skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's not clear whether this is getting sincere upvotes despite that the page is currently failing to load or ironic upvotes because the page is currently failing to load."

Clever thought. That didn't occur to me.
That's a diabolically well-constructed argument. Anyone paying attention to social media knows that the kind of overt racism you refer to lies just below the surface, and bubbles up readily when given the opportunity.

Still, you are overstating the impact of "the will of the people." We live in a well-managed system where "representation" is mostly bought, then legitimized by voting among two bought choices.
WinAmp - still around, but basically abandonware. Still haven't found anything on the Linux side that comes close to it for managing huge media libraries.
The smaller iPad Pro + the Apple Pencil should fit the bill. You could try it out at a store, it's surprisingly good. YouTube demos will give you an idea but they can't do it enough justice.
It depends on your school. 3 is considered passing grade by the collegeboard, but some schools only accept 4+. For example UCI [0] allows 3 for credit, but USC [1] only accepts 4 or above, which I guess is progress since in high school one of the factors (besides the price) was that USC wouldn't accept any AP credits at all.

[0] https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/creditandplacement/credit...

[1] https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/creditandplacement/credit...
Malware, shmalware. This is my computer. I decide what gets downloaded to it and what doesn't. If a publisher has a way to make it impossible to download their content without ads, then fine. I'll most likely just pass. But as long as the two are separable, I have no moral responsibility to download anything or run any code that I don't want on my machine.

If they want to charge for their content, then go ahead and charge and produce something valuable enough that people are willing to pay for it. 99.999% of articles online are just time-wasting bullshit that has nearly no practical influence on anything important in one's life.
I found the final part of the podcast [1] where DRH talks about having a design for a "Git killer" intriguing. He describes it as a possible future project distinct from Fossil, which he calls only an incremental improvement upon Git. I would have liked to hear more of a hint at the novel design involved, though. Before that DRH discusses his early career and how SQLite and Hwaci came to be, which was also interesting.

Overall, I thought the podcast was well worth listening even if you're reasonably familiar with SQLite itself and its history.

[1] Approximately from the 01:17:00 mark on.
Or, why do people who live in society tend to believe in the value of society?

The era of the independent family on the frontier is nearly all gone from planet Earth.
Did we enter a post-scarcity era when I wasn't paying attention?
I love common lisp. That being said, i feel like this effort might be better spent contributing to modernizing and cleaning up / updating the existing community sites like cliki.net.
"John Smith is responsible"

Cross (or relax and sufficiently uncross) your eyes until the two columns overlay perfectly. Those words will be at a different "depth"; the message literally pops out at you.
I would say it does matter if a company benefits more than I do, but makes out like it doesn't. Any fair transaction should surely balance? In the end, nobody likes being deceived or presented with false information, even happy customers.
Should have invested into charging infrastructure, bike lanes or street infrastructure all together.

Last time the government threw all that money at the car industry people ended up selling their good cars and getting cars who faked their emission measurements. So I'm pretty skeptical here...
a party is not the same as a movement. The party is a mesh bag -- it has some structure and permanence, but defines very little. The movements are the goopy fluids that fill it and flow in and out of it, giving is temporary meaning.
CL is not purely functional language.

CL is either multi-paradigm language or Lisp paradigm language. There is lisp style programming.

It has many functional primitives but typical CL programmer is not programming functionally. Other languages like Scheme or Clojure are more functionally 'oriented' Lisps.
> Just exactly WTF does that mean? How would any sane person want a site to post on their behalf?

Many justifiable uses. Every time I go skiing snow.com posts a fb update for me, then my friends know I'm skiing and call me. Not for forbes though.
Here's a site that calls 3+ passing - http://blog.prepscholar.com/average-ap-scores-for-every-ap-e...

Anecdotally when I took them 14 years ago 3+ was considered passing, and most mid-level schools took 3+ for credit except for things they specialized in, with higher tier schools requiring 4+ in more subjects.

The AP Board has a school lookup and the few schools I looked at (a mix of big state schools and more elite private universities) seemed to bear this pattern out.
What annoys me about this plan is that every hybrid car is eligible. There are some hybrids that can barely drive 10miles on electric and thus never get charged by the owners (because installing a charging spot can be really expensive) and yet the cars count toward a total maximum.

