. China cannot stop India, but India can stop India. If a war starts (not likely,) China will be virtually alone, maybe just NK joins them. At least Taiwan, Japan, South Korea have super-modern weapons and the rest of the countries can tie China's hands.
Do you mean "encourages immutability as a default"?
looks at map Blimey.

I'd heard people say Madrid is on the same latitude as NY, but I didn't realise the UK was that further North before.
This strikes me as similar to a lot of investor pitch decks. It's not a bad approach, but the 'visionary' parts might be difficult for some sales people.
I am a Turkish citizen, and we need a visa to visit EU member countries. You are not 100% sure if you will get the visa, so may want to make a flight and hotel reservation first, and then buy them if you get the visa. So reserving the tickets is preferred.
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Exactly, i wondered why it's showing some sort of a short month.

Also, possible bug report: i've closed the tab (ctrl-w), then reopened it (shift-ctrl-t). It just opened a completely blank page. Firefox 63, nothing in JS console, unfortunately.

I wanted to try it in Chrome, but now it just loads Heroku's "Application error" page in every browser. I hope i didn't break it for everyone with that reopened tab. I've developed some Meteor apps years ago and i recall they were a bit… fragile. :)
You forgot about Amazon. They are by far the dominant player in the Android tablet space.
Thanks for the reading suggestions. I had Asimov's sci-fi stuff in my reading list, and learning he's got comedy writing will definitely make me get acquainted with his work now even more quickly.
> On the other hand, they could have bankrupted them if they wanted to. Do we really want the government to have that much say in whether businesses live or die?

"The government" have the ability to remove the freedom of people who have erred. In some backwards countries the government even has the ability to execute people.
> IANAL, but it is only illegal to discriminate against protected classes.

Age over 40 is a protected class, and anti-discrimination law protects not only against facially or intentionally discriminatory acts, but also against those with a disparate impact not sufficiently justified by business concerns (though the standard for that is weaker for age discrimination than other workplace discrimination.)
They consent on the astral plane!
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If they only lasted a year, I would have said they were a rip off. However, we've had ours 4-5 years now, I think? Only thing we've had to do is change the battery and I think twice untangle the cord that raises the door - probably because a chicken banged the door and caused a loop in the string.
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One doesn't really create anything, programming is nothing but snake oil sales: in the end the only creation is magnetized media. So: "fog selling", or: "selling testicles as if they were kidneys". It took me a long time to realize this, but better late than never.
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Yep, but because of the previous parabolic run-up, not because some new actors in the fin space are threatening it. In my opinion, BTC is completely unique and driver by a free-market economy, thus the average economist can't really know how to define it's movement, because honestly, no one really knows.
I thought that implanted devices worked great at first, and then slowly stopped responding. Is this one different?
Same thing happened in Greece recently...The roads were so narrow that people were burned alive...
Thanks for your suggestions. I find the journal idea pretty awesome. I'm very methodic when setting my mind to learn something new.
> Anecdote of my own: In my country, monetary fines in traffic infringements are explicitly not for revenue. They mix into the total state revenue [...]

You're contradicting your own claim.

Just because someone in a PR position says the purpose is not to increase revenue doesn't make it so. It doesn't matter where the revenue goes, the fines generate revenue. If they didn't care about revenue, they'd use penalty points - with the added benefit of not fucking over the lower and middle classes.
Even setting aside the years they had to become compliant, it still wasn't a good idea to store passwords in plain text before GDPR.
What do you mean "have to"? What happens if you don't?
Would be very interested -- Will@Cascade.bio
> The best part of the course was that homework was to watch TV, comedy shows in particular and de-construct them.

This sound very intersting. Could you share an example of such work?
Ha ha. Fair point. And it might be only a couple of hour's work for the OP. For me it would take a week or two and a fair bit of swearing.
> Why don't more computers come with Linux pre-installed? […] Is it all somebody else's fault

That coquetry of ignorance wasn't cool on Slashdot twenty years ago, what makes you think it's acceptable here?

