skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> updates only the files that have changed

No linux system that I ever used worked that way. The only system I've seen that did that was solaris, and that patching software was a disaster.

Systems like dpkg and rpm replace the entire contents of a package when there is an update. The benefit of this is that if things are very out of date or a package is corrupted, the only thing you need to do to get things up to date is (re)install the latest package.

Packages on linux are fairly granular, so in practice doing full individual package updates is not a huge problem. I have 2300 packages or so installed on my laptop and all but 100 or so are under 10M.

Google did a lot of work optimizing chrome package updates, but I'm not sure if most distributions are prioritizing this sort of thing anymore.
Thanks, I'll read those. Also, I'm absolutely certain that F#'s type providers do provide an additional feature to the language, one that would be quite hard to replicate using macros or other existing constructs.

I'm still not too sure about coeffects, though. I'll read the blog post you linked in more detail, but from a quick glance, it seems that what they provide could more-or-less be replicated by Scala's implicits.

For example, a function requiring the context of a database or GPS module is just a function that has those two as dependencies. This has long been solved using dependency injection, which can be made implicit (but still type-checked) using Scala's implicits.

The security of sensitive information (e.g. a password) is a different manner. I'll have to read the paper, which seems rather technical at first glance (and I couldn't find any additional information about handling of security issues), but I imagine a lot could be done simply by wrapping the password into a monad/object and restricting access to it through the operations the monad allows.
For me the decision to move to Digital Ocean was not expected to solve any of the underlying security issues. I chose them because they encourage better security practices through documentation and make isolating instances cheaper and easier.

The previous host did not give very good advice and kept band-aiding the side effect of bad infrastructure decisions.
What about retweets?
Agreed, this would be my most used feature.
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When the destination server cannot be reached usually the origin server will try again for a number of hours before giving up (and in the meanwhile it may send one or more annoying messages to the sender). I wouldn't do that though. I think that it is better to have a "regular" server (gmail etc.) handle it and have your server fetch the mail from it, without any risk of losing emails. I have a setup with fetchmail+postfix+dovecot that works very nicely.
About a month ago I decided to reinstall Windows on one of my old PCs, an Intel Ivy Bridge desktop i5. It is frustrating and nearly impossible to end up with a patched system. The process was pretty much as follows:

1. Manually check for updates. This took forever and thrashed the hard disk, every time.

2. Select, download, and install the updates.

3. Goto 1 until Windows couldn't find any more updates.

In some cases, step 2 would fail with various unknown errors and hex codes. The only way to fix this is to run a Windows diagnostic that "resets Windows Update components", which makes Step 1 take even longer than it would have otherwise.

All in all, I think the update cycle took me about 4 hours before I gave up on the third reboot and decided to just let Windows figure itself out. Compare this to an 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' or the OS X Software Update, and it's a wonder people update Windows at all.
James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud'
You forgot the link? Best delete this and resubmit.
I have weirdos in my family who make a living of going after other family members' inheritances

I would love to hear more about how this is done. I don't immediately see how it would be.
I was thinking of offering features for larger teams like collaborative editing and sync with a live AWS environment as addons in the future if it proves popular.

Drawing diagrams is and will remain free.
They both seem to have similar levels of activity to me (as far as commits to the repos go)
I would love this to be true. But as always, I'm very skeptical of all social/psychological studies. Provided it turns out to be true, I guess there still is some hope for the human race!
Her career (stints at Google and Yahoo) as described on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer ) and mentioned several times in Eric Schmidt's book "How Google Works".
What language is that in the code snippet?
If I recall correctly, there are some alive patents in the U.S. until 2017 when dealing with MP3 encoders, requiring purchasing a license per copy distributed.

The workaround that the parent is talking about is usually "get LAME from a different distributor", which is still done by Audacity and others.
BitFury opening third carbon neutral Bitcoin mining operation in Georgia
That only works if a sufficient majority of producers do it, and do it in a coordinated manner. If they manage to do this, then there is a strong incentive for individual producers to go against the "coordinated group", i.e. sell when the production is high, while the "coordinated group" is stockpiling.
It should be easy to identify those that are due to curvature, though. My understanding is that states parceled according to the PLSS have fairly consistent township and section divisions, made using a system that takes the earth's curvature into account in a systematic way. This method introduces "corrections" like those in the article at regular, predictable intervals.

This is described in the second and third paragraphs of "Survey Design" here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System#Surv...
Is there anywhere I can read a concise summary of the evidence for and against this guy as Satoshi?

