skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting.. I looked up how it is implemented.

They seem to pull down the updated bits, merge them with what is currently on the system to reconstruct the new package, and then install that.

That would save bandwidth, but not make the actual operation of installing the new package any faster.
What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside
... And if the impact of failure is less than an asteroid landing on your head.
You're also describing everyone else's experience:

> Really at 320kps you are entering the realm of fantasy if you think you can hear any difference.

It depends on the encoder, the track, your equipment, and how good you are at picking out artifacts. Some people do surprisingly well in double-blind tests, though I doubt anyone can do it all the time on every sample.
I'll have to look at that more. My initial scan of it is that is very similar except that it manually implemented each Git subcommand whereas mine does not need to because it just wraps and delegates to `git` (even tab completion).
Maybe she would? "We're threatening her with jail for her own good" doesn't sound particularly appealing.
Agree but I don't know that he will (since the way it seems to me) behavior like this is similar to an addiction in some ways. You get so much positive feedback as well as ups and downs he would have to hit a tipping point (or life changing event) to actually change the behavior.
This has always been the case, with the difference that, in the past, servant families were seriously at risk of being wiped out, no matter how many children they had: their offspring was the first to be enrolled when cannon fodder was required, the first to suffer from famine, pestilence and low-sanitation standards, the first to suffer from or take part in violent crime, etc etc etc.

We're just running fast towards our past.
Export would be even better, but then I suppose it becomes a completely different tool.
What ORM are you using?

I heard that EF 7 which is compatible with ASP NET 5 doesn't support MYSQL database.

Also the disk space when asp net 5 app is published is realy high.

Imagine you have 20 application, it with ~70Mb each one on disk you'll end up with +1GB of packages that you depend on.

I think something like Go, scala or Node JS is better.
That looks really cool! The only minor problem I would have is you have to install stow before bootstrapping your dotfiles on a new machine, but that's obviously not a huge deal. I guess I could replace my bootstrap.sh script with a line to install stow, then a line to run stow.
This is one of 20 reasons I just left my job. There were about 4 major points of failure that will eventually hit the IT dept. The owner doesn't give a shit (just work more hours). So I told them what they were lacking, the resources they need and they don't care.
Here's what Antonin Scalia doesn's get about affirmative action
I have met too many people who truly believe intelligence is heritable. These people also believe they're smarter and better than 95% of the population. Most of these people are the self-described entrepreneurial types and engineers.

What I am saying is you may have opened the floodgates for a horrifying debate where pseudo-eugenicists come out of the woodwork.
Actually I wasn't being funny (or at least trying to be)!

I mean honestly what has she done other than let Yahoo! carry on as business has been for a while? (stagnant). She did some publicity stunts like buying that 17-year olds summery app and that is about it.

Not saying anyone else would have done a better job, I think most of us could predict the future of Yahoo! no matter who was at the helm.
I'm working on a similar system, but it's quite a bit simpler, can use national currencies, and does not have supernodes or Byzantine fault tolerance http://altheamesh.com/blog/universal-payment-channels/

I haven't completely specified the routing part yet, but I think it will be quite easy to extend Babel to incorporate cost as a metric. Due to Babel's network size limitations, it won't work as a big bad global mesh, but should work well in the smaller mesh networks we see today.
Thanks. Stan looks interesting! Seems this guy is a major figure in its development too.

Link: http://mc-stan.org/ ("Stan is a probabilistic programming language implementing full Bayesian statistical inference ")

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244771
Do you know there are guys working at Walmart who are forced to miss the birth of their children? I personally know a guy who was in this situation, he was a cashier at Walmart and was forced to miss his child's birth because he was forced to be there on a busy day.

It's not just CEOs and high-paying folks not taking time off for paternity/maternity leave, it's everybody people who work in autoshops, cell phone stores, construction jobs, etc.
And corresponding to autojump [1] there is Jump-Location [2]

[1] https://github.com/wting/autojump/wiki
[2] https://github.com/tkellogg/Jump-Location
After you can use an RSA key in software, you might want to try my RSA common factors puzzle:

http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/rsa/
Also by using the `pushd' and `popd' built-ins.
I don't see any reason the author made the jump from "xz is better than gzip" to "stop using gzip!".

What is the compelling thing here that makes him feel that this is a moral imperative?
One example of a evil AI is the fact that the power of all the data out there about people,things and the ability to learn from it allows connections to be made like never before. With the right algorithms it should be possible to even make policy shifts that can impact human lives in a manner that is favourable to the 'super power' Govt. or company who owns this.
You can be sure that any system at Yahoo! or anywhere else that is the bread and butter of the operation (ad systems, accounting, fraud tracking) still involves a software QA team.