Microsoft's actions, for which they have been convicted in courts of law all over the world, have set back desktop computing by two decades. A PC clone with e.g. BeOS on it could not be had for money or good words, and the reason was precisely because they killed off competitors with their anti-capitalist, anti-consumer stranglehold on the vendors and markets before the competitors even had a chance to show their quality or lack thereof.

Linux' boon was that it by-passed that system, thriving from the figurative grass roots. It makes little sense – merely in order to take it seriously – to demand to be able to buy a pre-installed Linux.
There needs to be an additional column with a "?" for all the pictures. The name of that valve is "I have a milling machine I do what I want".

Every facility above a certain size will have a few modified parts that were created (not necessarily with a mill, often with hand tools) and installed over the years to meet various needs.

Edit: Lol, why is this down-voted? Encountering modified parts is like a weekly occurrence depending on the age of the systems you're working on. Ask the maintenance dept. at your local community college if you don't believe me.
> offering it only to full-time college students would be discriminating against people who can't afford to attend college full-time

That's not a protected class though.

Now, in both the students of a particular year and full-time students case, you could argue race discrimination as well as age-over-40; both of these would be disparate impact rather than facial discrimination, of course. Race might be an easier case to make, because age-over-40 has a lower bar for business justification of disparate impact.
We are actually pitching investing. Instead of betting on the horse, you invest in someone who calculates when the odds (probabilities of the betting houses) are not correct, gaining a return on the long term. This way, of course it is a risk, but it is not gambling, since there is a risk-ajusted return (on average, you win; on the betting houses, on average, you lose)
Thanks for the correction. Do you have an example?
What leadership? BTC has no leadership. If you mean developers, you really overestimate their influence.
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Thanks
He's a Canadian bluffing American units. I'm not sure we'd do much better with hectares and kilometers!
I've send an e-mail to Raptor about this (and the other connectors), I'll share if I get an answer
Thank you for pointing these out! I have made the necessary edits to the citations for (1) and (2) and republished the article.

For (1), the paper by Sutskever et al., 2013 (http://proceedings.mlr.press/v28/sutskever13.pdf) attributed the classical momentum to Polyak, 1964 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243648538_Some_meth...). A Distil article on momentum (https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/) also cited Polyak's paper and also included a much earlier publication in 1959 by Ruttishauser (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7224-9_2), but I will just make reference to Polyak's.
I have a few dead malls in my area. It's been interesting to see what tenants have come due to decreased rent costs. Currently right now there's a 20,000 sq foot museum amongst other things in there
I don’t think it’s a quirk; instead, I think it’s very much desired at the outset on the part of a competitor in a market to control the interface to some new technology in an attempt to become a gatekeeper to enjoy the fruits of that role.

I think it is a case of “he who pays the piper calls the tune” [0].

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/he-who-p...
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If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. I spent several hours last night trying to find cheap routes starting from Rio in January and ending up in the Carribean in February. I don't mind stopping a few places in between and spending some time there, I just want the cheapest flights available. Turns out that information is really hard to find without computing it yourself.
A strange trend I noticed: critical China news tend to pop up close to 9:00 EST, and at 9:00 PST positive China news tend to pop up, and negative ones get buried.
This seems like a good plan too. It has helped me to become a better musician just by playing music with good musicians. I would call it learning by osmosis.
Best anecdote I heard on the practice: a distant cousin of mine told me about the time he was driving down I-80 and saw them harvesting something off in a field, and there were two bins, one labeled "ORGANIC" and one labeled "REGULAR" and they were feeding the harvest into them both equally.

(editing for clarity: I didn't believe my cousin. I think it's a load of hogwash. I also think people make a lot of stuff up and pass it off as anecdotes because we're a very polite society for that sort of thing.)
I usually get a free movie ticket every month or so.

Everyone keeps thinking it’s like a full time job but really it’s a couple minutes whenever I go to post a review.
Enumerate some of them?
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I don't see why not comparing "SRS over no repetition at all". To me, SRS or no SRS, they are all learning/studying methods.

All SRS algorithm is expanding, i.e. increasing intervals. So maybe with continue success, it'll be: 1 day, 2, 4, 16, 40, 300 (arbitrary numbers).

