skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, it's very slow and clunky, but the real problem is that it attempts to impose a lot of styling and decoration _on top_ of the terminal.

For example, the command prompt isn't just a command prompt, it has this silly chevron decoration with autocomplete functionality. It can probably be turned off in the settings, but I find it to be a really annoying default. It just assumes I don't have my own prompt how I want it or my own autocorrect system.

I have to explicitly disable half the 'features' before I get anything actually useful to work with.
Women in tech is not just a pipeline problem (2015)
Dynamics of change: why reactivity matters
He was reportedly on holiday in Turkey in Marmaris, so maybe they did not know where he was or did not have the man power to capture him.

I wonder how it would have played out if they had captured him. I can even imagine that more people would have protested.
I guess we have to wait and see if this goes pear shaped.

There have not exactly been rejoicing in European media. Not sure if that is a good sign, but I take it as there is little propaganda going on, so this might have been planned primarily by internal forces.
It was high for sure. But others received similar offers. I graduated in 2004, so you have to adjust for that time period where tech was exploding and the economy was recovering post 9/11. Jobs were everywhere.
The monarch can suspend parliament. The monarch can dismiss a prime minister (not happened for > 100 years). The monarch can appoint a new one. Every law has to be signed by the monarch (it's not been refused in 300 years). The monarch is commander in chief.

Power resides where people believe it resides. The monarch can only do any of that if people believe in the monarch.
100% agree that learning focus and persistence was a very valuable result of doing math competitions.

Completely random: If you're who I think you are, I still remember seeing your name on the list of perfect AHSME scores in 1998ish. I think we met briefly at an ACM competition in '03 (we played Mafia for a while in a big group, and were briefly introduced by Po-Shen Loh who was one of my ACM teammates.)
>switches back and forth

You make me sick
Won't get fooled systematically (2010)
Ask HN: What books are similar to YDKJS, but in other languages/topics?
Interesting, another link between classical thermodynamic processes, and quantum processes involved in non-locality. Speculation as to the nature of the arrow of time being a result of decoherence, and now a link between the behavior of entangled ensembles and chaotic systems thermalizing.
Exactly. Look for a full-scale purge of the military, which might include punishing/shooting a lot of people who had nothing to do with anything.

It could take Turkey back 110 years. Very sad.
If you haven't internalized whatever working principles you are using enough that you can stop keeping the handbook at your side, you're probably not ready to carry out a coup. However well chosen those principles are for the task...
I highly recommend this episode, if for no other reason than to hear a bunch of architects in the mid 20th century bullshit about silly problems. It really shows you how little people have really changed fundamentally in the past century.
All three are terrible populists. Two have fought offensive wars. Only one is responsible for a genocide.

I am indecisive whether or not one should compare people other than Stalin and the like to Hitler. It intoxicates the whole conversation but if you focus on his roots it is a pretty good argument why populism in itself is always bad.
This is awesome. I'm a garden newb...what is this doing that is better than a conventional garden bed?
How have I heard so much about facebook livestreams but never actually seen this link? This is incredible.
Yes, take David Graeber, who's written extensively on Turkey and the extraordinary revolutionary Kurds: https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/700436062469038080 and https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/754071680977399808

(Regardless of particulars — did the US initiate it? support it? simply signal they'd stand back and let a friendly coup happen? — he has a good predictive mental model.)
The revolution will be televised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw
New Story (S15 Nonprofit) Is Hiring for Growth Director
When an entity has a formal governance structure, elected leaders, armed security forces, issues its own bonds, negotiates directly with foreign governments, and has a "GDP" greater than most nations, it has a lot more in common with governments than it does with a typical private business.

This phenomenon of "private" corporations amassing the power of governments without the responsibilities of governments is a relatively new chapter in history and still needs to be sorted out.
Axon Framework is an implementation of 'classic' event sourcing. This one is geared towards late domain binding.
Black Screen is a shell as well as a terminal. This is just a terminal.
The coup is over.

https://twitter.com/AJENews/status/754108743412047872?ref_sr...

