skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah, of course. Dried in the sun because most people in the UK 1957 would only know of packet spaghetti.
Could the timing of this somehow be Brexit related?
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A fair few raspberry-pi tutorials seem to prefer Nano, for users new to Linux.
I'm a fair bit closer to the right hand side of the age curve than the left. My advice: Look at the brevity of Alan Kay's responses. When I was young I would have soared past them looking for the point. Now I see that one sentence and I weep. Why didn't anyone say that 20 years ago?

Maybe they did. I was too busy being frustrated with the churn of software development. All my time and energy was focused on new technologies that came out all the time. My young plastic brain spent it's flexibility absorbing the latest framework, etc.

Now that I have lost the motivation, ability and time to keep up with things like the younger folk, I can finally listen to the older folk (hopefully while there are still folk older than me to listen to).

These days I'm trying just to write code. All those young people have soared past the wisdom of their elders looking for the point. It's still there. Don't look at the new frameworks, look at what people were doing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago. How does it inform what you are doing?

I hope that helps! It's a struggle for me too.
> The one place I was hoping not to see Brexit was on HN

Not sure if you mean Brexit the argument or the topic.

If you mean the topic: a quote from one of the founders of ef, where Magic Pony was created: "leaving the European Union will have sweeping negative effects on British startups' ability to hire, fundraise and access international markets."

If you mean the argument, then fair enough.
I hear this faster for small things but if you use vim I would say I can make changes in a small document twice as fast.

They should have a new tag line:

Nano the plain text editor for non-Vim maybe EMACS users?
So, after illustrating in color, you scan and convert to grayscale? or, scan as grayscale?

It looks "classy".
What could the purpose of an encrypted error be? If it's a server side error it's already in their logs.
But isn't that the nature of scientific hypotheses? They are tenuous, only valid until you come across some data that tells you "aha, there's another piece to this rule". The classic would be special relativity vs old Newtonian.

If you have a limited dataset containing the actual generating data, say heights, seniority, age, hair color, day of the week, gender, etc, can't you end up discovering at least the parts that are exposed in the data?
I am using it constantly. first thing on a rhel server: yum install nano
I only use it because sometimes vim doesn't work correctly over putty and I can't not verbally swear every time I have to search a vim issue.
Exciting two days in Elixir world! Elixir 1.3, Ecto 2.0, Erlang/OTP 19 - amazing!
While I'm not 100% on Qt's history, some quick Googling finds references that suggest moc was around in the Qt2 days, which was 1999, which was before even C++03 was a thing. So it's mostly a historical relic, now hidden away as much as possible by things like automoc in cmake.

Also, FWIW, moc-ng is based on libclang, which looks to be vaguely in the general direction of what you're getting at: https://woboq.com/blog/moc-with-clang.html
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it does provide some limited reflection which is in my opinion the biggest missing feature in C++. (and no, I dont want to use macros for this)
Back in the 1990s thru early 2000s, I used to use pico before I became comfortable with vi. For someone coming from a DOS/Windows/OS/2 background originally, it was less of a learning curve. I never used nano much, but I imagine the same reasons might apply for some people today.

(I also used to use emacs a lot, I first used it on OS/2 under EMX, but there were systems on which pico was installed but emacs wasn't. Nowadays, I'm so used to vim, I start emacs and can't remember most of the keystrokes. Oh, and the first ever email client I used was Pine.)
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Thanks, let me first say this all seems to be in support of my point that causality is not some obvious basic concept like it is usually treated. Apparently I need to understand and accept other technical concepts such as "world model" and "surgery" before understanding "causal".

Second, it sounds like Pearl is in agreement that cause and effect do not appear to be physical aspects of the universe (ie something to be independently measured), but are rather wholly dependent on the person/device performing the measurements. By dependent I don't mean in the sense that pressing a ruler up a against an object slightly changes its length, or the uncertainty principle, etc. I mean that the perspective of the observer looks like it is central to Pearl's conception of causality. If this is the case, it should be possible to do science without any use of the cause/effect idea at all. However, perhaps it is a useful heuristic in many cases.

Third, I am always wary about arguments regarding "scientists do x". Many people are passing themselves off as scientists these days who are not actually doing science according to the usual definitions. For an example, just look at the dearth of even attempted replications or proposed theories making precise predictions in fields like health and social science. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of what gets claimed in those areas seems to be wrong when it is checked. The widespread misinterpretation of and games surrounding p-values occurring in these fields of research goes without mention... My point here is just because some people claiming to be scientists behave a certain way doesn't mean that is the most (or even a) productive way to act.
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This is only true if you use vim at least once a week forever. Some people don't want to study a manual to change 1 config line. Call me crazy I know.
Eh. I read the commentary here and tried proving the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. Here goes:

Suppose some integer k has two different prime factorizations -- it is the product of some set of n primes raised to nonnegative integer powers, and also of some other set of m primes raised to nonnegative integer powers. Call those sets p_n and p_m.

