skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was actually two years ago, if someone wants to correct the title.

Edit: I clearly can't read. Upvoted you both, thanks.
From the AU Summit in Kigali, Rwanda:

"One of the primary goals of the agenda is to guarantee integration and political unity in Africa and this passport will aid the body achieve that goal."

Yet Paul Kagame has been President of Rwanda now for 16 years!!!

Oh and this borderless AU is only available to the "ruling class." So African politics as usual. Nobody believes this nonsense. This is pure spin.

If they really wanted to address jobs they would need to address the fact that their countries are increasingly selling their natural resources and labor to the Chinese. I was shocked when I saw Chinese laborers in coolies building roads in Ethiopia and a foreman barking at them in Mandarin. This is not an uncommon site in Kenya and the DRC either.
I'd recommend Impro by Keith Johnstone. He also has a sequel of sorts called Impro for Storytellers but having read both I'd say go with Impro.

It's actually a really interesting read in our modern age of status update storytelling. It deals directly with the art of "status play" as the key to being amusing. It's amazing how much of making people laugh and enjoy your company comes down to managing your display of status and being able to diminish it for other's pleasure.

I have the curse/gift of growing up in a Maritime family with deep Scottish and Irish roots. Talk about a group that values the art of diminished status.
This wasn't a personal attack and I don't follow how how it could be interpreted is a personal attack. It didn't in any suggest jacquesm's wife was engaged in adultery. It was a statement that jacquesm comment to codemogul was irrelevant.

The conversation unfolded as follows:

codemogul: "I caught my x-wife in an affair as she was using this same method the communicate with her lover."

jacquesm: "Funny, I've run the mail server of our family for quite a while and it would never enter my head to read someone else's email."

Here codemogul uncovered adultery by reading his x-wife's email hosted on a third-party server. Jacquesm then states that he runs a server for his family and would never consider reading their email on his server.

I commented "It's really touching that you trust your wife to be smart enough to not use the mail server you run for adultery." which is an observation that jacquesm response to codemogul was irrelevant because he could only uncover adultery like codemogul if his wife was not smart enough to use a service hosted by her husband.

That the fact jacquesm had access to the server made it unlikely that if there were to be untrustworthy activity (and I did not suggest there was) that it would take place on the server.

I don't think jacquesm would interpret that as a personal attack. It would be interesting to ask him.

"Normally I would let you know that personal attacks are not allowed on HN, that this is a bannable offense, and ask you not to do it again. But in your case we already did that."

This is not a personal attack. That also was not a personal attack. Neither were mean or mean-spirited.

attack: "to criticize or oppose fiercely and publicly"

personal: "of or concerning one's private life, relationships, and emotions rather than matters connected with one's public or professional career."

No one was criticized or opposed personally in either case.
If browsers showed stats, I wouldn't be surprised printfriendly being on the first spot.

printfriendly will lower your blood pressure.

When I feel anarchist enough I use dillo.
Following the EU model is a bad idea. Look at the mess that EU is right now. Why would any region want to go down that path?

The ECOWAS model is much better.
I know someone who is a senior meteorologist for FEMA, and this person takes part in some interdisciplinary disaster planning events based around specific scenarios. He told me that there actually is no FEMA plan for a very large solar storm (like the Carrington Event), because we'd just be screwed. In a massive grid-down scenario like that, they expect a 90% die-off in the first few months.

This was two years ago that I had this conversation, and I'm not sure when the actual exercise he was referencing took place. My understanding is that there has been a lot done to prepare the grid in the past 5 years, so we may be in better shape today. I hope so.
Divorce?
We have to take sides. If I commit to iPhone, but there's a lot of stuff in android but I can't take advantage of. And vice versa
Keep your eye on http://tracker.archiveteam.org/ to contribute to archiving certain Yahoo assets for future generations in the Internet Archive.
I can't help but imagine how self-driving cars would change the above

Well, he's written about that:

http://humantransit.org/2016/07/elon-musk-doesnt-understand-...
>Shortly afterwards, Verizon announced it would start combining data about its mobile network subscribers - which is tied to their handsets - with the tracking information already gathered by AOL's sites.

