skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The various Chinese tongues have long been called dialects, yet many are mutually unintelligible. However, they have one critical feature: until about 150 years ago (when modern Chinese was adjusted to have a 1-to-1 correspondence with Mandarin) none of the dialects had a written form. Everyone spoke in their own tongue, but wrote in Chinese.

How about Italian? There are dozens of Italian dialects, many further from one another than, say, Italian is from Spanish. It was only during unification (in the 1800s) that Italians settled on the Florence dialect as their national language. But the regions all still proudly speak their own dialects. I'm particularly familiar with Romagnolo, spoken (and written) in the region of Ravenna, Rimini, and San Marino,and which has its own classic literature dating from as far back as the 16th century.
> The GNU project boasts some of the most hackable software ever made. GNU Emacs is the most notable.

Politics sometimes stops the hackablity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8861360
It's a benefit to readers / citizens to have information that is not completely controlled by a government, party or corporation.
There already is jealousy -- the Arab world consumes Western culture in greater quantities than ever before and they are migrating to the West in greater quantities than ever (as you may have seen in the news...). I would liken it to the fall of the Iron Curtain but a number of times larger in scale and effect, as well as across massive geographic and cultural faultlines.

But, IMHO, what you are describing is universal. Autocrats have been taking advantage of cultural clash since time immemorial, it's just that the Middle East has been largely uneducated and weak while being led by opportunists.

Anyways, I am completely open to admitting that you are correct. Demonstrating the value of Western culture most definitely results in migration away from Islamic fundamentalism.

Also, it's easy to say that people in the Arab world are afforded agency, but what you are advocating requires people in the Arab world to be educated. The former is useless without the latter.
> He says that buried deep in the dashboard is Verizon cell phone 3G hardware that's always on.

Who pays for this? Can you pull out the radio and use it for general purpose internet access?
This proposed headline raises more questions than it answers. Which state laws? Does that refer, perhaps, to the state laws that forbid cities from building their own broadband? Where did the "Battle" take place? Gettysburg? What would it mean for an agency to "Loss" a battle anyway?

All in all, TFA's title seems more informative.
I never quite got why GNU decided to consider the freedom to access the source code and the freedom to modify it as a single bullet point. To me, they're fundamentally distinct concepts, and furthermore the former is VASTLY more important than the latter.

Without the ability to check a program's source code, and personally compile it from that source, I am putting my hardware totally in the hands of the developer. I must trust that his program will do what it claims to do, and if it doesn't I can do absolutely nothing about it - other than threatening to take my business elsewhere or sue, which are merely the generic last resorts available for every kind of abuse or fraud. And even those will not shield me as long the program's misbehaviour goes undiscovered or unproven. It's pretty straightforward why this is a very dangerous situation when handling data of any importance.

However, if I can view and compile the source code, but not modify it, then I wouldn't say the loss of freedom is remotely comparable. If I see that the program contains objectionable code, then it is unfortunate and perhaps frustrating that my only option is to reject the program in toto, but I cannot see how I can legimately consider myself wronged. I was offered a product with all the information required to make an informed decision, the product simply wasn't good enough.

A food analogy: closed source is like having to buy food without the ability to examine its ingredients. Open-but-non-free source is like having access to the original recipe but not being allowed to take out the parts you are allergic to. It's a shame, but your health isn't in any danger.
It still has problems with "closeness" - here are two buildings close to where I live, both on the same side of the same street, maybe 20m of distance from door to door:

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That's what I'm trying to move away from. The Eclipse autocomplete is much better in my uses.

I also don't like using 7 different IDEs.
Thanks for that. My understanding of the documentation leads me to believe that I will have to change it for every single major mode, which is a bit of a pain. But at least it is mostly possible.
I don't see evidence Trump has anything at heart beyond self-aggrandizement, just that he panders even more shamelessly and offensively than other politicians.
What is company mode?
So life could have formed on venus and then transfered to earth?
Yeah so another article based on nothing. 5G is done , there actually just working now on reducing the power levels required.
It means previously you had some expectation that where and when you drive is private data that nobody else has unless they are tailing you.

Now your car is broadcasting its location at all times via cell signal, and that data may be (almost certainly is) being recorded.
> not encoding in ASCII

IIRC the original standard specifies a particular 8-bit character set (not ASCII), though the broader point stands.

> There is also XMPP (and has been for years) which does not suffer from many of IRCs shortcomings.

