skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is one of the big intended advantages, but the way it is implemented in the official client is not very flexible, and has a huge dependency list. We just added some support for Let's Encrypt to Virtualmin, and the official client proved clumsy to work with. The smaller clients that have been discussed here lately would have been simpler to integrate (and we may end up with our own Perl implementation before long, so it can be used in Webmin without adding a big stack of dependencies).
And that is how you make pro-warfare propaganda as to justify military incursions and any collateral damage.

The End.
D-day would've have been a more apt a comparison for a war out on the naked field with full blown charges. There was definitely an evolution of warfare (to more asymmetrical styles) in WW2 when compared to WW1 (which I was comparing as my 'century' mark) and its Passchaendale-like battles.

Either way, if you had taken the time to not just focus on such a 'Eurocentric' view of history, you would have brought up Sri Lanka and its take down of the idea of Tamil independence (I don't condone this), but they did successfully take down and all but obliterate the Tigers using pure ground naked force. It is the one example I can think of (I'm sure there are more outside Europe), where a ground force was able to neutralize a virulent idea. However, they had the advantage of having a localized idea (i.e. people outside South India and Sri Lanka didn't care), in which case a ground war was more effective.

Islamism is an idea with global reach. Cannot bomb an idea with global reach.
In a 8 disk nas i replaced 6 oft them in one year because of bad smart data. Some lastet only Werks before marked as faulty.
This series is really bad.
I was wishing that MS Open Tech could make the other JS engines Windows x64 ABI compliant including SEH for a while now.
Not with a little imagination and hackishness!

http://stackoverflow.com/a/10372280
Who is assuming anything? People are conducting science and the evidence doesn't support an advantage for this particular function. Also, not only do I not think it is not absurd to consider that maybe a second language does not offer any significant advantages, I also think it's a possibility that learning more languages than one could be harmful overall. To assume anything else without supporting evidence is showing a bias.
Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate (2009)
Species-Characteristic Responses to Catnip by Undomesticated Felids [pdf]
(Why post this? Because catnip and lions is an inherently funny topic.)
This article could make sense until you've seen a bunch of engineers attempting to figure out how to move the production instances to a VPC, and then you think, christ, dev ops would be super handy right now.
i grew up with some people who spoke 2 languages pretty poorly (english and chinese). they essentially had bad grammar and accents in both languages. i know for a fact their parents made them speak chinese at home. unfortunately, by the end of college (i.e. entering the real world where linguistic skills really count), they hadn't improved much if at all.

it's almost as if they had a 'total lingistuic aptitude cap' and it was spread out among two languages. i bet if they chose to stick to one language, they'd speak it better.
Would love to hear more about this. I've come to favour TypeScript style annotation with passing around hashes into pure functions in ES6.
Fantastic news! Now all we need is for Edge to support Server Sent Events (eventsource)
Hi, 3rd party watch dev here!

WatchKit is really limited. It would be impossible, I believe, to make an app anywhere near as good as the native Stopwatch using WatchKit.

So this comment is pretty frustrating, actually: "you have to understand at least the basics of the underlying architecture if you want to write efficient code". What basic architecture? WatchKit is all we've got as a 3rd party devs! And it sucks.

It seems insane and very ill-advised to me that Apple isn't using the same SDKs for their own apps as what's available to 3rd parties.
The author has power over their choice of blogging platform though
Shared memory in Javascript is a Bad Idea(tm). Run, don't walk, to your standards body, and tell them not to entertain such notions.

You know what happens with shared typed arrays? Shared Uint8 arrays.

You know what happens with shared Uint8 arrays? Multiple workers using JSON.parse.

Do you want ants? Because this is how we get ants. :(
"despite the apparent simplicity of the language"

Simplicity is not a weakness or failing of a programming language, it is something that every language designer should strive for. To imply otherwise is to say (non-essential) complexity is a good thing.
You're basing your argument on an assumption instead of what I wrote.
Exactly. I think it's the most idiotic hypothetical troll I've ever allowed myself to read.
As a joke, it's stupid.

Because it is basically "look at these idiots drawing pngs".

Except they aren't idiots, because if it worked, helped them develop faster, and doesn't actually matter, it's actually probably the right thing to do.

So it just makes him look ignorant.
Here's hoping an android port Will be made by microsoft
> The atomic bombs were dropped to avoid a potentially costly invasion, and to end the war before the Russians could reach Japan and spread their influence.

