skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for rambling on a bit - but I also have some questions about VPRI. As far as I can gather, it was never the intention to publish the entire system (The whole stack needed to get "Frank" running)? If so, I'd like to know why not? Where you afraid that the prototypes would be taken "too seriously" and draw focus away from the ideas you wanted to explore?

The VPRI reports, and before that some of the papers on Croquet (especially the idea of "teatime" which might be described as event-driven, log-based, relative time with eventual data/world-consistency) are fascinating, and I'm grateful for them being published. Also the Ometa-stuff[o] is fascinating (if anything, I think it's gotten too little mind-share).

It seems to me, that we've evolved a bit, in the sense that some things that used to be considered programming (display a text string on screen), no longer is (type it into notepad.exe) -- it's considered "using a computer". At the same time some things that were considered somewhat esoteric is becoming mainstream: perhaps most importantly the growing (resurging?) trend that programming really is meta-programming and language creation.

ReactJS is a mainstream programming model, that fuses html, css, javascript and a at least one templating language - and in a similar vein we see a great adoption in "transpiled" languages, such as coffee script, typescript, clojurescript and more. HN runs on top of Ark, which is a lisp that's been bent hard in the direction of http/html. I see this as a bit of an evolution from when the most common DSLs people were writing for themselves were ORMs - mapping some host language to SQL.

In your time with VPRI - did you find other new patterns or principles for meta-programming and (micro) language design that you think could/should be put to use right now?

Other than the web-developers tendency to reinvent m4 at every turn, in order to program html, css and js at a "higher" level, and the before-mentioned ORM-trends -- the only somewhat mainstream system I am aware of that has a good toolkit for building "real" DSLs, is Racket Scheme (Which shows if one contrasts something like Sphinx, which is a fine system, with Racket's scribble[2]).

Do you think we'll continue to see a rise of meta-programming and language design as more and more tools become available, and it becomes more and more natural to do "real" parsing rather than ad-hoc munging of plain text?

[o] https://github.com/alexwarth/ometa-js

[s] https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/getting-started.html

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4017
"Casual" being the operative term here. Nixon et al had plenty to say behind closed doors that at least for the last generation or two, would not be tolerated by the decent voting public from a mainstream candidate with any hope of being elected. Trump is not only saying these things in public, on the record, but he's campaigning on them. He's a leader in misogyny and bigotry.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803165
An often-overlooked point. For the last 10-15 years, most home ISPs no longer let you host your own services on well-known ports.
Someone downvoted my response. Perhaps because they think that they are not the same thing...I suggest looking at the definition of Demagog a little bit more.

"synonyms:rabble-rouser, agitator, political agitator, soapbox orator, firebrand, fomenter, provocateur"

A Demagog is someone who uses hate to bring attention to themselves. Would you call Mahatma Gandhi a demagog? Nope.
0-day stealth Twitter botnet with 2,6B tweets was exploited for 2 years
You're mistaken, DeepMind uses a different agent for each game. What's the same across games is the learning method. But the model is trained separately for each game.
Should Saudi Arabia have a voice equal to, or maybe superior to Massachusetts WRT gay rights or feminism?
Another opportunity is Fribourg. IT companies there were historically more open to Eastern Europeans, but you should expect them to be high-tier outsourcing shops.
I think it's the cognitive dissonance. People have so convinced themselves that Trump is Hitler incarnate, that they are unable to read anything positive about him. Sam would be crucified for this "Trump is right post" if he hadn't followed that up with 10 paragraphs of negative (some false) things.

I've tried to engage people regarding Trump on facebook (not confrontationally; with facts and debate). The last time I replied to a post regarding the Mexican-American judge, the OP deleted the entire post within an hour. The time before that when someone said Trump has no policies I pointed out his major policies/themes that he's had and got radio silence on the thread.
And money. Don't forget all that EU structural funds.
Because America is a much more benevolent dictator than China, Putin or any other country.
Do you have more than 20,000 people? Special security requirements?

