skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only needs a few tweaks to be valid strict/warnings compliant Perl :)

(# Heavy: ^Syntax;
do {
&NotBeautiful()=>ToLookAt();
&PleaseRemove()=>AllThoseRandomCharacters();}
)
;sub NotBeautiful{};sub ToLookAt{}
;sub PleaseRemove{};sub AllThoseRandomCharacters{}
Because thankfully, Sun Microsystems sued Microsoft and won. When everyone else was cowering in fear of Microsoft and abandoning UNIX®️ for Windows™️ NT™️, Sun Microsystems was the only company who had the gumption to openly oppose the onslaught.

When the United States department of justice sued Microsoft for monopolistic and anticompetitive practices, it could initially find no witnesses, as all the cowardly CEO's were scared to testify against Microsoft for fear of Microsoft revoking their OEM licenses to pre-install Windows on their products; everyone was really scared of angering Bill Gates.

Scott McNealy, bless his heart, was the only CEO with the balls to testify as a witness and it was a crucial, condemning testimony: the department of justice and NetScape Communications Corporation won the day, in large part because of Scott McNealy's bravery to go against Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Have commented here before on the link between horsemanship (for which Xenophon's treatise is the philosophical foundation) and leadership, (Xenophon's key preoccupation according to the article.)

Officer classes were usually trained in horsemanship for very good reason. It's one of the few transformative experiences that can be taught and practised. Before cars, horses were probably one of the few sources of what we now call "peak experiences" available.

Today we can fly and jump out of planes, ride motorcycles, surf, and achieve the transcendent "self-actualization" required for leadership through a variety of other peak experiences, so horsemanship has become a kind of esoteric pursuit. But the underlying need for self-actualized leaders hasn't changed. Or maybe it has, but a few people still see the gap but don't have the words to describe it.

Looking forward to reading Anabasis.
I'm definitely not going to leave my laptop on the table while I go to the bathroom if you're in the café. And I'm definitely not going to invite you into my office or my house, ever.
Because the DNS as it is allows for the potential to do something similar (by getting a CA to accept fraudulent DNS response, leading them to issue a cert,) without someone seizing control of a domain otherwise.

It makes no sense not to try to secure the DNS.
Maybe so it can display the correct time when daylight savings rolls around?

(I'm just trying to guess. Personally I think it's an absurd feature, and on the rare occasion I've had a microwave that even displayed the time, it was always wrong anyway)
>>(car owner targeted taxes and fees are nothing comared to road costs)

This is actually false if add all taxes related to cars (which would include sales taxes on cars, repairs, and parts)

When most people say that they only account for gasoline taxes, often even excluding the Fuel taxes collected by the Commercial Fuel tax programs as they are accounted for differently.

Yes Gasoline Taxation on gas does not equal road maintenance, but all taxation on cars does meet and and often exceed the road costs
London somewhat inflates that density. In reality the UK has buckets of free space and doesn't desperately need to develop it all into housing.

That's not to say we don't have housing problems, but they are not rooted in "there isn't enough land".
Fingerprinting Models when hooking DirectX
That was my take on it, also. If you’re a very light-skin person living in Australia (probably because your ancestors have come there from gloomier places like Ireland and Scotland) then it’s probably a wise choice to not let go of using sunscreen. On the other hand, it seems that vitamin D supplements do nothing for the darker skin people who happen to work in places like Seattle or even Amsterdam (I have a former colleague who used to complain about the latter as always being cloudy).
This is brilliant! Thanks!
The FTC Thinks You Pay Too Much for Smartphones
Why not?

What would be a better reason? Or, do you think white people should feel free to use that word?

