skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone bleeding in the street needs first aid and/or paramedics. Answering questions from a police officer won't get that person either. Your statement really reads like a non sequitur to me.

I think most people either don't realize or choose to ignore the fact that calling the police rarely prevents any crime. It can be effective if what you're seeking is retribution or revenge, but once you've been stabbed whether you heal or not doesn't really depend on whether you answer questions from the police.

The news from Ferguson is a reminder that bringing police into a situation can make many situations much worse for everyone. If I find you bleeding in the street I'll help you get medical care and if you want to go to the police that's your decision, not mine.
In 5 years or so I will probably have a non-profit-making business, but also personal capital gains to take regularly, so the WA/OR split is pretty ideal for that I think. Or be a US citizen resident in Europe or Asia, so having no state income tax makes a lot of sense.

(A lot of datacenters are in OR specifically because of the lack of sales/use tax on servers; I used to think cheap power was the primary draw, but it actually is #2. Great fiber, supportive local governments with tax/etc. credits, etc. also contribute, but are less critical.)
I can’t help but think that this merely gives people the excuse they need for not understanding this “Things-that-are-not-ASCII” problem. Using this library is a desperate attempt to have a just-fix-it function, but it can never cover all cases, and will inevitably corrupt data. To use this library is to remain an ASCII neanderthal, ignorant of the modern world and the difference of text, bytes and encodings.

Let me explain in some detail why this library is not a good thing:

In an ideal world, you would know what encoding bytes are in and could therefore decode them explicitly using the known correct encoding, and this library would be redundant.

If instead, as is often the case in the real world, the coding is unknown, there exists the question of how to resolve the numerous ambiguities which result. A library such as this would have to guess what encoding to use in each specific instance, and the choices it ideally should make are extremely dependent on the circumstances and even the immediate context. As it is, the library is hard-coded with some specific algorithms to choose some encodings over others, and if those assumptions does not match your use case exactly, the library will corrupt your data.

A much better solution would perhaps involve a machine learning solution to the problem, and having the library be trained to deduce the probable encodings from a large set of example data from each user’s individual use case. Even these will occasionally be wrong, but at least it would be the best we could do with unknown encodings without resorting to manual processing.

However, a one-size-fits-all “solution” such as this is merely giving people a further excuse to keep not caring about encodings, to pretend that encodings can be “detected”, and that there exists such a thing as “plain text”.
Bearing in mind that this "caricature of pure evil" image is basically result of propaganda of the winning side of WW2 it's only natural that it wasn't the case before he lost his war. Far more interesting about this article is the fact how much it was known about what the future held. Sure, Orwell might be somewhat above average in questions of history and politics, but still I'd say it is pretty surprising that he is giving attention precisely that parts of Mein Kampf and Hitler personality which are interesting now, 70 years after. Especially that part about Hitler seeing himself as "Christ crucified". "Hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds". Indeed, wasn't it pretty clear back then, that whatever war he started — he couldn't win? What must had happened in order to make victory possible? Yet his popularity was amazing, and Orwell describes perfectly why. I'm not sure I understood the reason so well before I read this.
It would be interesting if we answered the question, along with another: why/how? (Is that two other questions?). Knowing why and how, say, Roger L'Estrange's 1715 Aesop's Fables influenced you so would be much more interesting than just knowing that, it did influence you.

Me? Jane Jacobs' Death and Life of Great American Cities. I read it when I was 21 (1998) and it changed how I walk down the street, every single day of my life since. Why this street is full of life, and that street is empty, for example. But not only that: she basically argues that central planning is disastrous for cities, and that cities should think on the street and human levels, from the ground up, and then iterate from there (rather than top-down). These ideas applied to other areas of life -- like software development, for example -- have been very powerful for me. I'd argue that Jacobs' thought is a precursor to the whole XP/agile software movement, for example. Both start with the same premise, the spec is dead (in software language). All this is probably obvious to y'all, but wasn't to me at 21 ;)
There is a slight, but nevertheless substantial difference between a company that relies entirely on its customers to becomes is sales workforce and a company that offers bulk prices for people who may want to resell.

The former will rely on its customers to recruit more customers/sales agents. The later will not.

There is probably a blurry line when a classic business may change its sales strategy that it starts to fall into an MLM scheme. I'd say that one of the indicators is how much the company is relying on new recruits becoming recruiters themselves.
Unrelated to the matter but since you work at genius, can you talk to the geniuses (sic) who thought that hijacking text highlight was a good idea? A lot of us speed readers use text highlight to read along. It is easier on the eyes and the brain.

