skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Horrible for: UTF8, syntax checks, numbers (albeit JSON has this problem too for floats), deep nesting, arrays, strings as keys, consistency between different parsers, etc etc

Good for: comments, readability if keys limited, familiarity.
I'm just writing an emacs process-output reader on top of https://github.com/zwild/ammonite-term-repl to get Ammonite's completion directly in emacs buffers. Of course it's a (very) dirty hack compared to something like a notebook or nREPL, but for my needs a notebook is too heavyweight and there isn't a nREPL implementation for ammonite/scala.

I started writing this so I could at the same time learn some elisp while writing something I would use in future. I'm still trying to figure out things (git forkflow, elisp, scala) but it already seems to work most of the times.

Link: https://github.com/spellcard199/ammonite-term-repl-completio...
The laws won't work.

The internet isn't a "US" thing. It's not a "EU" thing. It's not even a "China" thing (GFoC aside).

The internet's a worldwide thing. And that means, sure your puny law may say you can't do X (ad tracking). Ok. I'll just make a shell company in shithole country, pay some protection money, and run tracking or whatever. And that data I generate will be sold to anyone who wants to buy. I'll make it so everybody has to buy to compete - even if against the law.

And it too is a failing battle in the US. Experian, Equifax, and Transunion... If what happened regarding Equifax didn't bring the corporate death penalty either by fines or dissolution of their corporate charter, nothing will.
This is one reason I love PowerShell's design that everything is case insensitive.

For casual scripting, it's so nice to not have to care if it's length or Length. At least memory can help me if it's len/length but length/Length is no distinction at all.

(Case sensitivity is one of my pet hates, for anti-human UX).
Given the use of pets names and maiden names as common authentication tokens for money, that it is a kind of weird joke to start with and that it doesn't really have a punchline and can easily fall flat, it stinks of grifter patter.

Though it isn't as bad as; 'You can't cheat an honest man'. You hear someone saying that, you start counting your fingers before you shake hands and check them again as soon as your done.
I think if Delphi had been developed more it could still be the best windows desktop environment now.
> Not really sure if it is feasible because it would have to have the smarts to distinguish between the actual tv show and a commercial but I'd play good money for something like this.

If you live in the US, and broadcasts are delivered to you with IPTV, then reading about SCTE-35 might be of interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCTE-35

Though I don’t know if these control messages are actually included in the video stream that is broadcast to the viewers, so it might be a dead end, but I think I read that at least some channels do include them in the broadcast stream. Might be worth looking into.
Information is power. In my company the financial guys also have a very regular promotion schedule compared to R&D where you are pretty much stuck after a few years.
That's an interesting read. I'm thinking on whether the real question is what is the declarative difference between the video tag, which by normal application lets everyone feel find about that content hidden by the shadow DOM vs the APIs we're developing for our custom elements. There seems to be an important piece of learning, not just for SSR, but for custom element development in general, that I think we can build off of.
Enaml (https://github.com/nucleic/enaml) is a declarative component-based GUI library for Python that more or less has the same driving philosophy and feel of React. There's even a (parallel project) Enaml-web.
I pay for TV (not by choice, bundled into my internet), but I still watch the illegal sports streams because the video quality is just as good and the streamers automatically block out the commercials during the breaks. I also get to watch with Twitch chat and can easily rewind the stream if I miss a big play. Television is an awful way to consume media.
Are Trigger Warnings Helpful?
Well, it sounds pretty disingenuous, but you can still find some meaning out of that. An asset by definition is a useful/valuable thing or person.
If Teslas become better just with OTA updates, then they become more useful and valuable for the person that owns them.
Of course, financially speaking it doesn't make sense (they will depreciate like any other car that rack up miles), but I see some merit in that statement since no other vehicle in the market currently can get better just with the past of time (as you get new updates).

I don't know if his statement was about the financial depreciation of a Tesla or not, but if in 6 months, my car is better than it is today, with no custom parts or additions, you can undoubtedly claim that its value (the perception of what the car is doing for me) increased. Though, not its financial value.
> The social landscape has changed for the worse. People no longer want to connect with friends, they want to show off how better/popular/wealthier they think they are.

It is the gamification factor. People is optimizing their behavior to get more likes not to get better connected.

"Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game" summarizes quite well the situation.
Would not be nearly enough.

U.S. health care spending grew 3.9 percent in 2017, reaching $3.5 trillion or $10,739 per person.

That exceeds tax federal income tax revenue by about $2 trillion

The us govt already spends so much on healthcare.
Top post on the 2016 version of this repost, links to an NPR article that debunks the whole thing: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a...
Vault7 Files
They don't HAVE to do business in China, do they? Who's holding the gun to their head?
Do people in mission critical systems (like life threatening) write code from scratch all the time without using any external dependencies? I'm sure they don't reinvent encryption.

