skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As have stated other film critics [1] this documentation takes a rather one-sided approach in that it's basically the fault of the west (and of the USSR).

It seem to lack fact checking and leaves out one of the main issues surrounding modern arabic history: the delayed formation of nation-states and the threat modernism posed to existing, usually aristocratic power structures.

Specifically Saudi-Arabia felt threatened by movements like Pan-Arabism and Ba'athism and used religeous radicalism as an ideology to counter them.

Yes, the cold-war factions quickly found their adversaries on either side but it doesn't take a grain away from the pile of guilt the Saudi Establishment has amassed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Lake_(film)#Reception
Brexit spurs 10 London startups to enquire about move to Berlin
Ever since I installed it on my work laptop, it's been crashing the file manager every few days, requiring a reboot. Sometimes more often.

I've been refraining from installing it on a bunch of other PCs since then.
I find it hilarious, when you don't hit a donkey and it says "Donkey lost".
I picked up the first Wheel of Time book and dug in. Wondering how many books there were I found myself on Amazon.

To find out that someone else finished the series. What!? Who was this guy? What has he done? So I searched for that. Mistborn, what's this?

The Robert Jordan situation is how I found Brandon Sanderson. I've since read all of his original novels (not Infinity Blade nor Wheel of Time — I still haven't gone back after finding Sanderson) and just started my fourth re-reading of the original Mistborn trilogy. I absolutely love it.

To me, the "Robert Jordan situation," though sad, has brought me many, many hours of joy.

That said, with the exception of Sanderson's Stormlight Archive (because he is an absolute writing machine), I'm done reading books in long series that haven't been finished yet. Besides, there's plenty of great stuff out there that's finished that's waiting for me to find.
I've used DOT and then used LibreOffice Impress to overlay text on the resulting image. It's not fast, not fully automated, but after a little practice I find it fast and effective to produce clean, one-off diagrams.

DOT could be used with more annotations than I use, getting the base diagram and then annotating it "by hand" seems fastest.
I don't think salty is the right word. Salt implies some kind of frustration and I don't think that's accurate here.

I'd call it an honest, judgmental article.
> How is forcing the guy to sign away his voting rights while he was in the hospital legal?

Well, the concern from the standpoint of the other parties would that he would die, and his voting rights pass on to someone completely non-technical and/or non-entrepreneurial. I can see that it makes perfect sense to protect themselves against that eventuality.

Maybe it'd be better to have terms to convert to non-voting shares at death or permanent incapacity, with voting rights to be exercised in proportion to the other votes cast during temporary incapacity. But that could definitely get hairy too.
The greed that people talk about when they say that greed is good (by way of Wall Street, the 1987 movie) is, though.

Also, a great many uses of the word in (lazy) criticism of markets and capitalism is that too.
When I lived in Rochester they were constantly knocking down empty buildings for tax savings. I'm pretty sure they ended up tearing down most of the buildings and sold a lot of the land.
It seems like SoftBank is very willing to do deals with very little due diligence (based on some, uh, experience).

In this case, at this size, my guess is they've been keeping tabs on ARM for a long time and maybe decided to just pull the trigger with Brexit going on.
I really appreciate your reply TechJuice (cool name). I was thinking of using my security clearance as an advantage with the government contractors! I will check these agencies!
I can imagine adding "undo" to a 137,000 line assembly application was not easy.
SoftBank do wonderful commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcvRLKO_pU
I have used IRC in some open source projects for a good number of years. Before that I hadn't heard anyone (within the set of developers I worked with) even talk about it. To me, it seems like it's one of those things which is too nerdy that most developers haven't even tried it in their day to day communication. Till date, I haven't seen any of the companies I have worked or known about, use IRC as their internal or support communication tool.

Just to be clear, I don't hate IRC - to me it's just another "chat" tool and it serves its purpose most of the times. One of the things that I would have liked in it, is in-built support for some kind of formatting for lengthy texts like logs etc... We used to use (and still do), external text hosting sites like pastebin, gist etc to share such logs/code snippets, which I never liked.
I guess the issue is that many people did not know Google was already collecting their history.

Also, in my opinion there is a difference between collecting data and exploiting said data. You can store items at your friend's place, but you might not want your friend to look into the stuff you stored (for instance, your high school diary).

So you might be fine with Google storing your history (it's better for you when you want to retrieve the website you visited last week), but you might have concerns with this data being actually used by Google.
I went to other way. Did mac for about 7 years and became increasingly frustrated with the bloat and stagnant os. Jumped to Win 10 for about 6 weeks before Ubuntu. Didn't mind win 10, just wasn't where i was at.
Why SoftBank Is Spending $32B on ARM
"Eventually Word Perfect rose to the top based on its superior support program"

Wordstar 2000 wasn't bad, and was far more accessible than Wordperfect that had a distinctly unfriendly learning curve for non techies. Many never took to Wordperfect as you had to learn its codes and it wasn't even WYSIWYG. Even when it became so it was grudgingly and only sort-of.

