skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And ultimately they will change China into something more driven-by-internal-demand, civic, modern ... even democratic.

I'm not so sure, although we've been hearing it for years. If anything, China's reign in Hong Kong shows that people are more or less willing to put up with autocracy as long as material conditions are good, and that's in a population accustomed to a more free society.
Breaking Swift with reference counted structs
"If you have a hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb."

JavaScript is reasonably suited to servers written around event loops like Hubot. But as a general purpose programming language I think it's reasonable to argue that it's pretty bad compared to alternatives like Erlang and Go in the space it's used in. Also debugging is a pain in the ass because stack traces aren't useful at all. (That's not limited to JS but it does make my life harder.)

In any event, we're talking about a telemetry collector, which is generally a trivial piece of code that simply doesn't need whatever benefits JS purports to provide.
The life of a modern-day nomad who hops from Airbnb to Airbnb every few weeks
I'm a power user and I work in Windows(+Python). I absolutely hate compatibility issues on stupid stuff that plague almost every Linux distro. And when there aren't (oh the rare few cases), then you have to compile half the libraries in the system again (take the hint, Debian!). The only distro that was bearable was Mint, and then we got the poisoned ISOs.

So, Windows+Python it is. If you really miss the command line utils, theres the GNU Core Utils package to solve your life (though pipes still behave slightly different and that may show in a contrived command).
Are you looking to hire?
This whole article is hilarious. At no stage whatsoever has Apple actually made a statement that confirms they haven even requested the method used. All this laughable article could provide is "quotes" from an antivirus company. Apple don't really care how they did it, or even if they really did crack it, just as long as they didn't have to be seen doing it for the government.
Show HN: Elevation, manage SRTM 30m the global high-res digital elevation model
It sounds like he's describing an idempotent lossy filter that preconditions the image such that it is more compressible by the lossless FLIF part. And that this approach is in contrast to JPEG which is not idempotent.
I believe he may have meant "glue one together from parts found on Github".

Case in point: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing
The password that was reset was the iCloud password, preventing the phone from automatically backing up until the new iCloud password was updated. The unlock pin was not changed.
Good point, thank you. Some things look in that weird way only because my (unfinished) implementation. You could use the exact same control as you would use in vanilla Cocoa app, you just need to write a correct wrapper (ViewManager). Most of the current controls are ported from iOS, I certainly should improve some of them. Also, UIExplorer also a ported app, and being not a great example, should be rewritten to achieve more OSX look and feel.

Update. Filled the issue https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-desktop/issues/52
That money has been pretty unevenly distributed, to say the least.
Disagree. They don't work if you only show one CAPTCHA. Your proposal defeats the entire purpose, because it only takes human interaction once to defeat CAPTCHA over CloudFlair's entire network. CAPTCHA isn't a silver bullet, and I don't think anyone is lauding it as the end-all be-all to stop spammers and malicious activity.
I was hoping for a fully supported Ubuntu running on MS Surface Pro.
Meh, liberals and conservatives like to immiserate the poor in different ways: conservatives try to drive down wages and liberals try to drive up prices.

As a simple matter of increasing purchasing power at the low end of the economic scale, Wal-Mart has done an amazing amount to reduce poverty. Financial services are hugely overpriced for poor people, and Wal-Mart providing financial services could be a fantastic way to lower those costs.
Yeah, this is really an "it depends"; where I'm at, at the edge of a medium sized city (Joplin, MO), the service is very good, tracking is good, although neither as good as UPS or FedEx, and I'm happy, especially with the weekend deliveries.

But I believe those who are saying it's not working well, and more importantly, it's not what they signed up for.
Visual Studio is better than any IDE in existence. With ViEmu it becomes even better.
I feel people who work on to fill the void of their inner core, will always tend to stay happy.

Here subjects who carried a void of low self esteem, by changing their looks coupled with how they viewed themselves and the world later on, had a powerful effect.

