skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ruby Quiz – Powerball Mega Millions: Create a Contract for America's #1 Lottery
Also seemingly imported from a sci-if world, click farms are fascinating: https://mobile.twitter.com/JamieJBartlett/status/11051514957...
Sadly we have all of that but the cyberpunk aesthetic didn't make it :( I want my neo-Tokyo.
There is medication that can prevent baldness. It has very rare, but very scary side-effects though. Eventually we might have something that fixes the genes responsible for baldness.
In other words: take away soap + water + disposal of you-know-what and...
In my definition:

Website: main focus is information serving, documents, designs, texts, assets, etc.

Webapp: users can create some kind of output from the service that's based on creative input.

The line is still blurry, but more narrow and contrasted.
But you could be just across the border and digging in.
I agree with you if that means anything to you. The fact that drug problems in a country like Japan are far diminished relative to a country like the US means, in my mind, that the culture should attempt to maintain that purity, which can only be reasonably done by preventing people from partaking.

Take fast food for instance. The Americanization of the Japanese diet is leading to increased obesity in what used to be a very healthy society. It is the mere exposure of these addictive foods that has lead to this. Honestly, it makes me a bit sad.
Very much agreed. That character is so memorable that it's difficult for me to think of him playing a non-George role. I think the actor had trouble with post-Seinfeld roles too.
What Could Possibly Go Right?
Are bots gaming the 'Cancel Brexit' petition?
It can be considered a declarative programming language and is Turing Complete. You can even write games in it:
https://minocernota.com/articles/pure_css_game/
usually it goes like "technically yes but in practice no"
Citation needed. I also used to have a photo of a Financial Times article back from 2011 (I think) of a NATO higher-up acknowledging the fact that Israel and Russia were already ahead of the game at that point in terms of online influencing, with the NATO official explicitly saying that both Israel and Russia have dedicated units for this.

From personal experience I can testify that Israel was actually the first in the game, as I remember engaging against very persuasive pro-Israel posters on reddit during the summer of 2006 (meaning during Israel's war against Hezbollah), at a time when that site was almost totally politics-free. That was a lesson for me and I've since given up on any Israel-related discussions online.

The Russian shill accounts started showing up two summers later, in 2008, during Russia's war with Georgia. Somewhere in the reddit server logs there's all this information stored and ready to be analyzed but I suspect no-one has any real incentive in doing this.
lwn articles

https://lwn.net/Articles/646950/

https://lwn.net/Articles/152436/
Formatting a USB stick from Terminal only to realize I referenced the wrong drive. Killed the process too late, the Macbook crashed and failed to boot. Apple couldn't save the drive or recover anything.

Thankfully all but the last day's work was on Git, but I was using the laptop as a temporary photo storage (only device with an SD card reader at the time) and lost 9 months of important photos.
Non-functional languages seem to pay lip service to FP, confusing people into thinking they're already using it.

Example:
It is well known that "Java Strings are immutable", which is a good idea. Yet you can absolutely write:
> String str = "hello,";
> str += "world!";
So it's "immutable" for some lawyerish definition which does me no good. If I write a method that depends on s, it will produce different results each time.

> So functional programming should never handle state
Not at all. You should know (and be able to enforce) when your code does mutations.
Maybe he was right?
> “one person sources the data, another models it, a third implements it, a fourth measures it”

Call it whatever you like, it is what it is.
yeah but people hate writing Go. It’s like using the dullest possible knife. It doesn’t have objects, it doesn’t have generics (so you can’t really do Functional Programming) and it doesn’t really let you do C-style machine work either. Its basic assumption is that you’ll have an endless supply of human beings to
implement everything, because the computer isn’t going to let you abstract anything
Two arrested for hiding cameras in motels and charging for access to livestreams
Wow this is really cool, well done!
Putty was great in 2005, but Windows now includes OpenSSH as part of the OS. Combine that with Fluent Terminal, Hyper 3 Canary or Terminus (or maybe alacritty if you have a tabbed WM) and you can have a much better terminal than what Putty provides.
Are you suggesting we've actually TRIED rehabilitation? If so, I think our definitions differ. We haven't tried anything besides incarceration.
Tax deductions aren’t tax credits. Investment losses are deductions not credits. It is a huge difference.