I'd like to know how they audit their system and the threshold of saying it is adequately secure.
> The argument is being able to look at some court house built in 1925 is not more important than people in 2018 (and forever into the future) having more affordable places to live.

A compromise can be converting the court house into apartments or offices, so that it can have contemporary use but at the same time some aspects of its historic appearance are preserved (such as its façade). Of course, other parts of its historical value are going to be lost – it is likely impossible to maintain the historical integrity of the actual court rooms in the process of converting the building into offices or apartments – but it is still better than knocking down the building entirely.

I used to live around the corner from an old water pump house converted to offices. When they switched from coal-fired pumps to electrical ones, suddenly the amount of space consumed by the pumps shrunk dramatically. So they removed all the boilers and turned it into office space instead. Part of me wishes the boilers had stayed, but it is better than knocking down the building entirely.
I don't feel pain with vscode's settings.json, or .eslintrc for example, because they are autocompletable, allow comments (json5), allow trailing commas (json5), ...
> it would have to have the smarts to distinguish between the actual tv show and a commercial but I'd play good money for something like this

Pre-CALM[1], you might have been able to use the relative volume change to detect ads. Not sure if that will work anymore. Some kind of visual/audio fingerprinting might work best these days, collecting information about new ads in the process.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudn...
Which is so easy given that we're all just swimming in spare time, or sitting on generous supplies of rainy day capital to keep us afloat long enough for our message to be heard, and implemented in a manner consistent with our desires as opposed to those organizations who actually have those things that are doing the same?

Easier said than done.
At every point in the supply chain (grow, pick, sort, package, deliver...) a % of produce becomes more expensive to keep than to throw. So it being dropped.
> Apple is following the laws of a country they do business in. Full stop.

Yeah right...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#IBM's_po...
If we took things to the absolute extreme and tore it all down? Yes we would be better off. I don't think the current value of historic sites outweighs the deadweight. This is coming from a North American perspective though.

It wouldn't be the best option but the sites that have survived a hundred of years didn't survive because some legal mandate dictated it. It's because they were buildings built to last.
I don't mind using code to generate what the status should look like, as long as the code doesn't actually mutate the state.

Similar to React and it's virtual dom.
By router I assume you mean WiFi AP, firewall and router.

I run pfSense on an Intel box I got from AliExpress (i5-6200U, 8GB ram) as my firewall and use its 6x Ethernet ports for basic routing. Despite having a decently powered spec, in operation it takes 8-9W power.

Searching AliExpress for pfSense returns lots of options, many will have lower consumption.

For WiFi I have a tp-link AP (EAP-225) that takes about 3W.

This is a bit more than an all-in-one consumer unit (the one I replaced was a couple of watts), but I'm very happy with its power consumption.
Trade secrets of other companies. HIPAA protected medical information. Classified information. Information related to the location of a person in the Witness Protection Program.
The manufacturing
Comments in most /etc files on Linux are fantastic - you can skim the config file and often find what you need, and you often know what is irrelevant, and the comments often warn you against common failures.
You can try openwrt: https://openwrt.org/

You can install several packages including adblock and cryptdns-proxy.
Here's a list of supported routers: https://openwrt.org/toh/start
The Dr and the insurance company... who else would it be?
Yeah he's IDM not EDM, IDM is a older term from the 90s they called it "intelligent dance music" because it uses the tools of dance music but just like you could dance to Duke Ellington but nobody danced to Charlie Parker you can't exactly dance to music as complex as his but it enjoyable listening for sure.
I was definitely speaking from a US perspective. I would be so happy if the US would start doing more to lock up user data. We already protect health data (HIPAA) and I think it would be a great idea to extend that to all data connected with an individual or account.
Regarding Aphex and unique methods of sounds creation, check out his midi-driven robots.

“Hat” : https://logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/HAT.html

“snar_2” : https://logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/snar2.html

He also has a full drum kit with actuatated drumsticks on each surface. I can’t find that online, but I saw it in an interview in his home studio.
Classified information, threats, bomb making instructions (borderline), categories of pornography, pirated media, libelous statements, trade secrets. Like I said, we may all agree that those things shouldn't be published--almost the entire world would--but some of them may be legal in some jurisdictions and not others, and there's a whole lot of grey area around the edges.
It continues to be amazing that he isn't in jail for securities fraud.
>but not less work overall

I think we do have less work overall and need to accept the liberation.

A lot of jobs have popped up through things like regulatory capture or monopolistic competition(1) which have debatable benefit to society.

