skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time and space are good retorts, let's talk about them. The UK is a relatively cosmopolitan kingdom, and those trips to Magaluf & Basra must lead to some monkey business, right?

Time. Women live longer on average, and there is also on average an age gap between heterosex partners (males older); therefore it is more probable that the male sex partner will be deceased, not the female. The numbers for females, if anything, should therefore be higher.

Space. If the UK is a net exporter of male sexual partners, that would mean that some other country or countries would be net importers. Regardless, the worldwide number of heterosex connections must be the same for women and men. But that's not the case. In every country, with the notable exception of New Zealand, women report less sex partners than men, and the worldwide aggregate for men is still unexplainedly higher than the aggregate for women.

Some studies suggest the gap to be due to women underreporting, some studies suggest prostitutes are underrepresented in the samples, but in the end, whenever somebody wants to argue that men tend to have more sex partners than women, let them know that (a) one number is pretty useless in telling the whole story, and (b) if conclusions of a study present a mathematical paradox, they should be taken with a grain of salt.
I personally take exercise and a healthy, balanced diet. It seems to work very well.
I truly look forward to the day that all people who think something is worth money charge money for it.
Great suggestion. I've read his classic posts, but I haven't gone beyond those. I'll take a deeper look. Thanks.
You can also trace it back to Latin exprimo, exprimere, exprimi, expressus, which is why the linked article says that Italian (and implicitly also French) "corrupted the Latin root". (The Romance languages lost the /k/ in the consonant cluster in /ekspr/ → /espr/.)

The complicated part is that even though we do have roots that preserve the x spelling and the /k/ pronunciation -- "express" and "expression" -- we don't have the Italian "-esso" (or Latin "-essus") ending, so when we use the "-esso" it seems we must be borrowing an Italian word, which it would probably be most natural to borrow with the Italian spelling and pronunciation, unless we want to say "a pressed coffee" or "a pressed-out coffee".
The standard copy and paste work for me. Just use the arrow keys and page up/down keys to navigate. Skip the complicated stuff and pretend you're using Notepad.
Tropical Storm Erika Is Born in Atlantic
It should be noted that QM does not require randomness, you need to pick randomness or sacrifice other assumptions and most people pick randomness as the cleaner option.
Redditor SexyCyborg designs cool 3D printed shoes
I can just import a 3rd party Javascript library to deal with these right?
Not to mention that exploit will be fixed soon.
> The NSA and GCHQ aren't allowed to blackmail politicians.

I must admit I laughed at this.
I have to agree... if it didn't keep moving for so long it would be a big plus, for example.
> But suggesting that censoring the anti-authoritarian playground that is Reddit or persuading Hacker Newsers of the virtues of the TSA are sufficiently high on their list of current national security priorities to dedicate manpower to in our current environment just seems... rather more of a stretch.

> If they are attempting to astroturf these particular corners of the internet it's something of an understatement to say they're not very good at it.

This is where I have trouble buying into this being present on HN or reddit. For what purpose? What goal are they pursuing?
What technology do we have right now to map the connections of the brain? Is there anything that currently exists with enough granularity to take a snapshot of our neurons and their connections?

edit: thanks for the replies, did some research found this TED talk that visualizes the problem pretty well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7GwKXfJB0
I can give you an example.

I inherited a system which, on a scheduled basis, completed the following, in order:

* Drop a database
* Rebuild that database from REST queries

The process took under a second and the "downtime" was acceptable. However, if there was ever a short connectivity outage, or the upstream was down, the result of that was that the database was dropped and inaccessible for 24 hours until the next scheduled run.

I'd put forward that we build a new database first and then, only if successful, perform a swap. Maybe we could implement a retry. But then came the response I knew I was going to see: "Well if your network's not reliable hire competent network admins that's not my problem".

In a sense they were correct, it wasn't their responsibility to ensure the network doesn't ever drop. It was however, their sheer laziness that led to repeated service outages.
"I’ve never done any graphics programming, so my knowledge of this area is lacking"

cl-ply for example: draw and manage 3d polygon meshes.
Reprogrammable Chips to Put Computing Power Behind Artificial Neural Networks
This comment is completely wrong, infuriatingly so.

I'm a NYRB subscriber. No national publication was more critical of the U.S. Iraq adventure, or more critical of U.S. torture and detention policies. And all this long before it became received wisdom. (A sample, with examples all the way back to 2003: http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/mark-danner/).

Before the war, the editor of the magazine (Robert Silvers), and several of its most influential writers, went on a national speaking tour to expose the risks of the adventure. UCLA wouldn't even let them hold the event there. They had to go to a smaller venue at Occidental College nearby.

It is ignorant and delusional to accuse them of somehow ignoring secular or left-leaning Arabs, and rubber-stamping American projects there.

