skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that annoys me the most about is the fact that it is absolutely impossible to get useful google results regarding it. (Desperately needs a common acronym or more googleable name)

Otherwise it's been pretty awesome, despite some incompatibilities.

And oh, get ConEmu to fix the garbage cmd.exe https://conemu.github.io/
I don't want to be rude, but I really don't understand your message.

Computers have always been, and will always be, tools for automating away work. The specific nature of the work the user needs automated is in a constant state of flux. One particular kind of work that we've wanted computers to do for us since the 20th century is the sharing of written and visual information.

Ostensibly, this is what the Web was written for, and though it wasn't perfect, it could have evolved into a simply, highly efficient tool for this purpose. Instead, it can be seen evolving into a sandboxed application runtime, a workload with vastly different properties.

Good implementations of software for these two workloads would share little structure outside of that required for inevitable hardware access. Evolving the Web into an application runtime is possible, and well underway, but doing so still leaves the niche of software for an unfettered global commons of knowledge unfilled.

By using the Web we're building for the latter purpose, we are met with drawbacks which include (as I mentioned):

- lack of privacy

- rendering efficiency

- security bugs and malware

- transport performance

- uncacheability

- accessibility

We can attempt to address each of these piecemeal, and with sustained effort we're likely to make good progress on most of them, in due time. But a lot of these are really hard problems for an application runtime to solve.

Conversely, these problems are a lot easier (where they exist at all) on a software platform designed from the ground up for hypertext-based, archivable communication, rather than as an application runtime.
At the time 128MB was a lot or RAM for a Linux box too, although its GUIs weren't very capable.
> Its innocence doomed it in a very poetic way.

And yet, virtually every single site on the internet has an RSS or ATOM feed. I think I've come across a whopping 5 that don't and those are mostly tech guys who made their own blog system and didn't bother with the rss feed because, as everybody knows, rss is dead.
The title is stupid. The author says nothing to back why he thinks Bezos and Gates are wrong...except just saying it is based on breakthrough research. Can breakthrough research be unprofitable?...uh, yes. But I would rather have some billionaires personally, invest it rather than a government agency who can have their funding cut by short sighted politician, or companies whose investors are looking for short term profits.

And WTH does cloud computing have to do with it. I highly doubt gates and Bezos are backing it because they will be utilizing their cloud capabilities...quite a stretch. They will make orders of magnitudes more directly from their cancer detection product, than the extra hours of compute time needed!
Line of site, 20Mbit Symmetric is ~$99/mo. Real speeds, typically above that. But does require line of site to the handful of locations they have.
Msys2 fills the need you seem to be having for me: https://msys2.github.io/ it uses pacman for a package manager and has everything I've needed. The only thing windows + msys2 missed for me was xcode for writing iOS apps, but if you already have a mac, then it's not really a problem.
That's the first thing I thought of as well, although, it seems the suggested mass range is near the upper end of the excluded range.

Either way, the consensus cosmological model requires a non-baryonic component, which black holes don't provide.
I just had to switch from mac to windows upon losing my only mac workstation. I really hated the transition at first and bash on windows was my savior. It actually has apt-get and even though it's only on the preview builds for now it will become legit soon and be almost as useful as normal bash on any other nix system.

One of the most glaring issues is that it's contained in a windows-like terminal and the fonts are broken for non-standard characters.
Oh my. The Learn More page was the laugh I needed today. I'm going to change industries if I ever find a need to use this product.
I've had it since it first came out, it's miles better now than it was at first and I'm sure once it hits 1.0 it'll be usable for some dev work. Still going to stick with my Ubuntu book for full stack at the moment though.
Compatibility with other GPU companies?
Too bad Forbes requires you to disable adblock.
Administrador Unix / LINUX Inglés Alto Madrid, Madrid
If current progress with MicroOLED panels continues, we should expect 5000x5000 displays that are small enough for use in a glasses form factor with light field displays. This will significantly help with the reduced effective resolution.

The next problem will be figuring out how to render 10000x5000 at 120hz in realtime on consumer GPUs. It will definitely require insanely beefy rigs to accomplish.
I'm not sure why anyone submits Forbes articles here anymore.
PHP does not use imagick, but a (forked) libgd2 by default (some distros patch php to use the distro libgd). Imagick is only available if you install a C PHP extension providing an imagick interface.
I paid close to $2k for a computer with 16GB of memory and can only have the same amount of tabs open as I did in 2009 with 4GB of RAM. My computer still slows to a crawl when on certain pages.

These are the literal costs (for me) to be able to use the web nowadays for minimal usability and functionality 'increases'.

