skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the Gnome-KDE bit unfolded, my first reaction was, "Guffaw! What a silly detail! That's not proving any thing. And no one would expect to bond with a stranger over that."

But that is not a flaw or limitation in the writing -- it's helping to characterize Tyrell as a bit of douche. This goes beyond the typical 'ssh' or 'wget' screengrab (which only provides some mechanistic plausibility in achieving a plot-point.). The Gnome-KDE bit defines character. It's brilliant.
it is strange the "extrn" word in B language instead "extern" in C language: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11295982/extern-or-extrn-...
Can someone put these onto gopher ?
Closed source "ad blocker" is a bad idea.

Your icon is cute, but the stats are unverifiable and therefore you need to change the title.

Unless you've paid to be on YC, in which case carry on.
> You can't build a web application on Hunchentoot -- a basic HTTP server -- and call it modern.

The article does a pretty good job of starting with the basics and introducing more complexity step by step. I would argue that the author's approach is better than any attempt to introduce a full-stack framework, which does not help the beginner level lisp programmer (clearly the target audience) understand - one might take away some recipes from that but no real understanding.

Which, if any, "modern" frameworks one uses then finally depends on the project and taste. After all, gluing together the various routing-, persistence-, ORM-choices only takes a few lines of code anyway.

And, after having been consulting as a lisp programmer for some years now, I would even argue that the overhead of learning some full-stack frameworks is usually not worth the benefits they claim to provide.
> Howard Abramson is a freelance writer who was an executive at American Trucking Associations from 1998 to 2014.

So the same guy who wrote the piece has for 16 years been directly responsible for the lobbying he is decrying.
Anyone know what's going on there?
It might be unfair assume accidents involving trucks are necessarily due to truck drivers. I think self-driving trucks have many more benefits however other than possibly reducing accidents.
The problem is to upload data to China, we are not downloading anything from there.

"Or rsync your data to Japanese Servers (Linode, GMO, etc) and ask your customers to download through http or https."

We've used Amazon CDN before even for Chinese customers and they have closest node in Hong Kong - they still(Chinese) have difficulties to download our packages. I doubt using Japanese server would solve our problem. Thanks anyway.
It probably is _inside_ China. :)
Until self driving machines become a reality, there are startups like Maven Machines in Pittsburgh that are tackling the problem of driver fatigue thru innovative use of machine learning.

Site: http://mavenmachines.com/
Spot on! Governments are shit scared of the internet, probably even more than terrorists, probably because internet is a tool for the mind. A free mind has boundless optimism and spirit, and an oppressor cannot reign over such a mind.
Maybe he's realized the inevitability of the situation and decided to jump ship. Can't completely blame him, but makes it difficult to take his opinions seriously.
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I'm carefully optimistic since this would be in there interest of the trucking industry and they already seem to be succeeding at pushing laws through that are bad for the drivers.

I would love a system where the trucks get driven to a lot outside of the city where they get set on a automatic course to the equivalent lot at the destination. During transit no person is onboard at all. At the destination lot a human enters and drives it downtown. If the truck goes to some industrial facility outside the city you shouldn't even need the human driver.

Also I wish there was done way to go after those congress people who are in essence committing murder.
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> "I want to do something else for a living now."

I know what you mean, I feel like that sometimes. I'm tired of the compromises on both sides, and it feels like we're building complex software on systems that can barely get the basics right.

Ultimately I'd like us to get rid of some of the cruft and start again. I'd like to see device drivers being hosted in a bare metal hypervisor like Xen, then just allow all OSes to use this common base. I suspect we could see renewed activity in the OS space if the hardware side was taken care of.

In the meantime, have you considered using a Mac? I personally try to avoid giving Apple money, but perhaps they'll be a decent halfway house for you?
Why Japan (as a location) is special? GFW does not affect traffic from Japan that much?
In fact, I trust someone with deep experience in a topic more than an outsider.
On Apple hardware? Sure, probably. On other hardware on an Apple machine? It depends.