The US announced support for the government where before they were hedging their bets.
There is nothing that is perfectly safe, nor perfectly smooth, nor perfectly white, nor perfectly anything.

That doesn't mean that words mean nothing, just because absolutes generally don't exist.

In this case, a "reasonable person" (which is often the litmus test that courts use) might well think that "A safe place for all your files" means that Google will take reasonable precautions to keep your files safe, within reason, given current technology and economics and practices.

Unilaterally deleting things without notice and without recourse absolutely does not fit that sort of reasonable definition, although it may well be legal nonetheless for various reasons.

And regardless of all that, there still is no reason to accuse the OP of a strawman argument, which is kind of rude unless there is a truly strong reason for it -- that's the primary thing I'm arguing, not about philosophical absolutes nor even legality.
I wish they would do this for people in our flyover states.
Metaballs are great! Here's demo I wrote a while back that does them, but in a slightly hacky way for performance reasons (and it performs pretty well!) http://codepen.io/thomcc/pen/vLzyPY

Basically, each "ball" is a 2d gradient texture, i render them all to a framebuffer, and then do a postprocessing pass which applies a threshold (not strictly binary so as to get some antialiasing) to the gradient, rendering the isosurface.

(And I also have a 3D pen, which does the more legit marching-cubes approach: http://codepen.io/thomcc/pen/NGmmPB )
Google had an Oculus competitor in the works – but it nixed the project
I actually just saw this post on Wednesday: "Writing a Shell in 25 Lines of Ruby Code"[1].

[1] http://www.blackbytes.info/2016/07/writing-a-shell-in-ruby/
Are you on OS X? LLDB might work a bit better there than on other platforms.
You might be speaking too soon.

The media is reporting his plane landed at an airport a few minutes ago, so if it is in the hands of the military then he will be captured.

Time like this though, don't believe anybody or anything you hear, including me.
Pokémon Go Craze Sweeps Nvidia  Silicon Valley Campus
How Engineers Create Auto Grade Chips That Function Up to 105C
Released on a Friday (like every bad press announcement) and also while the news is saturated with the French attack in Nice. I guess they really hope no one pays much attention.
And if you really want to optimize your system and reduce suffering, eliminate the fish. Spend a fraction of your fish food money on fertilizer instead.
Removing the human element from autonomous commercial drones
I'm just saying that it's never a sure thing, not that the opposite is always true.
Sure, when you have an army backing you up.

Do you think a revolution would be televised in Russia or China without the army's support?

Even in the U.S., it would probably be covered as "terrorists trying to take over the White House" or whatever.
> Are you seriously comparing hitler with trump and putin?

You're missing the point entirely. The parent post wasn't saying Hitler is like Trump and Putin, but rather uses them all as examples of charismatic political leaders.

> Holy crap some people are truly indoctrinated by their ideologies to the point of no return.

This seems like a rather extreme conclusion to jump to.
co-founder of fileee.com here(we do that for a living :) ). I can tell you that in general adaptivethreshold is better, because it is less error prone against low contrast situations and missing edges. That said there are also cases where canny performs better. That's why we actually decided to use a machine learning approach to decide when to use what. There are even more things one can do to improve the detection(e.g. hough tranform to find edges or use variance or fft to assest whether possible "document" candidates are just garbage rectangles or real documents.)
Historically there have been many countries / communities that have used local currencies and private issues of money to enable spending.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency

This was especially common during times of economic hardships: wars and famines. Ex. Russian revolution, the pogroms. Things used were food vouchers, lottery tickets, checks and obligations all sorts of things.
> You mean secularism? It only rejects religion as part of the state or education. You can do whatever you want in private environments

I'm a fan of secularism, and am an Atheist. And I also strongly disapprove of how some Islamic groups treat women.

