skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was using the same setup as this for years. My laptop was stolen about 6 months ago so I got a new retina machine.

I've just resigned myself to living with instability. Network dropouts that can only be resolved by restarting the whole machine. Occasional system crashes. Sluggish interface behaviour vs the old OS (which is insane given how much more modern the hardware is).

One of the few reasons I actually had considered updating in the past was to get the latest 1password. It's a pretty thin silver lining, but it's something!
As a native speaker of Florentine Tuscan Italian, I often have more trouble understanding other Italian dialects than other Latin-derived languages such as Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese.

My maternal grandmother came from a small town in Abruzzo and nobody could understand her when she was arguing with her sister in their dialect.

The truth is that these "dialects" are indeed completely separate languages evolved from Latin with strong influences from various waves of domination:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_in_the_Middle_Ages#/medi...

Wikipedia has more details on the present situation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy
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Jesus Christ, you really don't understand, do you?

If the original website is insecure, everything could be faked, including the link to the releases page.

If HN readers don't understand this, who does?
I agree with the sentiment regarding how important talking/listening is in the language learning process. I came to Germany from the U.S. a year and a half ago and have spent that time trying to learn a foreign language for the first time. I definitely found a lack of online resources that were centered around conversational fluency, and so started working on one of my own:

http://seedlang.com

They take influence from some of the resources I found most effective like the Michel Thomas and Assimil audio books which gave me the biggest boosts in terms of my German listening and speaking abilities.
Isn't SL full of security holes at this point? Or do you not connect it to the network?

I find this a big problem with Mac OS X, if you're not on latest, you're guaranteed to be insecure.
Don't they feel sometimes defrauded because their long time worked question is left aside unanswered? Don't they feel that other student are being given full attention meanwhile they are not considered properly?, don't you think that asking and not answering my sound like not a fair game to play?

Education has many problems, and the majority of questions about it are unanswered or the real answer is today unknown.
I see it as a natural part of Perl 6's gradual typing approach, ie. a feature, not a mis-feature.

It can be mis-applied. It arguably has been mis-applied in this example. But I can also argue it the other way. It depends on whether the intro's goal is to address overly simplistic general criticisms ("sigils are ugly and unnecessary!") or to inculcate mature understanding from the get go.
Knowing what race you are facing allows you to pick a build which is defensible against the greatest number of early strategies common to that race (you know if you might get hit with six pool, 4 gate, or bunker rush.)

It's relatively easy to program a version of all these basic builds for each race into the AI. It's practically impossible to configure an AI so that it can scout all possible common early builds for 3 different races and respond properly to each one. Even a human has no single build that works against everything, and will go into really really strange improvised responses when they get hit by something unexpected.
Same, except it's for a particular CAD program. Too many scary quirks under Classic and so now I've even got an old titanium PowerBook like in the article for when either the old Mac Classic or dome iMac (which dual boots OS 9 and X) dies.
in UK English we tend to convert acronyms like SQL to words like Sequel
Well, U is 10x more common element than Sn. Not just sny U isotope is good for fuel. But you are not quite right. Thorium fuels can breed fissile uranium-233 to be used in various kinds of nuclear reactors.
Exactly this.

It's not that there's anything wrong with using a high-level language for safety-critical systems with real-time requirements and limited hardware. It's just that every high-level language that's remotely appropriate for this set of requirements wasn't production ready (or even conceived of) 10-20 years ago.

Hopefully the next generation (or the one after that) of control software for aircraft will be written in beautiful code :-)
It may not be much, but I have been themeing OS X for a years now with themepark/(s)artfiletool/themeengine. It may not be as easy as it was on OS9, but I've made some pretty cool stuff. I do agree that it's ridiculous that people are going crazy for just a tiny bit of customization that third parties (cough max rudberg) have been doing for years.
Developer set parametres are pretty common in industry "machine learning", the kind of thing Google NEtflix and Amazon use. Academic models aim to reduce the amount of human input, but most real world applications have no such motivation. This kind of AI can be seen as a developer parenting a machine.
This seems to be a hardware issue.
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Show me the more advanced parts of the language, are they transducers, monads, functors, natural transformations, auto-compilers, self-replicating systems, high AI in action, ML, NLP. What is the honey spot for this new language?
iOS usually runs apps from previous iOS versions. I'm not sure about exact level of backward support. But usually apps disappear because their developers decide that they don't want to pay $100/year anymore.
Another Italian checking in, agreeing with everything Antirez says. I've been living in England for 13 years, but talking to inner-city-ghetto youth to order a mcburger can still be a hellish experience.

