skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first thing I looked through, the pedometer/ directory, has a project that itself may be <500 lines, but is using compressed versions of JS libraries like highcharts.js & jquery.js.

Don't you think including huge external libraries like that defeats the spirit of showing things that are 500 lines or less?
nohup (no hangup) just concerns itself with the controlling TTY of a process. By running "nohup", you are not passing on the intent on why this process should be kept alive, and for how long. Traditionally the answer was "forever", but I think it's reasonable to implement lifetimes "for this session", "once the last of my sessions has ended, probably after a timeout" and "forever".

(Added:) The first runtime, in systemd parlance (I think), would be the session scope, the second runtime would be the user service and the third... well, something different, as you'd pass on things (group memberships, environment variables, namespaces) from your shell/session into a long-lasting service. One probably would want to extend the "once the last of my session has ended" state to the runtime of the "run forever" command.

Most non-technical users, I guess, would really prefer one of the first two lifetimes to be the default. As being able to start from a clean state after logging in- and out is rather convenient.

As nohup, in an interactive shell, is used for the third "keep running forever" option, I think it would be reasonable for distributions to alias it to the relevant "systemd-run..." command for all default shells. Then user-expectations would be perfectly met (and scripts will still run the binary /usr/bin/nohup).
What? A) yes, the federal government is allowed to distribute benefits without income testing them. B) You misunderstand how the EITC works -- it's a credit, not a cash gift -- it can't go negative. In fact, its benefits disappear for someone without an income (or with too low an income), which is what differentiates it from a real basic income or "negative income tax".
Systemd created him?
Oh totally. My apologies.
ImTranslator: Vertaler, Woordenboek, Spraak
Full disclosure:

a) Dijkstra is a bit of a personal "hero" of mine (hero in quotation marks, because I don't like to think of myself as a hero worshipper), because it was due to him I learned of textbooks written by guys like Eric Hehner and Roland Backhouse, which ended up changing my life significantly.

b) I do not really grasp the technical issues being discussed in the correspondences between Dijkstra and Backus

Given this disclosure:

Regardless of the cultural issues (which I suspect you are right about), I found Backus' first response to Dijkstra full of ad hominems, and very light on technical rebuttals. If we subtract out the ad hominems, I suspect the technical rebuttals would take less than a page (which is a significant reduction, considering that the full letter is 4 (typewritten!) pages).

Calling Dijkstra arrogant seems to have been a popular insult (as Backus himself admits), so I wonder if Backus was simply jumping onto the bandwagon as a defensive reaction to the arguments presented in EWD 692.

I think Dijkstra's responses were indeed trollish. I wish he wouldn't have said anything further after he noticed the gratuitous personal attacks against his character in Backus' response, but he couldn't help but say something back. Oh well.

Can you comment on this observation?
Thanks for the additional info. I see your point about the robot operating autonomously. At the rate things are developing, what is "pretty far away" may not be more than a few years down the road. I guess we'll find out.
And? Are they supposed to let people use the house for free? It seems like communists are willfully ignorant of the time value of money.
The originalist interpretation, so favoured by a certain faction on the political spectrum, would argue that the Taxation Clause concerns itself with laying taxes - indeed, as you say, a negative tax isn't a tax. Consequently, the EITC is constitutional, the constitution does not prohibit it. It doesn't even discuss it.
How do you envision this working?

Corporations, while they don't need/want employees, still want customers and people to buy their stuff. How would people get buying power if they are "drafted"?
Users should be free to reboot as often as they want.

Parallelized init sequences have benefits, but I suspect this exaggerated '80 second' boot time, and the related '20 second' ideal, stems from either a misconfiguration, complete hogwash, or very particular worst-case setup (assuming an 8 core laptop has an SSD, and assuming a very conservative 200MB/s random-read speed, 80 seconds is enough time to populate 16GB of RAM from disk).
If it's a reaction against perceived overreach/arrogance, then those people are just contributing noise to the whole process. People complain about software development in the corporate world being overinfluenced by interpersonal politics rather than pure engineering, but stuff like this is 100x worse than almost anything you'll find in the most toxic corporate environment.

Seriously, every single person who feels compelled to offer their opinion based on what is an emotional response to Lennart's (or anyone's) "overreach/arrogance" is contributing little more than noise to the whole process. It's far too easy for someone who doesn't interact face-to-face with someone else to fall in a trap of assuming the worst about another person when there's a technical disagreement; this is a form of cognitive bias that pollutes development in the corporate world all the time. I'm as guilty of it as anyone, and I've learned to be wary of the temptation to project bad qualities on other people who I disagree with but don't interact with directly.

