skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize for misinterpreting.

Note that just as your original comment was murky and seemingly accusatory, so was my original reply to you—because I was parodying you.

You talked about unspecified things fundamentally and secretly sucking... so I said that you might be fundamentally and secretly trolling... who knows if any of these claims are true? They're both murky, vague, and somewhat paranoid.

The more straightforward argument you're producing now seems interesting, and I agree to some extent. I'll happily admit that Haskell—just like every single language—has historical warts and problems. Some of them are being addressed by the community, with some of them the community is stuck in arguing, etc.

C++ has always been firmly committed to backwards compatibility, which is one reason it is such a successful industrial language. Haskell has some of that too, and incompatible changes made to the core language are rare and always met with suspicion.

However, I don't think the Haskell community is especially dogmatic about the perfection of their own language. If anything, people are constantly discussing ways to make it better.
> The idea that I'm "obviously referring to Haskell" and attacking me for it is beneath a response.

You were replying directly to a post that claimed "the haskell community is, on the whole, truly awful at pedagogy" so it's easy to see how mbrock mistakenly concluded that, when you said "in some fundamental, underlying way, it sucks", you were referring to Haskell (when in fact you meant something entirely different).
Hope he gets it;
Unclear if there is one yet: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=InvokerTran...
If the delivery was prompt, and the food is in good shape when it arrives that seems tip worthy to me.

Quality of service questions aside though the bottom line of whether or not you should tip comes down to if the person in question is working for the tipped employee minimum wage or the standard minimum wage.

If they are paid according to the tipped minimum and you don't tip based on your ideological view of the appropriateness of a tip for their job function then you are an ass.
People make sheeps heads soup?

(They're supposed to be salted and dried then cooked for Sunday dinner (skjelte) or even better smoked over open fire, then cooked (smalahove) and eaten at party with friends.)
I'm in the category of open-source developers who don't have the time or willingness to start pitching corporations for sponsorships.
Could you not argue that a waiter making you feel cared for is part of their job? A delivery driver could be prompt, or be lazy.

But more to the point, there are various jobs widely known to be totally underpaid and depend on tips. For instance, you tip bartenders in the US even though all they are doing is pouring you a beer. Is it "right"? Of course not. But it's a widely accepted societal norm in many countries, and is an assumed part of that person's income.
I still don't know what it actually takes, in practice, to penetrate.

Nobody knows. That's the long and short of it. If you find any set of traits in common among tenured prof's, and look for those traits in the grad student body, you'll find a roughly 10x surplus of people who are good enough to be in the pipeline.

Disclaimer: I was not one of those people. I got my PhD in 1993, and knew that I was clearly not professor material. So I steered myself into industry.

As for experience 30 years ago, the oversupply of PhDs was already widely known at that time. We called it the "birth control problem," and it was discussed over the then-nascent Internet. I mentioned it to my dad, a chemistry PhD, and he said: "Oh yeah, we knew about that in the 1950s."

A perpetual optimism about career advancement is possibly just a social convention. At my workplace, the HR message is that anybody can move up. But we can't all move up, and none of us are ever told our realistic prospects.

By the way I'm not trying to play "internet tough guy" here, but am just trying to be realistic. I'm actually quite sympathetic about the problem.
There's the personal aspect of education, which hopefully makes you a better person, and there's the professional aspect of education, which makes you more employable.

The problem is that the two get conflated. The right to tertiary-level education in the EU (do you live in the EU?) should be for the former. I'm skeptical, though, that many people are willing to pursue personal development at the university level. But they want the prestige of being "educated". So we end up with technical colleges playing at being universities, badly, and churning out graduates who are unemployable: You get neither personal, nor professional education. It's of no benefit to you or the society.

I wish I had a good suggestion for a cure to this malaise. Myself, I said: "fuck it", left my country, went to a top UK uni, dropped out, and started a business.
Software that is critical for public safety (and it is a lot) should be required to be one file as part of the product certification. If you have coded a safety interlock in software, that software should be viewable by the public. Toyota should have been required to submit their source with NHTSA.
I meant net increase, I should have made that more clear.
> the plugin ecosystem is very robust

It's not true, a lot of WP plugins are buggy and sometimes conflict each other.

> upgrades arrive for free every couple of months and do not break backwards compatibility

But sometimes plugins break with upgrades
Putting all eggs in one basket is scary. Putting all eggs in a PHP powered basket is terrifying beyond words.

We're doomed :-(
An important point the article makes is how important it is for a large number of people to use Tor, even if only occasionally. I try to use Tor at least once or twice a week for general web browsing. I also donated money to them.

