skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I would like to find the file later if I need to.
There are multiple examples. It is difficult but apparently not so difficult that nobody attempts it. The accepted term for texts like that is "lipogram"; it's a popular form of the broader category of constrained writing.

Wikipedia has a page for "logology" which is apparently a term for the general activity of playing with language in that kind of way on a per-letter basis (so, including anagrams and palindromes, etc.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logology
No coverups here at all.
> These internalizers often hold orders up for up to a second, before they choose to fill them or let them go and when you consider that the IEX delay of 350 nano seconds, not milliseconds, is considered contentious you get a good idea of just how scummy things have gotten.

Do you mean microseconds? Because 350 nanoseconds is only long enough for light to travel about 250 feet in fiber.
"Lost"
If you sort all English words by frequency, the ones that contain 'e' would be distributed more or less randomly, so it seems more doable. Banning the first 1000 would prevent you from using the most useful words. I don't think you could construct sentences that wouldn't sound totally weird.
Ubuntu LTS + a few carefully selected apps as upstream APT repositories or PPAs is the best of both worlds; solid predictable base and the latest software where it matters: Chrome & dev tools in my case.

Except for the browser and local dev tools, I don't think I miss or have any use for desktop software. Everything from music (the Spotify web player is excellent, if little known), videos, calendars to email all happen in the browser these days, making it easier than ever to switch to Linux even as desktop usage declines. Increasingly the OS should fade to the background instead of trying to woo with apps or functionality. You don't have to provide an office suite or an email client at all, and I think it would be interesting to see what a distro could do with that kind of sharp focus. I think the core apps of say GNOME, while of generally good quality, probably see fairly limited use in practice.

Personally I look forward to not having to think about the OS until the next LTS in a few years time. It's a great environment for getting stuff done.
So, in the last few weeks I updated an old Kubuntu 14.04 desktop installation (which has seen little or no use in the last few years) up to 16.04. Now kwin dies as soon as I login and I open any window. The underlying reason is probably some badly updated package or config file. Still, attaching the debugger I can see kwin segfaulting inside the Qt Javascript interpreter. I have no idea why a window manager would need to run a javascript interpreter nor why it would be a good idea.

Bottom line, tonight I'm installing Debian testing and switching to Xfce (which I have been using for years on my latptop).
I upvoted your comment. Calling someone you work with and barely know a milf is an asinine move. That said though - she might have led him on when she agreed to move the conversation to whatsapp.
It seems that the new gnome store thingie, does not pull dependencies when you try to install deb file directly, not sure why (at least it does that in ubuntu gnome 16.04).
A command line install will indeed work just fine.
Probably because copyright is automatic and patents aren't. You have to actively patent an invention to make sure nobody else patents it, but the same risk (someone else copyrighting the government's work) isn't really applicable on the other side.
Those results disagree strongly with the most recent JAMA paper on the topic:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11405954/health-life-expectancy...

The 2000-2010 increase in your source is ~2 years for the poorest men and ~1 year for the poorest women. The 2001-2014 increase in my source is ~.3 for poor men and ~0 for poor women.

That seems like a really big gap, and I don't have a good way to reconcile them.
I'm not sure how paying for order flow is still legal. At this point it is basically brokerages offloading their fiduciary obligations(for money!) to legalized front-running operations. As the article says, these operations are basically operating as exchanges, and they probably need to be regulated as such.
NSA should have a copy...
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Is this the only app you maintain on daily basis? How did you get this client and how did you start this software?
yes sorry, I've already updated it.
Can't the FBI just query the NSA's impressive archive?

They don't even need a warrant.

https://www.aclu.org/doj-report-fbi-activities-under-section...
Provisioning your computer with one command: awesome
Move along, citizen.
Some confusion here about government research and patents. As a government researcher with patents, I will weigh in with an approximation of our patent criteria:

1. Increases the potential for commercialization of the technology. If you have an invention which will take effort to commercialize, companies are less likely to spend that effort without any patent protection. Offering an exclusive license on the patent can increase the chance of anyone doing anything with it.

2. Fulfill the goals of a collaborative research agreement between the government and a private company.

3. Further US manufacturing. The taxpayers pay us to do research to fuel industry in the USA, not Germany or China.

4. May lead to commercialization license. This is way down on the list, and total patent royalties amount to <0.1% of our budget.

