skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the theorists are saying something more subtle happened. Either of:

a) A coup-credible general or two or three, would have been bribed to trigger it, so that Erdogan could identify his enemies red-handed. The rest of the plotters in the army would have been under the impression a real coup was happening. This would explain the quick surrender of the bridge soldiers without a fight, because the horrible reality that they had been duped would have dawned upon them.

Or possibly more likely:

b) Noises and rumours were discretely circulated by his agents that Erdogan was preparing a large purge. This is credible because it is reported the list of all the 3000 judge firings, for example, was pre-prepared (as you would expect with such a large number). Tactical leaks to the right people of would have forced an immature half-baked coup plan hastily and prematurely to be executed, in panic and to protect themselves pre-emptively from said purge. This is the scenario where Erdogan basically raised the stakes in order to call their bluff, and thus flushed his enemies out into the open.

Personally I find the consequences of this "coup" to be much too neatly convenient for Erdogan, the purge too pre-meditated in appearance and logistically well organised, for the finger of prime suspicion not to point directly at him.
You are essentially calling someone a liar, because their opinion differs from your own. Not cool.

People have different opinions on Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged, even people who have read it. Deal with it.
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From Wikipedia:

Some houses in the town of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau are divided between the two countries. At one time, according to Dutch laws restaurants had to close earlier. For some restaurants on the border this simply meant that the customers had to move to a table on the Belgian side.
It's never been all about inheritance, they just forgot to tell that to Stroustrup and Gosling. ;)
Your home can be seized by eminent domain as was done by the town of New London a few years back. They did so in order for a private developer to build more expensive housing on that property and generate higher property taxes for the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
It's subjective and doesn't translate across cultures. Not a useful metric unless you're just making opinionated speech.
I do not subscribe to a requirement that criticism must contain solutions.

History tells us that the opportunity cost was huge, delayed social progress in the US, and enriched the same people who have benefited from battle mentalities throughout the ages. The Chilcot report is a refrain, a repeated theme.
The feral pigeon as a bioindicator of high lead toxicity in NYC
> Apparently in the Bay Area it's pick any zero?

No, its not. You can find spacious, reasonably cheap places within tolerable -- though not short -- commutes of most Bay Area jobs.

I suspect that young, high-income tech workers very often (1) want short commutes, and (2) want other aspects of the urban lifestyle of the core of the Bay Area whether or not it comes with a short commute, which makes the peripheral, long-commute places with such housing unattractive. (Plenty of families where the adults work in the core areas of the Bay Area do live in those peripheries, though.)

> Why do people keep going there?

Because that's where the (tech, for instance) jobs are?
> The next president should reverse course and prioritize federal outlays for a stronger Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

Nope. Next candidate please.
There are many such enclaves between India and Bangladesh.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/02/enclaves_betwe...
The ctoss-language compatibility was a feature of OpenVMS systems. The AS/400 family had AOT and/or JIT for all object code in system. They also had PL/S that subsetted PL/I by removing runtime. These tech seem to combine all those capabilities in one stack.
Neither Google nor Facebook created their markets. And neither could realistically estimate their market's size at the beginning.

There's a point about doing one's homework, but I don't think this is the correct conclusion.
Yes. Sulong assumes that at least the LLVM bitcode including debug information is available. It does not work with third party machine code binaries where no source information is available.
http://waitbutwhy.com/

Gives great insights in various matters for simpletons like myself.
Efforts like the Hypertext Application Language (HAL) [1] are attempts to implement HATEOAS.

The point that's often missed in casual discussions of REST is that 'link relations' are extremely important, because they represent well-specified ways of relating one resource to another. They are as critical to REST as mediatypes (MIME types) are.

In the graph theory sense, link relations are the label on an edge, URIs are the nodes, and mediatypes are formats that can be used as concrete representations of the nodes.

The IANA maintains a Link Relations registry [2].

[1] http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html

[2] http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relation...
At Google's early stage, would that have brought investment? At the time they would not have had distribution/market penetration, which is what the search engine does for them.
That's just the editor doing the compiler's work at edit time, though. I know that Chuck Moore has always advocated extreme early binding, but that really is usually associated with Forth, not with mainstream languages.
Does anybody know what program was used to generate the gifs?
> I always felt odd that US supported a military government over a democratic one

The US supports authoritarianism over democracy all the time. Democracy, in the eyes of US foreign policy rhetoric, is only legitimate if the democratically elected government is friendly towards the US and aligned with US interests.