XMPP is useless for multiple devices: there's no way to receive messages on both (some servers will deliberately violate the spec here because the spec is stupid), and the federated history spec has been under development for about a decade now. Groupchats don't work properly with federation and have terrible UX in every client I've tried. Everyone assumes XMPP must be good because it's open-source (which is usually a pretty good heuristic) but I've come to the conclusion it's actually a really bad standard.
Twitter will be sold in 6 months: Kara Swisher
As far as python is concerned, if you mostly care about code navigation and autocompletion, try jedi-mode, it's fast, leightweight and works pretty well (I've used it successfully with virtualenv and conda, although the later required me to manually pip install epc-server and jedi and maybe one or two other deps). If you want refactorings, you're out of luck (rope is not even alpha quality, and I don't know of anything else). But firing up your IDE every few days or weeks for a bigger refactoring might be acceptable.

Javascript has js2-refactor, but I haven't tried that.

Lastly, instead of having 5-7 IDEs you could just get an Intellij license – it can basically do all that more specialized offerings like Webstorm and Pycharm can, and it's unlikely you'll ever have similar semantic support in a plain editor. I'm currently using emacs exclusively myself, but have also used products of the intellij family extensively, and might do so again depending on the project. The javascript livecoding and mixed-language-fragment support is pretty neat for example.
Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more
Hah! I'll give you that only if we get a "hard" Brexit - if we get a "soft" Brexit (or no Brexit!) - that is, keeping free movement in exchange for free market access, and thus having to live by all the rules but getting no voice in deciding them - then I'd couldn't really call that the masses having "a lot of power".

Remember, nothing is decided yet, so it's a bit early to crow about the power of the masses to do anything apart from cause the Pound to sink like a stone.
I doubt it directly applies to DC government at all. But they have their own program: http://open.dc.gov/

I think a lot of progressive cities are already way ahead of the federal government on this one.
Why do you need to remember the address next to you?
"Newer generations born in the now dysfunctional mouse utopia became withdrawn, spending their days grooming obsessively and dedicating their time solely to eating , drinking and sleeping. This generation, for all the emphasis they placed on grooming, would not reproduce. Moreover, these mice were noted to be unintelligent compared to previous generations."

Intelligence has surely risen in our population, obesity is becoming a real problem in successful populations. The "selfie" self absorbed cultural shift we're seeing at the moment is another parallel.

Whilst we're not cannibalising each other or becoming any more aggressive than we have been in the past (although we are still plenty aggressive), I think we are starting to see some of symptoms for lack of a better term that are highlighted above to some degree or another.

Edit - perhaps there are also similarities between the hikikomori NEET lifestyle that's arisen in Japan as well.

This is purely an opinion without any statistics to back it up though, I'd be interested to hear counter arguments.
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I lived in IRC from 2001 to 2006.

Back in the days it was my go to social software. People were always online there and I even started programming with mIRC. Funny thing, back in the days I built chat-bots for fun and now they are big business, haha. Well, most people there were nerds and this was okay. We also had our own small bulletin board communities.

Later I wanted to meet girls and they just didn't show up often on IRC or BBoards.

So I started using LiveJournal, MSN Messenger and MySpace. Later I switched to Facebook and WhatsApp.
The rise and fall and rise of the GIF
Dependency Injection – Spring Boot Technical Concepts Series, Part 2
The more I looked at it, the more the compressed side looked awful.

I am not sure if it is differences in the compression or differences in the base image, but I can make out the tree branches much more clearly on the uncompressed side.

The "as a service" thing seems self defeating in a number of ways.

One reason I want compression is because the network is slow. I have ADSL with an awful upload speed, but I have some very powerful computers. So far as I am concerned, state-of-the-art image compression in the cloud might as well be on the moon.

Also I hate the "monthly plan" BS. It's a dark pattern. It's evil. You might say it helps your cash flow, etc. but really you are hoping people will forget about it and you'll keep charging their credit card for years. Someday the FTC will crack down on this.
How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage (HBR 1985)
If that were the case, how does that explain the "plugins for gcc" issue.
It's only a matter of time before insurers get that data. They'll even have some plausible safety arguments to bolster their bribery.

For freedom, ride a bike.
Glad you liked it! We have done some work on trying to generate complete games - an overview of it can be found in this book chapter:
http://pcgbook.com/wp-content/uploads/chapter06.pdf
The most similar to what you describe is probably the ASP approach to game generation.
Its not nearly as easy as it sounds. I think game engine developers now understand multi-core a LOT better than programmers from most other domains.

Games are still just an update and render pass in a loop. Nothing will change that, they might be decoupled and overlapped but they're still present. They're just much more complex than they used to be. Some engines will fork/join at every step (sometimes hundreds of times per frame), others will build task graphs and reduce them and a 3rd team will use fibers to build implicit graphs. No matter what you do you're still executing code with very clean sequential dependencies.

Game engines started going multi-core at least a decade ago. First by using one thread per system, then moving towards tasks. Today I don't know of any AAA game engine not already parallelizing its render path and unit updates massively.
What exactly _is_ the purpose?

Rough location: Country , City , Street.

