skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the big problem with shell is that it doesn't really offer the right abstractions for a lot of this: one doesn't (normally) want to run:

if [ ! -d /opt/foothing ]
then rm -f /opt/foothing && mkdir /opt/foothing
fi
cd /opt/foothing
tar xf /tmp/instpkg.tar.gz
sed -e s/QQQbarvalQQQ/$BAR_SETTING/ -i /opt/foothing/config
…

Normally, one just wants to install & configure foothing. Abstracting that away in shell is possible but a pain: it doesn't really have a rich language for composing paths and other variable values; quoting is a right royal pain; by the time one's written a fully-working shell script (note that the snippet above has no error-handling, breaks if /opt doesn't exist, breaks if $BAR_SETTING contains whitespace and doesn't enable one to override the foothing installation location), it's nearly impossible to read & understand.

The Right Answer would involve a language which enabled one to create one's own syntactic abstractions in order to satisfy the general and specific needs of software installation. As an example, it'd be nice to have a WITH-INSTALLATION-DIRECTORY construct, which ensures that a directory exists, ensures that it's owned by the appropriate user, ensures that no other package already claims it (except that a previous version of the currently-being-installed package is okay), registers the directory and everything created in it during WITH-INSTALLATION-DIRECTORY as belonging to the currently-being-installed package, handles errors in a well-defined and useful manner for calling code, and so on and on and on.

And of course even that isn't high-level enough: If I'm installing bazit, which depends on foothing and quuxstuff, then I'll want to call something which ensures they exist. Or maybe there's an optional 'dependency,' and I want to do certain things if they exist and certain if not.

And maybe it's not low-level enough either. What if I want to override one particular sort of installation behaviour, but not the rest? What if I want to install a package in my own account, as myself? Wouldn't it be cool if I could set a few variables and the package manager Just Worked™?

As another user indicated, what all these tools really need is to be Lisp: versionable data which is code. As Shiver's work with scsh demonstrated, a Lisp-like language can be very pleasant to write POSIX applications in. Macros enable one to create useful syntactic constructs which make meaning, rather than details, clear. Dynamic variables (as in Common Lisp) easily enable customisation based on the call stack. CL's condition and restart systems are the gold standard for error signalling and recovery.
There's a beautiful chapter ("The Sad Irons") in Robert Caro's first volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography which describes life in rural Texas in the 1930s before they got electricity. Because all the electric appliances existed already, their world was transformed literally overnight when the switch was flipped and the juice started flowing.
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Simple, clean, straightforward. I've done similar things in bash before but not bothered to publish :) It's a good idea though to have an ecosystem of simple but flexible tools like this.

Here's another idea we implemented alongside a backup system like this. Say you run a backup daily; you can run another script to prune the archives, keeping D most recent daily archives, W most recent weekly archives, M most recent monthly archives, and all yearly archives.
I was born in the Soviet Union during its dying years
back then everyone knew the system was corrupt, inefficient and basically a pile of bullshit and thankfully it all fell apart.

I still remember having to queue hours to get bread from bakery, and not seeing toilet paper, milk or meat for some time...
Anyone who wants to go back to those days is insane imho :(

My parents and older generation of relatives mostly watch Russian news and entertainment channels via satellite, and the unashamed propaganda and brainwashing is incredible to behold, whats worse is how my parents/relatives believe everything they hear even if it is absolutely absurd or borderline conspiracy crazy.

We often argue nowadays about the direction Russia has taken, but usually the arguments end once i ask "where would you want your grand children to grow up, here in the western Europe or back home", that's when they go quiet.

They truly believe that Putin is some sort of a genius (ignoring the rise in oil prices that helped him) and this is actually downright scary :( at least in the Soviet days people didn't buy the propaganda, now a lot of people seem to actually believe all they hear and see, and live under a sort of a massive reality distortion field where the world is out to destroy Russia and its people.

aside: interestingly enough back then the collapse of USSR was partly prompted by low oil prices and a stupid war with Islamists, fast forward 30+ years and economy is even more reliant on resource extraction and Putin is boldly marching into another quagmire
Well there's certainly a tendency to make people as docile sheep, however I would not fault anybody that would freeze when being shot at.

Until someone shoots at me I won't know in what category I am, commando or sheep. I wouldn't mind never finding out ;-)
> Her principal crime appears to be that she was a bit naive in making overly optimistic promises and embracing the celebrity CEO role, which has made her a target for schadenfreude.