Observe that there is no prime number which is assigned a nonzero exponent by p_n but not p_m, and there is no prime number which is assigned a nonzero exponent by p_m but not p_n. If p_n assigned a positive exponent to any prime c while p_m assigned c a zero exponent, then the product of p_n would be congruent to 0 (mod c), but the product of p_m would not, and therefore the two products would not equal the same number. (And symmetrically.)

Therefore, p_m and p_n differ only in the nonzero exponents assigned to their various primes. Let g be the set of primes in p_m and p_n with the minimum exponent assigned by either p_m or p_n, let p_M be p_m with all exponents reduced by the exponent assigned by g, and let p_N be p_n with all exponents reduced by the exponent assigned by g. Observe that the exponent assigned to any prime is either 0 in each, or 0 in one of p_M or p_N and positive in the other. We can observe that, since p_m is not equal to p_n, one of p_M or p_N must assign a nonzero exponent to some prime.

Let γ, μ, and ν be the integer products of g, p_M, and p_N. By hypothesis, γμ = γν, which means that μ = ν. But now we have two prime factorizations (p_M and p_N) of the same number (μ) for which one factorization assigns a positive exponent to some prime, and one factorization assigns an exponent of zero. By our earlier result we know that this is impossible.

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I needed a lot of symbols, and if I were formally typing this up I'd need more, but it didn't seem like a very difficult proof -- I spent more time typing up this comment than working out the proof. Reading the piece, I see that it is specifically called out:

> We’d be able to see instantly that 23 × 1759 ≠ 53 × 769 if we knew that a product of two non-multiples of 23 was always a non-multiple of 23.

So I guess if you're comfortable with modular arithmetic, you can fairly consider this an obvious proof. It relies on another result about primes, but it's very common that one result makes another result easy, and a blanket disallowal of that approach leaves you saying that proving anything is as tricky and non-obvious as proving, proving, that 2+2=4.
A bit strange, because as far as the history remembers, Nano was explicitly a fork of Pico, because of the license. [1]

Strange how history rewrites itself.

1 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_(text_editor)

EDIT : Quotes from Wikipedia

`The GNU Project has a clone of Pico called nano which has been developed because Pico's earlier license was not a free software license, since distribution of a modified version of the code was ambiguously forbidden.[2] By default nano attempts to mimic Pico to replicate the environment users are used to. However it can be configured to offer mouse support, auto indentation, regular expression searches and even syntax highlighting making it more useful. Newer versions of Pico as part of Alpine are released under the Apache License.`
Letting the most prestigious people make important decisions isn't the best system, but it's probably better than the other options.
campaigns yes.. party no, certainly not before the nomination or even before announcing to run
How can it be "not obviously illegal" if you're not checking. Side note, piracy is illegal in a lot of countries.

If my account was accessed from 20 different countries in a day you can be damn well sure I'd want to be given a heads up too, as it's likely my account has been compromised.
For how long has he been in that embassy? Versus how much sentence would he get from a possible conviction?
Don't worry, TTIP will bring all of that to us in Europe, too.
Dude! I remember that! You had more than the LD50 of caffeine for the entire conference in the canister.
You can say the same thing about almost any other kind of comparison that's not strictly numeric. Fact of the matter is, people make comparisons and they're valid for many reasons.
There is also the internet classic "Spiders on Drugs" although it drops the act half way through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
You're right, but this is one part of the equitation.

The cheap labor will give you a lower price at the end. If it wouldn't then you wouldn't see the 'made in China' text on literally everything.

There was a massive debate about immigrants picking British strawberries. And a lot of the people were going crazy why the farmers don't employ British workers and that EU can go and fuck itself.

It's fine and all, but they forget a lot of things. It's not the EU who told the farmer to get cheap immigrant labor. The farmer saves lots of money because of the cheap labor. This keeps the price down of the strawberries when you go buy a pack in a store. The work is seasonal, so it's not a permanent job and keeps the people occupied only for a couple of weeks.

Some people get a fit when they see a small pack of British strawberries for 2 pounds. Imagine how enraged they would be to have the same amount for 4.

These people, who always blame someone else then their own people (for instance why aren't you blaming the British farmer, business, whatever) would be the first ones crying why are the things more expensive now?!

