skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very expensive, but services are amazingly frequent compared to on the continent, with multiple trains per hour been major cities. There's little compassion from the Staff of there's a problem, since everything's privatised.
The author of that article doesn't seem to have the slightest grasp of who Obama is or what he's about. Hell, doing the right thing has never been what any American President has been about.
What is "not OK"? These are subjective concerns. If you're going to the site you're still showing you find the content to be of value, so why do you feel its ok for the site to not make any revenue?

You're conflating the ability to do something with whether it's morally right or not. Ad blocking will only hurt the long-tail and freedom of the internet that everyone currently enjoys.

Btw, payments arent exactly some kind of perfect answer. It will always cost more than ads and is no less private, in fact you end up giving up even more of your details.
Had no idea that straight men wearing high heels was a 'thing' until just now...
Or weightlifting shoes or Latin dance shoes
> Edited to add: and looking at the concerns of one of the aid recipients, something should probably also be done about radio programmes spreading conspiracy theories about devil worshipping aid workers.

I don't have any idea what and how can be done with that, given that the first world's situation is much, much worse in that regard. Most of what the media does is regurgitate bullshit about everything; we may not have "devil worshipers", but we do have "big pharma".
Interesting argument given that Microsoft is known for embrace, extend and extinguish.
This is brilliant. Roughly how much does it cost?
You don't think paywalls are annoying? Because that's the only other model.
Strictly speaking you're right. However it's not necessary that other cores see the new store immediately: it's only necessary that they see it before the memory is freed, which occurs after a substantial delay sufficient to prevent these out-of-order issues on other CPUs. This is the technique by which memory barriers are elided on the read side (but not the write side).
Having read ken schwaber's "agile Project management with scrum" something like 8 years ago and hearing him speak, and working with agile teams during my most junior development I couldn't fucking agree more. I loved scrum when I first started using it, and I was a horrible developer back then. I pity anyone who had to work with me.

This article was strangely heartwarming.
You commonly hear that it's ridiculous for California to try to build a high-speed rail network, because people are "so far apart". But France -- a nation called out in this article for being well-connected by high-speed trains, is about the same vertical height as California. It's a bit wider.

If you place the northern tip of France on the northern border of California, the southern tip of France lands just north of San Diego. We have about 40 million people; France has about 60 million.

Japan (another country with great trains), is about the same vertical distance north/south as the west coast of the US. And while Japan's population is crammed into the coastline of an island nation where it's expensive to build, we have gobs of open space where it's comparatively cheap to run rail.

There's simply no excuse. Sure, it doesn't make sense to try to make a high-speed train across the country, but we should have great regional rail systems in the US. The east/west coasts, in particular, should be corridors for rail -- if you can get from Kagoshima to Tokyo in 6 hours by Shinkansen, there's no reason you couldn't get from New York to Miami in the same amount of time.
And I'll bet that not all women's bodies are equally attractive to you; that not all men's bodies are equally attractive to the next gay male you ask; and that not all high-heeled shoes are equally interesting to Mr. Throwaway.

An awful lot of attraction and esthetics is cultural, and the rest of it is personal.
You can buy through tickets from Great Britain to Ireland, there are stations adjacent to the passenger ferries.
Too bad this contradicts the favorite talking point of "it's Republicans who hate sound technology decisions"...
Yeah, it's theoretically impossible to stop a determined extension-writer from perfectly blocking ads in a way that leaks no information. But current implementations are sloppy and leak all sorts of information. Usually you can just run some (inline!) Javascript to inspect the DOM and then do something.

Or, if the client won't run Javascript at all (and you might consider making your site require Javascript to render anything, just to stymie these users, if you're on this path already), you can still set a background-image property as a "default" for a banner div, in a way that it will never get requested if the ad does get rendered, but will get requested if it doesn't. (OKCupid uses this approach, if I recall.) You can then use that information just for analytics, or you can go further and change what the server serves that client from then on (i.e. make all further pages for that session return an error.)
Improving economy, bountiful jobs and rising wages? HN accepts links from the Twilight Zone now?
> I have no desire to publicly out myself on this.

Well then you'd better delete this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9672480
> This accurately describes my experience every time I
> click on a HN topic about Rust.

Hm? Rust doesn't have garbage collection, let alone free massages. It does have pointers and it does have raw memory access. Like C++14, it's thoroughly a systems language with a few functional niceties floating around.
Little comparison of ways to use Clojure on Android
You're not forgoing four years of wages, and taking out an undischargeable house-sized loan to listen to that music though -- that's the point.

That is, the problem isn't that "enrichment is bad", or that everything must have a monetary return, but that "it's not a high enough priority at that point in the typical such person's life to spend that much on it" if it were just an issue of enrichment.

