skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that for some users Facebook effectively is the Internet. They have a normal broadband connection in a relatively affluent western country but spend much of their time online using Facebook for browsing and two-way communication with other Facebook users.

On a regular basis I'll hear someone mention 'their website' and when I ask for the URL it is clear from their reply that what they mean is they have a Facebook page for their group/business/whatever. When I press further they seem to understand the concept that owning a domain name and having a 'website' on Facebook are not exactly the same. These are normal users, not stupid people, and this is how perceive things right now.

This is anecdotal and I don't have any peer-reviewed studies to cite but I suspect this is pretty common and I wonder if others are seeing the same thing?
I think the Nike app has this as well - but it doesn't look nearly as cool.
I like the underlying idea of suckless- and would put them in the same category as an academic attempt to build an OS, language et al in 20,000 lines of code.

There ought to be a set of principles we can extract - KISS probably. Ignore project plans ?
His race is human, I'm pretty sure we have plenty of that already ;-)
Your source also says: "Climate Change isn't about the environment. It's about money and control, and the same is true with the anti-gun movement as well."

This should allow you to understand it is a really bad source. I guess that starting from that, it is easy to prove that the numbers you cite are wrong.

All in all, isn't it obvious that only gun-free zones is a better solution that only gun-allowed zones?
Do you have any more details on the "pro" version?
I believe the discussion was about founders' beliefs and their influence.

As for the second part, I'm hardly a theist, so what I'm doing is not walking around and telling gullible people that they have been created by some god who now wants them to hunt infidels. Sometimes encouraging others to do the same.
He never said he didn't scrub ... assuming he did (and he held 2+ copies), then the files are restored. Even if he only had a single copy, ZFS would at least tell you what files are corrupt, allowing you to restore them from backup.
Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic?
Exploring Angular2
QE isn't the same as what I'm talking about. QE isn't spent by the government it's money printed by the FED which is then used to buy existing assets from the market, typically US treasury bonds but others as well. The purpose of QE is to push more money into the banks in the hopes that they will go out and lend some of it, but that's not much use if people aren't confident enough to borrow. So you can't finance a tax cut with QE, you can't finance an infrastructure program with QE, you can't do any of the real "Keynesian" things that would make a difference because the Central Bank should never be printing money to finance government spending.

QE is complimentary to but not a replacement for a Keynesian response.
FYI the package 'ne' on Ubuntu does exist.

The question is: why didn't it replace the goddamn Nano as a default editor long ago? This editor should be known more widely.
There are apparently religious reasons for the clerics' positions that go back to as early as the Prophetic statements regarding the emergence of the Khawariz, the passionately brutal yet religiously clueless group of newcomers that emerged within the broader Muslim community and caused chaos. There are pertinent religious texts regarding keeping up with the legitimate rulers (without taking part in their misdeeds) and the general obligation on shunning anarchy, militant rebellion and chaos.
The jurisprudential rules of wars regarding prohibition of killing women, children, non-combatants, priests are widely studied in the academically oriented circles, and I haven't come across evidences that suggest that prominent/mainstream salafi academics of the past or present have remarkably contradicted on these issues.

Given the turmoil that has lately (and long been) transpired in the form of militant experiments and perceived revolutions around the region (and the globe), the tradition that promotes mass-education, deeply-rooted revival and collective rectification doesn't seem to be a bad idea as the feasible choice for societal betterment.
Your+brain+cells+can+now+be+turned+on+and+off
What other mainstream programming language has a queue pattern built right into the language itself?
Does the typescript auto completion component of Atom the same as in VSCode ?
SVD is in fact used to compress dnns.

