skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A democratic arm that rules the country day-to-day, and a "benevolent dictatorship" that will overthrow the democratic arm if it violates the country's "fundamental principles"

Sounds a lot like Iran, although their "democratic arm" is very much a farce.
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I just binge watched the show last week. I'm fairly certain he always crushed the pills with mortar and pestle, then snorted it. As for the girl, she was his middle woman, and it was only them doing MDMA that one night. Not for nothing but that's not terribly far-fetched. I've had a girl offer me MDMA before.
I think in the west we only see Turkey as Istanbul which happens to be the extremely liberal part of Turkey.

The rest of the country is far more conservative so they don't see the clamping down on various freedoms as being a problem and on top of the Erdogan has actually really done a good job of developing the poorer regions of Turkey which were rife with high unemployments and low prospects. On top of that people believe he's raised Turkey's importance on the world stage.

Another reason why I'm about 90% he'll win now that the opposition political parties have just come out against the coup - which if you know anything about Turkey is HUGE. These parties have literally called for Erdogan to be jailed but right now they're supporting him.

I don't even know what to make of that. I'm shocked.
I still assumed, with the new title, that it was something cruel rather than clever.
Why did people support Hitler? Why do people support Trump? Why do people support Putin?

Some people aren't very concerned with democratic principles; some people like the policy agenda and are willing to sacrifice democratic principles in order to get the policies they want; some people are gullible and believe scapegoat arguments; some people, particularly in times of insecurity, seek out a "strong man".
It isn't mods killing off these stories, it is users like me flagging them.
Developers don't use debuggers because neither the benefits of using one nor the harm of not using one are immediately obvious. And when you first start learning how to program, the cognitive load of picking up a new language, its tooling and quirks, you simply don't have the energy to understand yet another piece of complex software. Worse, you may not even know there's such thing as a debugger! So we all do "printf debugging" because printing to the screen is the first thing you learn, and it's obvious how you can use it to inspect program state.

However, this is a novice trap, as more experienced developers would know that printf debugging may not work for subtle cases, and may even steer you in the completely wrong direction. But by the time said novices encounter such bugs, they've already picked up the "bad habit", and it's difficult to go back and unlearn it.

Some also feels that needing a specialized tool to find bugs is a weakness, as you ought to be able to reason about the code without aid. But that is folly, for if so, why use editors with syntax coloring (shouldn't you know int is a keyword w/o being pointed out) or auto-completion (shouldn't you memorize all exported functions)? In fact it's the opposite: a good debugger greatly aids in comprehension, since you get to catch corner cases happen in action, and with sufficient context for you to figure out how it'd happened.

There was a time when many developers also don't use a D(VCS) of some sort, for similar reasons. But of course git has a celebrity champion, and so the rest followed. Almost all the excuses from this thread people had raised about not wanting to learn how to use a debugger properly apply to git (and to all D(VCS) to varying extents), but you'd be ridiculed for not using it. IMO debuggers need a similar champion before our opinions change, but alas IIRC Linus himself is not too fond of debuggers...

That said, the state OSS debuggers is terrible, so they're not helping their own cause. Moreover, they are often "buggy" themselves. I put that in quotes because sometimes a "bug" is actually correct, but unintuitive behavior for inexperienced users (pop quiz: how do breakpoints work?), or just poor / nonexistent documentation. Nonetheless, the result is the same, and nothing loses your trust in a tool faster than finding bugs in it while trying to fix your own bugs.
> Tangential, but why do people support Erdogan?

Why do people support Trump?
What that argument achieves is educating people about the dangers of the decisions they make. The alternative is basically "carry on as you were and hope next time it works out."
You might find this article useful: http://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-...

Aaron gave a great talk about his switch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc , which caused several people at work to move off NeoVim and give emacs a go.
>What was unthinkable or even heretical 20-30 years ago is now routine

You can see this with the subsequent breakdown of social structure and monetary philosophy. The masses are reaching harmonization through their own voices rather than having a conductor leading them (politician/bankers/middlemen in general)
I'm confused by this post.

First you say it's not a drug. Then you say that after 2 months without it, you were craving it like an addict and desperate to get it however you could.

From your description, it still sounds like a hedonistic experience.
For chaos to manifest itself you need at least two things. First, the equations of the dynamical system have to be nonlinear. Second, the dimensionality of the systems has to be greater than 3. In quantum mechanics, all the equations are linear, so there is no place for chaos in a strict mathematical sense.
Let's not forget that the comments are being filtered, and only comments that flatter this joker's ego are being accepted.

