skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to detract from your point that it took them a while to find troops willing to actually follow their orders, but you got some details wrong. Neither Liaoning nor Shaanxi were military regions at the time, Liaoning province belonging to the Shenyang Military Region and Shaanxi being part of the Lanzhou Military Region. The troops that were finally called in were part of the Beijing Military Region, mostly from Hebei province (24th, 27th, 38th and 65th armies) and Shanxi (63rd army). (Note that Shaanxi and Shanxi are different provinces.)

Also, even they weren't particularly loyal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insubordination_in_the_PLA_dur...
You've missed Amazon out here, who have a vested interest in keeping the non-Google controlled Android competitor they have as the only one.
It's a shame Torrenting gets such a bad rap. If I want to share a large file with somebody who knows what they are doing, I encrypt it, create a torrent, send them the magnet URL and then they can download it and decrypt it. No web server needed.

Unfortunately, a lot of the time, people have no idea what you are on about, or even if they do, they are behind a corporate firewall with torrenting blocked/on a work machine and can't install a client.
Charging an EV sounds like the best way of taking advantage of that.
Also promises to the other party that “Don’t worry, this is all just a drill.”
> It's only a "great way to create statistical fraud" if you assume that the statisticians, and the FDA, are either stupid or corrupt.

Considering how much money is in pharmaceuticals, I'd definitely go with corrupt, especially considering this explains how a majority of the world works now and also since there's currently an outbreak and likely want to capitalize on it.

I'm not at all saying this is the case, but that if something like that did come out then I really wouldn't br surprised considering it seems to be a weekly occurrence that you hear about corrupt behavior now.
Clarification - I don't mean "hackers" as depicted in the movies.

I'm referring to nerds, geeks, engineers, tickerers etc. who do it for the love of doing it. Not for building a commercial operation.
>Americans just in general tend to drive their kids to school dues to fear of child abductions and related ever-present paranoia.

This is really just an upper middle class thing.

>The street organization is irrational, derived haphazardly from ad-hoc pre-auto paths. The public transit system was also built in an ad-hoc and is at level where full transit lines stop for days at a time. So all that's left is driving, though Boston drivers have a terrible reputation too!

The smallest streets are haphazard. The big stuff was all planned out to make the overall system function well, got 80% done then some special interests kicked money to the right politicians and they stopped progress at 85%. Ditto for the subway. Every couple decades they come up with a grand plan to make it not suck then special interests compromise it out of existence. Boston drivers are fine once you've been there long enough to understand the unwritten rules. If you're naive and think you can follow the letter of the law you will have a bad time.

>Boston's weather is also miserable - the place is at just latitude so that wet, 30 degree weather prevails in winter, giving freezing rain, frozen rain, slush and all manner of nastiness. Plus horrible hot, humid summers. So you have to avoid walking a lot.

The weather is fine. Kids are much more tolerant of weather extremes than their white collar parents (the ones who dominate the debate over this kind of thing) who's days are spent in three different climate controlled boxes (house/apartment, car, office). If you do it every day it's really not a big deal.
They should make it trivial for businesses to spend

Donating money is always incredibly tricky if you work at a larger company, especially if you get nothing in return. I can a buy a license or support contract easily, with a bit more effort I could probably sponsor a local FOSS meetup/event. But just giving someone $50 as a thanks for writing that software we rely on, is basically impossible unless I just pay it out of pocket.
Yes I agree. That's partly why for me, despite living in Hong Kong and having worked in finance I don't really mind if some of these people get washed out in the process.
yeah, that was the first thing I saw when I logged in for the first time.
This is just so apples-to-oranges it's not even appropriate.

China has a legitimate claim to Hong Kong, Hong Kong (arguably) has a right to self-determination.

They're a newspaper. Present both sides, let me make a decision. Don't tell me what to think.
This is hands down the best comment I've read on hacker news.
China was always going to annex Hong Kong eventually, this is something almost everyone with any interest in this particular situation has known for many years.

Spinning that particular situation in a reason to boycott a country (and replace it with what? India isn't exactly a paragon of virtue and neither is the US, and let us never speak of the stain that is Russia) is a strange mental place to go to.
Doesn't pass the sniff test. By developer use, npm, for all of its security issues and orphan packages is the most successful package ecosystem of all time.
How to Write JavaScript When You Don’t Know Where to Begin
Whoops, it failed. -- My procrastination succeeded though
Dumbass Home 2.0: IoT, How to Automate Your Rented Box Today
Thanks, GeorgeRichard! I don't mind if somebody would think that there is a religion input and maybe it really is in general but otherwise I'm not making accent on it
IBM Senior Software Engineer Pay Lags Microsoft, Apple, Oracle
Let's say I wanted to do the same (2D style game).
Any recommendations on a tech-stack? Unity?
I think what the parent meant was that it's terminal, so if you're alive then you win, even if you're not in the condition you were before.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing but I feel like you should read some of the books mentioned above and ponder a little more because I feel like you missed something.
You can’t really have a bastion of free speech and democracy on your doorstep as an authoritarian state.
Especially with databases. Some businesses won't even entertain the idea of using Maria or Postgres.
"True jerk" got me thinking of https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman

Both are ultimately responsible for their behaviour, one perhaps has a clearer path to redemption?
Project Fi (the cell service provider, though I think it's just called Google Fi) is a very different entity than Google Fiber.
Really code is meant to be read like a map or diagram and not a poem.
In some situations there is an underlying truth, and opposing sides (who have both public and private agendas) will gladly lie and spin in order to get their way.

For example, perhaps Ukraine says they've been invaded by Russian troops without insignias; and Russia says it isn't them.

Some would say the ideal in journalism would be not only to report the conflicting statements, but also to determine and report what the underlying truth is.
in one picture i can see what looks like dry waterways. possibly it does rain but lack of vegetation means water flows away too quickly
> Journalists are supposed to be fact checkers and critical thinkers. Their job isnt to parrot beijings claims that the sky is green

What wrong claim have they made? China has a legitimate claim to the territory, Hong Kong has a legitimate right to self-determination (in my opinion).

Claiming they're wrong or otherwise conveying false information because they haven't picked a side is just wholly wrong.

If you want propaganda that only reports on your side, there are subreddits for that. This is a newspaper.
Every service job that I worked in high school and college had a washer and dryer in the stockroom that was there specifically for people to do laundry - specifically their work laundry, but if there was nobody using it you could get some time to do your own laundry.

Work laundry used a shared (inventoried from the shop when I worked retail) detergent, but personal loads required you to provide your own.
Youve seen how the NYTIMES reports on Trump sometimes right? Always mentioning "2-sides" instead of whats right and wrong.
Supercomputers will start building a 3D map of the world
What does this question even mean?
> Lots of developers have an expectation of "Build it, they will come" as a route to market, and they end up disappointed.

> Selling a piece of software, regardless of whether or not you also give away the source, is really hard.

Completely agree, if 1% of your users give a crap that you've engineered magic to get XYZ working, you're lucky.

99% don't care, but they'll use your product if it comes up on Google's first page, if it has a decent social media presence and they're hooked from one of your posts/blogs about it.

If you're building a product right now, and you've not written various posts about "How ABC solves your XYZ problem", welcome to the low-user zone.
Launching onto Product Hunt is not enough anymore. Get talking about you work, if you're genuinely proud of it.
If I bought a broken car then the dealership spent the next two years slowly fixing it to match the sales pitch initially sold I'd still be pissed off.

Why do people allow game publishers to get away with the crap...
Honest question: what should communities do with the rise of nationalist “shill” accounts? The hard part is, it’s impossible to tell the difference between someone who’s merely a nationalist and someone who’s bought and paid for to post what amounts to propaganda, muddying the waters of discussion online. Extremely difficult problem to solve. Assuming good faith gets harder and harder as more information comes out about these “comment farms”, at times.
What underlying truth have they missed here? The only thing I see here is that people are shitting on the NYT for not picking a side.
I find it strange that searching in the text of the paper and the commentary on it for "documentation", "tutorial", "errors", "help", "faq", and "doc" turns up nothing. Anecdotally, salespeople who try to persuade companies to adopt a payments API have found that it is very useful to have both tutorial and reference documentation. I think if you're asking questions about software adoption, you'd want to study the impact of documentation availability and clarity.
Or they win. Though I doubt that will be in the form of their demands being met.
This failure is likely the engine, which is not Boeing's fault. The engines have made it a bad year for Norwegian and other 787 customers, who have had to cut back their schedules to accommodate unplanned engine maintenance. And of course it's been a terrible 18 months for Rolls-Royce.
This seems quite naive as geopolitics go. One imagines China or the US, for example, would have no qualms about claiming both. "We assert Egyptian sovereignty over Hala'ib based on the treaty of 1899, and Egyptian sovereignty over Bir Tawil based on the inalienable historic right of the Adabda people to live under Egyptian rule."

Maybe it works better if you can afford to build a settlement there, like in Palestine, or an airstrip like in the South China Sea.
>Significant but not catastrophic

Keep in mind, "catastrophic" is a loaded word in aviation safety parlance. It specifically means that failure of a system or component threatens total unrecoverable loss of the aircraft; and is the point where redundancy and fail-safe become required by law in order to certify.