I would guess that the NASA patent set represents cases where the patent did not end up fulfilling one of those goals, and they are releasing it into the wild to see if it does better on its own.
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On mobile so I won't look up sources now, but from memory you can add "diamonds are rare" (no, they're monopolized) to the list.
Joe Lonsdale says Palantir is doing just fine
Yes, but the growth for the poorest people (not blue collar workers, the poorest 5%) has been tiny-to-flat over the last 15 years. Well, according to one good looking study, I've seen wildly divergent results in this thread alone.

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11405954/health-life-expectancy...
> It's been shown that DNA is a pretty good predictor of being conservative or not. AFAIK, this hasn't yet been shown for being gay! Conservatives don't have a choice.

Um what? There have been PLENTY of studies over the last few years indicating homosexuality is expressed either at a DNA level or as the brain is developing in utero.

http://www.livescience.com/50058-being-gay-not-a-choice.html

>It's been shown that DNA is a pretty good predictor of being conservative or not.

First, show me where this has been studied. Peer reviewed please. Second, if your conservatism violates human rights, yeah thats a problem. Conservatism, in the US has been the excuse for slavery (the bible says we are better than them!), Jim Crow and segregation, interracial marriage, and now LGBT rights. Conservatives have been on the WRONG side of history on ALL of these issues.
> Java just gives you so much freedom to design things
> how you want and use whatever framework you feel like.

This lack of flexibility is precisely the reason that people choose Rails. It is a very opinionated solution and the Rails community doesn't hide that fact. The power of a Rails project is anyone familiar with Rails can walk up to it and get productive in minutes. All the code is in a standard place, the tests are run the same way, the deployment is familiar, etc.

On the contrary, look at 100 different Java projects and you would find 100 very different solutions. Getting up to speed on an existing Java project would take multiple times longer than a Rails project, even if you were generally familiar with Java + Spring.
They are distinct explanations, though. I suppose you can idealize what's average, technically.
But according to what was told, he did bother her after she told him she was not interested in going out on a date.
I'd look at the same place where those IRS email backups are. Ask Lois Lerner.
To those asking the question "why aren't patents automatically in the public domain?", the question received a decent answer on Stack Exchange two years ago:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/9994/are-patents-...

"No, they are owned by the U.S. and controlled by the specific agency where the inventing happened. However, there is a policy of licensing. It is covered in 35 USC 209. The logic behind this is that the U.S. would like the public to benefit from the invention and if anybody can do it, it may very well be that no one actually does it. Without some exclusivity it may be that no one will be able to justify the investment to enter the market." -George White

One of the comments to that answer also suggests inventors of government patents also get a fixed percentage of revenue, which wouldn't surprise me as an incentive to drive government employees to come up with novel inventions on the clock.
Extensive discussion of the original source, the article on gizmodo.com:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659565
If people don't have money for FOOD and RENT, how on God's green Earth do you think they have money to move to a new city?

And even if you could, anyone who's rented before knows you typically need one month's rent as a security deposit, sometimes more if you have children. Then you need to find a way to get all your stuff to said new city, and of course feed yourself while you're looking for that miracle job.

This may come as a shock to you but not having liquid assets excruciatingly limiting, including when it comes to finding better work or a cheaper place to live.
>Verifying a call would involve //

I'm not specifically wanting call verification I'm wanting them to detail origin if they have it (they can use the callerID field to forward that information to me) or to refuse to route calls that are clearly spoofed. If the callerID is 0 then the phone company knows it's spoofed and can block it, but they don't get paid for that - that's the only reason I can come up with for them to forward calls that have certain incorrect origin information. At least when I look at the callerID display and it says my number I know that it's not possible that call is anything other than spam - why would a company choose to forward such calls if not for the money they get for doing so?

>You can ask the phone company to research the calls made to your number at a specific time, and in the process of reconciling billing //

Are you telling me that at the point the company decides to carry a call from an external source they don't know if they're going to be able to bill that company for the call? Surely they know the network origin of the call - they at least know the hard infrastructure it's arrived at their periphery from, they have to right?

So when I get a foreign call centre spammer on the line the company knows at the very least that was forwarded to them from, let's say, France Telcom [made up example] and could give me that info in the callerID field.
Murica's a big country with many diverse regions and cultures
Isn't this the least bit fishy? To say that politicians are held to a different standard than the average citizen is in full effect here. Its a HUGE cover up. How is she not in jail yet?
There is also cinnamon which builds on top of gnome 3 tech.
I tried to do that in my home country (Argentina), if you want to get new customers as an agency, you should go outside upwork and the freelance sites. Which probably is not what you want.

