skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely.

As to why I think it’s different, here's a possibly dumb analogy: my building has this rooftop garden, and for the past few years, someone would walk up to the rooftop and water it a couple times a day with a hose. So far, so good.

Last year I decided it would be funny to install a drop irrigation system. Half a dozen times a day it trickles out water. Just drips, possibly less total water than the hose sprays.

Our yield last year was simply bananas. Plants growing taller than me in little pots and 16"-deep crates. The local plant expert explained to me that when plants get sporadic water, they grow roots deep to find more; when they get constant water, even if not as much, they "assume" water will be around whenever they need it and grow up instead.

I speculate that the human metabolism works in a similar way, and that ongoing, low levels of exercise is more beneficial to the metabolism than daily spurts of high intensity exercise.

just a theory IANA scientist obviously
I know the article is fluff when I see MIT in the title
The object store is done in the way it's done for two reasons. The first being that using individual files doesn't require opening some database file to parse the state of the repo -- and pushes and pulls are very simple to implement (you just download the objects to .git/objects and then update any refs in .git/refs). Secondly, the splitting of the filename into a directory is because filesystems have very bad performance when you put >500000 files in one directory. Remember that git was created to deal with the Linux kernel source, so they have very large numbers of git objects and operations need to be fast.

I actually think the git object store is very clever. ;)
It only goes up right now lol.
> Of course, as a platform for Web browsing, and particularly for app development, Symbian was not good.

So in other words - they were great phones, but terrible smartphones? I fully agree.
I'm not sure, but FWIW here's what I think. A thoughtful discussion would involve suspending pre-existing political positions (or at least trying to), carefully avoiding weaponized rhetoric that mostly just stirs up pre-existing emotions for and against, and then reacting to something specific rather than something generic in the article or the comments.

For example, you could respond with some of your own experiences and how they have been similar or different. Your comment suggests that that would be interesting--especially if you would do so in a way that is respectful of others (e.g. others you disagree with) rather than judging them, because that tends to evoke more respectful and substantive responses.

(Btw I replied to this before you added the second paragraph. I don't think I'm being Orwellian, but I guess no Orwellian would.)
Would you rather they used USB sticks?
Is there a really good in-depth up-to-date comparison somewhere between duckduckgo and google?

For example: I don't see any advantage in those search bangs, simply searching "shoes amazon" on google will do the job, or if I really want to search a specific site one can easily do "shoes site: amazon.com", and considering all the other things google can do...

duckduckgo might do some of those things, some of those even well, but I don't know, therefore the question about a detailed comparison... in google:

search literally by using quotation marks "to be or not to be", show weather, stocks, definitions, times, calculate anything, you can even do stuff like "notebook 200$..300$" which searches in that specific price range, currency and number conversion, exclude some search terms, flight information and lots more... whenever I read of something about supposedly awesome duckduckgo-features, it seems like the author(s) don't know a lot about google's capabilities... or I guess don't mention it on purpose. Many don't know about google's capabilities I guess, and then they might go "look what duckduckgo can do", ehm "google has been capable of that for x years"...

and by the way: last I checked google was immensely superior in search term results (even without the bubbling effect)
Anyone know how !g works, particularly in the context of Google's recent changes[1]?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11625633
I had major problems a couple of years ago, I switched desk to one that was standing/much higher in the down position and swapped out my mechanical keyboard for an Ergo 4000, it took a couple of months but the problems all went away.

I keep a tennis ball on my desk which is I squeeze when I'm reading or thinking and I've found that helps as well.
I actually like Java pretty well. The language itself is mostly pretty OK, the tooling is super mature, it's typed which is huge. The community has a lot of smart people. Definitely not something super-exciting or my favorite language, but overall it's just pretty smooth to work with.

I'm curious what you found unpleasant about it.
Is there a reason you suggest trying it on DO instead of a local VM?
Coincidentally, I've been reading Paul Christiano's medium posts on the AI control problem [1]. It's great to see AI Safety research folks join the OpenAI team.

[1]: https://medium.com/ai-control
Incandescent bulbs never had any variation, they're all around 2700K. The GE Reveal bulbs I believe use a color filter to influence the appearance, but the filament still glows the same as everybody else's.
The tower in the woods: preparing for nuclear war
Everyone needs to shut the hell up about nuclear obsolescence.

If we can just keep the politicians from noticing the need to "modernize" these terrible weapons, then in a few short decades we will have achieved a de facto global disarmament. Everyone can continue manning their silos filled with stale dud warheads, fingers hovering over buttons that no longer work. We'll have all the stratigic stabilizing influences of mutually-assured-destruction, with none of the actual threat-of-destruction.