So please don't hijack it.
From a bit further as well;

> How was it that he was able to put this monstrous vision across? It is easy to say that at one stage of his career he was financed by the heavy industrialists, who saw in him the man who would smash the Socialists and Communists.
> please go upvote. The more upvotes it gets, the faster it reaches the front page of Hacker News (which has a HUGE HUGE audience). Thanks!

You are quite literally asking for upvotes.
They did not mention who was their SIM vendor but each SIM vendor is using their own design for the metal contacts. One could find which vendor was trying to sell them the software which they did not own for $600.
Exactly. And as with Mein Kampf, anyone who read the People for the New American Century's manifesto should have been able to guess what was coming.
Great job with this. Very useful. The only issue I see is that Google may sue over domain/trademark issues. Facebook has done this to many sites for using "fb" in their domains. While you're getting lots of attention, you may want to offer a browser plugin/extension/bookmarklet that interfaces with the site (have the bookmarklet use a domain less likely to be contested) so that you can keep momentum going if they happen to take your domain.
People told themselves the same thing about Napoleon, though. And they told themselves the same thing about WW1 - it was 'the war to end all wars,' and everyone was so thoroughly sick of it afterwards (not least Hitler, who was gassed), that somply having the audacity to march an army around was treated as a a strategic victory.

For some time governments that were opposed to Hitler congratulated themselves on resolving international territorial disputes without all the messy fighting and dying. Hitler's troops were clearly superior to those of the countries he was invading (in terms of number and equipment) so the outcome was obvious and the actual business of conflict seen as archaic, other than maybe a few token shots to satisfy military honor. Even when Germany and Britain finally declared war on Hitler, there was no actual fighting at first - this period is referred to by historians as 'the Phoney War', and at the time it was humorously called 'Sitzkrieg' (a pun on the Blitzkrieg, or 'lightning war' style of Hitler's conquests up to that point). It was imagined that when Britain and France had their forces in place, they could be sized up against the German forces, and a simple economic calculation would quickly bring Hitler to the negotiating table.

To the astonishment of most of the allies (though not Winston churchill, who had dourly foreseen exactly this outcome) Hitler responded to the deployment of forces with an all-out attack, ignoring treaties and invading the Low Countries (Belgium, NL, Luxembourg) almost incidentally in order to encircle the British and the French, dealing a crushing blow. France in particular wildly overestimated the robustness of its own defences, which were essentially a giant fortified wall (the Maginot Line). Since the Germans had been manning their version (the Siegfried Line) without doing anything very much, the French convinced themselves that they had forced a stalemate and that sooner or later a diplomatic solution would emerge.

Obviously, I'm simplifying a great deal here.

Now of course, people might have responded to Hitler much earlier if they had taken all his Jew-baiting and so on at face value, and realized that when he talked about exterminating large groups of people he meant exactly that, as opposed to just conquering and looting in the traditional fashion. But I can easily imagine contemporary parallels.
THANK YOU!

I couldn't figure out what it was on the main page. Seems very silly to omit it.
A few names still available:

mkgif.com

gifjam.com

gifit.org

gifr.info

gifry.net

yougif.net or .org

Also, you can still keep your url-based usability with a name like this. Instead of telling people "just add gif to the beginning of the domain", tell them "just add .gifjam.com to the end of the domain". Bonus: you can then easily extend to other video sites.
It's binding a variable `even`, and then using a pattern guard to conditionally take that arm depending on the value of `even`; it's (basically) the same as

match val {
even => {
if even % 2 == 0 {
Some(even)
} else {
None
}
}
_ => None
}

which is an absurd construct (and the example pretty absurd too). It should be written as just

if val % 2 == 0 {
Some(val)
} else {
None
}

or, if you really like the formatting a match provides, just avoid creating a new name binding

match () {
_ if val % 2 == 0 => Some(val),
_ => None
}

`match` and pattern guards make far more sense when not just binding directly to a single variable like that, e.g.

let val: Option<int> = ...;

match val {
// even
Some(x) if x % 2 == 0 => Some(x),
// odd
Some(x) => Some(x + 1),
None => None
}

(Of course this may still be clearer using `.map` instead `match` but it's a better example than the original one.)
Am close to the source; the project is not dead, despite his full time employment, it has made some recent progress and is currently seeking funding.
Not necessarily - just something I wanted to mention.
Along those same lines, if you feel like doing some related hackery, I'd love to see a youtube video (and audio) reverser. Sometimes people stick reversed audio in their videos, and I'd like to hear it played back the right way around; right now, I do that via youtube-dl and audacity, which is a pain. As far as I can tell, there aren't any reverse video players around at all.
You always have your Miranda rights. You're required to be informed of them only if you are to be questioned (edit: while in a custodial interrogation, which means you reasonably think you aren't fully there voluntarily) and your answers used against you in court. Or perhaps more accurately: if you answer a question from the police and weren't informed of your Miranda rights, a competent lawyer may be able to suppress some amount of the evidence gathered by the police as inadmissible.

