skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It’s “Is your view of the product quality and it’s impact on the company, industry and stock market price better than the aggregate wisdom of everyone betting on it?”

Historically the answer is “Less than 49% of the time for most people, including professionals”
Eaters of the Dead is one of my favourite books. Quasi-historical mixture of vikings, arab travellers and Beowulf.
You're basically saying "one side says what they want to do even if they know they can't get it, the other says whatever they think you want to hear"
The only thing strange about it is how much easier it is to learn about these conspiracies now that we have the Internet.

People are acting all shocked like this is a new state of affairs. It's not. We are just far more empowered now to actually learn about these things.
Yeah not to be glib, but that would be a deal breaker for me too.
While you're right, I can't help but notice: It's important to know the difference between "composition" and "symposium" ;-)
I didn't say the military didn't see the utility of the atomic bomb, I said the military saw no military utility in hiroshima and nagasaki. There is a difference between using the bomb to kill soldiers and to destroy/irradiate and kill civilians. Just like there is a a military utility of the gun to kill enemy soldiers, but no military utility to shooting children.

For example, a concentration camp to keep enemy soldiers is far different than a concentration camp to keep jewish, japanese american, etc civilians ( fathers, mothers and children ).

And it's odd that you bring up macarthur since we know for a fact that he was against hiroshima and nagasaki.

"When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor."

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/countdown-to-hi...
An egg is made out of shell and white and yolk.

That does not make the shell itself an egg.

Microsoft is promising to make a shell, and to not make anything else.
> TLS is 25 years old now.

The on-the-wire protocol has some faint resemblance but the actual technology between SSL 2.0 and TLS 1.3 are utterly different.

The original Bell phone system where you have to talk to an operator and say "Give me 4235 please", and a modern iPhone, are also utterly different - but every step along the way was achieved by backwards compatibility and that meant some compromises. So the iPhone still has "phone numbers" even though you probably rarely use them for anything.

That's all that was going on in TLS. The "start fresh" you were originally asking for involves _throwing away_ that compatibility to get "some advantages". I explained why TLS doesn't do that. The feeling that surely starting over would help is _exactly_ CADT even if you're not a teenager.

You absolutely can have those "some advantages" if you don't want backwards compatibility. But it's not obvious why you'd rewrite TLS rather than just use TLS in this case and refuse to downgrade below TLS 1.3. What happens when TLS 1.4 has even more "advantages" ?
Their users would not be in violation of the TOS.

> The following is not permitted for any reason whatsoever:

...

> 10. circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify Service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify Service;

https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/

The user in this case would not be responsible for the blocking.
Can't they delete it from your device if so they wanted?
It's astounding how people like to paint MS as the bad guy and not monopolies. Every monopoly behaves like this. I'm not favoring MS- I'm asking people to stop letting monopolies become. No .. But google gives me free stuff
How SDN and Blockchain Can Help with IoT Privacy and Security?
> Also, the minimization of time spent in meetings

I would argue that this should be "the minimization of unstructured/unguided/unclear meetings".

Tbh I've seen a non-trivial number of instances where engineers have wasted their own time or someone else's by not participating in organizational meetings - either by doing redundant work or having an unclear image of priorities/blockers/help needed.

Nobody want's to waste time in meetings, and most people who call meetings can't run them well. BUT having a well planned and executed meeting (30 mins tops) can save hours if not tens of hours of work time per week.

I also believe that the "just let the devs do dev work and avoid meetings" mantra is border-line meme status and (in my opinion) stems from toxic anti-social behavior, rather than efficiency. However, I also believe that meeting time per week should have an upper-bound (something like 4-6 hours, including a 15-min daily standup) to better enforce efficiency, rather than throwing 1-hour meetings all over the place and hoping they don't use all the time.
good read https://mesibo.com/documentation/get-started/
Outline - https://outline.com/rCxLjM
Bandcamp has a lot of great music but draws independent artists and small labels by a large margin. Their app and website sort of totally suck, but it's not a subscription model, they promote the buying and downloading of albums.
I think the parts of Lisp that tended to be rebuilt have mostly been incorporated into the newer languages. (At least, it's been a very long time since I've had to rewrite a fundamental data structure, etc.)
It's primarily a means of driving AMP usage as far as I can tell, and showing you articles they know you can't resist clicking for ad revenue.

After the old app stopped working I never used it again. Checking a couple of sites I respect a few times a week gets me all the "news" I need.
Off-topic: The whole discussion is about deploy-time configuration management, but our problem is more about run-time configuration management.

We have done the classical memcached+database custom solution, but I was wondering if there is any accepted library/tool to change application run-time behavior. We have tried consul KV store [1], but does not quite fit in our environment.