There is another viewpoint, which is that the bombs were dropped as a message to the Russians. The supporting evidence is that many of the top US military people at the time expected Japan to capitulate regardless of whether or not the bombs were dropped.
Show HN: Monki – `cp` for github.  An alternative to Git submodules
TLS is a system designed to support both authentication and encryption. Losing authentication is actually a pretty big deal, so of course browsers won't do it.

Encryption without authentication isn't really a good idea, because you can trivially MITM someone, serve them your certificate for google.com, open up a connection to google.com yourself, and it's now effectively as good as plain-text.

The security community was really upset with SuperFish and the recent Dell eRoot for the same reason -- you effectively lost accurate authentication, making it pretty easy to degrade someone's connection to plain-text.
"So, Alderaan was a legitimate military target. Was the level of force used against it justified? It’s a tricky question, but it seems the least bad of all the alternatives. Consider another option the Empire could have taken: invading Alderaan, removing its leaders and installing a pro-Empire regime. However, putting boots on the ground in this manner would likely have destabilized not only the planet but also the entire region, creating a breeding ground for religious terrorists and draining blood and treasure for decades. It’s not hard to imagine a Jedi State of the Alderaan System (JSAS, for short, though they’d likely prefer the simpler Jedi State (JS)) arising from the ashes of some ill-conceived invasion and occupation."

This guy is arguing that it would have been better to nuke all of Iraq into a glassy plain (civilians, historical sites, and all) rather than provide a potential breeding ground for ISIS. This completely ignores the fact that the occupation of Iraq was not conducted with, shall we say, anything resembling basic competence. The occupation was also cut short early out of political expedience. Palpatine would not have had to worry about approval ratings if his occupation of Alderaan had dragged on! Finally, it's worth noting that, as reprehensible as daesh's actions may be, they amount to nothing even close to the atrocity of nuking a city.

So, based on this argument, the destruction of Alderaan was not justified.
Show HN: Lego – A Let's Encrypt Library and CLI in Go
Worth remembering that the C++ standards committee hasn't yet drawn up a spec for modules. These are MSVC only for now. Clang has its own implementation.
Jokes are funny when they contain an element of truth. There's a difference between hyperbole and being wrong.
Although important for their future, Chrome is not Google's cash cow, Chrome is everyday stealing Firefox's market share, they have the luxury to wait, Chrome's pressure (and now Edge) on Firefox hasn't made Firefox step up their game as one would expect.
This is a bit of a misleading headline. He resigned because his renewable energy bets weren't paying off and his company was losing money as a result.
Men don't work because that is their "image of masculinity" yadda yadda yadda. They work to put food on the table for their families.

There also is no "morality tale" for what women supposedly owe their husbands. But it hurts to find you are only valued for your money - is that really wrong, misguided, whatever? Are people not allowed to have feelings in relationships? I bet some wives are also hurt when they get older and find they were only valued for their pretty body. (Not saying either fate is inevitable, but it happens).

Low income is the best predictor for divorce, so there really is pressure on men to perform. And contrary to the feminist narrative it is not men who can't cope with their wives outearning them filing for divorce, it is women who tend to file for divorce.
Anti spoofing laws can be described in a single sentence. There is nothing complicated about them.

I'm having trouble coming up with a single rule you could make about trading that wouldn't count as a weird hacky proscription, if you view spoofing as weird and hacky.
Most Indians are bilingual and some are even tri-lingual. Haven't noticed anything special due to this.
As a general rule, convert incoming input (user or otherwise) to the correct type as quickly as possible, and convert it to the outgoing type as late as possible. When programming in this style, for you to reach the point in the code where the Set call is being made and for you to still have 4 "int"s almost certainly means you should have converted them earlier. Generally you've got a validation phase somewhere, which is where this should be converted, which means that your "Width" isn't just "what happended to be in the input" but is a "validated Width" as well. Since it floats on the validation code it's often not even 1 extra line of code, just another token that I mentally model as sort of "sealing" the fact that this is a good value.

This rule goes way beyond "tiny types"; for instance you will drive yourself insane in the web world if you don't do this, with double-decodings and double-encodings quite challenging to prevent with any other policy. [1]

"Further, it makes Godoc more confusing, since now I have to search around to figure out what each of these custom types is."

Absolutely yes. In any language where this is possible and easy, I do wish the auto-doc systems either automatically, or with some metadata (preferably a label on the type somehow), would make it clear when something is just a one-layer wrapper around a simple type in all the places where it appears in the docs, without having to click through. I consider it worth the cost, but this is definitely an entry on the cost column that is accidental, not essential. This is especially true when the base type is numeric, which means that Go will let you pass in a literal number in the source code, but that is not always your first expectation.