If no, move to Google or Microsoft.
Alan,

You have inspired me deeply, thank you. I love working with man's greatest invention, but I have a deep sense of dread. HN is very good about projecting a fantasy about the future, that technology can solve all problems. I would love to see a world where people use computers to compute. However, global warming is a real threat and my biggest fear is that our pop-culture will prevent us from solving our problems before the chance to solve them is taken away from us.

With such a huge threat to humanity on the horizon, do you maintain a sense of optimism here? Or will humanity forget how to "compute" the same way Europeans forgot how to make Roman concrete?
We understand that those are intwined in Trump's head. That's an expected consequence of his general lake of nuance.
China Tops Supercomputer Rankings with New 93-Petaflop Machine
The other Vice parody link in the same article.

https://vimeo.com/121639159

via: https://notvice.com/everyone-is-laughing-at-vice-a82a33228b0...

P.S. I'm the author, will answer questions regarding my adversarial blog after work. (posted at lunch)
While I think Trump is a bad choice, I think comparing him to Hitler is overzealous and irresponsible.

I think it's just plain lazy.

In Presidential elections, we generally have terrible choices (even if this doesn't become obvious until much later). This year is particularly noteworthy.

Painting one side as evil incarnate is neither insightful nor productive, and the type of fodder easily available on hundreds of other sites.
I think that's a reasonable question. The answer is that there are much cheaper ways to obtain the placebo effect here than to give these companies your money.

I also guess without immediate proof that the placebo effect is likely to be temporary and represent no real, persistent change to intelligence at all.... another reason to not give them your money. There are cheaper and much more entertaining ways to obtain "no change to your intelligence".
Only technically. Austria was historically always seen as part of the German nation, just not part of Germany-the-country for purely political reasons – first the Habsburgs didn't want to subjugate themselves to the Prussian upstarts, and when Austria-Hungary fell apart, the Entente forbade Austria to join Germany, but couldn't prevent the two from closely cooperating, nor the German population from accepting Austrians. So nobody saw him as a migrant.

Only after WW2 did the countries and societies start to drift apart (to no small part due to Hitler's semi-forced Anschluss of Austria).
Yes, but in the areas I saw at the time, transputers lost out in particular to i860 for floating point systems and to m68k for things like our mostly-integer "streaming map-reduce" -- it seems! -- system. (Being able to house 68ks in a blade system, i.e. VME/VXI crates, helped.)
Sure github.com/nwmcsween/asm.css/Makefile
This is how trump talks.

He says "BIG OUTRAGEOUS THING, with long list of qualifiers that follow" the media reports the first part and completely misses the second. Mostly it's a great way to game the system to get free media attention.
Microsoft has had people working on IDEs and editors for a long time now. It's really to be expected that Microsoft is ahead of Github on this one.
I use a shell script for a new debian[0] installation and also have other scripts for kubuntu[1], opensuse[2] and other software installations. I store my dotfiles[3] and other useful scripts that I can customize for each development environment. Hope that helps!

[0] https://github.com/svaksha/yaksha/blob/master/yksh/apt-debia...

[1] https://github.com/svaksha/yaksha#2-folders

[2] https://github.com/svaksha/yaksha/tree/master/yksh

[3] https://github.com/svaksha/yaksha/tree/master/home
... just because it does that in gfortran doesn't mean it's standard-conforming code.
Depends on where you live and what you are cooking... Living in Phoenix, produce is pretty expensive, as is fish. I can't speak for the rest of the country. I also tend to get produce from Sprouts, Whole Foods, Fry's (kroger) in that order, depending on what it is. I use celeriac, cauliflower, and parsnips regularly as a potato substitute, and it's pretty costly to do so.

I could get my calories from the dollar menu for quite a bit less. My target intake is around 2400-2800/day (metabolic support for 3800 at my size), trying to lose about 2#/week. Though, I'm diabetic, so tend to avoid a lot of fast-food, and often when I do indulge, I get only the sandwich/burger without the bread, with tea and/or water. Though the baked cod at ljs (green beans and broccoli), and chicken and green beans at kfc are serviceable options.