For reference, the multiprotocol instant messenger client Meebo was a successful competitor to Trillian in 2005. It was a web application that used less memory and was more responsive than a desktop application. I used it on a computer with 512mb of memory just fine.

Also, browsing the web on my phone is unnecessarily difficult and battery consuming.
That was notice that it would be a compile time option, not set to the unexpected and harmful setting as default.
Usually I use Cygwin. Have for many years. If I ever hear Bash on Windows gets a feature that doesn't have, maybe I'll check it out!
Most of those are auto-generated feeds by the usual-suspect CMSs. In most cases, nobody is actually looking at what those feeds look like, with terrible results. Outside the niche of news providers, nobody cares.

Besides, does Facebook have RSS feeds?

Does Twitter have RSS feeds?

That's basically half the web right there, these days.
A Global Phenomenon: The Impact of Streamers
You wish that you did not have to introduce the metric system and metric prefixes in science courses for non-majors, but here at Tumbleweed State you have to. You also can't rely on the kids having basic facility with algebra. Some are stupid, but others are undereducated; we are mopping up after the poor highschool. These are the kids that plump for allied health professions.

Also: we seem to be rolling back the Enlightenment: Enlightenment: "man's emergence from self-incurred immaturity"
Check out Let's Auth:

https://github.com/letsauth/letsauth.github.io

It's a successor to Mozilla Persona in development.

Details in the readme and on freenode #letsauth (mirrored to gitter.im/letsauth/letsauth).
> Definitely worked with just apt-get for me.

The install worked, but running it was a different story. It would spit out an error after every command. Like I said, this was a while back. It's probably fixed now.

> Huh? It does not run as root by default.

When I run bash.exe, I'm greeted with this prompt

root@DESKTOP-F7NGQJX:~# pwd
/root

What do you see?
New Rat Study Ignites Debate Over Link Between Cell Phone Use and Cancer
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments here, Matrix is seeing quite a lot of adoption as an attempt at a clean modular federated standard (albeit very different in philosophy to XMPP) - there are around 30 clients, lots of bridges, services and bots, and multiple servers in development. There is very much an appetite and interest in open comms still, as the popularity of articles like these attests!
The issue will be that they need to ship a whole new version of Windows for major (syscall-side) improvements - this isn't a problem with the Insider program, but you really don't want to be running Insider builds on your primary dev machine.
Honestly for an ATM, DOS would be fine.
I guess its a subjective thing, depending on where you have worked and with whom. I'm pretty picky where I work these days, so maybe I haven't witnessed what you are talking about.

However I think these days, at the higher end of the spectrum, the general awareness of good programming practices is better than it was 25 years ago. Back then, unit testing frameworks weren't a thing, I didn't see any CI, often code repositories were zips on a file share..., patterns were barely a thing....
> Power dynamics are fluid and contextual.

True, but a distraction. When you can have a black man graduate from a top university, well dressed, and yet pulled over, torn from a car, treated poorly and handcuffed -- all for being black and owning a car that made the cops think he might be a drug dealer, that seems even worse than privilege from money.

Fighting privilege as a result of wealth is another noble cause; the entire 99% movement was about that, as is Bernie Sanders' popularity. But its existence doesn't mean that other problems aren't worse.

I honestly don't like the statements on either side about the babies, so I'll just leave that one.

> > Helping groups isn't the same as discrimination.
> It is. The only cases where it makes a difference are inherently zero sum or net negative, because if they weren't then the racial preference wouldn't have been necessary to reach the same outcome.

No, I'm not talking quotas, I'm talking extra education and being open to working with someone who doesn't look like you. There are cognitive biases that cause people to naturally want to work with people who look like themselves; making an extra effort to overcome that bias and honestly compare candidates is not, by any stretch, a bad thing.

It's only "net negative" if you think the whites who had all of the privilege somehow "deserved" the jobs that the potentially better minority or disadvantaged candidates could get with additional help and with mitigation of bias in hiring. I know that there are groups who feel that way (otherwise Trump wouldn't be where he is), but that kind of us-vs-them mentality is harmful.
Out curiosity, is (relatively) unprocessed meat for pets available in supermarkets in north america?

In Australia you can buy packets of kangaroo meat for consumption by pets as kangaroos are essentially pests in many areas. This results in a large supply of meat that has limited commercial value so most supermarkets will stock frozen packets of what is (I believe) 100% kangaroo mince for people to feed to their pets.

Curious if there is an equivalent option elsewhere.
lxrun is the command you need (from powershell/cmd)

https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/4
Yeah, it's a bit strange how relaxed people are about tying themselves to a single vendor.
Operador/a Sistemas Unix/Linux JUNIOR Oviedo, Asturias
A better approach is to have an automated alert for certificates that are expiring soon (next X days) then sending out an alert. Or even better, switch to automatically rotating certs on a regular basis via letsencrypt.

