skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the only way it can be done in statically typed language. You cannot have multiple returns without defining how many there are what are their types.
But the only difference between this kind of thing and the manipulation and framing of debate by the press - including the Telegraph - is the level of journalistic sophistication used to shape the argument.

It's interesting the debate was about "anti-semitism", because so far as I can tell that has become a code the UK press uses for anyone who thinks that Israel may not necessarily have the moral high ground in its dealings with the Palestinians.

The nonsense about safe spaces and whatever is reprehensible, but it's actually less reprehensible than one-sided public debates where right-wing politicians are given space to attack anyone who thinks politicians should make their tax returns public for "immature populism", but attacking a left-leaning leader for the way he eats a bacon sandwich is mature and responsible journalism.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/06/sun-ed-miliband...

The point being that politics always seems to be a nasty business full of nasty people being nasty to each other, and everyone else they can get away with being nasty to.

Maybe student politics is a symptom of that, not a cause.
Maybe my google-fu was blurred by the 'news' term but it was very hard to find things about it (beside "NeWS was great").
So is it now high times to move my @yahoo.com mail addresses away? I was always thinking that at least Yahoo Mail would live for the foreseeable future, but this makes me nervous.
It depends on your audience and the competitive options. If solving a unique problem for highly technical users you may be able to address UX later. If your audience are consumers then the experience is everything...almost.
I saw this before and it always looked like a nice pice of software. The sad part is, it is still at "0 releases".

To the developers of this software: please provide a stable release that can be packaged for the popular package managers/distributions. That will help to spread the word about your work and make it easily accessible.
In most situation where I see people complaining about "being triggered" there's no indication of wilful offence on the other end.

I don't have a problem with avoiding certain subjects if I know someone has serious problems dealing with e.g. memories of something that's happened to them. Nor would I have a problem changing the subject or being more careful about working if someone points out that it is uncomfortable for them.

But I would mind having to pre-emptively self-censor because someone might take offence at something that is not intended to offend.

Personally, if someone started talking about wanting to censor on this kind of basis, I'll insist I'm being triggered and they're causing me distress - I'm sure that would lead to an interesting conversation.
I'm pretty sure I've read all his autobiographies and can't remember any reference to 'warmed milk' or bread, and Google is showing a blank too. Which book was this in and in what context?
Ah now I see. Although I understand that there are some tools that do this, it is not a trivial process like in many other languages. Thanks for enlightening me.
It'd be great if you have evidence that Moldbug is an ex-con who underwent rehab for his racism!

If not, would you really invite someone with a record of stabbing people at conferences? Who writes literature advocating murder, etc?

(In the real world, Moldbug leverages society's obvious violence against African-Americans. He's therefore complicit in that systematic violence. That's why Lambdaconf's racist supporters are so desperate to support him, no matter how clumsily. That's why all these people were targeted on sjwlist.com for speaking out against violence: http://statement-on-lambdaconf.github.io/ )
What actually seems to be causing controversy is that students are telling people with national columns in the press that they're not welcome. No-one actually cares about people preventing views from being aired, because no-one hears about it. For example, if I recall correctly Bindel used libel threats to stop the press linking to or providing details of academic criticism of some shoddy, politically-driven research she was using to lobby the Government. No-one cared. Most people don't even know it happened.

The students behind this find the notion that they're somehow silencing nationally-published journalists by telling them they're not welcome farcial, and I agree.
Disagreeing with her isn't infantile. Opposing her isn't infantile. It may even not be infantile to prevent her from speaking. YMMV.

But, as you point out, the effect is that those who would have heard her are now relying on mainstream media for an interpretation of her views. All of a sudden she is a victim and a champion of the repressed. So maybe not infantile but, at the very least, naive.
The context of the comment is - Humans share 40% of DNA with a lot of plants.
DDG albeit successful is still pretty niche though. It's not that they are a threat to Google.
Actually access to that DB wouldn't do much good. It's just the hash of the file, not the file itself.
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"It is thus demonstrated that the perpetual motion machine of the first kind [redacted] the First Law of Thermodynamics..."
Probably a good idea.

I have a great circle of friends and family and would describe myself as possibly more stable and relaxed than most people, yet I had a similar experience to the above poster. Then again, I was kind of asking for it.

My tip for anyone wanting to try hallucinogenics is to micro dose (~10µg) and to be really cautious about the set and setting.
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Because time and again that approach has demonstrated itself to be more expensive and less effective.

