skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's what we all already know, but it's not what we say to ourselves or to each other. Instead, we say things like

> I like programming alone godammit! Will programming alone be relegated to hobby projects while I head to the meeting room for all my job-related programming duties? Bah humbug!!!

So, in the middle of a lot of "Bah humbug!!!", it's good to have a reminder that maybe this awkward interpersonal stuff is important to, you know, actually getting real shit done.
Will it be possible to make skulls transparent via genetic modification? For direct non-invasive optical connection to the brain with higher bandwidth than trough eyes.
Interesting angle. It strikes me, however, that the kinds of things people say to each other face to face might differ substantially from the kinds of things they find useful to say over a network. A target that better matches your goal might be "the set of things people say over the telephone". For example, Uber doesn't really replace asking your friend for a ride - it replaces "phoning a taxi".

I'd also like to note that not all apps are about communication (calculators, note-takers), not all communication is synchronous (flyers, newspaper ads), and not all communication is person-to-person (libraries).

All that being said, I think there's a lot of merit to the approach you're taking. I'd like to see a similar approach taken to the design of computer interfaces, particularly programming languages.
It's worth pointing out that the Bernard S. Greenberg mentioned in the article in connection with NXSYS is the celebrated Multician who ported Emacs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Greenberg
As another ex-kid, many of the dumbest things I and my peers did were thrilling especially _because_ they were forbidden. I can definitely understand why it would be a great rush to create/share nude selfies given US attitudes about nudity and sex.
cream, mayonnaise, ketchup, soda and PAPER, SNOW, A GHOST.

- Joey Tribbiani, Friends episode 10.11
That quote seems to be taken out of context: http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-sword.html
It really depends on the person and their setup I think. I personally love OS X key combos because they’re commonly tied to phonetics (Command-Q for quit vs. Alt-F4 for instance).

Low reliance on Fkeys is also great for two reasons:
1) It makes it easier to use keyboards with Fkey rows (like my beloved HHKB)
2) It frees up an entire row of keys for me to use without worry of overriding system shortcuts — for instance, I have F1 assigned to Spotlight, F2 assigned to a drop-down terminal, F3 assigned to quick open in Xcode, F4 assigned to search documentation in Dash, etc etc.
I used to have a b2 based blog a long time ago.

I remember that there were no updates for a time, and then there was an announcement about there being two forks, WordPress and b2evolution (I think that was the name?).

It's hard to believe it's been so long since then, and WordPress has come a long way since then! Never really kept track of the other fork.
> there is no advocacy of using violence to achieve ends

Please explain the harrowing of hell. My local cathedral has stained glass (14th century) of Christ in full armour, with big sword, going to hell to release the righteous (but not the damned), conquering hell in the proces.

http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-04/feature/

(Possibly not quite hell, but the bit before that.)

There is a long tradition of Christians using their bible to justify violence. There's plenty of violence in the bible. But, when pointed out, Christians start saying that those bits don't count, or those bits have been misinterpreted, or that you need to read that other bit as well.

I have you saying that the quran is violent, and I have hundreds of millions of muslims telling me that it's a book of peace.
But what is the proportion of not gun free colleges ? (because this is where most shooting are)
So do a mix? Make system libs shared and apps bundled when they are needed? Can't the app store work like your package manager anyway? Speaking from ignorance here, I want to know if it's possible.
No matter the possible productivity gains, I won't use anything needing more than two hours just to get started (i.e. running a Hello World).

well that certainly helps frame your posts. In this case docker has a webpage that you can play around with. Maybe 10 minutes to get the basic idea.

I'm struggling to find out where your hostility comes from. It doesn't make your job disposable, which it sounds like where your fear comes from. Just because people can't come to you to get the ideal Debian server setup doesn't mean you are less valued.
Open versus closed land-use regimes
Wizards and warriors, part five
That's one way to spin it. But as a regular subway rider, that's not how I read it. I wouldn't say that crippled is a good way to describe not having countdown clocks. Instead I'd call crippled the status quo subway system -- subject to frequent breakdowns and delays due to an ancient signaling and control system in poor repair.

CBTC, without the unnecessary legacy system kept around who-knows-why and without the overstaffing kept around because of union contracts, should be the desired end state. And there's no great reason it has to take another 175 years or cost another $20B. To bring that end state modestly closer I'm happy to wait a little longer for arrival clocks -- YMMV.