The same could be achieved if you had a good bank balance, and spent it on the matters, which yields good experiences, and in turn changes the way you view yourself and the world. Most of the time, it requires you to stay humble. But usually people don't prefer this. :)
Japan is also facing a demographic crisis that is probably not helped by the inability of young people to find jobs that would allow them to support a family.
SoundCloud (and MixCloud, not related) offers a lot of home-created content, but maybe more importantly, provide longer live and studio mix sessions by well known (and lesser known) DJs.
Yeah; I read the headline and presumed that they had been using a resilient data duplication scheme that allowed them to recover from the catastrophic loss of e.g. an entire datacenter's worth of data.
These tiny, autonomous robots don’t need computer programs to repair circuits
I remember a story from my Operations Research class ( most likely apocryphal ) that Stalin, riding a coal train to the front, watched as another coal train passed them and said "have whoever schedules the trains shot."

The oil industry isn't even a close second to agriculture in terms of risk to freshwater resources in the American West ( where the story takes place ). After a while as you read about our West, you realize that people may actually not be all that much supposed to live there at all, at least in parts of it. Trying to elevate freshwater to "irreplaceable" ignores almost all the behavior that actually surrounds it.

No, really - there's a book - "Cadillac Desert" which provides much context for this.

The fact that regulation seems always end in capture tells me something. For one, it's very hard to do. Think about how hard it is to assemble 100 people who truly understand something that is very complicated deeply. Something that takes dedicating your life to. Now think about how you'd assemble say, 200 of them. It's be some exponent or power harder, wouldn't it?

Criminal penalties may sound like a good idea ( to some; not to me ) but I don't really have a way to take such statements at face value. I'm not prepared to take what is generally considered legitimate activity and round up certain classes of mistakes to "go to jail."

Investing groundwater with "rights" and the ability to suffer "criminal torts" ( regardless of the horrors that may be inflicted on it ) seems a bridge too far. Even if we sum the rights of all the people who depend on it, it's difficult. After all, people have had to leave places before.

There could ( and perhaps should ) be some authority that must approve such activity in certain places. In the example, there should be no messing with formations that are that shallow. But that approval process sounds easier than perhaps it is.
The wisdom of old(er) age is simultaneously knowing that and not being bothered by that. I mean the feeling of regret, not you hating that statement LOL.

Its the mid-life crisis types that get all wound up and messed up about the wouldda-shouldda game. Its a bell shaped curve of being too young to have a past to fulminate over, to OMG I messed everything up, to the new definition of the past is stuff that no longer matters.

Due to wildly varying maturity rates this happens somewhere between maybe 25 and ... never.
The dashboard is gorgeous, one of the prettiest I've ever seen.

But I wish it were a Riemann/Graphite/whatever dashboard instead of reimplementing its own data collection system.

There is a need for great dashboards, but I don't feel any need for yet another format of data collection plugins.
Visited some relatives in Kerala. It seems municipality are pumping sea water. Pipe water is salty.
I remember a while ago, being a kid, visiting some relatives, when I've asked my guest elders why our host relatives have so many ignored problems scattered around. They discretely told me that our hosts got used to and that don't notice those anymore. This is how our mind works. In order to get out of problem blindness one may have to cure her senses or the said problems have to grow past the bearable levels. You have the gift of having clean senses, for now.
If you're doing cat, grep, sed I'd say that bash is very intuitive and I use it for that purpose all the time. If you're writing bash scripts, with if structures and loops and everything, then just python.
Hey @Btashton,

It has been fixed. please have a look at comment.

Thanks again.
Hmmm. It should be, but IIRC it's managed by the YaST GUI.
Did you READ "the article"? Where it talks about "using the river as a burial ground"?
How Travel Ruined My Chances of a Normal Life
CAPTCHAs are useful when you want to rate limit something to an extremely low rate, like for example attempting to login with a username and password.
Impressive. The dashboard can be a bit condensed though, put all details on one page is a little overwhelming, maybe have some tabs(cpu,memory,disk,network,etc)?
>but I wouldn't be surprised if this boiled down to the stipend being for more than the normal amount that they usually see from people in his age cohort.