And the fraud committed in gaming proficiency-testing - does she deserve the benefit of doubt in that too? Is it ok that many people at some point got back erroneous results from their lab tests because of equipment that she knew gave erroneous results?
Sous vide and combi ovens will/are revolutionizing cooking. We are just couple of years away.
Mind Blown! I watched the "video" and was like of this is great and the option to upload to a website not youtube made me go Meh. Then I read the following line.

> Oh, and you can copy-paste from here

You can copy and paste from the "video!" So when I give someone a tutorial on a command line tool they can copy and paste the codes themselves!

EDIT:

People can use the recording to show what they are doing to give them the error and display the output!
Here's the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/676993694/solu-a-new-br...

Here's a very critical review from a BBC report who was at the launch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34549042
What am I missing? The graph suggests only 1/3 of Americans had a water heater as of 1985?
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Google "savings account".

Google poverty.
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Seriously, you think programatically transforming a document into presentational html is simpler than using a css selector?
Well, you can't use them for launch. And there's lots of other options for in-space propulsion.

The specific impulse is "only" double that of chemical ones, and there's potentially a large dry mass penalty.
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need."

"We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra."

– Tyler Durden, Fight Club

(Swap out a few of the products in the second quote for gadgets, cars and porn to make it better fit the HN demographic.)
> Apologies for the personal anecdote, but needless to say I'm still a bit offended at having been called a bigot

Why? You are as hypersensitive as them. The proper answer is - "From a person like you this is a compliment"

Edit: Can anyone explain why HN downvotes suggestions to talk back and hit harder, when one is accused of (whatever flavor of the month evil is)?
The century-old foundation for modern consumerism is that people are irrational actors who are primarily motivated by base instincts like fear, lust, hunger, and so on.

If you haven't seen the BBC documentary "Century of the Self," I highly recommend it.
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That would suite well as module when used alongside the FTP module. I'll keep it in mind :)
Congrats to the team. Met you at Assembly.
What I don't understand is how so many people can still watch TV news and believe what they say. Every news show I have seen in the last 10 years or more is complete BS and exists in a reality bubble where bad things happen but everything is fine as a kitten was saved in the end of the show. Why do they hold so much power? I can understand 50+ year olds maybe, but young people? Are you telling me young people look on their TV and believe that dictator is actually telling the truth? We know the western TV is BS, but so is theirs. Its not about one or the other, its about not believing anything at face value and actually educate yourself.

Sorry about the rant, its just something that surprises me continually.
Thanks for the videos, I'm starting to learn it right now and they couldn't have come in a better time.
Asteroids are even better for resource utilization.

They might be far away in space but a lot closer by delta vee, and they can be reached, mined and escaped with low maximum thrust, meaning very efficient propulsion methods can be used.

This discussion just goes around in the same stupid circles for decades. We know so many better ways of doing things, but they can not be done for political / PR reasons.
Putin is manipulative and dangerous, while the US and NATO continue to expand their military influence worldwide, but they're benign, right?
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How is this a sensible remark? The app functions in exactly the same way as a taximeter, only the implementation is different.

You can read the judgement for more information, it's pretty detailed.

A device for recording time and distance is not a device for calculating a fare based on time and distance, let alone one based on more than that, including the fare structure itself, a necessary component to the calculation. The language of the statute is quite clear. The essence of a taximeter for the purpose of section 11 is that the device must be for the calculation of the fare then to be charged, based on whatever inputs are appropriate. Such a device is not simply recording and transmitting some or all of the inputs to a calculation made elsewhere, or receiving the output, that is the calculated fare. The Smartphone is not a “thing designed or adapted for a particular functional purpose” namely calculating fares for the PHV; see the Shorter OED. It is not a taximeter. The Smartphone with its Driver’s App may be essential to enabling the calculation to take place but that does not make it a device for calculating fares.
There is propaganda in every countries, just look at who own the media...
My opinion, is some extreme right groups did Maidan massacre ( http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31359021 ), and they were ready to do more.
See how IS developed in Syria. Same story.
Libya same story.
Also look at Egypt...
Some countries are pushing other countries politics...

Now, what can we do?
Odd and interesting to read. I would have guessed a larger percentage of Russians got their views online.

I would also think that most online news written in Russian would be under control of state media. In which case, if they did start to use the Internet to find news then nothing would change.

Maybe a Russian nytimes.com?
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And with clothes, for example, that's arguably pretty much what has happened. Clothes do tend to wrinkle less in general with modern materials and social norms have also evolved so that, for many situations, wearing perfectly ironed clothes isn't a requirement.
Looks super cool, but except for being all about

* cloud

* social

* on-demand

* social

what is it good for? What's the point? Was hard to find any real information on this beautiful website.
Propaganda is now everywhere. [1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/11210223804/anti-...
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>But not a single country can provide a satellite image of the exact location of a fired rocket or any other evidence.