Wordstar floundered around for a decade seemingly with no idea where they were going. That they survived at all through that period is surprising and speaks of the success of the earlier product.
And AFAIK they aren't by default.
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Seriously? I've ready almost every story on folklore.org, and this is the only instance I can remember where he puts anyone down -- it sticks out in my memory for that very reason.
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Yes you could use a custom allocator except that changes the type of the std::vector - making a large ripple in our code base.

I have not solved it yet. The best solution - don't use std::vector for anything critical.
Is michaelochurch still getting upvoted there? I used to enjoy lobste.rs, but seeing yet another heavily upvoted rant about "open-plan agile mouthbreathing drones" or similar would ruin my whole morning.
Does this mean that now Java-based GUI software (e.g. Android Studio) run using OpenJDK will display much better fonts?
Does that also work for the Android build? Sounds like an incentive to finally try out sync...
Yes, very good work, indeed. I sidebar-ed it in the Vulkan subreddit.
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I wish I were as driven now as I was back then. I used to sit for HOURS writing little programs with that horrible PRGM navigation menu. Nowadays I get upset when my color scheme isn't perfect.
tl;dr: Literate programming language.
A Mac, a trackpad and 2-finger zoom using the CTRL key modifier.
maybe yed is something for you: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

Inkscape is THE open-source vector editor and probably better suited than GIMP. Also useful to retouch/modify vectors graphics created with other tools, e.g. yed or LibreOffice
In the past I've set up Windows in a VM to run Visio. Their default UML glyphs require a ton of fidgeting to put together, but there are some good third-party glyphs that don't require you to program your diagrams.

For online tools I've used Lucidchart most extensively, and I much prefer it to Visio.
Yes I am in proecisely this situation. It made me realize how political the c++ std library authorship is.
I search my porn in incognito mode too
Service Fabric contains a virtual actor model based programming API called reliable actors.
SF reliable actors are different from Orleans in many ways. The placement strategy in SF is based on consistant hashing and some Orleans features are not there. Other than that, it is a new member in SF family and is not as battle tested as Orleans.

Orleans is open source and can be used inside SF as well and it's being involved rapidly.

SF has other things like service life-cycle management, state replication and reliable collections to use which are replicated automatically so it's not something directly comparable to Orleans, currently using Orleans in SF can give you all Orleans goodness with additional SF features like service upgrade, rollback, reliable collections and ...
Compiling the standard PHP test code to .NET
I think you want to use commas to set off "in Western Europe". I think it's referred to as an "aside".
This says more about the prediction process than it does about Windows 10. Overly optimistic sales projections are a dime a dozen.
From what I can see pretty much every analysis of something like the recent war in Afghanistan has its own perspective and it's only by reading different accounts that you can get any idea of what actually happened.

[e.g. I've read multiple accounts of the "why can't the Paras install a washing machine in a hospital" incident - each from wildly different perspectives].

I guess this need to get different perspective might be obvious to trained historian - but my degree is in CS :-)
I think in theory it is possible by unary encoding attributes of the five houses then defining the appropriate weights according to the constraints.

In practice it might not be possible to map the resulting graph on the D-Wave's architecture, I can't find any good documentation on the D-Wave though.
xkcd Phone 4
This is also my experience.

And this is the second reason I use an ad-blocker everywhere.
The first reason is that I can't stand being always tracked.
I could have swore this used to be a feature on Twitter years back and they took it out. Am I crazy?
Top 5 old school games for all mobile devices
Bezos is a person of color?
So 3 decades ago the autopilot could already keep the car in the current lane but was not able to avoid the unicorn^W donkey? Drivers need to remain engaged and aware!
Xerox derives much of its income from contracts rather than selling printers directly. They rent you the printer and charge you per page printed.

Source: worked tech support for better part of the 2000's and had to get Xerox printers on our networks often. Spent a lot of time updating settings when the contracts renewed and new printers were leased.
Every time I try I find either bronze or silver. Graphical glitches in five year old games aren't "bleeding edge DX" problems.
Brexit could cut London house prices by more than 30%
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Those are very old games...
Intel already sells 18-core processors, granted they are server chips, not desktop chips.
I don't remember much automated testing being done in those early days of PHP, and I don't see how your theory would explain the current trend back towards typed languages.
> You have to inherit from Akka.net classes, which makes me very nervous from a testing standpoint.

How do classes make you nervous? Testing support is one of the strongest parts of akka (see Akka.TestKit) - you can even simulate things like networks delays or VM shutdowns.

> Persistence still confuses me after reading it 5 times.