Hybrid cars should either have their own maximum limit (after that limit the subsidy ends) or every manufacture should have their own limit (like it is in the US, the first 200k electric cars get the $7,500 off for every manucature). This would make sure that 90% of those cars are not hybrids that can barely drive 10miles on electric and people have a chance to get the subsidy when the bolt and tesla model 3 are available (I think the model 3 will not be available without reservation before the end of 2019). Currently, there are no purely electric cars that don't suck (the Nissan Leaf has a range of 100miles and looks kind of funny and is incredible expensive for what it has to offer; the model S/X are excluded from the subsidy because they are considered luxury cars).
That's actually a good idea for a first-class feature. That way, the GitHub email can mention a financial offer in the subject line to stand out from the noise of free requests.
Well from what I understand this was largely started concurrently with the southern strategy which was when that particular play started.
Pathminder for DOS 1988

Finder is a joke compared to this tool
because most people are not super smart, and don't think carefully about words, and get their thinking hijacked by powerful special interests.
You can write purely functional programs in CL, but it's not a purely functional language in the way haskell is, and I think most people don't use it that way.
I've moved to Digg Reader which has been a good replacement.

I'm sure by Google standards that reader usage was tiny but I'm guessing the value of the usage was pretty high. I check reader first thing, last thing and several times in between.
> I would very much not like to be manipulated no matter if the cause is "good" or not.

The problem is the definition of "manipulated" is not black and white. Consider the relatively recent change in StubHub's fee model. Consumers will always tell you they hate having a service fee tacked on at the last minute when checking out. So, for a while, StubHub tried all-inclusive pricing on their search results, and consumers said they liked the change. However, it ended up tanking their conversion rates. When they A/B tested putting the fee on last, they immediately saw an increase in shoppers willing to buy.

Is this manipulation? The fee was still clearly stated on checkout, but I imagine the subconscious thought process of shoppers was "well, crap, I've already made it this far, I just want these tickets now."

I agree some of the outright "tricking" examples from the article are over the line, but most forms of marketing are manipulation in some respect. When does "persuasion" become "manipulation"?
Blackberry recently released their first Android phone, and it has a physical keyboard.
I'll escrow that for a mere 10%.
At the end of WW2 Indonesia needed an official language. Instead of picking Javanese, they picked a language spoken by relatively few people because of its simplicity.

Indonesians are all bi or trilingual.

Indonesian is the worlds simplest language. It should be the official world language!
I don't know what the author thought they'd get out of the relationship. LI has to make money, and as a non-recruiter/non-professional account I accept the occasional undesired recruiting email or unsolicited accounts from strangers as part of the price paid. It's a nice way to have a networked resume, and I have never gotten a job through it but have gotten several high-quality inquiries that I would have pursued if circumstances at the time had not been different.

I don't expect it to magically connect me with people I don't know or to afford me access to insights of business thought leaders. The dynamic of those two (working with great people that you mutually respect for networking, and building relationships over time with mentors to earn their trust and insights) will not change substantially with technology, LinkedIn or otherwise. It only reflects those connections, it doesn't create them.

As a networked resume, again, it's perfectly adequate.
It's more problematic when you're transiting through a German airport, and practically fall off the face of the earth.

Ohhhh, they have a wifi hotspot portal: "Enter your cell phone number to get an SMS with a 30 minute code". You want me to turn on my cell-phone and potentially incur roaming charges now?

I hear things have gotten better in Frankfurt and you only have to provide an email address. How did they skirt this law?
It's the default file system in OpenSUSE.
[Quotes reordered for clarity of response.]

> At least for me, the question is not, "...

Look, I'm sure progressives don't mean to sound patronizing when pushing for any of their pet programs -- however, the truth of the matter is you are no more able to dictate how people feel about what you say than you can the weight bearing capacity of a bridge or the speed of a computer program. [That is -- you can exert some control, but it's not done by directly writing the answer on the blueprints.]

I even read your original post in this thread as asking the right sort of question to exert that control: "When progressives put forth a program, what is it their opponents hear that seems distasteful?" and I gave you my answer to that question.

> I think this is why the only reasonable end-game for progressive ideas is ...

Just... stop right there. First off, I wasn't trying to address any sort of ivory tower, idealized "progressive ideas" -- yes, I'm sure there are academics who want something like universal income, healthcare, education, etc. I'm talking about the ones agitating in the streets for a $15 minimum wage, or the politicians who were willing to pass Obamacare instead of single-payer programs. In fact, I find it highly likely that such ideologues are ostracized even among left-leaning groups in the US, because that is not what is put forth by most progressive (Democrat) politicians.

Second, I don't really have any feelings one way or the other about those programs. Like the examples above, I don't think human beings have direct, final control over (or even enough knowledge to say in advance) what systems will or won't work. Instead, we need to attempt a great many different things -- yes, UBI among them -- to sort out which ideas are good or bad, because not all possible flaws are immediately obvious. [Remember in my last post how I said I'm 'nearly' an anarchist? This is most of what I meant -- making sure there's always room for experiments in governance, in order to reduce our ignorance about the mercurial nature of things.]
Author of the post here: this was my first serious foray into disassembly land and I remember one post pointing out that Hopper had a harder time with disassembling 64-bit slices. However, it appears that was wrong! About to add an update to the post.
I'm a native English speaker. I don't really know any other language, though I've studied a bit of the romance languages.