I was talking to a friend who is in the Telecom industry in Japan, and apparently this sort of arrangement is not legal there. EU is generally wary of such arrangements as well. So this is a merger whose product synergies would not have been possible in other jurisdictions.

In recent years I recall advertisers being skeptical about the quality of eyeballs on Yahoo!'s platform. The pitch to the same advertisers already seems more compelling, though the premise does make me feel uneasy.

And I imagine Mayer will be getting her full 9 figure severance package. So much for rewarding success and having interests aligned.
The Lipschutz (that is quoted) is good. While looking stupid and repetitive it is giving very good basis.

Applying linear algebrae to grok more complex problems can be done with the Mc Grawhill book on Mechanic (solid & punctual). It is the same pattern : simple explanation and a lot of exercises.

Thermodynanmic, quantum mechanics, relativity and electromagnetism are introduction to even more interesting algebrae.

Maybe Feynman physics lessons are the right books :)
Qubes OS.
Let's see. I can handle a few million on a single instance and I have yet to hit any memory or CPU limits indicating I can handle 10x of what I'm currently handling. Oh and it's about 100k or more transactions per hour at peak load. Just from basic operational observation and logs. Also, have yet to see any durability issues and I've managed to do it without kafka. So pretty basic math says the entire thing can be scaled to a "few billion" transactions in a pretty straightforward way. Then again I'm more willing to redefine my problems to come up with simpler solutions.

But this discussion has devolved into personal insults at this point. We have nothing to teach each other it seems.
Donald Trump has offended every ethnic, national and religious group other than white Christian Americans, and thinks that this gives him the right to be tried by a white Christian judge with American parents. Apart from having no legal merit whatsoever, this kind of speculation about possible biases degenerates into incoherence, since there are many different facets to any judge's background and many of them will point in different directions. For example, Curiel was appointed to the state superior court by a Republican governor. Does that mean he shouldn't try the case because, as someone with probable Republican sympathies, he might be biased in favor of Trump? You could fish through Curiel's background and come up with all kinds of speculations about possible biases. Trump chose to take the low road here and throw a bone to his racist supporters by making a totally irrelevant reference to the nationality of the judge's parents. Let's not dignify that disgusting behavior by pretending that Trump was making some kind of legitimate complaint about possible bias. If he had a legitimate complaint, his legal team would be arguing it.

>People whose common sense is not clouded by liberal hysteria can see this.

So Newt Gingrich is clouded by liberal hysteria? He called Trump's comments regarding the judge "inexcusable". And I guess Paul Ryan must be another closet liberal hysteric. It's quite incorrect to paint this as the fringe liberal left vs. common sense. The split of opinion is simply the split between racists and non-racists.
But that's not a library. It forces your whole project into a box in which it may not fit. Elm is not without problems as well, although they (him?) are working on the biggest pain-points.
I don't know but all that sounds horrible:

> I found that under “About” I could get a newer version, and for some reason I had to help it

> it [Spotify] sometimes asks for Flash (?!) but with a reload it works.

> It [Skype] doesn’t support video yet

> Keynote [...] No solution found yet.

> I have to find a replacement for Hindenburg

> it would make it impossible to be a developer using one

> on the ASUS I ended up using this direct link to get it to work. You are supposed to see a little checkbox “Available for Android” [...]

> most things don’t work very well without an Internet connection,

> When I’m on an airplane, I would watch a video or listen to music on a tablet or phone anyhow

> I am selling off my AirPlay speakers and buying Chrome Casts at home to plugin to “dumb” speakers.

