skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that was interesting. I certainly can't call you inconsistent.

Now I'm just curious: Is there any scenario in which you think possession of a physical or digital asset should result in imprisonment? That is: Is possession of a fuel-air bomb OK? My mere possessing it doesn't harm anyone, only my use of it would. What about possession of a nuclear weapon, or some device that could exterminate all life on earth? If information hazards[1] exist, would possessing them still be legal? If mind uploading becomes possible, should it be legal to run a million uploads in agony? After all, it's just data on your own hardware. I realize some of these scenarios seem far-fetched, but I'm trying to find the limits of your beliefs.

It seems to me that laws regarding possession must be contingent on the possible harms allowed by physics and biology. If certain machines or pieces of information can be readily used to cause mass suffering, then the cost-benefit analysis suggests punishing those who possess them.

To use an analogy: Possessing certain things is like brandishing a weapon. If you point a gun at someone, technically you haven't caused any physical harm. It's just that you're very likely to harm someone. There's even a decent chance you could cause harm by accident. So to with the possession of certain dangerous items. The danger might be more remote, but the potential harm might be far greater. That's the rationale for restriction.

1. http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
It's Linux syscall emulation. As for the death of POSIX, many unixes have had the same (even superior) functionality for years. POSIX wasn't dead yesterday. It isn't dead today
It's not recent; this developer-user split has been growing for a few years now:

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

...and RMS predicted this almost 20 years ago:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

I think the rise of P2P, file sharing, and the openness of the Internet in the last decade significantly narrowed the developer-user gap; and it's been growing since then, motivated by corporations' desire to maintain control over their users.
Ask HN: Brief “Meet the founder” copy: what should it convey?
Are there things one must include/say? Are there huge no-nos? Does a photo portrait induce more confidence? What info do you look for?
And in the case of a solo founder, should things be any different to reflect that?

Thanks
its an interesting idea - this bit made me laugh -

"beautiful" instead of "gorgeous"

since i never spell "beautiful" right!
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The two metro(subway) stations at Vaclav square in Prague have between 1 and 2 thousand people arriving AND leaving every 10 minutes at rush hour, how are you going to get that kind of capacity using cars, without having some kind if dedicated tunnel(which would be the same as a subway, just less efficient).
MathJax works reasonably well, but I can almost read the TeX source out loud faster than the browser renders it (together with PDF.js, this has been my go-to counterexample whenever someone claims that JavaScript is performant).

With formula-heavy text, I'm forced to split documents artificially into multiple short pages to make rendering reasonably fast.

KaTeX looks quite promising, but it was missing support for quite a bit of basic markup the last time I checked. Perhaps it's better now.
We don't need self-driving cars – we need to ditch our vehicles entirely
To the victors the spoils
Googled for "Microsoft SFU" and found a bunch of Office 365 links before finding the wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
Lallan Daku _Vir_Wow Kidz
This is so bubble-written it's not funny.

Romania is a country where a large chunk of the populace get around by cart and donkey, where post-communist corruption is rife, where decades on they still can't decide what to do with the half built palace that occupies half of Bucharest, where gangsters run most of the hospitality industry and god knows what else.

It's a chicken and egg problem, of course, as enterprise will bring wealth (in theory) which in turn will solve some of Romania's more immediate woes, but it's still a tiny tiny niche in a very poor country.

Their only saving psychological grace is that Moldova are next door, and they make anyone look rich.

Edit: on a Re-read, this comes across as horribly negative. I'm a big fan of Romania and its prospects - what I failed to mention is that I met a lot of intelligent, interesting and passionate younger people - and they will be the ones that drag Romania solidly into a functioning state - but the reality is that there's a lot of work to do.
KDE has always been understaffed and will always be understaffed.

But it has been improving all the time with every single release.
The problem is that you (and millions of people who were looking for Linux desktop to "win") are just not excited anymore since new form factors (phones, tablets) arrived.

But I actually think Linux desktop is a winner. There are several high quality desktop enviroments suitable for all kinds of use cases.

Yeah we are not dominating the world. That was a short naive dream in the early 2000. But we have awesome desktops and thats what matters.

Disclaimer: minor KDE contributor but these were my thoughts not KDE's.

Btw, give KDE a try its so good these days :)
>However you feel about them morally, illegal drugs are extremely dangerous. 44k people die from drug overdoses every year.

Most danger in drug business and drug use stems from the illegality of drugs, and isn't intrinsic to the drugs itself. For example, even basic consumer protection laws and quality control is disabled for drugs because of the illegality of the drugs. So you have heroin mixed with fentanyl while most people have no idea that it is there and what such mix is capable of (was mentioned recently as one of the killers in current wave of overdoses in US).
From encrypt to decrypt – the full Lorenz story
I've heard this assertion many times, but it almost never accounts for the fact that most of the world's urban cores are simply not designed for large volumes of vehicular traffic.