The whole economy is like nature, you take out one small part and everything changes.

In brexit I see the typical 'The True Scotsman Fallacy'. or should we call it the 'True British Fallacy' now? We are great and everybody is crap and it's always someone else's fault not ours.
Russian Wikipedia has this quote from the author of hoax: "I wrote a rebuttal to this statement [that a mammal can not be a plant] in 'Smena' newspaper. In fact, we spent the whole hour proving that fungi was a separate kingdom from plants and animals."
This has been explained time and again.

To get to the bottom of tax avoidance, people have to see and feel the benefit of paying tax. In Greece they simply don't, and it hasn't gotten any better in recent years.

The average German can easily list the benefits they receive from their government.
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US 'food stamps' (for which the actual name is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) are actually just a government-issued debit card that can only be spent on food at most private retailers. There's absolutely no connotation of rationing in the US nor is there any stamp involved.
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The logic is correct, but directs the attention of the audience to an irrelevant point. (Similar to a magician performing a trick)

E.g., imagine there actually existed some little-known mammal/plant hybrids. The "historian" could have presented one and dramatically refuted the argument. Of course that wouldn't actually help in proving Lenin was a mushroom, but it would let that proposition appear more credible.
It could also be related to his announcement regarding compromising material against Hillary Clinton (i.e. Killary wants him dead ;-)): http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/12/wikileaks-to-pu...

But let's not get carried away with wild theories...
Yes, but there are many reasons to be vegetarian. I can easily imagine a lot of people that would like to skip meat for ethical reasons (including me, to a certain extent), but do not want to give up the flavor palette that meat offers.
Not much history rewriting or strangeness: pico wasn't open source, nano was open source. nano is still open source.

Nothing has changed with this announcement except who own the copyrights to the open source code.
I reviewed the discussion but I still can't understand what the controversy is about. According to the following explanatory note from the GNU project, developers don't have to assign copyright to the FSF for it to be an official GNU project:

When the developers of a program make it a GNU package, they can decide either to give the copyright to the FSF so it can enforce the GPL for the package, or else to keep the copyright as well as the responsibility for enforcing the GPL.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

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FYI this is the start of the discussion thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg000...
It's more like the top quintile (20%) has around 50% of the income, see the same source in my last post upthread.
It's nice to have on boot disks, small enough to fit alongside busybox which ships with a lite vi[1] that some don't care for.

I personally love vi and am a bit taken aback sometimes when visudo pulls up nano instead of vi because I haven't installed it or made it my default editor yet.

So I'm not sure this means much to me personally but I'm always sad to see members of the community part ways. Still, I wish them all the luck and thank them for their efforts.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/BusyBox...
I think it depends on your goals and your background.

Already familiar with functional programming and the actor model? Elixir. You'll pick up enough Erlang as you do to be fluent in both; except for macros it's essentially just a syntax difference.

Not familiar with either functional programming or the actor model? Erlang. Because the fact that almost none of the syntax is familiar I found helpful to absorb the concepts, and the right way of doing things. I can't speak to Elixir directly, as it wasn't around when I learned Erlang, but other functional languages that offered me familiar constructs invited me to misunderstand them and misuse them, and either write non-idiomatic code, or to get frustrated when things behaved in ways I did not expect (and even Erlang isn't perfect here, the 'if' construct behaves very differently than most languages, and was a stumbling block for me initially).

In short, I found the unfamiliarity of the syntax helpful for grokking the concepts. YMMV.
> I'm sure it's possible to embed Racket, ...

http://docs.racket-lang.org/inside/embedding.html
My impression from that thread is the only problem some of the devs had was assigning copyright to the FSF. They insist on sticking to FSF's principles and in fact will continue to have their code hosted on Savannah because Github isn't Free enough.
If p_n assigned a positive exponent
to any prime c while p_m assigned c
a zero exponent, then the product of
p_n would be congruent to 0 (mod c),
but the product of p_m would not ...

Why not? It seems at this point you are assuming something that is generally deduced as a consequence of the FTA.

In particular, you have assumed that the product of the p_m is k (with appropriate exponents), and because c is in p_n we know that c|k, and hence we know that k=0 (mod c). So your claim here is false. It is actually assuming the FTA.
Yes, it's much easier to work with than modal editors which I find clumsy and terrible. I don't use it intensively, just when I need to edit something quickly, usually in an SSH session.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here, this feels to me like one of a few responses in this thread that gets to the core of the issue if we're thinking about long-term AI risk.

In fact, I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be any reference in the article to previous work on these philosophical implications, e.g. the stuff that has been written by Nick Bostrom or MIRI. Perhaps there are some in the paper?