But engineers and journalists need to shut up and not point out that the emperor's got no nukes.
So much fervor for the rights of a government created legal fiction?
This sounds exactly like what homebrew does. It also installs under /usr/local and does not touch anything else. What does nix package manager provide that homebrew does not? (from a user point of view)
Why is Reddit replacing Imgur?
Ok, I see your point. That's fair.
But ZFS is not under that other license (which might be called CDDLv1, but that's confusing). I don't get why new software uses the CDDL over the MPL if you want "file based copyleft". If you want copyleft, just use the GPL.
Speed limits depend more on the road (banking in corners, surface conditions, imperfections) and the car (what happens to the vehicle if an accident does happen) than the drivers, so I wouldn't expect major increases in speed limits.
I haven't used Discord but it says "It’s time to ditch Skype and TeamSpeak." Skype is primarily 1-1 and not for irc. I have not heard of teamspeak but a quick google suggests it's for gamers. I don't quiet get how it replaces slack if it's replacing skype.

edit: looked into discord closer now. discord has no pricing information whatsoever. thanks, i prefer something where i pay for and hope will last.
Ability to install several versions of any package and guarantee that nothing can break installed packages are two main points of Nix.
I frequently use !js which searches only the JavaScript portion of the Mozilla Developer Network.

You can also always use the Google search results - without being profiled - by using !g (aka, best of both worlds)
Nobody expects finger-print readers to stop someone who really wants to get into your phone. It is really just meant to stop the average low-level thief/snooper.
Obvious but maybe wrong answer: because it's not linear, if you trap nearly all the IR it stays until converted to visible, otherwise it still escapes after a couple of bounces.
I have never heard an Asian referred to as "colored" in a derogatory manner.

However, I know several Asian Americans (both East Asian and South Asian) who frequently use the phrase "person of color" with respect to themselves.
Duck Go !Bang: http://duckgobang.com is a blog that tests bangs (some listed on Duck Duck Go are broken) and showcases the most useful ones.

Bangs are such a cool search hack, I wonder why more people don't use it.
+1 for Arq
I was pleased to discover the Qwant[0] search engine recently and have found its results to be a significant improvement over those provided by DuckDuckGo. It also has some support for bangs (but the bang must be at the start of the query). I've come to rely a lot on bangs and would love to see this further supported; coincidentally I submitted feedback to them about this earlier today.

[0] https://www.qwant.com
Ok now... It's not like a bunch of adults went to take over a park just so they could kick the kids off it and sit around and drink beer or something. They went to PLAY SOCCER after going online and seeing they could rent it from the city. How were they supposed to know any different. Also the city didn't rent it out 24/7 they rented out 2 slots on Tuesday/Thursday from what I read. Tradition and culture don't get to trump reality just because. This is the cities fault no the employees who legally rented the space and expected to be able to use it...
Though the filament would have to be at about the temperature of the sun's visible surface (with some adjustment for atmospheric absorption and scattering) to have the same spectrum. That is about 5700K, and tungsten melts at 3695K. As was mentioned above, the scattering changes quite a lot through the day.
I suspect that the GP simply meant that 85% of Indian loans are past due.

Rhetorically, you could consider them as being underwater if the asset purchased (human capital) isn't providing sufficient value (income) to service the loan.
Please keep religious flamewars off HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770655 and marked it off-topic.
If kids spray paint 35 to 85, can a human detect it? If a human can, I am sure a machine can as well (at some point).
Pyrrhic defeat theory
I meant android producing competitors, as contrasted to apple. Which I think was pretty obvious in context.
It has been a long time since it exclusively referred to African Americans (I believe the term predates the us itself). For instance, the racial integrity act of 1924 specifically defines native Americans as colored; similarly, the Jim Crowe laws of the south specifically segregate whites/Caucasians from colored/non-Caucasian, though enforcement certainly centered around African Americans.

That said, the black community can use its own community voice, much like other minorities. I don't think there's any harm in the term "color" here outside of the confusion we've witnessed in this thread.
I couldn't disagree more. Most people are capable of understanding historical context, and many are capable of empathizing.

For example, you don't have to have been poor to contribute solve poverty.
think he means student loans with collateral not doing well due to variety of reasons defined here [1] and I think you are thinking about underwater mortgages as defined here [2]
1. http://goo.gl/21TmQm
2. http://goo.gl/UVNIFr
So, not a whole lot is known durability. Any pointers?

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Arealm.io%20durability...
It's too late. The Obama administration has proposed a one trillion dollar budget to modernize the nuclear arsenal. The inclusion of low-yield nuclear devices is considered especially unnerving as it is believed their use would be easier to justify and could lean to a full nuclear exchange. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/science/as-us-modernize...
I have used FileVault since it was released many many years ago. In the beginning there was a fairly severe performance penalty, but it's solid now. I highly recommend using it. On an SSD, at least, but spinning disks + FileVault is border line unusable IMO.
People disagree on a lot of things, like the age of the earth. Are all of those viewpoints valid?