Yes for people not familiar with concepts of eventsourcing, Akka.Persistence can be enigmatic indeed. But you're not forced to do eventsourcing when using Akka.
Is full-time work bad for our brains?
Islam obviously doesn't equal jihad as proven by >1000 years of history, but do you think civil rights are "on Iran's curriculum", to pick a Muslim country as far from Saudi Arabia both religiously and politically as possible?
> And yeah, anything's better than Mongo :)

Yeah I guess keeping to their comfort zone while keeping a sense of superiority is easier :)
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If you have Clover installed, that may be the issue.

As soon as I uninstalled it, no more problem.

One of my friends also had Clover installed, but he had no problems.
What do you mean by the 'maximum number of attributes that matched'? How is it different from the number of conditions that are satisfied?
One of them is a case of GIGO, using "36 years ago" as input when the correct value is 35. Fixing that reduces it to two values, and the discrepancy is down to day versus year granularity.
> The greed that people talk about when they say that greed is good (by way of Wall Street, the 1987 movie) is, though.

Thing is, you can't reduce the pursuit of self interest to accumulating wealth. Therefore, even if we accept the definition of greed as merely pursuing wealth, we misunderstand Smith's quote and fail to acknowledge many sources of creativity. By disproportionately rewarding greed and not other work incentives, we build a society for the few that are driven by it, at the expense of most, and ultimately, we cannot thrive.
You can cite me.
We have stricter (non-CO2) emissions standards and differing safety standards which result in lower fuel efficiencies.
> Firefox Sync encrypts your data with a password-derived key so that Mozilla can't even see your browsing history.

Not quite true: the JavaScript (!) that derives the key is served from mozilla.org; at any time they could choose or be compelled to alter it so that all users' passwords, or a single targeted user's password, is sent to Mozilla or anywhere else.

The new Sync protocol is an abomination; the old one was actually secure; the new one is snake oil.
You might be thinking of a similar hack someone made for Instagram. Instagram ended up shutting it down.
The last line of the article was quite interesting: President Katsuhiko Ochi continues to inspire employees to make new designs and hull forms that cannot be copied by other companies.
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Incognito mode?
Hey, I've even seen one of those!
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Do these lists to default to Private or Public? Want to experiment with this but don't want to send out notifications (if that applies here).
Sales? It was free. They can't give it away.
That depends on how Softbank manages the acquisition. If they keep the company separate and just keep cashing in dividends, I don't see the problem. Softbank afaik is also very much focused on the Japanese market only.
What does this comment have to do with the parent?
I'm on Ubuntu. The installation isn't really fresh any more, but on a fresh installation, Firefox was sluggish. I only have 4gb RAM, but that seems acceptable for chrome.

Could you ELI5 Chromium's license to me? Is the whole thing open source, or just part? Can I build the whole thing myself, or does it rely on Google's magical binaries?

EDIT: also, smooth scrolling. If there's something that ruins my day is going on a browser with smooth scrolling. First world problems.

EDIT2: also, I'm struggling to remove add-ons. I know I have pocket installed because I see its icon on the top right, but it's showing up neither on Extensions nor on Plugins. Proof: http://i.imgur.com/ShUW5CK.png

EDIT3: manage to turn off smooth scrolling. Firefox is now skipping frames. Some times there's no difference (for example in google.com Firefox scrolls as well as Chrome.) Some times there's is a clear difference (for example, http://en.flossmanuals.net/chromium/ch008_installing-chromiu... Chrome is really smooth, while in Firefox there's noticeable jerking). Some times the experience is really REALLY bad (example, imgur)
You're not. There was a little button on profile pages that did exactly this. I remember them removing it in a hurry when people took notice.
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If I imagine a completely open world with no visas I think the "first world" would stop being desirable. USA and Europe would be flooded with hundreds of millions of people and would develop giant slums. It would be bad not only for the current people that live there but also for the people that currently want to move to a better place since there wouldn't be a better place to move to.
> Mozilla cannot decrypt and read your data.

Completely false: they can if they want to. All they have to do is serve a new login page to you which transmits your password as well as the derived key. They control the login page, they control the JavaScript which derives the key. They can do it at any time, invisibly.

This is different from trusting them to make a trustworthy browser, because you download the browser once, while you may download the login page and associated JavaScript every time you login. They could target you, or all of their users, just once, or for a limited amount of time; unless you inspect the HTML & JavaScript source every single time you use your Firefox account you cannot be certain that they aren't being evil.

