skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long-time user of Lisp-derived languages (Scheme, Tcl), Kashmir looks like an interesting variation.

It's heartening to see a revival of Lisps. For reasons I can't explain, s-expr syntax has a certain symmetry and beauty and is far more understandable to me than the alternatives.

Not sure yet what Kashmir brings to the table besides the Go output, and what advantages that provides. I'll have to study it further.

A half-formed thought floats across my brain that a Lisp/Scheme compiling to Rust might have merit. Considering the idea that a Rust back end could possibly minimize the necessity for GC, performance of the resulting executable would be less encumbered.

Really don't know how far one could get in that direction, probably more difficult to achieve than I could imagine.
I remember seeing that subtitle somewhere... :)

Tim Berners-Lee,
Web Developer

David Shing,
AOL Digital Prophet

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElSatanico/status/514340801468706...
The Bay area's vaunted architectural model-maker closes its doors (2014)
After you've paid these pennies, what is the incentive to not still show you ads or surveil you for commercial advantage?

IMHO we're better off focusing on defeating the hostile behavior first. The Internet was a much nicer place before monetization via web spam.
Mimic Functions: make one file assume statistical properties of another (2000)
My comment did not advocate benefiting billionaires.
You think its "phony" when someone shows up at X conference transparently focused of talking about X?

You think its selfish when some knows how we wants to help, and wants to find the people he wants to help?

I feel like I am taking crazy pills, where technical content gets zero attention in a technical project. It sounds to me like the conference are getting taken over by vacationers who want to have a party week (possibly soft-embezzled by expensing an employer) pushing out people who care about the project.

It reminds of when the college resume padders took over the high school math club, and instituted a substantial membership fee to finance a trip to a math competition where they didn't actually compete, and I had to create a new club to gather people for math activities.
My theory: Offers way to many options. Your Austin page gives tons of possible links to click, but IMHO the only really engaging ones are the recent discussions – one pane of 8, one column of 4. (and all of those are really dense with stuff). And the school boards probably have an different demographic than the city-wide ones. + for many people facebook groups probably have already taken that space (or /r/austin, + craigslist), so you probably have existing competition.
Note how it started off with a fairly humble application, a calculator and it grew into the industry giant we're familiar with today.

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/busicom_141-pf_and_in...
Really? I write paragraph after paragraph of "insightful" commentary which languishes at 1 point, but a completely irrelevant comment that took no effort to write two levels down from another completely irrelevant comment that took no effort to write gets 8?

I thank you all for your recognition of my genius in this instance, but I clearly have no idea how this works.
This post will attract those of conservative/libertarian mentality who like to stand for our right to use language that may offend people, but I just want to add another vote for changing the name.

I am not particularly sensitive to these things, but upon reading the name, an image came to mind of a soldier leaning against a concrete wall on a dusty urban street, leg recently blown off, bleeding out, in shock. That image is now permanently associated with your project for me :)

For comparison, imagine if you'd called it "iud". At least in American society, this is more readily agreed to be offensive because of our sex taboo and gender inequality.

For a lot of people, the thought of war evokes deep visceral feelings of horror and fear. Such people will be less likely to use your project, which you could argue is a form of discrimination, and in any case doesn't benefit anyone.
So yeah, throw your hands up and don't even try. It's not even worth trying. No, don't even put in a sliver of effort.
I've been meditating for over 2 years now and can tell you you definitely do not need to pay for an app to do it.

"One of the more challenging problems in learning to meditate is remembering to do it."

I do it every night before going to sleep. That's not hard to remember, plus it clears your mind for a deeper sleep. You can go to bed at your normal time as well, as the meditation can be considered as part of your sleep schedule. It definitely won't (and hasn't for me) detract from your sleep.

Just start by focusing on the tip of your nose and controlling your breathing. Then when you are ready, allow your body to take over the breathing while you watch. Then also allow it to take over the monologue in your head and you listen. Eventually you become an observer of all your thoughts and senses, and so become free of them.
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> And that seems like a topic people can vigorously disagree about.

Thankfully, most industries don't have blacklists, so each "career-ending" moment can be evaluated independently by people who do hiring in that respective field.

Speech that mocks a Jeb Bush might disqualify you from work at Fox News, or (if any exist) conservative-leaning universities, but might actually be viewed as favorable to others. It is because we so vigorously disagree on those levels that, for the most part, even though there may be some job losses in the present, except where they are universally disagreed with, should not necessarily be career-ending.

