jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From glossing over the spec, it seems as if this does not include a file system abstraction. Operations are based on `path` objects; there's no additional state or context that'd allow e.g. implementing a virtual in memory file system without support from the operating system, or an additional user context to be used for a networked file system that needs user credentials, etc.

In effect this looks a lot like Java's java.io.File (modulo some of the design warts in that), which in Java land people are trying to replace with FileSystem and Path (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/FileS...). Java's Path is specific to a file system, so that users can implement their own FileSystemProvider (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/spi/F...).

I wonder why they went that way? Or am I missing something?
I think someone knowledgeable should make a DIY guide explaining how to build a "Stingray". Only when "everybody" has one will governments be forced to demand more secure standards.
I'm fairly sure you need to pay licensing costs if you include the algorithms in the application you ship. Not if you used the algorithms in other programs (you purchased, perhaps) to build your assets for the game.
Haven't been in any knife fights recently; but have done practice with "live weapons" and the base of the techniques are fairly solid.

How likely are you to use them in an actual confrontation though? Probably not likely, you would have to be put in a situation where other forms of neutralizing the situation are not possible (this includes running the fuck away); and at that point, primary importance is having a very limited set of general techniques that can be applied in multiple situation with the weapon so that through practice and training it's more of an autonomic function of your body (you don't want the lag of having to 'think' about which technique to use); secondary importance is experience with these situations - i.e. one of the marital arts groups I worked with would have us go to, and shoot at, a firing range so that we were used to the sounds that a gun would make at close range so that we were used to it in the unenviable case of being in that situation.

Generally, disarm techniques are going to be extremely similar, but with any sharp object it's going to be - expect to get cut, deflect with non-vital parts of your body (such as the outsides of your arms, not the supple insides of your wrists), and neutralize the weapon as quickly and safely as possible. Some martial arts systems even have scarf techniques for doing disarms with soft objects from a distance (it's super cool seeing someone do a gun disarm with a cloth/scarf).
Hm I improvised an adjective for orthodoxy. Maybe it's orthodoxic .. I hope you get the meaning now.
yay! good luck with webase, good vibes in the name too :D
This should be a grass roots movement. Stop filling out your “correct race and ethnicity”. If it doesn’t matter then it doesn’t matter right?
If the plane is connected to anything else, it can be hacked. Just because it hasn't been reported yet doesn't mean it's impossible or even that it hasn't happened.
Again, not necessarily true.

Frequently, legislation intended to block things doesn't just say "this is illegal now – don't do it". It frequently includes things like reporting requirements to ensure that you are not doing these things without the government having to constantly keep tabs on you (and obviously hefty fines / etc if your reports are found to be inaccurate).

These reporting requirements (and other, similar requirements that usually accompany such legislation) can be an expensive hassle, possibly more expensive than "expensive litigation". The case only needs to be litigated once, while something like reporting requirements continue in perpetuity.
I don't think attitudes to infant care translate in any way to how older kids or teenagers are treated in different cultures. I'm not a parent, but I was a child and teenager at some point, so I can say from personal experience that parents who are extremely present at a young age can actually give you more leeway later in life.

On a more general note, I can recommend Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday' - it covers similar topics to the bbc article and more.
Is there some amount of cigarettes that is beneficial too?

So long as the line is going up and to the right, it's specific shape only matters if you want to debate the micromort value, not whether the concept exists.
Insurance is not intended to pay out more money than you put in, it is intended to prevent gambler's ruin.

Some extra money when you are in trouble is worth more than the money itself, it is also worth the trouble it gets you out of.
That's what 'nano' means, but 'nanotechnology' is a set phrase with a specific meaning. You have to be manipulating matter at that scale, not simply using particles that size. Smoke is not nanotechnology.
I enjoyed her articles too, so I know where you're coming from. However I feel she did not handle things well when it came to the "crazies" and that greatly damaged her credibility in my eyes.

My loss I guess, since she can be very thought-provoking.
Agreed this is a great idea. Could work really well with a reputation system like StackOverflow's to weed out kooks (both doctors and lay people).
BeOS and QNX both featured work by Dominic Giampaolo. He now works at Apple on their file system and Spotlight.
Funny how readable Python is:

def condense(s, remove):
return "".join([c for c in s if c != remove])

Cheating (2.6+): s.translate(None, remove)
You mean like the way drinkers think alcohol makes them wittier and more charming?
And doing full squats with your bodyweight on the barbell 20 times (1 set of 20) is like hollering at your body with all of your lung capacity to get in shape.
That is one reason why, when I tested my response to caffeine last fall and early winter, I used decaf coffee, regular coffee, and coffee with added caffeine (pills) to test for an effect. http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2010/01/drugs-and-their-no...
Generally speaking, I think the civility on Hacker News is pretty good. I'd be interested to see a widely frequented news site / blog that had a more civil tone on average.