Rotating certs is like restoring backups, if you only do it when shit hits the fan (server crashed or cert expired), you're doing it wrong.
> In most cases, nobody is actually looking at what those feeds look like, with terrible results.

The results look fine to me. It's pretty rare to find one that's completely mangled. For the most part, even embedded videos work. The news providers are the bigger pain in the ass, since they like to truncate content and insert ads.

> Besides, does Facebook have RSS feeds?

Facebook doesn't, which isn't a huge loss. Nothing of consequence gets posted to Facebook, at least not for me. I could see where that would be a pain point for some people.

> Does Twitter have RSS feeds?

There are several services that provide twitter feeds. I use twitrss.me.
"We value reliable software", is nice, but everyone values that.

But if you said "We value reliable software over meeting deadlines", then you'd actually have said something.

The power of the Agile Manifesto was that it clearly identified tradeoffs they were willing to make.
I'm usually on board with Joel but I think this one, whilst perhaps more true in 2001, is no longer entirely correct.

I'd be interested to read an update written by Joel.
I think this is just a design choice to avoid confusion between request / session parameters in the view functions versus path parameters.

It's quite nice that you can just do

@route("/<post_id>")

def my_view(post_id):

....

never having to register anything and just decorating your functions with these path decorators gets you started really really fast. That's how a flask hello world is just 6 LOC and `python ./my_server.py`.
If you are still looking for a way to get into Linux I'd strongly recommend trying Manjaro [0] XFCE (Not any of the other versions).

I've yet to have a computer that was made in the past 5 years that I haven't been able to get it running on. It's amazing.

If you start it with the non-free (as in libre) installer, you'll definitely get near perfect hardware support. You'll need to install two packages if you want good battery life (TLP and thermald).

After that, it's ready for production use on almost every system I've tried.

If you like it/try it I'd like to see how it works out for you so try and contact me and tell me how it went. I might try starting to recommend this for some family I know who get viruses but don't do much else but Youtube and Facebook.

[0] - https://manjaro.github.io/
The true question here would be: When should we expect Fish for Windows?
Thanks for this, any more videos you'd recommend?
I tried, but it got bogged down with bugs in the installation / setup process. Seems like it just isn't quite ready for prime time yet, which is fair because Microsoft hasn't really claimed it is yet.
Google my hacker news username. Should be easy enough to get in touch. :)
There are filesystems that let filenames consist of any Unicode characters. Tag-based filesystems do not need to rely on special cased path separators, as long as they provide a sufficient UI and API for file management and interaction.
> even when I'm manipulating byte strings

What? No you don't. The `bytes` object is what you want when you deal with byte strings.
Thank you, that is what I intended.
Mikekchar, "500 calories is 500 calories" is a tautology and neither a clever writing device nor a serious argument.

I've cut carbs out of my diet a few months ago, after I chewed through the 200-pound mark. I noticed I had trouble running, walking and even standing. I dropped bread, pasta and refined sugar, though I still eat fruits without restriction.

The result is that I've been steadily losing weight and shedding fat, primarily the nasty layers found in the pubic area.

My research has thoroughly convinced me that carbless diet makes the body burn fat and serves as a protective factor against neurodegenerative diseases.
Now I'm really curious what mechanism led to that suggestion!
I can't really this guy too seriously when the bolded "kicker" to his story are citations to studies from 1989. Equipment and research from that time period had latency in the hundreds of milliseconds. (For context, modern studies (2009) show that 5ms latencies are imperceptible in HMDs [1])

I'd be interested to hear what vintage and what specs those $80K headsets really were. Knowing the specs of older $50-100K research HMDs, I have extreme doubts that resolution, latency, or tracking accuracy match today's consumer headsets even (most of the tech stemming from the billions and billions of dollars of investment spent on smartphone development from the past decade).

When talking about depth perception, hyperbole like "THAT problem can’t be fixed by any known technological means" (in reference to focal/depth plane projection) is completely inaccurate, and contributes to the feeling of crochety old man ranting. There are multiple VRD and light field solutions being worked on to address the multi/vari-focus issue (my current favorite approach is the micro-lensed near-eye light field displays, although I suspect that barrier-based LFDs will be what gets adopted first).

Vection is a big issue, but there's a huge amount of 1:1 motion experiences available, and based on personal/anecdotal experience, most people have no problem spending 15-30m in them w/o having strong adverse effects. Thousands of people have done the 10m+ the Oculus Connect and Vive Experience demos w/ very few issues. Based on that, I believe that for experiences w/o artificial vection, comfort is primarily a software problem at this point, not hardware.