My definition of "socialist" derives from original usage, is concise, and distinct from any definition of capitalist economy (regulated or otherwise). It's the right usage because of its historical correctness and its current utility.

Sure, you can redefine "socialism". You can redefine any word you want. But if you then apply that term in its historical context, e.g. "criticism of capitalism is now mainstream", then you're committing a fallacy of false equivalency.
what's the difference between outdated technology which has never been documented online, and new technology which has never been documented online?
Are dreams predictions?
> Good -- and simple[1] -- abstractions require lots of dynamic dispatch

So they don't need the JIT per se, but for linguistic abstractions... to be performant, which is non-linguistic. That's splitting hairs though. So, James' customers needed those abstractions, and _he_ said they needed a JIT.

Incidentally, I've been doing dynamic code loading on Android 5.0, with its AOT. So it works. For my use, it's hard to tell if its startup is slower, though I'd expect it to be.

I hadn't heard that about Rust.
> How do Apple's products qualify as "cutting-edge technology"?

If Apple does not qualify as "cutting-edge technology" then what does?

If a store is selling to consumers, it's inherently going to be not at the very edge of development.

If Apple can't be approved for this exemption, this exemption makes no sense.
Nix groups all of your installed packages in one environment. When you install a new package, it creates a new environment with the new package added to it. This alone may sound insignificant, but it enables having multiple nix environments (e.g. one per project) and switching between them very quickly and easily.
ddg is my default and this is the killer feature for me.

I type in "houston !gmaps" and right to google maps focused on Houston. I copy paste "[error] !so" and get relevant stack overflow search, "[actor] !imdb" etc.
verdigris... not good for copper :P
Idea of levels or areas isn't always applicable, and in vast open space games like Star Citizen or Witcher 3 with tons of random events you might need to load / free something pretty regularly I suppose, and it should happen seamlessly (i.e. if some event is triggered or passed).

So limiting lifetime of the object by some scope should work pretty well for it, and if you can pass raw pointers to transfer ownership, you can as well pass managed ones. At least it's safer.

Anyway, by using something like Rust a lot of such problems are solved by the language itself.
For a direct link to the setting you want to turn off, go to https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/news-mention-broadcast .
"you can never replace the mouse with gaze for a pixel perfect pointing device"

And how about getting in the precision area like a finger has on a touchscreen?
You think, this is possible?
Because touch works pretty well, if the UI is good (big) enough ...
Yes, exactly that. For example:

tell application "Finder" to duplicate (every item in folder "Documents" of home whose modification date comes after (current date) - 7 * days) to folder "Documents" of disk "Backups" with replacing

It's almost, but not quite, English. It'll trip you up when writing it.
> There are lots of socialisms.

Yes. But the point of this whole discussion is limited to whether or not Sanders is misusing the term. Even though there are all of these different socialisms that all satisfy the "social ownership" requirement, is Sanders advocating even a single one of them? I do not think that he is.
So is the guest user only for when you leave the machine powered on? Just seems like the firmware password conflicts with the idea of the guest account.

I have gone back and forth on whether or not to enable the guest user. On one hand, it feels like giving an attacker another potential entry point to escalate privileges.
Possibly also a racist? That's being pretty generous
Very cool.

Unfortunately, it failed on the first sentence that I typed: "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Perhaps it doesn't work on Victorian-style writing.

Still, it's an interesting project!
What about meetings in remote locations? I'm in the USVI and it'd be great to meet some fellow HNers passing through.
No, they really are different. The objectionable part seems to be that data should be protected and respected, while products made using the data should be treated with less careful scrutiny. Nobody would object morally to a restaurant selling flour, water and cheese.

I think a more apt analogy would be somebody describing the pizza restaurant as "selling an insult to Italian culture". The sale of a culture seems morally objectionable, and the statement is emotionally charged.
>the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service

huh, seems like your attempt at hyperbole is actually pretty accurate
If you're using Windows 10 or MacOS, people know how to find their way around in the absence of documentation. How many people could figure out the command line interface to a 1970s era IBM Series/1 without docs?
25 points means OP isn't the only one interested. I, like you, am not sure what caught so much attention though.
Because every android manufacturer will end with virtually no profit since they are producing a commodity. When you basically can't differentiate with your software except for which shitty skin you layered on top of Android, what makes a samsung better than an lg or any other android device?
One repeated many times is that it's complex enough that people default to turning it off. But it doesn't even come from users sometimes. Just google the following: installation instructions "setenforce 0"

How many projects just went the lazy way? How many projects went out of their way to fix the issue the wrong way?