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/faq.html.en
Quantum physics is not about a game of soccer. It's about phenomena that do things that actually do look strange when just looking at particles.

I don't see how a "natural" description is any different from the word "real" here- fields describe things particles can't, especially when trying to use your "natural" intuition.
I'm putting my hat in with the unions on this one myself: MAXIMUM HOMERDRIVE!
I guess having an unpopular opinion, gets you down voted here.
I hope the down voting was more due to adding an unnecessary opinion here.
Thank you, that was a fun read!
Something semi-automated like speedlimit signs that radio out info which the truck receives and enforces seems possible.
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I think you'll like DEX UI then. It's actually a real thing and it looks like this: https://vimeo.com/117199764
Imagine me making a very high-pitch squeaking sound, kind of like Kenneth from 30 Rock when he meets the cast of Night Court.

That is one CUTE gopher!
I hear you, brother. I was doing time on Crays during the transition from COS (batch OS) to UniCOS (Unix based multiuser OS). We bitched about what a pain it was to do the coding and marshall the data on front end VAX/VMS machines, then submit it to the COS queue and wait for the results. Then we got to all share the same machine for everything, and we all went from "this should take about X time to run" to "fuck all if I know how long this is going to run".

Minor nit...we found token ring degraded vastly better under load than ethernet. While 10Mb enet was faster bursting than 4Mb TR, the aggregate utilization for TR was better and more deterministic. Maybe your SNA folks were oversubscribing the ring. But, yeah, pretty much everything in the IBM ecosystem was 10x the cost of the emerging ethernet world and that pretty much doomed it.
Author missed DeepSound, the program used to embed secret data onto audio CDs.

http://jpinsoft.net/DeepSound/
The code is still easy to find, but they threatened the main developer so he won't work on it anymore. I think they won this round.
That's exactly it. Too many compromises on each side.

I've had a couple of Macs. Plagued with hardware and software problems and are very inflexible IMHO. Last was a 2011 MBP and Mavericks which was WiFi hell.
Agreeing with all that, the distinction isn't made in general speech or writing.

MVS, CMS, VMS, OpenVMS, UNIX, Ultrix, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, DOS, CPM, BSD, MacOS, Windows, BeOS, iOS, Android.

GNU/Linux.

There are times you might specify the user environment. MVS TSO/ISPF, say. Or hardware: VAX/VMS, SolarisX86. But not elsewhere the libraries.

I get RMS's rationale. I largely support and practice it. But it runs against convention and practice through the rest of the industry, for decades.

And mentioning Debian, it's also available without Linux.

Though I agree also really packages & policy.
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The showrunners don't want to get in trouble when armies of fans type in stuff from screencaps. It's like how cars in movies have fake license plate numbers and telephone numbers all start with 555.
Your appeal to authority does nothing to refute my point.
Well, for Win 7 MS had a "special co-operation agreement" with the modern Russian analog of the KGB agency, and disclosed Win 7 OS source code in full. There also was co-operation around Win 8 http://www.gazeta.ru/business/2011/12/01/3854510.shtml, but not around Skype sources.
The lack of attribution here is refreshing. I am sick of living in a world where all ideas have to be meticulously accounted for.
I've had uBlockOrigin, Ghostery and Disconnect installed for awhile.

I recently went through Ghostery's and Disconnect's settings, choosing the most agressive blocking. I am amazed at how quiet my laptop runs.

I recently went to a Wired article, and uBO blocked 133 requests. That's 133 bits of content or code that my browser and cpu did not have to work on.

It may not be Firefox that's causing you trouble, it may just be that the Web sucks more with each passing day.
As a cyclist I feel the same way about cars in general, and the stats are similar.
> About a mile before the crash, the driver ignored work-zone warning signs on the New Jersey Turnpike of likely delays

What was expected here, honestly? Should he have made a note in his notebook?

> About a half-mile later, the posted speed limit dropped to 45 m.p.h. from the usual 65, which the driver also ignored.