I suggest, by the way, you read the post on ISIS that you scoffed at (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/aug/13/mystery...). You seem to have only skimmed the photos. The piece takes the ISIS phenomenon seriously as a political force, and tries to understand where it is headed and why it has been so successful. It ends with:

"I have often been tempted to argue that we simply need more and better information. But that is to underestimate the alien and bewildering nature of this phenomenon. To take only one example, five years ago not even the most austere Salafi theorists advocated the reintroduction of slavery; but ISIS has in fact imposed it. [...] It is not clear whether our culture can ever develop sufficient knowledge, rigor, imagination, and humility to grasp the phenomenon of ISIS. But for now, we should admit that we are not only horrified but baffled."

It is evident that this is not some kind of triumphalist perspective.
OK well if we wanna go that route then why stop at dialer?
Altering the CSP header would be more likely to get them in trouble, I think. So that's good too. :-)
One fine day I came into work and overnight my Gateway workstation's boot drive had developed 10,000 bad sectors (maybe more, who counts these things?)

Who indeed?

I called Gateway tech support and said, "Hi, overnight my hard drive got over 10,000 bad sectors and I'd like you to replace it, since it's under warranty."

Gateway support: (after going through some really tiresome support nonsense, like power-cycling the machine and verifying a network connection of a computer that can barely boot). "Sorry, we're not going to do that. Your hard drive still has several hundred thousand perfectly good sectors, so it's working fine, no replacement."

Me: (facepalm)

So eventually through some social engineering I got them to replace the drive (a little play acting involving my manager pretending to yell at me, which got instant sympathy from the Gateway support person. This is a useful tool). Really I just went over to Fry's and bought a new hard drive. But it was the principle of the thing.

And I resolvde that the next time I had to call in a hard drive failure, I would say:

"Hello, Gateway? My hard drive is ON FIRE and my computer won't boot any more. What do you want me to do?"
The first sentence of the article:

> Activity Monitor is a tool that was introduced in Mac OS X 10.9.

Activity Monitor was introduced with OS X 10.3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_Monitor). And was significantly revamped with OS X 10.9 to receive the various energy related measurements.
Related: https://www.class-central.com/
No, it really isn't. There's no reason why this app couldn't be distributed outside of the App Store, in which case YOU can still do what YOU want.
I think it would be the "naive" implementation. For specific data structures more efficient specific algorithms can be written.
I'm much more of the http://adblockbar.neocities.org/ mindset, and following the Twittersphere right now, there's a growing front among tech's thought leaders right now that agrees with this.
> The U.S. Government (and many around the world, including nazi Germany, whose head of propaganda admired Bernays) adapted these techniques as means to control people, or at least keep them from going out of control (Bolshevik Revolution, Naziism, etc). The popular image of the happy-go-lucky 1950s wasn't just how things "turned out to be," it was a concerted government effort to create the ideal and stable society that wouldn't overthrow the government.

I was up with you until this point. As with most grand conspiracy theories, this seems like a big leap from the emergence of commercialism to a pastoral, planned society for the purposes of control.
Medical science has limits? I thought we proved we're just finite state machines that are occasionally jostled into unfavorable states that can only balanced by external chemicals.
I remember a native French speaker was kind of disturbed by the sentence "où est ma chatte?", which is the sample French sentence Alice thinks of in Alice in Wonderland when she speculates that mice might speak French or Latin instead of English. (In the original story, it was disturbing to the mouse, too, though for a different reason!)

(Edit: this site's database recognizes "chatte" as a concern in French.)
ATCOM: GPU-Accelerated Real-Time Enhancement of Long-Range Imagery
Loved Quora about 2/3 years ago and could spend hours reading it but the questions and answers have become incredibly low quality to the point where I barely check it anymore.
FWIW, Kelly Kampen, despite the name, is and always has been a rather manly dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iHjWvhoek
How is this different from English? Another poster mentioned "knob" being offensive in the UK but it's an everyday word here in Seattle. (It means "door handle".)

How is the "coger" example different?
This is contradicted by what Tim Cook said in his talk with analysts about Apple's third-quarter results for 2015 on the 21st July.

our June sales were higher than April or May. I realize
that's very different than some of what's being written,
but June sales were the highest.

http://www.imore.com/this-is-tim-transcript-q3-2015
Show HN: CodeSnap – Git workflow-based community blogging platform
The first person informal plural (vos, vosotros) form of verbs isn't used outside Spain. Or maybe it's just not used in Latin America. Source: high school Spanish.
Bringing together what's great about Github Pages / Jekyll (the ease of setting up a blog) and Medium (the ease of being discovered) for technical writers.

1. Push markdown into the codesnap repo
2. Have others actually read your technical writing.

Source code here: https://github.com/codesnap-io/codesnap
Unions have become antiquated and corrupt..