Assume for a minute that the CIA had that sort of in depth coverage of the event. Assume they know everything from the serial number of the warhead to the crew-members' favorite vodka.

Why would they, or any other intelligence agency risk burning even the tiniest shred of information on an event that open sources have done a pretty good job covering?
Wow. Bingo. Now that you mention it, the last time I enjoyed myself in a theater was when I saw Gravity at one of those IMAX places with absurdly large reclining chairs.

Before that it was sneaking a last call order of Chinese mall court takeout with my friends in high school into the theater on a quiet Sunday evening when nobody was around or bothered to check our backpacks. We sat in the back and enjoyed the film and our food that cost half and filled us twice what we'd pay for at the concessions stand.

Theaters suck now. The real mystery of plummeting profits is how thick in denial theater owners are.
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Why do you think old people and young people should behave differently?
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Cool looking device, I'm not convinced it's totally revolutionary, especially with Microsoft's mobile offerings now, but the killer difference will likely be the software, especially if the offline/online syncing works as promised, and the interface is as slick and it looks in the concept video.

>For a fixed monthly fee, you, as a Solu user get all the storage and apps you need

This, along with what's said in the video, is sort of saying to me that the only apps available on Solu will be those made by Solu itself, or those made for free, as the video implies 3rd party developers are not able to sell software for Solu? I'm assuming the OS is walled in.

It may be DOA for many people if 3rd party developers can't release their own software.

EDIT: Seems it runs Android underneath the slick shell, from the kickstarter:

>We are working with a number of development houses to bring their collaborative tools to Solu, but we also support legacy Android apps.
"And the company’s [Microsoft's] once sour relationship with the security research community began to improve. The company now routinely works, for example, with law enforcement to disrupt criminal botnet networks"

If it was reference to NoIP takedown, that's not quite a success story:
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/
http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-detai...
The Kickstarter Video has a tad more info.
Having unrealistic expectations of sleep can be dangerous, he said. “If you go to your GP and say doctor I really think I should sleep more, they’ll give you whatever the last sleeping pill rep who was in their office was handing out.”

It seems to me that unrealistic expectations are the least dangerous issue in this situation.
I haven't seen The Martian yet but I'd put Gravity well above Blade Runner. I found Blade Runner really dragged, and I found the characters impossible to relate to or care about. I was actually quite surprised as I'd expected to enjoy it (e.g. I loved Ex Machina).

I think it's easy to miss how much general improvement there's been in moviemaking. I accompanied my mother to see The Transporter Refuelled a few weeks ago, and by 2015 standards it's dreck. But at the same time I was amazed by how polished everything was; the pacing, the movement, even the terrible dialogue was only terrible because it was doing clunky exposition. In some ways it was better than a good film from 20 years ago, and compared to a bad old film like say Armed and Dangerous it was night and day.
I wonder how long it is going to take until the public at large and courts are aware of these advances.

This was possible earlier by any actor with a large enough budget (state security forces, hollywood studios, ...) - but it's now within the reach of just about anyone (or will be within 5 years, when released as a PhotoShop / Premiere / FinalCut plugin).
I have made some small contributions or tried to, to some open source projects in the past and I must say, Servo has been the most welcoming and most beginner friendly. The team has clearly made it a priority and it shows.

Personally for me the hardest part has been finding easy issues. While the Servo team does a great job of creating them, there's a lot of people vying for them. And then, even harder, progressing from these to bigger harder issues, which is where I'm still at.
Here in Manchester, Uber operates the same as every other private hire taxi company and follows the same rules for their cars and drivers. The only difference is that they have no local office to take phone bookings, it's all done through the app. So there aren't any problems, they're just like every other private hire taxi company around here.

I find it ridiculous reading about all the issues Uber have had in London and the black cab drivers pushing back so hard.
See Mt Gox for a good example of what happens.
That's a fallacy. NATO is being invited by these countries. Eastern European countries are basically begging for NATO protection. What Russia does there is pretty different, they invide a sovereign country that doesn't want them there.

Of course if you're talking about the useless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan you're right.
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Glanced down the website and although it looks cool, I didn't get what problem the product actually solves, or why I'd want to have one.
It's kind of scary how effective the Russian propaganda is with only 3% believing MH17 was shot down by the rebels when that is almost certainly what happened.
Thanks for the good points raised!
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That page basically tells me nothing. Terrible. The Kickstarter is a bit better: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/676993694/solu-a-new-br...