In the open source world it's so much worse though- not only do almost all developers interact indirectly (i.e. not face-to-face), but there are potentially thousands of people who are basically just casual observers who want to jump in to give their 2 cents. That's great! But it's only great as long as those 2 cents aren't just people bikeshedding, or actively trying to make things personal rather than technical. Unfortunately, more often than not it is bikeshedding, and literally the only thing they have to bikeshed about is to try to make it personal. :(
Best explanation of the core issue thus far.
Can't wait until

osdep-linux-sysvinit.c
osdep-linux-openrc.c
osdep-linux-upstart.c
osdep-linux-systemd.c
osdep-linux-epoch.c
osdep-linux-finit.c
The point is that the same VR that doesn't work for a bunch of situations because of nausea can work very well for content created with those limitations in mind.

All entertainment works within some constraints of the medium, and things that are great on one medium often are impossible or just bad on other medium. An expert saying "VR won't work for vehicle/racing sims because of acceleration/vestibular issues" is perfectly compatible with VR working great for real customers - if you look at the provided content, then they manage to provide quite a lot of fun and variety while simply avoiding any vehicle/racing sims, probably because of the same issues.
Is the point of the article really asking government to make bets on industry (like your Japanese example)? Or is that government needs to back employment-absorbing industries like manufacturing (like China today, and Japan / Korea / Taiwan in post-WW2 period)?
Traditionally Germany belongs to eastern europe and Russia to the north.

Edit: seriously, downvotes? Before the east-west divide russia was considered north Europe because it lies so far up in the north. Germany was already seen as eastern Europe because Europe centered more around France. Even today the geographical center of Europe lies well into eastern Europe.
No because it will be against the law to cover your face. (Burqas in public space are already against the law in France).
Pretty much. More and more it feels like a bunch of disgruntled ex kernel devs have found a way to circumvent Torvalds, basically using Linux as a source of drivers and base plumbing.

I'm just waiting for them to reimplement coreutils and sh as systemd binaries (they did have plans for a user space tty implementation, iirc).
I'm one of the leads on this project! We've been flying under the radar for a while now, since everyone working on this has a "day job" (mostly ATLAS/CMS physicists), and we have essentially no funding. But we are making progress and hope to eventually do a full-scale release and produce some science! I'll try to answer any questions in this thread.
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Sure, all economic activity is measured at the margin, but all businesses depend on the marginal consumer pushing them into profitability to survive. On the other hand, most businesses function perfectly happily without any secondary market investors or any realistic prospect of selling on the secondary market in the foreseeable future. Absence of secondary market liquidity reduces the sources of investment available to growing businesses, but doesn't drive it to zero, and thus the real economy tends to be much less sensitive to the marginal dollar invested in blue chip stocks than the marginal dollar consumed.

Perhaps even more importantly, I also pointed out that (i) the marginal contribution of buying secondary market stocks to the growth of the economy is substantially less than their average 7% annual return for the passive investor and (ii) because the risk adjusted return of this economic rent is an attractive alternative to investing in creating new capital, it can in certain circumstances even have a negative effect on economic growth. Those were the real points Keynes was trying to make.
I think they are looking for original parts.
There's no shortage of programmers. There's a shortage of employers willing to pay programmers more than a rounding error on the success of the company.
So it's fine to support FIVE different bsd systems (darwin, dragonfly, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd) but one needs to draw the line at better supporting the init system used by every major linux distribution.

Okay.
Yes, when you want a process to continue to run when it's controlling terminal is closed you ignore SIGHUP.

> and no, unix signals are not a sane API

It might not be modern, but it's stable, widely used, and incredibly well documented. Hell, systemd is implementing this behavior using signals.

> Breaking with historical behavior is called progress.

It's not historical behavior when applications are today being developed that rely on said behavior.
The studies show that women are far more likely to give birth while unmarried when there are higher levels of welfare available, so this is not measuring the incidence of women who already have children in a marriage and then get a divorce.

Given abortion, adoption and not getting pregnant in the first place are possibilities which a person has some control over, I don't think you can argue that all of those single mothers would otherwise be giving birth to children in abusive relationships if not for welfare.

Furthermore, welfare is funded through abusive tax laws, which throw those who refuse to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade in prison, where they are kept in small enclosures, and often suffer mental illness and are subjected to physical and sexual abuse. There is nothing compassionate about authoritarian income redistribution.
As far as security goes, couldn't this be solved by a separate tool, in the good ol' Unix style?

And it would be up to downstream to handle AppImage files with it for sandboxing, or not.
This article is quite ignorant of any history. It might be cool for preschoolers to find flags with similar geometry and colors, but making any conclusions without mentioning the historical context is wrong.