My ideal solution would be a webapp with some text editor (think codemirror). Changes in this text file would push the configuration data to a running application.

[1] https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/kv
It really isn’t as diverse as you seem to think. As suggested in another comment, these German speakers you talked to simply didn’t know the correct forms: The German language is generally quite prescriptive, there’s little room for variation outside dialects (which are not “correct/standard German”).

(And then there are Platt (= Low German) and Alemannisch/Schwyzerdütsch, both of which are distinct languages from High German.)
So the reason for that has more to do with my corporate firewall than anything. I do pay for subscription services that I enjoy more than Spotify (currently, Google Play Music and Tidal). However, I cannot have a phone at work, so I can't log into GPM (2FA requires the phone), and Tidal is blocked for other reasons. So that basically just leaves Spotify. I don't want to pay for a third subscription service that I only use for a few hours per day tops.
Researchers ? Tech journalists ?
Gridual (v1 alpha) – isomorphic flexible grid system for react apps
If you want a toy here is some code to generate SVGs that you can laser cut: https://github.com/jbeda/penrose-svg
Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds
Are you in the EU?
I use an app to mute my android device's volume when "advertisement" appears in the "now playing" notification. For the past 4-6 weeks I've noticed Spotify will sometimes 'fail' to accurately update the "now playing" notification. I brushed it off as a bug, but this ToS makes me wonder if they are collecting device volume (which they can definitely do in android) and perhaps testing to see if I'm using the notifications to auto-mute? [puts on tinfoil hat]
Do we underinvest in infrastructure? For example, NYC spends much more money per passenger and per route mile than London to run a similar subway system, but it’s still crumbling. Maybe our problem is not funding but some cultural flaw that prevents us from using infrastructure money efficiently.
Nice alternative to Spotify is Apple Music. They recently opened up their API (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi) which has been used to create a nice web interface by https://musi.sh/

Their suggestions AI is quite a bit behind Spotify's unfortunately. Dunno if that's by a lack of design or because of Apple's privacy stance -- probably the former.
why would I need 18600 req/s ?

If you're at that scale then probably symfony isn't for you.
Only at really shitty companies.
Highly recommend patio11's site and blog: https://www.kalzumeus.com/

His post on salary negotiation should be mandatory reading for all software engineers: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Related question: If a woman decides to keep a child born out of rape does she forfeit the right to sue the rapist?

Sometimes you don't consent to things but you decide to make the best out of the resulting situation. It doesn't make the non consensual thing right.
The Constitution protects the rights of citizens to a government, not businesses. This is why employers can terminate employees who whistle-blow: the first amendment does not protect freedom of speech against a corporation, only against a government.
This is great. Would be even cool if changes are shown at code level and not line.
> Therefore, we could as well extend that presumption to a being sharing structures with similar functions.

This is more or less the current mainstream stance. I think it's fine to do it for practical purposes, for example deciding that animals cannot be ethically subjected to certain treatments by virtue of the complexity of their nervous systems. But this is reasonable doubt + principle of precaution. I'm fine with that.

What we cannot do is make this presumption and pretend that we are still within the realms of serious science or philosophy. The technical name for this presumption is emergentism, that consciousness somehow arises from the interactions of matter. I believe that the reason why this hypothesis is so popular, and even confused with scientific fact, is that it is the less weird. Avoiding weirdness is a common pitfall in the history of science, it leads to temporary dead-ends.
There's thousands of free internet radio stations, most of which have none or minimal advertising. I recommend people try them out.
Classic Mobile Onboarding Examples from Top Apps of 2018
If you can’t use a high touch interaction to increase conversion, then you’ve got something very wrong going on that’s bigger than intercom.
Is it not bad to have tiny needles traveling through your intestines?
They are even doubly so irritating when you don't use cookies. Have to click through the rejections each and every time. Quite quickly a browsing pattern forms to avoid certain sites.
A world where the elites curate everything we learn is the world of fake news. We are living in a fake news world and have been since forever.
I think one way to look at it is as an example of the positive effects of destruction.
Cities bombed down => get to rebuild higher density, modern form, get a strong regulated rental sector
Society destroyed => Britain still has a unique level of class-based system, unique private school=>uni system, lowest social mobility in Europe (closer to the US)
Monarchy destroyed (WW1) => get to have functioning politics (proportional representation). UK has never had a proper revolution that stuck, so our politics is directly descended from monarchs arguing with nobles, that's what led to Brexit and after Brexit to our inability to negotiate coherently.
Why does Britain care anyway, as they're leaving the EU?
I use Spotify because I like their discovery service, large library, and the fact that they are simply the best client I've found for multi-device listening (going from office to car to headphone to home stereo seamlessly). I pay for Spotify because their service offers great value and ad ad-free, skip-free experience.
What’s fascinating to me is the length people go to in order to justify freeloading.