> to learn to love Google Slides or find an alternative.
Clinton's VP picks had to turn over every social media password for whole family
Pinyin doesn't negate Chinese characters. It's just tackling another issue - sounds and tones.
Actually being available on the weekend when the customer calls in a panic to reverse the transaction. If the bank has some skin in the game, they have incentive to be responsive.
Of course the author misses the causality of Brexit/Trump/generalspite, which is the political upper class gradually implementing authoritarian control and economically squeezing us ever harder.

If we wanted to stop the current trend, we would have had to do so several decades ago.
You mean like the way us Europeans have been killing ourselves for generations? We even fought two world wars over our differences.

Give Africans a chance to catch up...
Because of SFINAE for expressions added in C++11 (which gives the capability to test at compile time whether an arbitrary expression is valid or not), technically any change to the language or standard library can change the behaviour of a valid C++ program.
Pokemon iPhone / Samsung cases, hoodies and t-shirts website
What do you mean? The Schengen zone (what I think they meant by EU-model) is practically universally viewed as a good thing for tourism, travel, and business
I just bought this game last night. It's worth every penny (no DRM, and you can switch back and forth between operating systems without trouble; I've played on Debian Jessie native as well as wine..)

This is a funny but mildly challenging game that kids seem to like too, and it's not scary, adult, or violent; I half expected to see the Mystery Mobile pull up and Scooby and Daphne jump out.. or maybe Cruella De Vil. The music is a perfect fit.

I never played the original, but this seems like a nearly flawless remaster with great new art, audio, and animations and seems to be like a perfectly working Linux port. Even cooler, you can press F1 in any scene and see it morph into the old pixel art.

It's $8.99 at GOG while on sale[1]. Absolutely worth it and kudos to Cheese for a great Linux port.

1. https://www.gog.com/game/day_of_the_tentacle_remastered
I always wonder why drivers can't/won't treat me as they would a tractor. Nope, instead I'm treated like some sort of deviant who doesn't belong. And it's not just roads. There are several popular multi-use trails in my area, and intersections aren't any better - cars block crossings, don't yield, and generally act like assholes.

Much of passing too close in done on purpose (along with an engine rev and sometimes some choice words). Taking a lane isn't going to fix that. Education, and penalties, might.
DNC chairwoman will resign in aftermath of committee email controversy
I find many of the objects in .NET very useful and use them in my code.

Also in my code I define and use some classes.

I like the idea of classes. E.g., in my Web pages, I have a class for the user's state. When a new user
connects, I allocate an instance of that class. Then I send that instance to my session state store server. To do that, I serialize the class to a byte array and then send the byte array via TCP/IP. The session state store server receives the byte array and deserializes it back to an instance of the class and stores it in an instance of a collection class. Works great. It's really convenient
to have all the user's state in just one instance of one class. Terrific.

Encapsulation? I don't know what the OO principles say about encapsulation, but it looks useful to me as a source of scope of names and keeping separate any members in two different classes that are spelled the same. So, terrific: When I define a new class, I don't have to worry if the names of its members are also used elsewhere -- saved again by some scope of names rules.

Actually, I much prefer the scope of names rules in PL/I, but now something as good as PL/I is asking for too much!

But inheritance? Didn't think it made much sense and never tried to use it.

Polymorphism? Sure, just pass an entry variable much like I did in Fortran -- now we call that an interface. Okay. I do that occasionally, and it is good to have.

Otherwise I write procedural code, and the structure in my software is particular to the work of the software and not from OO.

I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I've seen rule-based programming, logic programming, OO programming, frame-based programming, etc., but what continues to make sense to me is procedural programming with structure appropriate to the work being done. E.g., the structure in a piece of woodworking is different from that in metal working, residential construction, office construction, etc.
And that war started after the native inhabitants had been almost driven into extinction.
"Since the western media almost never reports anything on Africa, ..."