“Writing off” a investment loss only reduced your bill by the marginal tax rate of your loss. If it was a credit, you’d be marking down the tax bill by the entire amount of the loss, which isn’t what happens for investments.

To many people think that something being deductible makes it “free”. No. They basically give you a discount for the item equal to your marginal tax rate.

Note: I am not a CPA. Please see one before doing your tax if you are confusing credits and deductions.
I would love to see a kickstarter or something to create high quality assets for Open Arena, and add raytracing. Personally, I find that Quake 3 gameplay is more fun than any modern shooter that I've played. It's fast paced, and really well streamlined. It's just pure adrenaline.

Adding things like health regen, cover, alternate fire modes, and so on ultimately just distracts from the action in my opinion. We don't really have any more games like Quake nowadays.
I think the open source hardware has more appeal in that end-users can "audit" their hardware... I'm not sure how true it is, but that's the idea...
I understand where you come from but for me this is a huge drawback when I have to use Spring. I never know what to expect when working on a new spring project.

> beans defined in XML : we don't do that anymore
But you still can do that! Also you still can do DI with Autowired private fields instead of injecting via constructors. You can also create beans based on properties. You can also create beans automatically via a included JAR on your class path. On Spring Boot you can also have beans created based based on some conditional annotation. And now there's yet another new DSL [1] to create your beans programatically on startup time. Tracking down and debugging what's loaded in Spring is super hard compared to Guice for example.

Configuration is another piece of software that I have a really hard time to think why they do that. You can configure via a YAML file, AND via a properties file, AND overriding via environment variables, AND also with a configuration server that store your properties on a separated server, and they are all mixed together in a weird single configuration entry for the specific environment that you have. Probably this made sense some 10 years ago when we loved J2EE but why support this kind of madness nowadays?

What I feel Spring is missing so much is forgetting about all the past and where the framework came from, start from scratch with simple premises around reactor-netty [2], only supporting the functional DSL, no crazy class path scanning, no crazy configuration loading, just a simple DI framework with some batteries included.

[1] https://spring.io/blog/2017/08/01/spring-framework-5-kotlin-...
[2] https://github.com/reactor/reactor-netty
it works for him and the software he is the end responsible for.

But does it work for the software he’s responsible for, or does the software he’s responsible for work in spite of his behavior?

How is that working out? Less hurt feelings I guess but it's not making any significant advances either and has been stagnant for years.

Commissions that don’t hurt people’s feelings make something stagnant? Could there be other forces at work to explain Java’s stagnation, other than a commission that doesn’t hurt people’s feelings enough?
Yes. In fact, years ago it was suggested that we do that for the San Andreas Fault to prevent a catastrophic "big one" release.

I read occasionally that fracking causes earthquakes, too. While there is controversy around fracking, I see the systematic de-stressing of the earth's surface as a benefit.
Seems neither the FAA nor Boeing can be trusted. How can anyone without expert knowledge have the final say so in technical certification? It sounds like FAA just chose to cut corners and passed the problem down to the company. Do family members of victims have a solid case for lawsuits here? I hope they do because this process has to change if the people are to trust in those who are supposed to be looking out for safety.
I am not, strictly speaking, bald--I have about as much hair as Eisenhower did when he was president. My vanity is much more committed to not caring (or not showing that I care) about such matters than it is to the full head of hair I had years ago.
this is a non sequitur to my post. I asked a pretty specific question that you have not answered in your reply.
Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds
2018 CRDT Research Meetup – Lisbon
> how does that explain cases where countries have defaulted and other countries and their own citizens lose confidence in the currency?