Truly more often than not the people who do slow down are in the vast minority and arguably the bigger road hazard.
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I don't think removing the F row is wise or defendable. Personally I use the Keycool 84 which has a really interesting layout: http://i45.tinypic.com/1z3bdkp.jpg

Whether or not you like what the Keycool 84 does on the right hand side with the arrow keys and Home/End etc, it should be fairly obvious that there's no real benefit to removing the F row.
NoVA's traffic is bad because of suburban sprawl. Car travel simply doesn't scale to that level, no matter how many roads you build. The only part that did anything correctly is Arlington, which focused it's development in areas that are walkable and can be serviced by mass transit, resulting in decreased traffic volumes on most roads in spite of a large increase in population.
Signs like those could be a godsend to teenagers out for a prank. Steal one from a road with a speed limit of 25, and put it on the interstate where the speed limit's 55, or the opposite, a speed limit of 55 in a 25 zone. I guess you could potentially add geofencing to the signs, but that means tacking up a roadsign becomes a lot more difficult as you suddenly need to spend the time to reprogram signs when you post them.
Don't be Apple
The sounds about right. I felt like I took several shots of espresso, I was just unable to sit in my chair. My gait had a spring, and if there a building to jump from without killing myself, I would've done it.
Don't worry, chronial, the meaning of your post was crystal clear.
Realistic web design means hiring someone who knows how to design websites, or redesign them, and budgeting that. It might also mean translating the results into whatever digital effects workflow they use, because I doubt there are any actual applications being run or sites being shown.

Also bear in mind the relationship between camera distance and screen resolution, and that the design requirements for UIs intended to be used by someone physically sitting inches away from the screen, and the composition of elements in a scene for television or film, which may place the viewer halfway across the room in terms of perceived distance, are necessarily different. Text that would be normal sized on the web might not even be legible when the viewer sees it, much less be capable of leading the viewer's attention.

FWIW I mostly agree with you, it's absurd for anyone who's technically competent, but still not as simple a matter as getting it realistic versus getting it wrong, rather of not boring the viewer with tedium and visual clutter.
It is also against the spirit of CC, and also against CC BY 3.0, which Gopher is licensed under.

If you don't like attributing, do not use things licensed under CC. It's that simple.
As they say, this is rape culture.

There will always be adults who conflate teenage enthusiasm and legal consent. And let's be frank: in a society that says minors can't consent, the people who flout these laws are not typically healthy, well-adjusted adults.

How we deal with these incidents plays a huge role in a) how potential perps weigh risk/benefits and b) how acceptable potential victims see this behavior as being. The media coverage has been generally decent, the public commentary generally disappointing, and the final punishment... well, I get the sense women who only blow teenage boys on the weekend must only deserve weekends in jail.

I'm gonna go ahead and bet mixed messages about the seriousness of predatory sexual behavior play a big role in many boys' misshapen attitudes about sexual assault (what it entails, if it's a big deal, how often it happens). Whether it's constant jokes about priestly molesters, a "hot" teach and her "lucky" middle-school student, or the more general sexual paradox boys face (be sexual or be an outcast but also male sexuality is inherently predatory and violent; try to walk that tightrope) we can't engage in social conditioning of this sort and expect boys to grow into men who think sexual misbehavior is a problem.

I'm getting off-topic, but this stuff has been bouncing around my head for a couple of years now for obvious reasons. Poor sexual conduct is a societal problem, not just a women's issue. Accepting the prevalence of people being shitty to other people on a sexual basis (gender irrelevant) is step one. Step two is getting on the same page about what is and isn't acceptable and enforcing those expectations consistently. And that's it. Two steps. No more lies in the Rolling Stone, no more "she was asking for it because xyz" or "when I was a kid, I'd have loved to nail my teacher", no more impotent moral panic and pointless college "resources" that hardly affect the statistics at all.

If our people aren't doing right by one another, we need to face up to all of it so we can get it sorted out. Anything less is a waste of energy at best and sanctimonious hypocrisy at worst. That's my piece.
I think he was referring to the cloverleaf interchange being a work of art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverleaf_interchange
> They got me into some paralysis by analysis.

