skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent is advocating for the Slackware approach—just take whatever's in the upstreams and slam it together—but installed into a container (so all that slamming doesn't conflict with anything), and distributed as a container image. This is effectively the 'modern Linux app philosophy', as supported by systemd et al. It's similar in concept to app bundles, but it also assumes automatic sandboxing.

It's great for games in particular, given that you'll be able to boot up a 10-year-old game container-image as if it were new. (In that way, it's like game emulation, but without the performance drawbacks.) Most other "app" software gets lesser-but-still-significant benefits, in much the same way you see on e.g. the Mac App Store with their self-sandboxing apps.

There's little advantage in distributing system software this way, given that system software is usually full of low-level extension-points that other system software plugs into to achieve the purpose. And this is what can make a platform abstraction layer like Android make sense. With a platform, the system software is all composed together by the platform maker into an underlayer, and a single, clean API is specified atop it. Above the platform abstraction, there doesn't need to be any exposed runtime model for system software—since it's all been encapsulated into the black box of the underlayer. The platform only needs to specify a model for developing+running+distributing app software.

Sometimes things straddle the boundary, though. There are numerous cases of software that has "failed out" of the Mac App Store after a while, because the software is fundamentally a system-software/app-software hybrid, and sandboxing the system-software aspects just didn't work.
The implications are huge - if you are more prone to actively resist or think that its wrong it will actively trigger panic, PTSD, anxiety and paranoia. If you think of them as spirits and your society values them its not a big deal, sometimes even possible helpful?
That is just... stupid. Calling out a major corporation for deceptive practices is "stirring up trouble"? A non-profit organization is supposed to be "on the same side" as some company you arbitrarily annoint as the holy one? Someone who "knows who they are" seriously believes they are "being paid" to do what they always do, shine a light on troubling events in the digital world?

Are you a t-mobile employee?
>John Legere firmly believes that he fights for the user (consumer)

That seems... unlikely.

Further saying "he's going to lash back and ask" implies that was the only and inevitable response, as opposed to say: just having the PR department draft a response carefully defining what exactly BingeOn does/doesn't while trying it's damnedest to pretend it's just issuing this release because T-Mobile felt like it and not at all because a consumer advocacy group called them a bunch of shitheels... you know how companies usually respond.
Even easier is the Postgres.app for Mac. It's a Mac application that wraps the Postgres server. Nothing to compile, just download and start the app.
People seem to dislike this because they want separate components in order to 'scale out', but honestly, having the option for most trivial applications would be extremely nice. Even more so when you consider Postgres supports routines written in non-sql programming languages.
It might not even have to with traditional shamans, it could be simpler than that, from an article by a psychologist:

" I once was lucky enough to spend time in an Egyptian village in the late 1970s, before technology or even electric lights had arrived there. One of the villagers had long, impassioned conversations with people no one else could see. He also had a way of seeing through everyone’s pretensions. He could tell jokes no one else could get away with.

Village life was not utopia. It was difficult in many ways. But this one man, who would almost certainly be diagnosed with schizophrenia if he lived in the developed world, had a secure, safe place in his village. He could wander the wide-ranging mysteries his perceptions opened to him, and if he forgot to feed himself along the way, sooner or later someone would feed him and give him a gentle push toward the door of his home.

Contrast his life with that of a typical client in a mental-health agency in Seattle. I remember one man, early in my training, who gave me the most baffled, hurt look when he asked me, “Why do people on the radio lie to us?”

“I can tell that the woman who’s talking about Macy’s isn’t really happy,” he went on, “but she’s pretending to be happy. Why?”

He felt injured by the woman’s lies, and I could see why, because he had a point. He was accurately perceiving the incongruence in her voice. All of the lying we do to each other in the name of advertising can’t be good for us. But most of us, whose brains aren’t quite as strongly bathed in dopamine in certain places where my client’s brain was constantly overstimulated, can tune advertising out. He couldn’t. "

It's from a fascinating article: http://crosscut.com/2014/05/our-indiviualist-society-breeds-...
I use Xubuntu on Work PC, Home PC, Media PC and Laptop.

I love XFCE, It's fast, stable, easily configured, uses normal GTK stuff so fits with the Gnome apps, is a regular plain old desktop (main menu, window buttons/taskbar).

Mostly the thing I like about XFCE is I don't have to think about it, it just does it's thing, stays out of my way and doesn't break a user interface covenant I'm used to all the way back to Win95.

Of course you can run XFCE on pretty much any distro but the Xubuntu folks do an excellent job of packaging it all up and having access to Ubuntu's PPA's is a big win since pretty much everything is packaged for it.
ken had written most of the original asm kernel.
Doesn't this projection depend on the assumption these companies operate entirely within China and not global markets?
Reminds me of this story:

A fellow had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. "Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve," he said.