Other countries cant issue dollars which is the world exchange currency. When you print out your countries cash, your currency exchange value drops and then you have to reduce your imports. Its easy for a country like argentina, for example, to keep a negative balance trade, run out of dollars and then it cant pay unless it devaluates the currency so much , outside money comes flooding in.

The US can print out its own money, but the major risk I perceive is that it wrecks its exchange rate. If the dollar loses value, first it actually adjusts the prosperty of the american people relative to imports/exports, but also risks its world-reserve status. It is often underestimated how profitable it is for the US to be financed by the entire earth on trade. If that changed..it would be a serious, irreversible economic damage.
Tell HN: Solving reCAPTCHA is required to read Spin Model Checker Documentation
Do you really think that urban hipsters from Stockholm are culturally similar to rural Swedes? This sounds more like a dog whistle for "non-white". In any case it is a deeply racist view.
Is a shop an advert ?
(1) Since you're limiting yourself to the gulf region, it'd probably be responsible to disclose your CO2 injection costs, including the cost of compressing the CO2 to the necessary pressures. It'd also be responsible to either disavow or embrace enhanced oil recovery vs. other injection approaches: you're either devoted to reducing carbon or making gasoline cheaper, and you have to choose.

(2) If these numbers are accurate, you're doing yourself a disservice by burying them. 25+ dry tons/acre/year is amazing. And I thought the crab grass on my lawn grew fast.
I seriously doubt your chemistry, however. Let's look at your three possible approaches (2b sounding the most like what you're claiming to do):

(2a). Charring: Hopefully using all that free low-grade heat from the refinery you colocate with, the cellulose cooks until all the hydrogens join with the ample oxygens in the cellulose and you end up with a char and steam. No hydrogen this way.

(2b). Steam Reforming: This tech works with natural gas because the C:H ratio is so low, and no oxygen is introduced that doesn't bring its own "dates". Because the C=O bond in carbon monoxide is so strong, you can leach off some of the H2. However, as soon as you raise that C:H ratio, or up the available oxygen, steam reforming fails and just becomes combustion. C:H in cellulose is 6:10 vs. methane's 1:4. And that's before the 5 oxygens (vs. methane's 0) ruin it further. No hydrogen this way.

(2c). Fischer-Tropsch (the original Hans and Franz): In a chamber about as expensive as your Haber-Bosch capex, you somehow convert dried grass and catalyst to a mix of H2 and CO, the latter of which you can convert into more H2. Doesn't sound like you're using this approach, though it could technically work if pressure cooking your grass didn't require ridiculous amounts of energy, and you had a way to separate the H2 from the syngas. How many MJ of energy is that? So, maybe Hydrogen this way.

(2d) What'd I miss?

(3) Ok, so your co-founder's protestations about making gasoline cheaper were unnecessary, and you co-locate with oil refineries. Instead of downplaying it, own it: grassoline is trademarked but not for the type of product you'd make. Makes sense to leverage someone else's existing capex, as long as they let you. Those oil guys are flush with cash, why are you distancing yourself from them? They'd love to have your CO2 if it's at high enough pressure.

(4) My mistake. Your timing was highly coincidental with Demo Day, technology looked like it could have been part of it, and the faulty assumption was mine.
Neat, I'd like to add this to my Company's GitHub repos, we already pay for a couple of GitHub integrations and this sounds useful...

> Pricing:

> Contact sales

Nope.
I believe there are exceptions like the "Combat Engineer" in the Canadian Forces.
> South Korea already has 23 nuclear plants though [1], I wonder why they decided to go this route, perhaps easier setup and lower associated costs ?