1-https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-r...
Maximum occupancy will determine the extent of development. Events also dictate capacity must handle a surge. While a stable occupancy might be served by "two boats per day", an event might require handling "two boats per hour."
Configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting
National security letters. And anything covered by an NDA we're including civil law.
Trump is temporary.

Europe knows it, China knows it.

Trump stands "alone", in the white House and internationally.

Wait the day he is President no more, his cookie will crumble. His few loyalist will disappoint.
You're forgetting about the Earned Income Tax Credit and other tax credits. Not all money paid out by the IRS is from wage withholding.
Yes, yes, yes, yes! I dream about the same thing. And an overlay with a light gun to shoot holes in whatever's on. And this device could do some processing, like SETI, or whatever other useful thing.
The best language is “the one you know” which is why I think pulumi looks like the best answer so far.
Which in turn gets passed on to the tenants who have to pay a bunch of money because gamgam insisted that it would culture future generations to be able to look at an old courthouse.

If everybody just left a historic building alone it would just decay into disrepair. If somebody is not using the location it has no value. The people going around designating every building that stays standing beyond a certain number of years historic causing said land to go underutilized need to pay some of the cost. The status quo is overbroad.
Intro to XGBoost: Predicting Life Expectancy with Supervised Learning
What Are Containers? A Simple Guide to Containerization and How Docker Works
That doesn't counter GP's point, it reinforces it. The successful moon missions were all launched for political reasons, too.
>You can turn off the collection of location data for Google.

If you have an android phone, please try turning off the location service and see what happens.
The sheer number of dark patterns google uses to get you to turn it back on is illuminating.

I remember in the early versions of android, you could turn on/off the gps from the lock screen. Then one day it went away and was only available once the phone was unlocked. Now it's hidden inside the settings app. The cynic in me guesses that a future update will turn that option off as well.
Discourse too. But frankly I wish people stop making publicly releasing software as rails app, the resource usage is just insane. I always have to upgrade my server just because of running a single rails app.
... until your jinja templating breaks for some obscure reason, or the underlying terraform resource upgrades (they follow the provider api after all), or if you need to do some state surgery and partition one terraform state into multiple ones, or until you want to import resources into the generated terraform or....

Apologies, I don't mean to be a downer. But... you're making your present life easier but making the code harder to maintain for future maintainers of your codebase.
> WikiLeaks rejects all submissions that it cannot verify. WikiLeaks rejects submissions that have already been published elsewhere or which are likely to be considered insignificant.

They published the PizzaGate conspiracy theory.
I like the concept and the lightweight presentation, but this site really suffers by excessive trimming of subject lines. In many cases, I can’t tell what the story is about at all, and so I just didn’t bother continuing to explore.
I agree, I don't really sweat it, and the seasoned engineers I respect totally get it. But mastery can be fun, and while I'm developing a kind of "meta-mastery" (I touched my first Go production codebase two weeks ago, and was able to fix a bug in it without really cracking the books except for Interface{}), I miss plain-old mastery that other fields can achieve.
I think that https://colourise.sg/ does a better job. 5he samples I tried looked better from colourise IMHO.
Why would anyone lend money without interest?
EITC and tax credits. The poor are not just receiving a refund on withholdings.
I am in the exact same spot. Whenever I do get the chance to go back to gaming/IRC I tend to feel quite bad about it (it's strongly affiliated with being lonely). So what to do now, it doesn't make it easier that the amount of freedom without responsibilities is quite low and tend to show up spontaneously. As it should be when you have kids.

It's painful to let go of those memories and accept that life has probably changed permanently, and with that what kind of activity that fits best.
> If some piece of software requires some complex configuration I have to refer to some external documentation anyway

Where do you document you use of that external document? In a configuration file the support comments, you can do it in a comment:

# See Necronomicon, page 751 to determine these parameters
Stratolaunch just became the world’s largest airplane ever to fly
Could they not close iTunes to China while doing their manufacturing there?
The 3 degree rise is an average, not a total. Also, I suspect warming is way under estimated right at this moment. I would be completely unsurprised if we lose the polar ice caps in just a couple of decades.
The problem isn’t that we don’t have socialized healthcare. The problem is that for some reason, healthcare in this country is ridiculously expensive. We can’t have both; only one or the other. If healthcare is too expensive and you socialize it, the government will be bleeding even more money trying to pay for it all.
Docker Swarm Rocks
> The DSL route was likely to dumb things down for operations people with little software experience,

I find this a strange argument. Traditional operations people will still resist using these techniques, and will use pre-canned modules and resources if they're forced to use something.