A Guild/Collective for Tech Engineers, Scientists

• Transparent decision making + expenditures (opt in/out services)
• Challenges and certifications for members
• Recruiter / job match type service
A former Finnish ambassador to Cairo had the first names "Aapo Esa". As classic/written Arabic has neither "p" not "e", this turned into "Abu Isa", meaning "Father of Jesus"!

This wasn't actually quite as hilarious in Arabic as you'd think, since "Isa" is a fairly common first name and "Abu X" is a standard way to refer to a man with a son, but definitely good for a few chuckles back home...
I don't think that particular snippet from Wikipedia is a complete and accurate description of a dictatorship. It leaves key aspects out, as Wikipedia goes on to describe. A dictatorship is also a totalitarian form of government which seeks absolute power and control over every citizen's private life, as well as the removal of political participation and dissent, which wasn't precisely the case in either country we're discussing.

Sure, removing term limits and replacing dissenting judges may be signs of an unhealthy democracy, but they still don't qualify as a dictatorship.

Note that in particular, when referring to Latin America, populist governments with strong individualist leaders are invariably called dictatorships by their opponents, whether accurate or not. I happen to think it's incorrect, and born out of frustration by non-populist opponents from reaching the population and winning general elections. I do think there are serious criticisms to be made for this kind of governments; it's just that accusing them of being dictatorships isn't one... instead, it's lazy.

It's also very common for media conglomerates in many Latin American countries, such as Venezuela, to claim to be "impartial observers", while actually being powerful political actors with vested interests, as well as money and support for politicians in the opposition. This places them in a particularly convenient situation: they can influence people by telling them every day that their country is going to the dogs, while at the same time, every time they're rebuked or criticized by the government they can claim it's "an attack on the free and independent press".
Skip the complicated stuff and pretend you're using Notepad.

No?

Being a beginner to Lisp doesn't imply being a beginner to programming. Why would an experienced non-Lisp programmer find being subjected to a Notepad-like development experience worth even the slightest consideration?

(EDIT: And non-experienced non-Lisp programmers also have a preferred tool-set, which is likely superior to Notepad.)

Emacs can be great - to some people. The "You have to use Emacs to program in Lisp" meme is not great.
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You should explain a little bit more how it works.
There's a middle ground somewhere, between expecting privacy in public and total surveillance. It doesn't have to be black and white like that.
> What are the most annoying things in software development?

The idea that everything can and should be done in JavaScript.

I know the parent comment was sarcastic, but it reminded me of this trend.
IRL convos are very different than online ones. If it's not important enough for a call, taking time "out of a busy schedule" to text also requires letting the recipient take time out of their busy schedule to reply. People really need to chill out when it comes to messaging. The recipient's time and reasons for responding when appropriate are just as valid and important as the senders time. Dropping a quick busy reply sometimes works, but also interrupts a persons flow. It's much better if a sender just has the proper perspective.
That's an interesting contrast! Language preservation efforts by professional linguists do usually have a lot of respect for the speakers' autonomy, where tourists' desire for things to stay the same so they can go see them as they used to be might be less respectful of local people's autonomy.

Of course linguists also have a scientific interest which isn't necessarily motivated by a view that it's good for people to speak their heritage languages, so much as that it's important for people documenting the language to have access to as many competent informants as possible (ideally also over time and from different walks of life). The ethical part as I understand it might be more like a desire for people to have access to the resources and circumstances that will let them become as competent as possible in all the languages they want to use.
What the hell are you talking about?
I'm the author of the post. You're right. I corrected the first paragraph.

Thank you for the suggestion.
A long time ago, I wrote GoMR too :)

https://github.com/spicavigo/gomr
I'm surprised that the author hasn't mentioned the positive effect it has had. After upgrading the OS and seeing the new menu entries I reported a number of applications that would show up as using a lot of energy and within a few releases there was a change note usually mentioning some simple fix which dramatically reduces the wake up's of the application or removing a long running animation that didn't add any value. This little menu addition has probably helped the battery life for macbook users more than any other change.
"Tatsu" is the verb stem and would not be offensive alone; in fact, like most Japanese words, it has plenty of homonyms including 竜, "dragon".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A4#Japanese

Flagging that would be kind of like flagging "hard" in English. Could it potentially be offensive in the wrong context? Yes. Are there brands where that would be absolutely fine? Yes.
I use this but it is no longer in the chrome store. I found this bookmarklet that is supposed to do the same thing:

javascript:location.href%3D%27https://www.google.com/webhp%3F%23q%3D%27%20%2B%20encodeURIComponent(location.href)%20%2B%20%27%26btnI%3DI%27

