skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, though I would not take Trump as a good example of a conservative. He certainly plays hard on some of the conservatives' currently favorite instruments and sings some of their favorite songs, but that doesn't mean he is ideologically one - just that he wants their votes, and they are willing to ignore (not all of them, mind you - there's a sizeable anti-Trump sentiment among the conservatives) his mismatches with their agenda because they perceive the matches are more important.
I have no idea why you were downvoted. Objective view of Russian foreign policy is that they gladly go for quick wins using any means at their disposal if the odds are in their favor. Having lots of credible force on the other side reduces these odds.
I want all food that was packaged on Friday the 13th to be explicitly labeled as FRIDAY THE 13TH FOOD because I have an irrational fear of superstitious dates. I demand the government require all food manufacturers to comply with this labeling regime.
Ask HN: Is secure messaging mainly a usability problem?
Suppose we wanted to stop the NSA from spying on us. The obvious solution would be encryption. I am then led to understand that basically you should just use PGP and TLS.

If we could get everyone in the world to communicate through an open-source channel secured by these two cryptosystems, would that stop third-party snooping? More generally, is there a technical/mathematical solution to this problem that the world just isn't on board with, or is there more?
> That in fact, blacks are poor because of their culture and not ongoing structural racism? I honestly feel that any worthwhile conservative arguments are being made by center-left thinkers.

What evidence do you have to suggest this is the case and that these conservative hypotheses are fairly investigated?

Sociologists are under a lot of pressure to prove leftist memes and there are many cases of fraud and very poor scientific standards.

Sociology research is effectively useless to me because of leftism. In fact, most political reporting is useless because I have to spend many more cycles tying to figure out if the person isn't just trying to virtue signal instead of be pragmatic and truthful.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/chump-effect/610143

> First of all, discriminating against someone because they hold intolerant beliefs is categorically different from discriminating against someone based on their religion

Religion is a set of beliefs... What?

Mainstream Islam literally calls for people to be put to death for drawing pictures of Mohammad or renouncing Islam.

> he needs to provide examples of the useful discourse we are missing out on.

Ben Shapiro is a great example.

> Frankly, the center-left vs hard-left feel like the debates we should be having as a society

No thanks, let's have a discussion about right vs left vs hard left.
You can still tell your friend to zip it and that he's being an arse, and not making things better. In the same vein, if someone else is lobbying the local council for something that you don't like, you don't have to stay quiet just because "freedom of speech".
For the first - http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/12/universitie...

For the second (ignore the fact that the source is a right-wing newspaper, just follow the links to the sources) - http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25748/
By no means am I an expert on military hardware, and I don't seek out info on the subject. However I did encounter this bit of news which I think approximates the idea of "killer robots".

At least I found the video at this link to be impressive enough: http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/international/midea...
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not that precise ... as the tubes age, prepare for 50% less volume per revolution than a new tube.
Destroying the planet. You could say that's worse than slavery.
It's not like there are dozens of moderators who are just "more powerful users", like on Reddit or so.

dang seems to be employed by YCombinator, in order to moderate Hacker News.
This analysis is flawed as it is based off passenger numbers that include passengers transferring through the airport. This is why ATL seems so low. The reality is that ATL's passenger numbers includes a huge fraction of people transferring from one flight to another, (much more than other airports) none of which are ever going to take a train, because those passengers have no need to leave the airport.

Conversely, many of the airports with relatively high ridership probably have a greater fraction of passengers terminating or originating their trips there.

The analysis really needs to look at the passenger numbers for trips originated/terminated. Not the passengers merely boarding planes there.
So Universities UK is not a student union or association - its members are the executive heads of universities. It's very much a political group on the other side from student unions. In response to the report you mention, "the National Union of Students has stopped short of full condemnation but said it does not endorse “enforced segregation” and would take steps to prevent it taking place."

UConn are being ridiculous, I'll agree with that.
Formula 1 is mentioned in the article as caring a lot about latency. Why is this so? Is it really essential that race information is distributed quickly?
> With regard to politicians, like artists and many other people of note, I don't like them because of what their personal character is, but rather what I think they can accomplish.

I don't think you're so unbiased on personal character. You did say the country does not need a priest or pastor in chief. The fact that the Cruz character/persona his campaign put out there was dripping with Christianity has no bearing on his ability to "get shit done".

