skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindos#Climate is about as hot as it gets in Greece, with an average high over 30 °C for (only) three months.
When a child is born it's generally common to register the birth. In many countries it's a legal requirement - which as a first step towards child protection probably isn't a bad thing.
It's more about wealthy incompetent idiots running everything into the ground and destroying our institutions, governments, and economy for everyone except them.

Also, theoretically the economy is not a fixed pie, but for many years now it has been a fixed or shrinking pie for everyone not at the top of the income distribution.
I leave mine on ddg and when it occasionally comes up short append "!g" to search it on google
How is it comapre to zeronet ?
This looks pretty neat! First I've heard of Ionic, and I want to use it. I have a question for anyone familiar with it.

I mostly make Web apps with very complex UIs that target desktop computers specifically. I'm not as concerned with the mobile app story right now, I just want a batteries included UI framework. Is that a valid use-case for Ionic, or should it only be used if cross-platform deployment is needed?
I don't disagree with you, but I think Central Banks would.

It's basically their job to keep inflation steady.

On one hand, we can criticize them for not doing a good job. On the other hand, if you compare the volatility of inflation vs equities vs house prices vs just about anything -- they're doing pretty good.
The sooner that IBM and Oracle die the better.
Which is why I think the vinyl resurgence is much more complicated than "hipsters being hipsters". We, as humans, like tangible things.
I've been using DDG for a half year now, and I'm digging it. A feature request: A quick language filter! I use three languages in my daily live. However, false friends (similar words with different meanings) and the fact that some topics are more relevant in some languages make searching sometimes an agony. Google suffers from this too; I can change languages from the settings, but what I really want is a quick language filter, similar to the date filter, since I tend to juggle with that many, many times per day. Or would, if it weren't painful.
This would be cool - an RSS feed for meetings, sort of. You could even display it in your calendar app directly.
I would love to see D succeed as the king of interop. That would be a great niche to fill.
Young Islamic students were sexually abused
People often confuse "public information" with "easily understood and widely available" information.
They're being a little precious about it all. They don't want their movies treated like cheap commodities, but in the end that's what they are.

They can't deny that all of their movies are available in high quality for free online. If they are truly worried about making too much money, then maybe they are fine with that.
You signed up for HN for this ?
One presumably pays money for a device with Google's name on it through which all of your network traffic flows, and you're worried about a microphone?

(I well and fully get your point, I'm just amused that, in the bigger scheme of things, a microphone is the problem here.)
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I'm really surprised to see GetTogether is not better know. I think it's one of the best alternatives available.
I don't bother with google anymore. In fact, google's search results for me have actually declined over time (maybe because I'm using it less?). DuckDuckGo is designed for someone like me. The Bang syntax is very tech friendly and it provides me with instant search access to hundreds of sites saving me precious time. It's faster if I know where the data is than google.

Google is like word, and DuckDuckGo is like vim.
I appreciate you engaging in the conversation. Thank you for your thoughts. I’m not sure if we’ll come to a consensus at all, but it’s interesting to read your responses. My take is “intellectual property” is a joke of a concept, that is completely arbitrary and has no grounding in the real world (because if you dissect any piece of work, you would find that it “infringes” on the “rights” of the “labor” of countless individuals before). It’s a lie. Plain and simple. Used to benefit the rich and powerful. Intellectual slavery or intellectual monopoly. Those are the true terms here.
How did they negotiate a discount when they weren’t yet able to move off the database? ‘Give us a discount or...’ or what?
For those of you using a single search engine: try DDG, but if your query doesn't get the results you want (less often these days), prepend it with !g to search google instead.

Or use Firefox's smart keywords https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

You could configure it to use:

g something # to search google
d something # to search DDG
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I'm a web developer and even I wouldn't agree with this. Especially on mobile.
Did you or the client sign a document binding you to do work and them to pay you for it?
The article gave the age of the oldest one (apart from the older guy) as 25, and apparently they've lived like that for 9 years. That suggests they were all children when they went underground. There's almost certainly some sort of child welfare law violated when you force your kids to live in a basement for 9 years.
Do you retweet the critical reviews too ?
amiunique.org only checks whether your fingerprint is unique, but if some data that was used to create your fingerprint was random (as common with some anti-fingerprinting methods) then that doesn't mean you're identifiable.
Obnoxious as well as idiosyncratic.
> I just want a USB serial port that accepts gcode.

