skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's your definition, then FreeBSD and Solaris solved this without paying the systemd tax, via ZFS-based boot environments.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=beadm&sektion=&man...

NeXt->Apple also avoided anything like systemd via a configuration system that supported inheritance across search domains (User, Local, Network, System):

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...
Software development close to free market?

Since when you have become a venture capitalist?

Only a select few win big and often their products are way overvalued. The road to billion valuation is littered with dead startups doing almost the same thing.
Hacked Emails Reveal NATO General Plotting Against Obama on Russia Policy
I've been there too. I saw a massive machine that somehow represented all of humanity, and myself as a tiny little cog inside of the machine.
Only thing left would be murder
Did you really have a passion for politics at age 12? This coupled with "I had no trouble using command-line encryption to communicate." makes this read like a farce. First you act like ultimate prodigy that peaked at tender age of 12 and then go boast with mad skills of running a cli command.
> The more pertinent question is whether the citizens they produce can read and write, know how to multiply and divide, can name the parts of speech, and have at least a passing notion of the history and culture of their respective countries, regions, and locales.

They learn how to read and write. Children are learning machines. They figure out how to do things that are a lot more complicated than learning how to read and write using an alphabet in a culture saturated with writing. A guy I know here in Shanghai has a Taiwanese mother and an American father. He went to American schools all the way through his education. He can read Chinese perfectly, and write when he's using a phone or computer though his handwriting is quite limited. Another guy I know whose parents speak German to him grew up in Ireland and was educated through English. His spelling and grammar when writing in German is not great but he has never studied German other than as a foreign language for an easy grade, nor has he ever lived in a German speaking country. John Taylor Gatto has written that he can teach a 9 year old to read in 40 contact hours.

People learn to perform quite complicated mathematical operations in the course of their lives, through experience. If you're interested in this there's a lot of research on unschooled children. Street children who buy and sell things learn all the mathematical skills they need in their lives, which is most of what most people need.

Knowing the parts of speech is almost perfectly useless. It has no effect on how well one writes, not even for people who are writing in a language they learned after adolescence. The only things that research shows improving writing are practice and critique.

People learn about their culture by living in it. Ditto for their history. As someone with way above average historical knowledge I can also say that history education through at least middle school is worthless. It's pre digested pap with no acknowledgment of nuance or shades of gray.
My pleasure. Libero and SFL were my first open source projects and I'm glad they were useful.
Wow, with RAM costing something like $5 a gigabyte these days....do you want us to take up a collection to help you out? I'm not above a little charity, I'll send you a fiver to help you get a real computer!
You can redistribute it as much as you want, providing you permit recipients to do the same thing. Entire industries have found this to be completely reasonable.
Web developer wants to learn statically typed language
I've been writing in Ruby and Javascript so basically I know only dynamic OO languages.
I'm interested in trying out sth different only like a hobby. I'm not necessarily wanting to switch to functional style.
There are too many options. I've tried swift many months ago but lots of folk like Go/Haskell etc

What are your suggestions?
The Tesla crash, Tsunamis and spec errors
Not true, wealth accumulation is sure to happen in a free market due to random circumstances and just even minimal imperfections in knowledge. Government is not required.

And a wealthy player would be a fool to not try to skew the rules in their favour.

Nobody has proven yet that it is possible to prevent this problem even in a really long term.
I think at the end of life people reflect more on themselves and their own personal beliefs on how the world works.

But when we are living in the thick of it we live much more within each other and the greater whole of society because we have to. That's how we survive. We give up some of our brainspace to ideas and systems that are built communally, both on a local/familial level and on an entire social level.

In other words, we spend a lot of our time going with the flow and allowing our opinions to be shaped by those we trust or love. Or at least I think that's part of it.

Edit: And in that sense we see individuals dying, but as we live we don't necessarily ponder ourselves dying as an individual because much of what we do and care about on a day to day basis will outlive us e.g. our families and ideals.
A big user of RAM in ZFS is dedup and compression - which can both be disabled.
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Good.