Computers are not bicycles. The differences are important: the rate of change of the whole ecosystem is much higher, the ways economies of scale play out are different, load-balancing approaches have no analogue in the physical world, refactoring is zillions of times cheaper than it is with physical objects. Intuitions from physical engineering are often simply wrong when applied to computing.
Cool ta. For the time-limited people here's a link to a post in the middle of that lot, that sums up exactly what's on the ROMs:

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?265573-Lost-Neo...
std::bitset is also a good choice if the number of desired bits is known at compile time
The best way I've heard of to train people to not be racist is Jane Elliott's "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise[1][2]. Some things have to be personally experienced, so this exercise uses eye-color as a proxy for race.

Carefully guided by the teacher, elementary school kids fall immediately into tribal in-group/out-group behavior. With just a few comments from the teacher, the kids invent their own reasons why their {blue,brown}-eyed classmates must be "inferior".

When asked twenty years later, most of the students specifically remembered the lesson and credited it as an important foundation for their later development.

[1] http://www.janeelliott.com/

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/
I have the exact opposite experience. Most expensive conferences that i've been to had a majority of sales pitches as talks.

The free cobbled together ones where you maybe get pizza and some soda are the ones where I learned the most.
The last time that I used XN (X11 + deltas + intelligent cache + other extras) worked pretty well on remote. Even works fine over ADSL of 1MB .
The big problem is when these "safe spaces" become dominant in a given setting. E.g. if a student union insists that every meeting they arrange should be a safe space, and as a result deny a platform for people that might offend.
Size comparison of the universe 2016
What happened to the LinuxFoundation project to pull in as much from GRsec as possible, which started last year?
Why the GCC requirement on FreeBSD? And that definitely shouldn't require actually creating a static link.

Edit: whoops, replied to the wrong parent.
First came the Breathalyzer, now meet the roadside police “textalyzer”
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Worth noting that parliament is quite strict about some language - Dennis Skinner got into trouble yesterday for referring to Cameron as "dodgy".
All journalism already has biases. Why does it matter whether someone's bias comes from their honest opinions or what they're being paid for?
Now, at one point, you stopped talking about arrays and started talking about pointers.
Given that much of the definition of speciation these days is the inability to produce fertile offspring with high likelihood, it sounds like they're right on the nose.

Something like one mule (horse-donkey hybrid) in tens of thousands is fertile, having by chance received just the right combination of chromosomes to be able to reproduce. But the rest are sterile. The rare successful interbreeding doesn't make horses and donkeys the same species either, despite being closely related. (In their case, IIRC, the infertility of hybrids has to do with differing chromosome counts between horses and donkeys.)

So we can have some Neanderthal genes (whether from prior to y-chromosome differentiation or from the rare successful interbreeding or from successful and fertile but rare female offspring) but still be separate species.

Besides, it's oft cited that we share 98% of our DNA with chimps, and nobody's claiming that we're the same species.
Would a cigarette smoker who tells you not to smoke be a hypocrite? Yeah. But they would also be correct.
There's no way to make C modern language without breaking all the legacy code. But if possible, I would remove the preprocessor and cover its usage in core language.

For projects where you are free to choose your language, Nim is very modern and powerful. It compiles to C so you can use it as easy replacement.
My (uninformed) guess is they could make estimates by comparing forrest land and tree density. The former isn't too hard to come up with.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but it is forested with flowering gardens from people who purposely stifle and opress others, to present a single biased viewpoint, in the name of "safe space".

I think personally tatchell and fry have been too generous and provide too much benefit of the doubt against the people who stifle open and full dialogue in the sinister name of trigger word or safe space.
I would want it to be based on references and slices, both nullable and non-nullable. References don't allow pointer magic, therefore are always in bounds. Slices only allow sub slicing, therefore they're also always within bounds (dereferencing them would need bounds checks to be safe though).

The great problem of C is that almost everything is a pointer and they potentially can all be invalid. On top of this there's no easy way to check wether they are valid. This is the reason, why memory safety is so hard to get right with C.
This approach makes sense. I also think that sneakers (or streetwear in general) would make for a pretty compelling initial market. You'll obviously encounter the chicken-and-egg problem with this platform, so it would probably be good to try and hack one side of the market. In that light, definitely keep working together with the admins of these huge Facebook groups (I reckon you're in Basement, Supreme Talk, Palace Talk?!). These 40k+ groups make for an incredible opportunity to engage with your target audience. Hell, to get initial traction just raffle a pair of Yeezy's, Air Mags, or that new Gosha among the people that sign-up.