I would bet that this, together with the fact that it didn't show up in their system, was the cause, not predatory racism.

The article is claiming that the student was "being impacted by predatory racism." I don't see any proof of this. The cops are black, the employee is black. If everyone would have skin colour $skin_colour, would it still be racism?
anyone else concerned that the captcha's offer an ability to de-anonymize someone completely?

for example having a backend algo offer certain captcha's that show up only in certain areas of the world?

I feel like this is entirely possible and is part of the reason I will not complete and captcha's moving forward.
I'm not going to actually respond to a decade of writing in one comment.

My comment was not meant as an indpendent discrediting of MM.

My comment was meant as a reading guide for someone who wants to read MM in good faith without wasting their time "down in the (irrelevant) weeds". A guide to the systematic flaws in MM's reasoning and writing style.

The process really is common sense:

1. Figure out what MM is actually saying, the evidence he provides, and then -- instead of engaging with that evidence -- first look for the obvious counter-evidence.

2. Beware of implicit theses. If the post doesn't directly and unambiguously address some point of interest -- but instead of just kind of rhetorically implies a position on that point of interest -- then ignore it.

It's not that MM is wrong "because common sense". It's that he's wrong, and the way of demonstrating he's wrong is by using common sense reasoning techniques instead of engaging with his inane details.
Using Amazon is more risky for them, though, for example, if Amazon kicks them to the curb, which happens frequently with e.g. DVD sales, they have to pay hefty money to either get their inventory back or have Amazon destroy it.

Me, I find that if I stick to sellers of enough age, quantity of sales, and a 96% or better rating, I'm very seldom disappointed.
The interesting question is what would you call these humans who are serving as your training set. Do you call them "Machine Therapists" (trying to coax the AI to proper behavior)? "AI Educators" (providing the material that is used to teach the AI)? "Data Scientists" (they are curating data and handing it off to the machine)?
I think you mean backlash-free gearboxes (ie: cable driven gearboxes, harmonic drives or spring-loaded gearboxes that always apply a minimal but constant tension).
Googled "powershell ironpython" and got this[0] as first result. Before that, I was going to point out that IronPython, despite it's performance issues and nitpicky differences (there's no 'struct' module, but there's '_struct', which is... struct and they somehow forgot to rename) is still considered a .NET language.

If there's anything wrong with the article (for one thing, it's 4 yo), please point it out. I just brought this up because the IronPython part of .NET is usually forgotten, though still there and has some interesting uses.

[0] http://www.pythondiary.com/blog/Jun.26,2012/ironpython-and-m...
As a kid I took an "intro to programming" summer course based around scheme. If I hadn't felt some echo of familiarity with all the parentheses when I started with emacs, I don't know if I would have become an avid fan like I am today.
The instructions in that blog post look like a good way to break your system: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_Frank...
I would disagree with this. I haven't worked with QML, but I have worked with WPF which also supports two-way data bindings in a manner that I would guess is similar to Qt. The major difference between the approaches is that React embodies the functional approach. By describing your UI as a pure* function of your application state, you get a lot of important benefits.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
Unfortunately.

It's too bad that it don't focus a bit more on the ideological philosophy of GNU, even if, as far as I know, Torvalds don't care much about it.

Especially for those who would like or dislike the ideology: those who disagree or for whom it don't make a sufficient reason to use it could get away from it, those who don't know could be attracted.