Because there was a time when white people felt free to use that word, and there are still pockets of white society where people feel free to use that word, and if you think those times or those people are good ones to emulate, I'd be quite interested to know why you think that.
Days of Facebook millionairs are gone. With all the VC stock options scheeming they better ramp up other benefits.
Perseus project hosts full text of Xenophon's Cyropaedia with Greek and English translation. Highly recommended. Could never figure why it was never given same import as other classics among modern audiences.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Xen.%20Cyrop.
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Raven's progressive matrices and similar are differentiator of intellectual ability. SAT scores correspond to time spent on chair doing homework.
One of my favorite bug reports was a hardware issue on a thinkpad on the ISS. The report had a line like "There are no repro systems on earth".
Which was enabled in large part from their centralization of email.
> They're choosing not to.

For sound political reasons. You may not like those reasons, but they aren't being "obtuse" in the sense they do not understand what they are doing because they lack the wits to comprehend. Minimizing your opponent with those kinds of terms risks you underestimating them.

The "base" that voted in most of the Senate voted in Trump. At the federal level, they pretty much count as a single voting bloc, and that's very powerful in the electoral landscape. And for that base, the wall is very nearly a single-issue vote factor (among a few other issues that base holds similarly dear). You may not like it for various practical reasons, but they currently vote slightly more consistently than Democrats in slightly more precincts where it counts. This might tilt soon to Democrats for demographic reasons, but for the purposes of analyzing this record-breaking shutdown, we must take this base's effect seriously.

Both the Republican senators and Trump need to at a minimum show that base that they were overridden by the Democrats on the wall issue, or they will definitively lose in 2020. Unfortunately, the Democrats do not hold a super-majority to force both houses to pass a bill, retrieve a veto from Trump, then override the veto. So the Democrats are stuck in a deadlock legislatively.

Where the Republicans are vulnerable is public sentiment. If the Democrats stir up public sentiment against Senate Republicans by somehow showing all Democrat politicians are throwing in their financial lot with affected Federal workers and simultaneously casting the GOP Senate Republicans as "Richie Rich" Marie Antoinette's, then that can weaken Senate Republican resolve to block Democrat-sponsored funding bills enough to punt the ball into the executive branch with some ass-covering statements to their base that they were somehow legislatively outmaneuvered by the dasterdly Democrats.

The problem with this kind of approach is realistically, even many Democrat senators are relatively wealthy [1], and quite a few Republican senators are not Scrooge McDuck diving into gold coin piles. It's political theatrics through caricatures, and Trump has a proven, astonishing ability to out-theatrics his opponents and make it stick (that's the part that continues to surprise me), and that's a wildcard.

But if the Democrats somehow neutralize the Federal workers' pain, and convincingly show they can outlast the Republicans (probably by showing they'll take it all the way to 2020 if necessary), then they defang the GOP's obstructive strategy. It would take a hell of a big war chest, however. Which is why I don't see it ever happening.

Would love to hear others' ideas on how Democrats can force Trump's hand on this shutdown issue, as this is certainly an interesting political problem that will be studied in the future by students of politics.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/apr...
I think most people takes the wrong lesson from 432 and IA64. The problem wasn't that hardware was dependent on software, it's that the chips exposed too much of their internals to would-be adopters. GPUs are also extremely dependent on software/compilers, but few people have to care about that because Intel/AMD/Nvidia don't expose the internal ISA of any of their chips.
Is HPKP Report Only also being deprecated?
Computers are for crunching numbers in the world they were aiming at.
So the answer is, one needs both.
Yes, you can. In fact, in California, and in most US states, you can make a citizen's arrest of the someone (assuming you're a citizen), haul them to the nearest police station, and book them for petty larceny.
Elm.