I don't think English is a good "standard" language. Despite widespread usage, there are a lot of problems I see with it when compared to other languages.

For example, the word read. Which read did I mean? If I spoke it, and meant the other read, was I talking about the colour red? I know, context and all that, but the inconsistent, broad rules often based on context alone isn't that great. I imagine computers would have a bit easier a time with a language with a more consistent structure.

I think a good parallel lies in programming languages. PHP is widespread on the web. Should we make it the standard? If I called for that, I'd be served a link to how PHP is a fractal of bad design or similar with a resounding no and perhaps a bit of shame to finish things off nicely.

That and in England the whole "St George's day hurkadurr" crap is pretty tedious. I don't want to see memes like "English is the world standard language. Why do we need a polish shop in ENGLAND?!"
Lol. Kind of the point of the post. No worries.
Well, yes, if a prestigious research team in MIT excludes people who don't do computer science at all to participate in their research, is that also an actualization of an echo chamber? Should it also be protested?
For me it's not how many lines there are in the function, but how many lines of scope the single-character variable lives. If it lives for 2-3 lines in a 12 line function, the dude abides the name.
I could not do it as well. My monitor is too far away I guess (about 60-70 cm).
Perhaps for fear of private APIs being used/abused by 3rd party?
The Capitol Stones
I'm sure that most everyone would be fine if 90% of X died out - but it's usually a wildly different 90%. This is a corollary to Sturgeons Law (90% of everything is crap).

Interestingly, we sort of know what this conflict is: it's yellow journalists vs muckrackers.

* There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.*

— Theodore Roosevelt
Chisel is awesome. pviews is another great command, it prints the view hierarchy along with the object addresses so you can easily send messages to a specific view. This is handy for changing properties during runtime, for example.
> and I'm sure I'm missing some

Skype?
I pretty much agree, but just got bothered by 'pay per print'. Impression is the word you're looking for.
Wow that presentation format is precisely not the catastrophe I would expect from someone giving a talk pleading for sanity.
>You're afraid of something because it's alien to you.

Ugh, don't make stuff up like this to try to prove some point. This discussion is about getting rid of language barriers and has nothing to do with fear of a language. I want standardized language as well and I wouldn't care if it meant I had to learn a new language. So it's not xenophobic at all.
Got an “A” in Algebra, that's worth $120
Crazy people are hard to deal with. The mental health profession doesn't really care why people are in its care, it just treats the symptoms with FDA-approved drugs. Because the patients never get better, there is an ever-expanding need for beds at treatment facilities.

Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic [1] investigates why "the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades," in spite of all the new drugs that are now available.

[1] http://www.madinamerica.com/product/62043/

My girlfriend says she'd rather go to jail, than to another mental hospital. She's started to recover from her "mental health hell". With the help of the firefighters, she was able to switch to using the anti-anxiety drug "as needed" - the professionals at her 5th mental hospital stay had forced her to get addicted to this drug. She was good for about 2 weeks, then resumed drinking and self-medicating for her depression.

The 6th mental hospital didn't care that she'd been drinking, they just assumed that their patient was delusional because she'd stopped taking her anti-psychotic. After a week at their facility she was still delusional, in spite of their injections. I was surprised they released her - I was certain she was going to the state mental hospital. (Now that I think about it, after reading this article, I bet there wasn't a bed available...)

She called me the day after she'd been released to a "friend's" apartment (I was staying with family, 2 hours away)... Could I pick her up? Her friend had tricked her into buying bus tickets to California; she'd ditched him in Las Vegas. Five hours later I found her at the 7-11 she said she'd be at.

By this point I'd obtained more of the drug that she actually needed (very similar to what the firefighters had provided), and she started to calm down. "Feeling safe" is very important for optimizing a person's mental health.

When she missed her appointment the next day, they issued an arrest warrant. The next Monday she checked in to my county's local mental health system. A week after being released, the psychiatric nurse wanted to keep her on the anti-psychotic that the previous places had forced her to take, but someone neglected to pre-authorize the injection.

After another two weeks had passed, they started calling to have her come in for her shot, which she avoided. We talked to her case manager, and he talked to the psychiatry team. When she went to her medication-review appointment the following week, the psychiatric nurse didn't see any need to re-start the anti-psychotics, as the patient was NOT psychotic in spite of being off the drug for a month, and agreed to the anti-depressant that my girlfriend wanted all along. (This is not to imply that I think the anti-depressant is going to help, I just acknowledge that the patient's complaints are actually being listened to.)