I also make soup a couple times a month, which gives me about a week's worth, give or take.... soup is usually suprisingly low in calories and glycemic load (even vichyssoise subbing the potatoes) but tend to have 3-4 cups to feel sated (usually coming in around 450-600 calories depending on the soup for 4 cups).

A big thing for me is getting a couple snacks in, especially for the afternoon (apple, carrots, nuts, kind bar), which helps with the cravings to overeat later in the day.
At this point the biggest clue is that it is not sold by a well known Apple authorized reseller at the MSRP.

These counterfeit chargers look nearly identical to the originals, including all of Apple's branding. It is absolutely false advertising, infringement on Apple's trademarks, dangerous (these things cause fires), and a scam.

As much as I hate paying full price for these chargers, I would never buy one from anywhere other than an Apple store these days.

Edit: I really hope the MacBook going USB-C charging is a sign of a coming era of non-proprietary charging for Apple laptops. That said, there are obviously counterfeit issues with USB chargers as well, but there is at least more than one legitimate vendor to help with competition a bit.
Trump seems to be one of those rare politicians that hate political correctness though.
I missed that post somehow. Thanks! :)
June 23: Don't forget to cast your vote to leave.
We don't know if it was selection bias or the placebo effect, or a combination of both.

It would be pretty simple to design another trial to test this.
Trump is a very annoying obnoxious person. But he's not a mass killer or compulsive liar. He doesn't hold grudges, he makes deals.

Clinton however has a grudge list of her enemies and there is a long history of her enemies getting knocked off. She's a narcissist, a psychopath, a bully, and she is bought and owned by corporations which don't believe in free trade or capitalism on an even playing surface, but believe publicly mitigated risk, privately held profit, and redistribution of wealth from the weak to the powerful, along with silencing of critics through dirty tricks and more.

Trump is not Hitler.

However, Clinton is definitely Stalin.

Clinton will be the next President, that is an easily foreseeable inevitability. Following this, this country will be completely destroyed by her actions. There's no stopping her election. There is only preparing for the inevitable future. Whether Clinton (inevitable) or Trump (impossible) that future will be bleak for most.
There really aren't. In any case, the same was said about George W. Bush during both his runs for the Oval Office, and while I don't say he was a particularly worthwhile president, in hindsight the Hitler comparison was every bit as erroneous as even an elementary knowledge of 20th century history would suggest.
Biblical characters like Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, or the Pharaoh of Exodus, who chose to endure 10 plagues rather than let the Hebrew people go.

http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/explainer/2011/10/han...
I don't have great advice (I found getting halfway decent funding since 1980 to be quite a chore). I was incredibly lucky to wind up quite accidentally at the U of Utah ARPA project 50 year ago this year.

Part of the deal is being really stubborn about what you want to do -- for example, I've never tried to make money from my ideas (because then you are in a very different kind of process -- and this process is not at all good for the kinds of things I try to do).

Every once in a while one runs into "large minded people" like Sam Altman and Vishal Sikka, who do have access to funding that is unfettered enough to lead to really new ideas.
I am no Trump fan, but I noticed a couple of points that might be misguided or incomplete:

1. "Trump's casual racism, misogyny, and conspiracy theories are without precedent among major presidential nominees."

-- I think this is probably a stretch. I would guess that many previous candidates were just as bad if not worse. It just so happens now that everything candidates say or tweet is recorded, played back, and ultimately scrutinized far more than in the past.

2. "We are a nation of immigrants, and we know that immigrants built this country (and Trump, of course, is the grandson of immigrants and married to an immigrant)."

-- immigrants and slaves built this country
Finally someone speaking up.

Based on the plethora of bad news I keep reading about the US (CIA, FBI, ISPs, Hillary Clinton etc) which portray a very dark picture about Americans, one of them being taken advantage of by their own system. And yet no one doesn't seem to be doing anything and it makes them look egoistic so I really admire Sam for writing this. He has a lot to lose by voicing his concern and yet he's doing it.
> I take some risk by writing this

Really? You're worried that the notoriously pro-Trump Silicon Valley is going to turn against YC over this?
It's not fact checking, it's repeating Trump's spin on what he's said, and it's just not true.
Manually. I wipe rarely, and change tools often for various reasons (even ignoring version upgrades), making building and maintaining an installation script not worth it.