Probably a good choice (and a challenging one), would be to build a new freelancer site, targeting better and bigger customers, not the classic freelancer customer which make decisions based on price.

Obviously this site should get onboard top notch developers/freelancers and curate them.
You may be interested in Douglas Hofstadter's writing about translations of the poem Jabberwocky in <em>Gödel Escher Bach</em., excerpted here (at least in part, I thought there was more in the book):

http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/poem/hofstadter.h...

It's interesting how translators decided to handle a poem that consists of so many nonsense words that are meant to evoke specific ideas in an English-speaking reader.
The explanation is in the comment you're replying to. Of course it isn't an advantage, but apparently the greeks did believe that.
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Worst about this topic is that some newspapers apparently have expected Facebook to be fully unbiased. I mean really, its a private company that has to work hard to keep its user base, why would they care about unbiased news?
You're talking about progress, which is mostly ignored. He's talking about regression, which voters hate.

Tell people college is 300% too expensive and they'll sigh and agree. Tell them you're cutting 2% from income they're already promised, and they'll picket in the streets.
Is it that incomprehensible that something as subjective as aesthetics is too complicated to be reduced to a single explanation?

> I suppose you can idealize what's average, technically.

Not just technically, it happened in a few well-documented cases, like the Norma craze I mentioned: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
I'd argue that calling someone a MILF in the workplace is already harassment. The problem with passively sitting by is that it can introduce more problems down the road because someone can claim that you passively sat by and fostered a hostile work environment. The harasser also has more credence if you only confront him until he does something else because at that point he can claim he didn't know it was a problem.
The problem with this line of thinking is that of course at the individual level anybody can do better*, but at the group level it means nothing. Somebody has to work at Walmart, and one person finding a better job doesn't eliminate the need for the worse jobs to be filled. We can't all be entrepreneurs and doctors. It doesn't make a lot of sense to depend on minimum-wage workers to keep society running and at the same time throw them under the bus for doing so.
I don't think that's the case: an unpatented invention (that is disclosed) becomes prior art, which protects the invention from being patented by someone else.

Theoretically. The US patent system is a mess, from the rubber-stamp examiners in DC to the ridiculous judges in East Texas.
I'd venture another explanation. When I compare myself to those "normal" statue, I don't feel inferior :-) The fat is that a statue is an idealization; so being the same as the idealized stuff is a warm comforting feeling...
Would you consider, as I would, the Yes Men's activities as both trolling and more or less good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI
I ran into a bug in the installer myself: if you select "download and install updates" then for some reason the dialog that says "We autodetected your timezone as America/New York" cannot ever be closed (and it never unfroze for me)

This is apparently a bug that spans multiple sub-distributions (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu) and dates back to at least 11.04, it was reported over five years ago. Now, once you know the solution it's easy to get around, but it was by no means easy to track down the problem - and who wouldn't want to install fresher packages? It's kind of amateurish to allow major bugs like that to linger in your installer for multiple years.

I was installing Lubuntu on a Liva X mini-PC with N2808 processor and eMMC memory. I actually still couldn't get it to boot after I finished the install - the UEFI doesn't see the eMMC drive as a valid boot target in the boot menu and it just goes straight to BIOS. Not sure if I don't have GRUB installed to the right place, or if there's some other Ubuntu-specific bug cropping up, or what.
No the kid had similar tutorial videos and I think he wanted to be above me in search.
See also Ken M:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us4Eti0UmDI
Please get someone from HR involved. Do not immediately fire the employee as this could lead to severe financial problems for you. Despite the peasant with pitchforks in this comment section, wrongful termination / paying unemployment / litigation, etc. is also something you may want to avoid. This employee of yours may not be aware of the policy or the law and is possibly entitled to progressive disciplinary action based on your employment policies (and I disagree with those below that said sexual harassment was somehow equivalent to murder and embezzlement - WTF?). From what I read sexual harassment laws might not even apply to your business if you have fewer than so many employees, I am not a lawyer or an HR professional, so don't listen to me.