Have you considered any improv humor stuff, where un-planned-ness is almost the goal?
Actually, I don't think the statistics are remotely similar (at least in the UK).

In London, for instance, every single cyclist death in 2015 has been due to the cyclist getting crushed by a truck. [1]

I don't know about the US, but I suspect the statistics would be similar, at least in cities.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/recreational-cycling/1...
They might want to pivot into something that's going to be needed in ten years.
Actually the TNG interfaces were very coherent and based on technology that could be replicated at that time. The designer of LCARS, Michael Okuda, needed to make a set of interfaces that could display readable information, be used for over a decade worth of shows, and be believably interacted with in a variety of modalities. He likely can be credited with making the most inspirationally accurate SciFi UI ever.

Star Trek interfaces set the gold standard for realistic UI, while Minority Report was not a UI anyone would ever want nor even should aspire to create.

Footnote: Oddly enough the consultant on the interface for Minority report was Jaron Lanier, who I respect immensely for his technology theory -- just not his designs.
I have a friend in Iran and I let him use one of my servers as a proxy using the ssh -D flag. This has been working well so far as I know.
What does communication-free mean? No usage of network? There's a global state that is updated by the workers?
What makes it 'modern' and not just newer?
A while ago, I wrote a post about this over at Geekhack, which I’ll copy here
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=66322.msg1566004#msg156...

(go to that link if you want to see images inline)

* * *

Edgar Matias wrote (context: Matias’s Ergo Pro keyboard puts the 6 key on the right hand):

> That's true, but it is consistent with the typing textbooks I've seen. It's been a while since I researched this stuff. We can get a quick & dirty estimate using Google...
http://www.google.ca/search?q=fingers+used+to+touch+type&tbm...

When I search for “touch typing” in Google images (this query is a bit more effective than the one you suggested, which quickly devolves into irrelevant images after the first page or so), the first several examples are either on Wikipedia or copies of images that originally came from Wikipedia / Wikimedia commons. After that, there seem to be a bunch of examples each way. A sampling of the ones with 6 on the left hand:

http://i.imgur.com/p0dE8wo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UzgxGmz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7FFd9pv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qA8s3X9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mNE0Fhx.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KarYUjV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mUY5aNM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fQx1h3N.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qT0iUO3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/wY33abR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SL7W4mi.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ccDqf8c.jpg

(Again, there is a similar variety of diagrams that put 6 on the right hand.)

Matias again:

> While there are a few guides that deviate from the standard approach, the trend is pretty clear. Again, I'm not disputing anyone's particular technique (whatever works for you) but there is an established standard. You can choose to follow it or ignore it. I chose to follow it. Microsoft ignored it.

To be as generous as I can: you’re greatly exaggerating how “established” this “standard” is.

On the one hand, the original touch typing book from 1889 does put 6 on the right: http://i.imgur.com/iK8WNJp.png

On the other hand, here’s a book from 1893: http://i.imgur.com/LyqyQ9M.png

As for my personal technique.... The way I type on a QWERTY/ANSI/IBM keyboard – and I would strongly advise anyone else to use a similar fingering – is roughly like this: http://i.imgur.com/oTgR4Kq.png

Typing “Z” with the ring finger, “X” with the middle finger, and “C” with the index finger allows the left wrist to stay straight, with the arm coming toward the keyboard at an angle, and makes it dramatically easier and more comfortable to press all the keys on the left of the bottom row.

But this mainly serves to highlight how terrible the QWERTY/ANSI/IBM layout is. On the upside, it’s ubiquitous. On the downside, almost everything about its design is anachronistic nonsense.

Side note: this is sure a funny method: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8404/8636675817_5398c6aba6.jp...
and what if the genders had been reversed? justice :/
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Minority Report is exactly what I think of when I'm trying to guess what bizarre combinations of gestures and swipes and pinches and shakes I need to perform to get this bit of smartphone software to do whatever trivial thing it's supposed to.