To me this story is one of poor political oversight, terrible middle and upper management both in terms of day-to-day operations and in terms of bidding/ working with contractors, and overly powerful public sector unions. To anyone familiar with the MTA none of these come as any real surprise.
Great stuff, thanks!!
Jayd+Lovely
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It's not suicide bombing the problem. That's just the delivery method. The problem is suicide bombings targeting civilians. Now, it would be interesting to have the answer to the percentage of people in the western world thinking that "attacks on civilians can be justified to defend democracy". If the previous question was "Do you think the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified?", you probably won't like the numbers you get for the second question.
Wow. Way to take a poorly translated sentence out of context. Grab a concordance and cross reference that passage.
Some reading. Wikipedia:

"Along with the Quran (the holy book of Islam), the Sunna makes up the two primary sources of Islamic theology and law.[1][3] The Sunna is also defined as "a path, a way, a manner of life"; "all the traditions and practices" of the Islamic prophet that "have become models to be followed" by Muslims."

An example, on sunnahonline.com:

"The Story of the 600-700 Jews Beheaded by the Prophet sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam at Banu Qurayzah in 5H"

http://sunnahonline.com/library/history-of-islam/287-story-o...
You can enable and disable pretty much everything – except Files. That’s because it’s the core app and others like Gallery, PDF viewing, Music etc of course rely on there being files. There have been requests to even make it possible to disable the Files app, but we don’t really see that as priority and rather focus on keeping ownCloud rock stable and secure while still driving features forward. We are a very small team and an open source project, so I guess that’s understandable. :)

As a really dirty hack, meanwhile you could just hide the Files icon from the menu via CSS. But, well … ;)
LLVM back end for HHVM/PHP
It's much better than the old days. pkgng and freebsd-update make it pretty straightforward to keep updated... not really any different than on any of the Linux flavors I use. The ports tree is hooked up with pkgng too, so you can mix and match (before they used to recommend you only use one or the other).
After Paris, Europe may never feel as free again
I don't think they can be called terrorists, if they fight against the armed forces of ISIS. They don't knowingly attack civilians (surreptitiously).
This sounds a lot like Tomahawk: https://tomahawk-player.org/ – playing from different sources and all. Of course that’s a desktop app, but it’s pretty popular already and well designed.
> The low-barrier-to-entry plays

One of the reasons the barrier is so low is because you often don't have to ask your users to pay. One of the many ways advertising undermines the way the free market is supposed to work.
It's surely not out of context, Jesus believed that "the (apocalyptic) end is near" (Matthew 16:28) and he's the "Son of man" who brings it.

Matthew 16:28: (Jesus speaking:) "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."

At medieval times, people couldn't believe that Jesus could have told something that didn't happen, so they invented the legend that one of those present there still lives.
Long ago I read a quote from a post about mathematicians who are good communicators. I'd love to come across it again.

Of John Milnor, this post proclaimed, "When he speaks, you understand."

I try to notice rare compliments, like that one. Feynman received one like that:

A female engineer says about him: "Yes, [Feynman's sexism] really annoys me," she said. "On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if I could understand it."

The only one!

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Where does Mohammed condemn actions of this sort? Does it matter what the scholars say when the 'perfect' copy of the Koran written before time in Allah's heaven says that Mohammed's followed should slay unbelievers wherever they are found? Even if you want to argue that was only for a specific time (those verses however are, I understand, non-abrogated).

If it was morally proper then surely it is also proper now.

The only way around this I see is for the scholars to say Mohammed was wrong. Mohammed was wrong to lead his followers to kill, rape, plunder and enslave. Mohammed being wrong doing these things would allow them to remain consistent saying those who purport to follow him are also wrong in doing those things. However it undermines central tenets of Islam to say any of that was wrong.

Is it not entirely incompatible with peace for the founder of a religion to be a warlord who justified his killing with his 'revelations'.
I think there are a few additional important details.

It's not so much that they stack a random forest on top of a neural network, as that they are trying to train neural networks that have tree-like properties. Deep neural networks can be expensive to evaluate because every layer is needed to compute the resulting label. On the other hand, in a decision tree you only need to evaluate one of a nodes children (i.e., evaluation is linear in the depth of the tree).

They combine these ideas by allowing some nodes in the network to branch (so for a given image, you choose one of two neural networks to evaluate). These nodes don't have to occur at the top level, but can occur in the middle of the network as well.

The difficulty is how you train these nodes; that's where the differential technique for optimizing trees come in. Because you have a unified training algorithm, you can mix and match tree-like nodes and neural network like nodes and train the whole thing.

All in all, the hope is that getting a label for a given node is much faster, so you can run these on smaller devices such as phones without sacrificing accuracy.
In my experience working as a consultant across multiple organisations, not enough people have been doing this.

As for a putting a name on it - a name can help spread the idea (ubiquitous language and all that), but it can lead to abuse and cargo-culting.

I believe a label is often helpful during the 'innovation' and 'early adoption' diffusion of innovation phase, and this is firmly where mobbing is at the moment
I did misunderstand.

