skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are protected by the attack helicopters.
"let's make everything a filesystem so it's dead easy to hang yourself from userland tools"
I've developed a tool (http://diff.so) that might be a good fit for your LaTeX diffing problem. It's pretty buggy and slow right now, but I'd be interested in your thoughts.
Can pay wall sights be tagged so that... i don't click on those links?
I'm curious how they're actually going to do this. I mean, they can shut down buyer/seller pages dedicated to guns, but those same groups can just set up generic group pages and carry on pretty much as before, except price and location won't be as prominently displayed. At worst, the moderators of those groups will simply be more inconvenienced.
Sure, as long as we prohibit advertising in media, tax it up the ass, and force warning labels covering at least 25% of any logo.
Police officers, whether dirty or clean, cannot commit anyone. In both cases the psychiatrist was responsible.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/woman-interest-clippers-...
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Their wikipedia page, the 3rd google result for me, should provide enough info by itself.

I do agree that some level of explanation would definitely be useful, but this comes up so often that I really don't find it surprising that people are too lazy to explain such statements.
There needs to be a shared hosting static page generator solution. WordPress does have a plug in but the average user doesn't even know it's a problem.
Sure it can, if part of the population actually supports the dictatorship, it becomes even more dangerous for the persecuted minority. We've seen examples of this many times.
Why? Do you have any way of characterizing this claim as being false?
Yes - Facebook is a cathedral, not a bazaar. The contents of your news feed can be easily (automatically) manipulated to fit any agenda that Facebook wants you to receive [0].

Regardless of your gun politics, one web site operated by a self-interested third party is never completely trustworthy as a public forum. I wish more non-tech people would understand this.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinker...
Unless you're doing something super screwy, GRUB, the excuse for this backwards default, doesn't even need access to UEFI. UEFI booting looks for a file in a FAT-formatted partition of a hard disk with a specific ID -- C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B for GPT disks and 0xEF for MBR disks. All EFI does is to look for a file BOOTX64.EFI on that partition. There's no need to muck around the UEFI settings for this, it Just Fucking Works.
This is going to sound like trolling, but it isn't meant to be: Why are some people passionately averse to milk?

Personally, I've always seen cow's milk as the quintessential drink of Western Christendom: something that Germans, Scots, Englishmen, Scandinavians, Celts (from the Hebrides all the way to Navarre and Galicia), and provincial Frenchmen consume, but that's all but unknown among foreigners -- including the predatory, Viking-descended aristocracies in London and, especially, Paris. (The English upper class proverbially never trusted an adult who drank milk; the French upper class hardly even remembered that it existed, except as a precursor to cheese.)

My theory is that those who hate milk see it in the same way as I do, but don't share my fondness for Western Christendom. The old-money "Northeastern establishment" in the United States never quite forgave God for how His Book is fine with slavery; Jews and Germans always did feud, but these days the Jews have very good reason to be frightened when they hear talk of traditional voelkisch German-ness (which in any case never did like them); eastern and southern peoples, not all of whom can consume milk in the first place, might reasonably regard milk as a symbol of a society that was as rich as it was xenophobic. And people born into the old Western order but seeking to escape it -- including most Americans, to some extent or other -- might want to escape its symbols, too.

Does this sound about right, or are there other reasons for disliking milk? I can understand personally not drinking it, if you don't have mature lactose tolerance; I can see excellent reasons for disliking industrial dairying with battery farms of miserable, inbred, inadvertently-cannibal cows (I don't touch milk unless it's organic and from humanely-raised cows); but if it isn't for the reasons above, I don't know why people dislike -- indeed, passionately shun and repudiate -- the very idea of drinking milk.
But that assumes a police force which isn't inherently abusive and corrupt, though.

How so?
What are we supposed to use? How do I know the host I pick has any better security practices or that they just haven't been owned so far? Which other VPS providers have essential features like private networking?

Please don't say AWS, I have no interest in learning that overcomplicated mess.
On the other hand, isn't it hypocritical to recommend a de-escalation of police violence and power while at the same time encouraging citizens to take up guns against those "modern police forces"?

The whole goal, if I would understand it correctly, would be to reduce the total amount of violence and death. In any case, recommending violence as a response to other violence only makes the situation worse.
Yes, if you click on the message bubble on the lower right. They have a chat client that allows you to directly speak with there team. I'm sure they would appreciate that kind of feedback, to help improve the product. They have always been very responsive with us.
Not true, the numbers clearly show that its consultancy companies that take up the vast majority of the H1B quota.

http://foreign-employment.findthedata.com/

Microsoft is the first big 'tech' company on the list at no. 11 with 3600 applications. Compare that to Infosys which had over 23,000 applications, or Tata with 14,000.