There are about 550 miles of roadway in the parts of Hong Kong where the vast majority of people live and work; most of that is narrow, much of it is on steep grade, and almost all of it dates back to the days of pulled rickshaws. Self-driving cars will almost certainly replace the taxi fleet and may well kill the bus lines, but they have no hope of matching the capacity of an underground train in places like this.
Ask HN: How long does it take you to familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
Sometimes, I try to contribute to open source projects, but codebase of some projects are huge (chromium, spidermonkey, anything written using LLVM (Swift, Nim), ...)

How long does it take to you, surf codebase, find something for yourself and try to create patch for it?

I am mostly interested in deeper knowledge of C/C++ in order to improve my skills in high-performance, distributed computation area.

But whenever I see huge codebase and until I surf the code, find something for myself, another guy would create a patch for it, or issues look so hard to begin with, or not possible for me at this time (consider beginner issues which require special environment with some special device)

So how do you contribute? What would you do in my situation?
The BBC Micro is also not present, but sold more than 1.5 million units, again according to Wikipedia.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#Market_impact
As much as I'd love to know if those IPs came from Tesla too, I am very much against asking HN to expose information about users because (unlikely as it is to happen) it would very easily set a precedent for witch-hunting.

Hopefully somebody smart enough will uncover another way to correlate this information back to Tesla.
According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/868290/259130

function directory-summary($dir=".") {
get-childitem $dir |
% { $f = $_ ;
get-childitem -r $_.FullName |
measure-object -property length -sum |
select @{Name="Name";Expression={$f}},Sum}
}

I could get a shorter non exact version if I was on windows.
Obviously, structural editing like that of SAM. Vim also does not have native support for multiple cursors.
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Yet they brand it Netflix. Same for Better Call Saul. Started it up, no subtitles in English (I was not in the US). Contact support and they say "Oh licensing."

The lack of same-as-audio-language subtitles should be an issue for some association of hearing impaired people to fight. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if legislation mandating access is required in some cases. Seems rather discriminatory to let people select audio language, but then require them to be able to hear just fine.

Of course, torrents almost never have this issue. (And have proper rewind/forward/skip/audio adjust[1] features.) At least half the time of the rare times I found something on Netflix, I just torrent it anyways as it's a superior experience.

1: Seriously, Netflix has been around for how long? And still no dynamic range compression for nighttime watching? Or "volume boost" for really quiet sources (or shitty playback systems)?
I think this kind of analysis is not worth much. Not that it was done badly (I'm not good enough to judge that). In every market you have two kinds of profitable companies: The market leader who owns the huge thing. And you have niches. Both of them can be very profitable but in different ways.

HN is certainly no social leader, but I would consider it a huge success. And while it may not even make money in a direct way, it's a huge part of the success of the brand YCombinator. Are these scraps? I don't think so. In fact, given the choice, I'd rather work at HN than at FB. I'd rather own shares of YC as well (in that regard YC may even be too big for what I like). And as you can see right now, I'd rather talk to people here than on FB as well.
Reg 2:
In my own thinking I have come to the conclussion, that the decision power of the Company has to be given to the developers of the project as well. This Means forming some kind of cooperative structure
Doesn't look like zsh is fully working yet:

root@localhost:~# zsh
compaudit:105: wait failed: invalid argument
compdef:95: wait failed: invalid argument
localhost# exit
zsh: you have running jobs.
localhost#

Will have to try again after the next build.
Everything I try to apt-get is giving me the error "Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'"
Cool, Offline views with IndexedDB/WebSQL
F(d)igital – Disrupting Finance in a Digitally Enabled World
That would indeed be helpful.
> Microsoft went to great lengths to disallow these kind of one-liners in PowerShell (you need to explicitly add -executionpolicy bypass to even run a script), so apparently they are concerned about users executing random scripts off the net.

Yes and I fucking hate it, way to cut of useful functionality at the knees.
> Long term: acquired by Pinterest

I will find you.
I switched to fast Ring on my two PCs yesterday. I don't get the update? Any ideas why?
that's almost as easy as just typing "du -sh"
I thought that "Why We Get Fat" was pretty interesting. It argues that sugar, not fat, is the reason.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259/
The editor core is written in a reasonable amount of clean (your mileage may vary), modern and legacy free C code enabling it to run in resource constrained environments. The implementation should be easy to hack on and encourage experimentation (e.g. native built in support for multiple cursors). There also exists a Lua API for in process extensions.
I still prefer peerflix over stuff like this. Small CLI app and you can use a superior video player (VLC, SMPLayer, mpv etc).
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The problem is that the food industry has been pumping money into research while governments have withdrawn most of it.
The whole "butter is good" article in the times was funded by the US dairy industry.
Gov funded research still does not agree with it.
Show HN: Interactively access/execute from your Bash-History (very small/simple)
Maybe, personally I look at some of those as transient technologies, MS usually provides a migration path, as painful that might be, to better solutions.
I would have thought not.