The guidelines asks the community to gently remind peers of unnecessary negativity. That's a pretty vague request. When you disagreed with my interpretation, you should have done that politely and without telling me to fuck off. I'm not always right, I can be annoying to some people, but I adhere to a baseline of civil language, and I'm open for reasonable discussion.
I'm not sure how useful that line of inquiry is.

Surely, working for 2001 Amazon isn't just like working for a bookstore nor 2015 Amazon just like working for a catalog retailer.

At some point, the tech is actually the thing. I wouldn't be falling all over myself to work at my company in the 1890's incarnation of it (~printing industry), but I love the 2015 version.
A few thoughts:

1) I strongly oppose sacrificing the rights of other innocent people to protect me. Their religion doesn't make any difference in my feelings.

2) The adoption curve on surveillance tech has reached the point where people (and governments) think it's the solution to every problem.

3) I would be very suprised if that surveillance hasn't been in place for awhile

4) Why is prevention of crime by Muslim criminals treated differently than crime by Christian, Jewish, Atheistic, or other criminals?
Looks like someone has applied an unsharp mask.

Example:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Us...
it's a simple idea in theory, but the reality of these things is a different beast, in particular that these tests form a filter not just in terms of degree, but also in terms of kind. this is why Google is Google and is extreme in both its strengths and weaknesses.

what i'm curious about is how Apple weathers these particular waters, since they have more to lose than any of the other big companies ever had. hehehe.
Five-year-olds have no trouble figuring out how to do the stuff a five-year-old wants to do with an iPad. More advanced stuff, not so much.
Incorrect. I have a 5-year old here, and they do have trouble figuring things out. What they learn are simple patterns the bring success. There are some things that are simple. Press the home button to go back to the screen with the boxes. Press a box to open the thing that plays kids singing! Yay.

But then none of what they are dealing with, for the most part, is made by Apple. They are using apps built by others, and some apps are just incredibly confusing.

Apple is rife with UX problems. Just look at the newest device they came out with, the Watch. Two buttons that are positioned in a way that constantly have them activating when I lift my hand up. Why do I have screenshots of my watch every day littering my computer? I mean, I cannot fathom someone used this and didn't have this issue.

The Watch is a beta device, and everyone I've met with one has agreed with that sentiment (both techies and non-techies alike).

This doesn't even begin to touch their software, or the OSs themselves. Here is a company that still can't get windowing right.

The only reason I still use their products is because OS X is built on UNIX and is supported by major companies, but even that is going away, so there is less incentive.
> LoL is still easily the most toxic community I've ever laid eyes on

Then I would submit that you lack experience, they're towards the head of the pack. Also, from that language, you appear to be a bit toxic yourself.

> All it takes is 1 person to ruin an hour of your day, and if you try and refuse to allow it to be ruined, riot will ban you

You can mute them. What you cannot do is ruin other 8 other peoples' day because of one guy. Moreover, the new pick intent systems are calculated to avoid trolling due to conflict over desired role.

Champ select remains a problem they're working on, and there are games worth dodging, but they're far in the minority for me. Of course I'm happy to support, so no one is ever forced into that role unwillingly.

> I stopped playing league because I got tired of just how time consuming it is to play that game and climb rank.

Ranked is inherently frustrating due to being competitive. Not everyone there is trolling, some are just having really bad games and there's almost a Poe's Law where you can hardly tell the difference. You will find that people are stressed in any competitive game, though, and LoL is really not as bad as most.

Note: I've never been banned. Granted, I'm only Gold II myself, but I have played with and against Challengers.
"There wasn't that many interesting AND bandwidth-consuming services out there in the rest of the world."

MIT had a video capture system. If you told it your IP address, and did the xhost + correctly (we were so trusting back then), it would pop up an X window on your machine and show video. We watched part of the 1994 World Cup that way, at a few frames per second and 1/3rd of a continent away. And no sound.

Regarding network in Sweden, part of me drools over the $100/month 1Gbit/s offerings from Com Hem and Bredbandbolaget. The bigger part of me wonders if the extra bandwidth would be worthwhile.
CL 9 was post-Apple, not a first-time founder endeavor.
Something I think a lot of people struggle with, both on the Dev side and the Ops side, is to think of VMs and containers as completely disposable. Does it add value, or help you, for you to have an emotional attachment to this server?

Instead of doing OS updates, application updates, code updates, and configuration updates to 50 identical webservers that live behind load balancers, it might be faster to upgrade one. Then that one can be templated, cloned and deployed and replace the currently operating ones. There's still server name, IP address, and other configuration that has to be automated, and sometimes automating this is harder than automating all that patching, sometimes not.