As for his suggestions:

1. If people have to post under real names then a lot of people with skin in the game won't post. It's as simple as that. I've no doubt the civility on average would improve, but the content -- and the insight from key people -- would go downhill.

2. Sure, no harm in flagging comments. Though if enough people down vote inappropriate comments that's probably better from a community perspective. One person flagging a comment as inappropriate does send the same message as 30 people down voting a comment does.

3. Sure.
I haven't seen anyone mention performance, but as I understand it, Disqus can make your pages slow to load. Anyone know if the new version is faster?
Antimatter and matter annihilate each other upon contact, releasing the energy from both atoms. So the ex-antimatter would be half the released energy from the collision. I think?
As a casual climber, I find this idea fascinating - the climbing community is both very social, and on an individual basis very invested in personal growth (a climb is often seen as a 'problem to solve', if you will).

When I first saw the site, I thought it was just a video aggregation tool and was confused as to why I would want to use it - signing in + reading the community values made your motive clear.

One valuable tool to any given climber is a "location tip" - e.g., where can I go climb when I am in such and such area. Is this area any good for climbing, or is it a mixed bag? What kind of rock am I dealing with? I think it might help to make this potential value more immediately obvious.

Will forward to climber friends :].
It's interesting that they're having success, I'd personally have never said it possible that a company could role out a global comment system, what caused this success for disqus? The only thing I think it could be is tumblr adopting it for some blogs, but I don't see it much. Anyone know what caused their success, a tipping point of sorts?
I hope they will finally definitely answer if anti-matter also has anti-gravity.

Not a single scientist thinks it does, but it's one of those things you just want confirmed.
Something went wrong when they built the earth. It shouldn't be spinning.
I think we designers are getting what we deserve based on our stupid pseudo-intellectual behavior of the last years.

Starting with the Bauhaus, designers around the world started to claim that design has nothing to do with art, self-expression and beauty for the sake of beauty (or _decoration_, which they call it). We tried to convince the world that design is a pseudo-scientific discipline which tries to solve communication problems in effective ways, which can only happen by the means of methodic procedures overlooked by experienced designers.

Bullshit. We got very good at bullshit. The biggest design shops in the world charge millions for design manuals full of bullshit that tries to justify ugly designs. Just look at the GAP redesign.

We got what we deserved because guess what: machines, data-driven procedures and crowdsourcing communities are better at the whole communication problems in effective ways thing, minus the bullshit.

What we need to do is return to make things beautiful. Beauty is still important for the world. Data-driven design can only to produce things that are good-enough/above-the-average. Like the auto-generated songs and novels of 1984, they can create blandness or even pop, but not beautiful subversive punk.

And let the bullshit design justifiers die a slow painful death.
I assume you are familiar with videoclimb.com ?

So here is my take: There are already many climbing 'community' sites; everything from internationally to locally scoped. These sites feature discussion of all kinds from gear, safety, routes, videos, etc. Thrutched seems to be attempting to capture the niche of climbing videos. But here is my question: How can you talk about the videos w/o entering into discussions of other topics (safety, routes, etc)? I think you immediately enter a situation where, despite choosing a niche, you are judged against all the other larger, more established sites; and come out as lacking.

It seems like you need to rapidly build an active, dense seed community if Thrutched is to take-off and endure. But I dont know how you would go about doing that.
Given the amount of uncertainty central banks create with arbitrary changes to monetary policy (or non-changes under Greenspan), cooperating/competing with other central banks, differing objectives, etc., and all the politics involved in stimulus, TARP and our current situation, do macro-economists get macro-economics? And is that supposed understanding used by politicians for their own gain?

I'm no macro-economist (although I do have an economics degree), but I believe deflation and inflation are acceptable as long as they are gradual changes and don't enrich or impoverish one segment of the economy over another. I think a lot of people are wary of the Fed (and Congress for that matter) overreacting to current economic conditions in order to stabilize prices AND maximize employment, messing up one or the other in the process, as Greenspan & the GSA-induced malinvestment in housing did.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

-F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
The Xbox controller also seems to have been heavily influenced by the DC controller - these early designs even include a VMU: https://www.shacknews.com/article/95534/original-xbox-contro...
Well if we talk about the phone market. There's lots of stories about people trying to cancel their phone contract in the German deregulated market and the companies just continuing to charge or not freeing up the line for the customer to change to a competitor. There is a famous case where a debt collector went into the the central office of Telekom (parent of t-mobile) and took a printer, because they were not paying back overcharged money.
Just to say that things aren't all rosy in deregulated phone land either.
Federal and State income tax alone bring it to 46.9%. Add in property tax and it’s over 50%.