English is the QWERTY of languages: historically messed up for reasons that don't matter anymore, but an imprescindible standard enjoying unmatched global popularity. It's simple enough to allow non-natives to achieve good productivity very quickly, but mastering it phonetically is harder than in most other languages. This complexity means that it's constantly getting stretched by people with limited formal education, and effectively enforces class separation.

Anyway, I'll never forget when I started studying it and realized that words I was familiar with because of gaming experience (LOAD, FOR, NETWORK etc) were actual everyday words that programmers simply borrowed. Suddenly, coding made so much sense! To this day I value language clarity so much, I prefer Python to everything else ;)
I think America, Australia, New Zealand and Canada might beg to differ
Hopefully not a 737 though, hey?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
PHP doesn't "suck" it successfully runs thousands of projects, including a handful of huge ones, all over the world. There is plenty of bad python code out there as well. Maybe not as much, but it hasn't been popular for as long either. In fact I don't recall hearing anything about it for web development until Google standardized around it and everyone jumped on their bandwagon. For those that would immediately reference the "fractal of bad design" article, many of which I suspect have never spent any real time with PHP, here's a point by point rebuttal: http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/php-fractal-bad-... Which reveals that most of the arguments against PHP boil down to "PHP is not X language which I'm used to"
"when the system is working smoothly things open and close pretty much instantaneously. That is, unless you get a pop-up message that momentarily freezes the OS"

The OS isn't frozen. OS 9 just didn't have preemptive multi-tasking. If the code for that dialogue box wasn't specifically written to hand control back to the OS, it wouldn't do so until you click it away. Yes, this was the state of Mac OS a full five years after Windows 95 came out. There's a reason why Apple nearly died in the late nineties.
I already know a Tascam audio interface won't be supported in El Capitan, at least no drivers beyond Mavericks have appeared and they don't list it as compatible.

So I can never upgrade unless I'm willing to spend several hundred dollars for a new audio interface. Doesn't seem worth it.
There's a great deal of engineering/economic appeal to factory made modular reactors, but the weak point is you'd need a cultural shift for people to not be freaked out about having lots of small reactors everywhere.
He does not mention bombs. I'm certainly no expert here, but I think I read in the book An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore a long time ago, that if you have the ability to build a nuclear power plant, then building a bomb is not very hard.

I'm not terribly keen on living in a world where most of the countries in Africa, the Middle East etc. are able to build nuclear bombs.
Not necessarily, but the PowerBook was built out of a titanium alloy and the iBook some kind of polycarbonate.

I'm no materials engineer but I can see an argument for the iBook needing to be thicker to support the same design loads.

(I'm sure it was just a side benefit that it let them save a few bucks on display size, without having to also shrink the keyboard to an unusable size.)
Thanks for the laugh! :)

"Hazardous". Haha.
Much of the pressure for an extended family is the lack of rule of law and the need to have people close to you to watch your back. When people become more comfortable that they will not be treated arbitrarily, that pressure relaxes.
Thanks. police are (ok they are more than one). 50-year-old (why not 50-years-old ?).

It seems that nouns are created with "-" (merriam-webster agree with you).

a long-term solution is like a never-ending story.

Now, my question why neverending story (film) and not never-ending?
I'm amazed at how small and (relatively) simple it all looks, that you can literally see the registers on that picture. Just 25K transistors for a whole 32-bit CPU with a 3-stage pipeline.

For those who would like a bit more detail about the feature of this CPU:
http://everything2.com/title/ARM1

One thing I was curious to know is whether the ARM1 had a hardware multiply instruction, whether they could fit that in this tiny CPU. It does not.
Wow. I've not seen an article in a long while so eager to enpower users by further outsourcing their privacy decisions. Users need to take control for themselves. Outside bodies, be them corporations, governments or something else, will always have different interests than those of individuals. Outside bodies therefore cannot be trusted to enforce privacy.

1) "First, governments need to ensure that Big Tech’s handling of our private data..."

No. Governments are the ones who want access to what 'Big Tech' collects. They are in no position to limit collection or use where they themselves enjoy and rely upon open access. Google the "going dark" narrative to see in which direction governments want to push privacy.

2) "Different types of data need to be treated differently."

By whome? I'm no republican, but I do think it naive to believe that we can tell google how to handle the data it collects via services it offers for free. They practically invented this data. Rather than ask them to strangle themselves, we should focus on physically limiting their abilities to collect it in the first place (Tor and other clientside encryption schemes).

3) "We need aggressive deletion policies"

Bye Bye internet archives. The right to be forgotten is great until one realizes it's just another form of censorship. Those drunken selfies are painful to see, but the onus is on the idiot users who attach their names and full contact data to every drunken tweet.