From what I've heard, this is not reliable in the current implementations. If the computer goes to sleep, is under high load, or crashes this can result in a failed print. Of course you could build in more and more safeguards for this sort of thing (buffer the gcode, have some "emergency stop" movement which moves the head up and away from the print and decreases the temp of the hot end if there is a break in the stream of instructions) but this is a lot of additional effort when you could just as easily push all the gcode onto an SD card on the printer.
Does anyone have any experience with soft robotics? For example these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6CRe2ieuYE advertise their gripper as supposedly being able to handle weight/size variety with no training at all, just with the use of different materials in the gripper
This is great news! We had a lot of trouble debugging our XMPP client on Firefox without it.
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The simplest explanation is that you don’t know how good Google is anymore.

I use DDG because I think it’s important and have family members doing it too, but it costs us time when we search because the search completion is poor and the results aren’t as intelligent as I expect. Perhaps maintaining those expectations is my problem to solve, but that does not make the product’s deficiencies go away.
Some might find it weird that cannabis was ever illegal anywhere in the first place.
congrats! that's pretty impressive.

i'm just skeptical this could be achieved at scale.. data _analyst_ is a different story
The internet changed, but it's still here. The sentence:

> The predictions of the time assumed that Internet was there forever.

...seems to indicate you feel the internet has somehow gone somewhere.
Way worse
I believe EnterpriseDB sells something like that.
Interesting. I've been using DDG exclusivley for about 2-3 years now and I forget that I'm not using Google half the time. It's just my normal state at this point.
You signed up for HN to tell me this?
Assuming you're talking about cronitor, curious what feeder products you guys created, and how did that work out?
Strawman. I didn't claim there aren't articles out there about how useless MBAs are.
I've had great experiences with Ionic in the past. Capacitor removing the headache that is Cordova looks promising and I'm glad Ionic is moving in that direction. It's a great platform and there's lots of support out there for it. I've chosen Flutter for my latest project however for two main reasons: 1) JS ecosystem fatigue. 2) Not having to write JS or CSS is frankly a breath of fresh air. I can build a UI logically with out the refresh-and-pray experience, even if things get kinda verbose. I should also add that this app is not "brochureware" and needs a more app and less web-like UI. I think Ionic currently excels in the latter.
It's not Ghibli but was made by a lot of the same people, I'd recommend Mary and the Witch's Flower for the same style of story telling and animation.
As far as I know Debian intends to have no plain `python` on the default PATH once the python2 packages are removed, so that it will be up to the system administrator to decide where that will point.

See eg
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2018/05/msg00063.html
from the Debian Python maintainer.

(That's a year and a half old, but I haven't seen a message go past suggesting they've changed their minds.)
Unless the state has an effective mechanism that doesn't disenfranchise voters, and that those moved or dead voters aren't voting, the motives are suspect.
I guess a Dutch guy living in a city, where weed "coffee shops" have been legal for decades now, might find it a bit illogical -- which it is.
But licensing fees aren't 'technical issues'. You say 'technical' to mean not related to things like licensing.
> As far as I understand, overhearing a stranger discussing a deal at the local Starbucks and trading on that, is perfectly legal. But overhearing your wife discuss a deal and trading on that is illegal, as it is a breach of trust.

I believe this is technically incorrect. If the information you heard inadvertently was non-public and you trade on it, that is still illegal.
One glaring example that comes to mind from many years ago was a borderline abusive boss, who was an older chinese national, that treated younger ethnic chinese staff born in the US or other places very poorly. His mindset was that they were coddled, soft and lazy. The company HR people addressed the situation inappropriately as an interpersonal conflict because it didn't fit their notion of discrimination, which is what it was.

End of the day, it was a situation that was demeaning and awful for my colleagues who dealt with it, and they all left the company. The company no longer exists, but it was an example of an organization that focuses on the letter of the law and fostered a culture that ultimately hurt it.
I hate meetup so. damn. much! They have now become the shty equivalent of the yellow pages, needed but detested at the same time. The rents they seek with the desert of functionality conspires to boil my blood. I will dance in the street when they are replaced by anything, anything at all.

We need a community run service, not a for profit company.
The key to success in college is to get stellar marks AND do internships and stuff AND network, network, network. If you're lax in any of these, you could be in for struggles in your career.
I didn't even realize schools started before 8... I believe that's when my high school started. Thinking back to the useless slug that I was in the mornings as a teenager, I can't imagine this will do anything but help learning.

If only there had been a law saying college classes couldn't start before 11am (or 2pm on Fridays) when I was there...
My question with this, or any potential replacement to meetup, is whether the people running the site are prepared to run it at the same scale as meetup. I'd hate to see it start to scale up, but end up in the same place, that they need to start charging a couple bucks to keep the service running.
My assertion: Doctors are motivated by non-monetary reasons more so than economists. Doctors have the primary motivation to save lives/help people. If economists have the motivation to save lives/help people, that motivation isn't as strong as with doctors.

You can agree or not. To me it seems obvious this is true.