Well, it would be possible but only if the video format in the torrent allowed for this is a way compatible with the way torrent transfers are split into blocks - i.e. it has a block structure that lines up with the torrent block structure such that block X is enough to play a given set of frames at the lowest quality, block X+1 for better quality, and so forth.

The blocks wouldn't have to be sequential: as torrent transfers are essentially random access you could have the content required for lowest quality display at the start of the file and the extra data further on, similar to how FLIF supports almost immediate low quality with progressive improvement as the rest of the file arrives (http://flif.info/ - see the video demo part way down that page, or https://uprootlabs.github.io/poly-flif/ for a more interactive look at how it copes with truncated files).

I'm not aware of any video formats that are arranged this way though. Those that are designed for adaptive streaming have a more dynamic structure that would not align well with the torrent protocols blocks.
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Yes, I had to fiddle with the codepen example[1] to understand it correctly.

1: http://codepen.io/usablecode/pen/EjERem
> Streaming media is an example of disruption shrinking the whole pie.

Is that really the case for movies/tv shows though?

"Back in the day" I used to get Netflix to ship me DVDs for around the same cost per month that I now pay for streaming. And they had all the latest titles available.

Surely at least as much money is going back to the content creators as it was then?
> There is some randomness but overall process works very well.

Not many here would agree with you, on both sides of the table. Whiteboarding skills often do not translate into ability at a job.

> Being good at self-promotion is a merit. Some have it and some not. You could not define merit as just technical skills

Sure, but you're starting to beg the question. All systems are meritocracies if merit is defined at being successful within that system.
Sam expressions for manipulating text. This is a blub thing - if you haven't seen them you might not realise what you're missing out on. Try to imagine an editor where the core idea is a better-sed-than-sed.

Two well-known editors to come from the ed tradition: vi and sam. Vi is an obvious evolution - make it 2d. Sam did this as well, but its main focus was developing the expression language. For example, so you can chain expressions together for text manipulation. Another comment mentions multiple cursors.

But sam also has plan9 culture. It strongly encourages the mouse with an interaction that I've found to difficult to adjust to.

Vis seems to unify the best bits of vi and sam, from a unix user's perspective.

If anyone reading this knows sam or vis fluently, it would be helpful to have a youtube video for each of sam and vis in the the style of the recent Russ Cox video on acme.

[I'm struggling to get this vis thing to build and run, tips? Debian stable. I downloaded libtermkey, configure, make make install. Not thrilled about this - would rather it create .a and .h files I could copy it into the vis dir. Now when I run ./vis it says, "error while loading shared libraries: libtermkey.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".]
The syntax is pretty much the same in Mathematica:

- ToExpression[string, TeXForm] for expressions coming from TeX

- ToExpression[string, MathML] for expressions coming from MathML

But how do you grab the TeX formula? TeX'd up formulae usually have the TeX form in the alt-text portion for the image. For example, the first formula in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus#Fundamental_theorem has the alt-text \int_{a}^{b} f(x)\,dx = F(b) - F(a).
Hi,

I use this script for a couple of years now on a daily basis and thought, that some of you might appreciate it.

Anyhow. I know, that this script is in no way perfect or working under all given conditions (probably). If it does not work for you, please don't use it or feel free to fork it on GitHub to make it more complete/better.

There are probably different ways to make it work more elegant. I wrote this some years ago and it is not important enough for me to rework it (--> Never change a running system in this case).

Otherwise feel free to leave some opinion :)

Best regards

Maurice
I wonder how hard it would be to implement PowerShell Remoting for this environment
Is it that smart?
Being developer friendly sounds like just plain common-sense, not some genius breakthrough.
The question should be more why has it taken them so long to get to this point.
I've never seen this. I've only seen people say "Racism is bias PLUS POWER. It's literally impossible to be racist as a Y because Xs have power." I've not seen people say "Yes of course we'd traditionally call Y a racist, but what I mean is that they aren't being institutionally racist."

No one's talking past anyone. It's obvious what's going on. They don't want to admit that non-Xs can be terribly racist. So they flip words around so they can, at worst, say "well they may have prejudice". They invent stuff like "reverse racism".

And in fact, that's what Github's code of conduct enshrines.

It's intellectually dishonest.
It's the same as :g!/error/d I believe
so it is not.

if it were useful they would be saying it to everyone how they were right from the beginning and how apple was wrong and should have done what they told.
You have to find the .whls though, you can't compile from source. That's fine, but it's a second class solution.

