skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very D.C. mentality. In law there isn't meant to be a "wrong people" or "wrong time". Either something is illegal, or it's not. But the rule of law is very weak these days, especially given the huge bloat of regulations on the book in America related to AML.
Looks like they edited their article:

> Even at the age of 45, there was a wide variation in walking speeds with the fastest moving at 2m/s at top speed (without running).
Agree with your general point, but I think you're generalizing a bit too much. There's plenty of movies that aren't Top Gun-level propaganda. The Hurt Locker, Jarhead, all the ones commented below.
We know absolutely nothing about their social patterns outside of burial habits and bone structure, and now genetic relatedness. “Ran off“ is a bit of an exaggeration of course, because it implies resistance, but "sent away" is just as much a conclusion too far. Perhaps they were all taken by force by roaming young men, perhaps they were rejecting an entire parade of princely bachelors before eventually accepting "the one", perhaps they were expelled into the woods, we just don't know.

What the evidence does tell us is that land was inherited along the male line and that women did not marry down to the local lower class (necessitating a move when the upper class consists entirely of your close male relatives and their wives).
Thank you for the clear explanation.

Could this find applications in (realtime ?) acoustic room correction on embedded devices ?
> If I want a browser, there’s Firefox. Safari 13 has become just ok now (from decent) because of the new extensions system that has junked all old extensions.

To be fair Firefox did that recently with their transition to WebExtensions too, and Chrome will soon do something similar when they move to Manifest v3. Sadly all mainstream browsers have become "move fast and break stuff", mainly in their desperate bid to keep pace with the de facto standard that is Chrome. But most of them don't have browser dev teams the size of Chrome's...
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Think of a proper list like a degenerate tree with all the values on the left and structure on the right. A dotted list puts the last value on the right, where nil would usually be.

Dotted lists are pretty rare. They mostly show up in association lists, where key/value pairs are stored as

((name . dave) (type . user))

and adding a pair to the front of the list shadows any other pairs with the same key.
better in what ways? Even Lynch does not want to say he was attached to the movie after it came out.
As said hk is the frontier. You can’t fight the dragon who has such a large market and production empire. You can’t. We know.

We fight still.

Not because we see hope. But we fight may be we can have hope. Or our kids. Or our grand. Or at least we can tell them we do not run like our father and grands. We stay and fight.
No, it's not blockchain based.
> Well, to be fair, there is also this other minor bug about encryption being off by default and only available on a few clients and not synchronizing between different encryption-supporting clients...

Here we go again.

Encryption is not off by default.

It is just not E2E encrypted, i.e. it works just like any bank, Gmail etc etc etc.

(except, based on what I've heard Telegram, unlike any mainstream bank, put the extra effort in to keep encryption keys not only on separate servers but in a different jurisdiction than your messages.)

Edit:

Now if we could stop spreading misinformation we could discuss one thing that might be the real flaw in Telegrams model and which I would consider trying to move to a different messenger over - if they fixed it while delivering the same experience:

The one huge issue I have with Telegram is the funding model.

Whatsapp more or less nailed this early on:

- low, reasonable price that still made them plenty profit

- possibility to pay for others (kids, friends etc)

Give me the same offer as Whatsapp once gave me:

I pay them, they deliver my messages, provide quality clients on all platforms, doesn't snoop, doesn't spam etc, and I'll download the beta today.

Provide a legally binding agreement that makes their company worthless and publishes the code under Apache or another liberal[0] license somehow if they sell out or becomes sleazy and I'll be walking around pondering how to help them.

[0]: yep, I want it to be as simple as possible to make a good chunk of cash from transporting my messages securely and elegantly from my device to other peoples devices as well as the other way.
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LOL what a riot. Support Chinese people by letting them dictate what Americans do? Fuck that, we should have squashed this government like a cockroach 50 years ago. Now that we fucked that up and fed them an entire manufacturing sector we need to deal with the evil superpower we created.
They already raised $1.7B (and spent a good chunk of it, $280M by Jan 31 2019, probably $0.5B by now). Those who gave them money need a grater fool to buy the tokens from them. Otherwise the fun cannot continue. Someone will have to pay.

> without having to exit to fiat

Last time I checked one cannot buy yachts and private jets for crypto.
But they make funerals and flowers and all, you should go it's a once in a lifetime experience.
It's unlikely that one Ponzi scheme will invest into another.
Is it legal to use encryption over HAM in the US?
This is entirely true if you check the account. And my posts were downvoted multiple times within seconds, which seems obvious...

To the mods: potty mouths aren't the problem on HN, the spreading of fake news is.
Tell me more about g.

Google is unsurprisingly being unhelpful.
That may be true, but how people work is beside the point.