Right now the facts seem spread out across popular press articles and random forum threads.
Satoshi is rumored to have amassed a fortune in Bitcoins. One of the theories going around is that by pretending to be Satoshi, Craig would be able to take fraudulent loans with the bitcoin fortune as collateral. (There is some evidence that Craig himself might be the one forging the documents)

The other theory is that he is just a crazy egomaniac.
My best guess is that the fraud angle is most likely. Especially the 'fortunate' emergence of draft contracts showing that the guy has claim to a huge stash of bitcoins (but conveniently he can't access them until 2020). Perhaps he hoped that by appearing to be 'doxxed' it would lend more credence to his claims that he owned/controlled this wealth.

A fraudster could get a lot of mileage out of a "I will pay you back later, look I've got all this future wealth" claim.
I swear with all the rampant speculation and hunting for Satoshi's identity that have led deep to a multitude of rabbit holes, the only way for the real Satoshi's uncovering not to end up a disappointment, would be if he's also revealed to be simultaneously D.B. Cooper and Jimmy Hoffa (maybe even the Zodiac Killer while we're at it).
This is just some random google results on wasteful research money sinks, the duck penis research is just asking for the facepalm:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/mar/...

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-stupid-things-t...

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/05/02/the-10-dumb...

http://nypost.com/2013/12/17/duck-penis-studies-lifecoaches-...

There's LOTS more, although some of the links seem to come from political sites, dumb spending deserves to be ridiculed and I don't care who calls it out.
Ask HN: Open Source Projects that need front enders?
I was wondering if anyone could recommend some Open Source projects that could do with some front end contributions?
Don’t call me a dropout: Why science needs more people to quit the lab
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Oh I perfectly understood the snark, but it's not exactly correct. It's like mocking something over a trait that is not correct; a straw man, if you will.
Most of them are R, with some Stan mixed in later.
With a read-only IAM role installed in your account it could provide import of current resources and a live view of your environment.
> The fact that Amazon has paid engineers to write a bot that scans for API keys suggests that most people aren't that careful

The fact that GitHub has not paid engineers to write a bot that scans for API keys, RSA keys, and other common credentials mistakenly committed and dropping the files from UI view / search indices without notification and explicit permission surprises me a lot more. The company seems to be full of great engineers and UI people; doing something like this would vastly improve the UX of developers beginning to use the platform, and would likely not get in the way of seasoned ones.
I don't believe they'll maintain editorial independence either. But the reason is not so much guanxi as the need to cower to the will of the central government, especially on anything relating to national image and social stability. It's not a 'scratch my back I'll scratch yours' situation, but rather a 'central gov says scratch my back and I will or god knows what's going to happen to me'.

That said, there is another angle to this that I think worth mentioning. Ma and his partner claim their motiviation for the takeover is to counterbalance the bias they see in western media coverage on China, and I see no reason to doubt that. However, it doesn't mean they can't have other motivations, and a leader of a high profile Chinese company like Alibaba may have ideas or motivations that are better left unsaid until the time is right. If they were buying the newspaper to give more voice to government critics, do you think they would come out and say it?
Education has nothing to do with genetics.
Great tool! How do you extend the grid?
Wasn't implying you're a sociopath -- I think you were recognizing that a corporation is by definition -- I'm just saying that, even by that standard, the person is STILL not necessarily productive. Working compulsively isn't what I'm typically looking for, I want the guy/gal that can get it done with a minimum of effort and follow-on maintenance, and that typically correlates with not being a workaholic in my experience.
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This agreement is a joke. China is still being allowed to be classified as developing nation, let alone India which while parts may be as a whole it is not reflective of what their climate impact is.

Worse, typical with the latest wave of "agreements" world leaders are regularly doing their best to avoid having to seek approval at home of their legislative bodies. Why? Because bad deals are bad deals.

The idea that developing nation status is partially based on per capita wealth makes it a joke where large population countries that have serious wealth divides are allowed to exploit treaties such as this. If anything it encourages them to not integrate the poorer of their nations into the whole.
What if the backend is not CGI ? What if I want to use a script to gzip the output of a backend that doesn't compress anything ? Of course you can just call that backend through HTTP, but then you add another huge dependency on your little script that should just be as simple as "gzip -c -"
The 3 Powers of Data Autonomy
This is why us normal people aren't hyper successful. We're not psychotic enough.
Wired did a pretty good job (see the three bullet points):

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspe...
You can get part way to this sort of experience in standard bash/sh by setting up a thoughtful 'CDPATH' and also making use of 'cd -'. In fact I have the latter aliased as z because it's like Undo.
If the marriage is only holding due to a contract, the family has already been destroyed. Your next phrase actually shows this: murders of passion are the peaks in a curve of harm that people do to each other. For each one, there is an order of magnitude more couples harming themselves.