Facebook could afford to "move fast and break things" when they weren't taking money from anyone. Now that they're a real company, that kind of attitude can get them adverse attention from the SEC if it causes an accounting discrepancy or from trial lawyers if it upsets their advertisers.
> 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.

If people can be friends, why can they not remain together?

> And people stopped realizing because?

Because folks got more selfish, preferring to satisfy themselves than to work hard for others.
Cartels in the long run lead to the expansion of activities outside of the sphere of influence near the cartel. Also, futures markets generally cover variations of price, especially with a highly storable product like maple syrup. But in the short term, it's probably in the interests of small suppliers to have the cartel. Of course there is always a market incentive to defect, but since the cartel is backed by QC, I highly doubt that she'll get away with this.
I've seen from the inside what happens to families when spouses get divorced, and I've seen from the inside what happens when spouses are incompatible but stay together to preserve the family. Neither one is pretty, but the divorce is by far the better option.
I remember the news from 20 years ago, 1995, and my recollection is that Quebec was a have not province back then.

I think Quebec has pretty much forever been a have not province.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/time-for-quebec-to-end-equ...
> Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property.

Those choices of what they can and can't do with their property is inextricably tied with the existence of the cartel. The cartel does the work to keep prices up, so that's why producers want to grow maple syrup. If there were no cartel, then they wouldn't want to grow maple syrup, or at least they wouldn't be able to make as much money with it.

Nobody is helped by these guys rocking the boat. Not consumers, not producers, not the government, not the food industry that wants a steady supply and standards.
South African President's (Jacob Zuma) Epic Geography Fail This Week
In principle, this is a good thing but in practice you are not getting much computer for your money.

I do a lot of work using an HP Stream 11 running Debian Linux and recently for fun I have been writing and developing Ruby code on a Raspberry Pi. Even as a long term financial supporter of the FSF, I have to question why not to just use a cheap but capable modern $200 laptop?

It is unfortunate that more mainstream manufacturers don't offer FSF-certified versions of their best selling laptops.
I know her, messaged her, and asked her to respond.
Is that guy a wealthy warming enthusiast? Has he sold his beach properties? The tweet seems to be about something else.

EDIT: are you a GWB apologist? It's difficult to believe that Daesh would have arisen without the Lesser Bush's misadventures in Iraq. In fact, if there had been two degrees cooling since 2003 and everything else had gone the same, it seems a pretty good bet that Daesh would still be with us.
It is a great pity that it's so fucking difficult to do so in this day and age.

Elaborate.
It has a link. Pay the toll.
Don't hold your breath while waiting for WordPress so be based on node. That PHP code base will be around for most of our lifetime. :)
If people can be friends, why can they not remain together?

I honestly don't know how to respond to this. Do you really not see the difference between being friends and living as a family?

Because folks got more selfish, preferring to satisfy themselves than to work hard for others.

Sorry, I left my rose-colored glasses in the other room.
> What company would start depending on pure maple syrup, knowing that next year it's price may double?

That's kind of why the futures market exists.
Resizing the grid is one of the top next things (https://trello.com/b/mv14mX1U/cloudcraft-roadmap), but it also requires adding panning and zooming of the canvas itself so it's going to a take a little while.
Why is the police trying to catch Satoshi Nakamoto?
Amazingly primitive technology.

My clunky pocket computer is not only capable of letting me read this info but it also offers television and telephone services with which I can reach more people than even lived in 1920. Anyway, have a few cat pictures to browse.
Illustrated “RFC 7636: Proof Key for Code Exchange” (OAuth Security)
Facebook has an amazing 'dogfooding their own product' scenario that's hard to replicate for any other company.
People are incredibly critical of papers that challenge their world view. But they give a pass to studies that agree with them.

I am extra skeptical of studies that prove a politically correct idea. Criticizing them upsets many people, so maybe I should be smarter and keep my mouth shut.

Edit: It's like when news articles say "Cure for Cancer found!" And then you read the linked paper and it doesn't support the headline at all.
It would require liblzma, but you are correct that the library is a separate thing from the executable xz.
Use this all the time, it's awesome!
I used to use autojump, but switched to z — it's so simple and works fine. (I don't care if it's not going to be updated anymore, I don't need any new features. In fact, I never bothered to update it to newer version.)
That's awful. Didn't know that type of thing still happened.
I alias `cd` to a function that includes `pushd` so I don't have to remember.
It seems like the new reality is that most of us are going to be working through our 40s, 50s, and 60s, at the least. If there was some way that we could reconfigure the world so that it was possible for people to work on starting their families in their 20s, when they are the most fertile and the risk of birth defects and difficult pregnancies are lower, that seems to me like a better way for the world to work. The way the math works out, if you had children in your early 20s, by the time they were grown, and you were freed up to really devote yourself to a career, you'd still have 25 or 30 productive years to make something happen.