How do you propose to lean medical texts, if without SRS?

Mnemonic techniques only work with rote recall, whereas flashcards, if formulated well, can help induction, understanding, not just recall.
I don't understand why comments like above get minuses.

If you don't agree with the idea, just put that in comment. But giving minuses because someone has different thoughts.

I understand minuses when somebody is just talking things completely not true like that there never was World War II or X-Rays are safe for you.

Future is by definition not deterministic so everybody may have own imagination. And by giving minuses you're discouraging the people with sharing their thoughts with you.

At least explain you're giving minus.
watching a lot of programmers comment on genetics is like watching physicists play with the genome.

cs, and for human intents - physics, have predictable structure. biology is far too complex for the human brain to simplify and understand at the level discussed (and practiced) here.
Fun fact: Carl actually implemented the Turing machine construction on slide 28 as a proof of concept and used it to do simple arithmetic (very very slowly) -- you can read the details towards the end of the talk, with screenshots.
> “and the leaders don’t care about me.”

That line can be read in two ways, especially under an AI-controlled society. She'll be discarded quickly if either the AI system or anyone in power sees her as a threat.

As for NYT's conclusion that "the opposite" has happened, I think it's a little early to call that conclusion. Yes, China is becoming more authoritarian because of AI, but I think people have a tendency to want freedom, even if they live subjugated for decades. The more the leash gets tighter around their necks, the more they'll want it. And if China suffers a great economic crisis, that might be the excuse people need to organize and overthrow their government.

The wild card here is how good the surveillance and AI will be in the future by the time that happens. If the Chinese government has flawless execution against protesters, then it may be able to stop the protesters before they organize, but this is also a matter of how many potential protesters there will be. If it's a million, the government may have a good chance of stopping that protest. If it's 200 million, it may not be able to do that, despite its best preparations.

And one more thing. Subjugation also works best when you do it in a "boil the frog" style. If you do it too quickly, most people would have already lived in a freer society, so they may not stand for much stricter rules than what they were accustomed to. I feel that China may be moving a little too quickly with its implementation of the "Perfect Citizen" social credit system and with its punishments. It's not even implemented at full scale yet and millions have already suffered negative consequences due to it. Dictator Xi is not giving people time to accustom to the new system and accept it, and this may lead to his downfall.
> Roundup certainly could have been absorbed into the trees and fruit however.

It could, but then the plant would die – or at very least show symptoms of roundup exposure, which is equally undesirable. Roundup binds to the soil, making it not bioavailable for absorption through the roots.
You have no idea what their financial situation is. Just because the government claims that it won't bankrupt them, doesn't mean that it won't. EU countries tend to have very high tax rates, and they don't seem to think that will have any impact on the well-being of their businesses and citizens either, so their judgment in such matters has been proven to be suspect at best.

You also have absolutely no way of knowing if all countries will attempt to be benevolent data overlords, as Germany appears to have been in this case. My guess is that had this been an American company, the gloves would have come off. There are 28 unique countries subject to GDPR, and each will have their own interpretations and enforcement policies. The only thing that any smaller company knows for sure about GDPR is that they may be fined up to 20M EUR, regardless of their ability to pay. Other than that, both its requirements and its enforcement are entirely up in the air.
If Microsoft wasn't allowed to bundle a browser with the operating system, not sure an app store should be bundled either.
Not directly related to the topic, but I wrote a simple puzzle game that emulates a computer which executes programs directly in the memory and you can modify memory to rewrite running programs. Here's a web-based demo if anyone wants to check it out:

https://roguebit.bigosaur.com/
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Really fascinated by this kind of stuff, but getting into it seems really overwhelming. I think it would be something really fun for me and the kids to do together, does anyone have any personal beginner resources to recommend?

Of course I'll do the googles too.
I'm a Brit, vehemently anti-ad, but am not a fan of the BBC, and don't support it (financially or otherwise).

It may have made some sense back when it was the only broadcaster, but now that it's one of many, and there are proven alternatives for ad-free (e.g. the HBO subscription model), I can't see any justification for continuing to force people to pay for a channel they don't like and don't use.