If you agree that the assertion is true, then 'doctors are more reliable to provide assessments that aren't based on self interest' would be a logical conclusion that would be drawn from the initial statement. Of course if you don't agree with that assertion (and it's hard to prove either way in a scientific manner, so I'm quick to admit it's just my perspective), then you obviously won't agree with the logical conclusion.
Maybe a solution for you would be using Firefox containers, with one container per language?
You can also use the bang as a suffix, which I find a bit easier when I already have a query.
What does "time cube" mean in this context?
You missed it, the reason the older was was arrested was because he was not cooperating with the police investigation. What it exactly means in this context is not completely clear though. But I can imagine the police went to have a look, and the man freaked out.

This is uncommon in the Netherlands, I know there are communities in the US with small communities that don't want anything to do with the government. Those people don't even have birth certificates or social security number. But I've never heard anything like that in the Netherlands.
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As someone running my 2015 MPB into the ground this sounds absolutely insane. I love MacOS, but this is on par with the “you’re holding it wrong” insanity. I really hope Apple gets their newer MBP straightened out before I have to buy a new laptop.
If your contention is that vote fraud is hard to detect and probably happens more than we know, look into statistics. The likelihood of detecting a single case of improper voting is low, but if there's a significant volume of it happening then the likelihood of detecting that it's happening at all is pretty high, at which point more detailed investigation can be done.

Edit: this kind of ties back to the allegations of massive voting fraud in the 2016 elections. Lots of people looked into it and found no significant level of improperly cast votes. That leads to either a contention that it did not happen or a contention that all of the people investigating it were either corrupt or incompetent.
It absolutely should be illegal, first and foremost because minor children "off the grid" is a massive risk for abuse. In any case, regardless of the rights and wrongs, one wouldn't expect the Netherlands to be tolerating anyone living fully out of the system.
Strange for a country where you can legally smoke (and buy?) weed at every other corner.
That doesn't fix everything.

My kid's best friend is now a they. After knowing a 'her' for three years, it's been hard to switch. I have a hard enough time some days stringing the right adjectives into sentences without also worrying about pronouns too. It's easier for me to do when typing, but I can't speak for everyone.

Since their first name is a single syllable, I've found myself avoiding pronouns entirely when talking about them. Because accidentally saying 'she' more than once in a while causes stress for everyone. It's a big deal, their father is not okay with this, and we are frequently the safest house for this group of kids to hang out at.

Our kid has always gone by a nickname. When she got older she decided she wanted a change. I was the first one in the house to use her new first name reliably. I'm not sure why I'm the one having trouble with pronouns.
arrested for "not cooperating". Perhaps that's against the law there and one can be compelled to cooperate in a general way.

I'm more curious about how they paid rent for a decade, without contact with the outside world (e.g. a job-->salary). And how did this man pay for his five beers?

There's an interesting story here, but to my American mind I don't see evidence of a crime unless some were being held against their will.
I have an old coworker who works at Github now. He was on a date with a co-worker from another group (and another state) at a town hall. He at a bar after work, and 2 women who worked at github seen them flirt with each other, and reported him to HR.

HR made him sign a form that he wouldn't date co-workers, even if in another group. (Him only)

There was no rule against dating, but that didnt stop HR from getting into his life. If things are this bad at HR, I cant imagine the rules all over the place.
I’ve just built iTextSharp LGPL for .NET Core 2.2: https://github.com/schourode/iTextSharp-LGPL It only needed a single dependency to build on.NET core, System.Drawing.Common from nuget, for Image and Matrix classes.

That version has a few unfixed bugs, e.g. merged table cells are sometimes broken, but the code quality is OK on average, relatively easy to fix them if you need to.
Someone had to build the "thing you should have used instead of rolling your own".

Most of the things we should use instead of building our own are either currently someone's shiny, golden side project with no business case, or else started that way.
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> The answer is to let the students in [...]

How about no.

I'm tired of this bullshit meme. We've done this for 25 years and it has not made a god-damned difference except for causing a drain of intellectual property from the US to China.

The [privileged] students can suffer in China alongside the plebs for all I care. They are not in our national interest and no comment on HN will change that fact.
I disagree on "effort counts".

In practice and in the work place, the only thing that matters is if you get your work done or not. You can spend a lot of effort on things and get almost nothing done... I know programmers who spent 2+ years on custom unit-testing solutions (and I guess management never noticed this guy was spinning his wheels on something that has been solved in multiple github projects or something...)

Just because he put a lot of work in doesn't mean that other engineers respected his work or even he got anything done. All it means is that he wasted 2-years on the project.