This is untrue. Perhaps you should be more selective with your new sources. Read "The Economist", there is great and regularly reporting on Africa every week. The BBC also has great coverage of African current events. Lastly CNN also has the "Inside Africa" program, available on the web as well.
OO is one of those things best used in strict moderation. Unfortunately, most people lack moderation, and strive not to necessarily solve the issue, but to show everyone just how smart they are. As a result we get object hierarchies 10 layers deep, and 1000-line source files (or worse, dozens of 100-line source files) which don't do anything meaningful.
Wasserman Schultz announced she will resign in aftermath of email controversy
Yes, but the foundation under OOP is considerably less solid. I agree that you can write a bad program in any language, but the fact remains that it is impossible to write certain bugs in statically typed pure functional languages and that functions as a base abstraction are more apt for describing computation than objects are.
Except you can perfectly well link together a C89 and a C++11 object file compiled with the same compiler. All compilers let you specify the exact standard you're compiling, so even if tomorrow C++2x adds "frob" as a keyword, you can opt out of it in most of your code and only compile a few of your .cpp files as C++2x and they will still link together just fine because the ABI is stable.

Which means you're never in the position that "this update broke our code", barring of course compiler bugs and switches to a new ABI, both of which are extremely rare.
if you are on Windows and want to try R and don't mind preview software, check out:

http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/
FORCED BREAK – #100DAYSOFCODE
Doubt it. Remember the NSA "scandal" that lasted a few months before people went back to not caring? Remember Kony 2012? North Korea's human rights violations? You'll never fix the problems in America until you fix the horrifically apathetic attitude of Americans.
What kinds of science and technology advancements will be needed to make a Starship Enterprise a reality? The first step is getting more humans living in space or on planetary colonies.
It sure is if you're a mouse.

There's no human data at this point.
Show HN: YouTube like timestamps for SoundCloud are here
Seems like mostly what they've produced is TED talks.

That's a bit snarky. I was pretty pumped with the project at first, but it really seemed poorly run, and also seemed to ignore a lot of prior art when designing hardware. Their compressed block machine does seem fully thought out and functional at least, but their first tractor snapped in half on its maiden voyage, and the replacement looks like a post-apocalyptic bobcat. There's a reason most farmers aren't using bobcats in the field.

Anyways, neat idea, and I hope it inspired others to focus on open source hardware for agriculture and small-scale civilization.
"US telecoms giant Verizon Communications is to buy Yahoo's search and advertising operations"

First, I was surprised to see search operations mentioned, since they farmer that out to Microsoft. Second, if this is only search and advertising, I wonder what will happen to things like Flickr and Tumblr.

It should be interesting to see what is actually in the announcement.
Probably the one between East Africa and Atlantis.

OK, the guy was obviously referring to Europe, but just did a bad job of it.
Samsung’s SSD 850 EVO 4 TB Now Available from Major Retailers
One of the main problems is even when we build transit stops we still do everything else wrong. About two blocks away from the Hayward Park Caltrain station they're building large single family homes. Those should at least be town homes, but really should be apartments. This in itself is a waste of taxpayers money as that station is just sitting there languishing for riders.
Spacemacs key bindings for Vim
Adjusted for inflation, $8.2 billion in 2016 dollars.
Even before Swit apple advocated composition over inheritance.
Alas, when teaching programming and OOP somehow inheritance comes up as the most important and interesting part, so few learn proper architecture and a doomed to write articles like this.
No - the comment text says "I've reported this problem two years ago" - but the date of the report is 20th Jun 2013 - which is definitely 3 years ago
Another example of Google eating its dogfood
The email was sent in June 2013, three years ago. The author mistyped the year in his comment on the bug report.
So the boat sinks, and settles on the muddy bottom. Then the engineers narrow the width of the river so that the bottom is no longer in the river. How did the land level rise to bury the boat? Can't quite picture that.

Excellent occupational niche by the way!
So you list one shortcoming, and don't even cover the position that lambda calculus is better suited as a foundation for a programming language despite not being better at time complexity than a Turing machine would be?