Her medical cannabis card should arrive in a few weeks... I am optimistic that this "herb" will be the right "crutch" to get her to be much more stable.

edit: typo & clarifications
Because they are producing content for you, and it costs them money to make it? They chose to monetize with ads, so view them or leave. Do you think you're entitled to free content?
MS Paint: I've yet to find a photo tool that'll load instantly and let me crop or resize with the most minimal clicks.
Ask HN: Who productively writes code on their smartphone? How?
For those who have found a way to develop software, particularly web backends and frontends, via smartphone - what is your workflow? Which tools are best?
A Personal Lisp Crisis (2012)
Sadly you cannot register to AOL from outside the states, they require a us phone number.
YES! Thank you!
Why? They're just being honest about it. It's a large spec and it surely isn't that easy to convert it to a more modern format.
I hate the current trend for websites to have about a page's worth of information spread over about eight pages' worth of space. I'm used to seeing it on startup websites, where it doesn't bother me so much because I expect those to be trendy. But I'm recently seeing it infect websites of old school geek projects that I feel should know better. This is one example and the new emacs website a few days ago was another.
It's dangerous enough that this kind of behavior can drive nationwide news. Others might be encouraged in thinking that the entire country should be a safe space and all non-radfems be prosecuted or whatever.
It's a stereogram, you have to cross your eyes (or relax to infinity, I could never get that right) to see it. In the one linked, it shows 'John Smith is responsible' pretty clearly. Like the Magic Eye books... but in text. Works quite well actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
Exercise on a bicycle for an hour? This instead:
http://www.menshealth.com/health/ejaculation-and-prostate-ca...
I can't quite tell if you phrased that poorly, or didn't read the article.
I don't know. They focus on the professional: marketing themselves, finding jobs, keeping in touch with people...

There's no shame in a resume service with a social component. They bought Slideshare which - in my way of looking at things - forwards how they help people market themselves. Maybe they could probably do more with coding ability tests or partner with online education, but that's probably premature.
That's a good point, but there are many reasons to think it will be much harder to contain genomics than atomics:

1. You can sense atomic weapons materials at a distance.

2. It takes significant capital equipment to make atomic weapons.

3. It takes precision equipment to make atomic weapons.

4. While theoretical knowledge of atomic weapons is readily disseminated, it is easy to find and target experienced experts in the making of atomic weapons.

I can't find corresponding "choke points" that could control genomics, even on the scale of a synthetic human genome.
This is talking about scores before normalizing.
Common Lisp is not a purely functional language.

The most caracteristic feature of Lisp in general is that, its whole syntax is the literal representation of one of it's core datatypes, the linked list. This allows for creating idioms of arbitrary complexity and reusable abstractions with ease, one a tiny kernel.

Another wording of this is that the Lisp family of languages represent their programs as data that those programs directly manipulate, and thus, programs can manipulate themselves. This is homoiconicity.

For who likes laconicisms, Lisp is a pleasant way to write and execute a parse tree.

The advantage to this is that you can create syntactic abstractions that fit in nicely, that work on structured data instead of strings not parsed and verified yet (hey CPP!) and are reusable by other abstractions.

The disadvantage is that your set of abstractions can become very easily dialects, and the language ecosystem is prone to (and damned by) fragmentation (i.e. every Scheme has it's own module system, and then there's a late standard that nobody uses).

Another advantage of Lisp, though not unique to it neither theoretically nor practically, is the image, that is, the state of the interpreter. Your average Lisp process is code running on a Lisp VM, and the VM allows you to modify the running code. This allows you to pause the thread when an exception happens, modify the code, and play it again, and the program uses the new, modified version of the code. These are called restarts and supported at least in Steel Bank Common Lisp, and are well integrated into SLIME, the canonical Emacs mode for Common Lisp and other uncommon (!) lisps. This is so powerfull, I read that in one space mission, when they spotted a bug in the code of a research apparatus already in space, they connected to its image and hotpatched the code fixing the bug, saving NASA millions of dollars.
Ah I see. I guess I got confused somewhere. Thanks for the clarification.
Internet free from government officials and old people. And all other bad things (like facebook) that did happen to it later.

From more recent times — there was some nice hardware 5-10 years ago. All netbooks and such. Nokia N900. Simple portable music players, with sole purpose of playing music stored locally on it.
Can I ask a question: is there a way to run a Windows container on Mac just to run such programs?

Rather than a full Windows VM on whatever?
Android, iOS, Blackberry OS10...
Pretty much everything?
Each has orders of magnitude more users than XBox.