In my personal experience, the ideological aspect is 90% of why I use GNU and Linux, and when I see all the people running a GNU/Linux desktop inside or outside the tech communities, I don't really agree with the idea that it "never became a significant presence on mainstream desktops". It does became mainstream for people with specific uses for various reasons (political, technical, ethical, etc.). For sure, it never became mainstream in supermarkets.
I live in Sweden and I got a discount on my home insurance if my outside door is of a certain class (although apparently most reasonably modern outside doors you can buy cleared that bar so it can't have been that high).
I have a friend who habitually says "goodbye forever" before going off to sleep.

It makes you think.
Different strokes.. that sounds like an absolute nightmare to me. .NET is not a good web development framework, and Visual Studio is totally overkill for web development.
You simply cannot do a full evaluation to the end of the game: it's computationally infeasible.

You can sample several randomly played out games. I think you knew this, and I hope you understand that sampling works, but for some reason you went on a completely irrelevant tangent.

Minimax requires working back from all end-game states

Practical implementations that need to achieve good but not perfect play are content to stop at a point before that.

Again, do you know this and are intentionally misunderstanding me and throwing up irrelevant facts? I'm sure you did given that you even acknowledge the above (no need for terminal states) in your previous post.

The difficulty of Go was that there was no way to combine tree search with the uncertainty inherent in Monte Carlo samples with a low sample count. The paper I mentioned fixed this, and hence was THE major breakthrough. The resulting algorithm is still quite simple, yet plays arbitrarily strong, also in practice, when given more computing resources.

It makes a minimax-like algorithm work for go because it estimates the terminal results by Monte Carlo sampling the results of the games when played out by a random (or in practise, not entirely random) player.
I'm unconvinced. You suspect that dedicated administrators who can't code produce more secure environments than ones who can?

DevOps are dedicated administrators, it's just that they have a responsibility to show their work in code, and have that code speak for itself.

Manually configuring stagnant machines isn't a real job anymore.
Money is all we have left. We tried "sanctity" - more or less religious purity. We tried "honor" - ( bring back dueling? ). Duty, country, sacrifice - all pretty much deprecated.

I don't have an answer here - it's the stuff of Adam Curtis films. He's hardly perfect, but has an interesting way of constructing frameworks to look at these things.
I've been using ConEmu for a while and have had no issues with it as far as I can remember.
That use-case is not what I think of when someone says "Linux user" - to me, that's a Windows user who wants to run some Linux software.
I was unbanked for a couple months when I first moved to New York years ago, because I couldn't open a bank account without a utility bill. Eventually the way I got a bank account was because my employer brought one in to sign up employees.

Huge numbers of people cash their paychecks at check cashing places. This is just what it's like to be poor in America. You take 10% off the top to cash your paycheck, literally everything costs more, and then you get a bunch of lectures from privileged people about how you need to be more responsible.
I don't see it as a thou-shalt-not. As a file format, feather is is lightweight. If they turned it into a container format it would be expanding the scope. If they instrumented it to comb objects in the global namespace and serialize them to the new container format, it would be heavier still--all to support a feature that the authors view as an anti-pattern. That's less a thou shalt not than it is a prioritization of their own vision.

If you're looking for a container to store lots of tabular data in one file, I'd suggest SQLite. Using dplyr, you can save those dataframes very easily. Plus, you can join tables and perform efficient aggregations on datasets too large to keep in memory.

In a lot of ways, I don't understand what limitations prevent SQLite from becoming the defacto common data.frame format. There probably are some, I just don't understand the tradeoffs (especially given how much SQLite gives you for free)!
I started using spacemacs (without evil) a few months ago and before that I was using a customized emacs. Spacemacs improves the user experience with their package management approach (it kicks much ass). Not only that but the c-c++-mode is almost as good as what I had configured and it took 5 minutes to configure instead many days. The version of which-key, magit and org-mode provided by spacemacs is better than what I used to have and greatly improved my emacs experience. I can't recommend it enough. My spacemacs file on github for anymone who is interested https://github.com/green7ea/SpacemacsConfig/blob/master/spac...
Americans buying more legal pot than Oreos,Girl Scout cookies, Pringles combined
I have never successfully completed a captcha served up by cloudflare (and thus Google) on Tor. They are fiendishly difficult to the point I suspected the mechanism is broken.
The 'honesty' issue I mentioned was in regards to the article and how it portrayed the issue and how it implied 'climate change' was the main culprit. I understand the issue is much more widely discussed in India with all of its various facets and variables, but the way the article framed it was disingenuous at best (IMO).
> I usually have all three

...