One thing I'd do differently though is start out with a website (vs. an app). It's very true that Facebook doesn't have any form of domain-specific search fields. But it's very accessible. I realize that n = 1 here, but the friction in having to download another separate app to my phone would be too high for me to switch from using the different Facebook groups. I think you'd want to make it as easy as possible to access your solution (or at least submit WTB requests) in order for this to take off. In that light, a website would be much better I think.

On another note, here's a really good read on why Facebook may help you out a lot, but would also most likely be your biggest competitor: http://alexmuir.com/facebook-is-the-new-excel

Anyway, very cool. Happy to chat more if you like -- I'm at aron@wanderlust.ly.
Can those alternatives debug without the source, which seems like one of the features of voltron?

Adding to your possible alternative list:

* vim https://github.com/joonty/vdebug
IIRC from some long-ago bio courses, the Y chromosome also shares fragments via copying mistakes, but what tends to happen over time is that they "migrate" off the Y chromosome entirely, further shrinking it.
I wonder how this article has been able to make HN's home page... The main thing the author thinks about improving C is... replacing braces with keywords?
How to solve the Monty Hall problem using Bayesian inference
That's really cool. Thanks Mithaldu for the link, what an interesting read. I can't wait to hear more about the game.
The students wrote an announcement explaining why she wasn't welcome. Didn't matter. Many of the people who were supposedly "silencing" her and all the rest actually linked to their views and encouraged people to read them; I know there was a copy of Bindel's articles kicking around the LGBT society when I was a student for that reason. Didn't stop the press from spinning it as an attempt to silence them and prevent people hearing their views whilst making sure not to inform readers what those views are.

I fail to see how letting Bindel spin herself as a victim and a champion of the repressed in person, at an event set up with an opponent who was on the same side as her on this, would do anything to stop this.

(I think someone did manage to debate Bindel on trans rights and trounce her a few years back, after which she went back to her Guardian column and penned an attack on them which reached a much broader audience than anything in the debate. Not a useful tactic.)
I would say no. There have been some troubling instances but to say that free speech is broadly being stifled is going overboard.
Saying you have no free speech anymore on campus does get you more clicks though!
I don't know, it seems like a quite recent trend for me. For example in France they are now blurring the national railway company logo in news and tv shows. Which is a totally pointless action since it is on a railway station and there is (basically) only one railway company. Not to mention their logo is extremely recognisable even when blurred.

More recently I saw a show about clothing where they put some duct tape over Nike logos on shoes.

Are there laws that prohibit you from showing brands in videos shot in public places now? If Nike did not want to be recognised they would not put their giant logo on everything.
FYI you can run GUI Linux apps from bash on Windows 10
Shell script to bootstrap dev OS X machine from scratch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs
I remember some famous name being very fond of ALGOL and so abused the preprocessor so his code would look like ALGOL. Makes you understand how so often you're one pretty printer away from another language.
Robust and transparent governance is key to building trust in driverless cars
Embed them in plastic, and make a fancy coffee table.
Where should robots go when they retire?
If curly braces is his biggest issue, it might be better to take a hint from Go and enforce them to be required in anything other than third-party headers, and enforce a single style on the codebase.
I wonder what the best way to tackle it is? At some point surely these folks will have to accept the real world around them that everyone else lives in.
> I'll stop here before I start to proselytize

Too late.

(Also: If the standard is an impossible one, that is a problem with the standard.)
Hi, mates! I released this project yesterday. The end goal is this to become the go-to "Ruby Toolbox". I know that there's a similar site already. Yet, I believe this could become a viable place for gems discovery and comparison.

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See for yourself: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
America's Intelligence Transparency Council meets First time-behind closed door
Considering the future of law and robotics: We Robot 2016 recap
This is awesome - thanks so much for putting this together Spiro. With enough library support I think OCaml can definitely hit a sweet spot for ops...
Agreed. Taking offense or changing his own situation is far different than censoring others.
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Well, not everyone is a developer.

The first target is me, then the marketing niche.
Sadly they reached the point of reductio ad absurdum perhaps a decade ago.

It's a little frightening how similar it is to newspeak (1984) in attempting to eradicate undesirable concepts.
Sorry I meant type system, doing multi tasking did not help :)
You can still be hopeful. :)
>Not disagreeing with you, but you have to say the advances we've seen in storage have thus far been almost beyond belief.

Sure, my first PC had a 40MB hard disk (a generation ago it would be a 360k floppy).