I guess the formula is: tablet(-ish) computer extensible to desktop mode × subscription model × offline-enabled cloud apps × SDK with revenue sharing. It's not terrible, but a huge list of hurdles and unanswered question come immediately to mind.

Here are the tech specs, fwiw:

Screen - 1440 x 1440, 450ppi with an edge to edge touch
External display - support for up to 4K monitors
Processor - 2.3GHz NVIDIA 4-Plus-1™ quad-core ARM® Cortex™-A15 CPU™
Graphics - NVIDIA Kepler™ GPU with 192 NVIDIA CUDA® cores
RAM - 4GB LPDDR3
Cache capacity - 32GB
Connectivity - Dual-band 2x2 MIMO WiFi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0 and USB Type C
Battery - 1200mAh
Dimensions - 102mm (4.02in) x 102mm (4.02in) x 13mm (0.512in)
Operating System - SoluOS
So what makes this any different to all the other Android based mini computers?

All I can see is a mind-map like interface and a montly subscription cost to use "any" application in their store/eco-system.
What I don't understand is why you trust this article if you don't trust TV. The fact that it's written doesn't mean they don't lie.

And what's even more troubling is that nowadays Russian propaganda is more believable than the western one ...
Countries of Eastern Europe are willingly joining NATO because they don't want to be bullied by a certain country in the east.

My country joined NATO because, altho not under direct threat from Russia, Russia supported our enemy (going as far as sending special forces to work undercover) in a very recent conflict and as such I couldn't give a shit if Russia feels that their imperialism is threatened by my security.

No one in NATO has to force any country into joining NATO. Russia's doing it on its won.
> In a huge hall in San Francisco, with free drinks, food and a fella playing an organ, the Solu team boldly declared the end of computing as we know it. Apple and Microsoft, they said, should watch out.

Well ,these folks are bold, at least.

Good luck.
Honestly, I believe more to people who did those missiles, than to some random Dutch experts (with all respect, of course). Almaz-Antey did their own investigation, they did experiments, they have very expert knowledge about those missiles, so it's very important not to throw away their facts.

They might be influenced by Russia politics, of course, but Netherlands, as part of Europe, definitely follows anti-Russian politics as well.
It seems suspiciously cheap at 450 euro retail.
You bash him because he had the audacity to wonder and have an opinion about how gender could have related to the publicity and valuations.. considering how we are constantly bombarded by p.c click-bait articles on female founders and such stuff, it does not seem so silly after all. Then you use the gender card to have us give her the benefit of the doubt just because she is a woman... well played :)
The real lost art here is scripting languages. Even if you parse things yourself, configuration files still have a natural tendency to evolve into a crappy programming language over time. So instead of writing your own config file format you should just make a couple a quick bindings for a scripting language like Lua, Python or Ruby.
Also, collaboration. I think we tend to over estimate how much people like to collaborate. And the organic UI looks very childish to me.
I think you have it backwards. The ideas of Wool are so common in prior science fiction that authors would take them for granted, play with them. The plot is pretty much that of The Penultimate Truth. Howey succeeded because, for whatever reason, people liked his writing or he details of his version more than previous iterations of the idea.
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What I mean with the 50+ is people who are not technologically aware and/or are very set in their ways. I find it a lot harder to change the mindset, or at least talking about it with older generations then the younger ones. From my point of view (European) its hard to understand that people don't distrust any news outlet or politician, but maybe that's just my personal paranoia.
Pretty sure RedHat is aware of immutable infrastructure: http://www.projectatomic.io/
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That's incredibly naive but besides the point.

The US has weapons of mass destruction, so does Russia, and China, and Pakistan, and India and Israel.

Keep in mind the context, this was the second such invasion of Iraq, the first war being conducted by Bush Sr, having failed to discourage Saddam from attacking Kuwait[1]. In between the two wars the US bombing and sanctions caused the deaths of an estimated 500000 children[2].

So trying to justify the glaring lies, as some kind of buffoonery, especially in the context of what had been done to Iraq for the previous decade, is naive in my opinion.

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/gulf-war-documents-meeting-betw...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WDCYcUJ4o
Why Russians should not believe it?

- Ukraine army shoot down civil airliner with 90 people on board just a few years ago [1]

- It was regular war zone with dozens other planes shoot down [2].

- It happened on Ukraine territory, most likely by Ukraine citizens.

- Buk 9M38 is not Russian missile, but Soviet (that includes Ukraine).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_aircraft_los...
No Olivier salad? I'm surprised this staple of parties wasn't listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad
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