I think that tells us everything we need to know.
At least the coup leaders and the US State Dept are sending sensible signals. John Kerry's waiting to see who wins before committing (Erdogan frustrates the US, and many assumed the US would try to overthrow him), and the coup leaders are reassuring Turkey's powerful allies.

"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he hopes for stability and continuity in Turkey following reports that an attempted military coup is under way in the NATO member state." (http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-07-15/kerr...)

“Turkish Armed Forces have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and the general security that was damaged,” the military said in a statement. “All international agreements are still valid. We hope that all of our good relationships with all countries will continue.” (https://www.rt.com/news/351343-turkey-coup-military-attempt/)
rkt utilizes systemd-nspawn under the hood, but you need some additional features around that as well. The usage is explained pretty well in the architecture guide: https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/devel/architecture.html
"AutoMicroFarm is an aquaponics garden for your back yard, designed so that your plants are automatically watered and fertilized. The fish feed the plants. The plants clean the water for the fish.

"You get vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans as well as fish for your harvest. I have researched and implemented the best practices of aquaponics so you don't have to. It's easy and convenient to maintain: just plant, prune, harvest, and feed the fish!"

For those like me that hadn't heard of this neat concept yet.

Another quote: "Like solar panels, but for your food: [imagine] being able to produce the majority of your food in your backyard, a few dozen feet from where it would be consumed."

Sounds pretty cool to me.
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In France?! You've got to be kidding.
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What I readwas that those parties have said to Not go on the streets, but that erdogan-fans misread that (maybe intentionally) and tweeted about it, and retweeted, etc. Erdogan said to go on the streets.

It is all a mess with propaganda, stress and confusion everywhere
Or they see the coup as endangering the economic situation which could lead to more job-losses and the like.

Let's be honest, would you support a coup in your country if that meant potentially years of unrest and economic crisis?
Chief open source officer? What does that mean? I'd love to see his job description.
If you're interested in doing this, check out 21 Inc. You can essentially do the same thing, with tutorials on getting set up on EC2, but get paid directly in bitcoin.

https://21.co/learn/deep-learning-aws/

Disclaimer: I work for 21.
Thanks for sharing! Would you mind if I pick your brain a little bit? You can email me (csallen at alum.mit.edu), or I'm happy to chat here anonymously if that's better for you!
These comments really make me ashamed of the HN community.
UK surveillance bill includes powers to limit end-to-end encryption
"Torch everything" is perhaps a poor way to convey you mean "soft delete".
I just thought this was relevant in light of the recent discussion about how to protect yourself in the event your google account is shut down. Sandstorm has an email client as well - and you can 100% control your data.
I wrote a terminal emulator <https://github.com/adamdruppe/terminal-emulator> and use it daily so it is good enough for me at least... clocks in at ~15k lines (including the gui helper lib).

The biggest complexity is dealing with legacy terminals... and you can really just target the handful of xterm features programs actually use and get something working without a huge amount of code.
Yes. There are thousands of 1-man projects that have been abandoned. People here quoting the examples where something starts as a 1-man project and is now super popular just illustrates the wisdom in waiting to see which few of the many actually catch on.

What's the benefit? The benefit is that you aren't left as the 1-man crew maintaining the project after the other 1-man gives up.

Would I use a 1-man backed CSS framework? Probably. But that doesn't mean melicerte is wrong.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/opn
To be fair - we don't look for syntactic correctness of your solution.

Hey, that's great. But the thing is, you never know what you're going to get.

Some interviewers absolutely do insist on 100% syntactical correctness (along with optimal performance on some made up combinatorial problem) -- even though they aren't giving you a shell or IDE to run your code iteratively. Sometimes they won't even give you a decent text editor -- though it may sound ridiculous, it's become very common, of late, for interviewers to ask you to just type directly into a Google Doc -- with variable-width fonts, autocapitalization and other helpful features enabled by default -- even at places where you'd think they really, really ought to know better.

It also make it a point to mute my phone and not to talk unless asked to.

Again, it sounds like you're hip as to the basics of how these sessions should be run, and that's great.

Unfortunately, it's not generally so, out there. Quite a few interviewers seem oblivious to the basics of phone etiquette (using speakerphones with an obvious echo behind them, for example). Or just aren't particularly communicative for one reason or another. And sometimes it turns out the person you're talking to doesn't really know the language you're coding in -- so you have to burn precious minutes explaining the basics of the language to them, along with the solution you're presenting.

That's the fun part about these sessions. You just never know what you're going to get!
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Great idea but a word of warning to others that might try this. If you don't want your fish to die rather horribly, please understand the Nitrogen Cycle (and at least some fish husbandry) and test for it.

For example: https://www.theaquariumwiki.com/The_Nitrogen_Cycle
There was a constructive criticism which got deleted; assuming it was accurate, I thought it was respectful enough.