As far as I know this applies for all questioning, regardless of whether you're free to go, being detained, or under arrest. IANAL but I've had plenty of encounters with police.

The key right you're asserting is not a "right to a lawyer" it's the right to remain silent. Asking for a lawyer helps you to do this, because otherwise they have much more latitude to try to convince or trick you into talking. If you said you are remaining silent until you talk to a lawyer, in theory, they have to leave you alone until the lawyer is there.
We're finally getting the over the top push back that all those maybe legal startups kept asking for.

This is what happens when you keep poking someone(the regulators) with a stick. Eventually your credibility drops to near zero and everyone coming in behind you, with possibly much more reasonable ideas, will now be associated with your crap and pays the price.

Thanks Uber & Airbnb. Thanks a lot.
To answer your question, it's the latter. That's what pattern matching is, basically.
Note that you could have monadic sugar via macros today; it'd just be duck-typed, not strongly-typed.
http://makeagif.com/youtube-to-gif

Surface UI really does make all the difference.

Interestingly, makeagif also has trouble with vevo vids.
> I don't think in the context of Spain, at least, the various versions of libertarian socialism saw themselves as that clearly distinguished.

I don't disagree. Reading in 'Homage' about the wide variety of affiliations and beliefs is really eye-opening, which is one reason I recommended it in my response to the (now deleted) comment above.

However, it's just completely wrong from 2014 and with a view of the entire 20th century and of Orwell's entire life to state that he "was a communist for a long time," which is what I was responding to. I hope the author of that comment takes my recommendation. Orwell writes with such integrity and clarity and without even a hint of the tribalism that plagues political discussions.
I'm baffled by why you don't understand that what you're describing isn't an inevitable outcome of low-regulation, laissez-faire capitalism.

You only get stability with negative feedback. Capitalism is all about positive feedback, and leads inevitably to systems that conglomerate, stagnate, distort, and eventually either implode or blow up.

Where do you think the negative feedback to prevent that is supposed to come from?

And please don't say 'markets' because there is no evidence that I know of that markets have ever done any such thing, or even that a market economy is capable of it.
It's easy to forget just how many Socialisms there were. The "Ein Volk!" were the "socia" in National Socialism, reusing the Goethe-und-Wagner nationalism from the Bismarck era. It's collectivist to the core and regarded the individual as very nearly nothing. Just because it's massively illiberal does not mean it was not a Socialism.

And technically Conservatism is also quite Liberal, coming as it had from Burke. It's just been abused to identify illiberal things.

What surprised me is that Orwell did not directly identify the sadomaschistic core of Naziism. Perhaps that came later, but given "Burmese Days" and how well known the ...libertine nature of Wiemar was, why I'd a thought...
The real answer is, we don't know yet.

There are applications of this notion to financial modeling.
I'm continually astonished at the ultraconservative meme that Hitler was left-wing (which seems to originate with a book called 'Liberal Fascism' by Jonah Goldberg, although it has doubtless been floating around for much longer). Point out that one of the very first things that Hitler did on attaining power was have all the trade unionists arrested, and you might as well be talking to the air.
Supercar is often used to describe the technological advances in the car but it does have various different definitions depending on who you ask.

In this case, it's a super car in the sense of the fast and all electric dual-engine pushing the car from 0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds.
The power companies are not required to detect complex bets against them. They could decline to offer the bet in the first place. Why is DC Energy to blame for accepting a bet that was offered to them?
>I'd cite the fashionable argument that education is inversely correlated with happiness

That argument doesn't seem to be supported.

The article points out that high school graduates are more satisfied than dropouts. Also up to a point higher income (correlated with higher education) leads to higher satisfaction. A quick google search seems to confirm that education is correlated with life satisfaction [1,2,3].

Furthermore the study mentioned in the article is specifically looking at location differences. They acknowledge that other factors like "income, education level, age, and marital status" matter more, but that there even controlling for those factors there are still differences based on location.

[1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/does-education-...

[2] http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2012...

[3] http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/main/does-educat...
> My original comment related to very pragmatic situation of acting as "champions of democracy" while still maintaining a very significant role in the lawmaking process for a wholly-undemocratic body.