Of course, like many things in ML, as soon as you make it faster, you just make the model bigger and turn the speed gains into accuracy gains.
Honestly, if you were willing to rely on the undocumented SourceKit API then you wouldn't have nearly this many problems.
The correlation you note is cross species. I thought within the same species it tends to be reversed (e.g. Smaller dog breeds live longer than big ones). Here's an unscientific article with a footnote that shorter people tend to live longer: http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=49358
Sebastiano Vigna never ceases to amaze me
It mostly is. But sitting on your soles does change the proportion of your feet. I (and I think most other people) can't do that because my lower leg is too long.
It really helped getting a new subway line to an inconvenient to reach part of Manhattan.

"If everything goes according to plan, the twenty-billion-dollar residential and commercial complex at Hudson Yards, stretching from West 30th to West 34th streets and from 10th to 12th Avenues, will be the largest private real estate development in United States history. "
>on disk encryption

Given you could just run LUKS on top of (open)ZFS, it's probably the better security position to run an audited, established encryption product, than to consider a layer thrown on top of ZFS a feature.
I have often thought that for a lot of the countries in Africa (where land is in abundance, for example a place like the DRC), creating mini Singapores/Dubais/Monacos could be a viable, if ecologically disastrous, way of economic development. The potential revenue would far exceed the necessary infrastructure costs with land being free. The only thing they would have to guard against is political instability.
cloudra.in: shameless 1:1 clone of transfer.sh
Well, you are right, for most sites 404 returns a friendly error page. However for our case, it is a lot smaller page compared to 200 responses.
The Koran is ambiguous, as is the Bible, and the US Constitution. Indeed any meaningful statute passed by a legislature has some measure of ambiguity. Reconciling these ambiguities by means of textual interpretation is a large part of the reason why there are theologians, rabbis, muftis and Supreme Court justices.

Based on what I've read, in the case of Islam there has been a huge amount of exegeses and there are complex rules of interpretation that govern the meaning of texts. Trying to CTRL-F a translation of the Koran for "slay" as someone suggested elsewhere is a bizarre way to try to figure out the meaning of a text which has been pored over by great minds for centuries. I think it is a result of the fact that those of us with technical backgrounds tend to be dismissive of the humanities, uncomfortable with ambiguity and prone to literalism.[1]

The interesting thing is that discarding exegesis is exactly the approach taken by the Salafist/Wahabist tradition of the Saudis, and of ISIS and Al-Qaeda. 1400 years of scholarship is replaced with a literal textualist reading of the Koran and Hadiths, and thus justification is found for the most henious of crimes. There is a Latin phrase that describes this approach of discarding precedent entirety in favor of novel readings of a text, but it escapes me for now.

The Koran, or the Bible are not "violent" books not are they "peaceful", they are merely collections of words that need to be interpreted by their readers. It is unfortunate that the intellectually bankrupt literalist interpretation of the Koran is on the ascendant in the Middle East because of Saudi oil money, and that it presently lends itself to the justification of terrorism (even if the Saudi regime itself opposes terrorism).

[1] This could be a reason why terrorist jihadism, buttressed by literalist readings attracts a disproportionate number of engineering types.
My home address is in the UK, but I live in a flat and my neighbours are mail stealing...

Are you sure it's your neighbors? We get mail theft here (in Silicon Valley) all the time; thieves harvesting mail for valuables, credit cards, tax data, etc. for ID theft.

In my city, police will not respond even if there is theft in progress and they have idle units at Starbucks next door, claiming that there is no state law against mail theft -- it's up to the USPS to deal with it.

I have a PO Box for everything but junk mail. The much-maligned USPS has a really nice feature nowadays: you can sign a (free) agreement allowing them to accept packages on your behalf from other carriers... so I have FedEx, UPS, etc. all going to my PO Box, using the street-address format for the Post Office proper. It's much less expensive than private services like the UPS Store and such.

Your neighbors are probably more focused on stealing your newspaper. Or spouse.
Haha, we use up EVERYTHING.
Each of these projects has different goals if you look a bit more closely than "make python faster" and has made design decisions and trade-offs accordingly, and as a result each has use-cases it is better suited for than others.
Hmm, I heard several times that English has almost a double-size vocabulary[0] since it imported almost all of French on top of Anglo-Saxon, but this guy says it was only about 10,000 words, and there was a bit of Latin too. Now which is it?