I'm more or less in the same position as you and that's my conclusion. Haskell is a behemoth, Purescript is still intimidating. F# and Scala, I don't want to mess up with .Net or JVM. Clojure and Elixir are interesting but don't have a rich type system. Elm is the one that seems to remain. Maybe Reason also.

https://elm-lang.org/
See also: the drive to return the American Chestnut to the forests of Appalachia.

https://www.acf.org/the-american-chestnut/history-american-c...
Nothing to see there apart from most boring parts of C# 8.0.
Hello. That's an impossible task for me, so I've given up on trying to do that. I can however give you 3 of my latest favorites:

1) Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue In C Minor - BWV 582 by Karl Richter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W4PJUOeVYw

2) Vivaldi - Stabat Mater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwvKU4_vaw

3) Bach - Piano Concerto in D Min. BWV 1052 by Polina Osetinskaya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osg_WmeLxQk
Bingo. While I don't blame the author for trying to cope with his situation, I will say that, as one who has a disability myself (only 10% of normal visual acuity), it is quite "undesirable" and damned well "burdensome".
It looks like some people took offense with my comment but I had no reason to think that Linda Kwak is a Korean name. I can see from her profile picture on Linkedin that she is, indeed, Asian. If that's what caused the downvotes, that people felt offended, thinking I was making an ethnic joke, then I'm really sorry.
> That said, I don't know whether they're part of the "intended" human condition.

I'm not going to give my full "eugenics is a short-sighted, moronic evolutionary strategy" semi-annual rant at this time, and I want to add the HUGE caveat that I'm only talking about humans as a population of evolving animals, and not as individuals with rights, worthy of moral consideration. That's a whole different can of worms I am not prepared to open.

With that giant caveat, from the standpoint amoral evolution, Down syndrome is the non-fatal duplication of a large number of genes, which can be extremely advantageous long-term, despite short-term disadvantages. The extra copies of the duplicated genes can mutate freely to take on new functions, while one copy maintains the original form and function. Evolution is the process of variation and selection, and while everyone gets hung up on the selection end of things, the variation is also important. You want your population to support as much variation as possible, so that it can explore as much of the evolutionary search space as possible.

So from that evolutionary standpoint, Down syndrome is an "intended" part of the human condition.
That's such an Erlich question.

You should just go back to Tibet.

Bitcoin does not have smart contracts or a programming language and the scaling in the new Ethereum is going to be better.
I propose mrfusions law: in any discussion of an article with a headline ending in a question, someone will mention Betteridge’s law.
Why the world is getting better – 7 big examples
Interesting news almost completely buried in overpolarized nonsense: sunlight is beneficial beyond vitamin D.

Of course, sun burns are still bad for you, and excessive tanning will make you look old at a young age. So yes do use sunscreen in moderation but don’t avoid the sun.
For things I need to do that have a date and time: I put them in Google calendar. Even for the most mundane of activities.

For things that don't have a specific date and time but I know I need to do them: I put them in Asana. And I have them organized by day, so my main Asana page has subsections labeled "Monday:" "Tuesday:" etc and I just put all of my todos and spread them out throughout the week.

These two things have done enormous things for my productivity.
One of the proposed selling points of representing your data semantically is that you can infer across it, disjoint assertions are pretty important in this regard. How disjoint assertions are used (Smith) is another issue.

A related beef though, is that with any reasonable size dataset ontology-based inference is computationally very difficult, you have to cut all sorts of corners and know all sorts of tricks to actually infer across your data. In other words- if semantic data are going to truly become ubiquitous we need to infer in real time across them. Inference takes everything in your dataset into account, so adding a single axiom means if you want to be complete, you have to compute all over again -> slow.
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You're living up to your user name, but I dislike reading someone wishing death on someone else, particularly on HN, from which I expect better. Like the other reply, I would also be interested in a more thoughtful rebuttal rather than this kind of vicious ad-hominem attack.
How ironic that it was the environmental groups who destroyed nuclear forty years ago.
This is what I'm wondering..
> I think the trick is to work out what you "really want to execute" vs "what you are willing to spend time to execute". If you have a lot of ideas, you will not be able to execute them all, and that is a hard pill to swallow.

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix is a very effective framework to decide which tasks to execute and which goals to drop.
I think one can salivate at the idea of being able to cut down unlimited amounts of trees without guilt.
> That can all be forged.