Well, things went along pretty smoothly, but six months later, sales took a downturn and he was really catching a lot of heat. About at his wit's end, he remembered the envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first envelope. The message read, "Blame your predecessor."

The new CEO called a press conference and tactfully laid the blame at the feet of the previous CEO. Satisfied with his comments, the press -- and Wall Street - responded positively, sales began to pick up and the problem was soon behind him.

About a year later, the company was again experiencing a slight dip in sales, combined with serious product problems. Having learned from his previous experience, the CEO quickly opened the second envelope. The message read, "Reorganize." This he did, and the company quickly rebounded.

After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times. The CEO went to his office, closed the door and opened the third envelope.

The message said, "Prepare three envelopes."
In an interview in the BBC Special about Bletchley Park 'The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs' David Balme is interviewed and the focus is on the bigram tables that he captured intact. There is no mention of actually capturing an Enigma machine. This is not to say that one wasn't included in the capture of U110.

Rather, I get the sense that the capture of the bigram tables was a Big Thing, possibly more important than the acquisition of a physical Enigma in the breaking of the Naval Enigma code, as Turing had engineered much of the machine conceptually.

N.B. Would post the link to the BBC special - it's part 2 of 4, and quite interesting - but I don't have a strong enough sense of what is netiquette in the posting of links yet.
When can we expect something for PHP?
I don't think it's the people. I think it's the content.

Facebook and Twitter inundate me with reshared content from third parties that I mostly have no interest in. Snapchat in contrast is content created by people I know, and they choose to send it to me specifically.

It might be as mundane as breakfast, or a pet doing something funny, or new bedroom curtains, but it's still an update about the life of a friend. Facebook might have a rant about how awful the day at work was which is boring to read. We've all got jobs. Or a reshare of 43 things every women in her 30s hates about Thursday afternoon. Snapchat might have a picture of someone's lunch knocked onto the floor. You think "hah that sucks" and it's gone.
Institutional racism is defined (according to the wikipedia article you link to) as unequal statistical outcomes and unequal statistical treatment (e.g. group X being more likely to live in poor neighborhoods), sliced by race.

White people can certainly experience this in countries where they are the majority. As an example taken directly from the wikipedia article, white people significantly underperform Asians on standardized tests, they are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods, have worse health, and are disproportionately likely to be "targeted" by police (also they commit less crime).

Can you cite any piece of evidence in favor of institutional racism by whites against blacks that doesn't also support institutional racism by asians against whites?
Ok thanks, that makes sense. I'm just curious when snapchat has longevity like twitter, and you have hundreds of people you're following their stories, how that User experience will be different than twitter or instagram at that point. I imagine, eventually they will need a way to curate the best user stories or active user stories out of your list of hundreds.
It was a great reminder to setup a subscription to EFF, Thanks John!
That's exactly what happened in Australia [0]

It's definitely made me re-evaluate some of my AliBaba purchases - I don't think insurance will cover you if your house is burnt down by something that doesn't comply to Australian safety standards.

[0]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-07/government-raises-hove...
Mayer will be walking away with a $158M golden parachute[0], and will undoubtedly have another nice executive position lined up in no time.

It's amazing how much respect she's garnered in the tech community. From all the public info on her, she doesn't seem to have much product vision - rather, she's just a manager who's good at making data-driven decisions (the infamous "41 shades of blue"[1]) to incrementally optimize products that already have their flywheels spinning, and got insanely lucky by betting on the right horse back in 1999.

0: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/12/04/maris...

1: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Welcome to HN!

Since others covered the topic of metaphors, let me give just a quick practical hint instead. Ignore the downvotes. That is, try and detach yourself emotionally from them.

Even the most controversial opinions get a fair hearing if you take little care to keep them civil. Not politically correct, not hedged every other word, just civil. Still, even if Jesus himself were to write a HN comment that goes agaist status quo, he could catch occasional downvotes. Because people are people. But what ultimately matters here is if people engage with your argument. Catching a few downvotes is totally worth it if it leads to a constructive discussion.

And yes, you can expect that even most benign comments will occasionally catch some random downvotes. Your comment may get down to negative karma for a while, but it usually settles back to a positive score within an hour or two. Karma system isn't perfect and people aren't perfect either; hell, it's easy to get downvoted by accident because up and down arrows are way too close to each other, especially on mobile :).
I've never heard of this framework, but it looks/sounds awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Origin of the DHCP “magic cookie” value: OREO
Totally indecipherable what this is ...
I'm very much in favor of the EFF, and I've donated a few times (not a sustaining member though).

For an organization like the EFF, the worst thing that could happen is for them to end up in some sort of funding transparency scandal, especially because of a troll CEO.