I got the sense that Cruz is a sharky lawyer political operator type above all. Opportunistic, and out to further his own political career. He's not the greatest human being, but I liked his campaign promises because I thought they were mostly doable if he got a strong mandate from the voters and the GOP was still largely in power in Congress.

With Trump my mind keeps returning to the fable about the Scorpion and the Frog. I just don't trust the guy.
I have to agree with most, if not all, of what this article is saying. Some friends of mine brought over their gaming rig and the Vive over. My kids loved it, it was pretty cool and all but there is no way I'm spending 2K to buy a gaming PC and the Vive. On top of that, you need a 3m by 4m room to play the better games so anytime I want to play I have to clear out a room in the house or dedicate it basically. For a game system? No.

For this to go big, and eventually I think it will, you need the headset to be wireless, the goggles have to be lighter, and the video card necessary to power the thing needs to be an appliance. I'm guessing once the consoles can handle it we might see more traction.

I also would like to see the hand controllers something more along the lines of a set of light weight gloves or something that allows finger and gesture tracking. Basically, Minority Report. When I was playing hollow point and budget cuts on the vive I really wanted something like that.
OK, I see your point -- in terms of language complexity. "Strict subset" wasn't precise. Sorry.

My impression comes from when I took a comparative programming languages class and we developed a Pascal interpreter.

I then took compiler design and over the course of two quarters implemented a compiler. Note I said "over TWO quarters." It took twice the time to create the compiler than the interpreter. A simple interpreter absolutely can be easier to write than a simple compiler.

That's what I'm talking about: The minimal requirements for writing an interpreter using a high level language (we used C++ -- this was 1988, so C++ before templates were a part of the language) are less complex than the minimal requirements for writing a compiler using a high level language (also C++, though with the addition of YACC and LEX).

The interpreter has to include a VM state, sure. But that state can be implemented in the state of the language you're using. I've written simple interpreters a half dozen times now -- very simple ones that I needed to run animations in games, or to script AI opponents, or to script UI layout and trigger UI interactions. The interpreted language was frequently barely Turing Complete, but I guarantee you that writing a compiler that spits out machine (or even assembly) code is much harder.

Among other things, you can rely on the host language itself to handle recursion. You can also create a "map" of global variables and, when the interpreter says to set a value, pull it out of the map.

I'm overgeneralizing for brevity, but I hope you see what I'm saying. Writing an interpreter for a simple language that maps well into the host language can actually be trivial -- the host language itself can provide much of the implementation.

Writing a compiler doesn't allow such shortcuts. You must code to the target machine architecture, not an arbitrarily complex (but well-mapped to the language) architecture stored in high level data structures. You must do all the hard work of reducing high level statements down to a sequence of low-level instructions.

If you're talking about writing an interpreter that spits out VM instructions (where it's basically performing a compile-to-vm), then sure, you're right: In that case you're writing a compiler and a VM and calling it an interpreter. Any real interpreter today would likely work this way, if only to be able to take advantage of LLVM -- and if you can use that, you can write your interpreter at exactly the same level of complexity as writing a compiler. The tasks would be equivalent.

If you're talking a transpiler that takes one high level language and spits out another high level language (thinking Babel, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, or even the early C++-to-C conversion tools), then sure, that would be even simpler than writing an interpreter.

If your task is just to write an interpreter, and the source and destinations languages are similar enough, then you can use shortcuts writing the interpreter (similar to writing the transpiler) that you just can't use writing a full compiler.
as the maintainer of this resource, for now, I've found no good answer to this question, hence this group project to make the catalogs people may want
I think on the contrary, it is a more honest conversation. Because it is temporary, people share what is currently happening in their life. It may be boring or of little importance, but they share anyway. Sometimes it is because they want attention, but for others they are just staying connected. I would bet that most of them consume other peoples' content just as much as creating content themselves.
I'm no expert in giving solutions on situations this complex. There could be various ways of doing autonomous communities. People should be able to organize and manage communities based off their ideologies, instead of obeying to a general enforcement. There's a larger chance, that autonomous communities may have more economic and innovative ways of solving conflicts and doing collaboration/cooperation between each other or within their own hierarchy.
I should have mentioned that I'm in the neglected nation of the north. I do have a google voice number that was grandfathered in from Grand Central, but the GV number is in Seattle.
Swedish prisons are very similar.
Before sending them data, make sure you are OK with "How to restore your data". Otherwise the following could happen to you: http://acmedia.alaskacommons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/...
LGDT is an instruction that Loads the Global Descriptor Table [1].