Its also conspicuous that the consultancy companies pay much less and seem to apply for drastically less green card labour certs as a percentage of H1B's than the tech companies.
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Have you ever tried using submodules, in a repository that multiple people commit to?
Most states require you to show firearms purchaser IDs

Minor point, but there aren't that many states that have firearm purchaser IDs. NY, NJ, MA, IL are a few, but most states don't require anything more than a driver's license.
YC should fund research into the foundations of the open Internet and web. The Internet was created decades ago as a public research project. Decades later, tremendous amounts of that value was captured by Internet startups.

The thing that distinguishes the Internet and web from other technology is that it is open and interoperable. Its style is just profoundly different.

Individual companies have no incentive to create such technology. They create things in the style of Apple, Facebook, or much of Google's later technology.

The Internet was funded by the military. Unix was created by a telephone monopoly. The web was created by a benevolent researcher. I think it would make sense for YC to fund the next system along these lines.

This kind of innovation takes place on a time scale not accessible to most organizations.
I had a similar experience -- my buddy and I moved on from hypercard to "real" programming when he picked up a codewarrior compiler at a garage sale.

I remember sitting there trying to decide if we should try to figure out this weird C stuff or Pascal first. We ended up going with C. Probably a good choice, in retrospect.

It's hard to tell how much of it's "first love" nostalgia, but I remember codewarrior as being very simple, very fast, and very well designed.

Visual Studio and autotools were both quite a shock. (I still can't believe people use the autotools shit-chain. Ungodly terrible.)
Except, fully automatic guns are legal. You need a special license to own them, and they get registered, but they are legal. They just aren't as easy to buy and own as semi-automatic weapons.
Climbing Mount Improbable had much the same affect on me. However it is worth noting that Dawkins himself is not certain God does not exist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Daw...
Oh great find!

Here's a radio interview with them as well

http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2015/08/24/school-b-...

Not much more enlightening I'm afraid.

The wife doesn't work (when not running the B&B) at all. So if there's any outside income it's her husband.

Who knows? Maybe they just burned up all their savings renovating this place and live just lean enough to make it work. If so, good for them!
Technically, you can get a fully automatic rifle in the US -- but it's very expensive and requires a special permit. It would have had to have been in circulation prior to the 1986 ban; there is a very limited pool of them in collector's hands and they go for 5 figures.
Consensus seems to be that we need to build out the web client next.

We always planned to make a web version, but don't expect we'll be able to do too much better than existing solutions.
SNI and IPv6 are two pretty big ones since the limited number of IPv4 addresses limited the practicality of having one IP for each SSL site.
Income and wealth can be created out of thin air with a willing, determined and optimistic set of people.

The people who first came to the new world had no wealth or income - they built it themselves.

It's not something that is static, it can be created anywhere. There is nothing special about american soil.
I don't think he's kicking the can down the road, at least not all the way to end users. I think he is implying that it's something distros should do, presumably after installing as part of their post-install config.

Either way is going to break things and I'm sure there'd be people lining up to complain about them making it ro by default or adding some sort of safety layer in. Might as well leave it as it is and let the various distros do what they want with it. I do think though that someone should do something and this sort of thing shouldn't be possible, but I can understand the stance of leaving it up to the distros to decide as a reasonable compromise.
I think the "Year of Linux on the desktop" thing is BS and needs to stop. It's been the year of Linux on the desktop for 15 years now. Can't GNU/Linux just be a solid server platform? Not trying to be a troll, but if someone says "the year of Linux on the desktop" one more time...
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/r/bestof would disagree with you.
Interesting how many downvotes this is getting while none of the replies seem to disagree with my main point which is that neo4j is incorrectly marketing this like as if it was something new.
That's why I did say "If people in state X have a problem with that, then they should get together and find a solution to it."
Right, it seems pretty clear to me.
I just created a PR to deploy Kinto on Google App Engine (Managed VMs).

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/p...

If there's interest I'll try to flesh it out more.
Only removable disks use bootx64.efi, though some (but not all) BIOSes will look for that on fixed disks too. efibootmgr needs access to efivarsfs to configure an EFI boot entry for Linux on a fixed disk. Relying exclusively on bootx64.efi on the EFI system partition will break on some devices, and will overwrite the Windows bootloader (and conversely, Windows doing so will render Linux unbootable).
Yup. I've successfully added contexts to Preact, but I still am not 100% sold on the value. Thankfully, simply supporting them doesn't add much bloat.
In linux, there is the immutable file attribute which won't let root rm the file without first changing it with chattr.
There's a lot of different types of Layer 7 attacks, what sort of a payload is a "400 bad request"?
Italy has more "Americaness" than Canada? I have my doubts...
Honestly, it looks more like Mail.app. It really will if we offer a single window mode.