Why would "The Traditional view" be traditional when it represents just a fraction of the relevant history that shaped the culture of European countries? The same goes for "Historical and cultural divide".

Let's take Central Europe as an example - the "Traditional view" was valid for 45 years (during the Cold War) and does not hold for more than 25 years now. The article also dismisses roughly 300 years of the Habsburg Monarchy, 100 years of Austia-Hungary and the years preceding the Cold War.

These lightly ignored years are important when speaking of any cultural divide as tradesmen, craftsmen, students, etc. moved around the empires and exchanged goods and knowledge with each other. Travelling around European towns and villages shows how the builders and craftsmen influenced each other - in regions much larger than the current states.
NASA successfully inflates space habitat on second try
networkmanager is a shocking mess, when you look at how simple this functionality is in the *BSDs.
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The Constitution doesn't mention painting your fence white, but it would still be unconstitutional for specifically the federal government to pass a law banning white fences. That power is usually left to the local city.

The state, county, or city could pass an EITC program, of course.
the majority of pet food is meat not fit for human consumption. [1]

if you aren't feeding your pet meat that you eat, it's living on extreme crap.

[1]: http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-industry-exposed/unfi...
For sufficiently vague and useless definitions of "brute force", literally everything is "brute force". Backprop was such a big advancement because it allowed training nets much faster than, say, hillclimbing. Which itself is much faster than actual brute force.
Wow, I don't remember what site I used but wikipedia also seems to agree with you [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor...
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>Breaking with historical behavior is called progress

I think the problem people have is that systemd developers seem to actually believe this axiom.
Those BSDs are completely different kernels. Init system is userland.
Linux is still one kernel, last I checked.
Beg, borrow or steal.
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Yup. I've been doing a ketogenic diet the past 6 weeks and it's pretty awesome.
I don't know how you can look at the democratic primary an think it looks like Sanders will be the nominee.
Does it offer something beyond OpenBSD's pkg tools?
Fun with flags.
SIP seemed like an overture in that direction.
Unfortunately they don't seem to be in the EWD archives at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/indexChron.html. So they indeed don't seem to be OCR'd.
> textbooks written by guys like Eric Hehner and Roland Backhouse

Would you like to say something about those?
I have a github page with the lenny code I use ( its for FreePBX ) but can be easily adapted.

https://github.com/bshep/freepbx-Its_Lenny

Edited to add:

- The nerdvittles links did not work for me last time I tried, I got the sounds from the repo I forked

- The original repo was missing one sound which I found somewhere else ( dont have the source anymore )

- The module is unsigned due to ridiculous terms for module signing for FreePBX so if you use it you will get a scary warning, if you decide to sign it please let me know ;-)
Most Oklahomans support policies that make themselves poorer. The public school system in Oklahoma has long been underfunded, in fact it is so awful that everyone who can half afford it sends their children to private school. With public schools you pay based on the value of your house. In private school you pay for every single child.

Those who can afford only public school are at immediate disadvantage at college or the workplace because of dire undereducation, and it makes itself felt in the bank account.

There is no short-term or medium-term fix in the works. Fixing education takes decades. My suggestion is to pray for another dust bowl.
Meanwhile openbsd adds pledge(2), patches most of their userspace to support it, and is praised across the board.

If linux tried to add pledge you'd have people coming out of the woodwork claiming that linux was breaking UNIX and requiring "linux specific" patches to every project.
Right. Leaving out obvious questions like "What exactly happened to this guy?" does a lot of damage to the credibility of the article as a whole.
May I ask what made it the best messenger for you? I hated every second I spent on ICQ. The ad-infested client, the fact that if someone else thought 24px purple comic-sans was their identity, I would have to deal with it..

The only thing that I actually liked was that by pressing backspace on an Emoji it was converted back to its text version.
It's quite like placing a phone call, flushing the toilet, or drifting into the neighboring lane of traffic: Everyone does it, but it won't work if everyone does it together.
That's basically a hardware token with fingerprint readers. Smartcard versions already exists of that.
SO VR works, but simply some content with motion characteristics like driving or flying won't work (yet) on VR. That's a limitation, but it doesn't mean that VR - there are many genres that don't really work on some platforms. You don't generally play RTS with a console controller, you don't play FPS on smartphones, and you won't play driving/flying sims on (current) VR - that doesn't mean that VR doesn't work as such, simply it's currently suited for very different types of content, content that doesn't involve world wildly moving around you without you moving.
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She's the obvious person to ask about it so I assume they did. How you ask without revealing that you know what's being sold is valuable is beyond me.
I think as long as you know C and know how a computer works (ie: stack, heap, registers) you could at least get to level 10'ish w/o too much trouble. Granted if your only programming experience is languages like Java/Ruby/Javascript/Python that hide a lot of the details of how the computer really works it might be more challanging.
Now that you mention it, maybe we should just turn it over to those guys to make transcriptions and host it all. :-)

Edit: I sent a mail to the project maintainer.
Yeah, some 32-bit one that predates SATA and ships with 20 known remote vulns.
I'm not sure all renting is trolling, but I do agree that the world is full of trolls.