Personally, I'm pretty bullish on all the locomotion experiments going on (teleportation, re-orientation, redirection). I'm a bit less convinced on vehicle/cockpit vection w/o linked motion control, but the price is certainly not an issue for high-end military simulators and lots of enthusiasts are making DIY 6DOF simulators.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3095496/
> You are vastly underestimating the strength and durability of an eagle. Eagles are birds of prey. They can fuck up wolves and goats both of which have significant characteristics to deal out damage themselves.

To the best of my knowledge, wolves and goats have no spinning blades covering the most natural places to grab them.
ok....

Because it seems more and more of the trends are designed to target me for advertising and analytics while making the user experience worse.

I look at one website and uBlock says it blocked 12 domains the page tried to connect to and allowed 13 domains. What the heck? I go to audible.com and it flashes after 2 seconds and redraws the page. Never mind the banner at the top of the page that says to download the app.

All the while, I still have a data cap of 10 gigabytes on my cell. Simple pages are downloading 2 megabyte frameworks, custom fonts, and autoplaying video, and groups of megabyte images. Whole programs in the 90's fit in the space of one of these images (and they said Smalltalk program were too big). We aren't all browsing at wifi spots at some coffee shop. We have to pay for this overpriced bandwidth.

I actually hope it gets worse and worse. I'm looking forward to what comes next after it all collapses. Perhaps we will get a medium that matches the app vision people are programming to.

// I did up vote you, no sense in down votes for a simple question
I agree.

There is a price to be paid for tightly coupled system.

I forgot but there was this good book on mathematics that paul graham recommended.

That book talks about the fact that every 100 years in mathematics there is an explosion of innovation and then at the end of a period there is integration.

Having diversity is how things improve - its also the basic law of physics - entropy.

By creating chaos we learn more about how to do things better, either it be software or mathematics. So to those software craftsman who are complaining about diversity - grow up, this is how all of science works.
I've personally demoed the Gear VR (via the Iceland flyby demo) to about 80 people.

Only two experienced significant nausea. Two or three more reported feeling a little queasy. The rest didn't have any nausea-related problems.

A few people reported vertigo, one desperately gripping the chair they were sitting on when they looked down. One literally threw the headset off when some VR dolphins in another demo got too close. These are unusual reactions.

I'd say about 90% of the people don't have any problems at all. The consumer Rift should be even more acceptable.

Still, these devices are all in their infancy. Expect devices a few generations in to be far, far better than the ones that mostly target early-adopters today.

I expect the main challenge to overcome for most users will be comfort. Few people will want to wear these things for long, once the novelty wears off. A lot of people don't even like wearing regular glasses. Wearing these bulky, hot, uncomfortable headsets for extended periods of time will not be worth the trouble for most people, once they get over the gee-whiz factor.
I'm very sad how publishers can find inventive and creative ways to ruin even RSS.

Medium, in particular, will only post "Continue reading on medium.com [link]" to its RSS feeds.
Japanese drone catching drones with nets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vknRo7aLhc
I meant violently, although politically not physically. People are quite aware that science was perverted once to justify racism and sexism and that scientists everywhere did inhuman things to subjects even very recently (at small scales some unscrupulous scientists continue to do pretty evil things that harm subjects but nowhere near the kinds of things that used to happen). Every student that runs human subjects experiments has to take a mandatory course about this now so that we don't go down this route again (at least in the US, I assume Canada/EU have the same rules but I don't have firsthand experience).

People would be quite upset if someone started to justify racism or sexism with science once more. Take the example of Larry Summers who had to resign from his position as president of Harvard because of a lunchtime talk where he made reference to science that he interprets to support a sexist position that women are inferior to men. That's a (at least politically) violent (and in my opinion correct) reaction. So it's not that people would just disagree. They would happily damage or end someone's career over it.
The paper examines that hypothesis and rejects it, noting that while Wikipedia's coverage of certain topics is very good, especially when it comes to math and the sciences, Wikipedia's articles on subjects in the humanities tend to be both quite a bit shorter and have fewer edits than those in the "hard" sciences. There is still plenty of low-hanging fruit left, as shown by Emily Temple-Wood's cataloging of women scientists [1].

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35787730
I can't add anything constructive to your glucose conclusions, though I can say that eating 2 medium chicken drumsticks with skin has made me satiated to a degree I never thought possible.

I too experienced a certain effortless growth of muscle mass after eating enough protein for my daily needs, too.
It's like using open source as the foundation of a billion dollar business. "Thank you very much, how much was that fantastically useful library again?" "Free." "Have a nice day."
In my experience, these types of employees are "too busy for that". And they typically have the political clout that they can continue to get away with it. I'm not saying it should be that way, and YMMV, but it's how I've typically seen it play out.