The regulation specifies no single point of failure should result in catastrophic loss.

Any failure is news worthy, but this poster is on point. Chernobyl meme opportunity aside.
Many of us here started with a family and no money and now the children are older have money. Life is a bit back to front that way.

My advice is work hard. Knowing you have provided for your family is one of the great joys of life. Whether that means the $20 second birthday dinner you paid for or helping your twenty year old through uni. Provide what needs provided.

My journey was being the photocopy guy in a school, advertising fixing computers in the newspaper at night, getting a degree with the Open University, being an IT Technician and now leading an Infrastructure Team for a saas company. I also have a sideline which my company let’s me work on one day a week. Do what you have to do :-)
It depends on what you measured. For example, if you ask 20 people a yes/no question and they all say yes, the chance that they would all agree by chance is 1 in 2^19.
If you really know this for a fact, you should contact https://www.nytimes.com/tips

But I'm guessing by 'fact' you mean 'I'm very convinced of my own opinions'.
That isn’t how statistical significance works at all:

https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
It is a strategic denial. The Dutch government is (and has always been) as underhanded as possible when it can bring them profits. In this case the profits are in ignoring what is right and exploiting everyone else, a tradition that they have embraced for a very long time.
Oh, I see now that there was a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394366
Throw in a community / rooftop garden, a bank of solar panels, and a nuclear bunker and we'll be in the world of Fallout in no time.
In 1999, I could go into a game shop and pay £40 for a finished game with a story.

In 2019, it costs £60 (or more for a "gold edition" or whatever). It isn't finished, has colossal bugs that require 50 GB patches just after launch, barely has a story (because listening to 13-year-olds shout ethnic slurs at one another is the new having a well-written story—and every developer thinks stories are passé and we all want "Live Services") and then tries to use psychological tricks to try and induce a gambling addiction.

I opt out and play the old games from the 90s and early 2000s that don't do all this BS.
I certainly hope that it requires more than that here. It seems pretty transparent to me, but others are defending it, so I’m unsure if we’re really as immune as we’d like to think
Ask HN: To all the java developers out there, favorite java tech stack?
I'm starting a new job as a full-stack developer (currently back end), I have a month before I start the new job (we can choose what stacks to work with) and want to create some personal projects. With so many options out there, I was just wondering what is your favorite java stack to use and why?
Thanks
That guy wasted not only his time in writing a non-FOSS application, but also the time of other people who will need to redo that work later on.

It is illegitimate for the use, distribution and modification of software to be restricted. Due to inopportune social arrangements (e.g. Capitalism) people, like the author, are kept in an artificial state of material want, which forces them to play the corrupting game of intellectual property and close-source software.

I try to avoid that (even if it isn't easy sometime.)
Bad questions too. Writing that something is low risk in a question does not make the person react like if the risk is small.

It can easily go the other way, people read risk and instantly assume it's large.
When I think about hypersane people, what come to my mind are: Josha Bach, Frans de Waal, Thomas Ligotti (The Conspiracy Against the Human Race), and, a non-human, fictional character: Mr. Spock.
Eschewing society's social signalling at sacrifice to personal wellbeing (ie. acknowleding we are social animals and thus thrive with a strong social net) is actually irrational behavior. By relaxing standards enough to maintain a strong social network you are behaving rationally IMO.
Boston and metro Boston also have a pretty high population density, so it doesn't help that early roads were laid out by cud chewing surveyors.
Should've called this thing Vagyu, Magyu or some such then.

The existing name is weird and not fitting at all though, that's for sure.
This already exists. It's called QubesOS[1] and it uses Xen to isolate different application domains.

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/
The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam
You should read about Spain
The SEC put a grand total of zero people in jail for the financial crisis. The SEC put a grand total of zero people in jail and fined Wells Fargo 22 hours worth of revenue after they blatantly committed fraud and stole from nearly every customer they had FOR DECADES.

Why on earth do you think they will start being effective at enforcement, now, all of a sudden, in 2019?
“Kids were terrible for a career”
> A fundamentally fair and well-functioning society with very few if any governmental killings and high stability within it's borders.

This is what I assumed it meant. I know its difficult to make this work with the US but lots of Asian cities can boast these features.
Thanks! I must realy think about it too
Fair point. For Javascript there is no binary step so it has to be in the source code. In compiled languages, this is different: you can hide it in the binary, and finding it there is much harder than checking the source code VCS history. So without reproducible builds, compiled package managers would be in an even worse situation than Javascript, at least what ability to review the uploaded packages is concerned.