[1]: In a statically-typed language you can also play games with having the type label what "layer" of decoding the value is currently in, which works but gets more tedious. This is theoretically possible in a dynamic language, but goes against the grain, since generally people program with just 'strings' in those languages.
I thought that was the point of the piece - that most Americans do support the U.S. over ISIL, the U.S. over Iraq, the U.S. over Panama, the U.S. over Vietnam. In all those cases, we are the hegemon deploying vastly superior weaponry over a small band of rebels.

I viewed the article as an awareness-raising satire, making people think about how they may root for the underdog in Star Wars, but in their daily lives, they're just glad to be on the winning side.
Right. Hence the word 'reliably'.
Doesn't LetsEncrypt require that you have DNSSEC enabled on your domain, as a first step? DV is a valid proof of identity, assuming DNSSEC, right?
In Italy you learn it at 8 years old. It is also said, "cast out nines" instead of "double check".
The answer to your question is in the article. Why didn't you just search on page for "CityHash"?
In the movie Clerks, there is a discussion about how the rebels took the lives of any independent contractors who happened to be working on the second Death Star at the time of its destruction.

However, George Lucas later addressed this issue by saying that these independent contractors were in fact merely "large termites" (Geonosians). (I am not making this up.)
SQLite table-valued functions with Python
speaking with my chemist's hat on... crying 'wimp' is one of the cultural problems we have when it comes to health and safety.
For those seriously interested in the topic of 'justified' military action, there is a clear, very well-established and followed (including by the U.S.) international Law of War. The fundemental considerations are: [1]

* Necessity: Does it provide significant military benefit?

* Distinction: Distinguishing between military targets and civilians

* Proportionality: One shot from a mortar does not justify flattening a town.

* Humanity: I'm not sure of the definition, but think of it in context of "crimes against humanity".

For an example of a serious analysis of a real issue, here's a great writeup of the question of bombing civilian trucks in Syria:

https://www.justsecurity.org/28064/targeting-tankers-law-war...

[EDIT: Added definitions to the terms]

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[1] I'm certainly not an expert in this field, so my presentation of it might be not quite right in one way or another.
Linguistic Analysis of Trump's Speeches
It sounds like domain registrars are being used to supplant the role of CA's?

This reminds me of the situation with email where if a user has not purchased a domain name, then it is nearly impossible for the user to send or recieve email without a third party "email provider".

Will encryption become the same? If at least one endpoint has not signed up with some third party (e.g., letsencrypt) _and_ purchased a domain name, then it becomes nearly impossible for two endpoints to encrypt traffic between them?

Will we ever again allow users to be fully empowered, _without the involvement of third party endpoints_ (CA's, domain regstrars, etc.), to send email, encrypt traffic, and all the other basic things one can do with a computer and an internet connection? Is it unfathomable that two parties connected to the internet might actually know and/or trust each other already, without involvement of a third party interloper?

Those are meant to be yes or no questions, or perhaps a rhetorical ones. No need to provide rationale. :)
It's only a feminist narrative that men worry about "what it means to be a man". Usually men just do the things men have to do. It is not just a fantasy that they have to do them. Simple example: somebody has to earn money for food and rent.
while there may never be an identical 1:1 comparison, I agree with your analysis and find that it is interesting to use the two narratives as a comparison to understand how complex situations can run out.

going a bit further, while reading the article i found myself doing a thought exercise of the empire being america and the rebels being isil/etc. do the current terrorist see themselves as the rebels do in starwars?
Battery replacement $20, display cheap to repair also compared to all other phones I've owned.
> Firstly, she states that "working class" generally means "without college degree" - that doesn't mean physical work.

No, but it in general greatly increases the likelihood.

> Secondly, knowledge workers also get diminishing returns from longer hours, potentially with even more dramatic effect.

To their bodies? Or to the work they do?

Because that's the difference, your body only takes that much abuse and then needs to re-charge. Go work a jackhammer for a couple of hours and let's talk about diminishing returns.

> Thirdly, many common non-physical working conditions are also extremely tiring mentally and damaging physically in the long-run.

Sure. Let's talk after you've been hauling garbage for a day, been bent over under an engine hood or any other physically taxing workday. There is nothing that quite compares to being able to sit in a chair and think all day long and push a few buttons to wreck your ligaments, muscles and joints.

> Finally, you're implying that child-care is not physically exhausting.

I think you made that up, I did not imply that at all. As a father of 3 I'm more than aware of how physically exhausting child care is.

