skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm basically a small c conservative, and I think the country is a far less pleasant place to live than when I grew up. If we want mass immigration we also need a massive house building programme, which might involve concreting over the countryside, or perhaps a proper regional policy. I don't see how we can have one without the other. If we were as big as Canada it would be a different story!

I went to the beach with the dog on New Year's day - there were thousands of other people, the roads were clogged, and it spoiled the experience. Buying in the countryside is often not an option depending on your career, because many jobs are only available in the South East, hence you are forced to live in a hyper-competitive area, fighting it out with millions of others for your tiny slice of England.

I'm just trying to explain that my reasons for wanting lower immigration have nothing to do with xenophobia, and everything to do with the realities of life in the SE UK. Injecting millions more people is going to make it a massive miserable conurbation, in my view.
It's not a choice.
Bah, asylym. I bet a significant fraction of those surveyed think they can just walk over the border and live there.
Safe sandbox: Rebol had Protect and Secure dialects [1, 2], which are planned to be implemented in Red. Language is very dynamic though, so there's a certain limit on what kind of safety can be enforced at runtime.

Creative problem domain: that's what Red is all about in my point of view - slapping domain-specific languages one on top of another to pin down the exact problem space. Draw for 2d vector drawing, View for GUIs, Parse for, well, parsing and metaprogramming, et cetera. The crux is usage of same data format and common notation at every abstraction layer, be it low-level programming or high-level scripting.

I don't think that Red can handle large-scale projects the way language workbenches do (yet), but it can be used for moderately small embedded DSLs.

Does that answer your question?

[1]: http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/wsecure.html

[2]: http://www.rebol.com/docs/words/wprotect-system.html
Yeah, I know. For some reason, when you put a past date in Wordpress and press "schedule," it publishes the article automatically. That's all this was -- a typo.
Really a bummer. I learned about Steve when he did awesome stuff with Rails, and knowing him work on Rust and frequently answering questions about Rust everywhere makes learning Rust a privilege to me. Thank you, Steve.
okay. but if it did happen, how would you (or I) have seen this footage? governments don't open source all their intelligence gathering as it happens. Hardly seems like a relevant point that refutes the Guardian's description of it happening
Well, you've never lived abroad... Google FACTA some time when you're feeling cheerful for a real downer. The IRS and Treasury basically treating the world wide banking system as their dominion.

Expats usually don't renounce because of the worldwide taxation rules (though they don't help); they renounce because of FACTA.
Does it follow that it is hate speech to say, "the government should handle religion more like France."?

You'll note that France does not, by any stretch, attempt to ban mosques outright.

So obviously there's not much of a comparison here.
Look at the URL. The datestamp is set to the 5th instead of the 8th, when the embargo for the news lifts. The only reason this post was published early was because a stupid typo when scheduling it.
> ...as the way they're implemented in, say, Haskell has a lot of function call overhead that's hard to optimize.

GHC inlines aggressively (when you use -O) so there shouldn't be much function call overhead. As others have commented, the bigger issue is that monadic parsers are generally unable to perform static analysis of the full parse tree and thus identify the aspects which parallel branches have in common, which implies more backtracking and redundant parsing. Some of this can be improved heuristically with rewrite rules, or by explicitly using applicative combinators (which can be statically analyzed) instead of monadic ones.
> The Guardian to great fanfare, yet there is literally no evidence that it happened (ex. no security cameras inside or out showed Manafort entering the embassy).

So, you've reviewed all the security camera footage inside and outside the embassy? Or, are you mistaking “no security camera footage has been leaked to the public showing this” for “none of the security camera footage shot shows this”?
> practice

+1. Practice out loud, rewrite, practice out loud again, rewrite, repeat, repeat, repeat.

Also: let a real person listen to your talk at least once while rehearsing. (Tip: use spouse, if available)
It goes to a doctor not involved in the first determination first. After that, the next step is a federal judge.
I'm fairly sure that the bulk of GitHub's revenue comes from companies using GitHub as their primary SCM.

B2B revenue is huge compared to anything you'll get from the few hobbyists who are both able and willing to pay for this kind of service.
“Attachments are just resentments waiting to happen.”
The example numbers were already in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
I think you mean "a group of scientists have theorised that a recording obtained by the Associated Press, which the AP claimed to be 'generally consistent' with the sound heard by some US diplomats who reported being attacked, could be a recording of crickets", which is a very different thing than suggesting the attack has been "revealed" as crickets.