Despite South Korea being among the only countries that can currently do successful large nuclear builds, South Korea's government is fairly anti-nuclear, reflecting fear of the public post-Fukushima [1]. This is really sad because the skilled workers and construction management expertise required to accomplish this are very rare, and this team could be instrumental in very rapidly decarbonizing the world if deployed strategically. S. Korea also has some of the best shipyards. Turning them into assembly lines for GW-scale nuclear plants (floating or embanked) is one of the more interesting ways to rapidly and cheaply build out terawatts of clean, safe energy [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/19/new-south-kore...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2015/new-look-floating-nuclear-power-06...
Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? The Descendants, Not Harvard, a Lawsuit Says
> Microsoft? Major ISPs and wireless carriers?

These are physical businesses, not internet companies.

Bing has ads. Twitter has ads. Reddit has ads.

Yahoo! has had ads since 1990s.
Gitlab 11.9 released with secrets detection and multiple MR approval rules
This is a generic "no true Scotsman" argument. Not everybody shares the same definition of FP and while "My definition of FP is what Haskell gives me, and the author's definition is more akin to what Clojure and Elixir give them" is a correct statement, it's also not a very insightful point.

You can't deny that there are lots of languages and techniques that people call "functional" where the key ingredient isn't "programs composed as an evaluation of a single expression" but something else (such as "immutable state").
Yet another reason to support higher taxes and more wealth redistribution.
Oh, ok. You dislike brand advertising, that's reasonable.

I don't know if it's viable to separate good brand advertise (our soda tastes good, our bags last forever) from the bad kind (use our product and get all the pretty woman). Some regulation over emotional tone (and, of course, false info) may be much more successful than focusing on brands vs. unitary products.
$500k seems like a low cutoff for a team managing 8,763 locations, 66k employees, 136,000 inmates. If we're comparing to the private sector.

And if we keep the relation to Harvard, I'm quite sure there are more than 5 staff at harvard making over 500k/year.
Predictable result of modern municipal government acceptance of homeless encampments. If you try to prune a tree on your front yard you'll need 17 approvals before you can even think about touching shears, but pitch a tent in the middle of the sidewalk and nobody will ever bother you.
Its one way of doing it, but think that tax policy you can control: you can make it progressive, or give credits, or do something else. Printing money affects all the currency, and has uneven effects of all kinds, including favoring the banking sector the most.
Simple landing page? Pre-Compressed Static HTML, Basic CSS, no frameworks, no JS, no cookies. I would suggest that anything else does not qualify as a simple landing page.
The real cost was not hidden. In fact, it was quite clear to me -- it was on my bill. Even still, the total was a tiny fraction of what a similar procedure would have cost in the US.

There is no objective cost for a service.
That's fair, if you don't like REPL dev then I understand. I was going to say you rarely have to deal with the start up time, because of the repl, but it sounds like you already know that.
you can tell this is dated because “People think I’m a nice guy” is definitely not reflecting how people talking about the man lately
Sure there is, by changing struct fields content upon a multmethod dispatch.

There are many ways to do OOP.

I advise to read the "The Art of Metaobject Protocol".
The New Age of Sleeper Trains
I ascribe to the theory that tickling is a mechanism children instinctively use to learn important survival skills. The seemingly contradictory behavior of wanting something while also not wanting it makes perfect sense in this light. Appearing to want tickling encourages others to "attack," while truly not wanting it motivates a child to vigorously defend. Relatedly, children seem to universally enjoy games of hide-and-seek and chase. Even more fun, are combinations of these such as an adult acting as though they are a horrible monster while chasing children who hide and do their best to avoid a tickle mauling. Similar behavior appears in a variety of juvenile animals who actively encourage being chased and play-attacked. A child who learns to perform well in these play scenarios can apply such skills to the real world when they truly need to evade, hide, or defend themselves while still small and weak. I think that trying to impose adult consent behaviors upon young children in these areas is unnatural and counter productive.
Maybe a bit like the OpenPOWER project?
MQTT v5.0
It also, as far as I know, requires taking indefinitely. Once you stop, if you were going bald before, that process will continue.
If I think "that guy/girl in prison could be my neighbour, cousin, god help me even my kid" I will care about them and want them to be rehabilitated. They're a relatable person to me.

