skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, not sure what you mean, but yeah some DRM is obnoxious and almost spyware. Warden, World of Warcraft's DRM, is for example profiling your system hard.
I'm not sure I understand your question, but if you are asking for a first book to learn the language, adapted to modern C++, then "A tour of C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup (initial creator of the language) is a really good one: http://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html.

It's relatively short (~250 pages) and simple to start with. And the second edition is updated to C++17, and covers a bit of C++20.
Historically most shares did have a fundamental value.

When Buffet was starting out in 1950-1960s, shareholders had stronger rights and many shares did pay dividends.
The worst case scenario would be gaining a controlling share and forcing some sort of payback.

Today there are many classes of shares which are disturbingly close to buying random cryptocoin.

Think about buying non-voting shares of Google,Facebook,Zynga, etc. Or how about buying whatever that travesty that ADR of Alibaba is ? What are you getting when you buy Alibaba in US?

What are you getting really when you buy those kind of shares?

You have very little of hope of getting dividends.

You have no hope of getting controlling shareholders to give up their controlling "some animals are more equal" shares.

So there is very little intrinsic value in those.

Thus the only value is the "castles in the air" valuation.
Hey, I took some time to write a reply to that post showing a modern day alternative:

https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hyp...

I posted another comment linking to a modern day HyperCard that was downvoted without any explanation? I don't understand why it happened. Can someone tell me?
Island Living on a Tourist Visa for 2.5 Years
Maybe. Some electric buses have poor range and stall on hills:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-201...
Ultra processed looks like a misnomer since they appear to be talking about the nutritional content. By their criteria, it appears as though homemade breads and ice cream would qualify as ultra processed even though they use fairly basic ingredients that are combined in very conventional ways.

Yet their point is still valid. I recall a doctor talking about how unhealthy yogurt is due to its sugar content. If your a person like myself, who either makes their own yogurt or carefully selects brands of plain yogurt, the broad generalization is nonsensical. If you look at what's available on the store shelves, then over 90% of what they have is based on sugary flavoring. I suspect people buy yogurt since they are usually told that it's healthy, but usually end up reaching for the stuff that this study describes as ultra processes because that's the stuff that industry invests a lot of effort into making desirable (either through its formulation or advertising).

I suspect that there are a number of factors that are contributing to this pseudoscience based health-craze:

- It is easier to demonize food products based upon an overgeneralized label than it is to tell people to check the nutrition labels.

- Most grocery stores dedicate most of their shelves to food with dubious nutritional value, may that be because the food is formulated to sell (which typically has high sodium or sugar content) or longer shelf life.

- Most grocery stores are a poor option for the health conscious because of manipulative sales tactics. This ranges from the store layout, placement of particular products, and over generalized as well as likely misrepresenting of products as healthy.

- A segment of the population feels like they are loosing control over dietary options. Some areas are surrounded by food sold by places convenience/dollar stores and restaurants, yet grocery stores that would support traditional home cooking are more difficult to access.

When some people are faced with something that does not reflect their dietary values, or worse, does not meet their medical needs, is it surprising that they would start adopting extreme viewpoints?
Yep.

Panama Papers, nothing.

Paradise Papers, nothing.

Multinational tax avoidance, nothing.

Banking Royal Commission, two years of resistance before being forced into it.

$10k cash payment limits. The legislation that doesn't solve any 'real' problem, that's what we get.
If the original suggestion is to share files without restrictions between people or torrents active that would require dropping DRM that stops people from using things like DHT/PEX/LPD with their torrents.
but still there's probably enough companies out there paying half a remote sysadmin in fees for such a service ;).
If an individual feels wrongly and disproportionately impacted by US sanctions they can apply to the SEC for a waiver. A small, lonely dev will probably be ok.

But the issue isn't with one dev who gets caught in the crossfire. You want to stop fighting a blazing inferno to mount a rescue operation because there's one kitten in the burning apartment building.

Individual liberties cannot be realized without sanctions and foreign policy. Do you think if Github were located in Tehran that Americans would be able to post a commit right now?
The sad part is it will probably hit during Bernie's first term, and it will be blamed on his policies.
Introduction for Making Animations on React Native
Have you ever wanted to make cool animations in your react-native apps ? Here is a blog post on how to make animations with the Reanimated library . Come check it out !
https://blog.bam.tech/developper-news/an-introduction-to-react-native-reanimated
> We looked at paid PaaS providers like Mailgun, Sendgrid, Amazon SES... And all of them would cost several thousand a month at this scale. And since we're not a sexy funded startup from California, but a boring customer-funded business, we can't afford this bill

I'm a little curious about their reasoning for buy-vs-build. They say they "can't afford several thousand a month", but their list of clients includes Adobe, VMWare, GE and many other impressive names. I find it hard to believe that with a list of major enterprise clients, they can't afford several thousand dollars a month?