For awhile I did maintain a windows batch script that installed things off of a share at work. I was dealing with pre-release Windows 8, and wiped frequently for upgrades. Even that probably wasn't worth it, but I didn't have a second machine at the time, and wanted to run it overnight instead of blocking my ability to work.
NFS volumes. There are many storage solutions out there for containers.
You just quoted the reporter, not Trump! This was the same tactic used to claim that Trump said we should have all Muslims wear a mark in the U.S. A reported said that, then people said that Trump said it.
anyone who has read this has not read Mein Kampf - Hitler laid out his plan in total in his book.
Well, he wrote a bunch of stuff about how everything is terrible because of the Jews, then he set out to murder them all.

Oh wait, you mean Trump? Tons of examples if you look. Criticizing a judge for being Mexican is one recent example.
Somebody who would shut him up whenever he claims Iraq had WMDs?
Monaco doesn't have alternate keybinding modes like vim or emacs that ace has.
The self selected group may have exerted more effort in the second round of testing because of their belief they were in a study looking for certain results.

It's clear, studies should recruit participants using neutral language like the right poster of the article to remove as much selection bias as possible.
There is a lot of hype about chat bots but let's not confuse that for usage. Tell me what chat bot you use on a regular basis?

To me, chat bots seem like a step backward, at least for the use cases I've seen them applied for.
He led us in to a war on BS. He has no chance and no base.
Because problems are easy; even Altman and Trump can agree on the problems. It's also easy to look backwards -- we can see what the problems are and how they were caused but to look forward is to look into the unknown and unknowable.

Also, people just like to complain. The most fervent supporters on both sides of the political spectrum are passionately complaining about something.
I've not seen any way to stop it, but I used to use a tool that would clean it all up on the first instance and move them on every additional time. There was something about moving them (and not deleting them) that stopped them regenerating, but I may be wrong.
Remember that the US military Active Duty + civilian jobs makes it probably the largest employer in the US. Not everything they do is great, but they pay salaries and benefits.
I can't vote for Trump or Clinton. I'm planning on writing in Bernie Sanders, but I wonder if I should write in Bernard Sanders instead. Not that my vote will count, but does anyone know if it matters which form of his name I use?
I find the left is fairly hysterical when it sees itself potentially out of power. There is literally anti-Trump graffiti near my home, in a solid democratic state. Someone just defaced his Hollywood star. This is all accepted by lefties as justifiable. I think the left is more accepting of hysterics and hyperbole because it gets results with the rank and file. Romney was painted as this wall street shark that would destroy America during the election when he was a pretty much middle of the road guy who probably would have been a better steward of the economy than Obama. Obama just middle-of-the-road'd him out with the 'why change horses midstream' narrative. Trump is, of course, Hitler to them. Its all so tiresome and the kind of narratives adults should grow out of, but seemingly never do.

Here in Chicago we had Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders tell us that if Rahm gets re-elected his billionare friends will take over and destroy the city. Warren and Sanders never once mentioned their friends, the Daley family, and how the Daley dynasty left Chicago with debt it cannot ever pay off. Meanwhile, Rahm is raising taxes for pension perks for public sector unions and other lefty causes. More welfare, more section 8 housing, more tax raises on business, more anti-business legislation, more police in poor areas, etc. He did literally the opposite of what they claimed. Why do we let Warren and Sanders hysterically lie to us like this? Why do we let the left dominate this angry narrative and excuse them for it when its discovered to be a falsehood? The billionaires taking over narrative works, that's why, even when its clearly bullshit.

No idea about what a Trump presidency would be like, he clearly is playing the Tea party playbook here to get motivated GOP primary voters out there, but I imagine he'd be a milquetoast president probably unable to do much unless he maintains GOP majority in congress, and even then in-fighting in the GOP would be pretty rough on him. Honestly, a gridlocked congress that is ineffective would probably be best. There's a lot of federal meddling that is questionable to me that we've accepted as the status quo. Stopping that could only help.