Ultimately the problem doesn't have a good solution right now. Reproducible builds are a part of the solution, as is making it harder for malicious debian packagers to upload infected binaries. You need to protect the entire supply chain.
That is a very strange charge against a search engine - frankly it sounds like the sort of thing that would get the same jury which sentenced Socrates to hemlock to cry bullshit.
When Chine sends military to solve this “concern”, surely NYT will call both sides to “stop the circle of violence”.
Far from your count (I'm at 59 non-fork - had to look it up - for which many are very small, and about the same non-public/local).

I've noticed that the ones that got traction/stars/forks were entirely unexpected and started as one hour hackjobs (ex-mode for Atom, trim_patcher, 1st gen Xbox One controller kext, Matterfront) whereas the ones I just can't let go and pour genuine long term effort into are the ones getting zero stars/forks (ArchMac is like 12 years now and I'm still the sole user).

Not that I care, I'll just keep on scratching my own itches, and I learned a lot (and still do!) doing that.
So did they actually find any memory leaks in the C python libs or are they just assuming they exist because it's written in C?
Ask HN: What's the current state of the art in dream research?
Really good writing on many of the challenges of launching your own application.

Went through the same cycle, of first releasing an open source software that had donation support. Gathered an user base over many years, at max I was receiving maybe 500 - 800 USD in donations over a year, after working on the software like 3 years.

Was really reluctant to make the software a commercial version, because I was limited in my thinking that software should be available for anyone to use. You can't make a living out of that, except in some very rare cases.

Once we launched a commercial version of our software (https://OmniGeometry.com), got a lot of backslash from users complaining about the price not being free anymore, and actually we priced the software lot higher than people usually do, but we are implementing something that fills a very specific niche, where we have almost no competition.

As a result of that, we are now actually making money that can support the continuing development of the software and can support our two man team as creators. To be honest I am surprised that we managed to do that, but are very happy about it of course.

I agree with what is written in the article:

"Don’t let anyone tell you how much you should charge for your work"

Writing software can be very difficult and complex, and usually takes many years to reach anything usable and even then it is a risk if it will become anything that people will use.

Almost certainly you will receive hateful or resentful messages from people if you are charging for your work, as on some levels they would like to use your software, but would like it to be free also, so they just lash out at you for not making it free.

Something just have to get used to when selling software these days it seems. If people had any idea how much skills and dedication it requires to even be able to write usable software, maybe they would agree that paying for example 200 usd for a software package that will give you possibly hundreds of hours of entertainment is a good investment.
I picked it up afterwards at a discount. If you allow for how badly overhyped it was and treat it as a pretty screenshot generator for Roger Dean and Chris Foss fans, it turned out great.

(Never buy games on day one, let alone preorder, unless you're entirely comfortable giving the money to the developers for nothing)
Your definition is not what the average person is going to think of when they see or hear the term "toxic masculinity".

Keep in mind that there are 3 types of people in this context:

1. People who know and understand the term as you described it.

2. People who "know" an "incorrect" (according to academia) definition of the term.

3. People who have never heard the term before, and draw their own definition based on where they saw/heard it and who it came from (often leads to #2).

The vast majority of people will fall into #2 and #3. I'd guess more than 99%.

I think that it's generally harmful and damaging for you to cite the original academic definition, because that just lends weight to the colloquial definition/understanding of the term as being valid.

The term has been hijacked. If you care about the original definition, you need some new words.

People aren't going to remember the difference between the "real" definition and the definition that most people use in common discourse. They'll just remember that "toxic masculinity is grounded in academia".

BTW as a side-note, I have never heard anyone say "toxic femininity" out loud, and I very rarely see it used online. People who recognize some form of "toxic masculinity" would either have no idea what you meant by "toxic femininity", or they would believe that it was associated with misogyny.
The amount of years it takes for solar to pay for itself is not set in stone. The ten year prognosis is extremely conservative and frequently untrue, especially if you start to load most of your power-heavy operations (washing, dishes, etc) into the daytime when the generated power is sufficient to support those things.

Given that there is not yet (as far as I'm aware) a tax on kWh used entirely from solar panels (ie not coming from or going into the net, but taken directly from panel generation) it should not matter very much whether or not the government decides to subsidise you. Do not count on a solar panel installation company to make such complicated calculations for you, they are most busy with either sowing unrest about government regulations or (more likely) giving you a fair-weather calculation that involves subsidies forever.
Geiger: A Geiger counter for memory allocations
Even better, leave your phone and computer behind and go take a walk!
Sorry, thought it was obvious from the script. It's not an actual shock collar... I play a loud high frequency beep. It's "shocking" to me :\
Most of those troops will be from rural regions. Everything they know about the wider world is told to them by state media and their commanders.
Snow is fine, but Boston will get 3 feet of snow, then an hour of freezing rain, and the next day it will be 45F. Winter is chaos