I disagree.
>FBW on the 7x7 (for x>3) is not that different

FBW refers simply to the lack of a hydraulic/mechanical connection between the flight controls and the control surfaces. The 747 has such a connection. Thus, the 747 is not a FBW aircraft (although I think some control surfaces on the 747-8 may be FBW).
It's a soft peddle statement drafted by the PR department hoping the mainstream media would pick it up. There are too many contradictions between:

a) what was said in the statement, and Blizzard's statement made on Chinese social media at the time, and

b) the lack of discipline on American tournament players who also protested.

Furthermore a written statement is nothing compared to a video, where vocal intonation and body language communicates a lot.

Bottom line, releasing this statement will only intensify criticism that Blizzard is "Lawfully Evil".

The irony is that Blizzard's fanbase are 'heroes' who overcome evil in their games. Blizzard's actions are the very antithesis of their player bases' psychology.

This isn't over, and with Blizzcon around the corner, I predict escalation and Blizzcon being a total PR disaster.
"Our goal is to help players connect in areas of commonality".
If you only keep the intersection of all "cultures", you end up with a very small subset.
Yes, and the top of that mainstream media is always pro-war. Just look at this, "liberal" pushing for war without knowing anything about that is really happening in the word. People have to explain why they are against war, and this is the norm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y1nylDLW-Y
> American films often use military assets and personal, and give the military final cut on the films

Which is a voluntary process. How does that compare to top down state censorship?
I don’t think there is any evidence for it damaging the liver. It does have effects on it (the liver does create glucose after all), but nothing I’ve seen says it damages the liver in normal dosages.
>2017 to 2018 Amazon grew from $103 to $121B revenues or by $18B, while Walmart grew from $375 to $388B or by $13B. However, Amazon's revenues include some fast growing areas such as AWS, so the revenues they are taking away from other retailers are probably about the same.

Momentum is more about relative growth than absolute numbers (13 vs 18). And longer term than just 2017-2018.

E.g. like this:

https://mgmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Amazon-vs...

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/m_LcpuimdJcrjLyGV0Ps4UI4-H8=...

https://mgmresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Amazon-vs...

https://newharborllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171205...
I guess its not clear: Liechtenstein doesn't need a stock exchange because securities - stocks in particular - issued in Liechtenstein are already tradable in countries that do have stock exchanges. People sometimes do this because some their own country might have a withholding tax on capital or other uncompetitive nuances.

You’re right in that they don't have one and have little to lose by creating digital securities and digital assets clarity.

Liechtenstein’s law isn't only about cashing in on ICOs. It covers digital securities as well, which Europe’s other securities exchanges are not equipped to handle.

There is only upside for them to provide a clear framework for digital securities and digital assets, making it easier for an issuer to choose and regulatory clarity for all participants

We speaking the same language yet?
I worked for large banks and fintech startups

It's true banks don't work like tech companies, it is also true that tech companies don't work like bank and the 100% of them failed to replace banks, because banks are more trustworthy when it's about client'money safety.

legacy systems are a good thing, it means they already solved a lot of edge cases and been working good enough for years (or tens of years)

The new shiny toy might look good, but if it does 1/20 of what's needed by the business, it's useless.

I work now in insurance, evolving legacy systems to new technologies, legacy systems suck, but they are also rock solid and a lot of things they do are vital for the company and, more often than not, save people's jobs.

A lot of rules we don't understand are there to avoid abuses

I'm working on a system that's offline from 11pm to 7am to avoid that agents created insurance policies over night making unfair competition to real agencies with offices, employees and regulated opening hours.

It's been put there probably 20 years ago, it looks silly now, but it served a purpose

In one year I've been able to replace alone maybe 1/30 of what the main legacy system does. Which, btw, sometimes still calls an even more legacy system on the backend, just like my system exposes what the new system still doesn't handle as a safer wrapper to the legacy one.
It's a good pace, we have proved it can be done without breaking the workflow, now it's time to accelerate and build a little team around the project.

Evolution is layered, disruption is a jouvenile sin and usually it is bad for company's workers more than for companies.
> Their entire account is clearly dedicated to toeing the CCP party

I checked and no it’s not

The person is very clearly pro-China. But “their entire account” looks like a normal hacker news user except for their political leanings
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There's also a lot of rules to try and make sure the person really understands what it is they are signing up for, with mandated forms etc. And then as you say there's still a cooling off period.
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Perhaps you haven't given much thought to the edge cases then. For example what if someone is posting racist articles on the web, are they violent or not? Well that's pretty easy - even if they are not directly violent they may incite violence in others so they partly share the blame. But what if they explicitly say that they are categorically against violence and it will just abstractly be better if certain inferior races would not exist and back it up with a rational-sounding argument? Another example. Is peaceful protest violent or non-violent? Well it is peaceful, nobody touches anyone - it is right in the name. But the protesters will probably bring inconvenience to someone, otherwise they won't be noticed - e.g. a sit-in will obstruct the workings of the target establishment. Is it violence or not? Is public shaming violence or not? It is just words after all, but words that can ruin someone's life. Etc.
That was never shown, it is you who are stretching what can reasonably be claimed with basically no evidence supporting such nonsense. None of what you said was in the original source.