Moreover, getting stuff like OpenCV to work is a pain, and I find that the deep learning packages (e.g.: theano) get even worse.
If you do find a way to fix busses, you'll end up with the same problem as the tablet had with touch. Touch interfaces existed for decades, untill modern tablets came along with glass screened capacitive touch, and all of the touch interfaces before then where downright painful to use, so every one who had used a touch interface before in their lives laughed their heads off at the likes of Jobs, with his silly keyboardless i-phone. I'm not saying, don't fix busses, I'm just saying, that they have a huge amount of stigma. Furthermore, I don't see any claims by the BRT people that they have invented busses that don't rock/sway, so they almost certainly haven't solved that problem.
How would you compare this to the NeoVim project? https://github.com/neovim/neovim
A bit off topic but anybody knows what kind of stack Blizzard is using for WOW ?
The irony of you starting your rebuttal with an ad hominem attack is pretty amusing.

Expecially in reponse to an article that talks at length about others in nutritional science using ad hominem attacks as a primary form of defence against dissident arguments.
You're quoting a physicist. Nutrition isn't a science as hard as physics. As a given science subject moves away to more complex system (human organisms, social organisms), the notion of light (or the truth) gets rather diffuse. It's harder to define something as the light (or the truth), because phenomena and its causality simply get harder to prove.
I believe some US high schools were even holding mandatory-to-attend collage finance classes that were actually paid-for hard sell marketing events by commercial banks for their student loans.
I think you misunderstand. He's not objecting to streaming and does not prefer a physical DVD. Instead, he's saying that the movies he is recommended are rarely available for streaming. If he could legally stream the movie rather than waiting for a DVD in the mail, he would do so.
I think with the "No integers" part that isn't entirely true JavaScript has typed arrays now. So you could get an array of ints that way. I'm not familiar with them and whether they behave in a similar way as an int in a typed language like Java or C++, but from my reading it seems the integer view behaves (output wise) in much the same way as other typed languages integers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Type...
Suddenly Blizzard's April Fools tweet seems cruel.

Re-Live the old worlds of warcraft with our legacy servers coming this june!

Starting with vanilla!

https://twitter.com/Blizzard_EN/status/716004308043624448
:help :v will tell you:

:[range]v[global]/{pattern}/[cmd]
Same as :g!.

Where:

:[range]g[lobal]!/{pattern}/[cmd]
Execute the Ex command [cmd] (default ":p") on the
lines within [range] where {pattern} does NOT match.

So :v/error/d will delete all lines that don't contain the string "error".
I just see it as a personal plane that doesn't require a taxi or rental car. If they were more common, then the limited amount of space needed for a light-car runway would be easier to pop in. Also note that Jetsons, to use a fictional example, had no qualms about building up, in comparison to apparently everyone in the West.
> Saturated fats still do cause heart disease, strokes, alzheimers..

All the studies claiming to make these links have been comprehensively debunked. And it's worth remembering that the vast, vast bulk of fats and cholesterol in your body are not dietary, they were produced inside your body from other macro-nutrients. And they are essential. Without them you would die.

On a very basic level, blood flow gets blocked because inflammation in your arteries causes cholesterol manufactured by your liver to stick to the walls and build up. Consuming saturated fat does not cause this inflammation. Whereas there is evidence that consuming sugar does.
Elm Maybe – Dealing with Null/Nothing
It's more broad than that. The distinction lies in production versus consumption devices.

Tablets and phones are consumption. You can't do any serious work on them - development included.

This is why laptops and computers have stuck around in spite of the proliferation of cheap, tiny, elegant consumption devices.

So no, I don't think laptops and computers will go away for non-nerds, just for people who don't produce anything.
I agree. Biology and Physics are very different fields. Physics - where every action has an equal or opposite reaction. Biology - many many variables where its difficult to measure the effect of one change.
No, communities are choosing it because they think it's free. That's exactly why perpetuating the myth is such a bad idea. Just because people think that it is, doesn't make it so.
What you said makes sense right up until the last bit about the lazy plants generating low energy in humans. There is no science to substantiate that, like none at all.

I think it's more likely that we're living in a system that seeks unwittingly to extract the most value, hence the lazy plants and the lazy people. Lazy plants is obvious, but why are lazy people more valuable? Because they are perfect office drones, and that's what you need to keep the system running, or growing even. Not healthy people that wouldn't tolerate sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day.

So, reasonable thinking, just skip the pseudo/non-science stuff because it just gets in the way. My take on your idea is just speculation and conjecture that isn't wrong prima facie, and is also unfalsifiable.
>are computers doomed to be an expensive tool for few "nerd" ?

No. Because of the Glorious PC Master Race - mods, trainers, hacks, overlays etc - these all need dev and root access.

Btw- game modding, cracking, save game editing etc - are the best gateway drugs towards full blown IT career.
Or use surge.sh
$ npm install --global surge
$ surge
done!
Social Media Myths That Can Get in the Way of Your Marketing Success Part II
As a Product Manager - my biggest regret was not learning to code.