The only difference is that John Anderton seems to be able to get his software to do the stuff he wants it to do.
I think in CC BY 3.0, as long as proper attribution is given, license of derivative works can be changed.

Licensor cannot revoke adaptation rights, as long as attribution is given, even for commercial use.

So the use of WTFPL is fine here, but the lack of attribution renders CC BY 3.0 non-applicable, and hence makes this repo a copyright infringement.
is there a javascript library or framework that lets users build visual logic like this and serialize it?
> Enough people hate it to consider it successful.

That is a very insightful quote.
In a sense, this is true. The view that all bugs are static, determinable, and caused by a lack of care and attention, is old fashioned and demonstrably wrong.

In mature code bases (e.g core linux kernel), (almost) all the low hanging bugs have been picked clean. There remain only faults triggered by untested configurations, unconsidered usages, and by ordering non-determinism. The last one is particularly chaotic - you can have a system which stays up for years, but falls over due to an extremely unlikely combination of events.

Think about it this way: every statically compiled program with an unbounded loop, in which there are calls to malloc() with runtime-determined sizes, and differently ordered but balanced free() at later times, may crash. This is a possibility despite there being no leaks and worst case size fits in memory. The issue is the heap, with some combinations of allocation sizes, and order of malloc vs free, will fragment and effectively "leak", eventually exhausting resources. It is generally not determinable whether this will happen to a program. They all survive at the whim of probability, although the odds are usually very much in their favor.
The trucking industry... insists that it needs longer work weeks... so that more trucks will not be needed on the road, which it says could result in more accidents. That logic is laughable, but Congress seems to be buying it.

Yeah that makes zero sense. If drivers are driving more, trucks will be on the road more. The actual result of sane work hours would be that more drivers would share trucks and drive in shifts, which is already fairly common. If sharing trucks is somehow impossible, then the industry could buy more trucks, to be parked waiting for their drivers to become available. Neither truck sharing nor additional parked trucks are a danger to the public.

It's my understanding that drivers are typically paid by the mile. Therefore, it's difficult to see why trucking companies care about lower speeds or shorter work weeks. If a driver drives less, she'll be paid less. It's almost as if they're saying that there are no more drivers available at current mileage compensation rates. Since this is HN, I won't suggest higher compensation, but perhaps they could investigate the H-1B program?
Here's an example:

A = plus_diag(A, x); % Using [1] below

Adds a vector x onto the diagonal elements of a huge matrix A. In old versions of Matlab, 2*huge memory would temporarily be allocated. Now the memory usage doesn't increase: A is altered in place. This optimization happens automatically when Matlab notices it can be done. The code has to be in a function though, not run from the command-line or a script.

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/imurray-matlab/p...
Why wouldn't something like this be needed in ten years?
The rabbit hole is deep https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=55099
Haha. I know exactly what you mean. I'm working on a multiplayer game and it feels like i'm making something nobody ever made before. All libraries that exist for it are so very low-level to be entirely useless.
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This again?
iOS+Jailbreak+Tools+and+Jailbreak+Guide
Why the New York Times’s Amazon story is so controversial, explained
Do you mean 1. you trust them to be more knowledgeable or 2. you trust them to be less serving than an outsider?

I don't think anyone is arguing with 1.
I als cant believe it displays me a USB Stick when i plugged my portable harddisk in!

No, jk. Never expected them too match up. Don't see this as a problem.
That would be a pretty plausible explanation of why Le has gone completely silent about that paper.

I assumed the worst when I read your comment; I figured that neural net semantics was going to stall for 17 years the same way that basic morphology did when Xerox patented FSTs. But it looks like word2vec is Apache-licensed, meaning the patent can only be used defensively. Phew.
> And of course C, C++ etc didn't succeed because they had the backing of a major vendor, like Java or C# did

C - AT&T, UNIX vendors

C++ - Almost all C compiler vendors adopted it. CORBA and Windows Development helped it.
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