And this is where a lot of the world is heavily behind say Estonia, Latvia (or other countries) that provide cryptographically secure signed documents tied to people, you practically can't forge those documents.
France's asset tax did no such thing. The wealthy in France have received numerous tax breaks under the Macron government which is why the yellow jacket protests are happening.

France's asset tax was effectively protested by the wealthy doing what they always do - threatening to leave loudly, maybe taking some time off in one of their overseas residences, and then doing absolutely nothing.
Oh, I'm not saying it couldn't happen. Just that what Trump says about it is pretty worthless.
this might be the single most useful reply in the whole thread.

Specificitiy (paragraph 2) is crucial.

I'd add that goals (paragraph 3) are a result of identity (paragraph 5) so it's basically the same idea. How do you see your better self? Do these projects/tasks align with your vision of your better self?

If you feel you are X (paragraph 5) and you feel you can be superX (paragraph 4) you'll undoubtedly be able to carry on with your goals (paragraph 3). Breaking these down (paragraph 2) will help.

Not satisfied with the way I put it but that's the idea.
I've been thinking someone with the expertise and influence should write "RDF: The Good Parts"

AKA instead of "Eval is Evil" we might instead say "XML is Evil"
My experience of $bigcorp2 is much better than $bigcorp1, and I completely believe it has to do with the second not being a tech company — but instead a traditional company that moved into tech.

So, I think tech companies have a kind of pathological treatment of their workers we don’t see broadly.

(You’re also greatly simplifying why working class people are falling behind, to the point of misrepresenting it.)
> When the alarm goes off every morning to go to the gym, it sucks. But I do it anyway. The first step is accepting it is not easy and it will suck at times.

This is a major problem for me right now. The depression doesn't help, but it's clear that it needn't stop me from doing well – as evident from all the great stuff artists with depression have made.

How do you get to that point, mentally? Were you raised with discipline in mind – as in, were your parents/guardians promoting discipline within you? Did you get to it yourself?
There’s high humidity and lots of morning dew in Florida. Would that be sufficient to grow one of these?

Also how hard would it be to genetically engineer these to be c4 photosynthesizers?
Yes, I see your point. I sure felt his email was very unprofessional, but I don't think that at the time he was acting in a professional capacity. For a personal email I felt it was more acceptable and he didn't really have a go at the recruiter himself, not directly so.
Are you doing these projects for fun, future profit, knowledge?

Whatever your answer is right now doesn't seem to be sufficient motivation. We all get the same time during the day but we all prioritize our day differently. You're prioritizing other activities over these projects (maybe for very valid reasons).

If you try and fail to create a habit, then you need a better reason for doing it.

Sometimes stoic philosophy can help find out why you want to do something: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A0XxceO4qX0
> Finally, the third assumption we’ll make is that the CockroachDB cluster is operating under a steady-state that does not include chaos events.

> they shouldn’t represent the cluster’s typical behavior –– so, for the sake of this performance model, it’s safe to assume they are absent.

These events can be made somewhat rare within a datacenter. But they are actually very typical and very normal in communications between datacenters over the internet. Ignoring them is basically ignoring 90th percentile latency in such "geo distributed" configurations.

Which is fine, I always believed that Cockroach should focus on local clusters. But marketing it as "geo distributed" would just bring people disappointment, not necessarily a feeling you want potential customers to have.
You've hit the nail on the head for me with the last paragraph. Thank you for verbalizing it.
I have a small blacklight installed in my home, and I turn it on a couple of hours a week when I watch TV. It definitely makes me feel more relaxed, though I'm unsure of the actual mechanism. Vitamin d is not the problem since I take plenty of it in the form of supplements and fatty fish. Recently I discovered that blue light can help break down bilirubin in the blood, and since I have Gilbert's syndrome, that might be one explanation.
Org mode: https://orgmode.org/
Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry
"You really don’t want to piss off the French."

That's right and don't anyone ever forget it. They stand up to short-sighted self interests and have a long tradition of going out to the streets to protect their rights. After all, that is why they are not a feudal empire but a democratic republic. There is a lot we can learn from the French and the Swiss.