Or, at least that's how it works in theory. Gary Webb's career never rebounded from having printed a generally true series of articles, but then again, it might eventually have righted itself had he not died in 2004.
The author is implying that Daesh or something like it would/could exist without religion and specifically without Islam. I doubt that. Also, just because there is Muslim on Muslim violence doesn't mean that Islam isn't the cause of it. Wars between different factions of the same religion are the rule, not the exception. So ignoring religion as a cause of these problems while touting climate change is both silly and goes against the stated goals of the essay to not tout slogans as solutions. Otherwise, it's a pretty good take on the situation.
The Price of Progress
People exploiting other people happens in all cultures. In this particular case it is H1B related, and it so happens that India is a good source of inexpensive English-speaking labor. This is because India is a former British colony, unlike China and other asian countries.
As far as I know, Emacs users are disabling Intro page at all.

Also I can't suggest to use M-x customize because it writes some code into your init.el file. For me, it's important to keep this file as simple as possible with my code only.

But, in case if you're using Emacs for some simple stuff then M-x customize is ok.
web.de’s freemail, same with gmx’s freemail.
Leave it as it is. It will be much easier to memorize.
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There used to be a concept called "professionalism" where people didn't let their personal cultural biases crowd out contributors, and people applied their humanity problem at hand at work, and engaged in unrelated conversations on breaks and after work, not disrupting people who are working on the project.
What's the downside? I think it's great. More modularity + distributed responsibility = better.
And especially when referring to the Jewish and Christian Bibles, neither is a "book" in hr unified sense; both are collections of writings, originally created by different people with different agendas and beliefs hundreds of years apart from each other. Asking "what the Bible says" is a literally meaningless question
And unlike today's protestors, he would not ask that the media give him a "safe space," nor would his followers cry over words. He knew that the very presence of the media when they filmed his protests made him safer than without them.
I can't speak for seibelj, but I don't think you that telling people to stop being offended so easily amounts to telling disadvantaged groups to buck up and be quiet. Personally, I want people to start a conversation with me if I do something that hurts them. But I also have the basic expectation that people take the time to understand and consider what I am saying before they get offended.

I also don't think that "I reject your understanding of your experience, so your perspective is invalid" is an unreasonable thing to say. Sometimes people don't understand their experiences, and as a result, they misjudge the nature of reality.

The recent controversy at Yale over cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes is a good example: there were students saying that they couldn't go to class because they didn't feel safe after a professor made an argument that avoidance of cultural appropriation had to be balanced with free speech. I do reject that understanding of their experience; they experienced nothing that indicated they should feel unsafe. Nothing about the professor's measured statement of disagreement indicates danger. Their perspective on that topic was invalid.

People's feelings aren't always valid; everyone is wrong some portion of the time. And that's true of disadvantaged people, too. If we accept the rule that every opinion from an underprivileged person is correct, we're opening ourselves to all sorts of wrong ideas. And if we discard all dissenting opinions from privileged people, we're closing ourselves to all sorts of correct ideas. Truth is not solely given to the disadvantaged.
Completely unrelated: http://www.disneygoldenoak.com/video/ is one of the whitest videos I've ever seen that's not a parody:
You'll note the new "iPod's" have both wireless and more space than a nomad.

He was just ahead of his time.
I think that UNIX-y "do one thing" projects kind of solve the problem. It's easy to reject a contribution as being out of scope: "This little program prints out contents of a file. Your patch that sends it via email is nice, but you should rather make it a separate project built on top of the existing one."
Is targeting Go source code like this really the best option for a Go-like language? I've been curious about hooking into some stage of Go's compiler. Looks like there is an intermediate Go assembly language, which PeachPy (https://github.com/Maratyszcza/PeachPy) can target. Not sure how well documented it is, though. Anyone know of other projects that do this?
and people still reach for their phones to use the calculator even when they were already operating a mind bogglingly quick calculating machine. Or even get up to go find a desk calculator!
This kind of content seems more appropriate for WebMD or WikiHow than the NYT website.

There's no discussion of any substance here, it's pure filler. Differences in meditation technique and course format between apps find no mention, and there's no evidence provided showing that any of these apps is an effective aid to meditation. Most considerations on the list are applicable to an app focused on just about any positive habit people might want to incorporate into their daily lives.
Suckless.org disproves the authors thesis. Heck, UNIX itself disproves the thesis. A project can grow to include more compatible components, without needlessly cluttering each component. Finishing one program is not the end of all software development.
Expressing an opinion on how protestors can best conduct themselves to accomplish their political goals does not indicate a disruption of my social ideas.
Go made choices that makes it a good language to be compiled to. Compilation-wise: it's incredibly fast and compiles to static machine binaries. Runtime-wise: it has great concurrency and communication primitives.
Are there any budget ones, where you just sleep in a shipping container?
Let me change one word in your response:

> Students don't need "protection" from free speech, nor does anyone need to be rescued from the "mockery" and "humiliation" of an accusation of communism.