Note that most other European languages also imported roughly the same scientific vocabulary from Latin and Greek.

[0] compared to other somewhat comparable languages such as German and French, and assuming you can find suitable criteria for determining what a word is; e.g., discounting compound words such as the Dutch roltrommelhuisvuilophaalwagen.
This behavior exists but is absolutely not common.

Please, stop that disinformation campaign, the guy who creates that video isn't totally neutral [1].

[1] https://www.schusterman.org/users/zvika-klein
Ever so often i think it would be interesting to see something akin to a spreadsheet for full on programming, that would display the state of every variable and constant much like a spreadsheet shows the result of the formula within.

I guess it could be compared to the "blinkenlights" of old mainframes and minis, showing the state of various CPU registers etc.
It does give you all the suite of vim keys (or it should). It uses neovim's API to connect to neovim. You can even use (neo)vim's plugins because the commands are processed by neovim, not by Atom. In other words, the plugin acts as an interface between neovim and Atom; thus, everything you have in neovim you have it in Atom.
>when you refuse to let me type in a `+` sign

I'm not sure I understood your problem, but the '+' sign can be replaced by '00' (two zeroes) when you cant to make international calls.
urxvt with the daemon (urxvtd & urxvtc) is blazing fast, in my experience. That said, it's not fun when all my terminals suddenly freeze (happens to me once a year, roughly).
Yeah this perplexes me too because my hearing is otherwise decent but I almost always need subtitles. I've looked into it a bit and some people are surmising that it has to do with poor audio engineering for home release. Films audio is recorded to be played back in a spacious theater with surround sound, good acoustics, and speakers with high range. Then you have people's home audio setups: noisy listening environments with people right next to the audio source, poor acoustics and stereo sound, and poor speakers from laptops, smartphones, or those built in to flatscreen tv's. The sound mixing also relies on these factors as well as the theater experience so explosions are super loud and quiet moments are eerily silent. (Not to mention that dialogue takes a backseat in many modern films) The audio might be poorly remixed, if at all for home release and the poor playback equipment exacerbates the issue. It's similar to developers saying "works on my machine", where in this case the machine is properly calibrated, thousands of dollars, and top-of-the-line.
> The issue is that speech is now being suppressed in higher education settings -- a place where (otherwise lawful) offense is expected to be tolerated -- by students who don't respond to offense with the sort of counterargument you're proposing. Instead, they are making demands for resignation or other forms of retribution, and these are starting to bear fruit.

Yeah, there's not much point in continuing this discussion. I don't see how you can in one sentence claim that "(otherwise lawful) offense" should be tolerated, but in the next say that calls for resignations or retribution (like boycotts) shouldn't be? Those aren't normally unlawful. Isn't that literally "lawful offence except those I disagree with like calls for resignation"?
Indeed. The premise that GitHub is "irreplaceable" seemed overstated to me. In fact, if GitHub were really irreplaceable than any project using it should already be looking to break their ties before they get in any deeper!

As for SourceForge, I was a little sad the other day when I went to download a project I've used for years to install on a new machine, found it was still hosted on SF... and then spent 15 minutes downloading the same file from a couple of independent mirrors and checking the SHA1s all matched before I installed it. How the mighty are fallen...
Why not?

> ubiquitous scripting language

Third party modules don't cover everything and then you have to write Python. Plus the config files of Docker are better. So I would welcome a modern Ansible alternative that requires just one executable instead of a full Python stack.
> Responding by killing a bunch of French civilians is not even remotely reasonable

I agree, as was the US dropping the A Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Not even remotely reasonable" especially when the victims numbered in the tens of thousands. Innocent women and children included.
Location, location, location!