The real reason seems to be because of the declarative nature of IaC rather than concerns about adoption.
Should probably add: why would anyone lend money without interest to someone they don’t know?
Know all those except Prolog, plus a couple of Lisps - it just makes it worse ;) I agree that the more disparate the languages, the easier it is. And if I use one language consistently for a year or so, I get pretty keyed into it and only rarely try to figure out why it isn't working because I randomly typed "if not X {}" in Go ;)
What's the point?

I reckon some years down the road, everything on the internet today will fit on a thumb-drive. Fit in your pocket, and also be available to whole world, including terabytes upon terabytes of leaked private data from Gmail, Facebook etc. Including private data, and instantly searchable using some kind of technology that blows 2019 Google out of the water. And probably anyone you encounter will have AR glasses hooked up to that data. AR glasses with facial recognition; instantly display your life story, your college transcripts, spy-cam footage of you from a public rest room, your doctor's records, your baby photos, etc.

Maybe the answer is a yearly visit to a cosmetic surgeon, and a yearly legal name change.
How you made my product launch a success
Prioritization of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR–Cas9 screens
Pointing out the fact of white privilege and the fact that wealth often flows through generations in families is not a racist statement.
I just looked at some random configuration file on my system. Right at the top, in the comments was the following:

# Please don't edit this file directly (it is updated with every Red Hat
# Linux update, overwriting your changes). Instead, edit /etc/...

Nice. I now know to make changes in a file that won't be overwritten by an update, and if there are issues, it's either with the site local file, or the one provided by Red Hat, and it's probably (although not exclusively) the site local file that is in error.
On the other hand, Apple devices in China still offer more privacy than most alternatives, so is it really better for Chinese users if Apple walks away?
> If it requires less fuel than the Haber-Bosch process, then why is it not profitable?

That was clearly intended as a zing, but it just shows you aren't thinking about this right. Conventional ammonia production is vastly less efficient than just composting your garbage. Be real here. Bacteria literally do the job at a labor cost of zero and all you need to do is keep it in a stable environment.

What hurts is what always hurts: scale. If the composting facility is across town, you also need to haul the biomass around and haul the fertilizer back. If the industry is tooled up to spread pellet fertilizer it's going to see an immediate cost moving to equipment that can spread and till compost.

But stop pretending that there's an "efficiency" argument to baking nitrogen into ammonia in a 20 barr, 500C pressure cooker. That's nonsense.
Point taken: the safety of such systems should be compared to how people actually drive, not as if everyone was driving with all due attention.

The most important concern is whether other people are safer when you are using autopilot than when you are not. Part of that calculation is how bad the accidents are when they happen.

There is also the question of whether safety overall would be better with a combination of lesser technologies, such as lane departure warning and automated emergency braking, than either full autopilot or unassisted manual driving.

Every manufacturer should be evaluated in the same way, and if Tesla is currently the best, then congratulations to them, but that does not mean autopilot is good enough yet, and what we need right now is more data objectively evaluated, not Musk's tendentious claims.
I have a question for the IPFS people. I am a non-techy who really likes the IPFS idea and wants to see it succeed.

However, whenever this topic comes up here at HN, we get a bunch of people who say they tried to use it but it was basically unworkable, like too much RAM usage and various sorts of failures. And rarely does anyone respond by saying that it is working just fine for them.

So my question to the IPFS people is, when is it going to get really usable? I am asking for something reasonably specific, like 2 or 3 years, or what? And I am supposing that would mean a different promise/prediction for each main different use case. So how about some answers, not just "We are aware of those problems and are working on them"
Have recommended model?
Just don't use smartphones, don't use Google, don't use Facebook. Problem solved.
At this point I think it's the ecosystem that you pick and not exactly the language feature.
> Operations can’t improve just by magic, they need to embrace the past 50 years of computing knowledge too.

Oh. Really? /s

That's literally what DevOps is all about. I'm sorry but Infrastructure isn't as simple to manage in code as "regular" software. The Infrastructure API's mutate or behave in unexpected ways too often. State drift is common. There is active work in figuring out better solutions. But to say that operations have not embraced computing knowledge is nonsense.
Based on what do you think that? You can be happy, healthy, and safe, even if you have to share a kitchen and bathroom.

Single-resident dwellings are the exception throughout human history.

Not that I necessarily disagree with you - I'm still figuring out how exactly to think about this issue.
Has any government that adopted that policy survived the inevitable manipulation and exploitation by foreign powers?
I don't blame him, he needs to increase the value of inventory at hand for next quarter results, making Autopilot standard for extra $2k makes results look better.
https://coincircle.com/l/Q6LtdZDEe4