I'm very glad my (unmarried) parents could separate themselves when time came and remain friends throughout my childhood, instead of developing the bitter contempt that is so common among divorced parents.

Which is why it used to be so rare: because folks realised how terrible divorce really is.

And people stopped realizing because? Unless you have a good reason beyond "people were just more sensible in the good old days", I find your argument unpersuasive.

What was more terrible were the conditions for divorced women, who struggled to earn any kind of decent income.
State laws granting sole control of marital property to the husband were only struck down by the SCOTUS in 1981.
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For go auto completion in vim, vim-go with youcompleteme works well for me. It's not tags-based, based on the source AST, shows method signatures as well.
After running into a few bugs do to the use of symlinks I decided to write my own that was really just a wrapper around Git. After installing [gitsick][1] you could add one of your existing repos,

gitsick clone <name> <url>

The files will be deployed directly to your $HOME, without symlinks, and from then on `gitsick <name>` is just a wrapper around Git such that the $GIT_DIR is stored in one place and your $WORK_TREE is $HOME.

[1]: https://github.com/nnutter/gitsick
Yeah, that's what I meant. He has a great reputation, so I held him in high regard somewhat until now
Correct of course, however at least Fedora does delta RPM updates now a days so full rpm downloads for updates are rare. Most drpms turn out to be few hundreds of KB.
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If you're technical, this alone should be enough to convince you that none of this has any connection to Satoshi:

- http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-proba...

If not, then this will probably at least convince you of the (lack of) veracity of Craig Wright's many claims:

- http://www.zdnet.com/article/sgi-denies-links-with-alleged-b... (Wright claimed to have SGI supercomputer, turns out to not be true)

- http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitcoi... (Wright claimed to have CSU PhD, turns out to be false)

Go and look up the claims this guy has made that turned out false. The guy is clearly a massive fraudster, which was crystal clear to me from the moment I first heard him speak, and who has encouraged this "I'm Satoshi" thing for the last year or so (probably for financial reasons).

I mean, the fact that a lot of people in the "technical community" and "Bitcoin community" fell for this have seriously lowered my esteem of both. Bitcoin in particular seems to have been attracting a certain type of gullible gold-seeker since ~2013. Sadly, the scammers go wherever these folks go, and so Bitcoin has been absolutely besieged by them.

Similarly, the number of "journalists" who wrote off the difference between "satoshin@gmx.com" and "satoshi@gmx" as it were an unimportant detail is pretty stunning (my opinion of them was already pretty low, so no real hard done).
Long term we get a servant-class of women whose genes are going to be displaced by those of high earning women. What's at issue is selection of earning capacity over time. Does it make for a better civilization? Or do we head towards a new GATTACA-style dystopia?
Try manually installing the patch at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3102810
There seem to be a lot more people who shrug their shoulders and say that they have nothing to hide or they aren't very interesting than there are people who are actively against encryption.

This is very much a case of manufacturing consent rather than support.
Do you know about vcsh (also linked in the post)?
It seems similar to what you describe...
My inquiry was also sincere, even if the tone seems harsh online. I was joking, on the assumption that most folks here are at least willing to examine their views on occasion.

The answer to what it takes to change minds on any subject?

Not taking a tone of "you're clearly an idiot". I do it all the time (particularly on issues I'm passionate about, like the horror that is animal agriculture), but it doesn't convince anyone, it just puts them on the defensive. And humans have somewhat broken brains such that defending a position makes one believe that position more strongly and more fiercely (even if it is demonstrably ridiculous; e.g. anti-vaccine folks).

Convince them to get outside of their comfort zone. Travel, activism, and volunteering, is what did it for me. Activism and volunteering probably need to be with and on behalf of folks unlike oneself to have any impact.

Ask questions rather than arguing. If someone discovers the uncomfortable points of their position on their own, they'll be willing to change their mind. One of the founders of CFAR (Center for Applied Rationality) once asked me a few questions that may have even planted the seeds of my change of heart when we happened to meet in NYC...specifically, she asked about the source of property rights, since I don't believe in gods, so I can't simply handwave it away as a " god given right". That stuck with me, because it's clear to anyone who is sincere that property is merely a fiction we all agree on, and it is a fiction that can be taken to unhealthy extremes. Asking the right questions is harder than ranting, but it actually works to change opinions, and serves to keep the conversation on a level of friendly chat rather than two ideologues bloviating.

And that's, maybe, all I know about that.
I am surprised nobody mentions stupidly smart AI. We can create AI that is capable of self-replicating very fast and fulfilling some goal.