It is really important for people to also support groups like the EFF and ACLU financially: a good investment in future freedom. History shows that large empires tend to get tough on their citizens as the empires wane. We live in an era right now where the current large empire is waning.
So it makes all governments that sign it banana republics of the corporations? If I get to work for Tyrell Corp, I am in!
You are correct, but it seems a bit much to take the author to task about this. Isn't all that you ask for to replace the words "category theory" with "the notion of category" throughout the document?
I like this answer because it gives the context around why static site generators came to be.

Back in the day the simplicity of a pure html/css site was wonderful. Then as soon as we needed templating or a shared component like a footer, we bumped to to the most approachable full-blown server side language, PHP, ten years ago. Today we can use a static site generator as an alternative to fill that use case. Besides the benefits in security and performance, you can also benefit from cheaper hosting -- for example, you could host the static front end for free on GitHub Pages (even with a custom domain) or for pretty cheap on S3.
Even if that was true, why are the identities and the life stories of the billionaires important?
Well, one way to do it is to make sure most shares of a company are owned by the workers, subcontractors, the customers, etc.

Like the many co-op consumer cooperations, which usually have an upper limit of 2000$ investment per person, and are owned by hundredthousands of people at once.
Privacy watchdogs fuming after FCC smacks down ‘Do Not Track’ request
Finishing is both a feeling and a state. I rarely feel absolutely finished with a project, but I generally finish or give up a project. My finished is generally somewhere in between "that's good enough" and "that is my best reasonable work". I'm a perfectionist, I need some of these barriers. Others don't. Publishing is also difficult for me.

For now, I'd start a project you wished you had time for before. One you've been longing for. If you can't decide, simply choose one, any one will work, but I'd go for something you think will be easy to medium in work and scope.

While you do that, start thinking about another project you'd like to work on. This helps me the most completely avoid this sort of situation, especially with artwork. I generally have different projects in different stages of completion, and I find my finished work is better if I have variety of projects. The bits that I dislike are interrupted by works in the 'enjoyment' zone, and I can work across projects if I'm in a zone for a certain skillset as well.

I try the same sort of thing with life goals as well, but I've occasionally those get dumped and changed.
Too bad this isn't actually done for voting machines and ECUs.
I don't think the direction is that clear. 15 years ago how many people were even giving thought to running their own email servers or have their own websites? I would bet there are more people considering their own websites (or have their own websites already) even if they still make use of Facebook. There a number of these large platforms, like Facebook, but their existence is in no way guaranteed. I don't know understand the pessimism in this thread, especially amongst the builders of this era.
The point of the article is that even though function composition and monadic composition are made out of different things ((.) and id versus (<=<) and return respectively) they have the same underlying structure: associative composition with identity.
>>If the delivery was prompt, and the food is in good shape when it arrives that seems tip worthy to me.

It if didn't arrive in good shape, I would be asking for a refund, or at the very least not ordering form that place anymore.

I don't know, it's weird - I currently live in UK, where tipping waiters is defacto standard(and not because they make below-living wages), but I would never ever think to tip a delivery driver. Like....why would I? This makes absolutely no logical sense, just like I wouldn't tip a plumber or a car mechanic for fixing my stuff on time - they are already taking money for the service.
> This is for very very limited artificial video game footage and a database of known 3D scenes from the same.

While they are using "artificial video game footage," as the basis for their process, they are applying it to real soccer game footage. Limited, yes, but quite clever in its simplicity. (Obviously, in general, the idea of using simulated data as a training set for supervised machine learning isn't new, but who would have thought that an off-the-shelf videogame would be realistic enough to be used to reconstruct 3d scenes from actual soccer footage.)
Thanks for snapping this back to reality...

I don't see how Sprig is any different from a multi-national pizza delivery chain. Really the only difference is that Sprig is solely available as app, whereas you can walk-in or call a Domino's.

Does this author even pizza?
For anyone who can't be bothered reading the self-indulgent, meandering rubbish before he actually provides the explanation:

"I stopped ordering from Sprig back in the spring, because ... they sent me a truly sub-par chicken sandwich."
ProtonMail on Battling a Sustained DDoS Attack
I share your capitalist/marxist attitude. Workers really should buy their share of the means of production. It would improve current situation by distributing profits. And it would drive down down profits of capital investment, because there is more money in the market.