If you don’t like the ads, Spotify has a subscription plan. In my country that’s €5 / month.

Surely that’s less money spent than the effort it takes to pirate music for usage with foobar2000.
Both sound like Nickelback to me so I don’t know…
Because Spotify lets me choose which song I want to listen to.
You could easily do something like this using open source parser generators, like Pegjs(https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs) and own the final code yourself.
This is a list of minor complaints from three years ago. Intercom has had several big updates and pricing changes since then. I don’t think it’s fair to post this (you have the right, of course) without seeing what’s changed since then.

I’m not a huge fan either, and I helped two startups move OFF Intercom just recently. But my issues with it today probably won’t be relevant three years from now.
> Britain won the war..

I think the reality of this is a little more nuanced. By virtue of geography (it's an island) Britain was the last place Germany were able to overrun. This bought time for what remained of the European forces to gather and reorganise, and provided a staging point for further counter-attacks.

The fact is, that Britain has never been invaded, not in modern times anyway, and outside of bombing raids has never known the true humiliation of hearing the foreign powers' jackboot marching down the street.

Just about every other nation in Europe has, and understands the value of the peace that closer union brings about.

>.. but lost the war.

Ultimately being able to claim "they won the war" may have done the UK more harm than good because they were never incentivised to address their deep deep social issues in any kind of a constructive way.

The good that comes out of the brexit fiasco might be that this is an eventual turning point for them.
Well, it's not like they financed the september 11 attacks...
For a similar visualization, but at the repository level, check out Gource [0]

[0] https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource
Probably not worse than having bigger needles traveling through your skin. But public perception of the device will definately be a large obstacle to overcome if it reaches the market.
600 miles is not long distance. Trains still work well at that distance. New York to LA is 2400 miles. New York to London is 3400 miles. New York City to India is 7000 miles.
Between the dwindling Netflix catalog and increasingly hostile subscription service experience on Spotify, I have found myself flying the black flag again. I still have subscriptions to both, but I will be cancelling them this year. I don't want their shitty analytics payloads, I don't want their shitty anti-adblocker tech. I don't want their shitty tactics of deleting random songs off my playlists. I just want the content I paid for.

It's not because I don't want to pay for the content, I'd happily pay 2-3x under the right circumstances. It's because no one wants to take my money and provide the content I want without bundling it with drm, ads, dark patterns, insane region segmentation, and manipulative cross-sell tactics.

Whatever arguments were made about piracy detracting from sales are laughable now. The copyright and ad lobbies are detracting from those sales, piracy is just a symptom of the cancer that they are.

Sonarr + Couchpotato + Plex + Subsonic is somehow a more consumer-friendly experience than their 'legitimate' counterparts. The fact that the premium subscription cost for those services is more than netflix+spotify, and yet people are willing to pay that much for their piracy, that should be pretty telling to any industry analyst.
Native Desktop apps would be a nice addition and you have something that could take on the Facetime/iMessage ecosystem.
This was a nice little review so I went to my local library website to reserve and found that they have two copies of this book published in 1967 from the Harvard University Press. The review's affiliate link to Amazon shows that this particular book is new and perhaps significant:

> “The Greek text of Characters is rather messy, with lots of sentences in dispute (or simply unintelligible) due to copyists’ errors in the transmission process. Only a few years ago, a new edition of the Greek text by James Diggle sorted out many of these problems. This new English version by Pamela Mensch takes advantage of that cleaned-up Greek text.”
This is my experience and it's clearly biased from maybe one bad example but ... Scons is an example of code over configuration and from what I could tell I never met someone that truly understood it. Because it was code over configuration every programmer added their own interpretation of what was supposed to happen, no programmer truly understood what was really going one and it turned into one giant mess of trying to understand different programmers hacks and code to get the build to work. I'm sure some Scons expert will tell me how I'm full of crap but I'm just saying, that's my experience.

So, what's my point? My point is configuration languages help in that they push "the one true way" and help to enforce it. Sure there are times you end up having to work around the one true way but given very powerful tools of a full language for configuration leads to chaos or at least that's my experience. Instead of being able to glance at the configuration and understand what's happening because it follows the one true way you instead end up with configuration language per programmer since every programmer will code up stuff a different way.
I don't understand your question. If you pay, they don't serve you ads, no?
Should TV networks try to block you if you don't look at the TV while ads are running? Or if you turn it off/switch channel/mute it? Same goes for newspapers and magazines - do you have a right to skip pages filled with ads and not look at them?
A printable lists of SSL ciphers... but why?? how could that be useful to anyone?!
> Hacking implies a sophisticated attack

to you and me, yes. probably also to Jeff Bezos. but to the general public (arguably the real audience here), hacking is anything between guessing someones weak password and sophisticated attacks like stuxnet.
I am looking forward to the day when the ad provider has an outage and spotify detects that 100% of their users do not load ads.