However, from here in the UK, France seems strangely, even oddly intolerant. Muslim religious dress is banned in public.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering

Now; I disapprove of forcing women to wear that sort of dress on religious grounds. In fact, I find it obnoxious (although, aside, Western society seems to expect women to wear makeup and look "good" at all times... so are we any better?).

However, I'm not sure banning the dress is a good solution - akin to punishing the victim...
Yes and if you gave everyone a free sandwich they'd probably eat it too, but if you do that you can't then say "but you asked for a free sandwich" when you reveal that you actually captured everyone's personal details for advertising purposes.
OK so this looks awesome and I had half a dozen ideas for things I'd like to do with it in about 30 seconds. Is anyone using it? Would love to hear from some experienced commentors.
Whaou I just realized for the first time that this company is named after the Darude's one and only hit.
Reduce contrast between foreground and background closer to paper; purpose-designed themes like Solarized [1] are very handy at this.

Center text in a pleasant typeface, with limited column width, like Medium does [2], or the Firefox reading mode.

[1] http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

[2] (Example) https://medium.com/@Svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-m...
It's like Growth hacking for this city. They subsidize the immigrants, in exchange the immigrants are forced to grow the local economy. These migrants could get this money anyways, but 1) the town hides the latency for them. and 2) they actually give more freedom to the migrants on how to spend that money.

As long as the migrants don't get robbed and are fine with living there, they're better off with this system.
The AutoMicroFarm is now open-source
Does this OS provide building blocks for collaborative applications? Or does every app have to reinvent collaborative editing?

Update: Okay, so I created a flowchart in one instance, then shared the link, and opened it in another tab. Edited the flowchart in one tab, but it didn't change in the other tab. This is imho not how a cloud OS should work.

But the container technology seems quite cool.
(I meant "north bay" to include SF/Oakland/Berkeley, as opposed to the south bay; not so much to go to Marin.)

That's interesting. I would have guessed half that number -- although if you count each country in the central and south Americas, including island nations like Cuba, isn't that roughly just one restaurant per country?

Also, bottom line, I'm pretty sure that 20 is quite dwarfed by the number of Mexican restaurants in the Bay Area. Perhaps even if we only counted taquerias, which seem to pop up almost once per block in some areas.

Thanks for making an actual numeric estimate.

> I don't really think of the north bay (or the peninsula) as culinary destinations, but SF and the east bay are great for food.

Agreed, although note that some good restaurants (if not Michelin-starred) tend to be sparse, rather than nonexistent, in some of those more deprived cities.

And even Michelin stars can be found in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park, Woodside, Saratoga and Los Gatos, which surprises many people.
Our motivation would just be supporting both to the end user. I'm imagining a single Kube cluster with Pachyderm running on it and users can specify their jobs as either Docker containers or rkt containers. Ofc this use case is only as real as the users desire to specify their jobs in both formats on the same cluster which I haven't validated.

Maybe a more realistic use case is that it would allow us to specify our Pachyderm containers in rkt and still support Docker for users jobs.
Culture can be affected by draconian laws also. I believe religious clothing designed to oppress women is regressive and detrimental to Democracy. Please read this:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/03/hengame...
I always forget how this sophism is called: "Does not make sense to do x, because y is much worse.", when in reality you can do both. Can someone please help me out?
Probably because the monarchy isn't elected and so might maintain some ability to persevere through times when the population might make poor decisions. Also immune to bad elections.
This looks very useful.

I noticed that an "anonymous underlying currency" is required for "Unidirectional payment channels" at the bottom of page 5. This is not required for the other techniques such as "Bidirectional payment channels".
With Turkish politics, nuance is the name of the game. The nuance that's missing from that paragraph is in the next one:

> But what is not clear yet in the latest coup is whether it fits the same pattern of secular Kemalists clamping down on Islamism. There is speculation that the coup’s leaders may in fact be loyal to Fethullah Gulen, an enigmatic Muslim leader who’s currently in exile in Pennsylvania—that’s certainly what Erdogan claimed in his FaceTime address to the nation. Gulen is a former Erdogan ally who was essential to his rise, but the men have since broken.
Agree. Here is a White House petition urging for better job portability for people on H-1B stuck in decade-long long GC backlog: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/no-respite-highly-... . Please consider signing if you feel strongly about this.
Is this definitely a good thing?