The US has no problems with toppling a democratically elected government in order to install a dictator or puppet leader. It's happened many times, and I imagine it will happen again.
Why does a case in the US have anything at all to do with this?
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Hi. Emmanuel @ Airfordable here. Thanks for the feedback and we'll work on making the fee more prominent. Just in case you missed it, we do have our fee on the site in the FAQ's and on our home page.
OED lists "prize" as common US spelling. [0]

[0] http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/151652?rskey=W7yb3q&result=6#e...
How does that work out? Isn't it a limited liability company? I know there's "piercing the corporate veil", but why would that apply in this case?
It also doesn't provide much benefit over a plain RPC-like interface, because, for practical reasons, the webcam will be coded to send requests directly to https://example.com/report-problem and https://example.com/update-frame (the "bookmarks"). If you want to change those URLs, your best hope is that the webcam will understand a 307 or 308 redirect.
+1 for using that lovely word. Though overall I'm happy that the title is not "You won't believe who the U.S. Navy almost bombed!"
To add to this, I also don't get to program as part of my day job so it let's me scratch my creative/building and making itch that I do not get as a business analyst.
This reminds me of Paradox's strategy games, where players routinely complain about "bordergore" and fight wars to make the map look neater...
I don't really play games often but I played Braid and loved it. Does anyone have recommendations of other interesting games (probably puzzly, like Braid) that I might enjoy.

Funny story, my 4yo finished (with lots of assistance) her first adventure game (The Lost City [1]) the other day and immediately broke down in tears because it was over. Honestly, for the next couple of days she cried whenever she remembered about it.

Actually, would love to hear of about great tablet games for young kids too.

[1] https://www.firemaplegames.com/thelostcity.html
The problem is, and I think in the case of Github he makes his rationale plain and clear:

> I don’t think it would be right for Emacs to use github.com. I don’t even think it is right for ENSIME to use github, but I’m scared of moving in-case we lose contributor momentum. The FSF gave github.com a bad score and it’s not libre, which makes me nervous.

This is what scares me about the power of GH too. But let's be honest, as this came up with Stuart Sierra yesterday as well in his post on open source rewards stupid bug fixes and not hard work.

https://stuartsierra.com/2016/07/18/apathy-of-the-commons

If the work is boring, people won't do it.

A corollary: if the tooling sucks, people avoid the tooling, and then things stay on the backburner and never complete.

I hate the whole Slack/Gitter/IM channel as well, but the idea of avoiding tooling (e.g. git), which did take Emacs forever, leads to far less contributors like me.

Can we at least work on documenting contributor workflow? How do I build an Emacs test environment and harness system? These things must be bookmarked to emacs-devel and other mailing lists on MARC archives and what-not, as I have yet to find even good blog posts (not that I say that as a standard, but in this case more of what I don't want) of how to set this up.

I do not expect a Github wiki linking to a Gitter channel about setting up a Docker dev containter for emacs-25.x, but can we at least have better tooling for pulling from git repos and running the test suite? Document it in the manual?

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=emacs%20build%20environment
> So, this is one of my issues with HATEOAS. When does this _actually_ come up in practice?

For the type of systems REST is designed to address, all the time. Its not just random happenstance that REST was articulated in the context of an existing, well-known, widely-used system of that type (the WWW.)

Arguably, many API designers are neither designing the kind of systems REST is intended for nor designing things for which their priority is for them to be well-behaved components in a distributed system that, taken as a whole, is the kind of system REST is intended for. Which is fine, but then there is little reason to use REST and less to use pretend-REST.
Or maybe because no one capable of writing such applications wants to target 1% market share?

Sometimes being good at something isn't enough.
Regarding the "code of conduct" fad/trend, I don't understand where it came from or what problem it's trying to solve. I suspect that I might be sympathetic to their goals, if the "code of conduct" people did a better job of explaining them, but they just seem to take the necessity of this practice for granted. I therefore assume that the cultural conversation which produced the idea must have taken place in some venue unknown to me, and the "code of conduct" therefore largely functions as a shibboleth - these are clearly not my people, whoever they are, because they clearly don't consider me to be one of theirs.

Also, I hate the pull request workflow; it's a big barrier to entry for people dipping their toes in with small changes. If you're trying to recruit more participants, or encourage an open-source project to open itself up to more participants, why on earth would you adopt a workflow which requires more up-front folderol on the part of the patch submitter? Just let people send in their patches and be gracious about accepting them. You can gently suggest that they start jumping through git branching hoops and other project-specific processes later, when they're already on board and committed to participation.
"This isn't about functions. This is about building a language for the business case that is comprised of primitive expressions, means of combination, and means of abstraction."

Heh. Anyone up for a Sussman&Abelson drinking game? :D
Sure, that's a given. But we're not exactly talking interchangeable widgets. Are you telling me that new towers in Manhattan really damage the value of the remaining single family houses on the island?
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As an emacs user, and someone who follows the emacs development lists, here is my two-cents.