Also it’s not technically income, but there’s also cap gains tax that I pay almost every year.

All in all, Americans pay an insanely high tax for what we get. Our tax dollars go to corrupt politicians that use the money on foreign aid and starting wars, defense contractors and military. It’s disgusting.
"This project is aimed at users of vintage Macintosh computers from the 1980's and 1990's."

So, likely because the creator of this RaSCSI fork is a vintage Mac afficiando.
https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI
Who is the target audience for this operating system? What use cases does it seek to address?

EDIT: is this a current project? References to running in a VM on Mac OS 9 with Virtual PC seem awfully dated.
You don’t have to speculate on what life is like in conditions you’re describing. There’s tons of first hand accounts of life in East Berlin behind the iron curtain, where the government “provided” food, sheltered, and clothing.
My kids got to play in the front yard because I knew they wouldn't run out into traffic.

They didn't run out into traffic because they knew that doing that was stupid and dad would swat their butt.

Consequently, my children got to meet people walking on the sidewalk. They got to explore the neighborhood and walk to school at a young age.

A reasonable trade - a bit of dicipline that opens up their world. It has served them well.
I don't understand your second point. How could a F-16 be hacked remotely when there's no remote access? There's no attack surface. How is this different from any other fly-by-wire system?
There is no evidence that socialism (the variety that actually exists in the real world and not in your head) is any more ecologically friendly than capitalism.

I think it's deeply sad that you haven't learned the lessons of the 20th century. "Gentle measures" are the only way to make progress, we can't sever our connection to the past, drastic measures of the kind you're proposing have always resulted in the vivisection of actual human communities based on a quasi-religious understanding of what's going to happen in the future.
In my own personal experience, trying to use binoculars without a tripod is infuriating.
It worked for me on Windows.

The only tough part is getting it to find your ssh-keys. I did this by running it inside git bash, which as a Windows user you might have anyway if you've installed msysgit. Of course cygwin would also probably work. ssh-keygen to make your keys, and then run your server and then show.

I couldn't figure out how to get the -i command to work properly so it found your ssh keys, maybe I should try that again and see if you can do everything with PuTTYgen for a 'true' windows solution.
I can't agree more. If you want to go broad, get a masters (or two or three!), but a PhD is if you want to push the boundaries of what we know. I can't help but be reminded of this visual explanation of a PhD: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Metaprogramming Ruby [0] explains Ruby's handling of scope really well.

Also, you might enjoy a silly gem I wrote a while ago called ghost_attributes [1]. It uses closures to mimic attr_accessor. The funny thing about it is that your ghost attributes are completely inaccessible from outside the object, unlike normal instance variables, which are always reachable via things like instance_variable_get. Fun/weird stuff :)

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Pros...

[1] https://github.com/happy4crazy/ghost_attributes
> That said, funding is decreasing and the number of people fighting for it is increasing, which makes it less valuable.

How does that make sense? If the supply is decreasing and competition for it simultaneously increasing, how does that make it less valuable (even in the cynical view of the PhD as a commodity)?

> All this aside, a PhD is worth next to nothing in my eyes. I know brilliant, capable people without them, and dull incompetent people that have earned them.

As I mentioned in my earlier comment, unless the PhD in question scammed the system (it happens), it at least proves that they have the focus to go deep. It's not a double implication though, which is what people seem to forget and then go on hyperbolic rants.
Is this the result of nefarious evil-doers or simple technical incompetence? Hard to say for sure. Recent versions of the OKCupid app for the iPhone—yes, sigh, I am a single iPhone user—ask to enable location services, and if you accept, the app will keep keep the GPS active seemingly indefinitely. The OKCupid folks seem to be a curious group, and for all I know, they're draining iPhone users' batteries to do research for a blog post that is sure to have a lot of infographics.
If anyone from reddit is reading this, I tried to sign up for Gold so I could log in, but I can't because signing up requires you to log in. I suspect I'm not the only person who would have happily bribed you to get to the head of the line. I think you guys left a lot of money on the table.
Depends on whether or not the soot is transparent on the part of the spectrum the laser operates at.
Seems to be FUD. I've been using multiple Android devices for years with my router and it's not listed on there at all.
I'd like to just send vials of our hardiest cold-weather organisms to smash against Mars and see if anything manages to survive. (Some folks would probably object to this until we manage to confirm that Mars doesn't have any life of its own.)
Do you find the screen and its resolution to be large enough for reading non-eBook formatted books (PDFs, primarily)?
Thanks for sharing. Have you thought about applying to Project Skyway? http://www.projectskyway.com
The original dropship guy isn't the one causing the fuss.
we've fixed the deduplication behavior serverside to prevent "injection" of files you don't actually have, for a variety of reasons

I think this was a good call, and not just for the piracy issues but for the substantial information disclosure and possible misappropriation of sensitive documents that it could have facilitated. This is something that's been on my radar for some months, and frankly seemed like a significant reason to not trust dropbox with anything that wasn't effectively public.