I have no idea how we would get there, though. The current system leaves young people buried in a deep hole, with very limited resources - huge student loan debts, nonexistent savings, precarious, transient work and living conditions. You've got to work like a dog for a decade to achieve some level of stability. On the other end, ageism leaves people that hit 40 at a disadvantage, just when they are reaching the point that they become experienced enough to really be useful.
The other factors are the rise in obesity (which poses serious risks of harm for the mother and the child); and stigma around mental health problems. Suicide is currently the leading cause of death in mothers in the perinatal period (in the UK).

I agree that women need to have children younger, and that society makes it difficult for that to happen.
Two ATC agencies 'blacklist' 787 over position-data flaw
This is so damn sexy (and really useful)! Kudos
To be fair, the original Wired article did end with this sentence:

> Either Wright invented bitcoin, or he’s a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did.
That has not been true since Bernays and PR/advertising.

Preference manipulation is big.
This reddit thread offers some pretty interesting / convincing speculation on Craig Wright's scam - https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3web4s/some_more_...
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Right, but an xz-supporting compression tool is shipped with many Linux distros, whereas you do need to grab a tool to support xz on any version of Windows.

But you're right, 7z is an under-appreciated format.
After some years of git and hg, nowadays I use RCS to version control my dotfiles. I have a little bunch of them and their history is unrelated to each other, and I do not have to bother with symlinks or other fragile stuff. There's an RCS directory in my $HOME, every time I update a dotfile, I make a tarball of that directory and the checkouts of the files and encrypt the tarball, and put in dropbox. I have written a little command in emacs to help me do that, and emacs vc makes it easy to deal with check-ins and locking. It's just easier and more natural to me. For bigger repos, I resort to git too (though I'm inclined to try darcs some time soon).

I used to have my configuration files on Github, but I decided to remove them, first dotfiles, then recently my emacs config, as I have the idea that they are too personal, and I have to spend some certain effort to keep them publishable, e.g. use files for private data, like api keys, emails, Gnus settings, feed lists. Now I'll be able to check these in too, freely.
China’s Emissions Pledges Are Undercut by Boom in Coal Projects Abroad
I heard an excellent memoir on This American Life [NPR] last night about Sinatra. They referenced this article.

What particularly stuck out about him was his every-man-ness. He shook hands of presidents, mobsters (supposedly), and "normal" people. He touched every strata and maintained a class that let him stand apart from it all.

For those interested: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/574/s....
I sorta view RAR files as the problem. Only WinRAR ever gets them really right. I dunno why that is, but I also dunno why anyone keeps using RAR. It's something of a joke in the windows dev community.
Having children is reaaaaaally expensive. Much more than people would expect.

Most 25 year old couples don't have this money, in this day and age. It would require out of them that they both work hardcore hours... but then when baby has come, who will take care of it? Babysitters? Daycare? They're expensive as hell. Clothes, food stuff, toys, childcare services, carseats, strollers, etc. all add up to something humongous. This is not to mention the mental toll of getting up each damn night at 3a.m. to calm crying babies.

Daycare often times costs more than what one of the parents make, it's that expensive. For whatever reason Americans want to get away from their parents after getting married (unlike a lot of Asian countries), so if you can't rely on your parents to help out it's really difficult and it'll exhaust you out before you know it.
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Why Google, Facebook, Microsoft and IBM Are Desperate to Give Away AI Technology
I'm getting 404.
That's the thing. With better formats, you don't need 320 kbps for transparency.
Hiking for Emails [video]
* MikTeX (windows TeX/LaTeX) system started using it circa 2007.
* TexLive switched, iirc, circa 2008.
* ArchLinux started circa 2010.
* Linux kernel 2.6.0, iirc, circa 2011(?)
* Gnome switched circa 2011.

There are others but I can't remember. It's fairly common now.
Craig Wright is not the inventor of Bitcoin...

First Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym first part implies clear thinking second part implies central in origin..its meaning might be central to the origin of cyber-encryption movement..although that probably is not it..but the made up name does imply that the inventor is central to an encryption movement.
People act how they truly are when they feel there are no consequences or negative repercussions to their actions.

Watching assholes fly through my neighborhood, run stop signs and hit my cars and trees are a clear testament to this every day of my life. Cops couldn't care less either.