This doesn't completely solve the problem of wealth accumulation. I think inflation, inheritance tax and regulation against monopolies are still needed instruments.
Some people appear to believe that if the average temperature of the globe increases by two degrees, then the average temperature in May in Munich must increase by 2.00 degrees, the average temperature in Timbuktu in June must increase by 2.00 degrees, the average temperature in Panjim in July must increase by 2.00 degrees, the average temperature in Valparaiso in August must increase by 2.00 degrees, and so on and so forth.

Then these people are astonished when it doesn't work that way. "Oh! Some places heat up more, others less, or actually don't heat up!" or "Oh! The summers and winters don't change in the same way?"

Depressing.
Twitter does not do a good enough job of curating the huge amount of high-quality content it holds for new Twitter subscribers. You said it yourself:

> If I'm interested in a new field, I just follow the experts in that field that are on twitter.

> Sometimes, some people I follow tweet things I'd rather not hear. So I simply mute them.

> I cull my 'following' list to get to 300 people once every couple of months

All of the above steps are time consuming, and a lot of people (including me) simply can’t be bothered or don't have the time, or both!

Last time I created a new account I entered some basic details and in return a bunch of well-known Tweeters were offered up, none of whom I was actually wanted to follow. That was the sum-total of the on boarding experience and I was left with nothing useful. So what do I do? I start posting content and following people - adding more content almost randomly in a hope that something sticks.

Twitter absolutely nailed the input side of their user experience. Adding content is almost too easy, hence the amount of bullshit “here’s what I ate this morning” tweets. Imo their next mission should now be to help new and existing users discover high-quality content.

Reddit does a better job of this using their sub-reddit approach and it’s entirely because this curation is perfumed for me that I return there more regularly than Twitter.
Yubikey NEO has support for using an OpenPGP applet over NFC with OpenKeychain on Android
Really wild guess, but if Antarctica isn't the source of the rising ocean wouldn't it make sense to consider the Arctic as source?
The examples here seem to be for doing pattern matching (with wildcards) on portions of DNS query packets. That's definitely in the range of things you can't coerce the pcap filter language to do an even adequate job on.

Ah-ha, thanks! I've written quite a bit of BPF but haven't dug too deeply into pcap filters. Based on the examples it looked redundant with the pcap language.
That's not the context the OP used... It was: "you should thank", not "you should be thankful". A very subtle difference, but in this case (to you), it's the difference between offending and not.
I worked briefly for a wordpress consultancy last year.

Our main workflow involved using Yeoman, Grunt, NPM, wp (the wordpress command line tool) and vagrant. Locally, we'd run vagrant just so we don't have to monkey around with environment issues (too much). Yeoman, grunt, npm and wp were used in tandem to script the creation of a new wordpress install, install any dependencies needed, run any tools needed through grunt (like sass and JS minifiers), and pull plugins and themes from their separate git repositories. We still had to import the database by hand, though, when setting up our environment as well as add lines to wp-config for however we wanted to handle debugging.

Then we'd write code and check it in via git as with any other project. If you were working on frontend anything (html,css,js) you either ran grunt all the damned time or ran grunt watch. Those of us who had a hard time with the unique programming requirements of wordpress (escaping, sanitizing, formatting) used phpcs to automate that.

As for deployment, we'd just go through the same setup on the server that we do locally. Updates were pushed via git.

The fundamental problem my company runs into with WP is that only a theme can be meaningfully checked into version control. Everything else, including installation of plugins is coupled with entries in the database.

That wasn't my experience. We separated functional features into separate plugins (so they could be disabled or enabled on a site by site basis) and had no problem using version control with them. In fact, one project had some government security problems and required each plugin to be in its own repo. I wouldn't suggest that, but it works.

the database also includes changes necessarily made on the production instance, like comments to blog posts

That was something I found aggravating that was never really addressed at the company I worked at. When new people were brought on to a project, they'd get a mysql dump of the staging environment. After that, as new features were added, you were responsible for adding your own test data to see if those features worked. As for production, the changes made that were specific to the production database were made manually in production. When a new plugin was pushed, you had to log into the production instances manually and turn the new plugin on. Luckily, there are hooks you can use to automate any setup or teardown of plugins when they get turned on and off respectively.
Please talk to the OpenKeychain developers. That's the best PGP implementation I know of. Also keybase.io.
Edison had strongly held views about the superiority of DC over AC : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
It can, but once "Watson" exists it's easier to replicate. Is IBM really going to be able to stop that, even as both the know-how and hardware to execute "Watson" becomes more available to everyone?