5) "affordable paid options, with better privacy?"

Lol. Payment schemes only add to privacy worries. Now they have a CC number, legal name, or even mailing address to attach to an account. Or perhaps the OP wants anonymous payment schemes. That is a far larger issue that runs contrary to my point (1) above.

6) "an ethics body that could give guidance on deletion policies, content moderation and better consumer control"

Another layer of government oversight? Another committee to rubberstamp decisions and project a false image of privacy?
Yes, it would be much better to have equality. Women would get drafted and fight in WW2 alongside men.
Libuv is what node.js is built on, and I've seen some benchmarks of really impressive performance w/r/t MoarVM.[1]. https://github.com/perl6/mu/blob/master/examples/concurrency... Here is how "real" (i.e., not fake, spawn processing) concurrency is done in Perl 6.

Rakudo's had more testing since it's been around forever but MoarVM is where my hopes lie. Here's hoping user adoption isn't fractured that badly like D's Tango vs Phobos debacle (which only now it's recovering from, I'd argue largely due to Andrei Alexandrescu's charismatic persona, haha.) Perl 6 is a really interesting language and I'd encourage you all to play with it, but it's an entirely different beast than Perl 5. They should have just renamed it entirely.

[1] http://www.moarvm.org/features.html
Upvoting this. I must add, we had not uncovered the solar yet, and we barely scratched the potential of HMD generators. Also thorium is quite abundant in Morocco.
Have you seen this?

http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park

(It's one of my favorite serious comic-works and is basically a telling of your exact point.)
Not here in Portugal - only shows for children are dubbed.
It's interesting that you chose the word 'enough' but didn't talk about the end of the word. Because the 'ough' construction in English is perhaps the best example of what you're talking about. There are 10 [1] ways to pronounce those 4 letters, though only 6 in American English.

My Spanish teach was fond of telling us, "There are no Spanish spelling bees." It was his lighthearted way of telling us to memorize the few pronunciation rules of the language so that we could easily parse what we were hearing and pronounce what we were reading. But inherent in his comment was a reference to the lack of consistency in English. This lack of consistency means that speakers need to memorize more. If we were talking about a programming language, we'd say that the language has unnecessary cognitive load. Similarly, Spanish and the other romance languages add unnecessary cognitive load by differentiating between masculine and feminine words. Still, of the major European languages, English is probably the one with the largest unnecessary cognitive load, so I can definitely sympathize with those who have difficulty learning it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)

P.S. As an aside, I always thought Antirez was much better at written English communication than he appears to be. There's something about having corresponded with people online for the past 2 decades that has leads me to turn off my inner proofreader until something like the subject matter that was being discussed brings it to the fore.
Doobie is worth a look. I found slick a bit too magical...
US has lots of sunny areas with little people, agriculture or wildlife, but UK doesn't. Many European countries are dense and cloudy.

It can still help.
A Glaswegian here, who learned phonetics for a text-to-speech project. A Glasgow accent actually has the closest correspondence between spelling and pronunciation of any accent of English.

We don't all speak like Rab C. Nesbitt. The reason you might find it difficult to understand some Glaswegians is not so much lack of familiarity with their accent, but because they don't speak Standard English. What you're hearing is a mixture of English and a variety of Scots. Scots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language) is a distinct language, though it's very closely related to English. So when, for example, you hear a word like mair (meaning more), it's not a different accent, it's a different language, just like German mehr or Dutch meer. Glaswegians pronouncing "more" in Standard English don't sound that different from Canadians or most Americans.
Cultural shifts are funcion of political will.
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Another ELF diagram also made the rounds a few years ago: https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/ELF101

It's more of a 1-page poster and doesn't have the longer explanations in the submitted github article.
While I get that there's a policy that allows some reposts if they don't get much traction, this seems to be a bit too much..
Snow Leopard was not released in early 2009
My grandfather died with multiple cancers plus pulmonary fibrosis caused by multiple exposures he received while working in DoE facilities in the early-mid 1950s. In those facilities there were basically no safety procedures. Safe nuclear power was not a goal; more nuclear weapons was the goal. It's no surprise that TFA exaggerates the "foresight" of the damned "New Dealers". They were just like Thiel is, looking to make bank off a public that's not always paying attention. He will feel no more guilt about it than I do for driving on public highways.
I would much rather the focus be on QUESTIONS than "thinking", which is an imprecise term. Isn't formulating and answering questions what "critical thinking" is all about?

"Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know." - Neil Postman
Setting the physical safety issues aside, I cannot escape the comical image of a plane-turned-rave after the cabin mood lighting gets hacked by the bored teenager who doesn't want to read news from the airline-approved news source.

Pre-recorded safety announcements get replaced by S-Club-7 on a perpetual loop? Siren noise ever time the seatbelt sign turns on? Or how about altering the hosts file so that the official news source points to hustler,com? There is something to be said for some systems not being so heavily networked.
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0 people have died in the US as a result nuclear power. Chernobyl failed because its operators turned off the emergency failsafe system in order to do a test of the reactor, which was also botched. Look up the Linear no-threshold model of radiation. There's no statistically significant evidence that radiation exposure of even 1000 millirem (average US dosage is 360 millrem, and 2/3rds of that is from natural radiation such as the sun and rocks) has negative health effects.

Also what do you even mean by "the source of error is infinite"? All of those sources of error apply to coal and gas plants, except that nuclear power plants are so much more tightly regulated and protected that these "sources of error" are far more likely to affect coal/gas plants than nuclear.

Check out this information where they crash an F-4 into 10 feet of concrete, reducing the F-4 to dust. Nuclear power reactor containment shields have more than 10 feet of concrete, and even so have procedures for automatic shutdown of the fission process that don't rely on electricity (eg gravity).

FUD such as this is a large part of why we do not have fission today.
Fortran still beats c though
You are going to be downvoted.

Silicon Valley billionaire-nerd-emperors don't like to be informed about their absence of clothes.
Heh, I was playing with OS 8.x recently on the Raspberry Pi, and it made me somewhat more productive. I can't believe that I could have a fully functional computer for just $5.

Here is what it looks like. https://goo.gl/photos/jPzant4sB71tnU149
The original paper (covering more than smiles) is available here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02575
Bro, I worked in Gomel for 4 years and spent 2 field seasons in 'Chernobyl radioactive wasteland'. Relax, life is ok there. Just do not eat local apple seeds in the 80+ Ci/sq km zone. Pulp for cider is OK.
10% efficiency is about right for low cost solar cells that have been out in open air for a while. 20% is about right for affordable single crystal cells, and the theoretical maximum efficiency for silicon is 33%.

Getting significantly better than 10% is very expensive. Getting beyond about 25% is currently well beyond feasible for large scale power generation.
Unanswered != not paid attention to. Some good questions may be equivalent to known unanswered (P = NP) or unanswerable (halting problem) questions.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss how avionics is done currently. That software operates against very difficult requirements, the industry has learned a lot about how to do so reliably. These systems favor static allocation over heap allocation, so a garbage collector isn't as useful as you'd assume.

Nothing against python, but it's just not suited to writing avionics code that human lives depend on.

Now, in some ideal future, could we be using better languages? Absolutely. Stuff like ATS looks like the future of that kind of code, IMO. Likewise, Rust's memory management types make a ton of sense and could be useful for the situations where static allocation can't do the job.
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Building a credit card issuer in Brazil using Clojure and Datomic (2014) [video]
> it doesn't matter if daughters are worth 1000000x a son in the dowry/bride price exchange if it means your lineage dies with you

Guess it's just a very different culture. I'm more than happy to have my lineage die with me just to save a measly quarter million dollars haha.
is this meant to be performance art where you demonstrate how easy it is to appear to know something but really know less than nothing? literally your entire post is devoid of facts and reason.
I didn't know the author of _How to Win Friends and Influence People_ was a robber baron.
you mean 'financial services', right?
It's still 2.8.16 in the Downloads section for me.
For some reason this reminded me of Anton and Ivan Vanko. Hopefully Tony Stark will stop fomenting regional conflict and just let Ivan get to work. b^)
Isn't this called a "slump"? I think I learned that this is simply a landslide without a feedback loop to accelerate the process. The centre of gravity for each moving mass of rock doesn't move outside its footprint, so nothing ever tips over and rather slowly squishes everything underneath.

I also remember that this process is what makes sand dunes sing. Wind builds them steeper and steeper while gravity causes them to slowly squish down, the billions of little slips resulting audible noise.
In the past 3 years on usenet, something has changed though. Perhaps in response to this article and/or the others talking about it.

Some studios are getting drastically faster at getting their content pulled within minutes of nzb's appearing on the index sites. It's not as if its difficult to scan the groups and topics and issue take-down's on posts to the NSP's.
That's very interesting. I wonder if, three years later, there would be a script to set this all up on a Raspberry Pi to run automatically.

(If not, I wonder if I should? Sounds at least like a fun weekend project.)

In any case I think Popcorn Time still works well, and if not, there's always regular torrenting.