The CPU doesn't know about the persistence of local state in that it doesn't know (in this case), the significance of anything that is being pushed onto / restored from a frame around a call. It knows that a "PUSH R9" writes the value of R9 onto the region in the stack being currently pointed to by the stack pointer (RSP). It however doesn't know that this is being done because, the current frame has a live value in R9, which, per the ABI, the function being called is allowed to trash, as it is considered a volatile, callee saved register. Like I'd said earlier, these are just agreed upon conventions that might even change across compilers.

I'd used the term "naked" the way the VC++ compiler uses it. A "naked" function is one without a prolog or an epilog [2].

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2008/readings/i386/LGDT.htm

[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/21d5kd3a.aspx
Simultaneous with this, they even disabled the comment history. Like you couldn't see what you had commented or what peoples' replies were, unless you were in the thread.

Took several months to get that back, and by then it was too late - all the real content creators had moved to Reddit.
I also tried to find information on the activists demanding segregated housing.

I didn't find anything about campus activists in Missouri demanding black-only dorms, but searching for "black-only healing spaces" gives lots results arguing the need for exclusion based on race. Here's a sympathetic explanation by a self-described Chicano journalist: http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/black-activists-are-...

The University of Connecticut, though, has proposed a black-only dorm, although they claim it is not "segregated" because participation is optional. According to Dr. Erik Hines, Faculty Director for the initiative:

It is a space for African American men to, one, come together, and validate their experiences that they may have on campus," he explained. "Number two, it's also a space where they can have conversation and also talk with individuals who come from the same background who share the same experience."

The specialized housing does not—quite—constitute a "segregated" residence, as it is currently optional, much like the "affinity housing" that other schools have put in place to serve as a "safe space" for minority students."

I don't know the current status of the proposal, although I'd always presumed that segregation was defined more by racial exclusion than forced participation: http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7228
So what you're saying is that username/password is still the only choice for privacy minded people.
That was exactly the deal with the old google talk. Most of its users never knew or cared about xmpp and interserver comunication. It just worked.
Forgot to mention that I tried that as well with a USB fan.

Something like this one:
http://n4.sdlcdn.com/imgs/b/u/4/198x232/Persona-Portable-Min...

But yes, an in-built fan (if it weren't too noisy) should help a lot.
The reason the Millbrae<->SFO connection doesn't run all the time is because it's not cost-efficient to do so:

http://www.bayrailalliance.org/question/why-is-the-caltrain-...

In retrospect, an Airtrain connection to Millbrae would probably have been a better choice, but the person who pushed through the SFO BART station, Sen. Quentin Kopp, was hostile to Caltrain and had no interest in making a Caltrain<->SFO connection efficient.
I enjoy coming up with clean and elegant solutions. I enjoy solving the problem, and producing code that works, works well, is fast, and is therapeutic to read. I like everything separated out and grouped as appropriate, I like when there isn't any unnecessary code or complexity, and I like when the problem is solved completely, precisely, and without any compromises.

Clear, clean (simple, compact, readable, etc, while still being correct and complete), elegant, efficient, well-formatted, properly separated and grouped, optimal (no unnecessary or premature optimizations), etc.
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I think all of their robots have legs, and it was probably their biggest innovation.
I agree. Plant watering really doesn't require any kind of electrical solution. There are oodles of self watering planters which rely on a reservoir and gravity.

But for the HNers with a slightly greener thumb: I have a big sanseviera which I use as a kind of alarm clock. Whenever it gets droopy, I know it's time to water all my plants. And because it's a big and hardy plant, it prevents me from overwatering my other plants.
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So Universities UK is not a student union or association - its members are the executive heads of universities. It's very much a political group on the other side from student unions. In response to the report you mention, "the National Union of Students has stopped short of full condemnation but said it does not endorse “enforced segregation” and would take steps to prevent it taking place."

I would agree that segregated housing is ridiculous - I'd happily argue against it, although my subset of the community rarely puts me in contact with people who'd argue for it - although the article mixes that in with safe spaces, which is a separate issue. (I'd also generally disagree with the concept of a permanent physical safe space - a weekly group meeting or similar is a better way to achieve that as a general rule.)