I had my language-designer goggles on, but you and the paper are right that educator goggles matter too.
I remember having trouble with wifi chipsets ~5-6 years ago when smaller netbooks started to hit the scene. I had one of thous, like 8" laptops with brand new ARM chip and 4 hour battery life, for it getting wifi working was hard, but after that I haven't had much trouble with wifi, but maybe I've just been lucky.
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Get some home gym equipment: http://www.crazysales.com.au/gym-equipment/ It is equally effective to work out at home.
Of all the things we could add to try and revitalize Seattle's waterfront, I'm not sure the pervasive smell of cow poop is the answer. We've got places like Duvall and Enumclaw for that.
"To learn" and "for fun" are perfectly sufficient explanations, even if you don't understand them.
About half of UK WWI soldiers were volunteers. They threw themselves into the meat grinder. Even conscripted people could appeal for being a conscientious objector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment_to_the_British_Arm...
Since you previously had synced with the computer, it might recognize it's backup keys and therefore let you try again and again. FBI didn't have any backups to go on, right?
Please ask her to keep working on the problem and keep fighting the good fight. I think it's a political problem. If research grants were only given out if all data was made available (and while we're at it open source all the code produced) we'd be a huge step further down the right path.

There is very, very strong resistance to these sort of ideas. The idealist in me likes to think that there shouldn't be much resistance after all scientists should be happy if their results get double checked (for free!). I can only assume that a lot of people are very afraid of having their data double checked (or possibly never had data in the first place). Additionally access to data is a competitive advantage as it's often hard to generate.
Quick, don't think of an elephant.

There are many things that, when asked, people are suddenly bad at doing. I don't think that's evidence.
Sounds like a failure of research and planning on her part and on the part of her parents. There are universities which have no core curriculum nor any general education/breadth requirements. I believe Olin college fits the bill.
Even if you do automated testing you should still do exploratory testing, it's not an either/or situation. Automated testing allows you to cover the bulk of your system functionality, exploratory testing allows you to pick up on the unexpected quirks that crop up. Automated testing frees up the time of testers to do exploratory testing as they don't have to run through all tests manually.
Sir, this is more personal than I want to get in these forums, but when I related to my mother how much you had influenced me and (frankly) saved my life and I related your situation, she cried.

She said: "Can we do nothing?".

My theory about this universe is that: we can do nothing - but that we can best serve by making sure that these pioneers are never forgotten.

That may well be wrong. But, from a little point example, out here in the universe, I and my mother, appreciate you and love you and .... I don't know what to say.
It's a rather sad reflection of society, no telling how may breakthroughs we're missing out on due to the lack of cooperation in science on this front.
Rust - lesser understood and known but has incredible power...
> Hopefully, any official releases on third-party phones will be able to include it as well.

Yes, while I have no official word (I'm just a fan), I think this will be the case. As long as it's an official port done by Jolla, Myriad/Alien Dalvik should be available.
The only freedom you give up by using the GPL is the freedom to screw your users over by denying them access to the source code. All you are demanded is to let others enjoy the freedom you enjoy. That, surely, isn't too much to ask.
Oh, separately. Libero rocks. That is all.
Wix is targeted directly at small businesses who create their own web presence by using a template and filling in some details (text, images, etc).

Webflow is a much more professional tool targeted at web designers, freelancers, and agencies who create custom responsive websites, usually from scratch (or from a professional template as a starting point). That is, people who create websites for others. To be successful with Webflow, our users need to think somewhat like a developer (e.g. understand the box model, understand how CSS works in principle, etc), so the learning curve is a bit steeper.

For example, everything you see on https://webflow.com/ is built visually in Webflow and deployed to staging and production by non-engineers. There's a full database there with over 20 tables representing different content types, with a complex schema (e.g. blog posts, case studies, testimonials, job posts, templates, tags, etc), all the pages are custom responsive layouts - and all this was created without writing code.

None of this would be possible with Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, etc - since those are limited to their available templates. Most of the sites created in Webflow (see https://webflow.com/discover/popular for some examples) can only be recreated in Webflow or by writing code by hand, no other visual "WYSIWYG" builder comes even close.

You can think of Webflow as a much more evolved Dreamweaver, or a purely visual next-generation WordPress - minus all the code :)
> If you update your OS, do you also need to update nginx? No, because there's backwards ABI compatibility.

Only for minor versions. How is that different from any other package that promises ABI compatibility?

Why are FreeBSD OS components split up at a low granularity, so you can't install the stuff you want without the stuff you don't?

Why are there two separate sets of tools to update them and other packages?

edit: Why separate non-base packages from base packages on the filesystem, but not from each other? If the advantage of separating /usr/local is the ability to copy the non-base configuration/apps without the base stuff, wouldn't it be more useful to be able to copy any given individual package or set of packages? Or if that is possible already (by asking the package manager for a list of files or whatnot), wouldn't that obviate the need to separate base from non-base?
$5 _a month_ on a VPS. If it's a project that doesn't make money...
I'm using the first Jolla phone.

Note, that if you use the 3rd party port of SailfishOS on your Nexus5, it doesn't come with the Myriad/Alien, Android compatibility layer.