My co-founder, James, most recently worked at Apple. Pretending he wasn't influenced at all by (the good parts) of Radar would be disingenuous.
full automatic assault rifles are not legal in the US

That's incorrect, they are legal federally, but some states have made them illegal.

In order to purchase an automatic weapon, you need to submit a form to the FBI, provide fingerprints, have your local police chief sign-off (or create an LLC) and pay a $200 tax.

It's a very thorough background check.

Not many people buy them since the cheapest weapons cost $10,000 and go up to $50,000. This is due to the limited supply since civilians can only buy automatic weapons that were built before 1986.
If you mount efivarsfs read-only, efibootmgr can't make your system bootable. So at a minimum, you can't just remount the filesystem read-only; you need distribution integration so efibootmgr can still write to it.

There's no point in mounting efivarsfs read-only; you might as well not mount it at all.
From my point of view, he wasn't saying it because it's an extra character, but because http://news.ycombinator.com is more cryptic and harder to understand than http:news.ycombinator.com.

That fits into my belief that more readable (move instead of mv) is better.
It's dickish saying that without explanation. Like this it sounds like baseless smearing.

If he argumented the reasons before he could had just put a link. Sincerely, it's too much to ask?
The problem is that there is little push from the people for companies to be open about this sort of thing.

People just expect that since they don't see it happen, that it does not.
Yeah... causing this confusion is one of my more regrettable mistakes of the year. Honestly if some amazing name came along I would not be entirely opposed to changing it.
Limiting maximum wage would drive people to found their companies overseas and outsource to America.
There are lots of points. One is to support local farmers, so you can create a relationship with them. Around here (Iowa) I know the folks who I get eggs and meat from; several cheesemakers are in the immediate area and supply our grocery stores. Bread is baked in town by folks I know. And so on.
In the same vein, I have various org-mode files that I can switch buffer to whenever a thought needs to be noted. org-twbs outputs a nice html rendering with a couple of keystrokes.
There is a finite number of words people understand.
We don't have older machines to test on, and we built it for ourselves first.

I use Windows, but a web client is probably next.
Linode has not only been hacked countless times. So many times in fact that it's hard to blame it on just incompetence, but on gross negligence on their part.

Then there's the whole lying to cover up hacks, not investigating clear compromises when reported by customers and generally just avoiding any kind of negative press at all costs.
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Did you not ask "what are you working on?"
How long before someone realises that grub could also be made part of systemd... cringes
>The Mountain View Computer History Museum is saying goodbye to one of its most unique exhibits, if not also its most priceless.

I know its poor form to mention such things but "unique" and "priceless" are both absolutes: something is unique/priceless or it's not. For example, if one thinks about two unique things it is not possible to say which is more unique than the other. (If one thinks about Difference Engines, since there is one in the Science Museum and one in the Computer History Museum, neither is unique.)

Usually when I see this sort of thing I shrug and remind myself that living languages constantly change. (It seems that "unique" has lost some of its force and is changing its meaning to something like "very unusual" or "very rare".) But two examples in one sentence apparently stirs the old fuddy-duddy in me to action...
(1) "Argumented" isn't a word.

(2) I'm comfortable with the fact that my suggestion sounded "dickish" to you, whatever that means. It is meant seriously, though.
I am generally not a fan of analogies but I think yours is a good one.
I sure don't remember those anywhere near the scale of app and domain names
Why did you pick companies that make crud apps?

If you're good, and can prove it, you ought to have the potential to work on things that excite you.

Your experiences thus far can be seen as learning experience teaching you about what you want/need in a job. You want to engage the customer. You don't like test. You don't want to be at the whim of marketing and bosses who've never programmed.

You've already discovered it's not programming you're tired of, and that's valuable to know.

Just to throw out an idea, there's B2B software companies that employ engineers as consultants to work with client companies. You probably wouldn't like doing this for mega-enterprise, but if the client companies are small they will have a human face.
I disagree.

"Genes as the unit of selection" was, at the time TSG was written, a controversial theory. Group selection was the popular viewpoint (the very tempting notion that individual animals make selfless sacrifices for the herd). Dawkins meticulously showed that the contrary gene selection viewpoint was the best theory for the observed evidence - original, conceptual scientific theory at its best.