First, Dubai is geographically perfectly positioned to be an airline hub between Europe, much of Asia (particularly India), Africa and Australia, which is why Dubai is the world's biggest airport for international flights and Emirates is well on its way to being the world's biggest airline.

Second, Dubai is right next to Iran, which is a large, moderately wealthy country blocked off from a large chunk of the world by sanctions. Guess where a huge part of Iran's legal and less legal trade goes through? Dubai.
Also, the real "ISIS" is headed by Malory Archer, not Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
I guess that's true, I was thinking about the case of the redundant array (otherwise the files wouldn't be "lost").
After all, Linux's creator must have been an egomaniac to name it after himself - it'll never take off.

Curiously, Linus did consider naming it "Linux" as too egotistical, and chose "Freax" instead. It was a colleague who renamed it when uploading to the FTP server.

I agree with your point, by the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#Naming
And these kids just have to take a quick jog to the well (library) for clean water (open internet)
It's faster to start for sure. I don't doubt that it's faster for you, since many users praise urxvt's speed over xterm. It just hasn't been the case for me.
The "watches" feature of most debuggers give you something like that.

Having said that, debuggers don't give you the ability to graphical visualize dependencies between formulas/expressions that Excel does.
Twilight on Android works well.
As De Villepin mentionned, France has never switched to a security-focused mindset. As long as we have our social net to circunvent the disastrous drawbacks of neoliberalism, I highly doubt we will ever have to.
Even the problem of young poor french extremists will be solved. The basic idea is to explain to these "social losers" who consider radicalism as their last option that they are just breaking their toys.

Basically, we have to take care of our 15-20 years old youth. And give them hope. But that's true of every nations, western or not.
That's fine. I don't like sand. It's coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere.
FWIW, I think that hypecycle graph is almost totally garbage. Nobody knows where Bitcoin and the Blockchain are going. Maybe it's a false dawn, or maybe it's the future. But I think predictions are worth very little. Nobody knows. Predictions are usually just people trying to claim ownership on your brainspace.

That's opinion, so take it with a pinch of salt :)
That says something about human nature, do we care about the genes or the face that carries them ?
Wow, it is actually just 20,000 AED ($5500~) according to [1]. That's pretty neat!

1: http://www.investorvisa.ae/investor-visa/uae/
While I do think my Mac is overly blue, I also think that f.lux is ridiculously yellow. I've turned down the yellowness considerably compared to the defaults, and still find myself turning it off in the evening, because suddenly everything becomes washy yellow.
There is something like f.lux for Android. It's called Twilight.
Back then in the mid 00s the terminology was quite specific, if I remember correctly. After all, "bitmapped" is more about the delivery format, whereas the "pixel" descriptor is more about the visuals (and heck, you could have a vector "pixel" font if you're specific about the sizes and hinting).

Kottke's "Silkscreen" was one of the more popular ones http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/
All of the tracks that I have played have so far supported it, I am on Android.
Are you responding to the title?
>The suckless way is to have a short usage and a descriptive manpage. The complete details are in the source.

Can't agree with that. Also this reminds me to the chapter about documentation in the "UNIX Haters Guide"[1]. (I recommend everyone read it for an alternative viewpoint about UNIX, although most of it is obsolete)

The GNU info system is actually a pretty good attempt to fix the mess that is classical UNIX documentation. No, the source shouldn't be a documentation source. It's for programmers only, and it can be a reference, like man pages. A good info page can provide a full manual from which someone that is not familiar with the program/programming interface can learn how to proceed from scratch. Also, unlike man pages, info pages are hyperlinked. I agree that the info program itself is not very user friendly tho, maybe that's the reason it's not as popular as man pages or HTML documentation in the project website.

[1]: http://richard.esplins.org/static/downloads/unix-haters-hand...
Read my link... just the numbered list if you're in a hurry cuz it takes only minute or two. Any discussion of C vs other languages should be able to explain why C is the way it is and why a replacement should be different. If C wins, it should be due to being the best design for systems programming. Any information about C should also be accurate.