You're argument is predicated on the idea that because the "new guard" don't need to rely on IRC and email anymore that the "old guard" who have been doing this since the only way to contribute to projects WAS IRC and email need to change their ways to accommodate others.

That isn't a bad thing at all, in fact most people (myself included) think it would be a good idea, but you have to remember that the FSF isn't just a software organization, but it is also more or less a political organization as well, and their processes will reflect the values of those whose interests align. While Emacs indeed does have new leadership under John Wiegley, as a whole, the project cannot change without the blessing of the GNU elders.

I feel your point might loose a bit of steam when your main argument for moving towards a pull-request model is based on "this is how they do it on Github", given that as you acknowledged, it is a non-free project that the FSF looks unfavorably on.
> Whenever a paper was assigned, I always started it that same day, finished later in the week, and then sent it to the professor for their thoughts.

As a teacher, I would not respond to the early submission of an assignment like that. If you had specific questions or clarifications, I would be willing to answer. However I would not give you "multiple bites at the apple", so to speak, in terms of grading. It's simply not fair to the rest of the class.

That having been said, being in CS, I didn't tend to give assignments like that. I would give a programming assignment, start the automated tester, and everybody had 2 weeks to get the tester to give them a green light. During that 2 weeks, I would freely answer questions, and, generally, I would go over publicly during the beginning of the next class and questions asked privately that were particularly insightful or useful. That way everybody benefits from all of the questions.

I have two primary concerns when teaching a class: 1) getting the information across and 2) treating everybody in the class fairly. Everything else flows from that.
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Of course, if you expand every input out to a full line, it's going to look worse than a string of keypresses. However if we compare more fairly:

vim: 2YjjpVj:s/foo/bar/pg

Sublime: ^L^L^C↓↓^V↓^Ffoo<Esc>^Dbar

(This assumes there are only 2 instances of "foo", but you'd just have to press ^D a few more times otherwise.)

And sure moving your hand to ↓ takes slightly more time, but it's still no where near as bad as your screed makes out. And if you really care, you can make new shortcuts for movement (by editing a simple JSON file).

Personally, my experience is of using vim for several years, and then becoming approximately as proficient in Sublime in a matter of weeks, and then much more productive in a matter of months. And sure, I wasn't putting that much effort into learning vim, but then, I wasn't putting that much effort into learning Sublime either.
Rendering the same frame multiple times is terrible.

Standard solution is to interpolate position between two known physics states. This means physics is one tick behind in the normal case.

There's a clever approach I read recently. It's to trrat physics like fighting games test netcode. Extrapolate physics (usually a huge no no) and fix up in the unusual case that it's wrong.

Now that 144Hz and even 165Hz monitors are common I expect to see more experimentation with this type of thing.
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Thankfully!
It's back. Interesting rankings history:

http://hnrankings.info/12123544,12123275/
A lot of the software runs on open source libraries and applications.

What if the licenses for said libs and applications (eg. GPL or MIT) added stipulations, which forbid the usage of the software in certain circumstances ?

For example:
"The library should not be used inside applications which provide backdoors to secret services".

Or

"Not to be used inside weapons or military machines"

Of course this would not necessarily deter the bad guys (governments) , but it would make these attempts technically illegal, which could then be attacked in some civil lawsuit ?
Stealing Facebook access_tokens using CSRF in device login flow
Devolution of corruption from eisenhower to trump
The site is out of bandwidth, so this might help: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Microsoft's cloud unit boosts profits
> If California wants to lower their housing prices, they need to have supply match demand. To do that, they need 50 story buildings. A lot of them. And they need to start soon, because they take years to build.

Develop all that open space on the peninsula, the east bay hills and the Marin headlands. Not only will it increase housing supply, but by removing all that space used for recreation, the bay area will become a less desirable place to live, and demand will also go down. According to basic economics, it's a win-win!
FYI, the major part of this is actually a vulnerability in the upstream libxml2 library which is an XML C parser maintained by the GNOME project.

The library itself is widely used across various operating systems and software so this is a reminder to please make sure you keep both your OS and your applications up to date. http://xmlsoft.org
> What if an entire town decides they don't want to allow minorities to live there?

Yes, what if they do? Should they not get to decide because they might haver the wrong opinion? Who should decide instead? What if they have the wrong opinion?

> Why is xenophobia and NIMBYism acceptable in one case and not the other?

What two cases are you referring to?

Also, it's not obvious that NIMBY, as in "yes, do thing X, but not in my backyard", is relevant here, because it's not necessarily so that anyone is saying "yes, do thing X". For "NIMBY" to be a meaningful concept at all, it really needs to be about a situation when someone is pushing X onto someone else, while refusing to accept X in their own lives. If "NIMBY" used simply to describe a position of "no X, please", or even "no X, please, at least not in my backyard where I might have a say in it", then it's not useful, because those are perfectly reasonable positions to have about things.
Funny thing is Gawker gave secret $200K Loan to Nick Denton before bankruptcy.
>While Emacs indeed does have new leadership under John Wiegley, as a whole, the project cannot change without the blessing of the GNU elders.