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/21705/what-is-th...

My point is basically made here:

This algebraic view of computation relates naturally to programming languages
used in practise, and much language development can be understood as the search
for, and investigation of novel program composition operators.
This is a good point. Functional is a really useful model for mostly stateless data processing. When you have lots of state that needs to be mutable, not so much.
Not just electric bikes, but also electric skateboards and other electric personal mobility devices. Unlike bikes these things can be brought on public transit, and greatly reduce time spent on the last mile (or two). For example the boosted board can travel 25 MPH, which is much faster than rush hour traffic, and even at times the grade-seperated light rail in San Francisco.
Why Are We All on Medium?
I find it strange that a group of FOSS-freaks and hacker-types would all congregate around one closed, proprietary platform. I'd like to know why this is.

I suppose the better question is "why aren't we all using weird home-made static blogs?"
This is a great piece in conjunction with "The Astounding Collapse of American Bus Ridership" (http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/21/buses_in_new_...), which explains why bus policy is so often bad and even counterproductive.

In Seattle, transit ridership is up significantly because of grade-separated light rail: http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/07/16/link-ridership-up-8....
A brief history of the nuclear triad
I think you're being unnecessarily pedantic. Yes, the P v. NP question pertains to Turing machines (and equivalent models), but in this case it is clear that there is an implied appeal to Physical + Complexity-Theoretic/Efficient/Extended Church-Turing Thesis. The paper explicitly says it relies on Cobham's thesis, which can be interpreted (if you squint) to encompass both extended interpretations of C-T.

You're right with regards to 1, but the actual paper does not make that mistake. Instead, it states correctly that the problem is NP-hard and therefore a feasible solution (i.e. P) would imply P = NP.
This is the usual response. I didn't say the algebraic approach does not have advantages but the complexity analysis issue is always swept under the rug by proponents of the algebraic approach. Operational and axiomatic semantics also have their place and if the theoreticians haven't yet settled on "the one true way" why is it that regular programmers think they have?

I agree that the search for novel composition mechanisms is a prominent goal of PL theory and research but it is not the only one.
Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Flappy Bird
Questions and answers in 1:1's is a bad sign. Open talking employee and listening + coaching manager are the positive signs.

I ask you, you say something, I write it down is not good karma.
+1 for counting from zero
Why would it have any limits at all (like the speed of light or the Planck constant)? Yet, it does.
> I had no idea such a thing as an Afican Union existed.

Wow! Just wow!

In 2016 somebody with upvoter privileges on HN does not know that AU exists?

HN is a great resources, but the downside is for some people, it's the only resource, so if something is not posted here, it didn't happen.
When I read such titles I feel sad.

In 2016 we are still talking about Cobol, which is spread in a relatively niche market and considered as a pillar in fields like banking, how can the object oriented paradigm be considered "
past or even bad? It is the present and will be the future for at least the next 20 years, considering the number of billions lines of code. From a management perspective, such statements are not strong enough to be justified.

I find this sort of articles to be just bread and butter for codemonkeys, people who learn the most recent paradigm, technology or whatsoever and think that it's the key to happiness, or people who read for the first time a book like the ones from Bob Martin and feel they already know how to develop good software - or poems, as mentioned somewhere in the book - and list the bad things about other types of software architecture or design or whatever.
Reading this and the comments I can't help but think that:

A) Microsoft's windows business will go away quicker than we think.. Which is why I never hear them talking about it anymore. Nadella seems to be embracing the cloud as their new platform.

B) Intel is in a lot of trouble if ARM chromebooks catch on.
Maybe we need a new tag: OOF.

Or possibly FOO.
I run my own mail server. It's simple enough to set up SPF in your DNS records to avoid landing in Gmail's spam, at least. Not sure about other providers. I send so little mail that I'm basically background noise.
Linux 4.7 Released