Governments should be afraid of their people, not people of their governments.
I'm sorry, I just can't get worked up over The Hitler Store not being able to use Paypal.
If you know Python, you might like coconut http://coconut-lang.org/

> Coconut is a functional programming language that compiles to Python. Since all valid Python is valid Coconut, using Coconut will only extend and enhance what you're already capable of in Python.

Why use Coconut? Coconut is built to be useful. Coconut enhances the repertoire of Python programmers to include the tools of modern functional programming, in such a way that those tools are easy to use and immensely powerful; that is, Coconut does to functional programming what Python did to imperative programming. And Coconut code runs the same on any Python version, making the Python 2/3 split a thing of the past.
It would be really cool to make one into a house. It might be a little cramped but you could make five plus stories?
Bitcoin’s Biggest Hack in History: 184.4B Bitcoin from Thin Air
So in a sense she drew a Wen diagram?
so is espionage and treason
I agree that discipline > motivation. And thus, habit formation becomes important. What I'd like to add here is what I call "learn to enjoy". I try to "learn to enjoy" waking up in the morning to go to the gym. I think it's just an euphemism to lowering the barrier between "what I want to do" and "what I have to do". What makes waking up early suck at times? How can I make it suck it less? How can I actually turn my mindset around so that I actually want to wake up early and go to the gym?
This year's SANS holiday hack was pretty fun, and quite varied: https://www.holidayhackchallenge.com/2018/

Also, http://overthewire.org/ is fun, and https://www.wechall.net/ has a list of several CTFs.
> Realize that this behavior is just fancy procrastination. I can collect recipes all day, but it won't make me a better cook.

I don't believe this assertion makes any sense. I may never be a Michelin-star chef, but if I set a goal to learn how to cook and set a plan on how to achieve that, I will surely be able to cook a decent meal within a reasonable amount of time and results will be far better than what I would get if I procrastinated instead.
> Serious question for US members of HN: how do you tolerate these shutdowns?

I realize this is being portrayed in the media as a total government shutdown, but that's really not the case.

The US has multiple levels of government. Federal, State, County, and Municipal.

State, County, and Municipal governments (which are the ones that really provide essential services), are operating normally.

For the Federal government, any self-sufficient or quasi-self-sufficient operations (like the USPTO, USPS, etc.) are unaffected. Any operations that already had their budgets passed are unaffected.

We're talking about a fraction of the total government here. There's more drama here than anything else.

Yes, there are people whose lives are affected, but they're a small fraction of the population. I believe there were estimates of 400k? Even if we bump that up to a million to be conservative, we're talking about 0.25% of the population.
From an AI point of view, all subjects are the camouflage of mathematics. If a person with good math thinking and boredom can learn many subjects as quickly as possible.
I think that a value on a sliding scale 1..10 is determined by the extent to which the package being sold has ideological/political content.

1. For good time call ....

10. War bonds: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb25605696/_2.jpg
I've become so disorganised, lazy and demotivated that my only goal right now in life is to do 8 pomodoros/day, doesn't really matter what i do in them. just doing 8 of them per day is huge accomplishment.
The translation in the Loeb book is just delicious. While reading the original, I couldn't keep myself from reading the English text as well - it's too good. (Makes me think that studying foreign/ancient languages in order to read is not actually important in the least and might be better left to professional translators.)
I do something similar.

It's similar to reverse engineering the year starting from the year end goals, although I personally think more in terms of building personal systems instead of setting annual goals.

The book "The One Thing" talks a bit more about that concept of breaking down the year into, quarters, then from quarters into months and then into weekly sprints and daily tasks.

I also wrote a little bit about my high level process here:
https://juvoni.com/you-are-a-rocketship/
According to this article, Vitamin D supplementation is showing not to “work,” and the theory is that the correlation with health is actually as a marker for UVB exposure. If your black light is putting out UVB then maybe that’s what’s helping you?