Stretching the truth like this is lying, whether you like it or not.
To be fair, I'm sure there's a research paper for anything, that suggests it might prevent cancer.
The fastest way isn’t to eliminate the other possibilities, it’s to find a unique test for a that can’t be met by any of the others. Bear in mind that your list of alternative causes may be very long and each require large amounts of work to eliminate.

I too find it strange that multiple landers have been sent to mars since Viking, ostensibly looking for evidence of present or past life, and have yet have carried no tests for it. I find the best way to find something is to look for it.
Yes, but it's not everything. You've got two and a half of the original four criteria there:

> An individual of an species has to initiate the production of another individual

️^ reproduction

> of the same species

It depends on what you're defining to be "the same species", but if we take that to mean "shares traits with the original", then that's "inheritance".

> new individual must have some differences

^️ mutation

The one you're missing is "selection"— that the future success at copying depends on the traits you inherited.

If you have variable traits, but they don't at least indirectly result in either more or fewer copies, then there is no cause for some traits to become more prevalent than others in the population and evolution won't occur. You'll just get a jumble of random traits without any trend toward fitness (aka more efficient copying).

It is a fact of nature/mathematics that those four rules are necessary and sufficient for evolution to occur. If you set them up, evolution will happen, guaranteed. Those rules constitute an algorithm, carried out by the laws of nature on the substrate of physical matter, whose result is evolution— a trend toward increasing reproductive fitness.
Let's see, you could colonize their country, cut off trade or place tariffs on their goods. You could fight wars with their poorer neighbours. You could place your aircraft carriers in nearby waters (if you don't have a carrier already, highly recommend purchasing one for intimidating nations worldwide). Or try anger them by derailing full passenger trains in Hong Kong and spray painting Pepe the frog everywhere. Don't have time? Just send $29 million to Hong Kong to finance terrorism and propaganda there.

In all of the above, someone has already beat you to it. You want to anger a country that is already under siege from terrorism, yet not angry enough to still want peace and trade with everyone. Making them angry might actually be quite hard. And I'm not sure I want to see them angry, because they would win a war of attrition if it came down to it.

A Buzzfeed article about a media company executive's business plan and content strategy made you angry, though. So angry you wanted to strike back--not at Apple or their executives--but at China, who are victims of Trump's trade war and growing hostile presence around it's land and sea borders.

I watched a Chinese film. A character, meek but incredible at mathematics and game theory, is lured into a game of life and death. He and some peers devise and plan to survive the game together, but he's betrayed and awaits execution while his friends survive off the game elements they shared (imagine casino chips or something). He manages to buy back into the game and then uses his strategic skills to save those who tried to have him killed so they could take their shared money. The film ends with the protagonist saying, "Maybe everyone only cares about themselves. But even if it seems crazy, I will help people no matter what. That's just how I am. Crazy."

You go ahead and try take some revenge on China because of Apple executives. For me, I'd rather consider the Chinese values revealed in that film, and in the actions and achievements of the nation over the past decades. Misplaced pettiness I do not see among them.
It definitely needs to be defined. Using only the paper, I assumed from the previous definitions that (a b . c) should be parsed as (x y) where x = a and y = b . c which can be re-written using only pair notation as (x . (y . nil) ) or (a . ((b . c) . nil)) and this made it very confusing to try to figure out what is meant by "improper."

Even if a definition for the notation (a b . c) is added, an example of such an improper list fully broken down into pairs would certainly still be appreciated by us readers who don't already think in Lisp :)
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Rakudo means paradise: https://jisho.org/word/楽土

Rakuda is a camel: https://jisho.org/word/駱駝
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No.

