skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Soros himself an anti-semitic source as well?

- national borders as the obstacle

“His plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle,” he said in the statement. “Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-30/orban-accu...

- at least a million asylum-seekers annually

First, the EU has to accept at least a million asylum-seekers annually for the foreseeable future.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/print/rebuilding-refugee-a...

- provide €15,000 per migrant

- EU should borrow money to finance that

The EU should provide €15,000 ($16,800) per asylum-seeker for each of the first two years to help cover housing, health care, and education costs – and to make accepting refugees more appealing to member states. It can raise these funds by issuing long-term bonds using its largely untapped AAA borrowing capacity, which will have the added benefit of providing a justified fiscal stimulus to the European economy.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/print/rebuilding-refugee-a...

- new EU-wide tax to repay these debts

Member states could raise new tax revenue in order to fund what is needed.

The answer is that the EU and its member states must find new sources of tax revenue, and do so in a way that spreads the repayment obligation as widely as possible. This could be done by levying special EU-wide taxes. The new tax revenue could come from a variety of sources, including the EU-wide VAT, which already provides revenue to the EU; a special tax on gasoline...

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/04/09/europe-how-pay-for-r...
Webmonkey was such a fantastic project, they really influenced my life with those tutorials. As I've learned more about html/css/javascript it motivated me to move forever from Delphi/C++ into the web development world. If any of them ever happens to read this comment, a huge THANK YOU!
Yes. Keybase is trying to make a walled garden for itself.

I got really frustrated by this a couple weeks ago when I needed to get a key from a contractor but it was only on Keybase, which at the time I thought could be used as a GPG keyserver.
I've gone through 2 generations of XPS laptops. The build quality has just never been there. The casing is flimsy. The battery life degrades significantly after 6 months. The charger cord falls out of the charger port. They also seem to overheat and are generally noisy. However, with all of this being said I keep coming back to XPS because, until recently, they were the best looking windows laptops which still perform quit well. I know Lenovos are great but they look like bricks. My current XPS 15 is literally falling apart after 3 years of use and I'm slowly bringing myself to buy a MBP.
The term "container" (on Linux) refers to the high-level combination of two concrete low-level interfaces: namespaces and control groups (cgroups).

I like to think of namespaces as converting certain global variables in the kernel to local variables for each process. These local variables are then inherited to child processes. chroots are the simplest example, although they predate namespaces. Ordinarily you'd think of a system as having a single root directory; somewhere in the kernel is a global variable DIR root. But in fact, each process has its own root directory pointer in the process structure. Most of those pointers have the same value in every process, but if you run chroot, you change that pointer for the current process and all its children.

The list of possible namespaces is in the clone(2) and unshare(2) manpages (`man 2 clone` and `man 2 unshare`); look for the options starting with CLONE_NEW. They all change some pointer in the process structure, either to a substructure of the original pointer (like chroot does), a deep copy of the structure, or to a new, empty structure.

CLONE_NEWIPC changes the pointer for routing System V IPCs. CLONE_NEWNET changes the pointer for the list of network device to a new structure with just a new loopback interface. CLONE_NEWNS copies the mount table instead of keeping a pointer to it, so your process can unmount filesystems without affecting the rest of the system, or vice versa. CLONE_NEWPID changes the pointer to pid 1 / the process ID table to point to yourself (effectively a chroot for process IDs). CLONE_NEWUSER changes the interpretation of user IDs, so you can have UID 0 in your process be a non-zero UID in the outside system. CLONE_NEWUTS creates a copy of the structure containing the machine's hostname, instead of keeping a pointer to the global structure.

cgroups are resource control. They let you say that a certain process tree has some maximum amount of RAM, or CPU shares, or so forth. This is useful for making containers perform the way you want, but doesn't really affect their semantics.
*great internet connectivity

thanks smartphone autocorrect
But what do you do with the signatures on the signed commits? It is of some, limited value, to GPG sign because it does provide a little bit more of "John Hancock" for a release, but how does this work in a continuous integration environment? Does the CI server reject commits that are not properly signed? Does the server refuse to run unsigned or incorrectly signed Git deployed code?
Those homes are beautiful, but Seattle might be a bit tough with the flat roofs. I grew up in a house like that in a rainy area and we had standing water issues on the roof.

It was a beautiful design that was completely inappropriate for the region.
An effective carbon tax that goes to finance alternative energy tech seems like a pretty good start that can only be implemented with global consensus.
I went through a phase in late teens where I read a couple different speed reading books and tried out the techniques as well as actively practicing and pushing my eyes and brain to move faster.