It's like the Burdian's Ass scenario, except the donkey starves while learning the most enlightened way to choose a bale of hay to eat.
A Cartoonist's Advice by Bill Watterson (cartoon)
I don't see much wrong with that logic; frankly, it sounds to me like much better solution than what's happening now. And if they really, really need to kill some people, then Operation Penny-Drop still sounds much better than what they do now.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=penny_drop

(warning about the site: contains lots of offensive and obscene language that can mask the author being usually right about things)
I highly recommend this book, which provides a super good framework to think about the situation you're in: http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912...

(Not related to author / book at all, just read it recently and found it very useful)
Disregarding the other obvious problems with this idea, how do you get to know whether or not a site serves ads without visiting it?
Thanks !
As for your question, if you can understand french, you should watch this https://vimeo.com/47189915#t=125s
Nick Pelling who has been following this case for some times offers his comments on this piece at

http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2015/06/06/the-curious-case-o...
BeWelcome suffers from quite toxic and counterproductive internal politics and petty power struggles. And the fact that the few founders maintaining control refuse to invest anything of substance in the code just _barely_ holding the site together.

Their constant boasts of "purely democratic!" and "proudly spending zilch on technical talent!" are in reality, massive liabilities and impediments. The site has barely seen any growth in about eight years, and without "enough" users, it provides little value to anyone except the small, core group. Which they're perfectly fine with.

Several extremely talented coders who invested tons of time and skill into CS and BW over the years, finally started this last December:

trustroots.org

github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/

Who's into MEAN? Drop them a line!
Right, but that requires spending at least three hours on a ferry, therefore contradicting the concept of the title.
Exactly what I've been saying about the NSA mass surveillance issue. It's not that many people are "okay with it" but that they don't truly understand what's going on.

If 1 in 2 people don't even realize their supermarket data is shared with others, how can we expect them to easily understand that the NSA is actually collecting their "dick pics" as well as everything else, including GPS locations, 3G tower locations, and so on? I strongly believe if most people actually understood what was going on, they'd be much more upset about it.

There's a reason why "tech people" are much more upset about it. It's not because they're "nerds" or anti-social or what have you. It's because they actually understand what's happening and what can be done with all of that data. And they also pay attention to hacks like the recent OPM one, where the government proves itself to be completely incompetent in keeping our data safe, enforcing the idea that neither the government nor companies should keep too much data about us and for very long.

If we could get "normal" people to have as much understanding about these privacy issues as tech people do, that could lead to some real privacy reforms.
There's a ferry from Holyhead to Dublin, you can buy a valid ticket from any British station.

http://traintimes.org.uk/Birmingham/DCL/

You're correct that this is people's perception, but they probably haven't wandered into a typical German city station and found there's a two hour wait for the next train to another city, or that the only cheap option is a very slow local train.
Sounds like a discussion about the TCP/IP protocol.
A great benefit is you end up in the heart of a city, not at airfield 80 miles away. Lock your bag up in the station and explore.

If you like your long railway journeys, Olso to Bergen is beautiful 7 hour trip.
Would love to see map of Europe reflecting distance by train, drawing countries with fast rail system smaller and those with slow rail system larger.
at least not until the cramps were over.
> I live in Switzerland now

How did you get into Switzerland? I've been considering / researching the possibility for a while, but it seems like a very long process to legally enter the country. Did you find it that way? Any recommendations?

[I looked for a personal email, but there isn't one listed on your profile.]
This is almost entirely because of the Iraq war. America had quite a sufficient military, even when Afghanistan started getting bad. But it was Iraq that over-stretched every aspect of the American military apparatus. Which became very obvious by their totally dependency on PMFs like Blackwater and Halliburton to provide security.

The blow-back from Iraq also pushed America to depend on covert wars because Iraq made overt warfare totally unpopular with the public. Now everything is done via special forces during classified operations, as the book "Dirty Wars" covered so well, as not to put politicians in a place where every military operation is potentially political suicide.

I doubt we'll see many large-scale wars in the future. It will almost entirely be drone bombings + intelligence-driven covert special forces raids.

Which is good / bad. Bad because the public will never be fully informed on the number or breadth of intervention the US is engaged in. But good because less soldiers will die via conventional warfare.
Not really seeing the ambiguous part.
Interesting...my experience has been the opposite, largely due to the fact that the description of Agile/Scrum in this article is nothing like the way it was implemented in my last company. (We built our processes and goals based on the original Agile Manifesto.)
> you need to go by what society judges as nice

Why?

You've been down-voted, probably because this assertion seems somewhere between weird and offensive to most people here, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you believe it.