They already spent a good chunk of it: by Jan 31 2019 they spent $218M (that's a LOT! 200 employees burn no more than $50M a year, hosting maybe another $20M; the rest is probably just taken out by insiders). At that burn rate they likely have spent half a billion by now. Who is going to cover that?
Raku includes an incredible amount of new tools for writing one-liners. Furthermore, you can convert your one-liner into a command line app simply by wrapping the code in a `sub MAIN($pos-arg, :$named-arg) { ... }`.
they should not anger the android users too ! they are also humans !
- Apocalypse Now: 1979

- Full Metal Jacket: 1987

- Platoon: 1986

Anything more recent?
Except in countries with socialised healthcare.
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You should listen to the audio book of it. I've read the entire series, seen the movie and mini-series and listened to the audio-books... and the audio-book is by far the best. They are the voice acting type, with multiple readers for the different voices and they do a wonderful job. Just talking about it makes me want to listen to it again, such a good rendition.
https://hamwan.org/Administrative/Internet%20and%20Part%2097...
That's fair - on the other hand if you already understand the principles of messaging (maybe from Hohpe, or some other introduction to pi calculus), it's a great piece of writing about an otherwise dry topic - a C library.
US military refused to cooperate filming Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and many other films. For Apocalypse Now they pressured Australian and Philippine governments to deny assistance as well. US military has successfully removed lines from silly action movies like James Bond films and Marvel movies.

It's not comparable to what Chinese do of course, but the intention is there. Anyone who directly compares Chinese censorship to US censorship is an idiot.
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One more, here.
It's used to implement a generalization of assignment. If you have a special form that can tell you where something is stored, you can make macros to set it. E.g.

> (set x '(a b c))
(a b c)
> (set (2 x) 'z)
z
> x
(a z c)

which you can do in Common Lisp, and

> (set ((if (coin) 1 3) x) 'y)
y
> x
(y z c)

which you can't.
It admittedly is, just as it is for most other people: there are very few "serious" prorgams I can name that were written in Lisp, in spite of its venerated heritage.

There's no shortage of options in the programming language field, so one would be a fool to stick with a language they don't enjoy working in.
No, the US government obviously isn't (yet) the same, although it has been far from trustworthy in this last term.

However - if you want to make a moral argument against another side in a conflict, you need to make sure that you're actually standing on a moral high ground. At least if you want to recruit allies on your side. And, if you read the news, current US administration hasn't been treating their allies too well these last years. And US will need allies to resist Chinese influence.

I don't hold any sympathy for the Chinese, but it's also hard to see how following just another bully in an unequal relationship would benefit my non-US government.
To be clear, this is what we're discussing:

> You may be gaining access to hidden gems, but you're definitely turning away proven and experienced developers from even entering your hiring funnel.

You're describing hidden gems.

My point was that for someone who is internet famous, more people will be willing to jump through hiring hoops, whatever they may be, just as they are for FAANG, but that doesn't work for most hiring companies, because most companies are small and you've also never heard of them.

Also, no amount of "works for me" argues against your process turning qualified people away unless you have some out of band way of knowing that that isn't happening.
I asked a couple of the Shopify engineers a a conference in late 2018: almost all of Shopify's web and background job processing is Ruby. They're quite open about it:

https://www.slideshare.net/RedisLabs/redisday-london-2018-ho...

https://kirshatrov.com/2019/01/03/state-of-background-jobs/
That’s why I liked that they followed patients on it long enough to demonstrate reductions in all-cause mortality.

A lot of studies don’t go that far, which makes you wonder if the intervention is providing overall benefit.

Quite a bit of evidence, particularly for lower BMI and lower blood glucose decreasing cancer rates.
I get that, but I can't help but view them as visual noise.
You are indeed taking your fair share of the trend ...
The code I wrote to generate and test the Bel source is written in Arc, and Bel copies some things from Arc. Otherwise they're separate.
Everyone knows about sexuality anyway, but not about all of the topics that China wants people not even to mention.
> They don’t do it though for fear of canibilising MacBook sales.

Or perhaps because the OS is not optimized for a pointing device?
I know some are weak at geography, law and business. It's fine. But Tim Cook, nor Apple, are leaders of China nor a state.

If an executive asks for changes to remove homophobic comments from a Western film, they are not engaging in "top-down state censorship". That's just a person helping other people not be jerks.
I'm talking about the Linux project. You're talking about GNU/Linux distributions.
Me too, re:having children. my childhood abuse is the main reason I'm resistant to marrying and having kids.
I think coders do get respect. Perhaps a better term would be software developers or software engineers. Good software engineers who can design and develop large systems to solve business problems are very much in demand in small startups and large FANG-type companies. They get paid a lot, more than lawyers and doctors, these days.
As often as possible. Otherwise the front page is dominated by big media sites like The NY Times, which frankly is about as anti-“Hacker” as it gets.
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Why not? Thanks to SEPA ICT I can send up to 15'000€ in less than 10 seconds — actually faster than Bitcoin or anything else — to anyone else in the EU.

Why would I need to use Libra or anything else, what does it provide me that normal money doesn't?

Why should a broken commercial currency with surveillance integration be used globally just because the US payment situation is broken?
Interesting.

I always thought fast walking was related to city size. In average towns I'm a fast walker, when I go to medium cities I'm an average walker, and in London I'm a slow walker.

I wonder if it's another correlated factor? Usage of public transport?