That seems to demonstrate a problem of ludicrously binary thinking. The UK is far more democratic than a great many countries -- and has been making democratic progress longer than many countries have existed. The existence of the shrinking vestigial powers of the House of Lords isn't even a little bit of a pragmatic problem for the UK as an advocate of democratic progress abroad.
Just like every other empire that ever failed stopped all other empires from ever forming again? As Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the like fall further into historical curiosities, things like Putinism and whatever you call what goes on in North Korea seem like viable answers distinct from those that came before it. And indeed, in many ways they are different, but especially in the case of the former, I think they clearly show that cult-of-personality authoritarian style of leadership will always be a problem.
Right, but thanks to Uber et al and their complete and flaunting disregard for regulations, regulators are now getting hyper aggressive in return. In the past the slow movement of regulations had a lot to do with regulators taking the time to get input from all parties(see FCC and Net Neutrality) before jumping to a decision. But now they know that waiting a year or two to make a decision could render their decision useless so they are forced to make quick barely informed judgements. Which end up basically saying no to everyone.
It's easy to forget how profound the power vacuum was in Weimar Germany. The roughly Christian Socialists ( congruent with the Fabians in England, although that's not the term of art ) were a relatively stable influence in Germany. Von Hindenburg was roughly of that skein. The Communists were deadly violent and Stalin was a significant external threat.
NYISO pays Potomac Economics specifically to detect and help prevent this type of trading: http://www.potomaceconomics.com/index.php/markets_monitored/...
Thanks for the advice. You are absolutely right, at least this I can do. There is lack of 'real person' now. I will tell my story. And the next important step will be to justify my words not only with testimonials, but also with stories and case studies of successful results.
One of my best 90s memories.
The second song included on Windows 95 CD was "Good times" by Edie Brickell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc

Indeed good times back in 1995, can't believe it's been already 20 years.
It's almost as though "left" and "right" are meaningless terms that are just use to split the people into two camps for battle against each other.
From a timing perspective, this was published in March, 1940. Some other noteworthy events with their dates:

* Germany invades Poland (September, 1939)

* Britain, France, Canada, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany (September, 1939)

* Soviets invade Poland, which is later split (October, 1939)

* Nazis begin euthanasia of ill and disabled in Germany (October, 1939)

* Soviets attack Finland (November, 1939)

So by the time Orwell published his review, it was clear Germany and the Soviets were mobilizing for war, but it was entirely unclear what would happen next.

In the next six months, Germany would invade Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands while beginning their blitz on Great Britain. The Soviets would take Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Mussolini would meet Hitler in Munich, declare war on France and Britain and Italian forces would take Greece and enter Egypt. The Tripartite Pact would be signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan to formalize their alliance.

It's amazing to me how fast things moved during that time.
In 1937, Pope Pius XI published a kind of "review" of the ideas in Mein Kampf and the actions of the Nazi Party. Mit Brennender Sorge ("With Burning Anxiety") remains the only papal encyclical ever principally published in a language other than Latin. That is, the official edition was published in German and other translations were derived from the German rather than a Latin original. Apparently, the Pope's harsh critique enraged Hitler.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/docume...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_brennender_Sorge
People tend to take author's ideas at face value. The annotations change the "face" of the author.
I think they are good signifiers for significantly different economic/political beliefs. However, fanatacism in politics ends up looking pretty similar regardless of starting point.
48 now and I still love to code. I would recommend to any of my older friends to keep doing what you love. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a ton of opportunity out there, regardless of age!
Why is that? If you assume each side is pointing to the same link, but with different styles for visited and unvisited, the colours will always be different.
There's a typo in the title, it should say "Option Monad in Rust".
This really isn't that accurate anymore. Verizon Wireless, which is the largest carrier in the US right now, uses sim cards in all of their LTE devices. Behind them is AT&T which of course is completely GSM and T-Mobile. Sprint, well... they're there.
??? "a game originally created by Eric Undersander in 2000."

That and the pictures on the page you link make me think that is not the same Hover that was included in Windows 95: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover%21
Darn. Maybe someone will come up with something that sits on the I2C or SPI bus of the accelerometer chip and does ???.
There's kind of a Python-To-Dart translator:

https://github.com/PythonJS/PythonJS
I'm considering something similar. I code for fun regularly but I worry if I'll cut it as a modern coder. Check in code to prod on day 1 seems to be a considered a badge of honor these days. I worry that I'll bring down the site :-p Also, 7 years ago, methodologies such as SCRUM and TDD weren't pervasive. How are you adjusting? Also, how did you prep for the technical interview?
Definitely; great advice. Thank you downandout :D
A Chinese man, who makes a living building various forms of infrastructure, is willing to put $300 million of his own money of $50 billion required into building infrastructure in Nicaragua. Meanwhile Nicaragua is willing to accept $50 billion of infrastructure investment. Sounds like wishful thinking from both sides.

As far as Oil, building a canal is not the way to reap rewards from oil. Here is a more relevant quote "U.S. firm, Noble Energy has given up on an exploratory oil well in Nicaragua, dubbed “Paradise 1,” after spending $90 million at the site. The firm concluded that there was not oil in sufficient quantities to justify further investment in the site." November 15th, 2013