For someone so concerned with not being "played" by the media, you seem strangely happy to play exactly the same kinds of games with the facts.
I never said that those people were the majority, nor did I say that everyone does it. Neither did the original poster. all we said was that it is possible to do, and you made the assertion about how many people do it.
> How we spend that money is just horribly inefficient!

Well, it depends on what your goal is.

If it's to improve population-wide health care outcomes, then yes, we do a worse job than many other first world nations.

If it's to allow for a, ah, "vibrant" set of industries who can benefit from capturing social spending while providing mixed outcomes which we justify by enshrining the fundamental attribution error under the banner of "meritocracy" then perhaps we're being efficient after all.
Update: you can also apply here (the salary info is wrong, it is $75K-$95K)
DHH later responded to this post on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1074688850054733824

He said:

> "Is it possible to build a startup on the side?” The answer is clearly YES. If you ask, is it possible for swans to be black, you just need one black swan to answer affirmative. And there are tons of built-on-the-side startup swans. The same with “is it possible to grow a startup on a sane 40h workweek”, the answer is again overwhelmingly YES. That’s completely irrefutably true by lots of examples. The only question is do I want to bootstrap as a side business? Do I want to have healthy work habits?"

Jason Cohen did a podcast interview after this article came out:
https://www.productpeople.tv/97
https://www.productpeople.tv/98
Solving a word search puzzle in Java
December 2018 License-Review List Summary
This is a bold move. That should prevent a potential exodus to other companies, post-Microsoft acquisition, although doubtful if such a bleed in customers occurred yet. GitHub is far ahead of everyone else thanks to its user interface anyway. This should at least force the competition to step up big time.
> Apple seems to have underestimated iPhone SE demand to a significant degree

I would love to purchase a new iPhone (or Android) if they were to make a new device with a comparable form factor to the SE. Instead, everything has progressed to these two-handed monstrosities that have resulted in fanny packs [1] becoming fashionable again simply to hold the damn things.

[1] https://www.today.com/style/fanny-packs-are-so-popular-they-...
I've been meaning to pick it up, would you recommend any tutorials for figuring out how to use the tracker interface to sequence?
> It's important to note that people's desire to migrate is typically much higher than their intention to do so -- as such, it is unlikely that Americans will be flocking to the Canadian border. In fact, since Trump's election, Canadian statistics show only a modest uptick in the number of Americans who have moved to Canada.

Reading the article at first it seems they intended to move, as in they were researching their options but it is not quite that, it's more of general musing of "maybe would like some day to move...". And Canada says very few actually moved.

This confirms to what I've seen in my circle of acquaintances of out maybe 4 people who claimed they would move to Asia, Canada or Europe, none actually took any steps to do so. I can't blame them, having moved between countries before, it is a huge hurdle. I had the initial thought of saying "You probably won't..." to some of them but figured it would just get them upset.
That is not how it works. No matter where you reside, you MUST file a tax return every year. There is something called the Foreign Earned Income Exemption (FEIE), which is relatively significant but only applies to the first $100,800 USD to earned that year, and does not apply to limits on taxation against foreign owned assets.

If you are making a senior engineer salary at a US company but living abroad, you will be taxed quite heavily since you'll need to pay taxes in your country of residence, plus be taxed on income at the higher brackets over $100k in the US.
Yeah you are misinformed about this

Most (not all) countries in Europe have a straightforward way of obtaining citizenship with time if you're lawfully there.

Of course, overstaying won't make things easier, but nowhere that happens.
There must be no love interest in the story.
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no "atmospheric" préoccupations.

I realise that my favorites detective stories (those of brother Cadfael from Ellis Peters) all break those rules to good effect, building a good sense of place and time. The romance always involve characters concerned by the crime (suspect, family member of the deceased, guilty party...), but never the detective.
I'm not planning to follow up further on this thread, sorry. If you are able to define an anti-counterfeiting mechanism that does not depend on cryptographic signatures, you could probably corner a billion dollar market. I encourage doing so, but have no further assistance to offer you.
This thing is awesome. Been lucky enough to have a play on it a couple of times. Highly recommend the Centre for Computing History, where it lives, to anyone with an interest in both retro and modern computing. Lots to be learned that is still surprisingly (or perhaps not so surprisingly) relevant today.
"Thrush’s productivity has paid off. He earned $420,000 for reviewing the applications of 9,088 Tennesseans applying for disability during the year ending June 30. He has made more than $2.2 million since 2013."

