skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never looked into any statistics other than personal observation. Sure, correltion != causation. However, I have over 6000 highway driving miles logged so far this year and have witnessed at least a dozen single vehicle rollover incidents, excluding incidents in rain & snow conditions, while in the recent past I could travel 10k miles and never see one. My ASSUMPTION derives from the fact that it is not uncommon to see drivers interacting with their devices (and weaving, and varying velocities) on the highways.
A speed bump was put in on a hillside residential street near where I grew up, coincidentally right near the house of a councillor.

It was taken out a few months later because of noise complaints. Turns out the locals preferred the people going a bit too fast to the people downshifting, breaking, clanging over the speed bump and then accelerating away.
Reading from this article: http://bit.ly/1TRDRxm

The FB Bot mentioned in the article: http://m.me/jobpal
"Toxic for 10,000 years" does not mean "get radiation exposure for standing next to unshielded waste", not does "cool" mean "non-toxic". The ionizing radiation danger of materials is inversely proportional to their half-life. Stuff that requires inches of lead generally has half-lives in the years or tens of years. Stuff with half-lives in the thousands of years can generally be "shielded" by a thick glass jar.
I have a policy to accept anything what is not a total crap. It is easier to edit and fix code, than educate random people. And I might remove that patch before stable release anyway.

Granting commit access is different level.
This is the most infuriating thing to me. Everyone is aware of this, yet it never comes up in politics and the US keeps pretending that the Saudis are our great allies. I don't understand it one bit.
Sorry to hit your hot button! That was meant kindly. But I see your point. And thanks for fleshing out the argument - certainly there is something desperately wrong with the Indian road situation.
This has little to do with the religion itself or the koran (e.g. the muslim Ottoman empire was a tolerant empire that lasted for centuries). It's about a certain culture that seems to be gaining ground within this religion.

That said, i agree that the silence and reluctance to defend western values has done more harm than good. There is a belief that we can't have a firm discussion about what values we want allow the west to have without killing each other. That's immature and wrong, resulting in shameful incidents such as the coverup of the Cologne rape incidents. State actors from all sides consider the populace "too immature" to handle the truth.
This is a totally shameless plug, but here's some a PR thing about some work in that direction:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160216005731/en/Voca...
The pain of having a patch rejected is because of the asymmetry. No is _easy_, the submitter often put hours of work into understanding the codebase, the architecture the style of the code, figure out how to fix a bug or add a feature and then to have the response be, "No", feels like a pretty harsh rejection.

How we structure work on these projects needs to be rethought so that the majority of these don't happen. The attitude of code-or-gtfo is kinda broken with respect to how much work people put into a project with an uncertain outcome.

Maybe we should

* submit an issue outlining new feature, or technique to fix bug
* create a branch, reference that issue
* update issue for a branch review, get greenlight
* do possibly hours worth of work
* submit PR that isn't outright rejected

Just communicating through pull requests seems very macho and wasteful to me.
Wait.

Did you just make a broad generalization about people because you're pissed off you've heard broad generalizations about people?
...and also some campaigns continue but media loses interest in covering them.

Bring back our girls have frequent demonstrations and are still campaigning, but are seldom heard.
Docker [the technology not the company] has reached a level of success where it is discussed and used by people who are not aware of the technical details of its implementation. It is entirely practical to use Docker without ever visiting Docker's official documentation.

Because Docker is an alternative to the virtual machines with which people tend to have more experience, it is normal for people to fill holes in their knowledge with facts about VM's. Much of the time, this works.

I don't think the title is great, but I think more than anything else it reflects frustration with the complexity of containers and normal disappointment with things that at first appear to be silver bullets.

The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed. -- William Gibson
So you'll have no problem with a world where homosexual advocates, communists and anti-racists are socially shunned and economically excluded? I should have the total freedom to refuse to hire anyone who advocates for more women/non-Asian minorities in technology? The Hollywood Blacklist - published by the Hollywood Reporter and implemented by studios - was totally fine?

This is a very libertarian position. But those of us who are part of the left wing are somewhat cognizant of the dangers of marginal voices being economically and socially excluded, even if it's not done via state sponsored violence.

(Incidentally, is there also no problem with freedom of association applying only to the government? I.e., if I choose not to associate with women/non-Asian minorities in my business, that's ok too, given that I'm not the government?)
All OSes that are not Linux are alternative OSes. Even Windows and OS X are running docker under virtualization one way or another (docker machine or the more recent virtualization shims).
People 5000 years from now could very well see WIPP and Yucca Mountain as valuable sources of Plutonium, Uranium as well as other fuels and nuclear explosives.