I think that for the forseeable future, we will inevitably end up with two of the problems that various philosophers have outlined over the last few years:

(1) How do we ensure that an AI agent does exactly what we want it to do and

(2) What do we ultimately want if we can desire anything?

I think that any developer trying to approach this will be doomed to hack around these two issues. We can probably come a long way in AI capabilities without having the optimal solution to this, but the core problem will remain for a long time and haunt those who are cautious.
That only works on pre 2008 Macs, I haven't seen any evidence about it being possible on later models.
on any server without a monitor, ofc i use nano!
> Fungi were plants in the west too until the early 80s.

What brought about the change? Was some difference between them discovered or was it a matter of deciding that it would be more convenient to give them separate names?
Although it was ~30 years ago, I recall doing some school homework when we had just learned about prime numbers and factorisation. I remember trying to divide by random primes until I came across a factorisation. It wasn't at all obvious to me (at ~10 years old) that prime factorisations were unique or that they could be found using a simple repetitive algorithm.

It seems obvious now, but only because I've never come across an integer with more than one factorisation. If there were an article on HN tomorrow with the headline 'Integer with more than one prime factorisation found' I wouldn't be able to resist clicking the link.
Is there any evidence of this being possible on Macs made after 2008?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7210750
Well since Hacker News is built on Arc (A language built with Racket) it actually gets quite a bit of exposure. I have fallen in love with Racket and I learned about it through HN. Tried to learn Haskell three times and was frustrated and jumped into Racket and it was like when I first used Python (Coming from Pascal, FORTRAN and Assembly).
> > As you know, I will not assign my copyright to the FSF,
> > nor to anyone else. All the code I write is GPL'ed.
> > You don't need to own the copyright on any code in
> > order to be able to enforce the GPL. [...]

> Indeed, and in fact for a long time the copyright
> was owned by me before it was assigned to the FSF.
> It's not required per se, but generally speaking,
> there must be a Maintainer of the Software who
> believes in the ideals of the GNU system

I do believe in the ideal of the GNU system: to have
computer systems that consist entirely of libre
software.

> and will adhere to the GNU coding standards

That is too bureaucratic, not libre enough.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg000...
I think the thing with the train wheels is sort of obvious once you see that it only works because part of the wheel overhangs the rail.

The axle of the wheel is moving forwards, and the bit in contact with the track is stationary, so the bit further out than that is going backwards.
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Loads of us use nano.

Simple light editor without the overhead (read learning curve), of all the other big editors.

Sure, I might not write code in it, but when I need to edit a conf file or two, both on a server, and my desktop, it really hits the spot.
Yeah, maybe I'm just weird, but I like it when the down-arrow key makes the cursor go down a line.
Yup, love it.

Not as arcane as vim, great for small edits without the oh-crap-what-have-I-pressed-force-quit-start-over phenomenon that I get in vi. 'Serious' editing is done in gedit...
its also very unlikely that their low prices will keep competitors out of the market, unless they can produce so much honey to flood it.
"Outside of Paris is supposedly not very French anymore, and not very safe."

I do not know where you get your information but you may have to change your sources. It seems very "FoxNewsy"
I use R more then any other language and I always struggle with RMarkDown and Latex documents coming out the way i want them. I really need to add this to my tool set since I love Racket.
> Between leaving Sweden and entering the Ecuadorian embassy Assange spent several weeks in UK, while a British court decided on the validity of the European arrest warrent against him. Plenty of time for the US to demand his extradition.

Not weeks, years. He left Sweden in 27 September 2010, and it wasn't until 14 June 2012 that he had exhausted his rights of appeal in the UK (short of any appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg). He was on bail for pretty much the entire period (he spend nine days in police custody prior to being granted bail, but I don't believe he was ever in custody after that).
They should have tried with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_squash
If a placebo is an effect that requires no training, being able to induce it would seem superior to training.
But are people more likely to accept the axioms of Principia Mathematica (and the soundness of every logical step from page 1 to 300) than they are to accept the notion that 2 + 2 = 4 based on intuitive notions of what twoness, fourness and plusness are?
I don't think it's that difficult to explain. The part under the track, the "flange" goes backwards. The part exactly on the track is not moving at all, same as a car (or any other) wheel. This is also pretty obvious when you consider that if the wheel was turning in relation to the ground, it would be skidding.
I use it, as a terminal editor, whenever I can. On my machines I use it instead of vi(m), and if I have control over a remote machine, there as well, I only use VI if a server doesn't have nano and I can't install it.
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