It seems more plausible that they can indeed afford it, but figured building it in-house would be cheaper and produce more profits. Developer costs in USA run about ~$5-10k/month, and that's assuming you're not trying to compete with companies like Google. Would be curious to hear about the number of dev-weeks they have spent learning all the stuff they mentioned, building it, troubleshooting any issues, and keeping the system running and up-to-date. I'm also curious about the effect building this project has had on their bus factor.
Would someone post the text? It's not working with

https://outline.com/
You might be absolutely right about the root cause, but as a solution it's completely infeasible. To limit climate change to 2 degrees C, we need drastic action within the next ten years. The only way to drastically reduce the population in a ten year time span is through the use of bombs and bullets, but that solution would do far more environmental damage and require more industrialization than it would eliminate.
Real reasons Windows Phone failed, reveals ex-Nokia engineer
Oracle Senior Software Engineer Salary: Big, with Lagging Bonuses
Also, run for office.
Arduino Bluetooth Oscilloscope App Module – Dabble App
LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard
Or less interestingly, Airbnb host who made £100K letting council flat fined £100K for letting council flat, an amount determined by how much profit the host made.
What are odds on betting markets that Bernie will win? I would guess 15%.
Primer is a really dry reference. It was too boring for me to read it in order. Too many details on not very fun topics from the beginning.
I would not (but I have job I love and it's good paid), but about half people I know would stop working. If I hadn't wife from lower social class I wouldn't know those people and would probably say like you. Those people are REALLY not like Bill Gates. They typically have primary education, work in a job they don't like but don't have enough skills to have a better job and aren't intelligent enough to aquire those skills, even if they had free time. Some of them would just sit all day long before tv and/or go to bar to get party. Small minority would get constantly drunk, rest would just get bored, maybe if they had free time they would go visit some places and do nothing productive. But from my nearest social circle most of people I know would not stop working. Looking at voting polls, my social circle is a minority.
SNI is supported by GCP load balancers, see https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificate...
HTML Parser – Developer Tools
So what can't restricted foreign-nationals do? Private, paid-for repositories? Is there something else particularly important?
Not much choice if your employer transfers your wages to your bank account anyway. To get hold of the money, you need to use a debit card, a check, or the service of a bank teller. In all cased, a third party, or several, is involved.

It's a bit like in ancient Sparta, where the currency was mandated to be iron, so that large cash transactions would become cumbersome, and would be very visible.
> Asian philosophers would have pointed out that self causation seems to be true.

This is more along the lines of the Second Way:

> 1. Everything which has come to exist has been caused to come to exist.

> 2. Nothing which has come to exist can be the cause of its own existence.

> 3. Everything which has come to exist is caused to exist by something other than itself. (follows from 1,2)

> 4. It is impossible for a chain of causes of this kind to go on to infinity.

> C. There must be a first cause, which causes other things to come into existence but did not itself come into existence. (follows from 3,4)

* https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/mcgill/201/aquinas-cosm...

Note that Aquinas has not (just|necessarily) talking about 'horizontal' causes (going back in time), but 'vertical' causes.

Up until the Big Bang Theory was formulated (by a Belgian priest no less)†, the accepted cosmology was that the universe had always existed eternally with no beginning. So Aquinas talking about what caused things (to continue) to exist in the here and now.

> A sequence is ordered essentially if each changer in the sequence possesses the power to change another only if a preceding changer is acting concurrently upon it. For example, a clarinet does not have the power to play Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A in and of itself. It will only play if Sharon Kam is playing upon it concurrently.

* http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-le...

For a fuller treatment on the subject, I highly recommend the book Aquinas by Edward Feser.

† The fact that it was initially put forward by a priest supposedly stunted its spread a bit, because folks thought that he just wanted to give "scientific" grounding to the Biblical account of creation in the book of Genesis.
Same here, I would really like to read a good write-up on this topic. I started to write blog articles on CMake a few months ago while learning to use it but never published them as they became way too huge and messy. I would be definitely interested in an equivalent of "A tour of C++" but for modern-ish build systems, by someone with better writing skills than I have :-)
It is the architecturally decentralized nature of bitcoin that you mentions, that can make it become more and more decentralized over time.

You say it is not so different from a centralized system that has replicas in multiple data centers.

- if we speak about bitcoin nodes: don't forget that centralized systems can be shut off very quickly by governements

- if we speak about miners: new mining pool software is just being developed (and some of if finalized), that takes away power from pools, and gives it to the many small miners:

https://medium.com/hackernoon/betterhash-decentralizing-bitc...