This is particularly relevant to HN because most of the people here are interested in innovation, and innovation comes from precisely deviating from the standards of society. As Henry Ford famously remarked, "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."

This is the reception that innovators of all kinds get, and currently men's dress is incredibly restricted. We aren't quite stuck in Victorian days, but the diminishment of acceptable fashion choice for men in the past 200 years has been huge. In 1800 a man could still wear colourful clothing, jewelry, and makeup. Fifty years later, a man could wear clothes that would shock no-one if seen on the street today, and nothing else.

I don't quite buy "the Enlightenment" as the whole answer, or even part of the answer, but there is no doubt that cultural shifts around that time had the effect of putting all men in uniform clothing. Think about that for a minute: women are allowed to wear almost anything today. Men are given a tiny number of acceptable choices, and no one much minds. I'm considered extravagant because I sometimes wear a bright red blazer to the theatre, which would be permitted if I were gay, but when I show up with my girlfriend it gets me insulted.

200 years ago men who were a hell of a lot more manly than me wore far more extravagant clothing and no one batted an eye (except maybe a few women who thought they were particularly attractive dressed like that.)

This is a lousy situation for straight men in the modern world: we deserve to be more than uniformed ciphers in the public eye, and rejecting society's judgement of what looks nice is a necessary step to take, just as rejecting society's judgement of what suitable entertainment is was necessary to the radio and film industry, rejecting society's judgement of what suitable travel technology is was necessary to the automobile and aircraft industry was, and so on. And you better believe that conservatives were frequently strongly against those innovations as well.

Innovation is driven by people with the courage to reject society's judgement and replace it with their own, and we should honour that courage, not denigrate it.
You can have zero percent tips, and still have the server/delivery driver get some compensation. E.g. a mandatory, fixed 10% tip is no different to a 0% tip where the sever/delivery driver's "tip" is incorporated into the bill.

The nice thing about a fixed/zero tip is that there is no tax on being "nice" and no subsidy for "assholes".
You can get ES7+ with babel. http://babeljs.io/docs/usage/experimental/
American Pharoah Wins Belmont Stakes and Triple Crown
> Non-European citizens can't use Interrail.

Not true. You have to be a resident to use Interrail. So if you don't have a European passport, but live there, you can still use Interrail.

Note also, "European" here means a lot more countries than the EU. Other eligible countries of residence include: Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Vatican City.

Source: http://www.interrail.eu/help/ordering-pass/do-i-need-interra...
Computer Modern, the typeface built for TeX using Metafont that gives academic and research papers that signature, serious look, was designed by Donald Knuth with the guidance and advice from Hermann Zapf.
Lately tho, they have changed their approach to a more user oriented one
I enjoy traveling by train, but it's a bit of a shame that it's often economically unwise to pick a train over a coach bus if you're sensitive at all about the price. Difference can be 3x or higher, though some countries are better than others. (Italy, the UK, and Eastern Europe have pretty cheap trains, I've found.) Rail passes seem to only make things better if you're travelling a bunch over a short period of time, not once every few weeks. Still, I'd much rather travel by coach than air!
> Testing is really important, but few developers like to write tests. That means it’s your job.

As a leader of an engineering team (and an engineer), I think the is this is entirely the wrong approach. It's a leader's job to get the team to understand why writing tests is important and have them write them. Sometimes an individual isn't a great fit on the team and you need to figure out how to handle it (i.e., they refuse to write tests but the rest of the team is).

There are few points in this article that resonate - but there are many that are complete off base such as

> Managers translate the project’s Big Picture into individual tasks for developers, with their details and interactions specified in minute detail

I agree that leaders/managers translate the big picture to developers (provide vision) - but the team should figure out the minute detail - otherwise you're removing autonomy, the ability to fail, and are yourself falling into the pit of micromanagement.
That is an interesting insight on the customer behavior. In our current design we have set the default at 5% (mostly with an intention of providing a visual hint of a tip in the bill and expecting customer to change) and are seeing lot of customers don't change it to anything else most of the times. On the other side we have seen that the customers, who decide to tip in cash, slide this to 0 and pay as high as 25% of the invoice at times.
And California only needs a rail system for about half of it's length, most of the population is in it's bottom half on top of it.
Can't say I particularly care about what people wear. But I have an interest in footwear and how it relates to human location. In short: heels are bad. The higher they are, the worse. You have a heel in your foot. It's more than adequate.

Feel free to wear whatever you want, but when it comes to footwear, some things are best avoided if you want to stay in good working order.
Ada's contract stuff is a bit more sophisticated than a simple assertion. You can, for example, do this:

procedure increment(v: in out integer)
with
post => v /= v'old
...