I also think we also over-value what the presidency is. Its not a dictator. Without the support of congress, the president is fairly powerless outside of war powers and even those are limited without congress post-Nixon/Johnson. One of the wonders of the US is how well the founders got the balance of power right from early on. These decisions still pay dividends today.

That said, Clinton with a GOP majority congress is ideal to me. This scenario has enough gridlock to keep big government away a bit, enough gridlock to get good compromises, and Clinton's left-leaning stance on social issues are better, to me at least, than strict right-wing nonsense about alienating certain ethnic or religious groups. I also think SCOTUS has a strong right-wing advantage and it would be nice for Clinton to even that out.
"This post is going to get me in trouble but I'm going to say it any way. Uhh Derr Derr Derrrrrrr" -- Sam Altman.

Can someone please send a priest to exorcise the ghost of Gordon Gekko from Sam Altman's body?

The power of christ compels you!
Probably nobody who is against Trump is bending any facts to try to stop him. The only one who has no respect for reality is Trump himself.
From this [1], they are a provider for these.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939425
TBH, You don't use scala.js to write hello world apps. I'm much more curious how Scala.js handles a 100Kloc app, but I haven't seen any data on that.
Among the very few specific policy proposals Trump has put forward, these are the most prominent:

* Building a giant wall along the U.S.'s southern border to keep Mexicans out

* Rounding up and deporting Hispanics currently in the U.S. on a mass scale never before seen in history

I mean, yes, he's not proposing herding Hispanics into gas chambers, but he absolutely is talking about making American policy tilt harder against one particular race than it ever has in the past. Maybe that doesn't make him Hitler, but it definitely makes him something.
Selling on Amazon at a small scale has bitten me lately as well. I had the same video card returned by three different buyers for buyer-only reasons (Bought by Mistake, Found Better Price) and there is no recourse for me and I'm out the $20 shipping each time unless I want to jeopardize my seller account
so wanting ur borders secured is now literally Hitler. Okay. Well you should talk to Clinton because building a wall was her position a few years ago until her party forced her further far left.
What exactly makes him racist? What exactly makes him a misogynist? I never got an answer for that.
"This post is going to get me in trouble but I'm going to say it any way. Uhh Derr Derr Derrrrrrr" -- Sam Altman.

Can someone please send a priest to exorcise the ghost of Gordon Gekko from Sam Altman's body?
> At least Trump is willing to talk about the fact that the US is not on an acceptable growth trajectory. The Big Truth in Trump’s slogan is “Again”—we do need a fundamental change to get back to where we were. Clinton’s dangerously bad Big Lie is that there’s no problem here at all.

Is a pro-Trump or anti-Trump post?
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Ran into this problem a couple of months ago.

Could not figure out why Docker would not install on a stock 14.04 bare metal server from OVH.

Turns out it was their custom kernel.

With a little flag in the corner giving the option to install the stock kernel. Trying to do that gave no end of problems. So reverted to the stock Proxmox, and ran my 14.04 in a VM that uses pretty much all the resources.

True, it cost me a small %age in overhead, but it was the easiest/quickest fix.
Oracle profits surge–at the expense of Java development and software support
I believe Intercal implements the COME FROM statement.
Hmm, okay. Continuing down this line of discussion, can you share with us some details on Trump's proposed solutions for the various economic and social problems we face?
If you watch the interview that someone linked above, it is what he says. He says:

- he is being unfair, so now I say "why"

Now people invert this argument and say Trump is saying "He can't do his job because of his heritage". That's completely different from saying "he is not doing his job, and the most probable reason is his heritage".

Now you can certainly say that even the latter argument is racist or xenophobic or morally wrong, but why fabricate something that he never said or implied?
Trump isn't planning industrialized murder but he's certainly fine with deportation on a never before scale. Apart from that both are strikingly similar.