Does anyone know if the EFF publishes a list of corporate donors[1]?. Perhaps, they should, to avoid questions like this having an effect on their image.

1. Surely, https://www.eff.org/thanks is not exhaustive
I'd be more interested in what percentage of the US stock market vs China is held by a tiny percentage of the population vs a broader public. Reductions in wealthy by a tiny minority has a smaller impact than the latter when looking beyond statistics.
The version used was only half as powerful as it could have been, thanks to the ethics of the designer, who feared the environmental risks and fudged the math to halve its effects.
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That's basically standard. Give it 6 months.
H. pylori bacteria from the stomach of Ötzi the “Iceman” suggests Asian contact
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After skimming through this, I navigated around this Chris Siebelmann's site with the forward and back links, discovering something way more interesting than Unix strings and refreshingly relevant:

"How I do per-address blocklists with Exim"

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximPerUse...

I run Exim, and I'm also a huge believer in blocking spam at the SMTP level, and also do some things globally that should perhaps be per-user. I'm eagerly interested in everything this fellow has to say.
Whether or not it's true that the data throttling is unintentional, by being publicly hostile to the EFF, he's losing customer goodwill that's one of the biggest things T-Mobile has going for them.
How E-Cigarettes Help People Stop Smoking – APPlite
I'm not sure if the whoosh is over my head or yours at this point.
altonzheng got it right I think when he wrote

I had a similar revelation a while back with Snapchat. Users complain that you can't create groups to send to, you have to manually select each person. I like this - it means when you receive a snapchat, you know that person intentionally selected you to share a part of their life with. It adds a subtle but meaningful quality to a message that could be considered spammy and impersonal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860501

Snapchat requires you to select who you want to see your snap. There's no facility to push into everyone's feed. I'm not sending it to my "Friends" or my "Family" without consideration.

You aren't going to click 200 people, or 150, or 50. You're going to think "These five people really love hiking." Or "My cousins were talking about adopting a husky." Or "Last time I burned bacon like this was with John and Jane."

Saying "you can only have 150 friends" wasn't the key to a more personal experience. It just meant there was a hard limit on how many people could spam you. The key for me is the tiny marginal cost of sending something to N+1 people, so instead you choose more thoughtfully.
What the fuck is this? People of European descent are responsible for societal coercion are we? This is Zionist white-hate propaganda.
Google is much more sprawling, diverse, Microsoftian than those other companies, which are all essentially focused on one core product.
Understood. Thank you for your thoughtful responses
Who is stealing from whom?

Future Motion applied for their patent on July 21, 2015 and the application was published and publicly viewable on Nov. 12, 2015.

http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20151112ptan20150323935.php

Changzhou First International Trade Co was established in 2011. I wasn't able to tell when they first started selling these scooters.

Were they really able to clone a product and get it in stores and demoed at CES between Nov. 12 2015 and today? Amazingly agile if so.

And not even addressing the issue that all these products really seem to be violating Dean Kamen's patents.
Whether you believe in the general utility of patents in the information age or not (and to be clear, I don't), this is a good reminder that patents are violence. You can't be truly non-violent and also believe in patents.
All true. Just don't forget that Joe is complicit each time he chooses that "roll-back" at Walmart and saves a buck over the more responsibly produced item(1).

(1) Of course you could argue that Joe can't tell the difference and is too bad off financially for it to matter anyway.
This approach certainly worked out well for me.

From way back in the "paying dues" phase, trading away stock options in favor of extra vacation time, and taking leaves of unpaid absence. On to my contracting days, working short gigs to maximize "bench" time and spending several months a year traveling abroad. Building SaaS products during some of that downtime and growing them in the background so that eventually they would let me step away from the day jobs entirely.

It has paid off two-fold, with both a better quality of life during the process, and a nice early "retirement", leaving lots of time to spend with the kids from here on out.

5 stars, would recommend. Don't chase money, chase free time.
Sorry, I was still editing my text, but I think I preserved the original meaning. Just in the interest of openness.
In scientific discussion, absence of evidence means that we accept the null hypothesis until such time that evidence is found.
> Snapchat is one of few apps that has a lot of hidden features for power users that are not explained anywhere.

AFAIK, every feature is explained on Snapchat's website. Also when new features are introduced, they've usually explained in the release notes on how to use them—like when lenses were first added.
Maybe there's some sort of middle ground here. Perhaps copyright extensions should be able to be applied for on a per-work basis, and to succeed, you have to demonstrate that you're still profiting from the work.