The project itself is very interesting, and I wish I owned a backyard in which to set up a garden like this.
I not sure that's right.

I was talking about HDP who have posted this on their official twitter:

"There is no way other than embracing democratic politics."

Source:
https://twitter.com/HDPgenelmerkezi/status/75408082363312537...
live coverage on al jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/
No. Erdogan called for people to take to the streets, and within an hour, the airport and bridge were filled with thousands of people waving flags. (From pictures, all male.) That's popular support. The military is not attacking the crowds. The military presence was apparently not that big, concentrating on a few key spots.

A coup has to succeed within the first few hours. Control must be established before opposition mobilizes. If the coup drags on, it fails. Failure is either a loss or a civil war.

Suggested reading: "Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook"[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674737261
One counter example does not detract from the point. A company-backed project is far more likely to last a long time. I could point you to thousands of examples of abandoned 1-man projects.
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Long school days, intensive training and drilling of exercises, exposure to 'advanced' math at a younger age, loads of homework, no free time, better disciplined students, and very little life outside of studying - especially in the later few years of high-school for any student interested in gaining acceptance to a decent university.
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Would you use a 1-man-developed OS on your servers?

Linux is no-longer a 1-man show.
JC, I really appreciate your comment. Your reasons do resonate with me. I will make sure to attend tech resume workshop to translate my resume for the civilian audience.

Did you face any specific challenges when going from bureaucratic environment to corporate? I am not sure about the US Army. I am in the Canadian Army, where we change our position every 2 years. Therefore it doesnt make me specialist in certain position, but I have lot of experience in a leadership role. Is the US Army the same?
An autocorrect failure; sorry. Should have been 'the Knott laws' aka the 'Posse Comitatus Act' of 1878.
It's all about probability.
It's rather unfair to accuse the other person of creating a strawman.

Google was quoted above as calling the service "A safe place for all your files", and deletion is clearly not "safe", and there have been court decisions saying that fine print caveats cannot completely negate the clear English part of the advertising.

Of course, there have been court decisions saying the opposite, too, but that's sufficient for the OP's point to be better than "strawman" material even if, hypothetically, their argument turns out to be incorrect.
Quasi governmental corporations are typically granted special privileges (protected monopolies). If Google doesn't have some arrangement like all blogging must be done on blogspot, they're not quasi government.
No. As another poster, compare it to India which is of a similar size, but has a significantly larger gap in results.

I say it's far more related to culture and attitude.
* We've decided to use JavaScript because the community is there. Go ahead and write an IDE in Haskell - have fun rewriting all the libraries that already exist in JavaScript and soliciting for open source contributions when a tiny fraction of all programmers can understand it.

I love Haskell and lisp, but you have to face the facts.

* TypeScript is actually a good language, and gives pretty darn good correctness guarantees.

* Your benchmark does not test against VSCode, which is much faster than Atom.
His moves certainly show that he doesn't care about anyone but himself and his power. When he arrested parts of the military during their coup practices he created this situation of violence. If he stepped down as more rational PMs did when given hints, he would be living in luxury but in house arrest or exile. The other path is a smaller less official coup, and that ends in his death and longer term instability from the poor and unpredictable transfers of power without the legitimacy of the generals..
EDIT: I was mistaken re: username, apologies.
"template literals" nowadays.

Still no support on IE (desktop|mobile), Android, ios<9
The elections however were a great mess. On the first election on 7th june 15 AKP was 40%, but opposition failed to form coalition and Erdogan abused power as head of state to fill up 45 days w/o a new govt so that elections would be repeated. So happened, elections were to be repeated on 10th november the same year, and in the meantime the war on PKK started, major attacks by ISIS happened, and people feared unstability and voted for AKP. The two of the parties that could have formed a coalition are MHP, the turkish extremist-nationalists, and HDP, kurdish socialist-nationalists, so not all that compatible. Also, the legality of those last elections are doubted. Since the beginnings of this decade, we're an extremely polarised society, with more than two poles, and any issue is extremely complex. This last madness will augment all these problems, and if it fails, it won't be like in the past the same. "A stick with two shitty ends," we say.
Your logo looks almost identical to HackerRank's. I work in the eng recruiting space, so not everyone might think so. But still.
I wish we talked about evolution a bit differently. It's not that "turtles" "evolved" shells. It's that as the population of turtles mutated into various forms, certain ones survived and thrived, and others didn't.
Ads.

Video ads are 99% flash still. even if your platform is html5, nobody will pay if you can't show their flash crap.
It's not the policy per se as much as the agenda and the nationalism.