Exact location: Latitude , Longitude.
>> Haskell, Rust? Those are statically typed languages, too.

> [...] I don't want to use Rust or Haskell where Python can solve the problem just fine. Overhead and development time is also a problem

Yet you suggested using Java. Something in your comments seems inconsistent.

> Type hints add development time and bureaucracy.

That's why they are (going to be) optional. But for larger codebases
beaurocracy adds some structure, which can be beneficial.

BTW, did you know that beaurocracy was an invention of ancient times? Yes, an
invention. It allowed citizens to know what to do with their requests to
authorities. Beaurocracy is generally a desired thing, it's excessive
beaurocracy that is awful.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that Pan-Arabia died with Nasser in 1970.

The main reason the US kept on Saddam was his stated intention of Pan-Arabia

>'We don't look on this piece of land here in Iraq as the ultimate limit of our struggle,'' he told a group of visiting Iraqi ambassadors in 1975. ''It is part of a larger area and broader aims: the area of the Arab homeland and the aims of the Arab struggle.''

After a coup attempt against him five years later, he called Iraq's political struggle a ''revolution which aims to destroy the bases of imperialism, to shine over the whole Arab world to make it a new power on the world scene.''

And only a few months before Mr. Hussein invaded Iran in September 1980, Mr. Hussein unveiled an ambitious pan-Arab charter for the decade, rejecting any superpower military presence in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean and charting a course of regional nonalignment.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/05/international/05HUSS.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0802/02011.html
>In their view a confrontation with the West - at least a political one - was unavoidable, in light of Saddam's attempt to lead the Arab world. Saddam's pan-Arab ambitions have been clear since the late 1970s, when Iraq led the so-called rejectionist front against Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. Iraq also controlled many Baathist organizations in Arab countries and saw itself as the capital of Arab revolution against "pro-Western reactionary regimes." But the war with Iran forced Iraq to seek money and political support from Arab nations and put a stop to supporting opposition parties in other states. After the war, however, the Iraqi leadership renewed its bid to lead the Arab world.
The point of the GPL is to ensure that free code remains free. So long as you do not try and restrict someone else's access to free code and modifications to it, you do not run afoul of the GPL.

Put another way, if an end user gets a product which includes free code, they should also have access to the source code.

All of the legalese is merely an attempt to codify this simple concept into the language of law.

Ultimately, as a developer, if you want to use GPL'ed code in your own projects, you need to be prepared to pass on those freedoms you're taking advantage of. Otherwise, write it your own damned self. :)
Agreed, nobody should be able to preempt the law... however, what's crazy is that there are many anti-monopoly laws that exist for exactly the reason of increasing competition in favour of the consumer... what I don't understand is how none of these laws appear to apply to cable and telecoms providers. It's the same up here in Canada. Anti-monopoly laws prevent you from establishing a monopoloy, but it still appears to be fine for cable and telecom providers... and Government run businesses such as the LCBO... and in BC, ICBC and I'm sure a wealth of other monopolies that don't appear to fall inside the jurisdiction of anti-monopoly laws that literally apply to everyone else.

One law for one, one law for everyone else doesn't appear to be the way the law is supposed to work, I can't fathom why it works this way in this case.
This has been the problem with A.I. all along. See

http://ontology2.com/book/chapter1/part1/not_stupid.html
Slack has an IRC gateway, so I think it's about as open as IRCCloud in practice. And the free version of IRCCloud has gradually got worse and worse - I think you're not allowed to connect to external servers any more, only to their one.
Correct! And it's a benefit to users to have software that is not completely controlled by a government, party or corporation.
Who is this "they" you speak of (who can't see it coming)?

The rulers are doing fine -- they've got armies and secret police and offshore investments so that when things turn to shit they can just jet off into exile like the Shah of Iran.

The ordinary folks don't have the money and they don't have the oil, they stay quiet for now because they don't want to be imprisoned or executed and because the rulers spend a small chunk of their surplus on social security.

In other words, the people with money to invest don't care, and the folks who might care are in no position to take action.
>> "All cars sold in the EU come with eCall"

I hadn't heard of this. Just looking at the article you linked it seems it is only available in Slovenia and only since 2015. Is the tech still in all cars but just not being utilised?
If you mix up words or misspell a place one usually ends up somewhere unplanned. 600km between Springfield, Texas (Jim Wells County) and Springfield, Texas (Anderson County). Half around the world if you mistype a coordinate (or mix up latitude and longitude or forget a minus sign).
Terrorism all depends on the beholder, doesn't it?