The employee did something wrong, no sensible person doubts that, but not necessarily something that allows you to fire them without consequences for you. You need to speak to HR and then if necessary your legal representation.
According to what was told, they moved the conversation to Whatsapp before he asked her to hang out. What would she be leading him on about?
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They've finally revised their policies about how those copyright claims work revenue-wise, but it took them far too long.
$ vu development-16
Bringing machine 'development-16' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> development-16: Importing base box 'ubuntu/xenial64'...
==> development-16: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> development-16: Checking if box 'ubuntu/xenial64' is up to date...
==> development-16: Setting the name of the VM: ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg
[...]
==> development-16: Machine booted and ready!
==> development-16: Checking for guest additions in VM...
==> development-16: Setting hostname...
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

hostname -f

Stdout from the command:

Stderr from the command:

sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu-xenial
mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
hostname: Name or service not known

$ vssh development-16
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

Get cloud support with Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest:
http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/cloud

0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:~$ hostname
ubuntu-xenial
ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:~$ hostname -f
hostname: Name or service not known
ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:~$ which hostname
/bin/hostname
ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:~$ \hostname -f
hostname: Name or service not known
ubuntu@ubuntu-xenial:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"

Fun times.
And pick up that can while you're at it.
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What GUI Library do you recommend?
I'm a team leader and my company is now migrating to an agile scrum organisation. It seems that the direction is to remove the team lead role and replace it by line managers and scrum masters. Can these 2 positions cover the team leader roles? Can we keep the team leader role in a Scrum organisation?
Shouldn't they be in the Datto backups? The ones that even Clinton herself didn't know about because they were kept by mistake (and against her orders)? The ones that contain the 30,000+ emails she and her lawyers attempted to delete because they were "personal"? The ones that still haven't been released despite numerous FOIA requests and a lawsuit?

I have a feeling we're only getting one side of this (the State Department's) while the FBI already has these emails. The FBI would have no reason to chime in and tell the public "It's ok, everyone, we have those emails too." And the State Department obviously wouldn't have them since she wasn't using their email system.

I'm 99.99% sure nothing is missing here, it's just not where they expected it to be. Pagliano already struck a deal with the DOJ and appears to be cooperating, which probably isn't a good thing for Clinton.
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Maybe Lois Lerner has it?
IMHO, harassment is only the tip of the problem. Team members should respect each other's right to pursuit of happiness. If you draw the line here, the MILF comment is so out of line, there is really no question about what to do, only how to do it.
See also the "Bush White House email controversy": [1]

> The "gwb43.com" domain name was publicized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who sent a letter to Oversight and Government Reform Committee committee chairman Henry A. Waxman requesting an investigation.

> Waxman sent a formal warning to the RNC, advising them to retain copies of all emails sent by White House employees. According to Waxman, "in some instances, White House officials were using nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications."

>The Republican National Committee claims to have erased the emails, supposedly making them unavailable for Congressional investigators

It is hopeless to expect voluntary transparency by the government, there is no incentive to

1) comply with the rules when transparency is clearly detrimental to your backroom deals or

2) to punish the very people that appointed you to your high positioned job or

3) to punish the opponents in the other party when they fail to comply while, after 4 years, the positions can be reversed and you may be in the crosshairs in a similar investigation.

Nothing was done when Bush did it, nothing will be done now that is Hillary doing it and don't expect anything different regardless of what party manage to snag the congress and White House.

If regulatory capture is a significant problem in the private sector imagine inside the government itself. It is hopeless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...
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For one thing they could require people to submit real DMCA notices. YouTube's system isn't DMCA-based, and as much as I dislike the DMCA, it still provides greater protections than YouTube's system does.

That's how bad YouTube's draconian copyright system is, the DMCA is an "upgrade."
You say modern and productivity focused, I say bloated and opinionated. Gnome and KDE seem to want to show off, while Mate/LXDE wants to get out of my way and let me work.

Gnome brings nothing new or interesting to the UI table. An "activities" system that doesn't match the way actual people use their computers, a mobile-first design that I swear was cribbed from Microsoft, just with a rough file taken to the window corners. (This looks more and more out of place when you see something like, say, the Boxes app. Why does my virtualization tool look like a tablet toy?), and oh yeah, developers who will break your shit and then tell you its for your own good when you go to complain, if they respond at all.

(Me? Bitter?)

KDE at least doesn't suffer from those problems, but I find the UI to be gaudy (think WinXP Luna), and unless you like bright themes, unusable.
Indeed. Efficient use of language can be far more compelling than florid prose. Of course, it can also be more difficult to convey the same meaning tersely, hence the old quote (who's source I forget, and I'm likely mangling) "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one".
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Food for thoughts: When you fight naked or pantless against men with sharp sticks, you don't want a long penis that is easy to hit.
I love the mythical "cover up". Is she hiding the fact that she knows Ted Cruz dad helped shoot JFK? What exactly do you think is being hidden.

Also, at what point do you get upset about tax dollars being wasted to investigate something to death. Couldn't we be spending this money on better things?