He introduced "memes" as a speculative addition at the end of the book. There's nothing wrong with speculation, and it can be a valuable tool to discover insights which later form theories, but its fundamentally different to the rigour needed to establish new scientific knowledge.

"Memes" are an interesting concept, but people take the idea too far IMO, and Dawkins was right to confine his speculations to one chapter. I'd definitely agree with a weak version of the theory - ideas which include the notion that 'spreading this idea is good', tend to spread more. (Compare Christianity and Islam versus Hinduism or Buddhism). The strong version of the theory, though, goes too far, and sees people as being entirely determined by their ideas. People have independent minds and can analyse, judge, refine and/or reject the ideas they encounter - they're not passive slaves to memes.

Sentences like: "The seemingly irreconcilable split between liberals and conservatives could be explained as the beginning of a species split resulting from this conflict, with liberals evolving a bias towards the interests of memes and conservatives biased towards the interests of genes" - once upon a time I would have said "oh wow, what an interesting possibility". Nowadays I see this kind of thinking as fundamentally vapid and lazy. Historians already knew how to analyse the spread of ideas throughout a society long before the concept of a 'meme' - Gibbon, for example, was writing about how the differences between the different sects of Christianity affected their spread, 300 years ago. (I could say something similar about social scientists, though I'm not a huge fan of modern social science for other reasons).

Saying that memes are alive, or that liberals and conservatives represent two different species, to me represents an ungrounded way of thinking, where concepts float without touching reality.

TL;DR - Dawkins achievement lies in definitively stating the case for gene selection (and writing a damn good popsci book); his concept of 'memes' is mind candy for the reddit crowd.
Can you guys give me some feed back on this app?
The standard is for EFI to look for that partition on all disks, even hard disks. If there are a few broken systems that do otherwise, they could use other methods, but keeping things mostly standardized seems like the best way to go. It's how Windows does it, it's how FreeBSD does it, it's how OpenBSD does it, etc. Mucking around with it doing otherwise is just asking for problems.
the entitlement is strong with this one
It is over…
There are times I am comfortable talking publicly about things and contributing context or color commentary.

There are times I am comfortable broadcasting clear, direct advice that might hurt some entity's feelings.

There aren't many times when I am comfortable doing both at the same time.
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> Polls have shown that 30% of all photographs taken by 18 to 24 year-olds are selfies — so the average age here (21) doesn’t come as much of a surprise: it makes sense that the demographic taking the most selfies also perishes the most in the process.

That's sloppy writing. 18-24­–year-olds might be taking the most selfies, but that statistics doesn't support that.
I believe that your #4 is the same as staunch's #2.
Recognizing correct code
If they'd gotten cash, they still wouldn't have gotten what you claim is their "fair share (billions)". They would have gotten about $464mm (80% of $580mm, Seagate had a 20% stake), assuming they didn't get a premium for taking the all-stocks. Taking the stock was their bet on getting their billions.
This goes equally well for all these new languages popping up. Even if it is better at everything it does that is not enough. Legacy code and developer community consists of huge amounts of institutional knowledge. Its asking a lot of anyone to make the change.

I think about the only new languages that have a chance are domain specific languages in a brand new domain.
I would love to live in an unconventional house. There are schools closing in surrounding farming areas regularly but most are too much travelling time and poor Internet access.

When there are some good ones with decent services not far from population, the government seems to have problems getting the schools on the market. By the time anyone can buy them they would be ruins.
The sports analogy for buying a huge public company's common stock is buying a season ticket. The season tickets are relatively liquid compared with actual team ownership and the value rises and falls with how well managed the team is and how popular the league is overall.

If you bought a NE Patriots season ticket in 2000 and sold it in 2010, you made a pretty penny and you hopefully enjoyed 8*10 NFL games with your friends/family. If you bought a Tennessee Titans season ticket 10 years ago, you can't name your selling price today, but it is still worth hundreds of dollars.
Python taught me some good practices in regards to this. Python's "enforcement" (or rather, strong PEP-8 suggestions) of 80 characters per line teaches you to come up with a lot of ways to avoid nesting.

The most useful one, and the one that drives me crazy when I see it, is when people write code like this:

if something:
value = do something
else:
value = do something else

return value

These days I write code like this:

if something:
return do something

return do something else

In the simple example, it's not a big deal. But once you have 30 lines of code in between each statement (and nested if statements), it gets trickier to maintain every possible code path in your head.

This isn't the same as "show all conditions at once" -- instead it's "ignore the conditions that have already been satisfied."

Seeing that we already returned out in condition #1 lets me focus more on condition #2.