The forced restructuring of Iraq's economy along right-wing neoliberal lines by the occupying force was another war crime. Read "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" by Chandrasekaran.
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I think calling that a utopia is quite a stretch. We humans still have some definitions to work out if we think that a utopia out of ignorance and lack of power is valid.
I don't have a bouncer per se, but my client (WeeChat) is running 24/7 in a tmux. Whenever I want to use IRC, I connect to it with Glowing Bear (browser relay client for WeeChat). This way I have synchronised state (all devices connect to the same WeeChat instance, doesn't matter whether I use my phone, tablet, or laptop) and a nice client.
The DC municipal government actually has a Github organization (https://github.com/dcgov) and has been attempting to pilot open source development (http://open.dc.gov/open-source-guidelines/) throughout the city. I helped write that document, which was inspired by/borrowed from 18F policy. Take up has so far been limited, though some agencies have been using Github Pages.
> "where all arabs are united only in their resentment of the west"

Is that how you view the political movements happening in the Arabic-speaking majority world - Sorry for the pedantry - from 2011 onward that we're consumed by resentment toward the West?

It's gotta be about you, right?

> "The arab world has always been far too divided to able to draw clear borders around their states"

I had no idea that these political movements and the resulting turmoil were about border disputes between states, and not primarily domestic political issues. The more you know ...

> "Until then, tyranny worked."

Could this explain your theory the perceived resentment in the Arabic speaking world towards the West?

At least now, it would be warranted and well earned since you wish on other people harm, maybe you should get paid for this in kind.

The US is likely to be able to dodge the Trump bullet and skirt falling into a populist authoritarian rule coming November but this doesn't preclude this from happening in the future.

Maybe you should get some taste for how tyranny can turn your life upside down and experience it firsthand before you could wish it onto others.

Anyhow, I still don't wish harm on innocent people but if they're full of hate toward others to the point of blinding them to fall into a trap this big and this wide, I wouldn't help them to avert it or save them.
"Isn't this article about the tech? Why are we suddenly having an extremely off-the-cuff discussion on whether HFT is "good or bad"?"

Since when is tech automatically amoral? I mean sure, the technology itself doesn't care, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. You can discuss both simultaneously.

Regarding the "laws of physics." Quantum mechanics does open up several possibilities for violating the speed of causality.[1] There is nothing that says any of the laws are fundamental truths, they are simply the way things always work, so far as we know. It's quite likely we will find exceptions.

1: http://www.bmeacham.com/whatswhat/Quantum.html#2.3.Causal%20...
Oh trust me, I know I'm broke.
Agreed on this point. The NY Times is the newspaper of record in the United States. And as such they hold responsibility both for their editorial policy that allowed Judith Miller's stories about WMDs. What's more remarkable is how unapologetic she is about her own involvement. This is worth a listen(the second half)

http://www.wnyc.org/story/bobs-grill-1-judith-miller/
Very nice! But is there currently no way to get any information about third party code other than the type signature (C-c C-t or C-C C-i)? Ideally I'd like to be able to both navigate to the source code and see the documentation.

It might also be good to mention that you need to apt-get install libcurses5-dev for the haskell code to build.
Serious question - are there other ways to make competition "legal" again? State and local law on this matter favors monopolies.
Although I don't necessarily agree with Stallman on a lot of things (I'm typing this on Windows 10) I have mad respect for the guy. The world needs advocates like him to counter the bad actors in the corporate world.
I can't see a difference IMO.

I think it's for companies rather than consumers.
Edit: Just noticed they also have a prepaid plan
FWIW, looks like the US version is only an application (meaning that a patent might not issue).
Yeah but Denmark was also in possession of the southern bit of Sweden for a good long while.

Meanwhile you can read Holberg without too much trouble, even though he was born in Norway.

It's possible politics is the explanation. The newly independent/recovered lands need to be integrated, and one way to do that is language. So the Swedes made sure people spoke like them.

Nynorsk I can't get my head around, either.
Like I said on the other post yesterday, fun, but a "solution" looking for a problem. We already have addresses. They work.
What about saving the Colorado River instead?

There were magnificent places on it that were totally destroyed. As water desalination and solar energy gets cheaper it would be great idea to give the Colorado back its water.
I have the advantage of being white but my name clearly gives away my Eastern European heritage.

Literally every job I've had has been in a country other than that of my birth - from an unofficial farmhand job when I was a pre-teen to my first QA job in Australia to my subsequent engineering role in Sweden. The positions in Australia and Sweden were both obtained via an online application followed by an in person interview. None of the interviewers or recruiters I've dealt with knew me prior to my application. So far I personally have not experienced the kind of discrimination you describe.

I do hear however that here in Sweden it is often more a matter of people who are Swedish having an easier path into management positions. On the other hand I've been asked if I would like to move toward a management path in the past, so the opportunity was certainly not being denied based on my nationality. How far I'd have gotten I don't know as I opted for a different route.
DEA decision keeps major restrictions in place on marijuana research
Correlation vs causation. Does protestantism improve productivity, or did the cultures where productivity is valued highly more easily convert to protestantism?