> Firefox (Tor Browser) has plugins to get a copy from arhive.org, archive.is, or google-cache. So if the page asks me to solve a CAPTCHA, I don't visit them.

You don't have convenience.
>Can't git just check whether the filesystem does this?

it can by using `git update-index --test-untracked-cache` but it takes a long time to check this, so I guess they don't want to incur that penalty on every run.

OTOH,

>It would be a pity if an ignorant user copied a repository to another filesystem only to find out that certain operations suddenly break.

yes. I agree. The way this is handled at the moment is dangerous to the point of this not being worth it at all.
Unix command line autocomplete is fairly good, but it's not useful for discovery of new features or for helping you figure out a CLI without reading anything. It is quite effective at helping a user who knows what they're avoid keystrokes, though.
If your stripping boilerplate then your operating on different things. Which seems more readable?

SortGuiElement(){junk; SortUserNames(); junk;}
SortUserNames(){junk;}

vs.

SortNames(){junk; sortNames() junk;}
sortNames(){junk;}

It might seem obvious and the code might be identical, but I see the second case very frequently in other peoples code.
Don't mourn the loss of libraries – the internet has made them obsolete
I'd like to know what kind of web applications you've built and what tech stack you've used for them for you to make such an uninformed statement like that.
But keep in mind that recent video releases are usually paywalled by movie theaters or pay channels while music is available legitimately on the radio and various online outlets. Also keep in mind that the typical cost of production for an hour of music is significantly less than an hour of video, not to mention the storage and bandwidth differences.
Hmm, just installed clink 0.4.7 (with autorun disabled for now). "clink autorun --help" consistently crashes. But at least it hasn't taken down the console yet, so I guess I'll try it out for some time. It's really a nice concept.
Northern Australia has it's monsoon period from October to April and it only got it's first real downpour this month.

With only a few months to go it's going to be a rather dry monsoon for Northern Australia.

So there are no guarantees the monsoon will arrive with such great force.
I am similar to reacweb. I dual-booted from 2008 through about 2011, then switched to using Linux as my only bootable OS and Windows in a VM occasionally.

I've noticed since about 2013 that I booted into the VM less and less often. The most recent was after maybe 9 months without using Windows? I wanted to check how something related to batch files worked, purely for curiosity (i.e., unrelated to professional work). There being so many updates queued up that I almost said "screw it" to the whole thing, reasoning that I could ask a friend to check easier/faster than the wait was worth.
News aggregation service for music fans
Battling Cyclomatic Complexity in Java Using Javaslang
The other bizarre thing, to me, is that often searching Amazon won't turn up what I want but searching Amazon through Google will. I guess because you can pay to bump your stuff up inferior and more highly-priced items get listed higher up.
Did some spot checking. Found a race condition in the dictionary code in less than five minutes of poking around. Ugh.

Edit: code to add an entry to the dictionary releases its lock, whereupon you can wind up with duplicate NV pairs.
I agree with you (was about to post something similar), and wanted to add that some unix commands (which become part of the soul of bash scripts), are sometimes named in weird, unintuitive ways. For one thing, one potentially dangerous command is simply called "dd", and its man page[0] says next to nothing at all about its true power, uses and danger.

[0] http://linux.die.net/man/1/dd
For me, for lots of categories but maybe not ones filled with fakes, Amazon routinely puts a marketplace seller before themselves if the price including shipping is cheaper. More than a few times I hunt down the Amazon offering for a dollar or so more so I'm assured of good service.