It seems like Rome has provided a cash stipend to immigrants, but the local government has intervened and restricted the immigrant's purchasing choices. For example, this could be bad for the recipients if local shopkeepers had significantly higher prices than online retailers or if they charged a premium for extending this credit.

I see the benefits as well, which seem to be well represented in the other comments so far. I'd be interested to see whether this actually helps everyone in practice.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8972066

As a marketer, I am all for launches, re-launches and marketing, but it's unclear to me what's different now compared to a year ago.
> It's really an unintended side effect of the jury system, since jurors have to be immune from any punishment or the system wouldn't work.

or in other words, an intended side-effect.
How is your anti-type of liberalism any different from how non-liberals are treated in western countries? Non-liberals are increasingly not tolerated by liberals (see recent SJW issues) the world over and increasingly face heavy fines/punishment if they don't follow the liberal culture.
To add to that there's a large interest from currency collectors.

Some interesting issues were money in Jewish ghettos / concentration camps during wwii
I forget, what's the name of this OS?
A Method for Password-Less Authentication
Australian electricity company will give you Tesla charging for $1 a day
not to mention better wire protocol and driver compatibility without a rewrite.
PR puff piece. Plenty of boasting about how reliable their auto chips are and how auto chips must be reliable, but little about the techniques or possible failure modes.
The Turkish CNN studio was taken by soldiers
Newt Gingrich: Merely Visiting an ISIS or Al Qaeda Website Should Be a Felony
The idea of using drones to drop something helpful...

What would the world look like now if for the past 15 years drones had been dropping computers, medicine, water purifiers, seeds, etc.? How many millions of parachute-fitted, protective boxes worth of these things could we have dropped for the same amount spent on war?
It's by far the least painful way to use ShareLaTeX and Jupyter I've seen.
Looks like OP literally plagiarized the code in that article (and changed one or two variable names) without giving credit. Really bad form...
Maybe this is the moment in history turkey is becoming coup-proof (a.k.a. next-level maturity).

(if even opposition groups speak out against the coup and the people are taking over the streets peacefully - in favor of the government / against the coup, according to the news I get)
I've built several aquaponics systems in my backyard (currently around 800 gallons worth) and have helped build out several others for other people.

I have some constructive criticism about these designs.

1) Sand does not allow water to flow quickly enough and makes it more difficult for oxygen to get to the roots. You might end up with anaerobic zones in the grow bed. Use a grow media that is bigger (pebbles and/or hydroton are good options). Make sure the pebbles are not sharp though, you want smooth or rounded. Your hands and your grow bed liner will thank you.

2) Timing circuitry adds complexity and another point of failure, just make it run continuously. Pumps for a backyard scale aquaponics system don't consume that much electricity.

3) Depending on stocking density you may want to aerate the water so your fish don't die. Air stones work, but running the pump continuously and agitating the surface of the water will do far more.

4) Don't put the pump in the fish tank. Ideally use a sump tank that the water overflows from the fish tank into a sump tank that is lower. If you have to put the pump in the fish tank, make sure it is not at the bottom of the tank, put it about 1/4 to 1/2 way down the tank. That way if a tube springs a leak, or if the grow beds don't drain and overflow, or any other unforeseen failure comes up, you don't pump all the water out of your fish tank and kill them.

5) No need for PEX. Just stick with simple 1/2" PVC. They are cheaper and more common. Especially the fittings. PVC is perfectly safe for aquaponics. People bring up safety concerns but they are unfounded. The concerns for PVC safety are when using high pressure or hot water (neither of which is a concern with aquaponics).