Did someone code up an AI model for him?
There is a massive 'fear campaign' drip dripping dire news in the UK every day if the people don't reconsider leaving a federated europe. The EU is well past its sell-buy date, won't reform and globalization has taken full advantage of its undemocratic structure for offshore commercial gain.

The divide and rule aspects of the UK EU referendum results are being exploited to the full. Like the last US election there is no good result for the English people - remaining or leaving are both going to have an ugly side. The City of London rules the financial world and enables incredible sums to float offshore via trusts and opaque corporate setups. What we are seeing is a further divide between the haves and have nots.

https://youtu.be/np_ylvc8Zj8 < spiders web documentary

'At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.'

This makes the consumer banks and FS firms shuffling fiat currencies around europe a tiny drop in the ocean
I have zero insight on this but I also don't know anyone in my circle who pays individually for Github... When they need that, they use Bitbucket.

I know several people I worked for or did business with that paid for Organization accounts, from Team to Enterprise.
Well that's what I meant.
We Should Be Able to Take Facebook to Court- a Privacy Violation Is a Real Harm
"Your startup is your company. You get to decide what its purpose will be, and how you're going to get there. If the fundamentals are there, do it your way." Love this.
A couple of great articles for those who aren't aware that disability is the new welfare.

This is in no way meant to justify the absolutely insane process outlined in the Tennesseean article. I just see a lot of people questioning why disability claims would be up when unemployment is down. This is a decades-long trend.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/disabil...

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
well, that's just like, your opinion, man ( big lebowski reference for those too young to know ). The reason I disagree with you is because I have never met a C++ programmer who only knew C++ and couldn't easily do work in some other language, but of course plenty of people know other languages and can't do C++. Yes, SFINAE and RAII - you can go for many years of working in C++ without writing much code using either one of those.
Telehash has been waiting for the right time to get focus again. We've been very busy with our other work currently, but it is in no way forgotten. We're hoping to come back around to it soon. Message us on our Slack if you'd like to chat more.
Exactly.

The point of a compendium would be -more than anything- to teach parents that things are not always what they seem. The hand-licking behavior might seem like misbehavior, but if you stop and think about why it happens, you might understand that there may be a much better explanation.
> Static typing incurs restrictive boilerplate

Wrong, type inference has been aa thing for decades.
> Good luck trying to get the EU to give up one of its core principles to a country that cannot even get its government to agree on a consistent negotiation position.

The UK government is far more consistent than the EU currently. Name one important issue where the EU has reached a satisfactory agreement and results. Migration? Social security? EU army? Nope.

But just like the tone of your comment, the EU position on Brexit is governed by arrogance, ideological motives and fear of a chain reaction, not reason. Therefore the result will likely be bad for both sides.
Churches have special status given by the government.

Then maybe the problem is the messed up laws providing that "special status" then. But that doesn't mean you can (even under those laws) category ban a certain group from building any churches, anywhere.

Which is exactly what Britain First is advocating.
I don't know what phone I am going to get after my iPhone SE no longer works after OS bloat kicks in. It's the perfect phone pretty much. I like android better but I can't find a phone this size that works in the android universe. Surely there must be others like me that want a capable phone that isn't the size of a tablet?
How to use flow in a mono-repo
This is essentially a long way of saying, "Phones are now seeing marginal improvements, just like PCs. The market is saturated." Or nearing saturation.

I wrote this in another thread, but when my iPhone 6 or 6s seemed to be failing a couple months ago, I just bought an iPhone 7 instead of the Xs or whatever the new hotness is. I can afford it but find it too expensive and the improvements marginal. Seemingly a lot of people are doing what I'm doing.
That's really unfortunate :(

I'd be interested to see if you do a post-mortem on this - what the consequences were, and what steps you end up taking to ensure that it doesn't happen again.
being a household name is very weakly correlated to "getting that SV money" (an exception being household names in machine learning, where you will indeed make all the money)
I suspect it will take about ten seconds for the trade concerns the doom and gloomers are worried about to get resolved. UK is the second largest economy in the EU. The idea that they won't quickly and easily resolve trade concerns seems silly. EU member states will still want UK money.
I'm sorry, but what does that add, other than by going "bah, I'll make up things about people I don't care for"?
Because having a buggy game on any platform is a reputational risk. If your game is buggy, people will complain and people on other platforms might reconsider buying even though the version they'll get might be bug free.
Taking public notice of this kind of activity (and certainly making a list of things that are defamatory) seems to be regarded as a PR mistake, usually. (Of course, leaking a private list is worse...)
The US exports variants of a lot of military hardware for sure, but it still keeps the cream of the crop tucked away, such as the F-22.