I said nothing about confiscation, government control, or transferrence of (made up) rights.
I agree government should be constrained. That said, while government may not be the only thing keeping you from murdering people, other reasons are not shared across the whole of society. We don't all organize around your religion or moral code, let's say, and because of that, we have government.

It's true that government as a group of representatives of all people is slightly different from the now self-aware monster the (U.S., insert-your-personally-experienced-representative-government-here) government has become. But it's still the single organization we all agree to work through, and so changes made across an entire society most likely have to go through that government.
The question I responded to was along the lines of "Can calorie count reliably predict the effect on a person's weight?". Now my conclusion is that your answer that "The short answer is "no"" is wrong.

I don't see what fat cells have anything to do with this either.

As for your rebuttal of my points, it does not seem sequent. I made the point that two individuals eating the same food will gain weight differently. You then made the very same point by linking to another paper which by the way does not support what either of us said - as it measured individuals individual glycemic responses to different foods, which is not correlated with the body's calorie intake on the food.

Here's the full paper in case you did not read it (and for others to read if they'd like):
http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.cc/science/article/pii/...

As for the paper, the graphics used represent outliers. Plus they in one example compared cookies and bananas. Both which have different metabolic pathways. Fructose is handled in the liver and glucose is not. When they compared bread and glucose the difference was not quite as drastic even when comparing outliers. Therefore it seems more like it has to do with varying ability in people's bodies efficiency to metabolise fructose and glucose.
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same thing is for protein present in grass but indigestible for humans.

cows can extract "enormous" amounts of protein from foods that humans wouldn't ever.

it's very hard measuring how much digestible protein something has, such as beans, or lentils, or soybeans. it depends if you eat the shell, did you blend the shell like a mad man, even if you blended beans into a homogenous phlegm
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I see. I don't really want to tie it to a phone number, though.
I don't think this article got it wrong but having it like a TL;DR of maths is a bad way to do it.

Just check the maths courses at gameinstitute.com.
Stop pretending she had a chance, we all know Mayer was doomed
We've invited a small number of beta testers for the android platform, mostly to test that our website (which functions as our DAQ) is working and to get a baseline dataset to characterize the kind of challenges we'll have in processing the data.

AWS gave us a rather generous grant of credit for their services, and we spent a good amount of time developing a system for DAQ/live-metrics that should scale to at least a few hundred thousand users. The devices have to upload their data every ~3min, so it's a fairly significant amount of traffic. Beyond that we'd have to put either a lot more time into it or find "real" scalability experts, which means we'd need to get some $$$ first ;)

The main thing that has caused our beta rollout to stall is the fact that we have not yet been able to successfully calibrate our response to muons, which are an important component of the UHECR shower. Whereas we were able to calibrate the response to x-ray/gamma-ray photons fairly accurately using common radioactive sources, there is no easy way to generate muons under controlled circumstances (you basically need a particle accelerator). We are applying for beam time at Fermilab, so hopefully we will be able to do these measurements soon.

In parallel, we are also trying the "bottom up" approach, by developing detailed simulations to model how energetic particles interact with CMOS pixels. For this we're using GEANT, which does a great job of simulating how particle deposit energy into materials, but the hard part is modeling how that turns into actual charges that get read out by the CMOS electronics. We're getting close, but with nobody working full-time on this project and no funding, most development has happened in spurts and bursts whenever someone happens to have time away from their "day job".

In order to look for cosmic rays we have to scan HD video frames at ~30fps, which is a ton of data. So that means we have to very aggressively throw away "uninteresting" data before selecting candidates to upload to our servers (in physics jargon this is called triggering). Since the muons are not currently understood, we are afraid that we cannot design an effective trigger. Which means that if we continued the beta roll out, we might blow through all of our AWS cash and then realize retrospectively that all the data we have taken is useless. Hence we made the decision to pump the brakes on the beta testing until we can resolve the instrumental questions.

P.S.: If anyone really wants to give the app a try (unfortunately android only at the moment), feel free to shoot me an email directly. My email is my hn username at cern.ch.
> The other says, that's stupid, you'll never out run a grizzly bear.

(For those who don't know the punchline of this is "I don't have to outrun
the bear I just have to outrun you")