The community however has developed and released sfdroid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOU8fa0ZLT0
Good to know, thanks! Regarding this:

>> no information is available on the polling station level so there is little to analyze statistically.

What they did was look at the percentages and exact vote counts for each choice, and noticed that they match down to one vote (i.e. if you take the percentage, multiply by total population, and round, you'll get the vote count). For example, in referendum in Lugansk, the official stats are as follows:

1,349,360 valid bulletins
1,298,084 (96.2%) voted yes

Normally, the percentage is a number with a lot of digits after the decimal point, which is then rounded for presentation purposes. But here, if you take 96.2% and multiply it by 1,349,360, you get 1,298,084.32. In other words, it's actually accurate to 4 digits after decimal point, three of which happen to be zeroes (96.2000%).

Of course, it could be just a very unlikely (< 1/1000) coincidence that the number of "yes" votes just happened to fit exactly into three digits of precision. But a more reasonable explanation is that someone started with the percentage that they wanted to get, and then computed the requisite number of bulletins from that.

Said explanation becomes even more reasonable when you take the reported numbers for turnout, and realize that the same relation holds there. Specifically:

1,807,739 eligible voters
1,359,419 voted (75.2%)

1,807,739 х 75.2% = 1,359,419.73

Oh look, another perfect percentage (75.2000%).
Yes I can read (and speak badly) a few languages (Spanish, French and a bit of Italian) and I have travelled widely - not that it is really relevant.

I think you can’t accept that there are many concepts that can’t be expressed in any language other than English. I am a scientist by background, trained in multiple fields for over 20 years, and yet I only have an understanding of a tiny fraction of all the scientific concepts out there (I can’t say how low, but well under 0.01%).

The vast majority of concepts (distinct ideas) that I personally know are scientific. With almost all the scientific concepts I know it is not possible to communicate to someone about the concept in any language other than English because the background concepts are missing from other languages. This is not because English is inherently superior to any other language, just a consequence of English being the common language of science.

You see this when you go to a scientific conference - people who speak a common language other than English will chit-chat to each other in their own language, but when you hear them talking to each other about science it either totally in English, or a hybrid where ever second word is English - there is often so much English in these conversations that I can follow along even when I have no understanding of the base language.
Horrible for the book lovers who like to do price comparison with discount book sellers like Half-Price Books. looks like I'll have to use Barnes-and-Noble or Half.com to get sale prices now.
No, dead on incorrect
In Linux, it does.
That's not really an apples to apples comparison. VMS versioning is a completely different thing than ZFS snapshots and copy on write.
I must admit that after reading such horrifying words, the Sharing sentence look very weird :

"Enjoy what you just read? Share via social media using the buttons below."
While I can appreciate that point of view (i.e. as a vendor), the definition does depend on whose POV you are looking at it from. From an end-user (individual or business) POV, the GPL is absolutely 'freely redistributable' what you're talking about is your inability to limit that ability. That's the GPL doing its job.
> any benefit received now is far out shadowed by the negatives.

Is it backed up by numbers? As a customer, I agree with you, but our annoyance could be less important than all the customers that quickly pick some product they neeed as long as it got enough stars, without going much into the reviews.
Another famous example is Wordsworth's "Suprised by joy - impatient as the wind", c. 1800. See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/sep/22/poem... for the poem and exposition.
+1. I enjoyed the first three Blackadder series as a rollicking laugh, but BA4 had an overall much darker theme - and that last episode, especially the last 5 minutes filled me with more sadness and tears than any other war drama movie ever did... The time lapse of the field at the end after everything falls silent...(excuse me, I have something in my eye!)

Captain Darling: "rather hoped I'd get through the whole show; go back to work at Pratt & Sons; keep wicket for the Croydon gentlemen; marry Doris... Made a note in my diary on my way here. Simply says... 'Bugger...'"
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I have actually come to the conclusion that Amazon has "trapped" me with service not price. I often buy stuff that's a little more expensive on Amazon just because I know I get a reliable shipment and know when it will arrive.
The "order until X and we grantee delivery on Y" is one of the key features for me. I always hate guesstimating when things will arrive if they ship in 2-5 days etc.

I usually bulk order so stuff arrives on Saturday if they'd have a "worker friendly" shipping service that delivers after 18h I'd be all over that.

I'm annoyed by a lot of stuff including the fact that pretty much everything is "reduced price" and that you have to wade through 5* reviews for every product but at the end of the day they are a brand I trust to deliver my stuff on time and do the right thing when there's a problem with some shipment.
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The country I live in uses a proportional voting system - and what happens is that one of the smallest and most narrow special interests party gets to be the the point of equilibrium - as nobody can form government without it.