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ci2daj/making_mini...
I don't understand how I misunderstood?
That's exactly what I was replying to.
This affects companies that have US users too. Your only option is to move out of the US and not use products with any users in the US. That means your only option is China, which is far worse for online rights than the US.
1) The fact that an incident actually forced something that Maven registry did since inception, doesn't actually reinfornce the original argument? (that JS developers did not look at what other languages were doing already)

2) Again, whoever thought that namespaces should be optional instead of required "doesn't seem to be aware of the rest of the software universe". Who took this decision? Why?

3) Do a survey on your own. Ask Java developers you know if they use Artifactory/Nexus in their job and note down the percentage. Then ask the same question to JS teams

4) Just because something hasn't been exploited yet, doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed. By that definition if left-pad hadn't happened would you say that (unpublishing) packages has not been raised as a problem yet?
For you it is. For me it is. But for a lot of people the first thing that would come to mind is: lets see what (insert: SAAS) can do for us. And that's a good thing, because a lot of people just shouldn't be running their own servers.
Gitlab is actually super easy if you keep to the omnibus installation methods or docker image.

The only problem regarding gitlab is resource consumption.
I feel like I'm out of the loop here, what specifically have SO done to piss people off? What are the actual features they have they added that people are annoyed about?
Top JavaScript Plugins for Webstorm
need this in my city, there are whole neighborhoods being built that are hotels in everything but name driving rent and flat prices sky high and making the whole local housing market inaffordable for normal people.
It's not torrents, but Soulseek was still running last I checked. Browsing peers' collections, chatrooms, etc.
What would you be doing instead?
> They have to pour money into the region to keep control of it due to people in the region being unhappy, out of work, etc.

From what I've heard Russia is doing exactly that. And the people there seem happy, atleast according to a reddit AMA by a Crimean.
What does “letting council flat” mean in US english?
If you poke around the files ending with .go2 here[0], you can see some examples of contracts/generics being used. This linked review is a prototype of the implementation for the proposal.

[0] https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/187317
I live in a building in Central London (Soho) that has 12 flats. We pay market rate for ours, that is supposed to help the housing association offset the cost of some of the other flats that are designated as social housing.

Most of these flats are just constantly churning Airbnb guests in and out, some of the others have lodgers (also illegal, friend of mine lived in one of them, hence why I know).

I don't know what to do with this information, but its such a shame that people are so comfortably scamming the government, when it's literally funded by all of us.

EDIT: per the responses, I have called the council and they were very keen/interested. Thanks for your input.
Not really, as it didn't use any energy not present in the 9v battery. This is about using solar energy in a more efficient arrangement, through reflection of waste solar energy to heat a medium and create a higher efficiency thermo-voltaic cell based on a photo-voltaic cell (I'm probably very wrong with my terminology in the last sentence, but, either way, it ain't no burning graphite connected to a battery.)
Renting public (housing) apartment.
Any pile of dirt can handle bioplastics, but I wonder what actually becomes of them.
> Array.prototype.forEach

Yes, this one. If the object is an Array. According to whatever test they are using for that.

Lodash includes a reimplementation of Array.prototype.forEach because mistakes were made. It also works on other objects because other mistakes were made.

We all make mistakes. But just because there is a reason for something does not mean there is a good reason.
The point in the context of the article had nothing to do with the viability of nuclear power. It was that a bail out was being paid based on questionable net operating losses.
".. that road maintenance will be much more expensive when everybody has an electric car."

Not really. As far as I've read, road wear grows exponentially with weight. Ah, you think, so EVs WILL make it much worse. No. What it means is that road wear is heavily dominated by heavy duty vehicles. Big trucks and such. Not personal cars. What EVs would add is a drop in the bucket.

The traction thing depends on the vehicle. My EV (Kia Soul EV) defaults to an "Eco" mode where traction is limited. The range you get is heavily dependent on driving style, so EV owners do have incentive to drive smoothly. It also increases tire wear. Most people don't like to throw away money. Yeah, you get some Tesla owners that will use "insane" mode all the time.. but that's probably a minority.

"This is why countries like Norway and the Netherlands are thinking about raising the road tax for electric vehicles."

Norway is pretty damn far away from making EVs pay more than ICE. There's still a lot of financial incentives for EVs, and pretty much everyone is on board with phasing them out slowly and keeping with the target of 100% of new cars being zero emission in the 2025-2030 time frame.