As pjmp said, article rewrites history by falsely claiming it was first HLL and that it was designed for portability. Neither were true. Additionally, competing languages (even on PDP-11!) had better maintainability, safety/security, and ability to code in the large. Many were portable with a few performing as well. BCPL was whatever could compile on a 1960's computer: nothing more. C was BCPL w/ structs and byte-orientation.

So, should we start with one of the better languages that resemble good languages of today to define attributes for systems programming? Or should we start with a semi-language that had no design, tons of problems, and all so it could compile on a 1960's machine? I think the former is the obvious choice. That those supporting the latter lie about C's origin, design, competition at the time, and so on to push it instead is... more disturbing.

Hence, me countering it readily.

"Aside from NASA or JPL, who would even start a new project in any of those languages, because of one important paradigm?"

There were repeatedly languages from that time available. The best for modern 3GL users were Wirth's line: industrial Pascal's, Modula-2, Modula-3 (especially), Oberon's. All were used to write OS's on minimal hardware with more readability and safety than C. Ada was rougher but safer and did the job too. LISP and ML derived languages only got better and better over time with Racket & Ocaml being the best today. I've even seen Ocaml used with an 8-bit runtime (!). There were also macro-assemblers that focused on semi-HLL's for ultra-efficiency and optimization. LLVM comes to mind. ;)

This stuff didn't fade into obscurity or only for obscure platforms. Good versions stayed around in industrial form for decades with little adoption while people tried building on something that wasn't designed for all its uses. Just compiling on an EDSAC in 1960's.
> Facebook portrays this as a humanitarian effort ...
> but it's only for their own benefit in the long run.

Sounds like every government aid agency ever. Perhaps you should also ask India to start refusing handouts from USAID, DFID, AusAID and so on...?
Are We Watching Converged Infrastructure Fail the Enterprise?
He's quoting worst line from Star Wars: Episode 2. By Anakin Skywalker.
Do you have a cite for that? I know plenty of people of various heights who can sit on the soles of their feet, it just uses muscles that most westerners don't exercise. I'm also pretty skeptical that it would affect your height in any way to do it regularly.
> But the problem is unsolvable which is why it's worth to be "trying everything."

The problem is solvable by switching languages, but what these people all try to do, is to solve the problem while keep using the language, which is by definition unsolvable.

As the original causes of the problem won't go away.

But it is good, if in the end at least helps to improve the overall situation.
LCDs had really bad contrast, and IPS wasn't really a thing yet. I just was horribly unimpressed with how bad LCDs looked for the longest time.

Now I'm pining for an impulse driven OLED. True blacks combined with the pixel grid an LCD has, with no persistence of vision issues.
Why submit?
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Do you have it set so that it changes colors gradually? It's much easier to get used to if you have it change over the course of an hour instead of instantly.
Go runtime library contains user-space scheduler which maps lightweight Go threads to heavyweight OS threads in M:N manner. By the way, Go runtime library allows running user code in only one OS thread per process, all other OS threads must be in the state of blocking system call. So, no mutexes / interlocked instructions are required to access global data from goroutines, but this comes at the cost of reduced parallelism compared to C/C++ (which author of original article seems to be unaware of).
Very welcome and good to see the info getting well-received. Can't get rid of support for this monstrosity (C) until people see exactly what and why it is.
Musings from the OpenStack Tokyo Summit
HN tech hivemind is often both conservative and arrogant: node is an aberration, atom is a travesty, docker is for the lazy, front end frameworks are overused, etc etc.
This is just wrong, what are you talking about.

Even if an old app asks you for 20+ permissions, you can manually disable every one of them afterwards, if you want.
There are major benefits to be had from moving the encryption layer on top of the volume management/storage EDAC layers which ZFS provides: in particular, it'd be nice to be able to scrub a locked dataset. I think (but haven't seen this firsthand) that Oracle's implementation offers that benefit.
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