If I think "it's one of those people from the other side of the tracks" it won't feel like a person with whom I could have a close connection. I might not care as much.

Not saying it's a good thing, though.
I think debuggers are actually a lot less useful than people think. Just by thinking, using a REPL, or putting in print statements you can solve probably 99% of all bugs.

Debuggers are useful when you really have no fucking idea what's going on.
Also the issues of paying for it. You could say private health insurance is bad, but just try Medicaid.

The helping relationship is fundamentally difficult too. Some people are going to do the wrong thing and face consequences if they do. Sometimes what you think is the right thing is really the wrong thing and vice versa. You can't take responsibility for someone else's life in the end.
I'm a little confused about their apparent implication that they have to single step all the way to the point that they want to inspect. Maybe older debuggers made you do this? But today, breakpoints are useful and seem to be widely supported, so you can run the program at full speed to the point of inspection, and then instead of getting a drive-by snap-shot as you do with a printout, you can do a more in-depth interrogation of the state of the system "Oh, this part of the state has value X as I expected, maybe it's this other part of the state instead--yes, there is something weird over here!" instead of discovering value X in the first run, adjusting your print statement, recompiling, and discovering the unexpected behavior.

All that having been said, surely there is still great value in applying a similar amount of consideration as to where to put the breakpoints as you would in determining where to put a print statement! (edit: and also in thinking hard about what new values to inspect if your initial guess is not borne out)
> Reagan's mantra of "trust but verify"

That's actually a Russian proverb, afaik. In German the equivalent typically is attributed to Lenin ("trust is good but supervision is better"), but I think without source.
My experience of this on HN has led me to basically conclude it’s not very possible to be constructive in internet comments. I may clearly re-state a point of view I disagree with, and the response will always be that I have either misunderstood it, no matter what, or that my replies (which are tailored exactly to the item I’m responding to) don’t refute the original point and I’m “not providing evidence.”

In other words, the most common type of reply I get is something to the effect of, “Despite re-stating my argument with clear articulation, you did not understand it (and I won’t say why) and further, your counterpoints don’t constitute “evidence” or induce any information transfer (which I will take to imply your deficiency and not mine), and before looking further into any of this, the burden of collecting, organizing and disseminating evidence is all on you.”

This attitude seems often to get rewarded with upvotes as well. It’s very distressing to me personally.
Again, you're making up a strawman. The economics DO work for rail, no matter how much you disagree, when you constrain things to the coasts. Yet we don't have decent rail connecting the coastal cities.

Canadian cities are generally farther apart than US cities, except for Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal. All the Canadian cities are just on the other side of the border, which is the longest undefended international border in the world.

>The exceptions, like on the east coast where points are closer, actually do have better rail. Not great

Not great is a severe understatement.

>I really don't see what's so difficult to understand.

I don't either. San Diego, LA, and SanFran are not that far apart, and would be well served by a high speed rail like they have in Japan and China and Europe. Yet we don't have it. Same goes for the northeast corridor. These cities are no farther apart than the cities served by HSR in these other countries.
Have you ever considered that maybe being self-centered isn't human nature but the kind of behavior capitalism incentivises?
Of course there are workarounds, but they are time consuming and therefore expensive, but also less efficient and reliable. It would be going back to the 80s, but even more locked in to physical outlets as gatekeepers. You're really just exchanging an inconvenience for a tyranny.
Homelessness and the problems that go along with it is only a serious problem in certain cities on the west coast.

Don't get me wrong, every city has some homeless but cities in the rest of the country seem to be able to keep the problem at bay without increased "wealth redistribution", many of those cities even exist in states with far less "wealth redistribution" than the cities that have the biggest homeless problems. I see no indication that increased wealth distribution will fix the problem. There does not seem to be any substantial correlation.

I think the problem lies elsewhere. Problems like this don't tend to have single sources and single solutions anyway.
> Seconds between keepalives set to 59

Why not 60?
What racists?