After going through that phase I backed off and don't really try to push myself to read fast - but those efforts helped set a different pace and I still read faster than most people around me.

Some things that I think are important: (just one guy's opinion)

1. Try to be broadly curious - an interested brain remembers better.

2. Develop your vocabulary. Particularly if you are reading something outside of your field. Textbooks often have a vocabulary section in the back of the book. Take some time to read through that before tackling the book.

3. Comprehend the structure before diving into reading. It is useful to read through the Table of Contents before starting to read a non-fiction book. Having a sense of the structure in advance helps you with memory and context for specific facts.

4. Read every day.

5. Read lots of different kinds of materials.

6. Allocate your time and attention. Give yourself permission to speed up and even just scan when it feels appropriate but also permission to slow down and focus on comprehension and integration with what you already know when you get to parts that challenge you or feel particularly important.
> 8. Spend little.

I think, no one gets this right. What's missing here: for software startups, hardware (servers) should be the main cost of running the business. Increasing load due to the growing user base is a very nice to have problem.
Social media culture damaging youth's mental health
you would if you had kids you cared about. the schools in suburban areas in the states are magnitudes better than comps in the city. there's a fucking reason people pay and pay dearly to live in those areas.
>The watch is just a toy without a core reason for existence. Not just apple's, all smart watches.

The basic idea, that you don't seem to comprehend, is that it's not about the watch functionality at all. It's about having a 24/7 gizmo on you, with appropriate sensors to read medical data, movement etc, with enough screen and size to do a ton of things, from home automation to payments, etc, and eventually, and with

Here are things a smartwatch already does better or will eventually (as battery capacities get up to it) do better, with less bulk and faster access than a smartphone.

24/7 health monitoring
Home automation controls
Remote control (for tv, hifi, etc)
Wireless Payments
Panic button (health issue, crime, rape, whatever alert)
Total phone operation (through voice recognition + wireless headphones)
Navigation
Music player (again, wireless headphones + voice/screen control)
Show urgent notifications
etc etc...
...tell the time.

It's a form factor common from the past notion of the watch, and simultaneously perfect for being always on you, always monitoring, small and non intrusive, and still having a large enough space for screen and battery.

>It's okay. You're not an innovator. You're not a visionary. You can't see the horizon. You're probably fascinated by shiny objects; trapped in the superficial glaze, unable to comprehend the substrate.

It's ok. You're not sophisticated. You're rude. You think in slogans. You can't see anything beyond an object being shiny or being made by Apple. You're probably fascinated by your own superficial analysis, and think your use cases are the measure of everything.
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Let's go back to the author's own explanation. Half the examples the author uses of appropriate balance in design look dreadful to me.

I mean, I don't think you'll have problems finding people who think the purposeful asymmetry and complexity of the form of this McMansion (horrible details, but that's beside the point)
http://66.media.tumblr.com/985ce3af7d99be6789a3d60733d87bdb/...
is less jarring than the oversized porch and rather forced symmetry of this house
http://66.media.tumblr.com/985ce3af7d99be6789a3d60733d87bdb/...

I suspect that you won't find a majority who think this architecturally interesting but rather disconcerting house which seems almost to be split into two discrete components
http://66.media.tumblr.com/ef085492f16fa90eca55b34c2edb4f6e/...
is more balanced and harmonious than this bland McMansion with a rather more subtle asymmetry of styling and no centreline
http://66.media.tumblr.com/b60dfce3f94da6a03ded2c7c1acd2f34/...

And above all, picking holes in an architect's work is easy. I'm really not convinced that many people would consider this house with its oversized, overbearing gable and clumsy porch with ludicrously oversized pillars to be a model of a "properly proportioned house", regardless of the author's delight at it as an example of how to balance the top and bottom halves of an elevation
http://66.media.tumblr.com/aacf83efd66eded7cffe5f42716fbe36/...

Architects can easily ignore centre-lines and rules of thirds and concepts of primary and secondary massing and matching windows and produce great houses, and they can easily follow them rigidly and produce something which is a shoddily-built mixture of poor imitations of different historical styles that's not built to a human friendly scale.