It could start with a noble idea to build a machine to recycle our garbage and use the garbage to build more recycle machines. At the end we can have stupid machines that are perfectly doing their job but because they are capable of replicating and getting better what they do. They determine if they kill human, less garbage is created and thus so less work for them.

At the end they will wipe out us. Because the thing that will kill us doesn't need to be smarter. It needs to be faster and more effective than we are.
So the correct title is "1 oversized RC car with hose fights a fire in Australia".
> compatibility

You're joking, right? They break compatibility with every minor version, forcing tens of thousands of developers to waste valuable hours each time they update.

If there's something to learn from this project, it's that if you find your niche and gain enough momentum, you can piss on your user base and they'll say it's raining.
Yeah, these numbers to me don't look right too.

Relatedly (and I'm sorry I'm saying this - I feel terrible saying this): women really really need to have children earlier, preferably before age 28.

30 years ago you saw only 7.2 deaths of mothers per 100,000 live births in the US, in 2011, despise tremendously better healthcare, it was 17.8 deaths per 100,000 births. One of the reasons for the jump is women postponing having kids. And completely separate from this, risk of chromosomal abnormalities in babies goes up very high when having them at a later age.

Men and women both need to have children early, for so many reasons. It is a great pity that it's so fucking difficult to do so in this day and age.
what is the difference between z and autojump?
I've occasionally ran into bugs where symlinks have caused problems. At the very least this is something to be aware of.
Is this still seen as a safety thing? To explain, people used to advise waiting a few days after a minor OS X update to be able to use the combo updater. "Less mysterious problems than the diff update," better-safe-than-sorry computer voodoo. I haven't heard anyone advocating for that in a few years, though.
I suppose Mrs Grenier would like her free market system like the one we have in the UK with the Milk production industry where dairy farmers are bullied by the Dairies and large supermarkets for ever lower prices, and is pushing the family run farms to consolidate into massive argi-businesses, controlled by a few people.
The only people who care about compression ratios are:

(1) People who still use 56k modems to download content

(2) People who host extremely popular downloads and who want to minimize their outbound bandwidth bills

If you're not one of these two, you almost certainly care more about compatibility and compression time than compression ratio. gzip continues to win on both those fronts, and it explains why it's still the most popular compression format other than ZIP (which is a better choice than gzip if you frequently need to extract a single file from a compressed archive).

Until there's a compression tool released that can compress at wire speed (like gzip) and has a significantly better compression ratio, don't expect the landscape to change much.
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> extremely cheap drones that approach the victim's face very quickly and pierce a bolt into their brain

It's not much more of a threat to society than a handgun. A WMD it is not, unless you make a lot of these and launch them at the same time, which is probably less effective than an H-bomb. (The one major difference between such a drone and a handgun is you might be able to target politicians and other people who're hard to shoot; a somewhat higher mortality rate among politicians is hardly a huge threat to society though.)

> there is a huge military and economic interest in technology and AI

There's also a huge interest in nuclear energy, and it doesn't follow that a consumer should be or is able to own a nuclear reactor. If anyone took the dangers seriously, it wouldn't be that hard to at least limit what consumer devices can do. Right now a single botnet made from infected consumer PCs has more raw computing power than the biggest tech company server farm, which is ridiculous if you think of rogue AI as an existential threat. Actually it's ridiculous even if you think of "properly controlled" AI in the wrong hands as an existential threat; the botnet could run AI controlled to serve the interest of an evil programmer. Nobody cares because nobody has ever seen an AI that doesn't fail the Turing test in its first couple of minutes, much less come up with anything that would be an existential threat to any society.
just a bash script with no dependencies

Except of course - bash. It would be nice if people remembered that this isn't installed by default on lots of systems.
A lot has improved in the last century as a result of feminism, and the necessity of marriage laws is not as significant as it used to be. Still, I think they serve an important purpose.

A simple civil contract is not good enough for several reasons. First, people tend to make bad decisions when they are in love, and especially in situations where one party has fallen in love harder than the other, this would be very open to abuse.

The second problem is that marriages often produce children. And children are not property in the traditional sense, and I think it is not in any way reasonable to handle child custody with a pre-nuptial agreement.

The third problem is much more subtle and subjective, and I'm afraid I will have to do a bit of editorializing, but I think it is still quite important. The economy works well when everyone chiefly looks out for themselves, families and friendships work well when everyone chiefly looks after each other. Your mother didn't hand you a rental agreement the moment you were born, and while you may have had certain ad-hoc "I'll give you $20 if you mow the lawn" agreements with them, their desire for your well-being was based on much more than any potential value you might bring them in the future. A marriage is a lot more like a family than it is like an economy.