Firefox Sync is unacceptable for password — or any other private data — storage. This is a pity, since the old protocol was very suitable.
I always favored contextual ads. I turned off the ad networks once they started badgering me for things I was not looking for anymore, by disabling 3rd party internet cookies.
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I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted so badly. The top comments to the linked article are about how atrocious MS has been in force-upgrading / no upgrade control / no-option telemetry. I think this is a primary reason MS won't meet their goal. By all other measures and reviews it is a top notch OS. The fact that they are using shady tactics with this OS to start vendor lockin and to jumpstart their only-by-subscription options is why people are jumping ship to the viable alternatives.
I think this says more about Microsoft's changed mobile strategy than any deficiencies in the OS. Earlier they were planning to keep pushing mobile and making new devices. Now they've given up. 350 million PCs in just less than a year is no joke.
There is a great bike path from Windsor to Greeley and as of about two summers ago, there was a big chunk of Kodak land and a handful of largish buildings near it. Think square miles of land maybe.

It looks like they had a rec center, deals with a local farmer to grow a crop on some their land, all the perks of a big old 20th century company, it's also a pretty great location.
Any one think they are cutting off the free upgrade at the deadline?
^KD
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Oh drat. Complete brain fart, you are completely right - that's embarrassing!
The US has been in perpetual war ever since its founding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
Interesting. The author is proposing we team humans with machines. It will certainly happen, but it doesn't solve the deeper problem of technological unemployment when one person with one robot can do the work of 20.

I think a solution for the problem is for groups of people to associate and create non-profit "caregiving corporations" which will have the purpose to provide for their members. Such a corporation could buy land and cultivate for food, have repair shops for cars and other equipment, a hospital, a school, could invest and buy properties around the world for tourism (for members), and many other services.

As robots begin to replace humans, caregiving corporations should invest in robotics to capitalize on this technology in the name of the people. That's how people could have easier access to the benefits of the new technologies.

Otherwise, there will be big multinational corporations with big automated factories and people will be at the mercy of the government, having nothing to offer to employers. At least in the past everyone had his work to offer in exchange for a living wage. Not any more. So regular people need to own capital instead.
Apathy of the Commons
I'm not sure where you get that from. The leave arguments were emotional, the remain arguments were rational. Emotional arguments always win.
Expect it more in the future. Continuum and Continuity are just those very small attempts at bringing more data portability across technologies.
RE: PPS

Your link says that infringement is a type of dilution. Therefore, no dilution means no infringement.

Also note my other response to this comment: 1125(a) explicitly only includes commercial use.

Again, the US government has only the authority to regulate interstate commerce (ie. trade [hence, trademark]).
I'll just say this: never forget who created the house of Saud in the first place. They were puppets from the start and still are.
There's a project called Orleankka which lets you use Orleans and virtual actors with Akka style messaging:

https://github.com/OrleansContrib/Orleankka
And the write-ups drives lots of traffic to their blog which could be monetized. Additionally they can get speaking engagements from it.

Saw a talk on bug bounties a while ago. The people getting the most bounties are on India.
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Yep , but that was 20+ years ago (plus apparently the UK succeeded in steering the EU as separate from the eurozone; that's why it's not rallying countries NOT to join the euro ). The Brexit debate was not really about euro, however, it was all about immigration.
I read another article that said that the failure to reach this metric was due to the lack of sales of Win10 on phones.

When I tried a pre-Win10 Lumia in a store I actually found it very impressive, but I heard that the Win10 mobile launch had a rocky start. It seems strange to me that Microsoft was pushing for universal apps, and now that it's close enough to finally happening they've given up on mobile.

Somewhat offtopic, but I wonder if performing the Win10 upgrade itself is scary for users. For instance, on a relatively new i5 laptop the upgrade left the screen entirely black for long periods of time. It also says things like "your files are exactly where you left them" with a color changing background; for me I know that Windows must still be installing, but for an average user (like my dad) he had no clue what was going on at that point and thought that the install had failed since it was stuck on that screen for multiple minutes.

Edit: I swear that I read the article, since the article itself mentions mobile. I just haven't had any caffeine yet...
Whether you considered it or not has nothing to do with whether it's a failure, because Microsoft set a goal post of 1 billion installs by 2018. :P
How is a scheduled shutdown (2016-08-31) a "torpedoing"?
To be fair a prediction of unrest in the middle east/Africa doesn't require much insight. I predict there will be unrest for the next 50 years at least.
I got married only two year ago yet Gmail keeps showing me ads about meeting mature singles (I'm not even 30) near me. Maybe it's because of all the viagra spam I get?
no, you are thinking about it wrong. housing as a whole rises at the rate of inflation. The particular house you purchase can easily rise not at the rate of inflation but less, due to depreciation and idiosyncratic factors. If you want to invest in housing, then buy reits or invest in private real estate funds. That doesn't have to involve buying a house. As to the bust, it is only atypical if you think about housing in isolation. If you think about it as just one of many assets trading in the economy, then you will realize that busts in asset prices occur all the time, so it's not some sort of one off that can never happen.
Could we fix the title?