> Demands for journalism-free "safe spaces" are bad, but so too is the idea that accusations of communism are so beyond the pale that people need to be shielded from them by institutions.

Or:

> Demands for journalism-free "safe spaces" are bad, but so too is the idea that accusations of witchcraft are so beyond the pale that people need to be shielded from them by institutions.

Can you honestly be unaware that we live in a world where no one gets fired for being a communist, or a witch? But...
How to Pick a Meditation App (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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I think I get it.
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> Just start by focusing on the tip of your nose and controlling your breathing. Then when you are ready, allow your body to take over the breathing while you watch. Then also allow it to take over the monologue in your head and you listen. Eventually you become an observer of all your thoughts and senses, and so become free of them.

Except it's a lot easier said than done. I've personally enjoyed my Headspace subscription. I have no qualms with paying for it, and feel it has been more effective than all of the material I've ever read on meditation that I've looked at. But YMMV.
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>Palestine is a part of the Islamic world. It is the location of the Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Temple Mount is also the holiest site in Judaism and was for a good 1000 years before the Islamic guys came and stuck a mosque on the roof.

It would be nice if the Jews and Muslims could both hang out there in peace but certain parties are not very tolerant of others beliefs. I wonder which faith of the two is known for killing unbelievers.
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> If anything, we should, in a secular state, agree that people differ in their view of morality, and we should be tolerant of each other's needs, perceived or otherwise.

The problem is that some people's perceived needs are not compatible with other people's perceived needs. In order to decide which group gets their perceived needs, I think it makes sense to have a societal conversation about which of those perceived needs are actual needs, and which of those perceived needs are just wants.
I never thought to myself, "wow, npm is slow." Is that really the core problem this is solving?
I have a feeling Palo Alto's going to find the answer to this very soon.

The entire peninsula is unaffordable for low-income workers. Crossing the Dumbarton bridge is a ~30m commute in itself and costs $5/day. Downtown Palo Alto just instituted parking restrictions on the surrounding neighborhoods so low income commuters no longer even have a place to park.
A third party cookie has a specific meaning. Google Analytics issues first party cookies.
Unless something has changed recently, Gmail in some (most?) countries outside of US.
A serious question which I'd love to hear opinions on:

Why are immigrants to the US from Mexico viewed so differently from immigrants in Europe? Or are they treated the same?
Fully disagree. Really unfortunate/distasteful name - distracts from what I'm sure is a great project (see: conversation in this thread).
They claim to protect against screenshotting- is that possible? I was under the impression that it was not something app developers were able to prevent.
It's simple supply and demand. Look at Fort McMurray, where fast food workers currently earn about C$14/hr compared to around $11.50 in other cities across Canada, and was probably higher during the boom years.
Probably not the best option in the long run, but I didn't want to focus too much on that to begin with. Hooking into the Go compiler would be nice, perhaps that's something to look at when the Kashmir compiler can be written in Kashmir. :)
>>Yes. The search for scientific truth shouldn't be a narrative for the people who pay for it.

>So I guess you criticize every corporation who hires scientists to work on proprietary products? Elon Musk is such a fiend!

Then it's not science. If the scientific community does not participate it's maybe development. There is nothing wrong with it.

But there is something wrong if the public sectors stop doing science and get's castrated to be a thinktank for the current administration.
Emacs – I may never go back (2014)
Well now we know how they make money.
Threatmetrix is active at this junction. I've thought about getting into this myself with a product that detects with reasonably high accuracy which accounts on websites (e-commerce and others) bear watching based on a whole bunch of parameters.
so this is really a cross-origin blocker + whitelist.

I wonder if google fonts and jquery CDN and such will get whitelisted. I don't think they should be, but not doing so will break websites even more than flash blocked by default.

I have to say if it's called "tracking protection" it leads to a false sense of security. Browser fingerprinting (and cookies) on the websites you visit still works. The ad-distributer might no longer track you, but sites still can.

A first counterattack on this might also be self-hosted tracking scripts that than push the data to google analytics or the ad-network or whoever demands that you let them track your users to use their service.
Of course, you would

M-x customize-variable RET custom-file RET

first, to save the customization variables to a separate file, adding:

(setq custom-file "~/.emacs-custom.el")
(load custom-file)

to your init file.
Atom and Cmder
How about the "show not tell"-principle on the landing page? Got tired of reading "science humor" without anything to trick me into considering an absurd result?
You picked one of the very few parts of the memo Cole quotes directly, and then applied a meaning to it that was the opposite of the one Cole took. I'm not persuaded.
Its more the case that the set of people that could take offense to something is effectively infinite.