They just added toll fees for EVs in Oslo, but it's still much less than what ICEs pay.
Following all the indicators, it seems we're already coming to a new one...
> It had a huge impact, reducing the people admitted to emergency centers, women in particular, and had a corresponding economic impact from lower healthcare costs. Driving through a few inches, as it turned out, was less dangerous than walking through the snow, particularly if one was pushing something like a baby carriage as well

Ok but what was the overall economic impact on the town? Did unemployment change? What did it do to population? The author makes it seem like there was no downside. Without more information, that seems dishonest.
renting a subsidized apartment
Council flats are like "government subsidized living". Letting it out (aka renting it out), is taking money from the government, intended to help you shelter your family, and using it to turn a profit.
A "council flat" would be an apartment which is owned by the local government. The person who the council thought was living there was essentially sub-leasing it to people through Airbnb which is against the lease rules.
Clojure is the only language I know that does data orientated design, i.e. Gardern, Hiccup, HoneySQL

Clojure is the only language I know that has a library that does full-stack graphs, from server to client, always a graph until execution time (Fulcro)

Clojure is the only language I know that has a datalog based query language against an immutable time travelling database that allows you to write one query against your database and retrieve nested sets (Datomic)

There's a lot of breakthrough ideas in Clojure that don't spread beyond Clojure, but they flow into Clojure from other languages because Clojure is a parasitic language

Clojure could lower its barriers to entry with more "cool" landing pages, prettier documentation, the kinds of things that attract "new hip" developers

I myself gave up with it initially until I discovered Parinfer
It's true but all in all the conclusion is that this levels of politics aren't worth talking about. It's too messy, too shady, too touchy.
The pros and cons of infrastructure-as-code
This is default IEEE 754 behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN
I've lost hope.
The 3 big issues that I think prevents us solving it are

1. Tragedy of the commons

When a country/company wants to make money by damaging the environment in the process, the money come to the country/company now, but the damage is spread world-wide. If the pollution would stay only in that country/city, it would be different. So, the choice is natural, especially considering government 4-year terms.

2. We always put ourselves first, rest of the city/country much further, and rest of the world... doesn't matter. What people want, by human nature, is to satisfy their own needs & comfort.

Examples:

* Why wait for a bus or use an electric bike when one can just drive a 2 tonnes car to move oneself? It's comfortable and cheap.

* USA-specific, but spreading to other countries as well: people huge SUV-style cars to transport 1-2 persons, when a small one could do the job as well.

* Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed’. Government made the right choice, but a few (prosperous already) affected by making less money complain: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/norway-oil-drillin...

* France introduces a diesel tax, to reduce pollution, which affects everybody's health. But, wait, some need to pay a little more? Let's protest! Tax was cancelled: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/11/french-protes...

* The Bełchatów Coal mine & Power station in Poland. Hundreds of people employed there, they are happy with it. Should the plant be closed to stop pollution? What about our jobs? No way! And no, getting only 20% of salary for free (basic income) and having to learn stuff to maybe find a new job in renewables is not acceptable. So, the coal plant goes on, but it's easier to point to China for doing the same (with more plants, of course).

3. Delayed effects of current actions

The environment effects of what a one person/community/country does, bad or good, are hard to see in the short term. Only the downsides are clearly visible in the present. So, taking the correct action is quite hard.

Unfortunately, I don't see how to overcome these. Would be glad to be proved wrong!

FYI, my personal environment footprint is much smaller than the average in EU/USA, but we are too few to make an impact and others won't listen/change.
Westminster council has a form to report potentially unauthorised short term letting:

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/nightly-letting-complaints-fo...

(It's not specific to council housing; if it's specifically council housing as opposed to the developer just agreeing to let it at a reduced rate, then they'll take an even dimmer view on it; if it's the developer or some management company then it's worth contacting them as well as it may impact their insurance etc.)
Yes, in a way they haven't been caught. However, I want to point out that only US companies and persons are obligated to follow the sanctions. The reason why foreign companies might also follow them is because they don't want to end up being designated themselves.

And this is not realistically going to happen unless you are a large multinational, bank, or doing business in sensitive sectors.

Not actively blocking accounts identified as Iranian is not even the same as specifically trading with Iran. Like many smaller US-based web-services who also do not actively block, Github might well have gotten away with it as well, like the did the last couple of years.

A Maltese-based company not blocking Iranian users might be designated, but unless they are, and it is pretty unlikely that they would be, they are doing nothing wrong under US law.
What industry is it, might I ask (so I can know to avoid it)?

If you say airline...
Oh please. Only few years ago, all those "refugees" (illegal migrants) were seeking asylum because they were fleeing war in their country. Even though most of them didn't even come from warzones, or came from places in Syria which were never a warzone. But now, in western Europe and USA it's all about doom and gloom climate scenarios, they are suddenly "climate refugees". Just another excuse so that these people can go in.
I wonder if this would be enough to create the ultimate flex-fuel vehicle?
Renting out public housing
Shouldn't Airbnb also pay back all of the fees they charged for this?