This obviates server histories. True - you can't say "This VM has always performed better than the others" since you get a new farm of VMs every month. While many see that as a downside, it's actually a benefit that you don't need to think about that data.
> If we look at the founder of Christianity, there is no advocacy of using violence to achieve ends. So, the claim of that KKK and other violent groups are Christian doesn't hold much water. This is not to say that an individual who espouses a certain belief will not be violent, just that the religion is not the source of it.

> If we look at the founder of Islam, we see something else. We see violence and coercion used and advocated by the founder.

Who gives a damn? Most religions are full of contradictions, you pick the bits you like the most. "Non-violent" Christianity was behind major milestones of human progress such as the Crusades, the repression of the Cathars and Albigeois "heresies" (who do you think came up with "let God sort them out"?), the Spanish Inquisition...
> Too bad there were no concealed carry permits ... anywhere in Europe ... since 1818.

Czech rep. has concealed carry
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm trying to not be the old dog who can't learn a new trick, but the recent hype around massive containerization in production, and micro services, etc... just baffle me. As someone who's been doing application and infrastructure architecture for almost 20 years, for most application environments the cons seem to out-weigh the pros by a large margin...
> Just look on what people are doing and find a way to do some parts of the process faster and better.

This requires buy-in from different parts of the company that are going to have their own opinions about how to do things. They can be surprising resistant to change.
I didn't quite understand. Who is growing biggest terrorist zone? What what army, what cash?
I'd say there is a lot of location-based stuff:

"Where are you?"

"How long until you get here?"

"Where should we meet exactly?"

A system that tied into GPS/Google Now/navigation apps/train schedule apps could help giving quick&accurate answers.
Completely agree with you on the author being an arrogant hipster elitist. I was surprised this article was upvoted onto the front page.

Cherry picking the major technology achievements of a span of 100 years and comparing it against current startups in Silicon Valley is simply ridiculous.
Can someone please explain this sentence:

> Now, it’s true that yesterday’s technology is tomorrow’s tech.

I don't quite grasp the distinction.
Android Devices Vulnerability: Baidu Wrote the Code, but Google Made It Possible
So your haproxy, nginx, ldap, dns, nagios, sftp, ELK, imap, etc... services don't live more than a day or two? Interesting.....
Having worked on one or two SIBR proposals, I appreciate a good (mis)use of the government's perverse acronym fetish. Bravo!
Who's the criminal if they're both underage? We know what the jury thinks, but that notwithstanding.
Advertisements are paid for. This wasn't.

Saying that it was is a pretty major accusation and, if true, would be a gigantic breach of journalistic ethics.

There's a huge difference between a positive review and an advertisement. Conflating the two is intellectually lazy.
There is a long history of charletans, politicians, criminals, and other unsavory characters using one religion or another as a pretext for their actions. That doesnt' mean that their actions had anything to do with those religions. You have to exercise a little more discernment to dig into what they're saying and what the religion actually advocates to come to a conclusion.

In the case of Christianity, I think it is telling that at the time the founder was teaching, there was a dictator in Rome who claimed to be god and who was heavily suppressing the ethnic group (Jews) that the founder belonged to.

Did this man advocate any sort of political or violent acts to remedy the situation? No.

I don't think it really matters what the opinion is of a lot of people when we can merely look at recorded history and see what the founder of Islam did.
We need less powerful languages
I think, to a large extent, it's a question of a missing sense of identity, of belonging and a general failure of our society to offer a meaning for one's existence beyond buying the next iThing. The great clash of ideologies in the XXth century, combined with the decline of religion in the West, has left a great void. We are spiritually exhausted.
> I have you saying that the quran is violent, and I have hundreds of millions of muslims telling me that it's a book of peace.

Why not try reading it and making up your mind for yourself? I happen to share the opinion of the parent poster about the founder of Islam, but at the same time, the Qu'ran is a very interesting and in parts beautiful work of literature. Furthermore, Islam has given rise to some peaceful and open-minded groups, the Sufi tradition comes to mind (although yes, even the Sufis have suffered violent splinter groups over the centuries).
This is really nicely produced.

Can someone provide some background for the scene where Mission residents are opposing new luxury condo development? What has been the state of new high density development in SF? Last time I was in SF I didn't see a lot of construction cranes.
Be warned that the Bluestacks software is an insidious little thing. It works, mostly, but 1) the stack is out of date (it was still on 4.0 last I used it only a couple months ago), 2) it comes pre-installed with an awful spammy launcher and superfluous game software, 3) it floods the system with superfluous extra processes, and 4) it even attempts to fool you into thinking you've uninstalled it when you haven't.

You can fix 2) by installing an alternate launcher, and in the case of 4), the main uninstaller does nothing, you'll actually want to uninstall the "BlueStacks Notification Center" to actually get rid of it.
what i'd like to see is containers used for Steam games with slow loading times (or having to launch another launcher), i'd like to be able to hibernate a game and resume at a later time.