Unfortunately, there's a whole lot of us who'll argue for a whole lot of different things and irritatingly, it's usually the most extreme on any given viewpoint who get the news. I'm sure that within your communities, you suffer from the same issues.
It's either disingenuous or just plain ignorant to set the bar at objectively wrong, or to imply that everyone thinks it's fine to have pets/eat animals, or that aliens would follow our ethical guidelines. Neither moral universalism nor realism have a dominance in the philosophy of ethics, and even then I highly doubt that those that do actually support those positions do so because of any argument involving being a cluster of elementary particles.

It's like you worked out that the intuitive emotional response that most people use for their moral compass isn't exactly well thought out, googled some phrase sceptical of ethics as a whole, found nihilism, potentially with a detour through scientism, and then burrowed down that rabbit hole without considering any other established school of thought.

You're not going to learn anything, nor teach anyone anything, by asking a bunch of silly comparison questions in a tech forum. Any response short enough for anybody to bother writing is going to need to take a whole bunch of premises as givens and rely on definitions for words you don't agree with. It'll just keep leading to chains of posts like this where you just keep asking stupid comparison questions like you're some form of internet Socrates, and being pleased when people don't reply adequately/at all because you're the one with the negative claim and consider anything other than a full argument from them as a default win for yourself.
I don't know how you can look at media organizations like the New York Times and not see that they clearly have a comically overt agenda in how they talk about him and represent his positions.
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"Abaco is a lightweight web browser with the appearance of acme(1) with ncols columns (one by default)."

So I'll be trying to build this on a 9front install on my old Thinkpad X61 in a few weeks when the exams are over (I'm a teacher).
Ad-filled and ad-funded, news isn't news. It's corporate pandering with some external content.

As long as we're at this local maxima, with crap crowding out quality, news can never improve and will never be worth paying for.
Fairly sure that most Americans of Japanese ancestry consider themselves both Japanese and American. Same goes for most other ethnicity. Does that make them any LESS American?

Many Puerto Ricans consider themselves both Puerto Rican AND American. This is especially interesting given Puerto Rico is an American territory yet it is considered a different cultural group.

Germans of Turkish descent are in fact still Turkish regardless of generation. Similarly Germans of Chinese descent are still Chinese while also being German.

Your final sentence is the nut. The rest of it is just discrimination (small d) of people into cultural groups.

(Edit: As an aside... Is Doner German culture? Or is it Turkish?)
Yeah, I use my DK2 pretty much solely for a flight simulator (FSX with Flyinside).

I'm learning to fly in real life and it turns FSX into a realistic way of training for GA flying, rather than only instrument procedures - being able to look around out the windows makes all the difference.
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Main issue would be TizK for diagrams. I might try building it under a fresh slackware (I noticed a slackbuild script) and see what I get.
Gun control by definition affects other people.

What?
Seemed to work for the US.
For airport trains to be effective they need to be connected to public transport. Otherwise these trains will not be used.

For reference: I checked on the Swiss Rail Network operator page and there are 18 transit options to get from the main station in Zürich to the airport (https://i.imgur.com/GJTC0F3.png ). Some of these connections are trams and take a while longer. There is even a direct train to get from Zürich Airport to Geneva Airport. It takes 3 hours and 9 minutes which is about the same as taking the plane with checked-in luggage.

Also here's a simulation of the timetable of the rail network: http://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. The only practically usable homeserver software right now is Synapse (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse), an implementation in Python built by the Matrix core developer team.
I think the fact that we don't know how to use any of this at the moment just shows how new and game changing this all is.

You can't just copy/paste any of the old stuff onto this new medium, it just doesn't work that way and you certainly cannot compare this to 3D tv/cinema...

..and I think the people that got hyped the most also completely underastimated the tectonic shift needed in order to make any of this really entertaining.

I think of the "visual" component of the VR problem as solved and am now looking forward to seeing how the "interactive" component of the problem will be solved. Because you need to perceive the world, check, but now you need to be able to interact with it: not solved yet.

But people got waaaay to excited seeing only the visual aspect solved...
We had jabber for a decade at least. The battle for messaging market share doesn't seem technological.

Heck you even had the option to federate private servers so one could address users across hosts.
> I think gchat had a horrible ux

Even more reason to keep it compatible with XMPP so that one could use it with his favorite XMPP client.
"Seems to me that locks on A with a lock on B in between is not equivalent to 2 locks on A and then one on B"

You're looking at:

public void canNotBeMerged()

The locks can't be merged.
Pretty much the same thing, but not really confined to rural regions, but also public housing in bigger cities.

I would say the typical signifiers would be the same with low education level, teenage parents forced into a situation where the have to work low-end jobs.