What if 5000 years from now the Mormons and the Scientologists are fighting over the Yucca Mountain site in search of materials to build nuclear weapons?
How often do you install extensions? Seems like one of those bothersome things during setup, but I doubt it would be impactful once you have it the way you wish to have it.
Just out of interest, what was the outcome when your accounts were closed because of Bitcoin? Did you lose any funds?
Writers Block – Go with it
I finally finished this awesome game called Photoshop, let me send you a video
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I agree. If you missed it in the article, it's even bigger than that. The last sentence is most telling:

"This panel member therefore recommends that the markers and the structures associated with them be conceived along truly gargantuan lines. To put their size into perspective, a simple berm, say 35-m wide and 15-m high, surrounding the proposed land-withdrawal boundary, would involve excavation, transport, and placement of around 12 million cubic meters of earth. What is proposed, of course, is on a much greater scale than that. By contrast, in the construction of the Panama Canal, 72.6 million cubic meters were excavated, and the Great Pyramid occupies 2.4 million cubic meters. In short, to ensure the probability of success, the WIPP marker undertaking will have to be one of the greatest public works ventures in history."

Plus, as interesting as this project is, I can't imagine coming across a gargantuan spike field in the middle of the desert that I would not want to explore.
That's a fair enough point, but I think most would agree that the constitution doesn't always keep up with the times. This leads to our constant interpretation and reinvention of it (see the conflicting decisions of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education). I don't think it's perfect, but I would also argue that it's not dangerous, in fact it's necessary.

Indeed, laws like trademark and truth in advertising are exactly what you are suggesting could happen. They are laws that protect consumers from potential harm created by false claims. It's not a limitation on political speech, but fact. I don't think anti-vaccination speech being illegal is actually too terribly unreasonable. I guess in my day to day existence I would rather live in a culture where I'm generally protected from potential harms so I can go about my day with less worry. Could those limitations reach a point where I find them unreasonable? Surely they have and surely it has happened in the history of the United States, but I think it's a testament to the culture and its institutions that we've rebalanced when we've gone too far one direction.
An incinerator outgassing smoke toxic to surrounding people is something that should not exist. Proximity to a school is irrelevant, except for irrational fearmongering.
List of helicopter prison escapes
The problem is that those bullies are using this argument to pretend they're doing nothing wrong.

Even if true free speech never existed, the idea of it shows exactly how they're being assholes.
There were also a belief that if someone sweep your feet with a broom this would prevent you from getting married.
there's still time
YES! finally they are starting to add tabs. I switched to vscode from sublime, really the only annoying thing is lack of tabs.

> it will take numerous iterations to get it right.

Still, this is awesome. Atom was pretty good, except it straight up crawls sometimes. Often, you have to disable syntax highlighting. I flagged an ussue a whike back where it took > 56 seconds to open a .json file.

Surprisingly, as a mac user, i really like vsc. it has drag drop sidebar, decent configurable settings, intellisense & syntax highlighting are pretty good, and some other pretty sane features. Top shelf tab support is the only major thing it really lacks.
I've had a problem similar to this with my 150 megabit downlink (sigh, wish I had that much upload). The thing to remember when troubleshooting these sorts of problems is this:

Not all iptables rules are created equal.

State tracking has significantly more overhead than other types of rules/filtering/shaping (even though state tracking is required for certain types of shaping). You may or may not have already done this but if not try this:

iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j NOTRACK
iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j NOTRACK

(replace eth0 with your Internet interface)

State tracking on port 443 and 80 is mostly useless and it's where you're likely to see the majority of your (high bandwidth) traffic. Setting NOTRACK on those ports can make a HUGE difference while still enabling your squirrel-powered router (let me guess: It requires no active cooling? haha) to shape traffic like "teh big boys."
-Passwords - chrome password manager

-Encryption - Was using cryptocat. now using whatsapp

-Identity - pseudonyms like this one. FinchVPN

-Crypto currencies - BitGo, ShapeShift, 7ZIP to store private keys.
Soylent now available on Amazon Launchpad
Progress for the sake of progress - now that's what I'd call a cult: never mind that computers are tools that people buy to do other stuff (e.g. work): People Are Stupid, We Know Best. All Hail The Glorious Progress, Newer Is Always Better!
You're much more qualified than I am, but I was talking about cases where there are bugs in the MAC layer. For instance, t's possible that the constant-time comparison code is well tested on a processor with constant time comparison of a 64-bit register with zero, but ends up being run on some oddball ultra-low power processor that uses one cycle for each leading zero byte in the register, or something. Using CBC potentially allows an attacker to leverage a timing attack against the MAC into a plaintext disclosure via padding oracle.