Say the programmer has english as a second language, its really easy not to know "common" things like this. Taking outrage in these cases is not in very good faith as the presumption is that the name is the same thing as the acronym in question.

Lets say they chose to name it baa, and people reacted to it thusly:

- what is this implying all users are sheep! needs to be changed/boycotted
- ...
- this makes no sense, name it after its function xyz.
- this is a horrible name, I'm going to encourage everyone I know not to use this

Sometimes people CANNOT be pleased or appeased or even bargained with when they respond to things from the pathos mindset. Make an effort sure but recently people seem to be going out of their way to be offended. As a fan of debate and arguing I hate that the presumption in these debates presumes bad intent. That style of thinking eventually leads to a very closed mindset.
In fact, after you have paid these pennies, you have proven that you are willing to pay. This makes you even more valuable for an advertiser than you were when you paid nothing...
Have you used any other package manager? I'm not completely sure if it's just Node's dependency hell, but npm feels so incredibly slow compared to Cargo or bundler or something.
I believe it fits. If they had wanted to annex it they would have done so properly. It's not like any other actor would risk all out war over it. If this had been 300 years ago, it would have played out differently. (The status as autonomous region also bring a whole cadre of complications. I don't know much about it really more than you read in history books.)
I've been (trying to) meditate for about four years now. I even attended a ten day silent meditation retreat in September, which I wrote about in another post. I still find it extremely difficult. People vary in their aptitude for meditation, and for those like me these "aids" are appealing. For myself, I don't see the value of the apps; I'd just as soon use any of hundreds of decent guided meditations on Youtube.
I'm pretty sure the person that wrote that is either a troll or mentally ill. All of their posts are poorly written anti-functional programming rants. They're also on reddit with the same sort of thing.
The quantity of unsafe code in the standard library represents far, far less code than that of the compiler. Furthermore, unsafe blocks don't turn off the type system or anything, they only let you do four extra specific actions (possibly only 3 someday). The correctness of the compiler can be leveraged to assist in determining the correctness of the standard library, and living in a typical library structure makes the code easier to understand and audit than if it were entangled up with compiler logic.
The pay goes up and they do grueling 3 hour commutes with commuter busses from cheaper places in the deep east bay, like tracey or stockton.
The undistracted state of the mind is the meditation. (Gampopa)
Sickening political exploitation of a tragedy. Bad Telegraph, no cookie.
Dude, don't listen to reddit when it comes to managing your own open source project.
If you don't trust the other end of the communications, just don't hit send...
Anything else is BS.
Its obviously against net neutrality completely to give fast lanes to netflix. Thats there is even a question about it is a sign of deep corruption in the FCC, that the move earlier this year about title 2 might have just been a feel good campaign with no substance if T-Mobile can get away with this bullshit.

LTE had the potential to revolutionize digital communication by dramatically reducing the cost of last mile links. One cell tower could provide an entire suburb with 100MB/s Internet. Nothing about the design of the spec should mean you need caps. The only policy rule that matters is that when you have congestion on the line those who have used less so far get priority over those who have already gotten more.
I've used the Calm app for the introduction course to learn about how to meditate and start with guidance, then I continued on my own. Paying 10$ monthly for sitting still is hilarious. IMHO the quantity of these kind of apps, guides and whatnot simply offer a paradox of choice, which is ironic, since the user wants to relax, not obsess if he bought the right app, subscription and/or meditation technique.

I now use Enso app [1] just to alert the 15 min duration, it's free on the App Store (optional purchases for different alert bells).

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/enso-meditation-timer-bell/i...
Islamic State is a term that has real meaning to many Muslims [1], referring to Daesh as Islamic State legitimises their caliphate.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/09/12/347711170/i...
Why Free-Marketers Simply Don’t Understand People
> when they get into an industry like software programming that's full of racism and sexism

Is it like that in the US? Really? Especially when compared to other professions. I do not know, but I have serious doubts. Please enlighten me.
Very cool. Looks like a promising project
apm - another package manager
I know that Signal (formerly Textsecure) won't let you take a screenshot of any text messages.
I think it's a neat concept that could be flushed out a bit. Maybe instead of pitching it as a way to take control of potentially embarrassing media, pitch as an excuse to get the group back together again. I'd love to see more social apps that encourage, well people being social.
I think the idea is accurate. But it's worth noting that not everything done/advocated by the unreasonable person is "progress".
A striking thing is that the 4004, 8080, Z80, 6502 and Apple ][ all came out in a shorter timespan than that of the iPhone release till now.