Notice how nagios documentation first tells you how to disable selinux for the whole system and make it permanent. Only then as an alternative gives you two lines to make it work correctly instead.

So what can SELinux folks address? Submit a change to every documentation in that list with instructions on how to make selinux work without issues. And make sure the alternative of "setenforce 0" has a warning that this will disable protection of your whole system rather than just this app.
Rest vs. Sleep
> Most of all, the thing I'd be intersted in is how resistant to error is the design?

I feel like this is what keeps the most impressive research out of real world application. Yeah, manufacturing is expensive, but tolerances are just so much more controllable in a lab.

Manufacturing also produces revenue, whereas funding the years of research necessary just to figure out a new nanometer-precise process is a hard investment for most companies to swallow, especially if the end product isn't guaranteed to produce a profit itself.
Irrespective of Apple being able open stores, one has to remember India is really tiny market for Apple widgets. There is no comparison to China in term of market size. Apple shipped around 1.7 million phone in India in 2015. This may look lot but going ahead I think they are going sell quite less than that as there is no 2 year upgrade cycle.
Separation of Concerns in the Design of Twitter’s Pelikan Cache
I seem to remember someone telling me how there are a couple of cottage industries that center around the fact that the US Government has to buy goods that are US-made.

I think ceiling fans are one example. (i.e. There's relatively few US-based ceiling fan manufacturers. For one of them, I think the large chunk of their business is the US Government.)

I have a feeling this may be an example of that.
Nix has a way of doing this as well, just needs a better UX (like most of nix).
Hahahaha! Good one.
Getting a Dropbear or OpenSSH server set up on Android can be a mess. For a super simple setup that "just works", you can just use a SSH server application (e.g. Rooted SSH/SFTP Daemon [0]) and a ZeroTier virtual network [1] so that you can access the devices from the Internet.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=web.oss.sshsft...

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zerotier.o...
I mean the skewing effect of a cult following on the perception of the movie's qualities is more apparent here. I believe when someone is a fan they is already invested and hence incentivized to like/defend a movie/brand/franchise. Which is true for the prequels too btw. However TFA being merely a remake makes it objectively inferior imo, as I think people rate original artistic works higher (at least I do). A fact, which is not really reflected nor in its commercial, neither in its critical success.
All that said, I might be just arguing about taste and trying to rationalizing my dislike for TFA.
Structured, leveled logging for Go with 0 allocs per call
No. The UI designer does not choose functionality on their own. They need intimate knowledge of how the car and driver work together, and then must simplify to the bare necessities. The better they are at the job, the better they know about both. And same applies to the developer and even the driver. The best drivers are deeply involved with every aspect of their cars. And in the end, nothing is redundant.

And no, MS Paint and Photoshop are not the same program with one just having more options. Photoshop is a beast, and it's UI has improved over the years -- to match that functionality.

The UI is different because Schumacher is driving an F1 car.

> additional options with non-obvious discovery

This is bad design. iTunes and Apple Music are horrible also. Not everyone at Apple gets it. But everything that made Apple successful was about getting it. Steve Jobs got it.

> designer happiness

There is only designer happiness among those who don't get it. There is no designer-developer distinction to the user. Ultimately all there is is user happiness.
Maybe against monoculture and user experience with pkg-src on OSX was very bad for years. Nix introduces modern concepts that pkg-src will never have without complete rewrite ... so we need to look forward
It reminds me this story, which was told to me as a true story, but I wouldn't bet too much on that.

A soviet bomber gets lost and finds itself over western germany. It has to land on a military airport, which pilots jovially invite the soviet pilots for a drink. While they are drinking, intelligence officers take pictures of the plane, and are laughing at antiquated soviet technology, using bulbs while the US was well into the age of transistors. It's only back in the US that the intelligence officers realised that the soviet were using bulbs not for the lack of transistors, but because they can resist a nuclear explosion...
LinkedIn is now what Yahoo was after the Microsoft offer fell through.

They're just going to stay in a state of limbo, doing stupid things like this (I bet this 'product' has a whole Product team behind it), getting presumably half of their userbase pwned (makes you wonder if Yahoo ever experienced that) and doing whatever they can to milk their resource/site for new revenue.

I don't think anybody can suggest a decent way for them to keep growing (in numbers and revenue) without some element of sleaziness involved, because they've probably attempted those sleazy strategies already.

Sadly though, like so many proponents here say, LinkedIn has become the monopoly in the professional networking market. So we're all stuck with a shit site that makes privacy-related matters opt-in and nothing can really be done about it (suggesting that a "better linkedin" be started isn't exactly an option either), but we all need it to find better jobs or grow our networks.