> My impression of your response is that it has more slurs than the article, to be honest - just re-inforcing the primacy of manual labour. I have the impression you know what it's like to work long hours in a stressful non-physical environment, so I find that odd.

An my impression of your response is that you would like all of the above to be true, however and for the record: I've done both. I've had a number of very physically intensive jobs when I started my career and to this day I'm grateful every bloody day that my life took a turn for the better and that I don't have to work until I can't stand up straight anymore. Being not the most physically strong person I realize that if I had continued down that path I would have been a physical wreck by now.

Have some respect for the people that do the heavy lifting. And if you're unconvinced: go take a manual labor job for a year or so and re-read your comment here.
I've looked into this and it seems you are correct, thanks for the explanation.
It's a lot more dangerous than mere rhetoric.

The "outrageous, provocative, and aggressive" comments are exploiting political faith, and are said by people with the hubris to believe they can shape reality with their will.

The 2004 New York Times essay "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush"[1] has a very enlightening description of these ideologies.

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House
didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting
with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he
told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe
gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community,"
which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study
of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles
and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore,"
he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while
you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating
other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.
We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-a...
I'm guessing this is what you're looking for?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROM...
I find its UI quite annoying and its tab management really poor, but technologically it's really solid. I've noticed it seems to handle HTML5 video more smoothly than Firefox (I rarely use Chrome so I can't really comment on it).
I have a vested interest in creating a SM -> Chakra adapter to swap out SpiderMonkey and be able to compare it to see how it does because Chakra is also an interpreter and not JIT-only like V8. Such an adapter would also make playing with Servo -> Chakra possible. I haven't play with Servo, but is there a list of all the JSAPI calls that it needs to function or can you easily dump that list?
Strange thing to think. Companies do not produce browsers - employees do. In fact, not even employees. A handful of talented programmers produce browsers. All the desire in the world from a company won't improve the ability of those handful of programmers.

It's actually fairly interesting. These huge mega companies are just support teams for a few programmers. All the corporate vision and endless strategies mean nothing compared to one of those programmers having a good or bad day in their work. You honestly get the feeling something somewhere is very broken when you think about it.
Did you happen to read Karl Rove's "Tactics for Effective Conservative Blogging"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2d0r1d/the_rea...
Does anyone ever feel like star wars became mainstream all of a sudden? I mean a few years back mist of my friends would've laughed at me when I brought it up. Now everyone can't wait to see it! What happened??
What assumption is that?
You jest, but that's exactly what "we" do every day, sponsoring regimes like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Singapore and so on. As long as a country is stable and doesn't openly work against "our" interests, we fully support them in the name of stability and order. In fact, looking at recent history it's quite clear how alternative policies will often turn out be much worse in the long run.
The Brilliant African-American Mathematicians Who Sent Men into Space
> Imperial Japan did some awful things

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

This one alone cost at least 40000, possibly as many as 300 000 humans their lives many after being raped and mistreated in the most cruel ways the Japanese could come up with.

Not saying that it is ok to bomb civilians but sometimes you have no good option and you might not even not know which one is least evil.
Relevant Wikipedia article on why the answer is almost always no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Seriously. He's forming an argument that the United States should have glassed Iraq and build a regime of worldwide fear (and check his bona fides before you just go "oh, satire", dude writes for the team that created this mess). It's absolutely ghastly.
I agree that military superiority is not what fundamentally defines right and wrong military action in people's minds, including mine. But there are other differences between, for example, Saddam Hussein suppressing the Kurds and the American Revolution.
Android Wear watches typically have the screen always on, and in the case of the OLED one (LG Urbane) I've got that means bright enough to see my way through a dark room. I usually wear mine overnight (with the screen off) for sleep tracking, and after 23h it's usually around 50%. I'd be quite happy suggesting you'd get two full days' use out of it, especially if you don't keep it awake all night.
I often see you plug your project, Gun, whenever someone posts about distributed databases. You always write about how great it is. But every time I look at your repo, it's still the same few hundred lines of, I'm sorry, quite shoddily written JavaScript, with huge chunks clearly being temporary placeholders or even commented out. You even have scratch test data in there, intermingled with your main code. Your web site also make some grandiose claims about how it solves certain synchronization problems, but I can't find any technical explanation of exactly how it is supposed to work.

The lack of code or documentation means it's very hard to take your comments seriously. But please correct me if I'm mistaken.
In this example, Set() is in the public API, so it is exposed to the end user. I am interested both in your approach and in axaxs's concerns, and I'm wondering if there is resolution to be had.