But we also saw the same great advances (even bigger?) in CPU power, and yet Moore's law is on its last legs too.
There are many things that could be fixed in C, but adding "begin" and "end" everywhere? No, thank you.

Here is a much better start: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1180

"Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C"
The Fight for the Future of NPR
It obviously does include such right. But if the illiberal left continues to work towards censorship of all competing views they shouldn't be surprised if they get a bit of blowback.

No platforming someone is not the same as not inviting them into your space. Public spaces are not safe spaces.
It's flip flopping...
I think you have this exactly backward. Learning during college is a side effect. You are paying for the degree mostly as a costly signal. If you want to learn but don't care about a degree, there are much better and cheaper ways than going to college.
As a reader, it's a much nicer place to read articles than... literally anywhere else on the web. Just a really nice consistent UI that puts the content front and center and lets me get on with reading your actual words.
Maybe they just smothered each other.
Facebook or twitter was addictive even before it had any ads on it. How is blocking ads going to change that? You can't change human nature.
Of all the things you could fix in C, curly braces? I would have thought that the massive security issues, weird standard library design, non-existent module system, copious undefined behaviour, weak type system or risible package management might have merited some attention first.
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The definition of a species is not the inability to produce fertile offspring. Certainly if you can't produce fertile offspring then you are a different species, but having fertile offspring does not mean you are the same species.

Many humans (all non Africans) are a hybrid between two different species - all this result is telling us is that Africans and Neanderthals really are two different species.
But would you prefer Auto at Ford to Auto one of those firms? Or Tesla?

Perhaps I'm just jaded by the traditional Detroit mismanagement.
But you would prefer Ford over working at Apple or Google's auto groups? Or Tesla?
10^12 trees for anyone wondering
We plant far more crops like corn every year with machinery. I'm not sure the humans are even necessary, trees are pretty good at planting themselves.

The biggest issue is outcompeting other smaller plants growing in the same place. It takes a long time for an area to naturally become a forest. I believe human intervention with weeding and watering can speed it up significantly. But that's a bigger investment than merely planting them.
Yes. At least I've done something more than just swiping and tried to reach out on the other platforms. It's still frustrating but not as bad as seeing dozens of potential connections made and then slip away before even a single word is said.
Open letter to the Swedish government from the Spotify founders (in Swedish)
I personally like that a lot, even though, of course, it sometimes causes one to shoot oneself in the foot. But, and I can't point to exactly why, I don't think I want to change anything.

I feel much the same way, and I think it's the general principle of freedom over security that makes it fun. You can do lots of things that other languages wouldn't allow, and despite not needing to most of the time, the fact that such power is there if you want to use it is what I like. It's a bit of a refreshing environment compared to all the other "safe" languages.
Occasional drug use is not a huge problem.

People get addicted to drugs mainly because they self-medicate for anxiety or depression, that's what you should really worry about actually, concerning your children.
That was quick.
https://github.com/snare/voltron/releases/tag/v0.1.1
Not necessarily worse, but bad in a different way. Current children seems to be cocooned off from dealing with tough issues to a level far more extreme than before.

I have a 7 year old son, and the level of shielding from the outside world is a constant factor of conflict with my ex. When I see the level of freedom he has vs. what I had as a child, it's really quite depressing, and frankly most of his class mates have it worse, as most of them don't have anyone that's trying to moderate it.

It scares me to think of people growing up with that kind of filtered, blinkered view of the world, because sooner or later that filter is taken away, and they will be unprepared.
There's only one result in google books for Stephen Fry warmed milk.

"He ran a thumb between Clara's lips ... Of honey and sweet warm milk.” “Aniseed?” “If you like aniseed it will..."

There's nothing else relevant except your comment on google or Bing.
From GCC documentation: "If you try to call the nested function through its address after the containing function exits, all hell breaks loose."

I would definitely accept GCC lock-in, but so far GCC does not have this feature. Clang does, hoever, via _Blocks, but the syntax is not very C-like.
Yeah I noticed that too late.. but maybe change to UberBar ;)
Wouldn't a linter for C and a half-decent text editor address the author's issues about block formatting way less intrusively than trying to change the language syntax?
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There was actually already a v0.1 release on PyPI and had been for some time, it just wasn't tagged on GitHub. The README says to use `pip install voltron`.
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That's true. Frankly they have stricter rules than I personally consider reasonable. And yet we see examples of groups that insist on rules that makes the parliamentary rules seem like pure anarchy...