(/= is Ada's not-equal-to operator.) This enforces as a postcondition that the value of v must have changed. You can even refer to the old versions of arrays.

Plus, the run-time type checking required by more complex type expressions are augmented by compile-time checking. If the compiler can deduce that a conversion will always be correct, it won't emit a check. If it can deduce that it will always be wrong, it'll error out at compile time.

It all works really rather well.

The only trouble I have with preconditions and postconditions is that you have to declare them in your module's interface, which is public, rather than in the module's implementation, which isn't. So you can only test your module's public interface. If your module doesn't expose a state variable to the outside world, you can't use it in a precondition or postcondition. I find that a very odd design decision.
I am trying to understand the usecase. Exchanging contact deets, is that the only one?
I mostly feel sorry for women who feel pressured to wear heels even though they might not personally want to. Likewise for makeup, jewelry, plastic surgery, black women with straightened hair, bald men with hair transplants, men in suits on hot days, people eating too little because they feel pressured to stay thin, etc.

When people choose to do/wear those things because they like them, or choose to have extensive piercings or tattoos, etc., more power to them.

In other words, the problem for me is with social expectations that discriminate against people who don’t put extensive money, time, discomfort, and sometimes injury on the line to look the way society expects.
People were pointing out back then that TCP/IP's deliberate inefficiencies consumed the electrical output of entire countries? Somehow I neither remember that, nor remember ever reading of it.
In Holyhead (ferry port in Wales with many daily connections to Dublin) you board the ferry from the end of the train station platform of the high speed rail. The slow ferry takes three hours, the express ferry takes 1.5 hours. When I was there in 2006 there were many direct trains from there to London Euston.

The other option might be ferries that carry trains. I believe they don't do this across the Irish Sea, but I've been on a train that drives onto a ferry across the Baltic sea connecting Berlin and Malmo (Sweden). You can get off the train while on the ferry, but you don't have to.
My personal theory has been that, because height has so much power influence (e.g., tall people are better paid[1], have better sexual prospects), boosting one's potential power can be seen as dishonest.

[1]: http://www.timothy-judge.com/Height%20paper--JAP%20published...
I'll second Oslo to Bergen. We did it in reverse, as part of the 'Norway in a Nutshell' itinerary which is about 12 hours (can be done over two days) because it replaces some of the rail journey with a fjord cruise, the Flam railway, and a mountain coach.
Another book that I've found great about this is "Eat That Frog" it deals with some of the more stubborn tasks in GTD.
Not that easy. Roof was picked up probably because it's obvious and unambiguous - you literally only have to take one look at a house to know whether or not it's eligible. "Food" is not a well-defined metric, and whatever particular proxy for "food" you'd use, it seems to me that that proxy is much easier to manipulate than roof material.

As for perverse incentives, GP is right that as the news spread, people may save the money they have instead of investing it in a roof in a hope of getting additional money from GiveDirectly in the near future. That's, unfortunately, human behaviour 101. So in time, they'll have to change the criteria they use for distributing grants, and the article hints that they're thinking about it already.
With this initial release, they seem to be targetting boards like the raspberry pi that have spi ports or gpio ports that people have made python modules for that are resonably abstracted. From how everything's laid out, it looks like you're supposed to have a source actor which does the low level work, like polling the gpio ports, and from there, passing the message to other actors which may be on other servers. I'd like to see the spec hashed out a bit better, because right now, it seems that there are too many bits of it that only have code as documentation.
What sort of tooling were you looking for? I'm happy enough with gprbuild, gdb and the command line tools; I tried GNAT GPS for a bit and loathed it on sight.
I suspect you are being downvoted because you are not arguing very well.

"There are only two viable business models" - and then you admit a third, and a fourth, and claim that they are exceptions. There can't possibly be a fifth? There can't be a sixth that someone will invent next year and become the dominant mode of funding digital publishing?

You claim a moral right for web sites to show you ads, but no equivalent moral right for people to use programs to ignore the ads. That's inconsistent, and also morally abhorrent to many people.

Finally, you say that you "don't agree with using adblock but I do consider the reasons valid" -- that appears to be another inconsistency. If ad blocking is immoral, there can't be any reasoning which will overwhelm your moral objections.

Perhaps you are using the word "moral" in an unusual fashion?
Having recently visited the UK for a couple of months, I don't really understand why the people there hold their rail system in such low regard. Every time I compared prices between rail and coach, there was almost always a rail ticket that cost about the same as the bus and got me to my destination faster, even at the last minute. The trains were also very slick and clean, and often had outlets and working Wi-Fi. Better than many places in mainland Europe!