That's real life.
Imagine the disappointment when pressing enter and nothing happens because the key didn't register.
> what part of getting an MBA filters for "possessing soft skills, being personable, ready to meet with clients or manage people and probably well-connected"?

MBAs at the top schools demand intense team work. Without it, you won't pass.

My MBA experience was INSEAD, in France. For the first 3 terms (of 5), all work was done in teams of 5. The school chose the teams explicitly to maximise the chance of conflict (by maximising differences in background, nationality, prior education, work experience, age and gender). The professors then threw tons of work on us. A well-functioning team could just about cope. Totally impossible if working individually.

So we had no option but figure out how to work together, maximise the combined value of each person's skills, and rely fully on each other.

A few teams exploded spectacularly. But most of us learned how to work as a team and succeed under intense pressure.
Most manufacturers’ datasheets specify 20 or less years of data retention (even when powered on). This might seem like random sufficiently large number, but there really are devices made in mid-90’s (notably early FastEthernet cards) that do not work because they lost contents of their configuration EEPROMs.
Since the SD cards contain the originals, we're heading for trouble as soon as anyone applies formal semantics to 'backup'. We could call the SD cards "copies" but again, they contain the originals. I'm using 'backup' informally.

Concern about bitrotting originals is one reason to backup. Losing some images is a partial disaster. Losing all of them is total. Reformatting is exactly that. It's objectively worse than bitrot over time. It's objectively better than not "backing up" at all. It might be less contingent than an online solution with a credit card dependency over a period of five years.
That tunic is incredible! I can't believe it's around 1700 years old. I wonder how fast it would deteriorate once melted from the ice if it wasn't discovered.

The glaciers melting is a sad thing but at least this aspect of it is exciting.
> if your query doesn't get the results you want (less often these days), prepend it with !g to search google instead.

The `!g` can show up anywhere, not just at the beginning of your query.

Also, other possible `bang` shortcuts: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
Very useful - anyone using oracle should try to use ANSI keywords now to avoid work in the future, always use COALESCE instead of NVL, use ANSI date functions, etc.
not sure if that's better or worse but I didn't notice that myself. ty
Being in the Netherlands this is just such an interesting story, there's so much going on.

The kids, if they actually went 'underground' 9 years ago would have been in the mandatory schooling age. Checks on this tend to be quite stringent and home schooling needs to be approved by the (I think) local authorities.

The Netherlands is quite densely populated and there is just no way if they weren't outside that they didn't notice any civilization existing. Airplanes, fireworks, things like that would have existed.

Then the fact that the home owner never once visited their renters in 9 years or apparently they didn't have to do taxes.

Aside from all that, I'm very amused by the fact that this 25 year old person went to a bar, was turned away, then the next time ordered 5 beers and got to talking with the bar owner and they were confused so they alerted the police. Imagine the confusion on the person that thought the world ended and ended up at a bar with people drinking beers!

Oh and the plot twists, the oldest person first being thought to be the father not actually being the father! And then being arrested for interfering in the investigation.

This is just so weird, how could 5 kids ages 16-25 (or 7-17 when it started) be kept inside for that long???
2010 conspiracy theorists I'm assuming... given they've been there 9 years.
Is this not the current functionality in Developer edition?
meta: the https version works fine:

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/10/13/introducing-arrow-f...
If we only had listened our sysadmin...
Surely the administrators of such systems can solve that problem with a few symlinks at most, not even code changes.
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Should be pretty easy. Create a bookmarklet that grabs the window.location.href, then appends '!g' to the beginning of the query and changes the location to the appended string.
Bing was an invaluable resource while traveling in China. Wikipedia is blocked by the GFW, and I was really missing it since I use it daily. Adding "wiki" to the end of most search terms on the English version of Bing will bring up a little section with almost the entire Wikipedia article loaded through Bing's domain, bypassing the block without the need for VPN, Shadowsocks, etc.
Piracy wins again.
In principle, the compile time code generation involved can generate arbitrary wrappers including networked RPC. It wouldn't be terribly hard. It just hasn't been done yet as far as I know.
Aurora actively makes me want AWS to have my data. It's the only thing that AWS has that I miss on a daily basis.
k2pdfopt, which is free, works for almost every PDF.
Consumer prices aren't really going down, at least on things people care about (food, housing, or education).

At least in the U.S., it seems like the consumer classes are pretty tapped out in terms of consumption, and wages are stagnant so new consumption growth is elusive. With the income inequality that the U.S. is current experience, there just aren't enough consumers with resources that can keep spending indefinitely.
> "citizen ID" cards

We call them passports :)
Yes, but around three out of four people will have left by 16:30, which is definitely not common in all European countries.

I’d say an average working day is 7 hours plus a 30-minute lunch break, usually taken before noon.