So I'd consider the event a net positive for your firm and customers. I might consider trying to get out in front of any negative publicity that's going on here by publicly thanking the programmers and researchers that have brought these risks to light in the past month paying a few bug bounties to them. A few bounties similar in size to the ones the mozilla and chromium projects pay out certainly wouldn't break the bank, and might do something for public opinion. Not to mention the benefits of an ongoing program - people might be more inclined to contact you first instead of immediately going public with future issues.
Where is the data we can feed on? Didn't see any links or tables.

Australia is green and Russia is "blocking the Internet".

The sad thing, the more you abuse the words like freedom, the less they actually mean. And you no longer can cry wolf when you need to.
> the government settled the case in exchange for a promise not to violate the law for five years.

Wonder if we apply that to a bank robber who took $1M. Just make them pay back $50K, and promise to not to rob banks for 5 years.
Oh the irony. I watch them ONLY on Safari. I don't like its UI, so I use the other browsers for serious work.
Are things like YAML considered "programming" languages now?
Run elixir -v in the terminal. It will tell you with what OTP version it was compiled:

Erlang/OTP 23 [erts-11.1.6] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]

Elixir 1.11.3 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 23)
It's like that quote about how the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent - the organization can stay dysfunctional longer than you can stay sane. For any truly big system, inertia is a more powerful force than you think.

The isn't a strategic or tactical purpose that makes this kind of situation an intentional or desired outcome. Any sufficiently large organization, and this especially holds true by militaries, are typified by the following two characteristics. First, turnover at scale necessarily prevents the rank-and-file, in aggregate, from learning and developing over time. Every year, X number of people will leave the organization for reasons the organization can't control (retirement, spouses moving, legal mandates, whatever) and they will be replaced by people who are completely unfamiliar with the organization and any lessons the people leaving may have learned. Not replacing the people leaving will leave positions unfilled, which is untenable, so they will be filled by whoever is around to fill the chair. This is inevitable and unavoidable. Second, there are only so many issues that upper management can focus on. By the time people rise up through the ranks and get into a position where they have the power to do anything, the vast majority of what it means to exercise that power is to act like a hospital at a mass casualty event - triage for the most critical issues that need your attention and trust that a solid reliance on process will prevent anything else from collapsing.

If you're looking for logic then you don't understand how these organizations work.
I don't see anything "bait and switch" about it. It explicitly states you need "1000 true fans" not merely "1000 fans", and the wording already makes it evident that having a "true fan" is harder than merely having a fan or follower.

The title already was clear, and the quote you posted doesn't change anything.

So, to talk in paradigms, it's not so much that the article is "bait and switch" but that maybe you were expecting a "silver bullet".
> Who says they won't do that?

Well, they seem to have no stance on that - at least there's nothing on the page. So I tend to assume that pro features remain pro features.

Nobody is demanding that the nginx folks provide value for free. However, I see problems with their chosen business model. The separation of "open source" vs. "closed source" is ill defined. What happens for example if some other party implements a solution that provides the same functionality as a pro feature? Would they accept a PR for that and then provide it as part of the free version or would they just keep the pro-approved version and let the OS-version play catch up? Is it possible to patch the pro version as it is possible to patch the os version? Syslog logging requires source patches atm and it doesn't look like the patch will ever be accepted in the mainline. There's a legal question as well: From the changelog it seems as if other people contributed patches - the implied idea is that they provided patches to an OS project, did they sign a CLA that says they're transferring all rights to the nginx company?

Don't get me wrong: It's fair and square the authors want to make money of their project and they're certainly entitled to. I just see a bunch of issues cropping up.
This is disappointing. Admitting the mistake is crucial in the process of fixing the problem. This just shows that they have learned little after all the company has been through.
https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/platforms.html is probably what you want.

So you can, conceivably, bazel running on your local, x86 machine, run the build on an ARM (rpi) build farm, crosscompiling for RISCv5.

I presume that this specific toolchain isn't well supported today.
They probably mean an interpreted language or at least something distributed as text. But honestly, you could come up with some JIT scheme for any language, most likely.
its called a microkernel
Right. C++ has a chicken-and-the-egg problem in that neither its build not packaging ecosystem have even de facto standards. GitHub URLs don't solve either problem.