P.S. I see your Monticello and raise you Fallingwater...
Most Western militaries realized they were having far more problems with with accidental discharge injuries and deaths than actual live-fire incidents, even in actual combat zones, and so training calls for the weapon to be unloaded until needed.
http://jquerycards.com

A jQuery plugin repository but I no longer have time to maintain it due to the other commitments.
Yes: California is exporting a steady stream of people to Oregon, which displaces locals and irritates some people. We're not building fast enough either and may simply not have the capacity, short term.
This is all moot. Battery technology and charging infrastructure for EVs will improve so much over the next 5 to 10 years that engines running on dinosaur juice will no longer be worth the hassle for mainstream vehicles.
To me, the problem is not technical. It's that most of what we call 'news' has no direct economic value to the reader. A story about Aleppo might make me better informed but there isn't really a dollar amount associated.

Whatever value it has, little of it arises from time sensitivity, high accuracy, or coming from a particular source: which is to say that reading it today at the New York Times or in a week at the Economist or sometime in between at USA Today is pretty much the same.

News sources for ordinary news are largely fungible. The typical story behind a paywall can be replaced by one that isn't. What isn't fungible is the quality of the reporting. That's why individual sites can collect subscriptions.

Anyway, a service with many sources and an app is back to selling on the aggregate model with the additional complexity of negotiating with the sources and the risk of users avoiding payment using the open web.

Good luck.
I bought this laptop too and spent literally probably 12+ hours making the track pad work how I wanted but never got it there. Wound up returning it. Will be buying my first MacBook instead pretty soon.
To run down the switches (that provide physical feedback).

-MX Cherry Blues: Their action has the same feel of a Model M (kind of) they only require ~1/2 the force to switch as a Model M. Their sound is also quieter (then a model M) they're still much louder then a rubber dome. It has a higher pitch clip/clop rather then the Model M's thunk.

-MX Cherry Greens: A stiffer blue (commonly used for space bars).

-MX Cherry Browns: Same action as a blue, but rubber dampened to be quieter actually inline with a rubber dome. They still provide the physical feedback of a Blue.

-MX Cherry Clear: A stiffer brown.

-MX Cherry Whites: Somewhere between a Brown and a Blue in sound and force. They still provide feedback.
I agree in general -- one should have utility for users to launch. But I suspect PG is seeing (many) more startups that do not release when they could ("we will do one more iteration" to mean "we do not need to deal with users, ops, etc.") than those that release too early.
the suburbs are mostly about crime (none) and schools (much better). this entire thread is filled with pedantic bullshit from people who haven't got a clue.
The problem is that AFAIK they don't tell their users that anywhere, and I often encounter people that only have their key on Keybase and it's a real pain to import their key.
meteor is a non-sense (but well I'd say rails too, and php shits too)
Which I have opted not to do as a over a decade user of GnuPG. But for complete newbs, JavaScript managed keys is preferable to no key at all.
Regarding space leaks, the recent GHC version now allows an entire module to be strict, not lazy. Would this prevent space leaks (and perhaps other performance-sensitive problems)?
Very few extensions have been deprecated: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.24.0.0/docs/src/L...

Convenient, widely-used extensions that have been around for a long time aren't yet part of the language standard: https://prime.haskell.org/ticket/67
A programmers and testers mind
It's extremely cheap to built and operate. Cleaning one large office is fast and hence cheaper, than 10 smaller offices.

Often the "lost productivity" isn't factored into the cost of open plan offices, mostly because it's to complex I think. Interestingly the gain from better communication is always factored in as a positive.

I do know people that prefer open plan offices. They all have headphone on for a large part of the day though. People that prefer an eerie silence, like myself, aren't normally not considered when planning office building.
That someone supports a political agenda you disagree with does not make them nefarious and this kind of rhetoric really spoils the whole political process.

There are a lot of humanitarian reasons why someone might support migration to Europe from an active war zone, you know.
China is certainly doing its share, but much less than the west, simply because of the inertia of a system working for decades.

Correcting for population, China's inference is much less than the West's.

Correcting for cumulative historical inference, China's does not even register compared to the West.
You may want to look into Alienware - they tend to have a way better build quality than the Dell machines, and you can get better bang for your buck than typical 'workstation' builds for laptops. I'm not sure how well their smaller form factors are, as I've always gone big - but I've used various Dell and Lenovo 'workstation' laptops and I will be sticking with Alienware for the foreseeable future.

Edit: Also, my use case tends to be database development, data analysis, and virtualization.
Mind-numbing discussion of NPRM on MVPDs and set-top devices [pdf]
I guess the point of that proverb is that even if you dance badly, you'll at most be ridiculed, but possibly become a hit. You will likely not be imprisoned.