YMMV
Appiah's Cosmopolitanism was interesting on this point, and you might find it worth reading.
I suspect that's the real reason why Apple is weighting wakeups heavily and exaggerating the energy impact: it shames developers into making their apps more efficient.
It seems a bread factory might be such an asset. But too big for most people to own individually.
Very interesting and having a lot of fun..
"I'd bet that fewer than 5% of Apple customers want a general-purpose computer"

I'd bet that fewer than 5% of any computer company's customers want a general purpose computer.
Not really: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
I see Postmodern and Elephant mentioned frequently around the web - but not in this list. Are they no good?
I suspect you're crazy pants.
I signed up for that years ago, after enjoying crypto 1. Has 2 ever taken place?
No, it isn't. Not even close.
It's safe to assume that, with the ever-expanding TEFL-abroad programs, those in favor of linguistic stasis are not particuarly impactful.
It hasn't launched yet but you may be interested in checking out snowdrift: https://snowdrift.coop/.

I brought this thread up in #snowdrift on freenode and there was some interesting discussion around coursera's model and this critical talk by Eden Moglen: https://boingboing.net/2012/05/27/innovation-under-austerity.... There's a full transcript here: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2012/freedom-to-conne.... I've mostly viewed coursera as a good thing even if it's a for-profit company, but I'm not as confident any more.
So, basically https and NoScript will block this.

Well, I guess if websites don't want ads crapping all over their stuff, they'd better get on the stick.
Bankers like their cash flow, but they also have to compete with other bankers. My claim (and the claim implicit in the article) is that people will get an actuarially fair rate for their education. And given this, they will not pay back more (on average) than if they paid up front, or if they took out a loan under a competitive loan market. I don't think your parody of how bankers think makes sense. Our economic system is not perfect, but it has a certain logic to it, and refusing to engage with that and instead making up nefarious motives, is not productive.
Postmodern is good. It works only on Postgres. It is fast, easy, and stable.

Elephant has been unmaintained for many years. I wouldn't recommend it.
>Pornography was illegal in Norway until 2006 [2], while the US (not a direct democracy or even close to one) has had its First Amendment since 1791.

Is your claim here that pornography was legal in the United States since 1791, or something else?

>A government that can do these things to you can also do much worse, and history suggests that it eventually will.

All of the states you've mentioned have had that power and ability for at least a century. None of them are dystopian hellholes.
Except Chrome, which on every laptop I've ever used seems to decrease battery life by about a 1/3rd compared to Safari and is always marked as using significant power.
(Currently 10.9.5 with chrome 44 on a 2014 macbook air, but I've had the issue on newer computers at work)
If you scroll down, there is some more description (I know, the landing page needs work.)

There are a few things that make it better than existing solutions. The UI is much easier to focus in while writing, and is also much faster than existing document editors. In addition, DocLayer works on mobile devices, and allows you to add things like maps, charts, and embeds to documents.
Postmodern is very good, it just slipped my mind as I haven't used it except as a reference when implementing my own ORM.

But since Postmodern is Postgres-only, and is a very stable, maintained library (and I doubt the author has plans for the future, having mostly moved to JavaScript), it doesn't really fit into either 'future work' or 'consolidation'.

As for Elephant, IIRC it's no longer maintained, and I think the model it presents -- just serialize CLOS objects, with whatever backend -- is the wrong way to go about it. Most of the time, it's better to be aware that you're using SQL, or a JSON file, or whatever your storage is.
Can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or didn't read the article.
I'm not sure about the philosophy of it all, but I think the concept to be conveyed is an understanding of how large a domain of knowledge is, and an understating of how little of that domain you have removed the "fog of war" from. Of course, this is a Bayesian interpretation, believing everything exists, we have but to go discover and interpret it.

Do others perceive a domain of knowledge to grow and change as one interacts with it and asks questions?
So don't use it like Notepad. Give it the full hour.

And I doubt if you have to use Emacs to write in Lisp. Let me Google it for you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94792/using-vim-for-lisp-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19891
CapitalOne's Sharebuilder platform's the only one I know of which allows the purchase of fractions of shares.

https://www.capitaloneinvesting.com/
This is from the same storage research group that eventually produced Ceph, a distributed storage service that at its heart is an object/block storage system. (The S3/Swift object store, block device system, and network file system build on top of the underlying object storage system).

However, I've never heard of OBFS being used anywhere, Ceph or otherwise. Did anything ever come of it?
There's also a video of wiring the rack (took 4h) and how the wiring for the whole 10-rack cluster would look like: http://jhnet.co.uk/projects/spinner
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The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person
use what's possibly the world's most powerful editor... but pretend you're using notepad...

...
Personally I think a much better question is why change the box-sizing?

Because the default content-box is a pain in the ass to work with, so to be able to use border-box all the time is a good thing: http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/.
Requirements are like deadlines. Made up things to keep us controlled.
How do you know this?