Granted, this scenario requires multiple cascading bugs, but that's kind of the point of Inferno. In general, one is well advised to use the most well-tested and standard algorithms, but CTS is very close to CBC. Have you specifically seen any CTS implementation bugs?
Still only available in the US. I'm eagerly waiting to get my hands on some Soylent over here in Germany.
https://xkcd.com/1690/
An All-In-one Docker Image for Deep Learning
I could create a website and delete any comments I don't like. Many websites do. It's not unAmerican if I do it, nor is it unAmerican if Facebook does it. I would detest the possibility of government censure of my website or of Facebook's.
Insidepro is a great resource, but you usually aren't going to get a VAT invoice to either bill your client for or deduct in your taxes ;)

AWS is simple, it's not overly expensive for most password cracking ventures (e.g. password quality audit that certain organization like to do on their AD/LDAP) and more importantly you aren't giving away potentially very sensitive information to people that by default cannot be trusted.

Inside pro is ok if you are going mostly non-legit / off the books to begin with, it's also ok for basic research on non-real world data, but never use it for actual real world data not to mention B2B services.
Are you willing to host (and pay for) my assorted rantings, which I assure you would be offensive and detrimental to your business and interests?
While I haven't been to Japan, a documentary [1] on expats living in Japan had a part (if my memory serves me) where the same sentiment was expressed, ie, "don't involve yourself".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNYOW0_kms

PS - Even if my memory is from another source regarding Japan, the documentary showed me a lot I didn't know.
Does it take you more than 5 seconds to reload the app though?
> Protection from government censorship means an American can criticize President Obama as "a stupid incompetent Chief Executive" without fear of black helicopters surrounding the protester's home

This does not follow. Your narrow definition does nothing to stop a private organization, with its own motive for supporting the president, from deploying some black helicopters.

This is not a nit - any government is isomorphic to a perfect "Libertopia" where a single corporation owns everything. In other words, if you don't like a country's rules, then just leave their premises!

So in order to mean anything at all, the concept of Freedom of Speech (and really, any societal ideals) must mean something more general. We cannot simply create a basic foundation of rules, and then let emergent structure usurp any qualitative guarantees we had desired!
Statistics always presents a wrong picture when considered in isolation.

Just for the sake of curiosity let us compare statistics of road accidents between USA and India. I'm taking the 2005 US road accident data as a reference: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/02/03/car-crashes-kill-400...

So according to the statistics from the above article, approximately 40,000 die every year in USA with 100 people dying every day due to road accidents. That is approximately 5 per hour. In India it is 100,000 per year. The population of USA is 318.9 million compared to 1.252 billion of India. If you put it in perspective, 0.013% of total population die every year due to road accidents in the US while only 0.00798% of total population die every year due to road accidents in India. So by looking at these calculations India "seems" to be a lot safer than the US (in-spite of horrible traffic rules and no proper emergency services). The issue is not the stats but proper implementation of emergency services which might help in saving a fraction of the total lives lost. But the real issue is regulating traffic (which is more erratic in the cities than in towns/villages in India).
Math and general CS (in the sense of "What is IEEE representation of 1.f?" not "The difference between Red-Black and B- trees?") questions. Past experience questions.
Typically, a good samaritan law relates to the situation where a bystander tries in good faith to help someone, and accidentally makes things worse. A good samaritan law says they won't get in trouble for that.

I don't see anything in the article about people being punished for trying to help and making things worse. People get punished just for trying to help. Things go south before a good samaritan law would come into play.
It's called the Bystander Effect, and the most disturbing thing about it is that its strength is in proportion to the number of people present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
The F1 keys opens up the command palette [1], I'm assuming it's accessible through there.

[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics
Can anyone speak to the difficulty of creating a repl in VS Code?

I'm already using it for all my front-end work but if I could use an integrated Clojure repl the same way I use CIDER in Emacs it would be awesome.
In a pre-1.0 language, this should be entirely expected. It's bleeding edge a bit, but I've yet to find someone who used it to build something non-trivial and wasn't sold on it. There's definitely some survivor bias there, obviously.

For the record, I looked at Elm over 2 years ago and completely dismissed it. I regret that strongly now as I am extreeeeemely happy developing with it and I can build stuff in far shorter timelines with zero runtime errors than I could in react even (which was a high-watermark before Elm for me in that respect)
I think a high IQ leads you to know what to quit when and when to persist. In my experience, smart people quit bad things sooner, and persist through good things longer. Stupid people quit the job of a lifetime or break up with a great person when they should have endured, and/or stick with the same horrible job/person through everything even though giving up would have improved their life. Or so the thinking goes.
havent used straight up terminal yet, but I have done bower and yeoman inits presumably with the same interface. Works well. I like that they add features slow and seemingly balance performance. Atom was a great idea but throwing the kitchen sink in also seemed to creat crazy petf issues
Also "Model Building for Mathematical Programming" is almost unique in that it talks about formulating models, rather than the algorithms you use to solve them. That tends to be what an OR person spends the most time doing:

http://www.amazon.com/Model-Building-Mathematical-Programmin...?
Yeah this whole thing is completely politically motivated.
There's nothing wrong with comparing two things that do the same thing.