(Well, in Western countries anyway... except if the dance contains hand movements or such that are illegal. I mean, if it's just a dance, no problem.)
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Because the city is full of fucking people. Crowds, lines, innumerable traffic jams. Or... I can live outside the city, with less of all those things, and more green space, and I don't have to hear my neighbors through the wall.
- no home/end keys
- tiny arrow keys

These two points are enough for me to immediately dismiss a laptop. Especially the home / end keys are vital when writing code (for me at least)
Me and my boys went to CUSEC in 2013. Really good conference for upcoming programmers
Where is the editor when you need them?
I do not disagree regarding the XPS. However I've had similar experiences with MBP. I've owned two now, and both had the charger fray/fall apart and the hinges for the display become weak/flimsy. I've experienced every issue you mention with the MBP.

Thinkpads look like a brick, but that is because they are. My X220 has lasted 6-7 years and barely shows it. I've spilled coffee on it, dropped it, and it just keeps on going fine.
Farmed plants use the vast majority of captured sunlight, but we don't ignore the food cost of cows and only look at meat when doing energy costs.

However, even if you use 2% that's still easily 20x the energy from Oil. Also of note, we eat fish grown that eat fish... that eat plankton so we do capture energy from the oceans just really inefficiently.

Yes, this may seem pedantic but recreating a western style lifestyle is hard in very large part due to indirect energy costs for meat. Buildings, transportation, or manufacturing can be 10x efficient corn and thus cows not so much. Yes, ethanol takes 40% of corn but cows take 36% and some leftovers from ethanol.
Clever design but that looks like a lot of moving parts. I wonder about longevity of the engine.
I view it as a personal choice for what you find important. Personally, I would prefer that my software not be used rather than it be used in a way that takes away users' freedom. You clearly think differently and are entitled to think differently.

Maybe you might consider using the MPLv2? It's a weak copyleft license that allows sub-licensing to other copyleft licenses (and inclusion into lax licensed projects without re-licensing the original project). Unfortunately, it suffers from not being strong enough to cover a "derived work" and only effectively copylefts files. But IMO that's better than nothing.
If that were the case, childhood obesity would have risen like a missile in the 50's and 60's.
For your input problem, I would recommend:

- disable palm detection completely

- turn off "disable touchpad while typing" completely (`pkill syndaemon` in a startup script)

- use synaptics AreaX settings to ignore taps and drags starting too close to the edge

- tune the tap / doubletap timing

Here are my custom settings for last 2 points:

AreaLeftEdge 1700
AreaRightEdge 5100
MaxDoubleTapTime 180
SingleTapTimeout 180
It increases profits. Once everyone is comfortable with remote employees (obviously, not by choice), the available employee pool opens dramatically. It's increased employee choice and mobility.

That's exactly why I said "short-sighted" profit seeking. It applies in many ways.
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> He did, however, find at least 22 system calls — the types of actions that send/receive text from a printer, phone, hard disk, etc. — that had the same function (and function number) as the CP/M code.

Older programmers: what are function numbers? Thanks.
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Kildall never explicitly claimed that MSDOS copied CP/M's code.

There are just repeated claims that "MSDOS infringed on CP/M's copyrights" and based on all reverse engineering efforts and the lack of an actual lawsuit, we can safely assume Kindall is not using a legally valid definition of "copyrights".
>haberman's point still holds: nothing's really stopping a poor single working mom from being a starving woman in Africa, or a captive suffering torture and indignity. There are plenty of starving people elsewhere in the world who literally risk their lives to be a poor single working person in America.

That's not much of a point though.

Sure, it's a spectrum instead of being a binary "has it good/has it bad". Nobody said otherwise.

But spectrum or not, Page is on the very very very top end of the spectrum. He is in the very end of the "has it good" category, with miles to spare from the rest 99.999% of the population.

That doesn't change because an American 2-shift working 20K/year single mom has it better than an African modern-day-slave.
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Salaries (for engineers) is and should be the main cost of a startup.
How much of a pain is it? You just click on the fingerprint on their page, no?

https://keybase.io/stavros
A tax that will be passed on to the consumer which will disproportionately affect the poor? It won't be people in Switzerland or Silicon Valley that will be materially affected by such a scheme.

Taxes are not the solution to every problem.
We tried our best to incorporate these results in the cases where they reflect fundamental shortcomings not bugs (of which Aphyr found quite a few). But you are right, we could include a list of popular examples, where description and experimental findings diverge. Which cases did you have in mind? MongoDB being CP?
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(the function being referred to in the comment above is the one that allegedly prints Kildall's name)