6) Read up on fishless cycling to prepare the water before putting in the fish. If you use ammonia make sure it is just ammonia (no bleach or perfumes). You can speed up the cycling if you get something that has the nitrifying bacterial already. You can buy solutions that contain bacteria or just get it from an existing system / pond.

7) Get the pH dialed in before adding the fish. The nitrifying bacteria like a pH of around 8 for optimal growth but once they are establish, move the pH to the ideal balance for your plants / fish. The nitrifying bacteria will grow fine at any pH once fish are introduced so setting the pH to 8 while cycling is really only an optimization to speed up bacteria colonization.

8) Once fish are added, move the pH very slowly (ideally only 0.2 pH per day). Sudden pH changes are harmful for your fish.
You can use hyperscript instead of JSX, no need to transpile anything, no need for webpack
I couldnt agree more, for almost 2 years now I've alocated 20-25% of my post tax income to savings.
I had to change my life style for a bit but for the most part for the better (e.g. I cook 95% of my meals now) everyone i told this too responded by sayingn something like: wow you are really smart with money and how brave bla bla. The truth is I'm not smart I don't invest the money like some stock market shark I'm just lucky enough to be able to afford to do give up on 20%+ of my income.
Saving money isn't a question of intelligence or even will for most people it's a pure issue of affordability.
https://www.quora.com/What-explains-the-Chinese-domination-a...
Almost all Sandstorm apps support real-time collaboration. It sounds like you tested draw.io, which unfortunately is one of the few that currently does not.

Sandstorm does not dictate what tech stack you use -- it supports any server stack that runs on Linux. Supporting real-time collaboration is normally the job of your tech stack. If you use Meteor, for example, you'll pretty much have it by default.

Sandstorm does make real-time collaboration easier to operate at scale through fine-grained containerization: each "document" runs in a separate container as a separate instance of the app. Sandstorm ensures that there is never more than one instance running for a particular document, so you don't have to worry about concurrent writes coming from another machine. Scalability is achieved by distributing the documents across machines.

https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works
"tough on crime" is not the same as "abandon due process".

I challenge your view that jurors and voters would approve of abandoning due process. Sure they wanted convictions of criminals. But not at the cost of faked confessions, lying under oauth, false testimony by law enforcement. It's easy to see that leads to chaos. No one signed up for that, except the watchmen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101474
Huh, I had no idea that cropduster aircraft were so versatile, I just thought they had tanks and sprayers. Thanks for the info.
Venezuela's coup that ousted Chavez, and had the people reinstate him, might be a fair comparison. The returning leader will have a carte blanche for future politics.
Please forive the lenthy disclaimer/preamble: I very strongly believe that when we consider some subset of a person's words or their work - that we should treat it on its own merits, and not contaminated with tangential arguments about the person themself or their other, unrelated words, claims, works, etc.

So I mentioned my position (that he is an embarrassment) to make clear to the parent poster that I wasn't defending ESR per se - before immediately declaring that our shared distaste of ESR is not relevant to the discussion. I'm replying out of courtesy, since you asked, but I don't think discussing negative aspects of ESR is relevant to the larger topics here.

> more authentic explanation of these ethos (cause, frankly, I though that ESR did a good job there)?

I think ESR's comments on the hacker ethos are just fine. His other positions and writing in no way detracts from this. I think there are many places where ESR did 'a good job'.

> is there something that I missed completely?

I don't have any fair or balanced sources to share with you, but if you'd like to see links cherry picked by people who have a heavy anti-ESR bias, you can check out the not-so-rational "rationalwiki". I don't endorse nor agree with all that's said here, but it sheds light on why some people dislike ESR.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond#Footnotes

Edit: A more concise summary is found in this person's views: http://cal-harding.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-i-hate-eric-raym...

Also, see daveloyall's comments on this page. I don't fully agree with him either, but they are illuminating.