Or when popular antiviruses start blocking suspicious website contents.
> UK has never had a proper revolution that stuck

Well, there was Cromwell [0] but maybe that's part of the problem ...

[0] https://oll.libertyfund.org/groups/68
For me this question looks like "is there a good paid job to play with the newest toys in the market"?

The closest thing I know are some evangelizers in big companies who build proofs of concepts with megacorp tech + state of the art solutions in order to display some features or products in action and how does it integrate. A similar role are the proofs of concept made by engineers/prototypers who work for an offering manager.

In a similar fashion Software Architects, or other tech decision makers, might have the chance to experiment with technology for about one week every 2 years just to proof that certain technology fits the bill for their project, but usually they also additional worries, so usually all their experiments and choices are highly conservative and tend to be old proven technology which they want to double check with their existing stack.
Saudi money is no less dirty, so I can really only infer one thing from this. Wtf uk.
You can. You can freely mix purchased DRM free music, music from other sources and streaming music on Apple Music.
> Even pretty staunch libertarians are willing to entertain the value of the state when it comes to the transition into post-scarcity markets

A post-scarcity situation means there is no value and there are no markets. Scarcity creates value and cost, and value and cost are necessary for markets. (Markets, to frame it slightly differently, are a tool for managing the limitations imposed by scarcity.)

Of course, the clear importance of relative prosperity and deprivation in human utility and disutility combined with the fact that, however productive we become, resources are finite, means you aren't going to have a post-scarcity situation with anything like the humans we know, it's a fantasy that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I only tried Symfony 1.4 and 2.0. And I'm doing Rails from 2.3 to 5.2.

I could go on a very long discussion about why I prefer Rails but at the end of day it's just up to you to compare.

When I started Rails I was building an app with Symfony, took me a week to get it to a good state and it was extra frustrating (I had been doing PHP for 5 years).

I started Rails, learned Ruby on Wikipedia and just general googling and got the same app in a few hours.
No, Parsing expression grammar (PEG) are not regular grammars at all.

For more resources, I think the related work of my paper has the main ones. The "Kleene meets Church" project has lot's of very good publications on the topic: https://di.ku.dk/kmc/publications/
The analogy doesn't seem right. It's more like you are at a party and the clown they hired goes on your face to yell something. You have the right to move away and enjoy the party elsewhere. And now they'll kick you out of the party if you don't allow the clown to yell at you, ok, I'll leave the party myself in that case.
It is intellectually dishonest to attribute literal intent to some of his statements, but others made with the same bombastic style only obviously more ridiculous are hand-waved away as "it was the spirit of the thing he meant, not literally". And whether or not his followers care about Mexico paying for the wall, his various statements clearly indicated a literal intent on the topic. And while some on the left may mean "let's massively reorganize ICE and rethink its operational policies", it's clear that some also mean this literally.

You're right about Occasio-Cortez: she is shaping up to be about as bad as Trump in this respect. I'm not quite sure which of them is worse, but I know the prospect of her someday getting to the White House is a chilling prospect, even though my political leanings are in that direction. She appears to be about as dangerously ignorant (and perhaps callous) of facts of situations. The only mitigating factor for her is that perhaps experience will temper this, and maybe she is just uninformed but not unwilling to learn.
Reading the commentary on whitespace, my thoughts immediately jumped to the C preprocessor. Even though it's built into the language, it has the same sorts of problems as a template engine has with generating YAML: the preprocessor just wasn't enough aware of the syntactic structure of the language to make it easy to generate anything of significant complexity.

I'm not proud of this (and like to think I could come up with something better these days), but this code was a bit of a nightmare for that reason:

https://github.com/mschaef/vcsh/blob/master/vm/number.c#L256

Lisp macros do better, but they have the problem that the macros (and their potentially unusual evaluation rules) can easily just blend in with ordinary function calls.
Disagree. I’ve tried other live chat solutions and they don’t help. The issue is that in order for the overhead to be worthwhile (ie, the time and attention of operating the chats), the conversion improvement has to be massive. It never has been, for me.
Well, except Perl doesn't parse regular grammars (it parses much more) and is far from being "one pass" (since the complexity guarantees are not valid anymore) ....
That may be true, but what does it have to do with the topic at hand? Britain and Germany are on the same side of this issue.