And then that party proceeds to blackmail everybody all the time.

Thus all the governments need to pander to this particular party and they get to gridlock the government whenever they feel the smallest slight or displeasure.
Also from the American tradition I wish my baby was born. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFpU3zslpHw
Good point - but people explain that it is due to political reasons [1].

Ie same way that people in Luxemburg want to point out that they have their own language different from German, rulers of Morocco (who are Arabs - majority of Morocco's population native language is Berber) want to stress that they share same language & culture with rest of the Arab world.

In other words - if you are a country, you have the option to have your own language (even if it's mutually intelligible with a major other language). If you are just a part of a country, that option seems off the table (ie you need a non-mutually intelligible language to make that claim).

[1] http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/why-hindi-urdu-is-one-langu...
They bought the whole enchilada.

https://meta.slashdot.org/story/16/01/29/0247219/slashdot-an...
Hmm, I've never had any problems running something on ubuntu, debian, gentoo, redhat, etc. If it works on one then it works on all the others. If push comes to shove I just install the libraries and compile from source but this is a rare occurence and I've only have had to do that when I've relied on a version of Ruby or Python that has not come pre-packaged with the distribution.

So I don't really know what you're getting at. If you're not talking about kernel vs userland and you're talking instead about ABI compatibility then the ABI is even more stable and requires even less work to port any piece of software from one distribution to another.
I was watching a documentary on prodigy musicians one time. The person presenting the show was a prodigy himself and he asked some interesting questions. One was, "How much did you practice when you were young?" and the answer would invariably be 12-13 hours a day. He then asked, "Do you regret not spending that time doing other things?" The answer was also invariably "No".

The prodigies in the documentary explained that the time when they were practicing all day was exciting and fun. They looked back on that time with nostalgia because after they got older they neither had the time nor the stamina to practice like that again.

"Nobody ever died wishing that they had spent more time in the office" is a popular quote, but I think it is false. I personally know of several people who after they were diagnosed with terminal diseases chose to spend their remaining time working as much as possible.

The key to what you are saying is the "just to make someone else rich". I think if you are looking at it as some kind of equation where "I have to do X in order to get Y", often you lose out because it turns out that Y was not worth it after all (especially if you are trading your life for money). However, if you are looking at it as "I can't believe I get to do this all day long!", then I don't think you will regret it.

This is not to say that those who prefer a "work-life balance" existence over "work is inseparable from life" existence are much different. It's just that you need to spend your time and energy doing what you love -- getting that balance right. Both groups suffer if they divert their attention away from what is important to them.
Wow, that is wonderful to hear! :) Definitely a huge thanks to the HN community, which was so supportive when we first launched (and ever since)!
I want you to know, that at every level, for me, you were loved, received and admired. I don't know the controls of this system well enough to be able to PM you that, but you should know this... Thank you.
> That's why I said putting all "immigration" into a single category

I was exxxxtremely specific in my last post about one very detailed type of immigration, and you are conflating "all types of immigration" AGAIN. You did systematically misunderstand and conflate everything that was misunderstandable in my speech, I don't know whether that's on purpose or not. That English people have been accepting or refusing immigration in the past is no question. The question is whether they want to add 1 million people in London in the next 10 years (it was the London plan before Brexit), and the English people didn't get to vote on that.

But you, and all the Remain camp together with you, make a full, complete denial that it is possible to discuss immigration quantities, although the visa bureaus exist in every country. And it's to break stubborn people like you that the People of England was required to break your toys, England, and Europe at the same time. Thank you for your stubbornness, here is the bill, please don't do the same in France and accept to discuss immigration quantities.
My experience with Web browsers is they expand to fill all available memory and then some. This Firefox process has grown more than 50% since launch, and will stay mostly that big even if I close all but one new tab.

Chrome does a better job of containing the damage to individual tabs, but I'm not how much that really helps with something like this. And of course, eventually I still end up killing Chrome periodically to get RAM back for real work, like running VMs without the host thrashing.
If you don't understand the problem you can't really find a solution...

Other than that it does matter because in a future you may see the same problem in other industries... A very advanced 3d printer may bring this whole class of problem to the manufacturing industry as an example.

If we learn how to manage the complexity of the design phase we will be able to apply the same concepts to other fields.
> And if a majority of wolves vote for a sheep dinner?

If that happens, you don't want to live in that society anyway, under whatever system. In other words, this is an extremely pessimistic view of human society.
Oh, there's certainly multiple ways to do this. My point is purely that this isn't an inherent Linux/*BSD thing - there are modern Linux distributions that have precisely this property.