It is like saying don't compare a car and a truck, they both take you from A to B, they both have different pros and cons, the comparison is apt, even with their dissimilarity.

Same thing here. It absolutely makes sense to compare a fully featured IDE and text editors. They offer the same core service, they just have different benefits and drawbacks.

There will be a lot of people who choose either PyCharm and Sublime/VSCode.
Didn't know it was in question, added a link to snopes.

> Blaming people because of bystanders effect is poor form.

My point, perhaps poorly made, was also that the larger societal incentives are to blame. Many people respond as we would hope. In the aggregate, people tend to respond to the pressures applied to them.
Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, despite their similar names, are two completely different editors. VS Code does not in any way make VS obsolete.
Martin Shkreli Faces a New Conspiracy Charge
It's loading for me.
facepalm

Did you honestly believe I meant to say that people should not be warned about an actual fire?
Dr Michael Jurgen Garbade – CEO  Livecoding.tv Harrassment of Users and Staff
Depends on the type of tree. When I was a kid we got a tree cutting at some arbor day event and planted it in the backyard. By the next summer, the tree was as tall as our two-story house.
A government is defined significantly more than the ability to maybe tell you you can't say X or Y thing in their virtual space.
"If you are able to understand the local Scottish dialect of the area where you were brought up, or the area where you have chosen to live, or both, this means that you can understand Scots."

The way I understand "Scots" is the dialect Robert Burns writes in, and I have a really hard time understanding that without a dictionary.

It seems like a useful distinction to me, rather than lumping "Colloquial, contemporary Scottish English" and "the way Scottish farmers spoke a hundred years ago" under the same name.
Probably worth looking at the number of drivers/owned automobiles in each country to get even more refined.
I can confirm this. Hospitals don't treat unless the injured person's relative(s) sign legal papers. The general rule of thumb in India is that one should always carry at least an ID proof (better yet an insurance policy) so that in case of an accident the hospital can contact the relative.
> No is _easy_, the submitter often put hours of work into understanding the codebase [...]

And maintainers will put many, many more hours into maintaining it. The submitter only has to interact with us once. We have to interact with their code for a long time.

> How we structure work on these projects needs to be rethought [...]

Most projects work the way you described (including Docker). You open an issue (and/or send a mail to the mailing list) describing the problem and a proposal to fix it. We then discuss the design and once the maintainers all agree with the design (more or less) you move onto creating a PR.

Sometimes maintainers won't agree, and it'll take writing a PR to convince them that it will work (this does happen). But in most cases, the design is the important part (if it's a non-trivial change).

The only counter-example I can think of is the Linux kernel. But that's an extreme example and usually a dummy PR will be enough to convince them to discuss your idea.
The ISP and the phone line (in the U.S. and most countries) use infrastructure subsidized by the government, so should have to follow regulations.

Your local highway/bridge might be owned by a private company, but they require connections to the local roads, owned by the government, and so is expected to be a 'utility'. Fedex might use public roads, but nobody would expect them to be forced to become a 'common carrier', or some such. They can 'censor' whatever packages they want.
There is currently a company called Globalstar seeking permission from the FCC to offer satellite based internet services. The stock dropped 60% last week on rumors that they won't be approved but nothing has been confirmed.
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Logs and docs available to any YCombinator or European Pioneer member
Stop the Bots from Killing Broadway
No, you didn't mean it. I'm saying that there is a trade-off involved in banning any speech. suspect is the key word.
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Well you're sort of missing the forest for the trees but by all means keep doing so.
Hello

You've made a number of interesting observations that I never quite considered before. Do you have a blog/book/other source you would point to that encapsulates these ideas?

I also have a question: if what you're saying is true then why is general formal education so poor and ineffective? Is it that we're not tinkering at the right level with the 'firmware'?
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The Economist has a certain agenda to uphold so this omission is not very surprising
The magnitude of the efforts to criminalize BDS activism is far too big for this exclusion to to be considered as something forgotten, unintentionally unmentioned.
It's not overhead, but a feature that allows for a great variety of plugins and cross-platform compatibility. If you can't see the advantage of that, I feel sorry for you.

It would be nice if the man childs who need to point out "electron bloat" in every thread could go back to arguing about vim vs emacs.