It's amazing to watch the difference in how 90%+ of people drive when I'm standing out there, vs when I'm not. The ~10% that still drive like maniac assholes are the ones that should truly be concerning though.
Sue them in court for damages. Folks sue corporations all the time for various reasons and often win. We should be able to sue polluters as well, but governments often protect them for various reasons (like tax base, campaign contributions, etc). Oil spills are a great example of corporations having immunity thanks to government.
I know your feeling too, thanks for accepting I feel differently. And sometimes I ask myself "What the hell am I doing with this Surface book?" I won't pretend I don't have doubts.

It's sort of a rough time for devs right now even as we enjoy unprecedented prosperity and recognition. Big businesses are attempting to monetize and control every aspect of developers.
There are many arguments in favor of income equality/social democracy, and some of them make sense (less crime for example). However, I've never heard anybody point out before that it's not genetically sustainable in the very long-term. Well, ok, there was that movie Idiocracy...
Bingo.

I recall that when the cassette tape came along, there was a contemplation of banning it. But it was decided to be "undemocratic" to do so, especially as to uphold such a ban one would have to basically police very home.

Given that this was while the cold war was still going, the nations of the west had a low water mark to compare themselves to.

So instead home copying of audio was given a pass, as long as it was done among family and friends.

These days however you may not have a cop but you have a potential snitch, the PC. And with the USSR gone, there is no longer a low water mark to avoid being compared to.

Thus politicians today are all too willing to entertain ideas that just a few decades ago was unthinkable.

Never mind that copyright as a concept came about when the printing press was something manually operated, and was a law about profit sharing between author and printer (the latter likely holding all the cards, being the owner of a press and all).

That press was big, expensive, and needed to be operated for profits basically.

And the same held true for early music records and movies, both needed heavy an potentially manual machines to produce.

Now however you can compress all those machines into something that fits on a desk, or perhaps even in a lap or pocket.

That shifts things around in a massive way, and the need to have a profit motive to own and operate a "press" is gone.
Science-Fiction Writers Association Review of Kindle Publishing Contract (2008) [pdf]
In English it's called "An Act Respecting the Marketing of Agricultural, Food and Fish Products": http://www.canlii.org/en/qc/laws/stat/cqlr-c-m-35.1/latest/c...
Diffoscope: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
Cider (for Clojure) and Ensime (for Scala) give you excellent support for auto-completion, documentation, and refactoring in Emacs. It's definitely possible, so it probably just depends on how popular Emacs/Vim are in your language community.
Reference. Fire up the man file in one window, and the command you are composing in another.

This while seeing the results of another ongoing command in a third and so on.
Aerocene
One issue with the Federation is that cheating is really rampant, even among its board members.

Part of the problem is that maple syrup harvesting is essentially a seasonal activity, with quite a short season, so it's a side activity for almost all producers, except the very largest ones; when they see high prices, they really want to make the extra money, unlike dairy farmer who sell year-long.
There seems to be a disconnect between the real world and Bitcoin write-ups. Reliability of currency, security of accounts, service, and so on is great at many banks with the negatives mostly happening at the greedier ones. There's also groups like credit unions. These currently have fewer problems than solutions like Bitcoin outside fees for processing, forex, etc.

Interesting enough, the fees are only a small percentage of many's revenue. They could be greatly reduced or even eliminated while the bank would remain profitable. A non-profit bank chartered to keep things no higher than X% would do fine. Procedural issues and incentives might be dealt with there to where possible to align bank's values with stakeholders.

I'm fine with research in distributed banking and such. I'm not for pretending current banks have problems they don't or ignoring straight-forward solutions where applicable. The centralized model with distributed checks is best for banking. Traditional currency is fine and governments would fight alternatives anyway. So, best to leverage and improve the proven model in the interim until P2P models solve their many problems. Side benefit: one could help many small businesses and poor people that way potentially.
1/6 is using (al)pine for email, in 2015.

I highly recommend it.
Having talked to many Windows users, I'm convinced that they never experienced the package and release management process of Linux distros before. If they did, they would constantly complain about Windows. With many Linux distros you can even update packages as part of the installation process, giving you a fully up to date distro. There's no reason for Microsoft to do anything less since they require serial keys, activation and network connections anyway.

Compare the time it takes to remove or install a component (application or library) and you will be very disappointed in Windows. No matter how fast your disk or cpu is, Windows finds a way to make you wait half a weekend. This is unacceptable, but nobody complains loud enough for Microsoft to reconsider.

Windows software management is a total mess and it got worse with newer Windows versions.

But other parts of Windows get better with each release and it's mostly the kernel land. This seems to be a case of different teams having different culture (Windows kernel, Windows shell, Windows installer, ...). Take Windows 2003's desktop, put it on Window's 10's kernel, and you have a nice system.
I wish, that every time I saw a quote like this in a news article, the journalist would put a caption referencing the fallacy type.