Speaking of IBM, it seems like only yesterday that IBM and Microsoft were invincible. And now Google, Amazon, or Apple seem far more formidable.
Conway's Polyglot: 1K file runs Game of Life both in the browser and on a C64
And he didn't even get to mention the x509 client ceritifcates and java craplets.
React Native – How to create Twitter exploding hearts
Science Physics Online Course
Should you try to detect an initiated install and close?
A checklist for a fresh new linux install
Apple Patents Panic Mode – Call for Help with a ‘Secret’ Fingerprint
Just to be clear: when floating sea ice melts, it does not change the ocean level. Usually land-based Arctic ice is enumerated as Greenland and other glaciers.
How does it compare to versionpress?

Here's what versionpress thought in january: http://blog.versionpress.net/2015/01/versionpress-vs-revisr/

Has there been any change since then?
If everything is cached, sure, serving static content is cheap. The comparison with a solid machine I find it funny, a bad update in a plug-in can render your site useless for a while and WP's security record is abysmal.
I can't imagine that. Delivery only works when either: a) there's a regular, fixed delivery schedule, or b) you can send an instant signal with the delivery order.

I doubt either applied in Roman times. I'll stand corrected if:

a) There is evidence people submitted food schedules where the food could be delivered on a regular basis, or

b) There were evidence of a pre-telephone method of instantly transmitting an order, or

c) It were a practice to send out a messenger to place and bring back the order for the non-wealthy.
TinyCoreLinux is just a small Linux distro. A rump kernel is a unikernel reusing netbsd code, running in a single address space.
"My field of study doesn't include anything but analytical skills. Which means I would have to become a consultant."

That is a silly way to think about entrepreneurship... that is like saying "I'm CPA certified so the only business I can start is my own accounting firm."
After 5,000 years, British tree changes its sex
I don't think they are necessarily important stories, just stories that can be easily sold by the media. People become famous by being very rich (even if that's not their intent,) and we (humanity as a whole) like stories of famous people.
I can only envy your drive, because I don't have much left. And yes, I live in the EU (Denmark).

In this automated world, I would wish I'd spent more time trying to learn a technical skill, but I'm left purely with analytical skills, which does not seem to be in high demand at the moment.
Themes like Divi seem to compete directly with things like Squarespace, including custom WYSIWYG layout tools etc.

http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/divi/

Here's a testimonial from an independent web site creator that I found interesting.

http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/customer-spotlight/creatin...

(I have no affiliation at all with this nor any other WordPress business, I just think it's interesting—as a counterpoint to the stereotypical HN focus on fancy new technology—how enormously productive this ecosystem really is.)

> One day, as I was in the process of writing a post for inspireddad.org, I had a sudden epiphany. I thought to myself, WordPress is not like any other website builder I have used before. It is powerful, simple, and can be used for almost anything… and I can see myself making a living off of this one day. It was this thought that set me into motion, and I began learning everything I possibly could about WordPress—I became obsessed. [...]

> I honestly believe I might have given up on this dream if it hadn’t been for the amazing support that the ET team gave to me early on. This support, coupled with my own growing WordPress knowledge, enabled me the opportunity to launch approximately two dozen websites in my first year—which gave me the confidence I needed to take my business to the next level. [...]

> The incredible support and products of [Elegant Themes] have enabled me the chance to do what I love—achieving an entrepreneurial lifestyle that has allowed me to truly help my clients, while also giving my family my time and attention as a husband and father.

I'm half tempted to abandon my current plans of startup world domination and just make WordPress websites for local businesses.
It's not the first time with this user:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176671
Paid plugins (with support) are the way to go for getting the highest quality and I've had great experiences with them. Some of the ones I've had great luck with on my site are Advanced Custom Fields, Gravity Forms, and most recently FacetWP.

Edit: that said, there are also high quality free ones as well
Let me rephrase the question:

To what extent will the "rest of us" give up on automating anything for ourselves and mindlessly become dependent on using the systems operated by "a handful of gods"?

In what ways can "the rest of us" be persuaded to accept such a state of affairs?

If a considerable number of us can't be made to refrain from pirating simple entertainment such as games, music, books, and movies, then what are the odds we can be stopped from doing the same for access to technology necessary for our very survival?
The oil fired steam propulsion was standard for larger warships of the era. In the 30's engineers started to install internal combustion diesels to large ships. But the oil fired steam still persists. (When power/weight is more important than fuel consumption, but internal combustion turbine is too expensive.)

This hints that it was designed to be large. And steam propulsion was selected because large enough diesels were not available.
Internet already has this. If you want to be paid by google for linking to your site you just need to put NOINDEX in proper place in the page header. Though it's really up to google if they choose to list you and pay you or not list you.
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