Don't think for a second the US military hasn't planned for having to wage war against a country that it's outfitted with it's own technology. Many exported items have reduced capabilities, and lack the communications systems that allow information sharing between all military assets. Information at the front line is what wins battles.
I think your ability to be content is just a personality trait, and some have that ability to a much greater extent than others. For example, the saying "ignorance is bliss" seems to have some merit - many highly intelligent people just cannot be happy. It's an unfortunate product of your brain chemistry, and it's nothing you can choose to escape given average circumstances, as much as we romanticize the idea of "finding happiness."
on topic of function pointers, is there a template to turn

std::funtion<foo(bar, baz)>

into

foo(*)(bar, baz)

?
You’re coming at this from the perspective of someone who wants to set up a PC primarily in order to play games, and probably wants to try out every game under the sun. Of course, you’ll install Windows.

Try instead coming at the question from the perspective of someone who already has a Linux workstation (e.g. for work) and wants to do as little as possible in order to play a few games—maybe the ones their friends are trying to get them to play as a member of a team. Windows isn’t worth it here: you wouldn’t use it for anything else (so every time you boot into it, you probably have to spend two hours installing updates), and booting into Windows would also prevent you from multitasking to the Linux apps you rely on. Compatibility shims, if decent, are far more interesting to this audience.
It's not a matter of "easy" or "hard", it's a matter of how much money you're willing to spend on processing asylum claims. Hiring more immigration lawyers, building more offices, hiring more officers for patrolling borders and ensuring seekers get across safely, and not wandering around kicking over water reservoirs[1].

Considering the US is spending $210 million[2] to lob gas canisters at a migrant caravan instead of processing their claims, I don't think it's a matter of not having enough cash.

also, Canada saw 25,000 asylum claims last year[3]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-border-...

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/4684164/trump-border-troops-cost-...

[3] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
They won't get any more early news, so everyone else will get it before them. That's the usual way news embargo's work anyhow.
This is always my advice to people between 18 and 23: be careful what industry or area you go into - there's a good chance you'll never leave it.
The focus should be on living in the present, that's the only place you will find happiness. And if you pass by those moments without appreciation, you'll only feel regret and anxiously wait for the next bit of happiness to be found.
Sounds like a sensible course of action. Hopefully we see remote work become more of a standard than an exception.
It's a simple gap between wishes/hopes and actions. Way more people make new year's resolutions to lose weight than actually follow through on that, too, and eating less is easier than spending your whole life.
But if the set of best practices that works for your target hardware platform is narrow-band, that set itself can severely constrain the set of game houses that can develop for that platform.
I was responding to the link that spaginal had posted about Daily Stormer. In that article, it says "[Daily Stormer] calls itself “The World’s Most Genocidal Republican Website.”"

I am not referring to Britain First at all, and there is no hyperbole or reaching for extreme labels involved with my comment.
I'm looking for.a.tool replacing DevonThink, which lets.you also put Documents (e.g. PDF) as a node in the hierarchical tree which is IMHO key for knowledge systems. Your system looks great on first look, is this a planed feature?
GitHub Actions for Golang (gofmt)
Why would one use menson over cmake ?
Bitbucket’s killer feature is integration with JIRA and the rest of the Atlassian stack, so I doubt it’ll have much impact.
The data seem to indicate the opposite. An example:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17139300/e...
Counter-counter-points from what I understand the article was saying:

(a) The grass may not be greener on the other side, and it's possible that you'll like it less, but with each sample taken you know which shades of green you prefer, and you might eventually spot the much better grass somewhere.

(b) How you do it and how you react to it is influenced by who do you spend time with, which is often determined by what you do and where you live, so it's kind of a feedback system - thus it can be nudged in many places, not just one.
All of those straw men are negated by the fact that you don't know me.
Well, either Way I will not leave Gitlab anytime soon.
thanks, I already knew about this one, and it seemed sufficient at first, but after a while you realize you will never be aware of highly "late" replies