Humans are tribal creatures.
Increasing resolution makes it _better_, but the same resolution with square RGB arrangements will do a better job for the aforementioned contexts.
I should have known better, but it was intended as a joke.
Sounds more like the US. Turkey's unelected group which intervenes when the elected government violates established norms consists of officers ultimately appointed by (and who can be removed by) the elected organs of government .

Same as in the US, though for us it's the judicial branch rather than the military.

Now, there's a pretty enormous difference, both in abstract structure and practice, between the US and Turkey here, but it's still a close analogy than the Turkey-Iran one, IMO.
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Too early to call, but I'd put my money against the coup succeeding:

Al Jazeera - "Turkey 1st army commander Umit Dundar on TV says army does not support coup". Assuming he's fully in charge there, that represents 120,000 army personnel.

Also the opposition party is anti-coup and plenty of people are on the streets (presumably) in support of the government.
When comments are deleted (i.e. disappear altogether even if 'showdead' is 'yes' in your profile), it means the author deleted it.
Agreed. I'm very surprised it was released at all.
It assumes I have npm installed. Probably shouldn't:

https://github.com/zeit/hyperterm/issues/134
Satire on how the Tesla / SolarCity deal happened
Wow, amazing. Any idea if all these demonstrations are pro / anti the coup?
> the courts have a right to strike down and nullify laws

Notably, this power does not appear in the Constitution. See Marbury v. Madison [1]. (Not that it makes a practical difference, but it is interesting to see how our conception of government powers and the basic government structure changes over time, even without new constitutional amendments.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison
I support Trump. I have no problem with Putin. I find your equivalence of those two men to Hitler to be naive or intentionally inflammatory.

Even given this, I do not, however, intend to quit using tarsnap!
In a way, 52% of British citizens would/did.
The artist can call it art if they want, but it's a two way street.
I'd like to contact you, too, if you see this comment! You can email me here: csallen at alum.mit.edu
Lots of people will support dictator whose dictates they favor over democracy where they might lose, especially if they fear democracy means compromise with our subjugation to people who wish them harm.

Democracy is an abstract ideal that people are less likely to support when it seems to threaten more basic and immediate physical need for themselves or those emotionally close to them.
Have you tried Visual Studio Code with the C++ extension? It adds support for GDB, still some bugs left, but it's not bad.
Looks like the Olympic committee made the right call regarding 2020.
MS Contin pills are very waxy. Snorting them would be a terrible way to use; he'd literally be better off with IV. I don't think it increases BA anyways.
Another good feedback loop is just using a REPL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93prin...
TurkeyBlocks: Mapping Internet Censorship
On mac, slack uses macgap, not electron.
It's almost always users who flag these posts, and they're doing so in accordance with the HN guidelines. Most political stories are off topic.

Occasionally we turn off the flags (like we've done here) because a political story has unusual intellectual interest or historical significance, or because it's so major that there's no keeping it off HN anyhow.
For tmux, do you use something to persist your sessions across a system restart?
Running two identical disks in a RAID, or where the same desk could cave in and sweep them off, seems like it should be covered by "1 offsite" rather than requiring two different types of media.
KB3080149 (the version in the rollup) does say that the new version "Reduces the network connections on a Windows system that doesn't participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)."
Turkey Blocks Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Amid Military Coup
How is this different from crosh / hterm?
Can they not dispense this with existing crop duster aircraft?
The Principle of Least Power (2007)
I love this suggestion! I already contacted couple of veterans who are in the tech industry. Thanks Seymour!
Aight, thanks! Might add it and others in comments to my collection. Need some basic intros before I do the deep stuff.
But mapping and alignment in R? Genome annotation in R? I've worked in 3 institutions with a variety of bioinformaticians and that is something I've never seen. I'd argue that R is an unusual choice for that.

Microarrays yes, but no one (should) really uses those anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I do 50-75% of what I do in R.
I guess the sandwich isn't a cuisine, but as a category, America has lots of wonderful variations of it:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/dining/field-g...

I'd also like to nominate creole/cajun as my favorite American cuisine, NC eastern-style bbq as my favorite bbq, and shrimp and grits (with runner-up chicken and waffles) as my favorite soul food.
Anything related to javascript or web technologies brings out that kind of response in some way, but sometimes the HN crowd takes it overboard.
6. Text me so now I have your phone number in my spam registry.
This is how I read it too. I think op was taking that too literally when they were just stating that the two are essentially equivalent at that scale.
It's tortoises, all the way down.
And Menderes arranging pogroms on minorities and stealing their money was a good thing?
It's certainly a strong reminder that a democracy does not necessarily support liberalism like ours do in the West.

It has to be a core tenant that the population believes in.