Let Disney have indefinite copyright on mickey mouse. But let's not lose the last century of our history.
It’s Different for Girls (2014)
Twitter isn't raising the 140-character limit. It's building a wall
Airplanes are easily "copyable". That didn't stop the Wright Brothers from patenting the first workable one. And they were engineers, not really entrepreneurs. It would be a shame for the brothers known for giving man the power of flight to never make any money from their achievement.
I'm not a fan of patents but I don't understand your comment. What exactly is violent about this?
I highly recommend that anyone who has yet been able to make it to the Tsukiji fish market does so before its demise later this year. It's a truly incredible place, and the Sushi holes there are the most incredible fish you'll eat anywhere in the world.

I have not have a meal that was better than the 15min Omakase Sushi meal I ate there at 5am after an hour of lining up.
There has to be a better way to run a company... this kind of thing from so many companies world wide cannot be good for society as a whole.
Tech help for healthcare idea
Aloha! I am looking for someone who would be interested in helping me develop a platform to help health care practitioners in practice. Essentially using technology to improve the workflow in a medical/dental. Thank you and aloha.
I don't understand the hate. Windows 10 is a great operating system and I am happy to use it. It is much more stable than Ubuntu Linux or any other OS I've ever used.

"2.4 billion questions asked to virtual assistant Cortana"

Things like that are really completely harmless. Microsoft already owns your ass by means of auto-updater (so does every vendor from which you download software updates) It is not time to be paranoid. As long as Microsoft keeps releasing quality products, they can anonymously track how long Windows users watch porn for all I care.
Have you ever been in China?

1. KFC? McD? Yes, they have this. But they also have their own chains. That you did not hear about them, does not mean they don't exist. I actually really like the (Japanese) chain Yoshinoya here but there are enough Chinese alternatives. Starbucks? Yes, they have this. But they have their (I assume) own chains (I assume for example Holyland and 85 degree are Chinese brands).

Technology? Yes, the rich kids love Apple products. But they have Haier, huawei, Hisense, Xiaomi. Your ignorance won't make this brands disappear. And if you don't want to buy them, there are billions of people and the world that will. And don't forget. "Made in Germany" was a label forced upon products by England to suggest "inferior technology". How did this turn out?

Instead of Paypal they use alipay, instead of Whatsup they use the much superior WeChat. Yet, Baidu is very inferior to google. They have Alibaba and Taobao.

Yes, they have their BMW, Mercedes and VW. But they also have their Chinese brands like BYD etc.

They may have a recession/depression for some years but it won't stop the rise of the East. The world GDP has already shifted back to the East after it shifted to the west due to the industrual revolution. The economic future lies in the Eurasian continent with Russia/CIS, India and China. Europe has two options - associate with the US or with the Eurasian continent. The US is very eager to prevent this (e.g. TTIP). Don't forget, Chinese think very strategically and long term.

The long term problems are likely different. Besides over aging (which can be seen in the West too), believe of cultural superiority. While it has it advantages not to be flooded with criminal "refugees" like Germany, the closed society in China also keeps talent out. Most superpowers (Rome, UK, USA) were very open for talent and it was easy or at least possible to become a citizen. This is a problem. Corruption? This can be fixed. But the deeper tendency to be dishonest is likely the cultural problem. Similar to Arabs, Chinese don't trust each other.
Great that Heroku sponsored upsert and have support for 9.5 right now (in beta): https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/1/7/postgres-95-now-av...?
Strings and arrays begin with one pointer-sized word that indicates the size of the string/array, thus making all the various mutant versions of functions that work with them unnecessary. And eliminate the requirement to specify length separately when passing as a function argument. And make bounds-checking trivial. And almost entirely eliminate buffer overflows.

This would naturally want malloc to know the type and count, eg: char[] x = malloc(char[], 100). That means no opportunity to screw it up (let the compiler turn that into the sizeof math to pass to the actual allocator).

If bounds checking is a performance bottleneck you could turn it off with compiler flags; that's not a valid argument against it.

But hey... all the various buffer overflows, RCEs, and various exploits are totally worth the minor performance gains /sarcasm.
The TV is where failed mobile operating systems go to thrive
You're correct that Idris doesn't force termination. That doesn't let you compute non-computable functions though (e.g. the busy beaver function).
From where I stand, it looks like you have your numbers backward. The reason you start a startup is so that you can work those 15-20 hour weeks (or less) without anybody giving you grief about it.

Shipping software works just fine on a few hours a weeks. Maybe a quick burst up front to get v1 out the door, but then you can ramp it down as far as you want to go. I've gone entire months without opening the IDE for some of my paying products.

The problem with client work is that as soon as you stop working, the client stops sending you money. SaaS doesn't work that way. Take advantage of that!
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Santa Clara-Based 'Shark Tank' Winner [Roominate] Gets Acquired
No? What do you suppose this is, then?

http://www.atkinsfacts.org/printer_friendly.html#8