This isn't true. It's just that the GNU elders are elders for a reason - their opinion is respected, explicitly sought out, and generally correct.
I don't disagree! Maybe you were talking to a super-prepper.

However to play Devil's Advocate I expect you could survive Argentina/Rwanda/Georgia/Ukraine with sufficient preparation e.g. growing food underground.

It just takes an ungodly amount of money to make it work.

> I'd challenge anyone to show when such a thing has happened in history.

That's the interesting problem because I'd say (let's call it) 'cannibal holocaust' does happen with some frequency on a historical scale. It happened in my country and Russia more recently. It's rare but it does happen.

The key element I think isn't so much resources as secrecy of preparations. With sufficient resources and thought you should be able to hole up for the rest of your life.

Whether you'd want to is another issue!

You have to remember that the people who do go fully off the grid aren't all that likely to advertise themselves. I'm thinking they will mostly be dissidents or the military (for deadman's switches, secret bioweapon programs and the like). So your appeal for challengers might come up empty for reasons other than non-existence. People who do this are always going to be pretty extreme.

Here's one example: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ...

I wouldn't say they were prepared with bullets and MREs per se but they certainly got off the grid. Also it is an interesting story.

Finally I offer you an example of (intellectual) survival from ancient times in my own country.

The majority of Greek texts you've heard of used to be stored in a small island off the Irish coast, protected against invaders by monks and most likely extreme isolation. If the Carolingian empire hadn't copied them from the monks you'd know next to nothing about the most major figures and events in world history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Clas...

When the Roman empire fell, knowledge of it and its predecessors was really in danger of being lost, despite what modern day hipster hun-apologists will tell you. From literacy to ... not-literacy. Without that backup beyond the furthest corner of the Empire, we'd know nothing about major figures like Seneca and Cicero.

Kenneth Clark did an excellent documentary on the subject if you're interested.

The episode is: Civilisation (1969) Episode 1 "The Skin of Our Teeth", from 13:35.

I don't know if you're familiar with Neal Stephenson's Anathem but I imagine he got a lot of inspiration from this.
That is pretty weird. This one is flagged, is older, and has less points but it's on the front page instead of the other one.
The second one is not all that interesting, as any country that borders more than 1 other country would have a point like that ;)

Belgium should have 3
"This"? People in a country or region deciding over that country or region? What do you suggest instead?
Jonathan Blow released The Witness[0] not too long ago. An exploration game based on puzzles and meta-puzzles involving tracing lines. The Talos Principle[1] scratched the same itch. It involves directing laser beams to ... laser beam receptacles :)

EDIT: Disclaimer for The Witness: Go in without reading much about it. It's got plenty of puzzles about connecting paths, but that's all you really need to know. The game is as much about discovery and thinking outside/around/underneath the box as it is solving the explicit puzzles.

[0]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/
[1]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/
Denton was apparently named as a defendant in the lawsuit as well, and the court yielded a $10M judgment against him personally.

Gawker also gave Denton a $200K personal loan right before bankruptcy for the purposes of potential bankruptcy filings related to the lawsuit; this might be a good case for piercing the corporate veil as well.
Happen to with a breaking article on German train axe attack also for some reason.
I think it's much more likely that Russia would have interpreted any voluntary surrender of power by the US to international organizations as a sign of weakness, which would only have emboldended it even further and sooner into aggressive expansionism. Russian culture is both profoundly averse to the existence of any foreign influence over Russia, and very expansionist.
Lisp didn't miss the train because it was too good or because people were idiots. For a good foundation to be good it has to meet the pre-requisite to work for most use cases. Lisp didn't when C did, in a time when hardware was small and expensive.

Times have changed now? Sure, but history didn't wait.
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Maybe it's just me, but I think "pry" is much more common to Americans.
For that matter, I'm not sure how he can sell the company without the court verdict being part of the debt in order to purchase/sell the company.
I'm an expert in Vim but what strikes me as curious is that despite the seeming claim that emacs is better, I never see quick-start guides for emacs here.

Also, would somebody know who these gifs are created?
Nope, not needed. He had gotten away with it! There was no evidence that the target was on campus. Just a lucky lead for the university. All he had to say was he was browsing "personal" sites, or looking up Onion sites out of curiosity, etc. Just a basic cover. Instead, he caved immediately.

Maybe they would have found other evidence. But it wouldn't have been just him connecting to Tor.
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